Cognitive Autonomous Systems Laboratory
Overview of KR Thesis Projects
The CASL group is a member of the sequence of CAISOR groups
(see the
CAISOR website
for additional information), and it
therefore inherits a tradition of knowledge representation
research. The KR work in the CASL group itself concerns two
important topics: spatiotemporal reasoning, in particular for
characterizing the behavior of road vehicles, and the
representation of actions and change in framebased systems
for knowledge representation and ontologies.
Please see the menu items in the left-side menu for the
details about current projects. The following are the
general criteria for projects in this group, including
both current ones and possibly forthcoming ones.
KR-Related Ph.D. and Licentiate Projects
KR-related Ph.D. and Licentiate projects can address
any topic of scientific significance in the area of
knowledge representation, provided that the topic has
at least some connection to temporal or
spatiotemporal reasoning and/or is relevant for
cognitive robotics.
KR-Related M.Sc. Projects
KR-related M.Sc. projects can address a knowledge
representation problem that arises in the course of
developing the WITAS Robotic Dialog Environment, or
that is suggested by the student after having taken
a graduate-level course in knowledge representation,
with the same restrictions as for the Ph.D. and
Licentiate projects.
Background: Thesis Levels in the Swedish University
System
In the Swedish university system there are three levels
of theses: the PhD level, the "Licentiat" level that
represents a "half-way PhD" or a strong, research-oriented
masters in US terms, and the MSc level that is more
practical, often done in industry but sometimes in a
research group. (The Swedish 'licentiat' does not correspond,
therefore, to the degree with a similar name in
hispanic countries). All of our levels are represented in the
CASL projects, although the Ph.D. level currently only
among the KR activities.
Posted on 2005-05-16 as part of the
CAISOR website.
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