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Head of group:: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nebel
Secretary:: Petra Geiger
Postal address:: Arbeitsgruppe für Grundlagen der Künstlichen Intelligenz
Institut für Informatik
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Georges-Köhler-Allee 52
79110 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany

News

At IJCAI-2022, the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award will be given to Bernhard Nebel recognizing him for his substantial contributions, as well as his extensive service to the IJCAI Organization and the entire field of Artificial Intelligence throughout his career. (26 July 2022)
Since 1st of April 2022, Bernhard Nebel is officially retired. (1 April 2022)
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the worldwide leading computer science organization, has named Bernhard Nebel as an ACM Fellow. The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. (19 January 2022)
The paper On the Compilability and Expressive Power of State-Dependent Action Costs by David Speck, David Borukhson, Robert Mattmüller and Bernhard Nebel has been awarded the Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award on the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021). (7 July 2021)
Bernhard Nebel was chosen as one of the ten formative researchers of the German AI history by the #KI50 jury. (27 May 2019)
The PROST-DD planning system developed by Florian Geißer and David Speck has won the International Probabilistic Planning Competition 2018 (IPPC2018). (29 June 2018)
The Christmas lecture was this year presented by Bernhard Nebel. It can be downloaded as an MP4-Datei file (only inside the university network). (14 December 2017)
Our RoboCup team CSFreiburg led by Andreas Hertle won the first place in the RoboCup Logisitics League Simulation. (21 June 2017)
The demonstration of The hybrid Agent MARCO by Nicolas Riesterer, Christian Becker-Asano, Julien Hue, Christian Dornhege, and Bernhard Nebel at the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2014) won the Outstanding Demo Award. (12 November 2014)
The PROST planning system developed by Thomas Keller and Florian Geißer has won the International Probabilistic Planning Competition 2014 (IPPC2014). (27 June 2014)
The paper Trial-based Heuristic Tree Search for Finite Horizon MDPs by Thomas Keller and Malte Helmert has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award of the 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2013). (20 May 2013)
Bernhard Nebel was elected to become a member of the Academia Europaea. (1 November 2011)
Alexander Kleiner organized together with Dr. Giorgio Grisetti and Prof. Dr. Andreas Nuechter the tutorial SLAM to the Rescue - A hands-on tutorial on using state-of-the-art SLAM algorithms in harsh environments, Full-day Tutorial at the 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence October 4-7, 2011: Technical University Berlin, Germany. (4 October 2011)
Alexander Kleiner organized together with Dr. Rolf Lakaemper and Dr. Raj Madhavan the workshop MMART-LoG - Metrics and Methodologies for Autonomous Robot Teams in Logistics, a Full-day Workshop (FW-4) at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2011, San Francisco, California, USA. (30 September 2011)
Malte Helmert is one of two recipients of the IJCAI-11 Computers and Thought Award. According to the award committee, he "is recognized for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice in automated planning and combinatorial search". (1 February 2011)
The German Research Foundation (DFG) extends the duration of the interdisciplinary Transregional Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction (SFB/TR 8) by another four years until 2014. The research group participates with two projects in the SFB: R4-[LogoSpace] and R7-[PlanSpace]. (22 November 2010)
Since October 1, 2010, Bernhard Nebel is a FRIAS Senior Fellow. Until August 31, 2011, he will work as part of the Interdisciplinary Research Group together with the psychologist Brunna Tuschen-Caffier on the topic Coping with Emergencies. (1 October 2010)
The paper Strengthening Landmark Heuristics via Hitting Sets by Blai Bonet and Malte Helmert has been awarded the Best Paper Award of the Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010). (18 August 2010)
The paper High-Quality Policies for the Canadian Traveler's Problem (Extended Abstract) by Patrick Eyerich, Thomas Keller and Malte Helmert bas been selected for the Best Poster Presentation Award of the Third Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2010). (10 July 2010)
Jan-Georg Smaus has received the 2010 Faculty Teaching Award for his lecture "Computer Supported Modelling and Reasoning". The award is endowed with prize money of 2000 euros. (9 July 2010)
Bernhard Nebel was elected to become an AAAI fellow. (20 May 2010)
Bernhard Nebel was elected to become a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. (15 September 2009)
The paper Landmarks, Critical Paths and Abstractions: What's the Difference Anyway?, written by Malte Helmert and Carmel Domshlak has been awarded the ICAPS-2009 Best Paper Award of the Nineteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. (11 August 2009)
Malte Helmert was awarded as runner-up for the annual IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize. The award committee selected his paper "The Fast Downward Planning System" as second best among the JAIR papers published in the last 5 years. (5 May 2009)
Bernhard Nebel received together with Jana Koehler, Jörg Hoffmann und Yannis Dimopoulos the ICAPS 2008 award Influential Paper/Honourable Mention for the paper "Extending Planning Graphs to an ADL Subset" that had been published 1997 at the European Planning Conference. (16 September 2008)
The LAMA planner by Silvia Richter and Matthias Westphal wins the award for the best sequential satisficing planner at the sixth International Planning Competition (IPC-6). (16 September 2008)
Together with four other teams, our team SP-Freiburg has qualified for the TechX Challenge, to be held in August 2008 in Singapore. The winning team will be awarded with one million Singapore Dollars (around 470,000 Euro). During the qualification round, each robot had to prove its capability of autonomously climbing up a staircase, entering an elevator and pressing the elevator panel with a manipulator, and navigating without collision through a 30 meters long obstacle maze. More infos can be found under: [Videos], [Artikel auf Heise Online (in German)] (29 May 2008)
The paper How Good is Almost Perfect? by Malte Helmert and Gabriele Röger has been awarded the AAAI-2008 Outstanding Paper Award at the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (21 May 2008)
Our team won the 1st place of the indoor competition at this year's "Robot Day" of the Sick company, awarded with 800 Euro. Our robot was 10 seconds faster than any other team and managed the course within 20 seconds. The team members were Jörg Müller, Christian Dornhege and Alexander Kleiner. Competing in the outdoor competition, the AIS team reached the second place, just 5 seconds behind the winners. Team members for Freiburg were Giorgio Grisetti, Rainer Kümmerle, Patrick Pfaff and Bastian Steder. More information concerning the race: [Videos], [Newspaper article (German)], [Map], [Results and pictures from Sick]. (27 October 2007)
The paper Flexible abstraction heuristics for optimal sequential planning, written by Malte Helmert, Jörg Hoffmann and Patrik Haslum, has been awarded the ICAPS-07 Best Research Paper Award at the Seventeenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. (13 August 2007)
Malte Helmert's Ph.D. thesis, Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice, is one of four disserations that have been awarded the mention of Outstanding dissertation in automated planning and scheduling by the ICAPS 2007 Award Committee. (2 June 2007)
Malte Helmert was awarded a Program Committee Award Honorable Mention for outstanding reviewing at this year's AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Of the 606 programme committee members, two received an award. (15 April 2007)
Our RoboCup team Rescue Robots Freiburg won the award for the best autonomous team in the Robocup competitions for the second time. Additionally our team Rescue Robots Freiburg Virtual won the 1st prize in the "RoboCupRescue Virtal League". Furthermore the paper "Wearable computing meets multiagent systems: a real-world interface for the RoboCupRescue simulation platform" won the Infrastructure Award. (18 June 2006)
Jörg Hoffmann und Bernhard Nebel received the annual IJCAII-JAIR Prize for the Best Paper of the last 5 years. The award committee had selected their JAIR paper "The FF Planning System: Fast Plan Generation Through Heuristic Search" for this award. (1 August 2005)
Our team brought again home awards from the RoboCup competitions. Rescue Robots Freiburg won the award for the best autonomous team and RescueSim Freiburg won the Infrastructure Award. (17 July 2005)
Our latest RoboCup team Rescue Robots Freiburg won in the RoboCupRescue Real Robots league the second place among nine participants. (11 April 2005)
The EURON Technology Transfer Award for successful cooperation between research and industry was awarded to our lab and the Gauselmann company for the development of the foosball robot StarKick. (23 February 2005)
The Gauselmann company receives the Innovation Award of SPD and Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Selbständigen in der SPD for the development of StarKick, an autonomous foosball table, which has happened in cooperation with our lab. StarKick is based on Kiro, which has been developed in our lab. (22 November 2004)
Another world champion! ResQ Freiburg wins the Rescue Simulation and Rescue Simulation Infrastructure competitions at RoboCup 2004. (3 July 2004)
World champion! Fast (Diagonally) Downward wins the 1st prize in the suboptimal propositional track of the 4th International Planning Competition (IPC-4). (5 June 2004)
ResQ Freiburg wins the Rescue Simulation competition at RoboCup German Open 2004. (4 April 2004)