Title : Explorations in Evolutionary Art
| Presenter | Eelco den Heijer |
| Abstract | Evolutionary art is a relatively new field of research that utilises methods and techniques from Evolutionary Computation (EC) to create aethetically pleasing images (or 'art'). My PhD research focuses on unsupervised evolutionary art, i.e. without the use of human evaluation. In my presentation I will show a number of so-called `aesthetic measures' (that I use as fitness functions). Furthermore I will shortly mention the application of Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) in Evolutionary Art, and the role of representation in evolutionary art. |
Title : Plans with and status of ClioPatria 3.0
| Presenter | Jan Wielemaker |
| Abstract | ClioPatria was the underlying infrastructure of the MultimediaN demonstrator that won the ISWC challenge 2006. The infrastructure lived on using the `kitchen sink' model (spaghetti). Over the last months it has been rationalized to become lean and extensible in a controlled way. The focus of the RDF DB is shifting from semi-static RDF to heavily (and concurrently) modifying RDF to allow for streaming RDF, use the in-core DB as index and cache for large RDF stores, etc. |