In September 2021, shortly after the Dataninja retreat, we participated at the KI 2021 – 44th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Alongside fellow members of the Dataninja research training group we, Raphael Engelhardt and Wolfgang Konen from TH Köln together with Laurenz Wiskott and Moritz Lange from RUB Bochum, presented our work on rule extraction...
Dataninja Retreat 2021
Between the third and fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were in September 2021 lucky enough to hold in presence the annual retreat of the Dataninja research group, which was at the same time the group's first ever in-person meeting. The rich and balanced program included presentations of the different Dataninja projects by the...
More Transparency in Artificial Intelligence
(Image: Christoph J Kellner) For the research project (RL)^3, which is lead by Laurenz Wiskott (RUB) and Wolfgang Konen (TH Köln) and that is illustrated in the figure above, there is now a press release TH Köln available: https://www.th-koeln.de/hochschule/mehr-transparenz-bei-kuenstlicher-intelligenz_84905.php (sorry, in German only!). (RL)^3 is part of the graduate school Dataninja (Trustworthy AI for Seamless...
Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning at BIOMA'2020
We are happy to announce that the CIOP group of TH Köln participated with two papers and two talks at the 9th International Conference BIOMA'2020 (Bioinspired Optimization Methods and Applications), which took place November 2020, 19th-20th, and was this year a completely online event: "Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games: The Importance of Final Adaptation" by...
TH Köln takes part in AI Graduate College Data-NInJA
The State of North Rhine-Westphalia provides a grant for the AI Graduate College Data-NInJA („Trustworthy AI for Seamless Problem Solving: Next Generation Intelligence Joins Robust Data Analysis“), coordinated by Prof. Barbara Hammer, University Bielefeld. The grant consists of seven PhD tandems, which were selected out of 37 applications for this grant by an expert jury. TH...
First Fully-Online PhD-Colloquium at Leiden University
I am very happy to announce that on Wednesday, April 8th 2020, the PhD-colloquium of Samineh Bagheri, which I had the honor to supervise at TH Köln, successfully took place. Her thesis “Self-Adjusting Surrogate-Assisted Optimization Techniques for Expensive Constrained Black Box Problems” deals with state-of-the art optimization algorithms supported by RBF surrogate models. In normal...
Stifterverband Fellowship for Prof. Wolfgang Konen
The GroupLearn proposal of Prof. Konen is one of the three proposals from TH Köln that wins a Stifterverband Fellowship in 2020. This year only 10 of the 87 submitted Senior Fellowship proposals were selected for funding by Stifterverband. These fellowships were awarded with 50.000 Euro funding. Stifterverband NRW awards Fellowships for Innovations in Digital...
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,
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....
TDMR 1.5 Available For Download Here
Due to a major release change in SPOT, the newest package version SPOT 2.0 on CRAN is currently not compatible with TDMR 1.5 (and TDMR 1.4). Therefore TDMR is currently archived on CRAN. We are working on an update. For the time being: You can download TDMR 1.5 (and 1.4) together with the last compatible...