Workshops

All workshops will be held on September 10, and they will normally run in parallel. Participation at the conference entitles you to participating at any of the workshops. The workshop organizers are responsible for the workshop programs.

For the detailed workshop programs, please consult the individual workshop home pages given!

W1: Applications of Spatial Cognition for Intelligent Assistance Systems Workshop cancelled!
W2: Learning from Non-Vectorial Data (LNVD 2007)
W3: PuK 2007: 21. Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren/Entwerfen
W4: 2nd Workshop "emotion and computing - current research and future impact"
W5: Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (subsequently: Mitgliederversammlung der GI-Fachgruppe Wissensrepräsentation und Schließen. Note new start: 17:30!)
W6: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence -- FAInt-07 (half day, afternoon)
W7: Towards Ambient Intelligence: Methods for Cooperating Ensembles in Ubiquitous Environments (AIM-CU)
W8: Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation
W9: 3rd Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2007) (half day, morning)
New: W10: Mitgliederversammlung der Fachgruppe Kognition der GI

W1: Applications of Spatial Cognition for Intelligent Assistance Systems

Workshop cancelled!

W2: Learning from Non-Vectorial Data (LNVD 2007)

Organizers:: Peter Geibel, Brijnesh J. Jain
Time:: Mo Sep 10, 9:30-18:00
Abstract:: In the recent years, machine learning approaches that operate on non-vectorial data like sequences, trees, graphs, and logical descriptions have gained an enormous importance. This is in the first place due to new exciting application areas like bioinformatics, text/web mining, and computer linguistics, where structured descriptions play a predominant role (e.g., as DNA sequences, protein structures, word sequences, parse trees, DOM trees). New powerful learning tools have been developed like string, tree, and graph kernels, conditional random fields, learning in I/O space, spectral methods for graphs, probabilistic relational models, and recurrent neural networks for structures, just to name a few. The LNVD 2007 workshop invites contributions from these fields. Questions of special interest are (A) the cross-fertilisation of bioinformatics and text mining/computer linguistics and (B) the integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches, which is one of the central questions in cognitive science.
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W3: PuK 2007: 21. Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren/Entwerfen

Organizers:: Jürgen Sauer, Stefan Edelkamp, Bernd Schattenberg
Time:: Mo Sep 10, 9:30-16:00
Abstract:: The PuK workshop is the regular meeting of the special interest group on planning, scheduling, design and configuration within the AI section of the GI. In 2006, it could celebrate its 20th anniversary. As in previous years the PuK workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners of the areas of planning, scheduling, design and configuration. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, evaluations and experiences especially in the use of AI techniques within these application and research areas.
As in earlier workshops, we intend to focus on one area. This year we will focus on large scale search spaces often found within planning and configuration problems. Here we look for approaches that can reduce the limitations in time and space imposed by the hardware and software resources available today. Besides this, further submissions from the above mentioned general topics are welcome.
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W4: 2nd Workshop "emotion and computing - current research and future impact"

Organizers:: Paul Levi, Dirk Reichardt
Time:: Mo Sep 10, 9:30-18:00
Abstract:: In recent years computer science research has shown increasing efforts in the field of software agents which incorporate emotion. Several approaches have been made concerning emotion recognition, emotion modeling, generation of emotional user interfaces and dialogue systems as well as anthropomorphic communication agents. The workshop will focus on the role of affect and emotion in computer systems including emotion recognition, emotion generation and emotion modeling with special attention to AI specific problems and applications. Both shallow and deep models of emotion are in the focus of interest. The goal is to provide a forum for the presentation of research as well as of existing and future applications and for lively discussions among researchers and industry.
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W5: Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief

Organizers:: Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Christoph Beierle
Time:: Mo Sep 10, 11:30-17:30
Abstract:: Knowledge Representation is one of the major topics in AI. In recent years, intelligent agents in the contexts of open environments and multi agent systems have become the leading paradigm of the field. Consequently, modern KR methods have to deal not only with static scenarios, but also with dynamic modifications in knowledge and belief, due to uncertain or incomplete information, or to changes in the environment. Moreover, agents are often expected to learn from past experiences, or to interact with other agents, making use of their knowledge and adjusting their beliefs during argumentation. The focus of this workshop is on dynamic processes concerning any changes that an agent's state of knowledge and belief may undergo.
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W6: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence -- FAInt-07

Organizers:: Pascal Hitzler, Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Sebastian Rudolph
Time:: Mo Sep 10, afternoon (14:30-18:00)
Abstract:: Within the course of the last 50 years, Artificial Intelligence has developed into a major field of research with a multitude of facets and application areas. While, in general, Artificial Intelligence research is driven by application needs, it is nevertheless a fact that foundational questions and theoretical insights have always been one of the driving forces behind its development. It lies in the nature of such fundamental research that a critical mass of different formal perspectives can generate a cross-fertilization of ideas and applications. We therefore intend to bring together researchers working on foundational aspects of Artificial Intelligence across different communities, in order to stimulate an exchange of ideas and methods between them.
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W7: Towards Ambient Intelligence: Methods for Cooperating Ensembles in Ubiquitous Environments (AIM-CU)

Organizers:: Thomas Kirste, Birgitta König-Ries, Ralf Salomon
Time:: Mo Sep 10, 13:30(!)-18:00
Abstract:: In recent years, smart environments -- smart homes, smart offices, intelligent classrooms etc. -- have become an important research area. At the same time, ubiquitous computing makes "smart artifacts" available everywhere. This raises an interesting question: is it possible to let such environments emerge from the interaction between the individual smart artifacts that coincidentally reside in the user's vicinity? Is it possible to devise strategies that allow such a set of artifacts to form a coherently acting ensemble, without human configuration and supervision? Would approaches from AI planning, semantic web technology, or automated service composition be an option? Within this workshop we want to discuss possible solutions for creating emergent intelligence in an ensemble of everyday artifacts.
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W8: Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation

Organizer:: Björn Gottfried
Time:: Mo Sep 10, 9:30-18:00
Abstract:: Monitoring what goes on in the environment, what people do and how they interact with their surroundings is of interest in several areas, such as in ambient intelligence applications and in particular in healthcare. This workshop focuses on methods analysing and interpreting the behaviour of single people, or of small groups of people. This is for the purpose of intention recognition, the triggering of smart home environments, or for the investigation of how people deal with specific problems or how they do specific things.
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W9: 3rd Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2007)

Organizers:: Joachim Baumeister, Dietmar Seipel
Time:: Mo Sep 10, morning (9:30-13:00)
Abstract:: Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in various domains over the last years. The process of building such systems is based on techniques and tools from the fields of knowledge engineering and software engineering. Thus, declarative software engineering techniques have been established in many areas, such as knowledge systems, logic programming, constraint programming, and lately in the context of the Semantic Web. The third workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2007) wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from both fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence. The previous workshops on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering were held at the KI-2006 and KI-2005.
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W10: Mitgliederversammlung der Fachgruppe Kognition der GI

Organizers:: Kerstin Schill, Christoph Schlieder
Time:: Mo Sep 10, 17:00-18:00
Abstract:: Zu diesem Workshop laden wir die Mitglieder der Fachgruppe "Kognition" der GI und alle Interessierten herzlich ein. Auf dem Workshop sollen zukünftige Schwerpunkte der Fachgruppe und Interaktionen mit anderen Fachgruppen diskutiert werden. Ein wichtiger Punkt wird die Vorstellung und Wahl der zukünftigen Sprecher sein. Wir würden uns über eine zahlreiche Teilnahme an diesem Workshop freuen um den wichtigen Bereich der "Kognition" innerhalb der GI zu stärken.
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