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  • Dr. Martin Aleksandrov and Prof. Dr. Christoph Benzmüller

    Degree Programs: M.Sc. ISoSySc (9 ECTS), M.Sc. WI/AI (6 ECTS)

    Requirements: Knowledge of Computer Science, Philosophy, or MathematicsSome student projects may include a simple experiment for which basic programming skills are required. The students can use any coding language to run experiments.

    BeneficiariesPreferable is also some knowledge in Economics and Computational Complexity. Moreover, basic knowledge of LaTeX is a plus, since students are encouraged to learn how to use LaTeX for documenting their progress.

    Description: The project addresses problems at the interface of AI, social choice theory, intelligent vehicles, and ethics. The course gives each student the opportunity to develop a state-of-the-art research project on one of (but not limited to) the following topics:

      • Privacy concerns around intelligent vehicles
      • Bias concerns around intelligent vehicles
      • Fairness concerns around intelligent vehicles
      • Algorithm design for intelligent vehicles
      • Data design for intelligent vehicles
      • Applications for intelligent vehicles

    Time and location: The meetings will be on Wednesdays, 12:00-14:00 in room WE5/01.003. The introductory meeting will be on October 19, 2022.

    Registration: via this VC-course

    Main contact: Prof. Dr. Christoph Benzmüller (christoph.benzmueller@uni-bamberg.de)

    Guest instructor contact: Dr. Martin Aleksandrov (martin.aleksandrov@fu-berlin.de)

    Maximum number of participants: 10

    • IN-PERSON MEETING

    • Note: For the templates, you need a LaTeX editor. For example, you can create an Overleaf account, upload and edit the templates there: https://www.overleaf.com/.

    • Software (installed in W5/01.003):

      1. MiKTeX (LaTeX editor)
      2. Python 3 (programming)
      3. Zoom (online meetings)
      4. Weka (data analysis)
      5. MATLAB (optimization solver)
      6. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 (Excel for plotting, Word for writing)

    • Software (other):

    • Tutorials:

    • Note: For each project, you will need only some of the tools. LaTeX is recommended for everyone.

    • ONLINE MEETING

    • Agenda:

      Activity 1: Presenting the projects

      • Topic 1: Drone Navigation for Fighting Fires
      • Topic 2: The Blue Ship Routing Problem

      Activity 2: Assigning the projects

      • Group 1: Sascha and Christian (Topic 1)
      • Group 2: Bishal and Martin (Topic 2)

      Activity 3: Q & A

    • A task for next week:

      1. read your assigned paper
      2. summarize the problem studied, motivation, results, and conclusions
      3. prepare a 5-10 slide presentation (hint: use images, tables, figures, etc.)
      4. present it for 10 minutes

      Note: You might want to use the presentation template. In case of questions, please email me.
    • IN-PERSON MEETING

    • Agenda:

      Activity 1: Student presentations (30 min)

      1. Christian - Fighting Wildfires under Uncertainty - A Sequential Resource Allocation Approach
      2. Sascha - An Integer Programming Model to Optimize Resource Allocation for Wildfire Containment
      3. Bishal - Ship Route Planning Using Historical Trajectories Derived from AIS Data

      Activity 2: Discussing the projects (10 min)

      Activity 3: Playing with project tools/data (30 min)

      Activity 4: Supervision on projects (20 min)

      Activity 5: Q & A

    • Task 1 for next week:

      1. read your assigned paper
      2. summarize the problem studied, motivation, results, and conclusions
      3. prepare a 7-10 slide presentation (hint: use images, tables, figures, etc.)
      4. present it for 12 minutes

      Note: You might want to use the presentation template. In case of questions, please email me.

      Task 2 for next week:

      1. Skim the papers assigned to your fellow students
      2. Prepare 2 questions/comments related to each of these papers
      3. Participate in the feedback/discussion phase after the presentations next week

    • ONLINE MEETING


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      Workshop title: Current Trends in Social Vehicle Routing Problems

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      Workshop image:

      Social Vehicle Routing Problems

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      Workshop description:

      This workshop facilitates the transition from (under)graduate university programs to postgraduate university programs by providing a platform where students can develop their research skills further. This is achieved in the context of mobility problems where the preferences of society serve as a driver for future applications. Thus, students receive the opportunity to shape part of this future by presenting existing results and their own developed solutions for such applications.

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      Workshop goals:

      Goal 1: Promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among participants.
      Goal 2: Report research results and foster discussions.
      Goal 3: Receive feedback from peers.

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      Workshop schedule:

      Day: Monday, November 7, 2022
      Start: 08:00

      08:00 - 08:05: Opening

      Session 1 (Berlin team)

      08:05 - 08:15: Tobias (TU Berlin) - Mobility Sharing as a Preference Matching Problem
      08:15 - 08:25: Yannik (TU Berlin) - Models for Relief Routing: Equity, Efficiency, and Efficacy
      08:25 - 08:35: Sophie (FU Berlin) - Foodwaste within Swiss households: A segmentation of the population and suggestions for preventive measures 08:35 - 08:45: Hyosang (FU Berlin) - Review on Model and Algorithms of the Post-Disaster Relief Distribution Problem

      08:45-09:00: Discussion and Feedback (from the Bamberg team)

      Session 2 (Bamberg team)

      09:00 - 09:10: Bishal (Uni Bamberg) - A genetic algorithm for finding realistic sea routes considering the weather
      09:10 - 09:20: Sascha (Uni Bamberg) - Charging Station Distribution Optimization Using Drone Fleet in a Disaster
      09:20 - 09:30: Christian (Uni Bamberg) - Using Social Media to Detect and Locate Wildfires

      09:30-09:45: Discussion and Feedback (from the Berlin team)

      09:45-09:50: Closing

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      Workshop Webex information:

      Meeting link: click here
         
      Meeting number: 2730 233 5752

      Password: 5CpmcxJFQ82

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      Hints for students:

      Hint 1: Your presentation should contain the following parts: a summary of the problem, the motivation of the problem, the approach, methods, results, and conclusions plus references.

      Hint 2: Practice the timing of 10 minutes. This can be in front of the mirror or with a friend or a colleague.

      Hint 3: Your presentations should contain a maximum of 10 slides so that you have a maximum of 1 minute per slide on average.

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    • Task 1 for next week:

      1. read your assigned paper
      2. summarize the problem studied, motivation, results, and conclusions
      3. prepare a 10-slide presentation (hint: use images, tables, figures, etc.)
      4. present it for 15 minutes

      Note: You might want to use the presentation template. In case of questions, please email me.

      Task 2 for next week:

      1. Skim the papers assigned to your fellow students
      2. Prepare 3 comments/questions related to each of these papers
      3. Participate in the feedback/discussion phase after the presentations next week

    • ONLINE MEETING

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      Workshop title: "Current Trends in Social Vehicle Routing Problems"
      Part: 2

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      Workshop image:

      Social Vehicle Routing Problems
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      Workshop description:

      This workshop facilitates the transition from (under)graduate university programs to postgraduate university programs by providing a platform where students can develop their research skills further. This is achieved in the context of mobility problems where the preferences of society serve as a driver for future applications. Thus, students receive the opportunity to shape part of this future by presenting existing results and their own developed solutions for such applications.

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      Workshop goals:

      Goal 1: Promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among participants.
      Goal 2: Report research results and foster discussions.
      Goal 3: Receive feedback from peers.

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      Workshop schedule:

      Day: Monday, November 14, 2022
      Start: 08:00

      08:00 - 08:10: Opening

      Session 1 (Bamberg team)

      08:10 - 08:20: Bishal (Uni Bamberg) - A genetic algorithm for finding realistic sea routes considering the weather

      08:20 - 08:30: Sascha (Uni Bamberg) - Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: A brief review and suggested usage

      08:30 - 08:40: Christian (Uni Bamberg) - Resource Sharing for Control of Wildland Fires

      08:40-08:50: Discussion and Feedback (from the Berlin team)

      Session 2 (Berlin team)

      08:50 - 09:00: Sophie (FU Berlin) - Foodwaste within Swiss households: A segmentation of the population and suggestions for preventive measures

      09:00 - 09:10: Tobias (TU Berlin) - Optimization Algorithm Design for the Taxi-Sharing Problem and Application

      09:10 - 09:30: Hyosang and Yannik (FU+TU Berlin) - Routing for Relief Efforts (group presentation, self-organization)

      09:30-09:40: Discussion and Feedback (from the Bamberg team)

      09:40-09:50: Closing

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      Webex information:

      Meeting link:
      https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m83fbc0d0c1448e3267b0db98e3cc013c
      Meeting number:
      2734 260 6169
      Password:
      UaUt6tzpS36
      Host key:
      362885

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      Hints:

      Hint 1: Your presentation should contain the following parts: a summary of the problem, the motivation of the problem, the approach, methods, results, and conclusions plus references.

      Hint 2: Practice the timing of 10 minutes. This can be in front of the mirror or with a friend or a colleague.

      Hint 3: Your presentations should contain a maximum of 10 slides so that you have a maximum of 1 minute per slide on average.

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    • Task 1 for next week:

      1. read your assigned paper
      2. summarize the problem studied, motivation, results, and conclusions
      3. prepare a 5-slide presentation (hint: use images, tables, figures, etc.)
      4. present it for 8 minutes

      Note: You might want to use the presentation template. In case of questions, please email me.

      Task 2 for next week:

      1. Skim the papers assigned to your fellow students
      2. Prepare 2 comments/questions related to each of these papers
      3. Participate in the feedback/discussion phase after the presentations next week

    • ONLINE MEETING

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      Workshop title: "Current Trends in Social Vehicle Routing Problems"
      Part: 3

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      Workshop image:

      Social Vehicle Routing Problems
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      Workshop description:

      This workshop facilitates the transition from (under)graduate university programs to postgraduate university programs by providing a platform where students can develop their research skills further. This is achieved in the context of mobility problems where the preferences of society serve as a driver for future applications. Thus, students receive the opportunity to shape part of this future by presenting existing results and their own developed solutions for such applications.

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      Workshop goals:

      Goal 1: Promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among participants.
      Goal 2: Report research results and foster discussions.
      Goal 3: Receive feedback from peers.

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      Workshop agenda:

      Day: Monday, November 21, 2022
      Start: 08:00

      08:00 - 08:10: Opening

      Session 1 (Bamberg team)

      08:10 - 08:20: Bishal (Uni Bamberg) - A Heuristic Procedure for a Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Variable Speed and Discretized Time Windows

      08:20 - 08:40: Sascha & Christian (Uni Bamberg) - Demo(s) of simulating wildfires with tools.

      08:40-08:50: Discussion and Feedback (from the Berlin team)

      Session 2 (Berlin team)

      08:50 - 09:00: Sophie (FU Berlin) - Foodwaste within Swiss households: A segmentation of the population and suggestions for preventive measures

      09:00 - 09:10: Tobias (TU Berlin) - Progress on his current research topic "Sexual Harassment Prevention in Taxi Allocation"

      09:10 - 09:20: Hyosang and Yannik (FU+TU Berlin) - Routing for Relief Efforts: Exact and heuristic algorithms for minmax

      09:20 - 09:30: Hyosang and Yannik (FU+TU Berlin) - Routing for Relief Efforts: Exact and heuristic algorithms for minavg (minsum)

      09:30-09:40: Discussion and Feedback (from the Bamberg team)

      09:40-09:50: Closing

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      Meeting details:

      Meeting link:
          https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=me8e2bf6fd973ebd6b13c6fd18f28add9
      
      Meeting number:
      2730 514 7603
      Password:
      3zPUB9x4Z3Y
      Host key:
      172266

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    • IN-PERSON MEETING

    • Agenda

      Activity 1: Supervision on projects (40 min)

      Break (10 min)

      Activity 2: Supervision on projects (30 min)

      Activity 3: Q & A (10 min)

    • ONLINE MEETING

    • Agenda

      Activity 1: Lecture: Data sources and management (20 min)

      Activity 2: Supervision on projects (20 min)

      Break (10 min)

      Activity 3: Supervision on projects (30 min)

      Activity 4: Q & A (10 min)


    • ONLINE MEETING

    • Mid-Term Progress Workshop

      Day: Wednesday, December 14, 2022

      Agenda:

      11:50 - 11:55: Opening

      Part 1 (Berlin team)

      11:55 - 12:25: Sophie & Evan (FU Berlin) - Food consumption, Food waste, and their relation to Intelligent Household Garbage Collection.

      12:25 - 12:40: Tobias (TU Berlin) - Reducing Sexual Harassment during Taxi Rides.

      12:40 - 13:10: Hyosang & Yannik (FU Berlin & TU Berlin) - Routing for Relief
      Efforts.

      Part 2 (Bamberg team)

      13:10 - 13:25: Bishal (Uni Bamberg) - The Blue Ship Routing Problem.

      13:25 - 13:55: Sascha & Christian (Uni Bamberg) - Drone Navigation for Firefighting.

      13:55-14:00: Closing

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      Meeting link:
          https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m75ae51bc23cf9814e891f87103c8e7fb
      
      Meeting number:
          2730 553 7123
      
      Password:
          tiYWJ3eV7m8
      
      Host key:
          108040

       

    • Enjoy the Christmas holidays!

    • Enjoy the New Year holidays!

    • Enjoy the lecture-free period!

    • IN-PERSON MEETING

    • Agenda

      Activity 1: Workshop: Tips for academic writing and reviewing (20 min)

      Activity 2: Supervision on projects (20 min)

      Break (10 min)

      Activity 3: Supervision on projects (40 min)

      Activity 4: Q & A (10 min)

    • ONLINE MEETING

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      Workshop title: "State-of-the-art in Social Vehicle Routing Problems"
      
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      Workshop description:
      
      This workshop facilitates the transition from (under)graduate university
      programs to postgraduate university programs by providing a platform where students
      can network with experts and exchange ideas. This is achieved in the context of
      mobility problems where the preferences of society serve as a driver for future
      applications and their ethical implications.
      
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      Workshop goals:
      
      Goal 1: Promote the exchange of ideas between students and experts.
      Goal 2: Report ongoing efforts and formulate open challenges.
      
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      Workshop agenda:
      
      Day: Wednesday, January 18, 2023
      
      Start: 11:50
      
      11:50 - 12:00: Opening
      
      12:00 - 12:25: Tiago Barros (Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of
      Coimbra). DL-based place recognition for Multi-agent SLAM.
      
      12:25 - 12:30: Questions, Discussion, and Exchange of Ideas
      
      12:30 - 12:55: Giulia Grasso (KTH Royal Institute of Technology and FU Berlin).
      PrefVRPlib: a library for social vehicle routing problems.
      
      12:55 - 13:00: Questions, Discussion, and Exchange of Ideas
      
      13:00 - 13:25: Helena Winiger (soon at the University of Geneva and the University
      of Bamberg). Approaching the phenomenon of intelligence through norms.
      
      13:25 - 13:30: Questions, Discussion, and Exchange of Ideas
      
      13:30 - 13:55: Khaled Alomari (Dahlem Center for Machine Learning and Robotics, FU
      Berlin). Applying Autonomous driving research on small-scale cars.
      
      13:55 - 14:00: Questions, Discussion, and Exchange of Ideas
      
      14:00 - 14:05: Closing
      ----------------------------------------------------------------- Webex information:
      Meeting link:
          https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m50e2e7a39b1e6f6f761454fc6560922b
      
      Meeting number:
          2733 659 9348
      
      Password:
          v6PR9GM2mJG
      
      Host key:
          655963
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    • IN-PERSON MEETING

    • Activity 1: Course Evaluation (10 min)
      
      Activity 2: Supervision on projects (30 min)
      
      Activity 3: Report feedback (10 min)
      
      Activity 4: Break (10 min)
      
      Activity 5: Supervision on projects (30 min)
      
      Activity 6: Report feedback (10 min)

    • ONLINE MEETING

    • Agenda

      Activity 1: Workshop: Tips for academic presentations and posters (10 min)

      Activity 2: Supervision on projects (20 min)

      Activity 3: Feedback on final presentations (10 min)

      Break (10 min)

      Activity 4: Supervision on projects (30 min)

      Activity 5: Feedback on final posters (10 min)

      Activity 6: Q & A (10 min)