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...
GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
This year, beautiful Prague hosted GECCO 2019, from 13th to 17th of July. GECCO -- standing for The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference-- is an outstanding conference which brings many active scientists and PhD students together annually. We have presented a recent piece of our work in form of a poster. The work titled: "Online Whitening...
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...
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....
Young Author Award for Samineh Bagheri
The 25th Workshop Computational Intelligence 2015, an annual conference held in Nov'2015 by the Computational Intelligence (CI) Chapter of VDI-GMA (Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik) in Dortmund, has attributed the Young Author Award to Samineh Bagheri, PhD, scientific member of the research group of Professor Konen at Campus Gummersbach. Congratulations!
Young Author Award for Patrick Koch
The 24th Workshop Computational Intelligence 2014, an annual conference held by Computational Intelligence (CI) Chapter of VDI-GMA (Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik) in Dortmund, has attributed the Young Author Award to Patrick Koch, PhD, scientific member of my research group at Campus Gummersbach. I am very happy for him and congratulate him cordially!
Prize for CIOP Bachelor Thesis in Reinforcement Learning
Mr. Markus Thill has won the first price in the 2012 OPITZ CONSULTING “Innovation in Informatics” contest. Many congratulations from the CIOP team!! Mr. Thill’s thesis advanced the state of the art in reinforcement learning for complex board games, here Connect Four. Read more about his work on this page.
Prof. Michael Emmerich, Leiden University, gives a talk at Campus GM
Title: Self-Adaptive Algorithms for Finding Robust Optima: Promises and Limitations Time: Fr., Oct, 26th, 2012, 11:00-11:45, Place: Room 0.214 Abstract: Many problems in engineering design deal with locating optimal parameter configurations for systems. Evolution strategies provide a robust framework for this. This talk deals with the question of how we can find optima that...