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. 2020
  2. 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. 146 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 1324)

    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 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 2019
  7. Published

    Zur empirischen Beforschung des mBooks Belgien: Die Chancen eines Methodenmix

    Schreiber, W., Wagner, W., Trautwein, U. & Brefeld, U., 10.2019, Das Geschichtsschulbuch: Lehren – Lernen – Forschen . Kühberger, C., Bernhard, R. & Bramann, C. (eds.). Münster: Waxmann Verlag, p. 57-80 24 p. (Salzburger Beiträge zur Lehrer/innen/bildung; vol. 6).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Personalized Transaction Kernels for Recommendation Using MCTS

    Tavakol, M., Joppen, T., Brefeld, U. & Fürnkranz, J., 01.09.2019, KI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 42nd German Conference on AI, Proceedings. Benzmüller, C. & Stuckenschmidt, H. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, p. 338-352 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11793 LNAI).

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

  9. Published

    Predicting the Difficulty of Exercise Items for Dynamic Difficulty Adaptation in Adaptive Language Tutoring

    Pandarova, I., Schmidt, T., Hartig, J., Boubekki, A., Jones, R. D. & Brefeld, U., 15.08.2019, In: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 29, 3, p. 342-367 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. 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. 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

  11. 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

  12. Published

    Reformstudie Belgien: eine Effektstudie zur Einführung von kompetenzorientiertem Rahmenplan und mBook

    Schreiber, W., Trautwein, U., Wagner, W. & Brefeld, U., 01.02.2019, Geschichtsdidaktischer Zwischenhalt: Beiträge aus der Tagung "Kompetent machen für ein Leben in, mit und durch Geschichte" in Eichstätt vom November 2017. Schreiber, W., Ziegler, B. & Kühberger, C. (eds.). 1. ed. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, p. 161-174 14 p. 2

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  13. Published

    Frame-based Optimal Design

    Mair, S., Rudolph, Y., Closius, V. & Brefeld, U., 23.01.2019, Machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018 : proceedings. Berlingerio, M., Bonchi, F., Gärtner, T., Hurley, N. & Ifrim, G. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature, Vol. 2. p. 447-463 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11052 LNAI).

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

  14. Published

    Probabilistic movement models and zones of control

    Brefeld, U., Lasek, J. & Mair, S., 15.01.2019, In: Machine Learning. 108, 1, p. 127-147 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Foreword to applied data science, demo, and nectar tracks

    Brefeld, U., Curry, E., Daly, E., Macnamee, B., Marascu, A. & Pinelli, F., 01.01.2019, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018 : proceedings. Brefeld, U., Curry, E., Daly, E., Macnamee, B., Marascu, A. & Pinelli, F. (eds.). Cham: Springer Verlag, Vol. 3. p. V-VI 2 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11053).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  16. 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 Verlag. 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

  17. 2018
  18. Published

    MDP-based itinerary recommendation using geo-tagged social media

    Gaonkar, R., Tavakol, M. & Brefeld, U., 25.10.2018, Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVII - 17th International Symposium, IDA 2018, Proceedings. Duivesteijn, W., Siebes, A. & Ukkonen, A. (eds.). Basel: Springer Nature, p. 111-123 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); no. 11191).

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

  19. Published

    Exploiting ConvNet diversity for flooding identification

    Nogueira, K., Fadel, S. G., Dourado, I. C., De Werneck, R. O., Munoz, J. A. V., Penatti, O. A. B., Calumby, R. T., Li, L. T., Dos Santos, J. A. & Torres, R. D. S., 09.2018, In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 15, 9, p. 1446-1450 5 p., 8398414.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Adaptive Item Selection Under Matroid Constraints

    Bengs, D., Brefeld, U. & Kröhne, U., 07.08.2018, In: Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. 6, 2, p. 15-36 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Distributed robust Gaussian Process regression

    Mair, S. & Brefeld, U., 01.05.2018, In: Knowledge and Information Systems. 55, 2, p. 415-435 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  22. 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 Verlag, 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

  23. 2017
  24. Published

    A Unified Contextual Bandit Framework for Long- and Short-Term Recommendations

    Tavakol, M. & Brefeld, U., 30.12.2017, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2017 Skopje, Macedonia, September 18 – 22, 2017; Proceedings, Part II. Ceci, M., Hollmen, J., Todorovski, L., Vens, C. & Dzeroski, S. (eds.). Springer Verlag, Vol. 2. p. 269-284 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 10535 LNAI).

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