Interdisciplinary Lab for Intelligent and Adaptive Systems (ILIAS)

Be welcome!

The Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group (ILIAS; see ilias.uni.lu) is home to 5 Professors, 6 Guest Professors, 16 PostDoc researcher, as well as to 20 Doctoral students. ILIAS investigates the theoretical foundations and algorithmic realisations of Intelligent Systems for complex problem solving and decision making in uncertain and dynamic environments. Our activities include interdiscplinary research that fits to the rapidly growing role of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Robotics.The collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centres SnT, LCSB, and C2DH as well as with the Luxembourg School of Finance (LSF), the involvement with the High Performance Computing facility (HPC), and the collaboration with the Computational Sciences initiative reflect ILIAS's significance for Luxembourg’s strategic priorities and future.

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  2nd Internal Evaluation of the Digital History & Hermeneutics Doctoral Training Unit. 
• Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 10h30-12h00 (MSA Room 3.200): 3rd Community Meeting Artificial Chatbots. Presenter: Casius Morea (EmailTree): Email Management using NLP and ML. Join the community group HERE.

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  see Delano's article RIDING THE CHATBOT TRAIN; interview with Sviatlana Höhn.
• see RTL news as of 08 October 2018: Artificial Intelligence and the ILIAS RoboLab, with members of LuxAI and Prof van der Torre.

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  Dr Alexander Steen has been awarded a Junior Fellowship of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) e.V., the German Umbrella Organisation for Computer Scientists. Image Source: "GI/Borrs" - From left to right: Alexander von Gernler (Vice-president of the GI e.V., Genua GmbH), Andreas Nestler (HS Hamm-Lippstadt), Alexander Steen (FU Berlin/Universität Luxemburg), Hannes Federrath (President of the GI e.V., Universität Hamburg), Andreas Vogelsang (TU Berlin).
• Announcement: ILIAS Winter Schooi Ethics in Autonomous Vehicles. 21-25 January 2019, Campus Belval (Black Box, Maison des Sciences Humaines). Organisation; Prof Schommer; Speakers: M. Antonio Bikić (LMU Munich), M. Adriano Mannino (LMU Munich, DataCareer GmBH). The course is mainly for PhD students, but other participants are welcome.
• Evaluation of the DTU Digital History and Hermeneutics (DHH, FNR PRIDE program) by 18 October 2018.
• ILIAS and Homer's masterpiece with "thinking, talking, even learning automatons" (Source: Vorwort, PhD Thesis of our former colleague Prof Dr Jos Lahr, 1981, ETH Zurich) 
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• See Prof van der Torre's and Dr Sviatlana Höhn's interview "Künstliche Intelligenz: Sophia, Watson, und der Hype" in Tageblatt (10 September 2018).
• See here Prof Schommer's interview "Die Maschinen nach menschlichem Vorbild" in Luxemburger Wort (31 August 2018). 
• See here Dr Radu State's interview "Technologie, die Sinn ergibt" in Tageblatt (21/22 July 2018)

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  This summer, Dr Francisco Lera from ILIAS has been involved in the Frontier Development Lab (FDL) program, in partnership with NASA Ames Research Center and hosted by SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. FDL is an applied artificial intelligence research accelerator established to maximize new AI technologies and capacities emerging in academia and the private sector and apply them to challenges in the space sciences. During eight weeks, seven teams explored four research challenges focus on space initiatives: Space Resources Challenge, Exoplanets Challenge, Space Weather Challenge and Astrobiology Challenge. Last 16th, August,  these teams presented their POCs and results at the Horizon even hosted by Intel. Francisco was a member of the Space Resources team I, which aimed to develop a path planning solution for a cooperative multi-robot system.

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  Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop Exploring Old Maps, University of Kent, Canterbury. 25-26 October. Submission deadline: 12 September 2018.

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• Dr Alexander Steen, who has recently performed his PhD at the FU Berlin and who has joined ILIAS in July 2018, has been awarded GI Junior Fellowship. Congratulations!
• 16 August 2018: Call for Participation: Luxembourg Logic for AI Summit (LuxLogAI 2018), co-organized and co-sponsored by ILIAS.

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• The BNAIC2018 and BENELEARN2018 will be co-located and organised by the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch on November 8-9, 2018.

  

• Best Paper Award: PERSEUS: A Personalization Framework for Sentiment Categorization with Recurrent Neural Networks" by Guo, Siwen, University of Luxembourg, ILIAS Lab, Höhn, Sviatlana, AI Minds, Luxembourg, Xu, Feiyu, Head of AI Research, Lenovo, Beijing, China, and Schommer, Christoph, Head of ILIAS Lab, University of Luxembourg.
• Download the Final Booklet of the ILIAS Distinguished Lecture Series 2017! 
  
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• Call for Participation: 20th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS-2018)

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  Séminaire du Bureau du Parlament Européen au Luxembourg: Le RGPD: une stratégie de gouvernance au-delà de la protection? Where: Maison de l’Union européenne,  7, rue du Marché-aux-Herbes, L-1728 Luxembourg. When: 17 May 2018, 18h30-20h30. Participants: Viviane Reding (Députée européenne), Tine A. Larsen (Présidente de la CNPD), Professeur Christoph Schommer et Docteur Andra Giurgui (Université de Luxembourg) ainsi que Karin Basenach (Directrice du Centre européen des consommateurs)

• CSC (with ILIAS) has been ranked world-wide on position 58 for Computer Science - see Times Higher Education
• Biergerforum: Roboter und Künstliche Intelligenz - Forum citoyen avec des députés européens Where: Parlament Européen, Bâtiment Robert Schuman, 2 place de l'Europe, Luxembourg-Kirchberg Link to the official page. When: 24. March 2018, 15:00 - 17:45. Participants: Mady Delvaux-Stehres (European Parliament), Christoph Schommer (University Luxembourg) and 10 citizens of Luxembourg. The event is organised by Luxemburgisches Zentrum für Politische Bildung. Contact: info@zpb.lu 

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• ACC (Artificial Chatbots and Companions) Lab created. Head: Dr Sviatlana Höhn, Prof Christoph Schommer.
• ILIAS professors support the PRIDE Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) on “Digital History & Hermeneutics" as part of the C2DH interdisciplinary Centre.

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• see the Deutschlandfunk-Interview with ILIAS Professor Prof van der Torre and Prof Benzmüller (Freie Universität Berlin; visiting ILIAS in 2017): Roboterethik - Die Maschinen werden autonom. 10 May 2017.
• ILIAS is a member of BeNeLux Association on Artificial Intelligence.