News
Again Two Workshops at ECML/PKDD!
As in the previous year, we will co-organize two workshop at this year's ECML/PKDD conference.
FG Knowledge Engineering co-organizes the LWA 2009
We will organize the upcoming conference LWA 2009
DAAD/IKYDA Support for Activities in Multi-label Classification
The Knowledge Engineering Group of the TU Darmstadt and the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery Group of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have received support from the DAAD/IKYDA to establish a co-operation in the area of Multilabel Classification Methods for Problems with Large Number of Labels.
Proposals Co-Chair of ECML/PKDD Steering Committee
Prof. Fürnkranz has been appointed Proposals Co-Chair of the ECML/PKDD Steering Committee, and is responsible for organizing the selection process for the conference venue in 2011.
DFG Project GLocSyn Extension
Our project proposal Towards A Synthesis of Local and Global Pattern Discovery has been extended for two more years by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
AAAI Computer Poker Competition 2008
Two groups of our combined Practical Course on Artificial Intelligence and Seminar on Knowledge Engineering in Games participated in the third AAAI Computer Poker Competition. Besides the usual heads-up limit and heads-up no-limit competitions, a 6-player ring limit competition was held for the first time.
Two Workshops at ECML/PKDD-08!
We will co-organize two workshop at this year's ECML/PKDD conference in Antwerp. On September 15th, there will be the LeGo-08 Workshop: From Local Patterns to Global Models, and on September 19th, the PL-08 Workshop on Preference Learning. Both workshops complement our activities on the two DFG-funded projects in these areas. We are looking forward to many interesting submissions!
Achtung! Forschungssemester im WS 2007/08
Im Wintersemester 2007/08 wird Professor Fürnkranz ein Forschungssemester durchführen. In dieser Zeit finden mit Ausnahme des Seminars aus maschinellem Lernen keine Lehrveranstaltungen statt, und es wird keine regelmäßige Sprechstunde angeboten.
Data Mining Cup 2007
As in previous years, as part of our Practical Course on Machine Learning and Data Mining, we participated in the annual Data Mining Cup. This year, one of our students, Stefan Appel, finished in third place (among 248 submitted solutions from 688 registered students of 159 universities from 40 different countries). In total, three of our students finished among the top 10 (and were invited to participate in the international Data Mining Days in Leipzig), and five students finished among the top 20.
DFG Project Pairwise Learning
The project proposal Learning by Pairwise Comparison for Problems with Structured Output Spaces has been accepted by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Best Teaching Award for Prof. K.P. Jantke
Prof. Klaus Peter Jantke who has a teaching position in our group has been distinguished by the students representative's Best Teaching Award. The students elected his lecture on Digital Games to be the best Computer Science lecture in the summer term 2006.
Data Mining Cup 2006
Nine Students of our Practical Course on Machine Learning and Data Mining participated in the annual Data Mining Cup. This year's task was to train a classifier to predict whether an item that is on sale at EBay will receive a higher or lower price than comparable items. Three of our students were placed in the top 10 of 189 solutions. Two students were invited to the international Data Mining Days in Chemnitz.
DFG Project GLocSyn
Our project proposal Towards A Synthesis of Local and Global Pattern Discovery has been accepted by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Best Young Presentation Award
Bjoern Koester received the Best Young Presentation Award at the 4th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis for his paper "FooCA: Enhancing Google Information Research with Formal Concept Analysis".
EC Project ALIS
Our group is participating in the EC IST project (IST-027968) Automated Legal Intelligent System (ALIS), which aims at investigating automated reasoning in computational logic and game theory in the legal domain.