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ISG will present 8 papers and posters at the ACM Recommender Systems Conference and Workshops

We are thrilled that 8 of our 11 submissions to the 18th ACM Recommender-Systems Conference and Workshops (RobustRecSys and RecSoGood) were accepted for publication. Our research was conducted jointly with partners from the University of Gothenburg (Alan Said), the University of Antwerpen (Lien Michiels), and some excellent Bachelor and Master Read more…

Our use of AI-tools for writing research papers

The German Research Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) recently issued guidelines for using artificial intelligence, including tools like ChatGPT, to write research papers and grant applications. The DFG supports using AI for these purposes, excluding reviews but emphasizes the need for transparency. Therefore, “Scientists should disclose whether, for what purpose, and Read more…

e-fold cross-validation: A computing and energy-efficient alternative to k-fold cross-validation with adaptive folds [Proposal]

This proposal is also available as pre-print (PDF) on OSF.io. If you want to cite this proposal, please cite: Introduction K-fold cross-validation is widely regarded as a robust method for model evaluation in machine learning and related fields, including recommender systems. Unlike a simple hold-out split, k-fold cross-validation ensures that Read more…

Deutsche und Indische Fachkräfte bzw. Studenten im Vergleich: Von vergleichbar bis katastrophal

Im Mai 2023 veröffentlichte ich einen Tweet auf Twitter Beitrag auf X. Dort zeigte und kommentierte ich Statistiken, dass eine große Anzahl vorwiegend indischer Studenten in einer meiner Vorlesungen plagiierte. Einigen Personen gefiel dieser Beitrag nicht und sie beschwerten sich. Zugegebener Maßen ist es schwierig, sich auf X in kurzen Read more…

Prof. Beel is appointed as the Chair of the Examination Board for Mechatronics

I am honoured to be appointed Chair of the Examination Board (German: “Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender”) for the Mechatronics study program at the University of Siegen. Initiated in the fall of 2001, this Master’s Program is an interdisciplinary initiative presented by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in collaboration with the Read more…

Prof. Beel visits Prof. Said in Gothenburg for a knowledge exchange about sustainable recommender systems.

I am delighted to announce that I am visiting Alan Said and his research group at the University of Gothenburg for a knowledge exchange about sustainable recommender systems and machine learning. Sweden’s innovation agency VINNOVA has approved funding for three research visits over the next twelve months. During this time Read more…

Prof. Beel continues to be on the scientific advisory board of the German Academic Exchange Service’ (DAAD) IFI program

I am honored and glad to be invited again to continue to serve on the scientific advisory board of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akadademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD), for the IFI program. The IFI program aims at young researchers from Master’s level to postdocs, who work in the field Read more…

Lennart Purucker joins our group as a PhD student for research on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)

We welcome Lennart Purucker as a new full-time Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Before joining our group, Lennart finished his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. He completed his bachelor’s degree in a dual study program at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart. Lennart Read more…

Teresa Scheidt receives the best-paper award for her work on time-dependent recommender-systems evaluation

Our visiting student Teresa Scheidt received the best-paper award at the Perspectives Workshop at the ACM Recommender Systems Conference 2021 in Amsterdam. Teresa is doing her Master’s at Lund University in Sweden but visited us here at the University of Siegen over the summer for a 3-months research internship. In Read more…