We proudly announce that the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Siegen and the Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg have signed an Erasmus agreement. The agreement will support exchanges and research visits of Master’s students, researchers (e.g. PhD students), and Read more…
Tobias spent two weeks with Bart Goethels and his team at the ADReM Data Lab at the University of Antwerp. He worked on novel recommender system algorithms incorporating ensembling techniques during this time. Located within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Adrem Data Lab comprises four faculty members, Read more…
Recently, we were delighted to learn that our paper “Revealing the Hidden Impact of Top-N Metrics on Optimization in Recommender Systems” was accepted for the “Full Paper” track at the ECIR 2024. The paper, co-authored by members of our chair, the Intelligent Systems Group, will be presented by one of Read more…
The Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) invited its alumni to Berlin to discuss recent advances in generative artificial intelligence. Dr. Holger Finken, Cordula Behrsing and Jana Zettler organized the event. Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid held the opening keynote on trustworthy AI. Prof. Joeran Beel also attended Read more…
Our Ph.D. students, Tobias Vente, and Lukas Wegmeth, will attend the ACM RecSys 2023 conference in Singapore to present their latest work on Automated Recommender Systems (AutoRecSys) with four papers: two in the Doctoral Symposium, one in the PERSPECTIVES 2023 Workshop, and one in the Demo track. We already posted Read more…
The ACM RecSys 2023 Doctoral Symposium Chairs accepted the extended abstracts that Tobias Vente and Lukas Wegmeth submitted. Abstracts will be presented by their authors and discussed with the chairs and other students at the conference. The extended abstract was limited to eight pages, and an unusually high amount of Read more…
We are grateful for the opportunity to present some of our recent work at the ISG with two posters at the COSEAL Workshop 2023 at Sorbonne University in Paris. The COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms (COSEAL) network of researchers regularly meets to discuss recent advances in the field of algorithm Read more…
At the end of last year, we had the pleasure of presenting our publication of Lennart Purucker‘s Master thesis at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in Florida, USA! Lennart worked on Meta-Learning for Subgroup Discovery during his Master’s thesis at the RWTH Aachen University. As part Read more…
We are happy to announce that the ISG Siegen is involved in the organization of the AutoML Conference 2023! Lennart Purucker, one of our Ph.D. students, is the Reproducibility Chair for the AutoML Conference 2023. The Reproducibility Chair is a newly established chair with the goal of enabling and observing Read more…
Update 2023-05: The report is now available on arXiv.org. Prof. Beel was invited to attend the Dagstuhl seminar about ‘Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education‘. The seminar took place from January 15 to January 20, 2023 in Schloss Dagstuhl, and was organized by Christine Bauer (Utrecht University, Read more…