German Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(KI2003)

15. - 18. September 2003
Universität Hamburg


Programme Overview


Monday 15
 Tuesday 16
 Wednesday 17
 Thursday 18
09:00
Opening Invited Talk
Studer
 Invited Talk
Keim
09.30
10:00
 Invited Talk
Wahlster
 Coffee Break
 Coffee Break
10:30
 Technical Papers
 Technical Papers
11:00
 Coffee Break
11:30
 Technical Papers
12:00
 Lunch
 Lunch
12:30
13:00
 Lunch
 ECCAI
Best Dissertation Prize

Posters and
Exhibition
 Posters
13:30
14:00
 Workshops
WS-1, WS-3, WS-4, WS-5, WS-6, WS-9, WS-10 		Workshops
WS-1, WS-2, WS-3, WS-5, WS-7, WS-8, WS-10, WS-11
14:30
 Coffee Break
15:00
 Invited Talk
Sandewall
15:30
16:00
 Coffee Break
 Coffee Break
 Invited Talk
Jennings
 Finale
16:30
 Workshops
WS-1, WS-3, WS-4, WS-5, WS-6, WS-9, WS-10 		Workshops
WS-1, WS-2, WS-3, WS-5, WS-7, WS-8, WS-10, WS-11
17:00
 FB-Leitung
17:30
18:00
 FG-Treffen
18:30

19:00
 Welcome Reception
 Workshop
Social Events
 Conference Dinner
"Völkerkundemuseum"
19:30
20:00

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Programme

Monday, September 15, 2003
12:00-14:00
 Registration
14:00-16:00
 Workshops
WS-1, WS-3, WS-4, WS-5, WS-6, WS-9, WS-10
16:00-16:30
 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30
 Workshops
WS-1, WS-3, WS-4, WS-5, WS-6, WS-9, WS-10
19:00
 Welcome Reception

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Tuesday, September 16, 2003
8:00-9:00
 Registration
9:00-10:00
 Opening
10:00-11:00
 Invited Talk: Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI Saarbrücken)
Towards Symmetric Multimodality: Fusion and Fission of Speech, Gesture and Facial Expression
(Chair: Bernd Neumann, Universität Hamburg)
11:00-11:30
 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00
 Technical Papers 1a: Classification and Neural Networks
(Chair: Hans-Jürgen Bürckert, DFKI Saarbrücken)

  • A k-Winner-Takes-All Classifier for Structured Data
    Brijnesh J. Jain, Fritz Wysotzki
  • Applied Connectionistic Methods in Computer Vision to compare Segmented Images
    S. Bischoff, D. Reuss, F. Wysotzki
  • Approaches to Semi-Supervised Learning of Fuzzy Classifiers
    Aljoscha Klose
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Technical Papers 1b: Cognitive Modeling
(Chair: Otthein Herzog, TZI, Universität Bremen)
  • Conscious behavior through reflexive dialogues
    Pierre Bonzon
  • Behavioral Knowledge Representation for the Understanding and Creation of Video Sequences
    Michael Arens, Hans-Hellmut Nagel
  • Designign Agents with MicroPsi Node Nets
    Joscha Bach, Ronnie Vuine
13:00-14:00
 Lunch
14:00-16:00
 Workshops
WS-1, WS-2, WS-3, WS-5, WS-7, WS-8, WS-10, WS-11
16:00-16:30
 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
 Workshops
WS-1, WS-2, WS-3, WS-5, WS-7, WS-8, WS-10, WS-11
18:00-19:00
 Meeting "Fachgruppen im FB KI"
19:00
 Workshop Social Events

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Wednesday, September 17, 2003
8:00-9:00
 Registration
9:00-10:00
 Invited Talk: Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Ontologies and Metadata for the Semantic Web
(Chair: Heinrich Niemann, Universität Erlangen)
10:00-10:30
 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
 Technical Papers 2a: Reasoning
(Chair: Fritz Wysotzki, TU Berlin)

  • Computing Minimum-Cardinality Diagnoses Using OBDDs
    Pietro Torasso, Gianluca Torta 
  • What Observations Really Tell Us
    Gero Iwan, Gerhard Lakemeyer
  • A Multimodal Probabilistic Approach for Dynamic State Estimation Using Visual Information
    Alvaro Soto, Pradeep Khosla
Technical Papers 2b: Logics and Ontologies
(Chair: Günther Görz, Universität Erlangen)

  • The instance problem and the most specific concept in the description logic EL w.r.t. terminological cycles with descriptive semantics
    Franz Baader 
  • Fusing probabilistic information on maximum entropy
    Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Wilhelm Roedder
  • How to Build a Foundational Ontology
    Luc Schneider
12:00-13:00
 Lunch
13:00-13:30
ECCAI Best Dissertation Prize
13:30-16:00
 Posters 1: Poster Spotlight and Exhibition
(Chair: Rudolf Kruse, Universität Magdeburg)
16:00-17:00
 Invited Talk: Nick Jennings (University of Southampton, UK)
Trading Places with Software Agents
(Chair: Christopher Habel, Universität Hamburg)
17:00-18:00
 Meeting "Fachbereich Künstliche Intelligenz in der KI"
19:00
 Conference Dinner "Völkerkundemuseum"

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Thursday, September 18, 2003
8:30-9:00
 Registration
9:00-10:00
 Invited Talk: Daniel Keim (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Visual Exploration of Large Databases
(Chair: Rudolf Kruse, Universität Magdeburg)
10:00-10:30
 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
 Technical Papers 3a: Spatial Modeling and Agents
(Chair: Bernhard Nebel, Universität Freiburg)
  • Consistent 3D Model Construction with Autonomous Mobile Robots
    Andreas Nuechter, Hartmut Surmann, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg
  • Tripartite Line Tracks and Bipartite Line Tracks
    Björn Gottfried
  • An Agent`s Definition Framework and a Methodology for Deriving Agent`s Taxonomies
    Silke Höppner
Technical Papers 3b: User Modeling / Reasoning about Actions
(Chair: Franz Baader, TU Dresden)

  • Tailoring the Presentation of Plans to Users‚ Knowledge and Capabilites
    Detlef Küpper, Alfred Kobsa
  • A Formal Assessment Result for Fluent Calculus Using the Action Description Language Ak
    Ozan Kahramanogullari, Michael Thielscher
  • Multi-modal User State Recognition in a Modern Dialogue System
    Johann Adelhardt, Rui Ping Shi, Carmen Frank, Viktor Zeissler, Anton Batliner,Elmar Noeth, Heinrich Niemann
12:00-13:00
 Lunch
13:00-14:30
 Posters 2: Poster Spotlight and Exhibition
(Chair: Wolfgang Menzel, Universität Hamburg)
14:30-15:00
 Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
 Invited Talk: Erik Sandewall (University of Linköping, Sweden)
Words at the Right Time: Real-time Dialogues with the WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(Chair: Wolfgang Bibel, TH Darmstadt)
16:00
 Finale

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