Professor Jérôme Euzenat visits Paderborn University and the Heinz Nixdorf Institute to talk about “Cultural knowledge evolution in artificial agent societies”
Talk in the “Distinguished Lecture” series
On June 17, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Jérôme Euzenat to another lecture in our Distinguished Lecture Series. Jérôme Euzenat is a senior researcher at the INRIA research institute in Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France. He has made significant contributions to various research topics, including object-based knowledge representation and semantic web technologies. His main interest has always been the relationships between different representations of the same situation. Dr. Euzenat is the founder and director of the INRIA Exmo team, which focuses on “computer-assisted communication of structured knowledge.” He also played a leading role in defining and developing the field of ontology matching.
In his talk in the large foyer of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Jérôme Euzenat presented some of his latest research findings on cultural knowledge evolution, a field at the interface between computer science (especially artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems) and the humanities. He presented several formal models that for cultural evolution as well as some surprising results that show how inconsistent epistemic states can lead to robust joint inference within surprisingly short time. The active participation of the approximately 80 attendees was concluded by a wide spectrum of questions pertaining to Artificial Intelligence in general and the role that it can play in increasingly digitalized societies. The successful visit is a display of the wide span of European and international collaboration at the institute for Computer Science and the Heinz Nixdorf Institute.
