Seminar

Technische Universität Dresden Institut für Theoretische Informatik Lehrstuhl für Automatentheorie

Hauptseminar Theoretische Informatik: "Sets for Vague Concepts"

Position in Curriculum

Informatik (diploma), Wahlpflichtveranstaltung (-/-/2)
Informatik (bachelor), 3 credit points


Computational Logic: Modules TCSL and IT, 3 credit points

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in logic.
For computer scientist students: “Grundlagen der Theoretischen Informatik” or “Formale Systeme”

Language

The language of the seminar is English.

Preliminary schedule

The seminar starts on Friday, October 12, at 3:00pm in room 3027 of the computer science building with an introductory meeting. In this meeting all students will be assigned a research paper and a tutor.
Presentations will take place during the last weeks of the teaching period (i.e. from January 11 to February 1) .

Number	Student	Paper	Tutor	Partner Paper	Presentation Date	Report Due
1	Yoandy Sanchez Najarro	Fuzzy Sets	Felix Distel	5	January 18th	December 3rd
2	Adil Abdrakhmanov	Vague Sets	Rafael Peñaloza	3	January 18th	December 3rd
3	Ismail Ilkan Ceylan	Rough Sets	Marcel Lippmann	2	January 25th	December 10th
4	Enrique Matos Alfonso	Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets	Rafael Peñaloza	7	January 25th	December 10th
5	Adrian Haret	L-Fuzzy Sets	Stefan Borgwardt	6	February 1st	December 17th
6	Efstathios Delirorias	Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets	Rafael Peñaloza	1	February 1st	December 17th
7	Lukas Schweizer	Vagueness: A Conceptual Spaces Approach	Rafael Peñaloza	4	February 1st	December 17th

Topic of the Hauptseminar

Participants will get to know a variety of extensions of set theory aimed to the representation of vague concepts. In these, elements are given a degree of membership to the set, usually from the interval [0,1]; the difference between formalisms relies on how these degrees are interpreted and operated within set theory.

Goal of the Hauptseminar

Apart from learning about the main topic, students should learn how to get acquainted with a relevant body of literature, how to produce a well-structured paper, and how to give an understandable scientific talk.

Duties of Participants

In the initial meeting, students choose a topic to work on and are assigned a tutor. During the seminar, the student has to understand the relevant literature and write a paper about the chosen topic (~12 pages). Finally, each student presents his/her work in a talk to the other participants. In doing this, he/she receives individual support by the tutor. The students should present

• a full version of their paper at least 5 weeks before their talk, and
• a first version of all the slides for their talk at least 2 weeks before the talk, and
• a 20-25 minute presentation followed by 5-10 minutes of discussion.

Additionally, students must meet the following requirements.

• Refrain from any form of plagiarism in the preparation of your report. If you are unsure what is considered plagiarism in academia please consult this helpful guide by the University of Oxford.
• Reserve enough time for the seminar.
• Make appointments with your tutor. It is customary to have a first consultation within one or two weeks after the initial session. Remember that your tutor may not always be available because of travelling obligations. If possible, try to arrange meetings well ahead of time.
• Make sure the produced paper conforms to the usual standards of scientific writing. Advice (in German) for writing scientific papers can be found here.
• If possible use LaTeX for typesetting your report. If you absolutely have to use a different software you must make sure that all formulas are typeset using a formula editor.
• If you choose to use LaTeX use either the document class article or scrartcl. Do not change fonts, font sizes, margins, headers or footers.
• Prepare a question for the discussion of your partner paper. This will be explained in more detail during the introductory meeting.

Contact

The seminar is coordinated by Rafael Peñaloza.