This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 11131 “Exploration and Curiosity in Robot Learning and Inference”. This seminar was concerned with answering the question: how should a robot choose its actions and experiences so as to maximise the effectiveness of its learning?. The seminar brought together workers from three fields: machine learning, robotics and computat...

Science and Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 11441) Holger Giese, Bernhard Rumpe, Bernhard Schätz, and Janos Sztipanovits . . . . . . . . 1 Data Mining, Networks and Dynamics (Dagstuhl Seminar 11451) Lars Elden and Andreas Frommer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Analysis of Dynamic Social and Technological N...

This report documents the program and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 16162, “Managing Technical Debt in Software Engineering.” We summarize the goals and format of the seminar, results from the breakout groups, a definition for technical debt, a draft conceptual model, and a research road map that culminated from the discussions during the seminar. The report also includes the abstracts of the ta...

From 04.01. to 07.01.2009, the Dagstuhl Seminar 09021 Software Service Engineering was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in t...

From 06.12.09 to 11.12.09, the Dagstuhl Seminar 09501 Software Synthesis was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper....