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Offene Professuren (Assistant/Associate/Full) an der LUISS Universität ausgeschrieben
Insgesamt 19 Stellen auf verschiedenen Ebenen warten darauf, an herausragende Wissenschaftler*innen vergeben zu werden.
Paper accepted in PVLDB 2022: Parallel Training of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models: A Comparison of Techniques
The paper “Parallel Training of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models: A Comparison of Techniques” by Adrian Kochsiek and Rainer Gemulla has been accepted at the 2022 Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB). Abstract: Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models represent the entities and relations of a ...
GUI2WiRe: Rapid Wireframing with a mined and large-scale GUI Repository using Natural Language Requirements
High-fidelity Graphical User Interface (GUI) prototyping is a well-established and suitable method for enabling fruitful discussions, clarification and refinement of requirements formulated by customers.
Paper accepted for IEEE ICDE
The paper “GECCO: Constraint-driven Abstraction of Low-level Event Logs” by Adrian Rebmann and Han van der Aa from the DWS research group on Process Analytics, in collaboration with Matthias Weidlich from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, was accepted for the 38th IEEE International Conference on ...
Towards Trace-Graphs for Data-driven Test Case Mining in the Domain of Automated Driving
Technological innovations in data science and artificial intelligence research have led to increasing task automation in autonomous driving.
Machine Learning for Converting Black-Box Models to Interpretable Functions
Machine Learning for Converting Black-Box Models to Interpretable Functions
Robust Decision Tree Induction from Unreliable Data Sources
The main contribution of this paper is a new criterion, called Expected Information Gain, to compute the best possible split, given that there is missing data present in a dataset.
Restructuring of Hoeffding Trees for Trapezoidal Data Streams
Trapezoidal Data Streams are an emerging topic, where not only the data volume increases, but also the data dimension, i.e. new features emerge.
Combining Symbolic and Statistical Knowledge for Goal Recognition in Smart Home Environments
An essential feature of pervasive, intelligent systems is the ability to dynamically adapt to their users' current needs. Hence, it is critical for such systems to be able to recognize the current goals and needs of the users based on observed past and current actions.
Kurier vom 06.12.2021
Zitat/Beitrag von Prof. Spengel im Artikel „Wirtschaftsspionage: Gefeierter deutscher Anwalt vor Schweizer Gericht”
Exam date

The exam of the BA lecture “Ausgewählte Themen der Vergleichenden Regierungslehre: Authoritarian Politics” held by Professor Traunmüller will take place on Wednesday, 11. June 2025.

The retake of the exam is planned to be on Saturday, 23 August 2025.

26/01/2022 Conditional Accept at PSRM!

Our paper “Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation” has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research & Methods (with Andi Murr and Jeff Gill).

14/12/2021 Invited Talk at WZB

Tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship at the University: Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis” in the MaD Colloquium at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

24/11/2021 Pre-registered Study In-Principle-Accepted!

Our pre-registered study for the GLES Open Science Challenge “Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?” (with Jan Menzner) has been in-principle-accepted for publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10!

Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes... 

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17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS!

Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!

17/08/2020 Accept at PA!

What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis!