Professorship for Information Systems, in particular Machine Learning

Organisational unit: Professoship

Main research areas

Research

We are interested in statistical machine learning with a focus on spatiotemporal problems, such as user navigation on the web, adaptive testing and adaptive learning environments, and the coordination of football players on the pitch. While we mainly focus on basic research, we also collaborate with selected partners in academia, sports and industry in different projects.

Teaching

Our teaching focuses on introductory/advanced machine learning and data mining as well as basic statistics. We regularly offer courses in the Management & Data Science Master and the Information Systems Bachelor programs. Exemplary courses comprise Deep Learning (Data Science), Statistics (Information Systems), and Machine Learning & Data Mining (Engineering).

  1. Published

    Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings - Part III

    Brefeld, U. (Editor), Curry , E. (Editor), Daly, E. (Editor), MacNamee, B. (Editor), Marascu, A. (Editor), Pinelli , F. (Editor), Berlingerio, M. (Editor) & Hurley, N. (Editor), 2019, Cham: Springer. 706 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11054 LNAI)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  2. Published

    Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part I

    Brefeld, U. (Editor), Fromont, E. (Editor), Hotho, A. (Editor), Knobbe, A. (Editor), Maathuis, M. (Editor) & Robardet, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 766 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 11906)(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol. 11906)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  3. Published

    Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part II

    Brefeld, U. (Editor), Fromont, E. (Editor), Hotho, A. (Editor), Knobbe, A. (Editor), Maathuis, M. (Editor) & Robardet, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 732 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 11906)(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol. 11906)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  4. Published

    Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part III

    Brefeld, U. (Editor), Fromont, E. (Editor), Hotho, A. (Editor), Knobbe, A. (Editor), Maathuis, M. (Editor) & Robardet, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 804 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 11906)(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol. 11906)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  5. Published

    Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 5th International Workshop, MLSA 2018, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10, 2018, Proceedings

    Brefeld, U. (Editor), Davis, J. (Editor), Van Haaren, J. (Editor) & Zimmermann, A. (Editor), 05.04.2019, Springer Nature AG. 179 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11330 LNAI)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 7th International Workshop, MLSA 2020, Co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020, Ghent, Belgium, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings

    Brefeld, U. (Editor), Davis, J. (Editor), van Haaren, J. (Editor) & Zimmermann, A. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. 146 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 1324)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  7. Published

    Learning to Rate Player Positioning in Soccer

    Dick, U. & Brefeld, U., 01.03.2019, In: Big Data. 7, 1, p. 71-82 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Joint optimization of an autoencoder for clustering and embedding

    Boubekki, A., Kampffmeyer, M., Brefeld, U. & Jenssen, R., 01.07.2021, In: Machine Learning. 110, 7, p. 1901-1937 37 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Interactive sequential generative models for team sports

    Fassmeyer, D., Cordes, M. & Brefeld, U., 02.2025, In: Machine Learning. 114, 2, 15 p., 38.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Infinite Mixtures of Markov Chains

    Reubold, J., Boubekki, A., Strufe, T. & Brefeld, U., 2018, New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns: 6th International Workshop, NFMCP 2017 : held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2017, Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 : revised selected papers. Appice, A., Loglisci, C., Manco, G. & Masciari, E. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 167-181 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 10785 LNAI).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review