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CIcker Season 1
In preparation for the long night of science 2021 (Digital), we made a movie from our CIcker Project Season 1:
Carolo Cup@Home 2021
Our robotic team "oTToCAR" successfully took part in the Carolo-Cup 2021.
The competition took place under special circumstances caused by the ongoing Corona pandemic. The team performed the driving @Home and received the 4th place in the Basic-Cup at Carolo-Cup@Home.
Further details are available in the dedicated article written by the team.
New Blog for CIcker Season 1 Project
We are starting a blog about our new Robotic Game AI platform "CIcker". In this blog, we will regularly post about this project, which we call it CIcker Season 1.
The goal of this project is to let AI play against a human player. This project is initiated by three students who visited the robotic activities at SwarmLab and visited the course Computational Intelligence in Games.
This is called Season 1, since in this season we will have AI against human. In Season 2, we aim to have AI against AI.
DoktorandenTag 2021
Mahrokh and Jens presented their PhD programs at the doctoral symposium of the faculty of computer science. Jens received the best presentation award:
SYnENZ Book online
Rudolf Kruse has edited a newly published book on Synergy and Intelligence: Technical, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Interaction of Living and Non-Living Entities in the Age of Digitization (SYnENZ).
The Chair of CI has also contributed to this book by the paper:
- 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
Sanaz as the new vice president of IEEE CIS
Since January 2021, Sanaz has been apoointed as the vice president of member activities at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS): https://cis.ieee.org/about/excom-executive-committee
Xenija defended her PhD
Xenija successfully defended her PhD! Congratulations for this great achievement!!
Christmas Party 2020
CIG Competition Award Ceremony
The CIG Heathstone competition award ceremony took place. The two winning teams Alexander Babel, Jann-Martin Kias (Bachelor) and Nils Bonhof, Jon-Miles Graeffe were very happy to be given the prices from the sponsoring companie AxeTrading and regiocom.
CIG Competition Results
The results of the internal CIG competition are now online. All competing students please have a look! We thank our sponsors for their support:
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Keynote Talk at IJCCI 2020
On Wednesday 4th November, Sanaz gave a keynote talk at the 12th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) 2020.
Title: Collective and Individual Decision-Making in Swarm Robotics
Abstract: Autonomous systems are becoming more and more ubiquitous and their influence on our lives grows every day. In the last years, computational intelligence methods have – more than ever - extensively contributed to the latest scientific breakthrough in developing such intelligent systems. Nevertheless, one major challenge concerns the real-time reactions of autonomous systems to the unknown dynamics in their environments which is considered to be among the grand challenges in this area. This talk is about multi-objective decision making algorithms in Swarm Robotics. It will give an overview about the design issues and the challenges in real-time applications in robotics and computer games. In most of such applications, the decision makers (robots or agents) must find and select one possible optimal solution in a very limited time frame. This is very challenging, when the environment dynamically changes as the decision maker needs to re-optimize and decide on the fly. Multi-objective decision making algorithms in dynamically changing environments will be addressed and applications in Swarm Robotics will be presented. The results on individual and collective decision making are represented.
New research blog
From today, we will weekly post new research findings, videos, codes, etc. in our research blog.
Firmenstaffel Digital 2020
Jens, Basti and Sanaz participated the Firmenstaffel (Running Relay Competition) Digital 2020 and altogether collected 300 km!
Keynote Speech at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2020
Sanaz is going to give a Keynote Speech at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020:
https://wcci2020.org/speakers/
Title:
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making in Timely Critical Scenarios
OvGU Picnic - almost back to a new normal life on campus
Part of CI group at the first picnic on campus:
IEEE SSCI 2021
Together with Dr. Keeley Crockett, Sanaz is the general chair of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, which will take place in December 2021 in Orlando, USA:
Alexander Dockhorn defended his PhD
On Friday 12 June 2020, Alexander Dockhorn successfully defended his PhD:
Online Courses in Summer 2020
We will offer all of our courses in summer semester 2020 in online format. More information can be found:
http://ci.ovgu.de/Teaching.html
Digitalization Advisory Board
Sanaz got appointed for the next term of two years as the member of the advisory board on digitalization, Ministry of Economy, Science and Digitalization, State Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany: More information can be found here (in German)
Newly funded project by Volkswagen Foundation
A new project with the title "AI to the Rescue: Life-and-Death Decision-Making under Conflicting Criteria" which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation will start soon. More information will be provided here: http://ci.ovgu.de/Projects.html