May 2012

• The new publications are now available online

The article "The continuous end-state comfort effect: weighted integration of multiple biases" (Oliver Herbort and Martin V. Butz) has now been published in the following paginated issue of Psychological Research: Volume 76, Issue 3 (2012), Page 345-363.

http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s00426-011-0334-7

 

The article "Learning local linear Jacobians for flexible and adaptive robot arm control" (Patrick O. Stalph and Martin V. Butz) has now been published in the following paginated issue of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: Volume 13, Issue 2 (2012), Page 137-157

http://www.springerlink.com/content/35441772qm37w31k/

March 2012

• Paper has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV/2012), Spain

Andreas Alin, Martin V. Butz, Jannik Fritsch

"Incorporating Environmental Knowledge into Bayesian Filtering using Attractor Functions"

www.robesafe.es/iv2012/

• Accepted as full papers for GECCO 2012

 

Patrick O. Stalph & Martin V. Butz

"Guided Evolution in XCSF"

 

Jan Kneissler, Patrick O. Stalph, Jan Drugowitsch & Martin V. Butz

"Filtering Sensory Information with XCSF: Improving Learning Robustness and Control Performance" 

 

http://sigevo.org/gecco-2012/

• The new publication is now available online

Patrick O. Stalph, Xavier Llorà, David E. Goldberg, Martin V. Butz 

 

"Resource management and scalability of the XCSF learning
 classifier system"

 

• Cooptation in Psychology, University of Tuebingen

Martin V. Butz, full professor at the department of Computer Science, is now co-opted in both departments: Computer Science and Psychology (Faculty of Science).

• Meeting & Lunch - 6th March, 12.00 a.m., room C 424

Presentation of the chairs Computer Graphics (Prof. Hendrik Lensch), Cognitive Modeling (Prof. Martin Butz) and Media Informatics (Prof. Andreas Schilling).

Lecture - 8 of March, in the afternoon (after Brown Bag Lunch)

Lecture of Daniel Zöllner about his master's thesis: "Zur Philosophischen Rezeption Jean Gebsers". After that he will introduce the schedule of his planned dissertation: "Problems of Grounded Cognition: Grounding Concepts and Consciousness".

February 2012

• New staff

The chair of Cognitive Modeling got a new colleague. We are glad to welcome Dr. Anna Belardinelli in Tübingen (previously University of Bielefeld).

• Parental leave

Our colleague Dr. Jan Kneissler will be away from Cognitive Modeling for 4 months. Undoubtedly he'll have a good time with his familiy! Even now we are delighted to welcome him back in june 2012.

• Research Stay 

Because of university research Dr. Oliver Herbort will stay until April 2012 at State College, PA, USA working with Professor David Rosenbaum (Department of Psychology).

 

http://psych.la.psu.edu/directory/faculty-bios/rosenbaum.html

• New paper

• CogSys, Febr. 22 -23, 2012,TU Vienna, Austria   

• EUCoglll Members, Febr. 22 - 24, 2012

     same location (conference will be held in conjunction with CogSys 2012)

     Several team members from Cognitive Modeling will be there.