Under a beautiful Dutch Summer sun, the 26th annual machine learning conference of the Benelux (Benelearn 2017) was held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on June 9 and 10. As always with Benelearn, the focal point was on the machine learning, data mining, and AI community of universities and research institutes located in Benelux member states. [...]
Nijmegen,November 7th 2014
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]