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Organization profile
Organisation profile
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of VUB, or VUB AI-lab for short, was founded in 1983 by Luc Steels. The Lab is part of the Computer Science Department and focuses on three research themes: evolution of language, software agents and robotic agents. In the origins of language group of VUBs AI-lab, research is done on how language could have developed. The main hypothesis is that language originated and became complex through cultural evolution. Self-organisation caused languages to stay coherent and to develop certain universal characteristics. The basic technique used to investigate the hypothesis is that of artificial life like simulations of populations of agents that engage in linguistic interactions called language games. The robotic agents group tries to investigate intelligence bottom-up in a behaviour-oriented way. This means they work with simple robots inspired by nature, so-called animats (= animal + robot), and they try to stepwise increase their complexity. The research on software agents is has been developed at VUB for about a decade, based on the experience from knowledge engineering and the extension of the scope of the research area. Current research on software agents focuses on the following topics: Cohabited Mixed Realities (COMRIS), and the Development of Communication and Co-ordination.
Keywords
- Emergent Behaviour Of Robots
- Knowledge Technologies
- Behavior-Oriented Ai
- Autonomy
- Motivated Behavior
- Speech Synthesis
- Artificial Life
- Vision
- Artificial Intelligence Techniques
- Knowledge Representation
- Learning
- Structure Of Speech Sounds
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Robots
- Software Architecture
- Multi-Agent System
- Robots
- Autonomous Learning
- Knowledge Systems
- Origins Of Language And Meaning
- Software Agents
- Self-Organizing Systems
- Behavior
- Autonomous Systems
- Machine Learning
- Intelligent Agent
- Models Of Emotions For Autonomous System
- Reinforcement Learning
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Profiles
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Axel Abels
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Informatics and Applied Informatics - Academic, Undefined
- Artificial Intelligence
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Person: Researcher, PhD, Doctoral student
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Santiago Amaya
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Informatics and Applied Informatics - Doctoral scholarschip, Academic
- Artificial Intelligence
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Person: Researcher, PhD, Doctoral student
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Andrea Arcidiacono
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Faculty of Engineering
- Informatics and Applied Informatics - Academic, Doctoral scholarschip
- Artificial Intelligence
Person: Researcher, PhD, Doctoral student
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Leticia Arco Garcia
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Informatics and Applied Informatics - postdoctoral researcher
- Artificial Intelligence
Person: Researcher
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Raphaël Avalos Martinez de Escobar
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Informatics and Applied Informatics - doctoral student
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Artificial Intelligence
Person: Researcher, PhD, Doctoral student
Research output
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A Brief Guide to Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning and Planning: JAAMAS Track
Hayes, C. F., Radulescu, R., Bargiacchi, E., Källström, J., Macfarlane, M., Reymond, M., Verstraeten, T., Zintgraf, L., Dazeley, R., Heintz, F., Howley, E., Irissappane, A. A., Mannion, P., Nowe, A., De Oliveira Ramos, G., Restelli, M., Vamplew, P. & Roijers, D. M., 2023, (Accepted/In press) The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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A Fringe Mainstreamed, or Tracing Antagonistic Slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump
Peeters, S., Willaert, T., Tuters, M., Beuls, K., Van Eecke, P. & Van Soest, J., 2023, How Misinformation Propagates on Social Media: A Cross-platform Analysis. Rogers, R. (ed.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 165-185 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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An experiment in measuring understanding
Steels, L., Verheyen, L. & van Trijp, R., 9 Jan 2023, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Techniques for Narrative-Based Understanding.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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A Study of Nash Equilibria in Multi-Objective Normal-Form Games: JAAMAS Track
Röpke, W., Roijers, D. M., Nowe, A. & Radulescu, R., 5 Mar 2023, (Accepted/In press) The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Automated detection of toxicophores and prediction of mutagenicity using PMCSFG algorithm
Schietgat, L., Cuissart, B., De Grave, K., Efthymiadis, K., Bureau, R., Crémilleux, B., Ramon, J. & Lepailleur, A., Mar 2023, In: Molecular Informatics. 42, 3, 2200232.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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CPMpy
Emilio Gamba (Speaker), Maxime Albert Mulamba Ke Tchomba (Speaker) & Tias Guns (Speaker)
7 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Decision Focused Learning for Prediction+ Optimisation Problems
Maxime Albert Mulamba Ke Tchomba (Speaker), Emilio Gamba (Speaker) & Tias Guns (Speaker)
7 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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An AI-Powered APP to help Solve Pen-and-Paper Sudokus
Emilio Gamba (Presenter), Maxime Albert Mulamba Ke Tchomba (Presenter), Tias Guns (Contributor), Ignace Bleukx (Contributor) & Senne Berden (Contributor)
12 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Explaining the processes of change behind a phylogenetic tree: Agent-based models and coalescent simulations
Peter Dekker (Speaker)
7 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at an external academic organisation
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The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Event)
Florent Delgrange (Peer reviewer)
7 Feb 2023 → 14 Feb 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
Datasets
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Prediction of Conformational Variability for RRM proteins in inter3m data base
Gavalda Garcia, J. (Creator) & Vranken, W. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 14 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7640833, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7640833
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Experimental data: Inferring strategies from observations in long iterated prisoner’s dilemma experiments
Montero, E. (Creator), DRYAD, 25 May 2022
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Data from: Delegation to artificial agents fosters prosocial behaviors in the collective risk dilemma
Fernandez Domingos, E. (Creator), Terrucha, I. (Creator), Suchon, R. (Creator), Grujic, J. (Creator), Burguillo, J. C. (Creator), De Nolasco Santos, F. (Creator) & Lenaerts, T. (Creator), DRYAD, 18 May 2022
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Data from: Do people imitate when making decisions? - evidence from a spatial prisoners dilemma experiment
Lenaerts, T. (Creator) & Grujic, J. (Creator), DRYAD, 27 Jul 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7fq25s8
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ConforMine Molecular Dynamics Data: Conformational Variability, Secondary Structure Propensities and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Gavalda Garcia, J. (Creator), Roca Martinez, J. (Creator) & Vranken, W. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7575777, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7575777
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