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Mehul Bhatt

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Personal Information

Title Dr.
Function Principal Investigator
Office 3.56
Phone 64237
eMail bhatt

Profession

About me

I am a researcher in the Cognitive Systems (CoSy) group within the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Bremen, Germany. I am also a member of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition that is based at the University of Bremen, and University of Freiburg. From 2002 - 2007, i was based at the Department of Computer Science at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Up until 2001, i was in Mumbai (Bombay) India, where i did my basic schooling in Commerce and Economics (BCOM) at the Narsee Monjee College (NMC) of Commerce and Economics.

Website. www. Publications. www
(links to some of the papers below may be broken on this page: please refer to the Publications page above instead)

Grants
  • AvH 2008. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Host: SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
  • DAAD 2007. Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates and Young Scientists and Academics. DAAD, Germany. Host: SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
  • APA 2004. Australian Post-Graduate Award (APA), Australian Commonwealth
  • NICTA 2002. National ICT (NICTA) Research Scholarship, Australia. Host: UNSW Sydney
News
  • DW-World TV Feature. Profiled in the Deutsche Welle (DW-World) TV program `Today Tomorrow' in the segment, Brilliant Minds. www
  • Award Nomination 2011. Nominated as the University of Bremen candidate for the German Research Foundation (DFG) Award: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2011
  • Press Release. Highlights Magazine, University of Bremen. www
Interests

Core topical areas of work:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Cognitive Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Spatio-Temporal Information Systems
  • Medical Information Systems

Basic topics of research:

  • Cognitive, and Spatial Assistance Systems
  • Spatial Cognition (focussing on representational and computational aspects)
  • Qualitative Spatial Reasoning (QSR)
  • Reasoning about Actions & Change (RAC)
  • Commonsense Reasoning (CR)
  • Applied Ontology (e.g., in Design, Engineering, Medical Informatics, GIS)
  • Experimental Cognitive Robotics
  • Learning Spatial Representations
  • Computer Human Interaction, Interaction Design and Simulation
  • Ambient Intelligence, (Spatial) Assistance Systems
  • Distributed Systems: Middleware & Interoperability Issues

Application areas:

  • Spatial and Architectural Design; Design Assistance Tools
  • Computer-Aided Architecture Design (CAAD), Product and Design Engineering
  • High-level Robot Control
  • Behaviour Interpretation and Analyses in Ambient and Smart Environments
  • Dynamic Geographic Information Systems
  • Medical Informatics (semantic modelling, search and retrieval)
Research Projects
  • DFG SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition Project:
    • DesignSpace. Assistive Intelligence for Spatial Design. www
  • Project [ExpCog].
    • Experimental Cognitive Robotics. www

 

Teaching

Summer Semester 2012

  • Commonsense Spatial Reasoning. SS 2012 (details TBA)
  • Project AUGMENT: Augmented Interaction and Analysis for Spatial Design. www

Winter Semester 2011-12

  • Experimental Cognitive Robotics WS 2011-2012. www
  • From Syllogism to Commonsense: A Tour through the Logical Landscape WS 2011-12. www

Summer Semester 2011

  • Spatial Computing for Design (SPaDe) SS 2011.
  • Behaviour Recognition in Ambient and Smart Environments (Be-AmI) 2011
Events Organized
  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDy) 2012. ECAI-12, Montpellier, France
  • Tutorial+Workshop: Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA) 2012.
  • Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design 2011, New York, USA
  • SHAPES 1.0: The Shape of Things (CONTEXT 2011), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI) 2011, at IJCAI-11, Barcelona, Spain
  • Recognising Behaviour in a Spatio-Temporal Context 2011 (Tutorial), at AAAI-11, San Fransisco, US
  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDy) 2010, ECAI-10, Lisbon Portugal
  • Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI) 2009, at COSIT-09, France
  • Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, 2009, at IJCAI, Pasadena, US

All Events: www

curriculum vitae

 

 

Publications

To Appear

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

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    2008
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    Modelling Dynamic Spatial Systems in the Situation Calculus
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    Spatial Cognition and Computation
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    vol. 8
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    1
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    pages 86-130
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    1387-5868
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    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a793375259~db=all~jumptype=rss
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    2008
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    {(Some)} {D}efault and Non-Monotonic Aspects of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
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    AAAI-08 Technical Reports, Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
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    page 1-6
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    AAAI Press
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    Menlo Park, CA
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    978-1-57735-379-9
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    2008
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    Dynamical Spatial Systems—A Potential Approach for the Application of Qualitative Spatial Calculi
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    Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 15-17, 2008, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA
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    pages 580-585
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    AAAI Press
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    Menlo Park, CA
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    978-1-57735-365-2