Prof. Dr. Franz Rothlauf

Slides for tutorial

"Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms" at GECCO 2007 (pdf, ps.gz)

Books

Research Interest

Teaching

• Grundlagen der EDV

Academic Biography

• since 2006: Professor, University of Mainz.
• 3/2007: Habilitation: University of Mannheim, Germany.
      Title of Habilitation thesis: Design and Analysis of Metaheuristics
• 2002 - 2006: Assistant Professor (Habilitant), University of Mannheim, Germany.
• 2001 - 2002: Assistant Professor (Habilitant), University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• 2001: Dr. rer. pol.: University of Bayreuth, Germany.
      Title of PhD thesis: Towards a Theory of Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
• 2000 - 2002: Regularly Visiting Researcher, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• 1/2000 - 5/2000: Graduate Researcher, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• 1998 - 2002: Lecturer at the Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts\-akademie Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1997 - 2001: Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• 1997: Diploma in Electrical Engineering: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1991: Abitur

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  Professional Activities

  Member of Editorial Board:
  

  • Information Sciences (INS), Elsevier Verlag
  • Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ), MIT Press
  • Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

  Guest Editor:
  

  • Together with Dirk Thierens (University of Utrecht, Netherlands): Special Issue in "IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation" on "Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators", published spring 2006.
  • Together with Armin Heinzl (University of Mannheim): Special Issue of "KI - Zeitschrift für Künstliche Intelligenz" on "Applications of Software Agents", published 2/2004.

  Chair
  

  • Conference Chair for SIGECO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation conference (GECCO2009)
  • EvoTranslog 2008
  • Track Chair (Genetic Algorithms) for SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2006), Seattle, USA, 2006.
  • EvoWorkshops 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 2006.
  • Topic Chair for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, UK, 2005.
  • EvoWorkshops 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005.
  • SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2005) workshops and late breaking papers, Washington D.C., USA, 2005.

  
  Organizer
  • Third European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics (EvoTransLog2009) als Teil von Evo* 2009 (zusammen mit Andreas Fink, HSU Hamburg), Tübingen, April 2009.
  • Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics (EvoTransLog2008) als Teil von Evo* 2008 (zusammen mit Andreas Fink, HSU Hamburg), Neapel, Italien, April 2008.
  • First  European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics (EvoTransLog2007) as part of EvoWorkshops 2007 (together with Andreas Fink, University of Hamburg, and Stefan Minner, University of Mannheim), Valencia, Spain, April 2007.
  • Third European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems (EvoComNet2006) as part of EvoWorkshops2006 (together with George Smith, University of East Anglia, UK), Budapest, Hungary, April 2006.
  • Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems (EvoComNet2005) as part of EvoWorkshops 2005 (together with George Smith, University of East Anglia, UK), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2005.
  • Invited Session on Genetic Algorithms at 2004 INFORMS Annual Meeting (together with Martin Pelikan, University of Saint Louis, USA), Denver, USA, Oktober 2004.
  • 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems (EvoComnet 2004) (together with George Smith, University of East Anglia, UK), Coimbra, Portugal, 5-7 April 2004.
  • Workshop on Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators (ADoRO'2003) at GECCO 2003 (together with Dirk Thierens, University of Utrecht), Chicago, USA, 2003.
  • Workshop on Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms at GECCO 2002, New York, USA, 2002.
  • Workshop on Representations and Operators for Network Problems at GECCO 2001, San Francisco, USA, 2001.
  External PhD examiner

  • Tim John Paulden (University of Exeter), 2008: Title of thesis: Combinatorial spanning tree representations for evolutionary algorithm, Degree: PhD in Mathematics
  • Dirk Reichelt (University of Ilmenau), 2006: Title of thesis: Reliable Communication Network Design with Evolutionary Algorithms (in German)

  Tutorial Speaker

  • SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, 2009.
  • SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), Atlanta, 2008.
  • SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), London, UK, 2007.
  • SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006), Seattle, USA, 2006.
  • SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005), Washington D.C., USA, 2005.
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004), Seattle, USA, 2004.
  • 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Washington, USA, 2003.
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2003), Chicago, USA,2003.
  • Parallel Problem Solving From Nature VII, Granada, Spain, 2002
  Member of Program Committee
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2007), London, UK, 2007.
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2007), Singapore,  2007.
  • Wirtschaftsinformatik ("Track Techniques of Operations Research in Business Information Systems''), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2007.
  • ECAI Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2006.
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2006), San Francisco, USA, 2006.
  • First European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation (EvoPhd), Budapest, Hungary, 2006.
  • Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2006), Budapest, Hungary, 2006.
  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2006), Reykjavik, Iceland, 2006.
  • Third German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2005), Koblenz, Germany, 2005.
  • Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2005), Salt Lake City, USA, 2005.
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2005), Washington D.C., USA, 2005.
  • Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2005), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005.
  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2004), Birmingham, UK, 2004.
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2004), Seattle, USA, 2004.
  • Doctoral Consortium im Vorfeld der Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 2003, Tautewalde, Germany, 2003.
  • Logistics Management Conference (LM 03), 2003.
  • International Network Optimization Conference, Evry/Paris, France, 2003.
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2003), Chicago, USA, 2003.
  • Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2003), Essex, UK, 2003.
  • Foundations of Genetic Algorithms VII, Malaga, Spain, 2002.
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2002), New York, USA, 2002.
  • Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2002), Kinsale, Ireland, 2002.
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2001) , San Francisco, USA, 2002.
  • Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2001), Como, Italy, 2001.
  Others
  • Nominated for the "Lehrpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, 2008" by Fachschaft Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Mainz
  • Invited Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 08351 "Evolutionary Test Generation'', Dagstuhl, August 2008.
  • Invited Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 04081 "Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms", Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, February 2004.
  • Invited Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 02031 "Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms", Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, January 2002.
  • Member of Council of Authors, International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC).
  • Member of IEEE (1998-Present), ISGEC (1999-present), Gesellschaft für Informatik (1998-Present) and Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (2002-2003).

  Member

  • IEEE, ACM International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V., GOR
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  Publications

  

  Books

  Rothlauf, Franz: Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, Springer, Heidelberg, 2006. Details

  
  

  Edited Books

  2009
  		Fink, Andreas; Rothlauf, Franz (Hrsg.): Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management, (978-3-540-69024-5), Springer, Heidelberg 2009. Details
  2008
  		Rothlauf, Franz; et al. (Hrsg.): Application of Evolutionary Computing, Springer, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 4974, 2008. Details
  2007
  		Rothlauf, Franz; et al. (Hrsg.): Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Springer, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 4448, 2007. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Thierens, D. (Hrsg.): Special Issue on Representations and Operators for Evolutionary Algorithms, Bd. 10, Nr. 2, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2007. Details
  2006
  		Rothlauf, Franz; et al. (Hrsg.): Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Springer, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 3907, 2006. Details
  2005
  		Rothlauf, Franz; et al. (Hrsg.): Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Springer, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 3449, 2005. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; et al. (Hrsg.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005) Workshop Proceedings, ACM Press, 2005. Details
  		Grahl, Jörn; Rothlauf, Franz; et al. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 2005 Workshops on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, ACM Press, New York 2005. Details
  2004
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Heinzl, Armin (Hrsg.): Special Issue on Application of Software Agents, Zeitschrift für Künstliche Intelligenz (Organ des Fachbereichs 1 "Künstliche Intelligenz" der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.), arenaDTaP, 2004. Details

  
  

  Journal Publications

  2009
  		Rothlauf, Franz: On Optimal Solutions for the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem, In: Operations Research., Bd. 57, Nr. 2, 2009, S. 413-425. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: A Problem-Specific and Effective Encoding for Metaheuristics for the Minimum Communication Spanning Tree Problem, In: INFORMS Journal on Computing. fortcoming, 2009. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: On the Bias and Performance of the Edge-Set Encoding, In: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. forthcoming, 2009. Details
  2007
  		Grosche, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz; Heinzl, Armin: Gravity Models for Airline Passenger Volume Estimation, In: Journal of Air Transport Management, Bd. 13, Nr. 4, 2007, S. 175-183. Details
  		Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz; Heinzl, Armin: Ansätze zur kollaborativen Softwareerstellung, In: WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Bd. 49 (Sonderheft), 2007, S. 72-80. Details
  		Geisser, Michael; Heinzl, Armin; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz: Verteiltes, internetbasiertes Requirements-Engineering, In: Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bd. 49, Nr. 3, 2007, S. 199-207. Details
  2006
  		Zöller, A.; Braubach, L.; Pokahr, A.; Rothlauf, Franz ; Paulussen, T.O. ; Lamersdorf, W.; Heinzl, A.: Evaluation of a Multi-Agent System for Hospital Patient Scheduling, In: International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ITSSA), Bd. 1, 2006, S. 375-380. Details
  2005
  		Reichelt, Dirk; Rothlauf, Franz: Reliable Communication Network Design with Evolutionary Algorithms, In: International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, 1469-0268, Bd. 5, Nr. 2, 2005, S. 1-16. Details
  2003
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David: Redundant Representations in Evolutionary Computation, In: Evolutionary Computation, Bd. 11, Nr. 4, 2003, S. 381-415. Details
  2002
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David; Heinzl, Armin: Network Random Keys - A Tree Network Representation Scheme for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, In: Evolutionary Computation, Bd. 10, Nr. 1, 2002, S. 75-97. Details

  
  

  Chapter in Book

  		Grahl, Jörn; Minner, Stefan; Rothlauf, Franz: Decomposition of dynamic single-product and multi-product lotsizing problems and scalability of EDA, In: Fink. Andreas; Rothlauf, Franz (Hrsg.): Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transportation and Logistics. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009. S. 231-251. Details
  		Grosche, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz : Simultaneous Airline Scheduling, In: Fink, Andreas; Rothlauf, Franz (Hrsg.): Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009. S. 81-110. Details
  		Zöller, Anja; Rothlauf, Franz; Paulussen, Torsten O.: Benchmarking of Multi-Agent-Systems, In: Kirn et al. (Hrsg.): Multiagent Engineering: Theory and Applications in Enterprises. Springer, Heidelberg, 2006. S. 557-574. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; et al.: Agent-Based Patient Scheduling in Hospitals, In: Kirn, Stefan et al. (Hrsg.): Multiagent Engineering: Theory and Applications in Enterprises. Springer, Heidelberg, 2006. S. 255-276. Details

  
  

  Conference Publications

  2009
  		Pfeiffer, Jella; Riedl, René; Rothlauf, Franz : On the Relationship between Interactive Decision Aids and Decision Strategies: A Theoretical Analysis, In: Hans Robert Hansen, Dimitris Karagiannis, Hans-Georg Fill (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Business Informatics, Wien, 25.-27. Februar. 2009, S. 161-176. Details
  		Steitz, Wolfgang; Rothlauf, Franz: New Insights into the OCST Problem: Integrating Node Degrees and their Location in the Graph, In: Guenther Raidl et al. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 8-12, 2009. ACM Press, 2009. Details
  		Pfeiffer, Jella; Duzevik, Dejan; Rothlauf, Franz; Yamamoto, Koichi: A Genetic Algorithm for Analyzing Choice Behavior with Mixed Decision Strategies, In: Guenther Raidl et al. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 8-12. ACM Press, 2009. Details
  2008
  		Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz; Geisser, Michael; Heinzl, Armin; Kude, Thomas: Approch to Collaborative Software Develoment, In: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Engineering Complpex Distributed Systems (ECDS 2008) in conjunction with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2008). IEEE Computer Society, Barcelona, Spain, 2008, S. 523-528. Details
  		Pfeiffer, Jella; Rothlauf, Franz: Greedy Heuristics and Weight-Coded EAs for Multidimensional Knapsack Problems and Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions, In: Nickel, S. and Kalcsics, J. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research 2007, Saabrücken, Sept. 2007. Springer, 2008. Details
  		Pfeiffer, Jella; Golle, Uli; Rothlauf, Franz: Reference Point Based Multi-Objective Algorithms for Group Decisions, In: Maarten Keijzer et al. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Atlanta, USA, July. ACM Press, 2008, S. 697-704. Details
  		Woerle de Lima, Telma ; C. B. Delbem, Alexandre ; Rothlauf, Franz: The Node-Depth Encoding: Analysis and Application to the Bounded-Diameter Minimum Spanning Tree Problem, In: Keijzer, Maarten (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Atlanta, July, 2008. ACM Press, 2008. Details
  		Steitz, Wolfgang; Rothlauf, Franz: Orientation matters: How to efficiently solve OCST problems with problem-specific EAs, In: Maarten Keijzer et al. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Atlanta, 12.-16.Juli. ACM Press, 2008. Details
  2007
  		Berkling, Kay; Geisser, Michael; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz: Offshore Software Development: Transferring Research Findings into the Classroom, In: Meyer, Bertrand (ETH Zurich) (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD'07). Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Zurich, Switzerland, 2007, S. 1-18. Details
  		Butter, Thomas; Rothlauf, Franz; Grahl, Jörn; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Arndt, Jens: Genetic Algorithms for Finding Optimal Strategies for a Student's Game, In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games. IEEE Computer Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2007. Details
  		Geisser, Michael; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz; Atkinson, Colin: An Evaluation Method for Requirements Engineering Approaches in Distributed Software Development Projects, In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA'07). IEEE Computer Society, Cap Esterel, France, 2007, S. 39-39. Details
  		Geisser, Michael; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz; Atkinson, Colin: An Overview of Current Evaluation Practices in Software Engineering, In: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Experience on Applying Quantitative and Qualitative Empiricism to Software Engineering (Workshop Series on Empirical Software Engineering - WSESE. Fraunhofer IESE, Riga, Latvia, 2007, S. 53-58. Details
  		Fladung, Rainer; Beimborn, Daniel; Rothlauf, Franz: How to Configure Cost-optimal Procurement Consortia for Academic Libraries, In: Accepted for 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS'2007). 2007. Details
  		Bosman, Peter; Grahl, Jörn; Rothlauf, Franz: SDR: A better Trigger for Adaptive Variance Scaling in normal EDAs, In: Accepted for: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Gecco 2007. ACM Press, 2007, S. 492-499. Details
  		Berkling, Kay; Geisser, Michael; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz: Offshore Software Development: Transferring Research Findings into the Classroom, In: Meyer, B. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD). Springer LNCS, 2007. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Konzeption und Implementierung eines Planungssystems für Schnittstellentests, In: Oberweis, A. et al. (Hrsg.): 8. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik, Karlsruhe, 28. Februar. Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2007, S. 483-500. Details
  		Birkhofer, Andreas; Deibert, Sina; Rothlauf, Franz: Critical success factors for mobile field service applications: A case research, In: Oberweis, A. et al. (Hrsg.): 8. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik. Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2007, S. 291-308. Details
  2006
  		Butter, Thomas; Deibert, Sina; Rothlauf, Franz: Using Private and Public Context - An Approach for Mobile Discovery and Search Services, In: Kirste, Thomas and König-Ries, Birgitta and Pousttchi, Key and Turowski, Klaus (Hrsg.): Mobile Informationssysteme - Potentiale, Hindernisse, Einsatz. Bonner Köllen Verlag, Bonn, 2006, S. 144-155. Details
  		Deibert, Sina; Rothlauf, Franz: On the Benefit of Using Mobile Technologies in Business Processes, In: Cunningham, Paul and Cunningham, Miriam (Hrsg.): Exploiting the Knowledge Economy - Issues, Applications, Case Studies. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2006, S. 1721-1728. Details
  		Grahl, Jörn; Bosman, Peter; Rothlauf, Franz: The Correlation-Triggered Adaptive Variance Scaling IDEA, In: Kejizer, M. et al.: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Hrsg.): GECCO 2006. ACM Press, 2006, S. 397-404. Details
  		Butter, Thomas; Rothlauf, Franz; Grahl, Jörn; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Arndt, Jens: Genetic Algorithms and Mixed Integer Linear Program Models for Optimal Strategies in a Student's Sports Activity, In: Kejizer, M. et al. : Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Hrsg.): GECCO 2006. ACM Press, 2006, S. 1853-1854. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Oetzel, Marie: On the Locality of Grammatical Evolution, In: Collet, P. et al. (Hrsg.): Genetic Programming. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, EuroGP 2006. Springer LNCS 3905, Heidelberg, 2006, S. 320-330. Details
  2005
  		Reichelt, D.; Rothlauf, Franz: Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Zuverlässigkeit von Kommuniktionsnetzwerken: Eine Studie zu exakten und approximativen Verfahren, In: Federrath, H. (Hrsg.): Sicherheit - Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit, Beiträge der 2. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.v. (GI). Springer, Heidelberg, 2005, S. 89-100. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Tzschoppe, Carsten: Making the Edge-Set Encoding Fly by Controlling the Bias of its Crossover Operator, In: Raidl, G. and Gottlieb, J. (Hrsg.): Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 2005. Springer, LNCS, 2005, S. -. Details
  		Reichelt, D.; Rothlauf, Franz: CURE: Eine Reparaturheuristik für die Planung ökonomischer und zuverlässiger Kommunikationsnetzwerke mit Hilfe von heuristischen Optimierungsverfahren, In: Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KIVS05). Springer, LNI, 2005, S. 283-294. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Schunk, Daniel; Pfeiffer, Jella: Classification of Human Decision Behavior: Finding Modular Decision Rules with Genetic Algorithms, In: Beyer, H.-G. et al. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2005. ACM Press, 2005, S. 2021-2028. Details
  		Grahl, Jörn; Minner, Stefan; Rothlauf, Franz: Behaviour of UMDAc with truncation selection on monotonous functions, In: The 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press, Edinburgh, 2005, S. 2553-2559. Details
  2004
  		Reichelt, D.; Rothlauf, Franz; Gmilkowsky, P.: Designing Reliable Communication Networks with a Genetic Algorithm using a Repair Heuristic, In: Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Springer, Heidelberg, 2004, S. 177-186. Details
  		Grahl, Jörn; Rothlauf, Franz: PolyEDA: Combining Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and Linear Inequality Constraints, In: Kaylanmoy Deb et al. (Hrsg.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2004, LNCS 3103. Springer, Heidelberg, 2004, S. 1174--1185. Details
  		Tzschoppe, Carsten; Rothlauf, Franz; Pesch, Hans-Josef: The Edge-Set Encoding Revisited: On the Bias of a Direct Representation for Trees, In: Kaylanmoy Deb et al. (Hrsg.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2004, LNCS 3103. Springer, Heidelberg, 2004, S. 258-270. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: OptiNet: Ein Optimierungswerkzeug für baumförmige Netzwerkprobleme, In: Suhl, Leena and Voss, Stefan (Hrsg.): Quantitative Methoden in ERP und SCM (Teilkonferenz auf der MKWI 2004). Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, 2004, S. 15-34. Details
  2003
  		Rothlauf, Franz: On the Locality of Representations of Integers on the Performance of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms, In: Erick Cantu-Paz et al. (Hrsg.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2003, LNCS 2279. Springer, Heidelberg, 2003, S. 1608--1609. Details
  2002
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Binary Representations of Integers and the Performance of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms, In: Merelo Guervós, J.J. et al. (Hrsg.): Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN VII7th International Conference, Granada, Spain, September 7-11, 2002. Proceedings. Springer LNCS 2439, Berlin, 2002, S. 99-108. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: The Influence of Binary Representations of Integers on the Performance os Selectorrecombinative Genetic Algorithms, In: Langdon, W. B. (Hrsg.): Proceedings Of The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California, 2002, S. 695. Details
  		Schindler, B.; Pesch, H.-J.; Rothlauf, Franz: Evolution Strategies, Random Network Keys and the One-Max Tree Problem, In: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, LNCS 2279. Springer, Heidleberg, 2002, S. 143-152. Details
  2001
  		Grosche, Tobias; Heinzl, Armin; Rothlauf, Franz: A Conceptual Approach for Simultaneous Flight Schedule Construction with Genetic Algorithms, In: Application of Evolutionary Computation, LNCS 2037. Springer, Heidelberg, 2001, S. 257-267. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David E.; Heinzl, Armin: On the Debate Concerning Evolutionary Search Using Prüfer Numbers, In: Workshop Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (ROPNET 2001). San Franciso, 2001, S. 262-267. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Schmitt, Florian: On the Importance of the Second Largest Eigenvalue on the Convergence Rate of Genetic Algorithms, In: Beyer, H. and Cantu-Paz, E. and Goldberg, D. and Parmee and Spector, L. and Whitley, D. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California, 2001, S. 559-564. Details
  		Gottlieb, Jens; Julstrom, Bryant A.; Raidl, Gunther R.; Rothlauf, Franz: Prüfer Numbers: A Poor Representation of Spanning Trees for Evolutionary Search, In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California, 2001, S. 343-350. Details
  		Gaube, Thomas; Rothlauf, Franz: The Link and Node Biased Encoding Revisited: Bias and Adjustment of Parameters, In: Boers, E.J.W. et al. (Hrsg.): Application of Evolutionary Computation, LNCS 2037. Springer, Heidelberg, 2001, S. 1-10. Details
  		Paulussen, Torsten O.; Heinzl, Armin; Rothlauf, Franz: Konzeption eines Koordinationsmechanismus zur dezentralen Ablaufplanung in medizinischen Behandlungspfaden (MedPaCo), In: 5. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 2001. Physica, Heidelberg, 2001, S. 867-880. Details
  2000
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Grasser, Christian: A Note on Using Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-Period Communication Network Optimization, In: Proc. Workshop on Parallel and Emergent Computation in Telecommunications, Paris, France. 2000. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David E.; Heinzl, Armin: Bad Codings and the Utility of Well-Designed Genetic Algorithms, In: Beyer, H. and Cantu-Paz, E. and Goldberg, D. and Parmee, I. and Spector, L. and Whitley, D. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2000). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California, 2000, S. 355-362. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David E.: Pruefernumbers and Genetic Algorithms: A lesson how the low locality of an encoding can harm the performance of GAs, In: Deb, K. and Rudolph, G. and Schoenauer, M. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature VI Conference, LNCS 1829. Springer, Heidelberg, 2000, S. 343--350. Details

  
  

  Audiovisual Materials

  Rothlauf, Franz: Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms, GECCO 2007. London, 07.07.2007. Mainz, 2007. Details

  
  

  Working Papers

  2009
  		Steitz, Wolfgang; Golle, Uli; Rothlauf, Franz: Moving-Window Rubik's Cube Solver - Gecco Competition 2009, Working Paper 2, In: Department of Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Hrsg.): Mainz, 2009. Details
  		Golle, Uli; Boysen, Nils; Rothlauf, Franz: Analysis and Design of Sequencing Rules for Car Sequencing, Working Paper 03, In: Department of Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Hrsg.): Mainz, 2009. Details
  		Steitz, Wolfgang; Rothlauf, Franz: Edge Orientation and the Design of problem-specific EAs for the OCST problem, Working Paper 04/2009, Department of Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg-University , Mainz, 2009. Details
  2008
  		Pfeiffer, Jella; Riedl, René; Rothlauf, Franz: On the Relationship between Interactive Decision Aids and Decision Strategies: A Theoretical Analysis, Working Paper 03/2008, In: Department of Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg-University (Hrsg.): Mainz, 2008. Details
  		Steitz, Wolfgang; Rothlauf, Franz: Orientation matters: How to efficiently solve OCST problems with problem-specific EAs, In: Department of Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Hrsg.): Mainz, 2008. Details
  		Pfeiffer, Jella; Rothlauf, Franz; Golle, Uli: Reference Point Based Multi-Objective Algorithms for Group Decisions, Working Paper 02/2008, In: Department of Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg-University (Hrsg.): Mainz, 2008. Details
  		Le, Kim; Rothlauf, Franz: Foreign market entry of e-business companies and implications for theories of internationalization, Working Paper 4, 2008. Details
  2007
  		Grosche, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz: Air Travel Itinerary Market Share Estimation, Working Paper 6/2007, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2007. Details
  		Pfeiffer, Jella; Rothlauf, Franz: Analysis of Greedy Heuristics and Weight-Coded EAs for Multidimensional Knapsack Problems and Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions, Department of Information Systems and Business Administration Working Paper 01/2007, In: Johannes Gutenberg-University (Hrsg.): Mainz, 2007. Details
  2006
  		Fladung, Rainer; Beimborn, Daniel; Rothlauf, Franz: Optimization of Library Consortia for Efficient Information Supply --- A Heuristic Approach, Working Paper 9/2006, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2006. Details
  		Fink, Andreas; Rothlauf, Franz: Heuristische Optimierungsverfahren in der Wirtschaftsinformatik, Working Paper 10/2006, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2006. Details
  		Deibert, Sina; Rothlauf, Franz: On the Benefit of Using Mobile Technologies in Business Processes, Working Paper 15/2006, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2006. Details
  		Birkhofer, Andreas; Deibert, Sina; Rothlauf, Franz: Critical success factors for mobile field service applications: A case research, Working Paper 17/2006, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2006. Details
  		Hildenbrand, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz: Ansätze zur kollaborativen Softwareerstellung, Working Paper 6/2006, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2006. Details
  		Zöller, Anja; Braubach, Lars; Pokahr, Alexander; Rothlauf, Franz; Paulussen, Torsten O.; Lamersdorf, Winfried; Heinzl, Armin: Evalutation of a Multi-Agent System for Hospital Patient Scheduling, Working Paper 14/2006, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2006. Details
  2005
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Schunk, Daniel; Pfeiffer, Jella: Classification of Human Decision Behavior: Finding Modular Decision Rules with Genetic Algorithms, Working Paper 1/2005, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2005. Details
  		Grahl, Jörn; Minner, Stefan; Rothlauf, Franz: Behaviour of the UMDAc algorithm with truncationselection on monotone functions, Working Paper 4/2005, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2005. Details
  		Grund, Peter; Rothlauf, Franz: Konzeption und Implementierung eines Führungsinformationssystems mit Hilfe der Methode der kritischen Erfolgsfaktoren und Open-Source Software, Working Paper 9/2005, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2005. Details
  		Butter, Thomas; Deibert, Sina; Rothlauf, Franz: Using Private and Public Context -- An Approach for Mobile Discovery and Search Services, Working Paper 10/2005, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2005. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Oetzel, Marie: On the Locality of Grammatical Evolution, Working Paper 11/2005, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2005. Details
  2004
  		Tzschoppe, Carsten; Rothlauf, Franz; Pesch, Hans-Josef: The Edge-Set Encoding Revisited: On the Bias of a Direct Representation for Trees, Working Paper 1/2004, Springer LNCS, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Grahl, Jörn; Rothlauf, Franz: PolyEDA: Combinig Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and Linear Inequality Constraints, Working Paper 2/2004, Springer LNCS, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Entwicklung eines Entscheidungsunterstützungssystems für die Planung von Schnittstellentests im Rahmen der Qualitätssicherung von komponentenbasierter Unternehmenssoftware, Working Paper 6/2004, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Reichelt, Dirk; Rothlauf, Franz: Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Zuverlässigkeit von Kommuniktionsnetzwerken: Eine Studie zu exakten und approximativen Verfahren, Working Paper 7/2005, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Reichel, Dirk; Rothlauf, Franz: CURE: Eine Reparaturheuristik für die Planung ökonomischer und zuverlässiger Kommunikationsnetzwerke mit Hilfe von heuristischen Optimierungsverfahren, Working Paper 10/2004, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Tzschoppe, Carsten: On the Bias and Performance of the Edge-Set Encoding, Working Paper 11/2004, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Tzschoppe, Carsten: Making the Edge-Set Encoding Fly by Controlling the Bias of its Crossover Operator, Working Paper 12/2004, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Reichelt, Dirk; Rothlauf, Franz: Reliable Communication Network Design with Evolutionary Algorithms, Working Paper 16/2004, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Heinzl, Armin: Developing Efficient Metaheuristics for Communication Network Problems by using Problem-specific Knowledge, Working Papers of the Research Group Information Systems & Management Working Paper 9/2004, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2004. Details
  2003
  		Rothlauf, Franz: On the Locality of Representations , Working Paper 1/2003, In: Erick Cantu-Paz et al. (Hrsg.): 2003. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Population Sizing for the Redundant Trivial Voting Mapping , Working Paper 2/2003, In: Erick Cantu-Paz et al. (Hrsg.): 2003. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Locality, Distance Distortion,and Binary Representations of Integers, Working Paper 11/2003, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2003. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: OptiNet: Ein Optimierungswerkzeug für baumförmige Netzwerkprobleme, Working Paper 12/2003, Universität Paderborn, In: Leena Suhl and Stefan Voß (Hrsg.): 2003. Details
  		Schwind, Michael; Stockheim, Tim; Rothlauf, Franz: Optimization Heuristics for the Combinatorial Auction Problem, Working Paper 13/2003, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2003. Details
  		Reichelt, Dirk; Rothlauf, Franz; Gmilkowsky, Peter: Designing Reliable Communication Networks with a Genetic Algorithm using a Repair Heuristic, Working Paper 14/2003, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2003. Details
  		Grosche, Tobias; Rothlauf, Franz: Simultane Erstellung von Flugplänen mit Genetischen Algorithmen – Konzeptioneller Planungsansatz und Entwicklung eines Prototypen , Working Papers of the Research Group Information Systems & Management Working Paper 8/2003, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): Mannheim, 2003. Details
  2002
  		Rothlauf, Franz: The Influence of Binary Representations of Integers on the Performance of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms , Working Paper 1/2002, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. San Francisco, California, In: Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth (Hrsg.): Bayreuth, 2002. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Gerstacker, Jürgen; Heinzl, Armin: On the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem, Working Paper 10/2002, Mannheim, In: Department of Information Systems 1, University of Mannheim (Hrsg.): 2002. Details
  2001
  		Schmitt, Florian; Rothlauf, Franz: On the Mean of the Second Largest Eigenvalue on the Convergence Rate of Genetic Algorithms , Working Paper 1/2001, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. San Francisco, California, In: Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth (Hrsg.): Bayreuth, 2001. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Schindler, Barbara: Evolution Strategies, Random Network Keys, and the One-Max Tree Problem , Working Paper 8/2001, Springer LNCS 2279, In: Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth (Hrsg.): Bayreuth, 2001. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David E.; Heinzl, Armin: On the Debate Concerning Evolutionary Search Using Prüfer Numbers, Working Papers of the Research Group Information Systems & Management Working Paper 05/2001, In: Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth (Hrsg.): Bayreuth, 2001. Details
  2000
  		Gaube, Thomas; Rothlauf, Franz: The Link and Node Biased Encoding Revisited: Bias and Adjustment of Parameters , Working Paper 10/2000, Springer LCNS 2037, In: E.J.W. Boers et al. (Hrsg.): 2000. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Grasser, Christian : A Note on Using Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-Period Communication Network Optimization, Working Paper 6/2000, Paris, France, 2000. Details
  		Gottlieb, Jens; Julstrom, Bryant A.; Raidl, Gunther R.; Rothlauf, Franz: Prüfer Numbers: A Poor Representation of Spanning Trees for Evolutionary Search , Working Paper 12/2000, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. San Francisco, California, In: Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth (Hrsg.): Bayreuth, 2000. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David E.: Pruefernumbers and Genetic Algorithms: A lesson how the low locality of an encoding can harm the performance of GAs, Working Paper 3/2000, Springer LCNS 1829, In: Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth (Hrsg.): Bayreuth, 2000. Details
  1999
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David, E.: Tree Network Design with Genetic Algorithms - An Investigation in the Locality of the Pruefernumber Encoding, Working Paper 6/1999, In: Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth (Hrsg.): Bayreuth, 1999. Details

  
  

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  2004
  		Fink, A.; Rothlauf, Franz: Heuristische Optimierungsmethoden in der Wirtschaftsinformatik, Essen 2004. Details
  2003
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Thierens, D.: Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators, Chicago 2003, S. 1-1a. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms, Chicago 2003, S. 203-224. Details
  2002
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, 2002, S. 176-177. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Towards a Theory of Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn 2002, S. 157-168. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, Granada, Spain 2002. Details
  		Rothlauf, Franz: Redundant Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, Dagstuhl 2002, S. 17. Details
  1999
  		Rothlauf, Franz; Goldberg, David E.: Tree Network Design with Genetic Algorithms - An Investigation in the Locality of the Pruefernumber Encoding, 1999, S. 238-244. Details

  
  
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