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Up one levelUnderstanding the drivers of a shift to sustainable diets
One of the 21st century's greatest challenges is to develop diets that are both sustainable for the planet and good for our bodies. An IIASA-led study explored the major drivers of widespread shifts to sustainable diets using a newly developed computational model of population-wide behavioral dynamics.
CLEARumor acheves the second place in the RumourEval competition
Recently, Ipek Baris and Lukas Schmelzeisen presented their CLEARumor system for determining rumor veracity and support at the SemEval workshop in Minneapolis, USA.
EU Project Co-inform review meeting in Limassol
The EU project Co-inform aims to empower citizens, journalists, and policymakers with co-created socio-technical solutions, to increase resilience to misinformation, and to allow more informed behaviours and policies.
Panel Discussion @ Koblenz Weeks of Democracy
The Institute WeST organizes a panel discussion at the “Koblenz Weeks of Democracy” with the topic: What are Scientists doing for Democracy? A Glimpse into the Scientific Warfare against Misinformation, between Computer Science and Political Science.
Cooperation with KIMEP University in Kazakhstan
Dr. Iryna Shalaginova, Head of the International Relations office of the University of Koblenz-Landau and Maurice Zimmermann, responsible for ERASMUS + programs, visited the KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The KIMEP University is a private, state-accredited university offering all courses in English. It enables good exchange opportunities for students and lecturers in the subjects of English studies, social sciences, information management and economics. Since the beginning of the year, this university has been a partner of the University of Koblenz-Landau in the framework of the EU mobility program "Erasmus+".
First 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.
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
Read [the whole interview (in German)]
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.