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Welcome
to the web pages of the Computational Intelligence working group
at the Department of Knowledge and Language Processing, School of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Our Mission
Our Computational Intelligence group, led by Rudolf Kruse, conducts research into methods of Artificial Intelligence. Currently, our main focus is on new methods of Intelligent Data Analysis.
In research, we currently frequently apply neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, Bayesian networks and approximate reasoning. Those techniques are generally used for finding robust, convenient and inexpensive solutions to real-world application problems.
In teaching we offer a variety of CI-based, well-coordinated lectures, exercises, seminars and internships on subfields of Computational Intelligence. For this purpose, we use books written by our group as well as software authored by our group.
Furthermore, our group is actively participating in technology transfer using exposition stands and numerous successful industry projects. Moreover, we offer research management capabilities in the CI area -- especially featuring the organization of international conferences, editorial activities for international journals as well as research councils and academic organizations.
SMPS 2012 conference
SMPS 2012
The sixth international conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics SMPS'2012 will be organized by the CI Group in Magdeburg (Prof. Kruse) together with the IDA Group in Konstanz (Prof. Berthold). It will be held in the facilities of the University of Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany. The aim of SMPS 2012 is to serve as a forum for discussing new trends that enlarge the statistical and uncertainty modeling traditions towards the handling of incomplete, subjective or fuzzy information.
News & Announcements
11.-17.12.2011
NIPS 2011
Christian Moewes gave a talk about "Brain connectivity associated with different damages of the visual system" at the sattellite workshop Causal Graphs organized at NIPS Conference in Granada, Spain. This work is based on his current research in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Sabel.
December 2011
IPMU 2012
The submission deadline for the special session on Mining and Learning from Dynamic Graphical Networks (MLDGN) at the next IPMU 2012 conference in Catania, Italiy has been extended to January 15, 2012.
November 2011
IPMU 2012
Christian Moewes will organize a special session on Mining and Learning from Dynamic Graphical Networks (MLDGN) at the next IPMU 2012 conference in Catania, Italiy.
Submission deadline for research papers is December 10, 2011.
The call for papers can be found on the website of the special session MLDGN 2012.
17.11.2011
Our research group has achieved a grant funded under the DAAD/Go8 cooperation scheme in 2012/2013. The collaboration will take place between our group and the group of Saman Halgamuge at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Kruse and Prof. Halgamuge have both been introduced into the DAAD/Go8 alumni group. The grant's funding amounts to roughly 15,000 EUR on the German side and an equivalent amount on the Australian side. The grant covers traveling cost for both sides, including post-docs, graduate students and researchers.
16.11.2011
Die drei Studenten Meyer, Stange, Schmidt haben ihre Masterarbeit bei BT, bzw. Volkswagen absolviert und Doktorandenstellen bei der Volkswagen AG angenommen.
16.11.2011
The three master students Andreas Meier, Dominic Stange and Fabian Schmidt have successfully finished their theses at BT andVolkswagen and have subsequently taken on PhD positions at Volkswagen AG.
08.11.2011--11.11.2011
Rudolf Kruse gave lectures on Bayesian Networks at the European Centre for Soft Computing in
Mieres, Spain.
27.10.2011-29.10.2011
Rudolf Kruse participated in the Management Committee and Workgroup Meeting of the COST Action IC0702 - SoftStat, a project funded by the ESF. The meeting took place at the University of Lisboa.
21.10.2011
Rudolf Kruse participated in the management and strategy board meeting of SCCH in Linz. The Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH)
is one of the largest independent research centres on software in Austria.
27.09.2011
Rudolf Kruse participated in a session of the European Centre for Soft Computing's scientific council. A core topic of the meeting was the award of the [[http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/3/189-news-and-events?one_article=1&mtsp_nocache=yes&pms=1,157,188007,view,normal,0&id_html_article=819&back_ipg=2 | Cajastur Mamdani Prize for Soft Computing]].
07.09.-09.09.2011
Zittau Fuzzy Colloquium 2011
Christian Moewes gave two lectures on the subject of "Temporal Data Mining" at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences within the 18th Zittau Fuzzy Colloquium which was organized by the Institute of Process Technology, Process Automation and Measuring Technology (IPM). It was implemented as biannual summer school since 2009. The goal of this summer school was to familiarize young researchers with methodical basics and current developments in the field of soft computing.
29.08.-03.09.2011
Industrial Conference on Data Mining
Georg Ruß participated in the World Congress on Intelligent Data and Signal Analysis, which was held in New York City, USA. He presented his work on hierarchical clustering for management zone delineation in precision agriculture (Link: http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/aigaion/index.php/publications/show/797). Furthermore, his second workshop on "Data Mining in Agriculture" was hosted with the conference (Link: http://dma-workshop.de), where he further elaborated on the above topic and presented more results (http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/aigaion/index.php/publications/show/806). He is co-editor of the workshop proceedings and co-author of another workshop survey publication with Antonio Mucherino.
01.09.2011
ICA, special issue
Professor Kruse is guest editor for Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, with a special issue on Data Mining in Engineering.
