Current research interests
Current topics:
- Understanding and defining intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) incl. machine learning, knowledge-based systems
- AI ethics, Responsible AI, Digital ethics, Digital education ethics
- Robotics, Robotics in education
- Distributed AI, agents and multiagent systems
- Optimisation, metaheuristics, and soft computing (e.g. evolutionary computation, artificial neural networks)
Follow @dmonett on Twitter, where I mostly tweet about these research topics. 
Other research interests
Other topics, also related to the ongoing teaching:
- Computer Science Education, E-Learning
- Software engineering, Agile software development, eXtreme Programming
- Social media analysis, social networks, blogosphere, new media
Related to the projects I was involved in and directed by Prof. Andreas Griewank, Mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany:
- Automatic/Algorithmic differentiation
- Differential algebraic equations
Related to the projects I was involved in and directed by Prof. Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Computer Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany:
- Socionics (Sociology + Computer Science)
Related to the projects I was involved in at the Center of Biomaterials, Havana, Cuba:
- Parameter estimation, inverse problems, mathematical modelling of chemical processes
Ongoing and past projects
Intelligence:
- Tracking the Evolution of (machine) Intelligence: An Intelligence Catalog-guided mapping of scientific research. Oct/2019-March/2020.
- Defining Intelligence: Overcoming fundamental problems of intelligence research. Sabbatical semester, Oct/2018-March/2019.
- International research survey “Defining (machine) Intelligence”: Final data post-processing and analysis, Apr-Sept/2018.
Robotics:
- Bot@HWR - Robotikforschung an der HWR Berlin (Bot@HWR - Robotics research at the Berlin School of Economics and Law). Oct/2016-Sept/2017.
Big Data:
- Trendstudie: Big Data in HR (Trend Study: Big Data in Human Resources). Sep/2014 - May/2015.
Education:
- Das TAL-Modell im Unterricht der agilen Softwareentwicklung: Formalisierung des Modells und praktischer Einsatz der Interaktionsdynamik zwischen dem Lehren (T), dem Lernen (L) und dem Anwenden (A) des Gelernten in agilen Softwareentwicklungskursen (short: The TAL model in Agile Software Development Education). Sabbatical semester, Oct/2014-March/2015.
E-Learning:
- eLearning und eAssessment: Erweiterung der eLearning-Plattform Moodle um moderne an die HWR angepasste Evaluierungs- und Prüfungsfunktionen (eLearning und eAssessment: Extending the eLearning platform Moodle with modern, HWR-customized evaluation and test functionalities). Apr-Dec/2012.