GAIA - Group for Artificial Intelligence Applications

Wellcome to the home page of the Group for Artificial Intelligence Applications, a group of professors and graduate students, interested in basic and applied AI research, working in the Dpt. of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Complutense University of Madrid.

Regarding basic research our aim is to advance the state of the art in AI research related to Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning. Our main focus is on cost-effective solutions to inject knowledge into CBR systems, empowering CBR knowledge-light approaches with off-the-shelf knowledge components and knowledge mined from readily available data.

In order to test our research ideas and provide a reference implementation for the CBR community we develop COLIBRI: an open source framework in Java for building CBR systems, that also features semi-automatic configuration tools that allow to create a CBR system without writing a line of code. This is also related to basic research on Knowledge-based Software Engineering and the application of AI techniques for facilitating non-programmers to build programs.

Regarding applications, we are investigating the new ways of Computer-Based Teaching (CBT) that videogame technology is opening. Although using games to teach is as old as CBT, the fast evolution of graphics technology, along with a new form of literacy built around a growing game culture have open new opportunities for game-based learning. From all possible domains, and due to our previous experience, we are applying these ideas to teach technologies and abilities related to programming and software engineering, such as object-oriented programming and design.

Our first game-based learning environment is JV2M. By interacting with a metaphorical 3D representation of the Java Virtual Machine, students, who are supposed to know imperative programming, will be able to improve their knowledge of object-oriented programming and the compilation of object-oriented languages.

GAIA maintains the CBR wiki site

GAIA belongs to the Spanish Semantic Web Network