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Up one levelUniversity of Koblenz-Landau welcomes 100 students to its international Master’s degree program
The international Master’s degree program „Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems“ at the University of Koblenz has gained great popularity. After only a short period of just two years, the applied mathematics study program has already attained a count of 100 students.
Strong cooperation: University intensifies collaboration with African Universities
The University Koblenz-Landau came to a cooperation agreement in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with another African university, the Sub-Sahara University of the United States International University (USIU) of Africa in Nairobi. Therewith, the university intensifies its international exchange with African universities. This signing was especially appreciated by the research team under the direction of the dean of the department 1: Educational Sciences at the University Koblenz Landau, Prof. Dr. Claudia Quaiser-Pohl.
Invited Talk by Tjitze Rienstra at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation
Tjitze Rienstra will give an invited talk On the relationship between argumentation networks and Bayesian networks at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2018).
GazeTheWeb project integrates multimodal browsing with gaze and voice input
Human voice and eyes are the most natural sources that can provide input signals to facilitate hands-free human-computer interaction.
GazeTheWeb @ CEBIT
Make the experience of surfing the internet with your eye movements.
Tutorial on Implementing KR Approaches with Tweety at KR’18
Matthias Thimm gives a tutorial on Implementing KR Approaches with Tweety at the 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR’18).
DKB/KIK2018 - The 7th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief and the 6th Workshop KI & Kognition
Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, and thus demands for non-classical reasoning approaches. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems. Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies.
Deutsche Welle interviews Professor Staab about provenance information in Facebook
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University of Koblenz-Landau – internationally renowned
About 100 new international students have been registered at campus Koblenz for the summer semester 2018.
SAFA2018 - The Second International Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation
Computational models of argumentation are approaches that deal with the representation and interaction of arguments and counterarguments. These models can be applied in all areas that benefit from automatic decision-support such as medicine, accounting, chemistry, and law. Many of these models were inspired by works within the fields of non-monotonic reasoning and logic programming and therefore share the sometimes considerable computational complexity of these approaches.
E-Democracy-Workshop: Political Opinion Formation in Social Media
As part of the Koblenz Democracy Weeks, the research focus E-Democracy organizes a workshop for the interested public.
Fourth Workshop on Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated Reasoning
The workshop is part of the FAIM workshop program located at the Federated Artificial Intelligence Meeting (FAIM) which includes the major conferences IJCAI-ECAI, ECML, AAMAS, ICCBR and SoCS.
First results of the GazeMining Project
In the GazeMining project, the Institute for Web Science and Technologies and the start-up company EYEVIDO are working together on the future of usability analysis of modern websites.
EU Project CUTLER started with a Kick-off meeting at Thessaloniki
The recently granted EU project CUTLER aims to shift the existing paradigm of policy making in coastal areas, which is largely based on intuition, towards an evidence-driven approach enabled by big data.
WeST Team reaches final of the Digital Imagination Challenge
The WeST team behind the Web browser GazeTheWeb has reached the final of the Digital Imagination Challenge with their idea for digital inclusion.
Two former WeST employees found the company datapeutics
Dr. Christoph Kling and Christian Hachenberg, both former employees of the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST), founded datapeutics together with Dr. Alexander Zien.
Startup Weekend 2017 in Koblenz - 2nd place for Web Science students
Keya Kasham and Roman Sokolov, two students in Master Web Science won second place together with three other members at the startup weekend 2017 in Koblenz with their idea for the sales machine Eggcellent.
IEEE CBMS 2017 - Best Student Paper Award
In August 2017, the Institute for Web Science and Technology (WeST) received the Best Student Paper Award for their work on understanding cognitive load when typing with eye gaze.
Documentation of the Leopoldina-Symposium on digitalization and its impact on individuals and society is accessible online
Influence of digital technologies on both individuals and society is controversially discussed. A two-day Leopoldina-symposium (Berlin, July 10th -11th, 2017) on digitalization and its impact on individuals and society looked into possibilities, chances and risks of digitalization.
Institute WeST extends study programme cooperation with Chinese Universities
In April the Institute for Web Science & Technologies was a guest in Fujian province in China. Dr. Ulrich Wechselberger, managing director of Institute WeST, visited Fuzhou University and the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou. Subject of the visit were the joint 1+2 study programmes in Web Science and Computer Science. In these programmes, students study one year in China and two in Germany and earn both a Chinese and a German Master’s degree.