I N F O R M A T I K - K O L L O Q U I U M  der  TU-WIEN

Die FAKULTÄT FÜR INFORMATIK an der TU Wien lädt zu folgendem Vortrag ein:
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Professor Christian FREKSA, Ph.D.

Cognitive Systems, Universitaet Bremen www.cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition Bremen / Freiburg www.spatial-cognition.de

Datum:  DIENSTAG, 20.3.2007
Uhrzeit: 16:30 Uhr pünktlich
Ort:    Zemanek-Hörsaal, TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 11, Erdgeschoss

Im Anschluss lädt die Informatik-Fakultät zur informellen Diskussion
bei Snacks und Erfrischungen.

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TITEL: Spatial Cognition: Agents between sensation and reality
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ABSTRACT: Cognitive agents (specifically humans, animals, and autonomous robots)
require abilities to localize themselves in space, to navigate and solve
spatial tasks, to communicate about space, and to assist other agents in
performing spatial tasks. To this end, cognitive agents employ knowledge
about the spatial environment; they require suitable representations of this
knowledge as well as approaches to make use of this knowledge for the
specific tasks to be performed. In my talk, I will address three areas of
research of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial
Cognition (Bremen / Freiburg, Germany): (1) the relation between spatial
structures in the physical environment and representational structures in
mental representations; (2) the relation between mental representations
and external representations for reasoning, for communicating, and for
assisting cognitive agents in understanding spatial situations; (3) the
relation between spatial environments and their external representations
in the light of mental concepts. For these three areas of research, I
will describe concepts of qualitative spatial reasoning that we employ in
the interaction between the different domains involved in spatial reasoning
and spatial communication.

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Kurzbiographie zu Professor Freksa
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Christian Freksa is a professor of Cognitive Systems at the Department of
 Informatics at the University of Bremen. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of California Berkeley in Artificial Intelligence in 1981. He
carried out postdoctoral research in knowledge representation at the Max
Planck Institute for Psychiatry and at TU Munich, where he build up the
AI/cognition group. In 1991 he accepted a professorship for artificial
intelligence / cognitive science at the University of Hamburg. In 2002 he
moved with his research group to the University of Bremen to start the
Transregional Collaborative Research Center on Spatial Cognition for the
Universities of Bremen and Freiburg, whose director he is. His research
concerns representation and reasoning with incomplete, imprecise, lean,
fuzzy, and partially conflicting knowledge. He has been particularly
interested in developing 'cognitively adequate' qualitative approaches in
the domain of spatial and temporal knowledge. Christian Freksa is an ECCAI
Fellow.


Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf
http://www.cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/freksa/index.html

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Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Prof. Dr. Andreas Frank,
         Tel. 58801-12710, email frank@geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at

Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch
das Institut für Geoinformation und Kartographie und die TU Wien

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Die Fakultät für Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von
     - Siemens AG Österreich
     - Dr. Karl Kleissner
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