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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. 

Team Magdeburg at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Mexico with three papers. 

Our RoboCup@Work team “robOTTO” participated in the 1st @Work Innovation Open in Nuremberg, embedded into the Consumenta Fair 2023. The team dominated their competition and finished first after four competition runs. Additionally, the team won the navigation challenge with a time of two minutes for navigating the arena. This is even more impressive considering that the team was only present with four team members because right now, lectures are going on, which collided with the competition.

Christoph Steup is part of the AI-Talent Program funded by the German Federal Ministry of education and research (BMBF). As a Young Scientist Group Leader, he is leading the working group Computational Intelligence in Robotics (CIR): 

Listen to the podcast "Digital Leben" about robotics and intelligent systems by Christoph: 

https://www.mdr.de/mdr-sachsen-anhalt/podcast/digitanhalt-102.html

Mahrokh successfully finished her excellent PhD about "Novel Evolutionary Approaches for Multi-Modal Multi-Objective Optimization problems"! Congratulations!

Ege Yüceel (undergraduate from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) was part of SwarmLab's team for an internship from June to September 2023. It was a pleasure to work with him and hope to host him again!

Very pleased to announce that Prof. Kruse has received the prestigious Scientific Excellence Award 2023 of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT). 

EUSFLAT has bestowed its 2023 Scientific Excellence Award upon Rudolf Kruse "for his outstanding contributions to the theory and implementations of analyses of uncertainty and imprecision in processes and systems ". The nomination committee consisted of all previous awardees and EUSFLAT presidents. Kruse is only the ninth researcher to receive this Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony took place in Palma de Mallorca on September 7, 2023.