The field of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) is growing at an unprecedented rate. Manual tasks that for thousands of years could only be performed by humans are increasingly being taken over by intelligent machines. But, more importantly, tasks that could never be performed manually …

Ethics by Design concerns the methods, algorithms and tools needed to endow autonomous agents with the capability to reason about the ethical aspects of their decisions, and the methods, tools and formalisms to guarantee that an agent’s behavior remains within given moral bounds. In this context some …

2017 was het jaar van de artificiële intelligentie, IoT, blockchain en mixed reality. Vooral op het gebied van mixed reality werd het jaar met het nodige vuurwerk afgesloten.

The year 2017 was the year of artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain and mixed reality. It ended with some spectacular fireworks in the field of mixed reality.

From the article: "To extend the lifetime of products, an agent is connected to the product. This agent has several roles. It depends on the phase of the lifecycle what these roles will be. One of the roles in the usage or recycling phase is to negotiate for buying spare parts in case a part of the product …

The Amsterdam Sensor Lab is part of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and its goal is to develop application specific sensor systems for applied research. In order to (anonymously) measure, for instance, traffic without influencing people’s behaviour, a pressure sensing sub-tile is …

Workshop virtual coach: balanceren tussen personalisatie en big data

Uit de aankondiging: "Steeds meer systemen loggen gegevens over hoe het bedrijfsproces verloopt, maar loopt het proces wel zoals het bedoeld was? Wat zijn de knelpunten? Text mining is vaak lastig doordat er tijdstippen ontbreken, process mining kan niet werken zonder tijdstippen, de combinatie van …

In social settings, people often need to reason about unobservable mental content of other people, such as their beliefs, goals, or intentions. This ability helps them to understand, to predict, and even to influence the behavior of others. People can take this ability further by applying it recursively. …

One of the most remarkable phenomena in nature is mimicry, in which one species (the mimic) evolves to imitate the phenotype of another species (the model). Several reasons for the origin of mimicry have been proposed, but no definitive conclusion has been found yet. In this paper, we test several of …