Minutes General Assembly BNVKI 2014
Nijmegen,November 7th 2014
Minutes General Assembly BNVKI 2014
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Event Report: Dutch-Belgian Reinforcement Learning workshop
On Friday November 28, 2014 the Brussels AI-lab organized the Dutch-Belgian Reinforcement Learning workshop. This was the 3rd edition of the workshop, which was previously held in Delft and Maastricht. The event was hosted by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and cosponsored by the BNVKI. In total, 8 researchers gave talks about their research on various aspects [...]
BNAIC 2014: The 2014 SKBS Prize
The Foundation for Knowledge Based Systems (SKBS) continued their policy of awarding the SKBS prize to the best demonstration of the Demo-session of the BNAIC 2014. The 2014 referee committee consisted of Jaap van den Herik (chair), Simon Colton, Tom Heskes, Virginia Dignum, Patrick de Causemaecker, and Josca Snippe. The referee committee had to consider [...]
Session Report BNAIC 2014: AI for Games and Education
The AI for Games and Education session consisted of three presentations. The games were completely different, ranging from a topic out of the world of Games in combination with Combinatorial Game Theory, via Aggressive De-escalation, to Poly-Y. This was one of the three starting sessions of the 26th BNAIC. Immediately after the keynote lecture by [...]
Session Report BNAIC 2014: Knowledge Representation
The Knowledge Representation session consisted of three presentations. The topics were completely different, ranging from clinical trials, via requirements engineering and argumentation-based techniques, to Linked Open Data. This session was one of the last sessions of the first day. The first presentation was titled “Feasibility estimation for clinical trials”, authored by Zhisheng Huang, Frnak van [...]
Symposium Report – “Monte Carlo Search is Everywhere”
Mark Winands (DKE, Maastricht University) On December 2, in collaboration with SIKS and the BNVKI, the Department of Knowledge Engineering (DKE) at Maastricht University organized a symposium called “Monte-Carlo Search is Everywhere”. The symposium was held in honour of Pim Nijssen’s Ph.D. defence. The purpose of the symposium was to give an overview on recent [...]
Report AWAI (Away With Artificial Intelligence) to Berlin
AWAI (Away With Artificial Intelligence) is a yearly event organised by the NSVKI (Nederlandse StudieVereniging Kunstmatige Intelligentie). For this year's AWAI, we have planned a trip to Berlin. The trip took place from the 29th of May until the 1st of June. The original plan was to go to Berlin by bus with 50 participants [...]
ACAIS 2014 Symposium – Robotics
Every year study association CognAC organises a symposium related to artificial intelligence: the Annual CognAC Artificial Intelligence Symposium (ACAIS). The goal of the symposium is to inform students (and other attendees) about the latest developments in AI and inspire them for future projects. This year the ACAIS took place on the 7th of May, for the [...]
Event Report: SemDial 2013 (DialDam) in Amsterdam by Raquel Fernandez
The SemDial Workshop Series, which has been taking place annually since its first edition in 1997, brings together researchers interested in human interaction and dialogue systems in a variety of disciplines. While in the initial years of the series the focus was on what could be called classic natural language semantics and pragmatics, over the [...]