On February 5th 2019, a Decision Intelligence Seminar was held at KU Leuven Campus De Nayer in Sint-Katelijne-Waver. This multidisciplinary event was organised by a consortium of companies together with three different KU Leuven research groups: the LIRIS group of the Faculty of Economics and Business, the DTAI group of the Faculty of Engineering Science and the [...]
BNAIC is the annual Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence. In 2018, the 30th edition of BNAIC was organized by the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), under the auspices of the Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence (BNVKI) and the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS). BNAIC 2018 took place in Marienburg, ’s-Hertogenbosch, [...]
Several awards were handed out at BNAIC 2018: SNN Best Paper Award: Hui Wang, Michael Emmerich, Aske Plaat Assessing the Potential of Classical Q-learning in General Game Playing SKBS Best Demo Award: Laura van der Lubbe, Charlotte Gerritsen, Daniel Formolo, Marco Otte, Tibor Bosse An Application for Training Verbal Resilience to Doorstep Scams using Virtual [...]
On September 20th, the first workshop of the EU High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (EU HLEG AI) took place in Brussels. The workshop was attended by the 52 members of the expert group appointed by the European Commission (see the list at https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/high-level-expert-group-artificial-intelligence), extended with reserve members. The workshop was attended by former [...]
As in previous years the study association CognAC organised ACAIS (the Annual CognAC Artificial Intelligence Symposium), a symposium dedicated to showcasing the latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence to its attendees and inspire them for future projects. This year, the theme was AI & Language: a growing and interesting field within Artificial Intelligence. [...]
The first presentation in this session was given by David Roschewitz from Maastricht University, who presented a joint work with Kurt Driessens and Pieter Collins titled "Simultaneous Ensemble Generation and Hyper parameter Optimization for Regression". The authors presented a method to simultaneously generate ensembles and tune the hyper parameters of the models for regression problems. [...]
This session included four fascinating presentations, focussing on different aspects of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. The first paper, titled 'Constructing Knowledge Graphs of Depression', was presented by Frank van Harmelen, and was co-authored by Zhisheng Huang, Jie Yang, and Qing Hu. Frank presented a collaborative project between the VU and Beijing Anding hospital that focused [...]
The session on Games consisted of four presentations discussing applications of mathematical game theory in multi agent systems. The first two presentations presented the work of Gleb Polevoy and Mathijs de Weerdt on agents that need to divide their available time over multiple projects, respectively multiple group interactions. An example of the former is the [...]
In the Uncertainty in AI session three papers were presented. Two papers were wholly or partly motivated by legal applications. Remi Wieten from Utrecht university addressed the problem that Bayesian networks, while increasingly popular in forensic science, are poorly understood by legal experts. This problem makes it hard to build reliable Bayesian networks for crime [...]
The Agent Systems session was opened by Bram Wiggers from the University of Groningen. In his paper "The origin of mimicry: Deception or merely coincidence?", he presents an agent model for the evolution of mimicry. Mimicry refers to a situation in which two species of prey animals share a phenotype, while only one of them [...]