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Christian Freksa

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Personal Information

Title Prof. Dr.
Function Professor
Office 3.41
Office Hours friday 14:00 / by apptm.
Phone 64230
eMail freksa

Profession

About me

I am a professor for informatics at Universität Bremen and head of the cognitive systems group (CoSy). My research interests focus on knowledge representation, specifically on the representation of spatial and temporal knowledge and on reasoning with qualitative, approximate, incomplete, imprecise, fuzzy, uncertain, and conflicting knowledge. In the CoSy research group we employ formal and computational approaches to knowledge representation, we design computer models of spatial environments for simulation studies, and we carry out autonomous robotic experiments in our spatial environment laboratory using diverse intelligent technologies. We closely cooperate with researchers from other disciplines interested in the investigation of spatial structures, especially cognitive psychology, linguistics, geography, and design. I coordinate the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition - Reasoning, Action, Interaction (SFB/TR8), a joint enterprise of the Universities of Bremen and Freiburg funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the International Quality Network on Spatial Cognition (IQN) funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In my previous position at Universität Hamburg (1991-2002) I coordinated the DFG Spatial Cognition Priority Program and participated in the EU HCM project Spacenet.

I am member of the high-profile area Minds, Media, Machines.

Interests

Knowledge representation in cognitive systems spatial and temporal knowledge imprecise, incomplete, qualitative, fuzzy, conflicting knowledge

Research Projects

DFG SPP project Spatial Inference DFG SPP project Aspect Maps SFB/TR8 project ImageSpace SFB/TR8 project Q-Shape SFB/TR8 project MapSpace

Teaching

Cognitive Systems 2 Cognitive Systems Graduate Seminar Seminar Spatial Cognition Project LSOC

Publications