This year the 28th Computational Intelligence workshop took place on November, 29th-30th, in Dortmund. As every year, this two-day workshop was packed with many interesting talks and two gripping keynotes (deep learning and OpenML). The presentations and the keynotes had diverse topics including fuzzy control, surrogate-assisted optimization, modeling techniques, deep learning, interesting applications (e.g. gait recognition, driving lane recognition)...
Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School
The deep learning and reinforcement learning summer schools hosted by Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Vector Institute are among the most prestigious summer schools in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This year the summer school was taking place in Toronto, Canada from 25th of July till 3rd of August...
European Conference on Data Analysis - ECDA 2018
ECDA is an international conference with the main focus on data science and data mining which is being held in different European cities since 2013 almost every year. This year the conference was held in Paderborn, Germany. This 3-days conference hosted many interesting keynotes and a large number of talks given by scientists from all over the...
Digital Xchange 1-Day Conference at TH Köln
Digital Xchange Conference was held on 23rd of July in TH Köln, Campus Gummersbach as a collaborative work of Opitz consulting company and TH Köln. The event attracted over 600 audience and the talks covered a large area of digitalization field including cloud computing, artifical intelligence, industry 4.0, augemented reality, IT security and many more interesting topics. ...
TDMR 2.0 now available on CRAN
The R package TDMR (Tuned Data Mining in R) is now available on CRAN in a major new release 2.0. It supports the new R package SPOT 2.0 (Sequential Parameter Optimization Toolbox) with its largely redesigned and simplified interface. TDMR 2.0 has as well a simplified interface. TDMR documentation and TDMR tutorials have been rewritten...
General Board Game Playing as Educational Tool
GBG (General Board Game Playing & Learning) is an Open Source software framework developed at TH Köln, University of Applied Sciences. GBG aims to ease the entry for the students into game learning and the reinforcement learning research area which is a very interesting sub-field of artifical intelligence. In 2018,
27th GMA-FA 5.14 Workshop of "Computational Intelligence"
The annual Computational Intelligence workshop in Dortmund is a great place for sharing new ideas and recent work done in computational-intelligence related topics. This year, the GMA workshop took place on 23-24 of November at the Dorint Hotel in Dortmund. Our team presented two papers in the fields of surrogate models and time series analysis. In total there...
Free download of our ASOC Article until November, 02, 2017
If you are interested in our recent article Self-adjusting parameter control for surrogate-assisted constrained optimization under limited budgets which appeared in the journal Applied Soft Computing (ASOC), please take the opportunity to follow this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Vj555aecSVnxb. For a period until November, 02, 2017, this link will provide the free download of the final journal article....
OC Digital Day at TH Köln
The OC Digital Day organiezed by TH Köln and Opitz Consulting group has taken place at TH Köln Campus Gummersbach last Sturday. Many talks and a few keynotes were presented in the field of digitalising (model-based optimization, Big Data, Oracle, Gamification, smart home, ...) by Opitz employees as well as TH Köln students. Our...
15TH WORKSHOP ON QUALITY IMPROVEMENT METHODS
We had the chance to present our work in the field of online model selection for surrogate assisted multivariate optimization in the 15th workshop of quality improvment methods which was held in Dortmund and organized by the statistics faculty of TU Dortmund. You can read more about the quality improvemnet annual workshops here.