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Up one levelFirst European Robotics Leaque tournament at University of Koblenz
The University of Koblenz-Landau and the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg held a local tournament of the European Robotics League (ERL) in the Professional Service Robots category.
Introducing ETWEB co-located event at ETRA conference
Chandan Kumar and Raphael Menges are organizing the co-located event ETWEB, Eye Tracking for the Web, at the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, Denver, Colorado, USA, which will take place from 25th to 28th of June.
"The World’s Future", A Sustainable Development Goals game
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Koblenz-Landau came together to test a social simulation developed by IIASA researchers and the Centre for Systems Solutions on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Agricultural insecticide contamination threatens U.S. surface water integrity at the national scale.
Insecticide contamination of surface waters regularly occurs across the U.S. in concentrations that have severe detrimental effects on aquatic ecosystems. This was found by a recent study by the Institute for Environmental Sciences Landau, Germany. According to their findings, insecticide contamination occurs widespread throughout the United States and risks are expected to increase in the future. This studies shows that insecticides thus threaten one of the most important natural resources and highlights the urgent need to re-evaluate current regulatory practices in the U.S.
Delegation of the University visited OECD Headquarters in Paris: Policy Experiments, Systems Thinking and Education were Key Topics
Occasion of the visit was an invitation from the Office of the OECD Secretary-General to explore areas of mutual interest for further collaboration. The visit reaffirmed the shared goal of developing new approaches to contemporary societal challenges through education and training.
Daniel Janke and Steffen Staab give lecture and tutorial at the Reasoning Web Summer School
In the last years knowledge graphs have received a lot of attention. During the 14th Reasoning Web Summer School at Luxembourg, 22nd-26th September, the participants learned what knowledge graphs are and how they are created.
Matthias Thimm and Tjitze Rienstra at the International Conference on Computational Models of Argument
The International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA) is one of the main forums for presentation and exchange of the latest research results related to computational aspects of argumentation.
Reference Extraction Made Easy
Speaking at the Open Citation Workshop in Bologna, Dr. Philipp Mayr-Schlegel (GESIS) on behalf of the EXCITE project consortium has accounced and demonstrated the release of the novel EXCITE toolchain that allows for extracting literature references from PDFs and matching them against available bibliographic databases.
Award for Best Video at the International Eye Tracking Conference ETRA in Warsaw
The contributors of the GazeMining project have been decorated with the Best Video Award at the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking (ETRA) in Warsaw, June 2018.
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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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.