CHAIR OF

COMPUTATIONAL

INTELLIGENCE

We wish you a merry Christmas and happy holidays.

Our successful DFG project with colleagues from process engineering receives further funding for the 2nd phase.

Project title: Improving the simulation of large-scale dense, particle-laden flows with machine learning: a genetic programming approach.

Duration: 2nd phase January 2025 - December 2027

PhD presentations, a social event and a visit at Fraunhofer IVI in Dresden were the program points for our research retreat 2024. 

We are very excited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CI Chair in 2024. To mark the occasion, we have created a brochure about the scientists at the Chair. Take a closer look:

Sanaz gave a two-week lecture on "the science of decision-making" at the Summer Academy (Sommerakademie) of the Max Weber Programm which is part of the Studienstiftung. It was truely a great pleasure to work with such talented young students for two weeks. 

Our team got the second place at the worldCup 2024 which took place in Einhoven :) Congratulations!!! 

Today, the Aim-FarmRob team did a first real-world test of their agricultural robot on an actual field.

The smaller of the two prototypes, named “Cyrus” (after Cyrus McCormick, a famous inventor of agriculture machinery), went on its first journey out into the wild. The software worked flawlessly, as the simulation predicted. However, on the field, the team discovered that the uneven surface of the field overloaded the stall torque of the motors controlling the steering. Consequently, the steering system of the robots needs to be slightly redesigned to provide more torque. The team is eager to come back and aims to conquer their field in August.

We are attending IEEE WCCI 2024 in Yokohama, Japan and presented 5 Papers: 

• Tomoya Hömberg, Sanaz Mostaghim, Satoru Hiwa, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Optimized Drug Design using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms with SELFIES
• Saiful Islam, Sanaz Mostaghi, Michael Hartmann, A Survey on Multi-Objective Optimization in Microgrid Systems
• Lukas Bostelmann-Arp, Christoph Steup and Sanaz Mostaghim, Free-Form Coverage Path Planning of Quadcopter Swarms for Search and Rescue Missions using Multi-Objective Optimization

• Boris Djartov, Sanaz Mostaghim, Anne Papenfuss and Mathias Wies, A Learning Classifier System Approach to Time-Critical Decision-Making in Dynamic Alternate Airport Selection 

• Markus Rothkötter, Niklas Kluge and Sanaz Mostaghim, Application of a Bi-objective EA for RAN Resources Optimization in a Dynamic Scenario

Sanaz gave a public lecture at the IEEE World Congress on Compuettaional Intelligence which took place in Yokohama, Japan. 

https://medium.com/@tom_57164/we-hosted-a-public-lecture-imagining-the-future-of-humanity-ai-and-nature-7bb8c7fa410d 

Im Juni fand in Bilbao  die Verleihung des BBVA Foundation of Knowledge Award statt. Herr Professor Kruse war zum 12ten Mal  Mitglied der siebenköpfigen internationalen Jury. Den diesjährigen Gewinner des mit 400.000 Euro dotierten Preises ist Takeo Kanade https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/frontiers-of-knowledge-award-16th-edition-information-communication-technologies/  

Thanks for attending the Human Swarm event 2024. Here are some of the results. Altogether 120 participated in the swarm. 

Statistics:

Colors: 32 Blue, 30 Pink, 29 Yellow and 29 Green 

Shapes: 35 Square, 23 Triangles, 18 Pentagon and 44 Circles 

Task 1: Collective Perception - Color (Which color is in majority?)

The swarm converged to green - Not correct (This could be because the two colors yellow and green were very similar). 

Task 2: Collective perception - Shape (Which shape is in majority?)

The swarm converged to circle - Correct 

Task 3: Sorting the colors 

Task 4: Sorting the shapes

Task 5: Sorting the numbers 

Task 6: Scrabble: Very long words are built.

More analysis and videos will follow soon. 

If you are interested to read more, you can refer to our article: 

• Sanaz Mostaghim and Sebastian Mai

• Kooperation mittels Schwarmintelligenz
• In Haux R, Gahl K, Jipp M, Kruse R, Richter O, Herausgeber. Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz. Pages 55-69, Wiesbaden: Springer VS; 2021 --> https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-30882-7_5

Here is the first video:

Besides her professorship and her position as the head of the chair of Computational Intelligence, Sanaz is the new Institute Director at Fraunhofer IVI (Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems). 

Sanaz was a member of the Bundesjury of JugendForscht Competitions, which took place from May 30 to June 2 in Heilbronn, Germany. 

 Picture: Left to right - Rüdiger Grimm (Bundesjury), Christine Regitz, Präsidentin der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Prof. Christel Baier (Bundesjury), Prof. Sanaz Mostaghim (Bundesjury)

Sanaz has been appointed as a corresponding member of Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (BWG). 

It was a pleasure to host Ms. Qianqian Yu at our group:

Professor Hisao Ishibuchi visited the chair of Computational Intelligence. During the two-day research visit, we had an intensive research exchange with 10 talks from the group and 3 talks by Prof. Ishibuchi: 

You can find our codes on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/ci-ovgu/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

Some of them are still available here: CODES

It was a great pleasure to host Ryunosuke Tazawa as a PhD Guest from Japan Institute of Science and Technology. Ryu was part of the team for one year. 

Research meeting with project partners from Tierärztliche Hochschule in SwarmLab. Happy to host Whiskey as part of the project.

Finally, Christmas 2023! Wishing everyone happy holidays, a merry Christmas and all the best for a happy, healthy and successful new year 2024.