Research

Research of the AI group in the Cognitive Science institute includes topics in Analogical Reasoning, Logic Programming, Formal Semantics.
Below you find a list of specific research interests. For further information, please visit the projects and the individual home pages.

Analogical Reasoning Predictive analogies in qualitative physics, heuristic-driven theory projection Helmar Gust,
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Angela Schwering, Ulf Krumnack
Algebraic Methods in AI Category Theory, closure spaces, channels, topologies, universal algebra, Coalgebras Helmar Gust,
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Logic Programming and Constraints PROLOG and PROLOG extensions for CLP Helmar Gust
Cognitive Robotics Autonomous and embodied agent models of categorization and symbolic behavior Ulas Turkmen
Knowledge Management Mapping-Tools for Cooperative Work and Learning, distributed learning,
terminology extraction, ontologies, internal document structure, text mining
Petra Ludewig,
Helmar Gust,
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger,
Peter Geibel
Media-based Learning Environments   Helmar Gust, Philipp Hügelmeyer, Robert Mertens, Tobias Thelen, Tobias Wollermann

Machine Learning for Structured Descriptions Inductive Logic Programming, Relational Decision Trees, Prototype
Generation, Kernel Methods
Peter Geibel
Cost Models in Supervised Learning Generalized Cost Models, Example-Dependent Costs, Cost-Dependent Sampling Peter Geibel
Intelligent Process Control Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning, Potential Based-Approaches, Shaping Peter Geibel
Ontology Design Ontology generation and adaptation, extraction of semantic information from syntactic data. Helmar Gust, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Jens Michaelis, Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Ulas Türkmen, Konstantin Todorov
Neuro-Symbolic Integration Learning logical theories and complex data structures with neural networks. Helmar Gust,Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Peter Geibel
Cognitive Integration Reducing cognitive diversity to a few principles in order to achieve human-level intelligence. Helmar Gust,Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Peter Geibel