[Algorithm Engineering]

Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

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Since October 2006 I am Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cologne University of Applied Sciences

Current Research

My current work is in the field of evolutionary algorithms. My interests include optimization, modeling, simulation, statistical analysis, and experimental design of complex real-world problems.

Teaching

*      Winter 06/07: Mathematics I

*      Winter 06/07: Programming in Maple for Computer Scientics

*      Summer 06: Seminar "Planung und Analyse von Computerexperimenten"

*      Summer 06 - Winter 06/07: Project group "Methoden der Computational Intelligence in der Bioinformatik"

*      Winter 05/06: Pro-Seminar "Evolutionäre Algorithmen für kombinatorische Optimierungsprobleme"

*      Summer 05: Systems Analysis

*      Summer 05 - Winter 05/06: Project group "Neue Ansaetze fuer das Gefangenendilemma (IPD)".

*      Summer 04: Systems Analysis

*      Summer 04 - Winter 04/05: Project group "Meta-heuristics for Multi-objective optimization"

*      Summer 03 - Winter 03/04: Project group "Meta-heuristics"

*      Summer 02 - Winter 02/03: Project group "Multi-objective optimization"

*      Summer 00 - Winter 01/02: Unix

Talks and Tutorials

*      2007, July:
GECCO Tutorial on Experimental Research in EC (together with M. Preuss)
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2007/tutorials.html#erec

*      2006, July 9th:
GECCO Tutorial on Experimental Research in EC (together with M. Preuss)
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2006/free-tut.html

*      2005, September 2nd:
CEC Tutorial on Experimental Research in EC (together with M. Preuss)
http://www.secs.ex.ac.uk/~dwcorne/cec2005/index.html

*      2005, June 25th:
GECCO Tutorial on Experimental Research in EC (PDF, 2.5M)  (together with M. Preuss)
http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2005/free-tutorials.html

*      2005, May 13th:
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB)
University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe.
Colloquium: Sequential Parameter Optimization and The New Experimentalism -  An Approach to Analyze Evolutionary Algorithms.

*      2004, November 12th:
Arbeitsgruppe Strukturbildung und Innovation.
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Talk: Algorithmische Güte von Vorgehensmodellen (Optimization and Bounded Rationality)

*      2004, June 19th:
CEC Tutorial on Experimental Research in EC (together with M. Preuss)
http://www.tomenglishproject.com/CEC2004_tutorials.html

*      2004, June 4th:
Universität Dortmund, Fachbereich Informatik, Diplomanden-Doktoranden-Habilitanden-Seminar LS XI
Talk: Experimental Research in Evolutionary Computation (together with M. Preuss) http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de

*      2003, September 19th:
Universität Dortmund, Fachbereich Informatik, Diplomanden-Doktoranden-Habilitanden-Seminar LS XI
Talk: Evolutionary Algorithms for the Optimization Practitioner http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de

*      2003, August 25th:
Kyoto International Conference Hall, Japan. MIC 2003, The Fifth Metaheuristics International Conference
Tutorial: Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimization Practitioners (together with M. Preuss and A. Reinholz) http://www-or.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mic2003/

*      2002, October 17th:
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands)
Lecture: Threshold Selection, Hypothesis Tests, and DOE Methods and their Applicability to Elevator Group Control Problems
http://www.cwi.nl

Employment:

*      Since 2000: Research Associate and Teaching Assistant.
Universität Dortmund, Germany. Theory and Application of Evolutionary Algorithms. Prof. H.-P. Schwefel

*      2000-2004: Substitute Managing Director.
Sonderforschungsbereich 531 (Collaborative Research Center):
Design and Management of Complex Technical Processes and Systems by Means of Computational Intelligence Methods, Universität Dortmund, Germany

*      2000-2003: Scientific Staff Member.
NuTech Solutions, Inc.

*      1997-2000: Full-time Teacher. Mathematics and Computer Science
Blote Vogel Schule, Witten, Germany

*      1994-1997: Part-time Teacher. Mathematics and Computer Science
Waldorf School Witten-Annen, Germany

 

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Publications

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2006

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein Neyman–Pearson Theory of Testing and Mayo’s Extensions Applied to Evolutionary Computation
Presented at the First Symposium on Philosophy, History, and Methodology of E.R.R.O.R (Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, Objectivity & Rationality: Induction, Statistics, Modelling).
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. June 1-5, 2006.
Technical Report of the Collaborative Research Center 531 Computational Intelligence, University of Dortmund, November, 2006.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Daniel Blum and Jürgen Branke Particle Swarm Optimization and Sequential Sampling in Noisy Environments.
Springer Operations Research / Computer Science Interfaces Book Series.
Karl F. Doerner et al.
, Eds.
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2006.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein Experimental Research in Evolutionary Computation - The New Experimentalism.
Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin.
Additional material will be available soon.

*      Sandor Markon, Hajime Kita, Hiroshi Kise, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein Modern Supervisory and Optimal Control
with Applications in the Control of Passenger Traffic Systems in Buildings.
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
To appear 2006.

*      Boris Naujoks, Domenico Quagliarella, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
Sequential parameter optimisation of evolutionary algorithms for airfoil design.
ERCOFTAC. Design and Optimization: Methods & Applications.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 5-7 April 2006.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Gundel Jankord, Boris Naujoks, et al., Eds. Hans–Paul Schwefel—Festschrift.
Dortmund. Germany: Dortmund University, Chair of Systems Analysis,2006.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein “SPOT—a toolbox for visionary ideas,” in Hans–Paul Schwefel—Festschrift,
T. Bartz-Beielstein, G. Jankord, B. Naujoks, et al., Eds.
Dortmund. Germany: Dortmund University, Chair of Systems Analysis, 2006, pp. 21–26.

*      Mike Preuß and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
“Self-adaptation in evolution strategies—an experimental analysis based on sequential parameter optimization,”
in Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms, ser. Studies in Computational Intelligence,
F. Lobo, C. Lima, and Z. Michalewicz, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2006.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Annette Chmielewski, Michael Janas, Boris. Naujoks, and Robert Scheffermann
“Optimizing door assignment in LTL-terminals by evolutionary multi objective algorithms,”
in Proceedings 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’06) Within Fourth IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’06), Seattle WA, D. B. Fogel et al., Eds. Piscataway NJ: IEEE, 2006.

*      B. Baranski, T. Bartz-Beielstein, R. Ehlers, T. Kajendran, B. Kosslers, J. Mehnen, T. Polazek, R. Reimholz, J. Schmidt, K. Schmitt, D. Seis, R. Slodzinski, S. Steeg, N. Wiemann, and M. Zimmermann
The Impact of Group Reputation in  Multiagent Environments,”
in Proceedings 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’06) Within Fourth IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’06), Seattle WA, D. B. Fogel et al., Eds. Piscataway NJ: IEEE, 2006.

*      B. Baranski, T. Bartz-Beielstein, R. Ehlers, T. Kajendran, B. Kosslers, J. Mehnen, T. Polazek, R. Reimholz, J. Schmidt, K. Schmitt, D. Seis, R. Slodzinski, S. Steeg, N. Wiemann, and M. Zimmermann
“High-order punishment and the evolution of cooperation,”
in Proceedings Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006), Seattle WA, H.-G. Beyer et al., Eds., New York NY, 2006.

*      B. Baranski, T. Bartz-Beielstein, R. Ehlers, T. Kajendran, B. Kosslers, J. Mehnen, T. Polazek, R. Reimholz, J. Schmidt, K. Schmitt, D. Seis, R. Slodzinski, S. Steeg, N. Wiemann, and M. Zimmermann
“Advanced strategy representations for the iterated prisoner’s dilemma,”
in Proceedings EURO XXI Conference 2006. 21st European Conference on Operational Research, 2006.

2005

*      Jörn Mehnen, Thomas Michelitsch, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
Multiobjective Evolutionary Design of Mold Temperature Control using DACE for Parameter Optimization,
International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Electromagnetics, Mechanics and Biomedical Problems (ISEM 2005).
To appear 2005.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Mike Preuss, Sandor Markon
Validation and optimization of an elevator simulation model with modern search heuristics.
In: Metaheuristics : Progress as Real Problem Solvers. pp. 109-128.
Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, Vol. 32
Ibaraki, Toshihide; Nonobe, Koji; Yagiura, Mutsunori (Eds.)
2005, XII, 414 p. 106 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-25382-3

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein Evolution Strategies and Threshold Selection. In:
M.J. Blesa et al. (Eds.): HM 2005 -- Second Int. Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Barcelona, LNCS 3636, pp. 104-115. Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Daniel Blum, Jürgen Branke
Particle Swarm Optimization and Sequential Sampling in Noisy Environments,
6th Metaheuristics International Conference MIC2005,
Vienna, Austria, August 22-26, 2005,
University of Vienna - Department of Management Science.
[Abstract]

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Christian Lasarczyk and Mike Preuss
Sequential Parameter Optimization,
Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'05), Edinburgh, UK.

2004

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Michael N. Vrahatis Design and Analysis of Optimization Algorithms Using Computational Statistics, Appl. Num. Anal. Comp. Math. 2004, 1, No. 2, 413-433, 2004.
[Abstract]

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Michael N. Vrahatis Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimization Using Computational Statistics,
International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM), Chalkis, Greece, 10-14 September 2004, pp. 34-37, 2004.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Joern Mehnen, Boris Naujoks, Karlheinz Schmitt und Dimitri Zibold. KEA - a software package for development, analysis and application of multiple objective evolutionary algorithms.
Reihe CI 185/04, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2004.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Mike Preuss
Experimental Research in EC, Slides from the CEC 2004 Tutorial, Portland, 2004.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Sandor Markon Tuning search algorithms for real-world applications: A regression tree based approach, G. W. Greenwood, Proc. 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'04), Portland, 1, 1111-1118, IEEE Press, Piscataway NJ, 2004.
Technical report version (Reihe CI 185/04, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2004)

*      Jörn Mehnen, Thomas Michelitsch, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Nadine Henkenjohann Systematic Analyses of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Real-World Problems Using Statistical Design of Experiments. In: Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, 4th CIRP International Seminar on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, CIRP ICME '04, R. Teti (Editor), Sorrento, Naples, 30 June-2. July 2004, pp. 171-178, 2004.

*      Klaus Weinert, Jörn Mehnen, Thomas Michelitsch, Karlheinz Schmitt, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
A multiobjective approach to optimize temperature control systems of molding tools. Production Engineering - Research and Development, Annals of the German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP-Annalen), XI, 1, pp. 77-80, 2004.

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Marcel de Vegt, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Michael N. Vrahatis Designing Particle Swarm Algorithms with Regression Trees,  Reihe CI 173/04, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2004.

*      Jörn Mehnen, Thomas Michelitsch, Thomas Beielstein, Karlheinz Schmitt Evolutionary Optimization of Mould Temperature Control Strategies: Encoding and Solving the Multiobjective Problem with Standard Evolution Strategy and Kit for Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, pp. 657-666, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, ISSN 0954-4054, June 2004, Vol 218, No B6, Professional Engineering Publishing, London, UK, 2004.

2003

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Philipp Limbourg, Jörn Mehnen, Karlheinz Schmitt, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Michael N. Vrahatis Particle swarm optimizers for Pareto optimization with enhanced archiving techniques, Proc. 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'03), Canberra, IEEE Press, Piscataway NJ, 2003.
Technical report version (Reihe CI 153/03, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2003)

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Boris Naujoks
Tuning Multi Criteria Evolutionary Algorithms for Airfoil Design Optimization, Technical Report of the Collaborative Research Center 531 Computational Intelligence, CI-159/03, University of Dortmund, December, 2003

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Mike Preuss, Sandor Markon
Validation and optimization of an elevator simulation model with modern search heuristics, Technical Report of the Collaborative Research Center 531 Computational Intelligence, CI-158/03, University of Dortmund, November, 2003

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
Experimental Analysis of Evolution Strategies - Overview and Comprehensive Introduction. Reihe CI 157/03, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2003

*      Thomas Beielstein, Sandor Markon, Mike Preuss
Algorithm based validation of a simplified elevator group controller model, T. Ibaraki, Proc. 5th Metaheuristics Int'l Conf.
(MIC'03), 06/1-06/13 (CD-ROM), Kyoto, Japan, 2003 Technical report version (Reihe CI 152/03, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2003)

*      Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Mike Preuss, Andreas Reinholz Evolutionary algorithms for optimization practitioners, Interner Bericht des Sonderforschungsbereichs 531 Computational Intelligence, CI-151/03, Universität Dortmund, Juli, 2003

*      Thomas Beielstein, Jörn Mehnen, Lutz Schönemann, Hans-Paul Schwefel, Tobias Surmann, Klaus Weinert, Dirk Wiesmann
Design of evolutionary algorithms and applications in surface reconstruction, H.-P. Schwefel, I. Wegener, K. Weinert, Advances in Computational Intelligence - Theory and Practice, 145-193, Springer, Berlin, 2003

*      Thomas Beielstein, Sandor Markon, Mike Preuss
A parallel approach to elevator optimization based on soft computing, T. Ibaraki, Proc. 5th Metaheuristics Int'l Conf.
(MIC'03), 07/1-07/11 (CD-ROM), Kyoto, Japan, 2003 Technical report version (Reihe CI 147/03, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2003)

*      Thomas Beielstein, Claus-Peter Ewald, Sandor Markon
Optimal elevator group control by evolution strategies, E. Cantú-Paz, J. A. Foster, K. Deb, L. D. Davis, R. Roy, U.-M. O'Reilly, Hans-Georg Beyer, et al., Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf. (GECCO 2003), Chicago IL, Part II, 2724, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1963-1974, Springer, Berlin, 2003
Technical report version (Reihe CI 146/03, SFB 531, Universität Dortmund, 2003)

*      Thomas Beielstein Tuning evolutionary algorithms - Overview and comprehensive introduction, Interner Bericht des Sonderforschungsbereichs 531 Computational Intelligence, CI-148/03, Universität Dortmund, April, 2003

2002

*      Thomas Beielstein, Jan Dienstuhl, Christian Feist, Marc Pompl
Circuit design using evolutionary algorithms, D. B. Fogel, M. A. El-Sharkawi, X. Yao, G. Greenwood, H. Iba, P. Marrow, M. Shackleton, Proc. 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'02) within Third IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'02), Honolulu HI, 1904-1909, IEEE Press, Piscataway NJ, 2002

*      Thomas Beielstein, Sandor Markon
Threshold selection, hypothesis tests, and DOE methods, D. B. Fogel, M. A. El-Sharkawi, X. Yao, G. Greenwood, H. Iba, P. Marrow, M. Shackleton, Proc. 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'02) within Third IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'02), Honolulu HI, 777-782, IEEE Press, Piscataway NJ, 2002

*      Thomas Beielstein, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Michael N. Vrahatis Tuning PSO parameters through sensitivity analysis, Interner Bericht des Sonderforschungsbereichs 531 Computational Intelligence, CI-124/02, Universität Dortmund, Januar, 2002

2001

*      Thomas Beielstein, Jan Dienstuhl, Christian Feist, Marc Pompl Circuit design using evolutionary algorithms, Interner Bericht des Sonderforschungsbereichs 531 Computational Intelligence, CI-122/01, Universität Dortmund, Dezember, 2001

*      Thomas Beielstein, Sandor Markon Threshold selection, hypothesis tests, and DoE methods, Interner Bericht des Sonderforschungsbereichs 531 Computational Intelligence, CI-121/01, Universität Dortmund, Dezember, 2001

*      Sandor Markon, Dirk V. Arnold, Thomas Bäck, Thomas Beielstein, Hans-Georg Beyer
Thresholding - A selection operator for noisy ES, J.-H. Kim, B.-T. Zhang, G. Fogel, I. Kuscu, Proc. 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'01), Seoul, 465-472, IEEE Press, Piscataway NJ, 2001

1995-2000 (Teaching Math and Computer Science)

*      Horst F. Wedde, Thomas Beielstein Informatik an einer Waldorfschule: Ziele, Erfahrungen, Perspektiven. In: Erziehungskunst, ISSN 0014-0333, Juni 2000, pp. 678-687, Verlag Freies Geistesleben & Urachhaus, 2000

1995

*      Thomas Bäck, Thomas Beielstein, Boris Naujoks, Jochen Heistermann
Evolutionary algorithms for the optimization of simulation models using PVM, J. Dongarra, M. Gengler, B. Tourancheau, X. Vigouroux, Second European PVM Users' Group Meeting (EuroPVM'95), 277-282, Hermès, Paris, 1995 

*      Markus Höhfeld, Jochen Heistermann, Cornelia Kappler, Helge Rosé, Thomas Bäck, Thomas Beielstein, Boris Naujoks
Anwendungen evolutionärer Algorithmen, G. Wolf, R. Schmidt, M. van der Meer, Statusseminar des BMBF "Bioinformatik", 281-292, Projektträger Informationstechnik des BMBF bei der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Berlin, 1995

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Journal Referee, Reviews for Science Foundations

*      Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO)

*      Evolutionary Computation

*      Graph Theory Notes of New York

*      IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

*      Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Modelling

*      Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

*      Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

*      Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

*      Soft Computing

*      Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

 

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Program Committee Member

*      Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)

*      Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)

 

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Photos

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[Research] [Teaching] [Talks,Tutorials] [Employment] [Publications] [Journal Referee] [PC Membership] [Photos] [LS11]