News & Announcements

8.-10.09.2008

SMPS'08

Prof. Rudolf Kruse and Christian Moewes successfully participated in the Fourth International Workshop on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics in Toulouse, France. At this workshop which is organized every second year international researchers from the fields of statistics and uncertainty were talking about fuzzy and probability methods. Christian Moewes gave a presentation about his diploma thesis and sketched his possible PhD thesis on Comprehensible Fuzzy Rule Generation based on Kernel Methods. The papers have been published in the Vol. 48 of the Springer Series Advances in Soft Computing. The paper itself can be found in our publication database.

August 2008

Book #29

The 29th book of our working group has been published recently: Giacomo Della Riccia, Didier Dubois, Rudolf Kruse, Hans-Joachim Lenz: Preferences and Similarities, Springer, Wien, 2008. The book contains 13 revised versions of papers authored by internationally renowned researchers who have given a talk at the 8th International Workshop of the International School for the Synthesis of Expert Knowledge, held from 5th to 7th October 2006 at Udine, Italy.

The successful series of invited workshops, initiated by Prof. Della Riccia and Prof. Kruse takes place biannually at Palazzo del Torso, Udine, Italy, featuring varying topics.

28.07.2008

R. Kruse, R. Winkler

Roland Winkler defended his German diploma thesis on Validierung von Indikatoren zur Bewertung der Flugführung im Flughafennahbereich very successfully. During his thesis, he worked on a topic that German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) is very interested in. He will do his PhD at the DLR, in cooperation with our group. The work was supervised by Dr. Frank Rehm, a former PhD student of our group.

15.-18.07.2008

ICDM 2008

Georg Ruß participated successfully in the Industrial Conference on Data Mining in Leipzig. The small conference, which is organized annually by IBAI Institute, had an international audience from roughly 20 countries and 32 talks were scheduled, each with a length of 30 minutes. Georg Ruß talked about his current PhD work on Data Mining on Agriculture Data using Neural Networks and received valuable feedback and comments for his ongoing work. The papers are being published in the Springer Series LNCS (LNAI): Advances in Data Mining. The respective publication can be found in our publication database.

27.06.2008

IPMU 2008

Christian Moewes, Frank Rügheimer, Georg Ruß and Prof. Rudolf Kruse have successfully participated in IPMU 2008 in Málaga, Spain. The respective publications can be obtained from our publication database:

• Steffen Kempe, Rudolf Kruse: Mining Temporal Patterns in an Automotive Environment
• Christian Moewes, Rudolf Kruse: Unification of Fuzzy SVMs and Rule Extraction Methods through imprecise Domain Knowledge
• Frank Rügheimer, Rudolf Kruse: An Uncertainty Representation for Set-Valued Attributes with Hierarchical Domains
• Georg Ruß, Rudolf Kruse, Martin Schneider, Peter Wagner: Optimizing Wheat Yield Prediction Using Different Topologies of Neural Networks

The upcoming IPMU 2010 will be held from June 28th to July 2nd in Dortmund, Germany and will be co-chaired by our working group.