Dr. Sebastian Herrmann

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Publications

• Herrmann, S.; Herrmann, M.; Ochoa, G.; Rothlauf, F. (2017). Shaping Communities of Local Optima by Perturbation Strength. In: Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany, July 15-19, 2017. ACM Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071243
• Herrmann, S.; Ochoa, G.; Rothlauf, F. (2017). PageRank Centrality for Performance Prediction: The Impact of the Local Optima Network Model. Accepted by: Journal of Heuristics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-017-9333-1
• Reia, S.M.; Herrmann, S.; Fontanari, J.F. (2017). Impact of centrality on cooperative processes. In: Physical Review E 95, 022305. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.022305
• Herrmann, S.; Ochoa, G.; Rothlauf, F. (2016). Coarse-Grained Barrier Trees of Fitness Landscapes. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2016), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_84
• Herrmann, S.; Ochoa, G.; Rothlauf, F. (2016). Communities of Local Optima as Funnels in Fitness Landscapes. In: Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), Denver, Colorado, July 20-24, 2016. ACM Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908818
• Herrmann, S. (2016). Determining the Difficulty of Landscapes by PageRank Centrality in Local Optima Networks. In: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2016), Porto, March 30th - April 1st, 2016. Springer, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30698-8_6
• Wimmer, J., Ernst, C.-P. H., Herrmann, S., Rothlauf, F. (2016). Social Network Sites: The Influence of the Number of Friends on Social Capital. In: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016 Proceedings, Ilmenau, March 09-11, 2016.
• Herrmann, S.; Rothlauf, F. (2015). Predicting Heuristic Search Performance with PageRank Centrality in Local Optima Networks. In: Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), Madrid, July, 11-15, 2015. ACM Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2739480.2754691.
• Herrmann, S.; Grahl, J. & Rothlauf, F. (2014). Problem Complexity in Parallel Problem Solving. In: Fischbach, K.; Großmann, M.; Krieger, U.R. & Staake, T. (eds.). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Management of Social Networks and their Applications (SOCNET 2014). Bamberg: UB Press.

 

Talks & Poster Presentations

• Shaping Communities of Local Optima by Perturbation Strength. ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany, July 15-29, 2017.
• Coarse-Grained Barrier Trees of Fitness Landscapes. The 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2016), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 19-21, 2016.
• Local Optima Networks. A Complexity Perspective on Fitness Landscapes. Invited Talk at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Vienna, July 07, 2016.
• Communities of Local Optima as Funnels in Fitness Landscapes ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), Denver, Colorado, July 20-24, 2016 (accepted as talk).
• Determining the Difficulty of Landscapes by PageRank Centrality in Local Optima Networks. The 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2016) , Porto, March 30th, 2016 (accepted as talk).
• Predicting Heuristic Search Performance with PageRank Centrality in Local Optima Networks. ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), Madrid, July 13th, 2015 (accepted as talk).
• Collective Problem Solving: How to characterize the Difficulty of Tasks by PageRank Centrality. XXXV Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Brighton, June 23–28, 2015 (accepted as poster).
• Social Network Studies: On the Influence of Task Difficulty on Problem Solving. International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS 2015), Helsinki, June 8-11, 2015 (accepted as talk).
• Predicting heuristic search performance with PageRank centrality in local optima networks. Forschungskolloquium Prof. König, Neukirchen-Vluyn, February 13th, 2015 (talk).
• How centrality of optima in fitness landscapes predicts search difficulty for meta-heuristics. Südwest-Workshop Operations Research, TU Kaiserslautern, October 17th, 2014 (talk).

 

Teaching

• Lecturer of "Grundlagen der IT" (IT Foundations) at Wiesbaden Business School (summer term 2017).
• Coordination of the Bachelor's Candidate Seminar (summer term 2013, winter term 2013/2014, summer term 2014, winter term 2014/2015, summer term 2015, winter term 2015/2016, summer term 2016)
• Coordination of the Master's Seminar (summer term 2013, winter term 2013/2014, summer term 2014, winter term 2014/2015, summer term 2015, winter term 2015/2016, summer term 2016)
• Lecturer of "Entwicklung betrieblicher Informationssysteme (EbIS)" (winter term 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017)
• Coordination of Exercises in "Entwicklung betrieblicher Informationssysteme (EbIS)" (winter term 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016)
• Lecturer of "Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsinformatik" (Information Systems) at VWA Wiesbaden (summer term 2013, winter term 2013/2014, summer term 2014, winter term 2014/2015, summer term 2015, winter term 2015/2016, winter term 2016/2017)
• Co-Lecturer of "Entwicklung von Informationssystemen" (Development of Information Systems) at VWA Wiesbaden (summer term 2013)
• Lecturer of "Skills & Tools" (summer term 2014)
• Lecturer of "SAP TERP10"
  (winter term 2013/2014, winter term 2014/2015, winter term 2015/2016, winter term 2016/2017)
• Tutorial in "Einführung in die EDV" (Introduction to Information Systems, winter term 2011)