Franz Rothlauf received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany, a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and a habilitation from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 1997, 2001, and 2007, respectively.

Since 2007, he is professor of Information Systems at the University of Mainz. He has published more than 200 technical papers in the context of planning and optimization, evolutionary computation, e-business, and software engineering, co-edited several conference proceedings and edited books, and is author of the books “Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms” and “Design of Modern Heuristics”. At the University Mainz, he is Academic Director of the Gutenberg School of Business (since 2013) and Chief Information Officer (since 2016).

His main research interests are the application of machine learning and modern heuristics in planning and optimization systems. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) and ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (TELO). Since 2007, he is member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGEVO. He was treasurer of ACM SIGEVO between 2011 and 2019. Between 2019 and 2023, he served as chair for ACM SIGEVO. He was chair of GECCO 2009. In 2024, he received the SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award, which recognizes remarkable contributions to Evolutionary Computation.

My research focuses on the fundamentals and applications of metaheuristics and machine learning methods. As a Business Informatics specialist, I also deal with aspects of the interaction between users and information systems.

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In recent years, I have also focused on the design of air traffic networks, Indian Gaming, car sequencing, multimedia and interactive learning modules, cooperation between companies and NGOs, and other topics.

Co-Editor

Guest Editor

Chair

  • Stream Chair for OR2016 and OR2017 on Metaheuristics (together with Stefan Voss). (http://or2016.de/)
  • Track Chair for 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence on Evolutionary Computation for Intelligent Network Systems (together with Shengxiang Yang, Jun Zhang and Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova).
  • Track Chair for MKWI 2012 on Intelligent Information Systems (together with Andreas Fink).
  • Track Chair for GOR 2011, on Metaheuristics and biologically inspired approaches (together with Luca Maria Gambardella and Walter Gutjahr), Zurich, 2011.
  • Conference Chair for ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, 2009. Track Chair (Genetic Algorithms) for ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006), Seattle, 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 (GECCO 2005) workshops and late breaking papers, Washington D.C., 2005.
  • EvoComNet, EvoNets Working Group on telecommunication technologies and communication networks

Organizer

  • ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, 2009.
  • Third European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics (EvoTransLog2009) as part of Evo* 2009 (together with Andreas Fink, HSU Hamburg), Tübingen, April 2009.
  • Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics (EvoTransLog2008) as part of Evo* 2008 (together with Andreas Fink, HSU Hamburg), Naples, Italy, 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 EvoWorkshops 2006 (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.
  • Mini-conference (invited session) on Genetic Algorithms at the 2004 INFORMS Annual Meeting (together with Martin Pelikan, University of Saint Louis, USA), Denver, October 2004.
  • First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems (EvoComNet2004) as part of EvoWorkshops 2004 (together with George Smith, University of East Anglia, UK), Coimbra, Portugal, 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.

Tutorial Speaker

  • ACM GECCO 2025, ACM GECCO 2024, ACM GECCO 2023, ACM GECCO 2022, ACM GECCO 2021, ACM GECCO 2020, ACM GECCO 2019, ACM GECCO 2018, ACM GECCO 2017, ACM GECCO 2016, ACM GECCO 2015, ACM GECCO 2014, ACM GECCO 2013, ACM GECCO 2012, ACM GECCO 2011; ACM GECCO 2010, Portland, 2010; ACM GECCO 2009, Montreal, 2009; ACM GECCO 2008, Atlanta, 2008; ACM GECCO 2007, London, 2007; ACM GECCO 2006, Seattle, USA, 2006; SIGEVO GECCO 2005, Washington D.C., 2005; GECCO 2004, Seattle, 2004; Multi-Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2004, Essen, 2004; 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Washington D.C., 2003; GECCO 2003, Chicago, 2003; Parallel Problem Solving From Nature VII, Granada, 2002.

Member of the Program Committee

  • ACM GECCO 2026; ACM GECCO 2025; ACM GECCO 2024; ACM GECCO 2023; ACM GECCO 2022; ACM GECCO 2021; ACM GECCO 2020; ACM GECCO 2019; ACM GECCO 2018; ACM GECCO 2017; ECIS 2016 (Associate Editor for Track Big Data, Business Analytics and Decision Support; ECIS 2016; ACM GECCO 2016; ACM GECCO 2015; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, 2014; Associate Editor for ECIS 2013 (Track Decision support and big data), ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013), Amsterdam, 2013; 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2012), Brisbane, 2012; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2011), Torino, 2011; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011), Dublin, 2011; Associated Editor for Track IT in Industry and Business Applications, WI 2011, Zurich; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2010), Istanbul, 2010; Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics (EvoTransLog2010), Istanbul, 2010; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, 2009; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), Atlanta, 2008; International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Turku, Finland, 2008; Business Informatics (Track Techniques of Operations Research in Business Information Systems), Karlsruhe, 2007; ECAI Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Riva del Garda, 2006; IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2006), Vancouver, 2006; First European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation (EvoPhd), Budapest, 2006; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2006), Budapest, 2006; Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2006), Reykjavik, 2006; Third German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2005), Koblenz, 2005; Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2005), Salt Lake City, 2005; Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2005), Washington, 2005; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2005), Lausanne, 2005; Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2004), Birmingham, 2004; Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004), Seattle, 2004; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2004), Coimbra, 2004; Doctoral Consortium prior to the WI 2003 Conference, Tautewalde, 2003; Logistics Management Conference (LM 03), Braunschweig, 2003; International Network Optimization Conference, Evry/Paris, 2003; Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2003), Chicago, 2003; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2003), 2003; Foundations of Genetic Algorithms VII, Malaga, Spain, 2002; Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002), New York, 2002; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2002), Kinsale, Ireland, 2002; Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001), San Francisco, 2001; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2001), Como, 2001.

Reviewer Activities

  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • Science Foundation Ireland
  • The Icelandic Research Fund
  • Flemish Research Foundation (IWT-Flanders)
  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
  • Croatian Science Foundation
  • International Magazines (Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Heuristics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation Journal, Computational Optimization and Applications, Engineering Optimization, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research Letters, Information Science, Computational Optimization and Applications, Business Informatics, OR Spectrum, Theoretical Computer Science, Transportation Science, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Journal of Air Transport Management and others)

Administrative Duties

  • CIO of JGU (since 2016)
  • Member of the executive committee of the Gutenberg Research College (2015-2017)
  • Member of the coordination committee (board) of the two university research units
  • Media Convergence and Interdisciplinary Public Policy (since 2013; Media Convergence until 2017)
  • Member of the IT Steering Committee of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2014-2017)
  • Member of the Budget Committee of the faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Mainz (since 2013)
  • Head of the Conveniat of the faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Mainz (since 2012)
  • Coordination and supervision of the early student program at the University of Mainz (since 2007)
  • Academic Officer for IT issues in the examination office of FB 03 (since 2010)
  • Responsible for CIP pools (approx. 100 computers), user support and web presence at the faculty of Law and Economics (since 2007)
  • Member of the admissions committee for the Teves Foundation Award (since 2010)
  • Member of the examination board (since 2009)
  • Member of the Room Committee (since 2009)
  • Member of the admissions committee for the master’s degree program in Management (since 2010)
  • Member of Subproject Leadership 4 (3/2012-11/2012)
  • Head of the search committees for Logistics Management (2008-2009), Statistics (2009-2010) and Digital Finance (2014-2015)
  • Member of numerous search committees (since 2007)

Other

  • Business Committee of FOGA 2025 and FOGA 2027
  • Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO) (2019-2023)
  • Member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGEVO (since 2009, re-elected in 2011, 2017, and 2023)
  • Treasurer of ACM SIGEVO (2011-2019)
  • ACM Senior Member (since 2013)
  • Member of IEEE (since 1998), ACM (since 2005), EvoNet (1998-2006), International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (since 1999), Gesellschaft für Informatik (since 1998), Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (since 2002), Council of Authors of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (2001-2006), GOR (since 2007)
  • Honorary Member Alumni Mainz e.V. (since 2013)
  • Curator of the student consulting firm berater e.V., since 2008

2026

Röchner, P., Krämer, C., Mayer, J. U., et al. (2026). An Imbalanced Dataset with Multiple Feature Representations for Studying Quality Control of Next-Generation Sequencing. Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2026). A Performance Analysis of Lexicase-Based and Traditional Selection Methods in GP for Symbolic Regression. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, 6(1), 1-40. DOI
Geiger, A., Briesch, M., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2026). ROIDS: Robust Outlier-Aware Informed Down-Sampling.
Hauck, M., Rothlauf, F. (2026). Biases of Algorithmic and Editorial Recommendations in Public Service Media. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 141-154). Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI

2025

Anthes, P., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Transformer Semantic Genetic Programming for d-dimensional Symbolic Regression Problems. CoRR, abs/2511.09416.
Sobania, D., Petke, J., Briesch, M., Rothlauf, F. (2025). A Comparison of Large Language Models and Genetic Programming for Program Synthesis. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 29(4), 1434-1448. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Röchner, P., Klüttermann, S., Rothlauf, F., Schlör, D. (2025). We Need to Rethink Benchmarking in Anomaly Detection. Author/Publisher URL
Röchner, P., Klüttermann, S., Rothlauf, F., Schlör, D. (2025). We Need to Rethink Benchmarking in Anomaly Detection. CoRR, abs/2507.15584.
Orth, P., Piller, G., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Key Activities in the Early Stage of Digital Innovation: Insights from a Multiple-Case Study. INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT, 42(3), 403-431. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Röchner, P., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Evaluating robustly standardized explainable anomaly detection of implausible variables in cancer data. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 32(4), 724-735. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Briesch, M., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Was Tournament Selection All We Ever Needed? A Critical Reflection on Lexicase Selection. Author/Publisher URL
Anthes, P., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Transformer Semantic Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression. Author/Publisher URL
Anthes, P., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Transformer Semantic Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression. In B. Filipic (ed.), GECCO (pp. 952-960). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Anthes, P., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Transformer Semantic Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2025 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, GECCO 2025, 952-960. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Briesch, M., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Was Tournament Selection All We Ever Needed? A Critical Reflection on Lexicase Selection. In B. Xue, L. Manzoni, and I. Bakurov (eds.), EuroGP (Vols. 15609, pp. 207-223). Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2025). Selection Methods in Genetic Programming: A Performance Analysis. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2025 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2025 COMPANION, 31-32. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Roechner, P., Marques, H. O., Campello, R. J. G. B., et al. (2025). Robust Statistical Scaling of Outlier Scores: Improving the Quality of Outlier Probabilities for Outliers (Vols. 15268, pp. 215-222). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2025). Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2025 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2025 COMPANION, 1302-1322. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Briesch, M., Rothlauf, F. (2025). ImageBreeder: Guiding Diffusion Models with Evolutionary Computation. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2025 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, GECCO 2025, 463-471. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Zoeten, M. C. de, Hauck, M., Briesch, M., et al. (2025). Let Me Entertain You: On the Bias of Editorial and Algorithmic Recommendations in Public Service Media. In I. Lukovic, S. Bjeladinovic, B. Delibasic, et al. (eds.), ISD. University of Gdańsk, University of Belgrade, Association for Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL

2024

Boldi, R., Briesch, M., Sobania, D., et al. (2024). Informed Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection: Identifying Productive Training Cases for Efficient Problem Solving. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 32(4), 307-337. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Briesch, M., Rothlauf, F. (2024). ComfyGI: Automatic Improvement of Image Generation Workflows. Author/Publisher URL
Röchner, P., Marques, H. O., Campello, R. J. G. B., et al. (2024). Robust Statistical Scaling of Outlier Scores: Improving the Quality of Outlier Probabilities for Outliers (Extended Version). Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2024). A Performance Analysis of Lexicase-Based and Traditional Selection Methods in GP for Symbolic Regression. Author/Publisher URL
Schwarz, L., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2024). On relevant features for the recurrence prediction of urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS, 186. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rochner, P., Rothlauf, F. (2024). Using machine learning to link electronic health records in cancer registries: On the tradeoff between linkage quality and manual effort. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS, 185. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Briesch, M., Boldi, R., Sobania, D., et al. (2024). Improving Lexicase Selection with Informed Down -Sampling. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2024 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2024 COMPANION, 25-26. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2024). A Comprehensive Comparison of Lexicase-Based Selection Methods for Symbolic Regression Problems. GENETIC PROGRAMMING, EUROGP 2024, 14631, 192-208. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2024). Tutorial on Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. In X. Li and J. Handl (eds.), GECCO Companion (pp. 1017-1037). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Schmitt, S., Rothlauf, F. (2024). Comparison of Imputation Methods for Categorical Real-World Prostate Cancer Data with Natural Order. In J. Mantas, A. Hasman, G. Demiris, et al. (eds.), MIE (Vols. 316, pp. 1800-1804). IOS Press. Author/Publisher URL
Schwarz, L., Rothlauf, F. (2024). On Entity Embeddings for Ordinal Features as Representation Learning in Recurrence Prediction of Urothelial Bladder Cancer. DIGITAL HEALTH AND INFORMATICS INNOVATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, MIE 2024, 316, 690-694. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Briesch, M., Rothlauf, F. (2024). ComfyGI: Automatic Improvement of Image Generation Workflows. CoRR, abs/2411.14193.
Zoeten, M. C. de, Ernst, C.-P. H., Rothlauf, F. (2024). The Effect of Explainable AI on AI-Trust and Its Antecedents over the Course of an Interaction. In M. Avital, E. Karahanna, M. Themistocleous, et al. (eds.), ECIS. Author/Publisher URL

2023

Wittenberg, D., Rothlauf, F., and Gagne, C. (2023). Denoising autoencoder genetic programming: strategies to control exploration and exploitation in search. GENETIC PROGRAMMING AND EVOLVABLE MACHINES, 24(2). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Briesch, M., Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2023). Large Language Models Suffer From Their Own Output: An Analysis of the Self-Consuming Training Loop. Author/Publisher URL
Grahl, J., Hinz, O., Rothlauf, F., et al. (2023). How do likes influence revenue? A randomized controlled field experiment. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 167. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Huschens, M., Briesch, M., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2023). Do You Trust ChatGPT? — Perceived Credibility of Human and AI-Generated Content. Author/Publisher URL
Roechner, P., Rothlauf, F. (2023). Unsupervised anomaly detection of implausible electronic health records: a real-world evaluation in cancer registries. BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, 23(1). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2023). Down-Sampled Epsilon-Lexicase Selection for Real-World Symbolic Regression Problems. Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Schweim, D., Rothlauf, F. (2023). A Comprehensive Survey on Program Synthesis With Evolutionary Algorithms. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 27(1), 82-97. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Boldi, R., Briesch, M., Sobania, D., et al. (2023). Informed Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection: Identifying productive training cases for efficient problem solving. Author/Publisher URL
Briesch, M., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2023). Large Language Models Suffer From Their Own Output: An Analysis of the Self-Consuming Training Loop. CoRR, abs/2311.16822.
Briesch, M., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2023). On the Trade-Off between Population Size and Number of Generations in GP for Program Synthesis. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2023 COMPANION, 535-538. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Geiger, A., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2023). Down-Sampled Epsilon-Lexicase Selection for Real-World Symbolic Regression Problems. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, GECCO 2023, 1109-1117. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2023). Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2023 COMPANION, 1048-1068. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Briesch, M., Roechner, P., Rothlauf, F. (2023). MTGP: Combining Metamorphic Testing and Genetic Programming. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Wittenberg, D., Rothlauf, F. (2023). Small Solutions for Real-World Symbolic Regression Using Denoising Autoencoder Genetic Programming (Vols. 13986, pp. 101-116). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Zielonka, J. T., Rothlauf, F. (2023). Disentangling Technostress in Social Streaming Services: The Impact of Perceived Eustress and Distress on User Participation and Engagement. In R. De', S. Paul, S. Sarker, et al. (eds.), ICIS. Association for Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL

2022

Sobania, D., Schmitt, J., Köstler, H., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Genetic programming for iterative numerical methods. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 23(2), 253-278. DOI
Herm-Stapelberg, N., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). The Impact of Product Recommendation Networks on Sales: The Moderating Influence of Product Age. In Digitalization Across Organizational Levels (pp. 247-265). Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Sotto, L. F. D. P., Rothlauf, F., de Melo, V. V., and Basgalupp, M. P. (2022). An Analysis of the Influence of Noneffective Instructions in Linear Genetic Programming. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 30(1), 51-74. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Briesch, M., Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). The Randomness of Input Data Spaces is an A Priori Predictor for Generalization (Vols. 13404, pp. 17-30). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Brunnbauer, M., Piller, G., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Top-Down or Explorative? A Case Study on the Identification of AI Use Cases. In M.-H. Huang, G. Gable, C. M. K. Cheung, and D. Xu (eds.), PACIS (pp. 161-161). Author/Publisher URL
Mueller, T., Piller, G., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Efficient Access Control to Parking Space for Different Customer Segments (Vols. 1598, pp. 19-30). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2022). Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2022, 1046-1066. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Schweim, D., Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Effects of the Training Set Size: A Comparison of Standard and Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection in Program Synthesis. 2022 IEEE CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (CEC). Published. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Program Synthesis with Genetic Programming: The Influence of Batch Sizes (pp. 118-129). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Briesch, M., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Choose Your Programming Copilot A Comparison of the Program Synthesis Performance of GitHub Copilot and Genetic Programming. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO’22), 1019-1027. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Briesch, M., Wittenberg, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Analyzing Optimized Constants in Genetic Programming on a Real-World Regression Problem. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2022, 606-607. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Schweim, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Program Synthesis with Evolutionary Algorithms: Status Quo Hot Off the Press Track (GECCO 2022). PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2022, 39-40. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Wittenberg, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). Denoising Autoencoder Genetic Programming for Real-World Symbolic Regression. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION, GECCO 2022, 612-614. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Zielonka, J. T., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). On the Role of Envy in the Technostress Process in the Context of Social Media Use. In R. Beck, D. Petcu, M. Fotache, et al. (eds.), ECIS. Author/Publisher URL
Zielonka, J. T., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). You Perceive What You Believe: The Impact of Psychological Beliefs on Perceived Technostress. HICSS, 1-10. Author/Publisher URL
Zielonka, J. T., and Rothlauf, F. (2022). You Perceive What You Believe: The Impact of Psychological Beliefs on Perceived Technostress. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 55TH ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, 2742-2751. Author/Publisher URL

2021

Sobania, D., Briesch, M., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Choose Your Programming Copilot: A Comparison of the Program Synthesis Performance of GitHub Copilot and Genetic Programming. Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Schweim, D., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Recent Developments in Program Synthesis with Evolutionary Algorithms. In arXiv. Author/Publisher URL
Olmscheid, C., Wittenberg, D., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Improving Estimation of Distribution Genetic Programming with Novelty Initialization. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 261-262. DOI
Schweim, D., Hemberg, E., Sobania, D., et al. (2021). Using knowledge of human-generated code to bias the search in program synthesis with grammatical evolution. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 331-332. DOI
Schweim, D., Wittenberg, D., Rothlauf, F. (2021). On sampling error in evolutionary algorithms. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 43-44. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Hermes, H., Huschens, M., Rothlauf, F., Schunk, D. (2021). Motivating low-achievers-Relative performance feedback in primary schools. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 187, 45-59. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Briesch, M., Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2021). The Randomness of Input Data Spaces is an A Priori Predictor for Generalization. Author/Publisher URL
Schweim, D., Wittenberg, D., Rothlauf, F. (2021). On sampling error in genetic programming. Natural Computing. DOI
Brunnbauer, M., Piller, G., Rothlauf, F. (2021). idea-AI: Developing a Method for the Systematic Identification of AI Use Cases. In Y. E. Chan, M. Boudreau, B. Aubert, et al. (eds.), AMCIS. Association for Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL
Brunnbauer, M., Piller, G., Rothlauf, F. (2021). idea-AI: Developing a Method for the Systematic Identification of AI Use Cases <i>Completed Research</i>. DIGITAL INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (AMCIS 2021). Published. Author/Publisher URL
Huschens, M., Ernst, C.-P. H., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Individual Rank and Response: Survey-Based Evidence on the Effects of Rank-Based Performance Feedback. HICSS, 1-10. Author/Publisher URL
Huschens, M., Ernst, C.-P. H., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Individual Rank and Response: Survey-Based Evidence on the Effects of Rank-Based Performance Feedback. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 54TH ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, 1355-1364. Author/Publisher URL
Orth, P., Piller, G., Rothlauf, F. (2021). How Companies Develop a Culture for Digital Innovation: A Multiple-Case Study (Vols. 430, pp. 221-235). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2021). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. In K. Krawiec (ed.), GECCO Companion (pp. 463-483). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Briesch, M., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Choose Your Programming Copilot: A Comparison of the Program Synthesis Performance of GitHub Copilot and Genetic Programming. CoRR, abs/2111.07875.
Sobania, D., Rothlauf, F. (2021). A Generalizability Measure for Program Synthesis with Genetic Programming. In F. Chicano, K. Krawiec (eds.), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 822-829). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., Schweim, D., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Recent Developments in Program Synthesis with Evolutionary Algorithms. CoRR, abs/2108.12227.
Zielonka, J. T., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Techno-Eustress: The Impact of Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use on the Perception of Work-Related Stressors. HICSS, 1-10. Author/Publisher URL
Zielonka, J. T., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Challenge Accepted: On the Juxtaposed Effect of the Appraisal of Social Media as Challenge and Hindrance Stressors on the Perception of Eustress and Distress. PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS – PACIS 2021. Published. Author/Publisher URL
Zielonka, J. T., Rothlauf, F. (2021). Techno-Eustress: The Impact of Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use on the Perception of Work-Related Stressors. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 54TH ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, 6482-6491. Author/Publisher URL

2020

Herm-Stapelberg, N., and Rothlauf, F. (2020). The Crowd Against the Few: Measuring the Impact of Expert Recommendations Decision Support Systems. Decision Support Systems, 138(4). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Wittenberg, D., Rothlauf, F., and Schweim, D. (2020). DAE-GP: denoising autoencoder LSTM networks as probabilistic models in estimation of distribution genetic programming. Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1037-1045. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., and Probst, M. (2020). Harmless Overfitting: Using Denoising Autoencoders in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms [Http://jmlr.org/papers/v21/16-543.html]. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21(78), 1-31. Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2020). Challenges of Program Synthesis with Grammatical Evolution. Proceedings of 23rd European Conference on Genetic Programming, 211-227. DOI
Rothlauf, F. (2020). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. In C. A. C. Coello (ed.), GECCO Companion (pp. 526-546). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2020). Challenges of Program Synthesis with Grammatical Evolution. GENETIC PROGRAMMING, EUROGP 2020, 12101, 211-227. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Weitzel, D., Ernst, C.-P. H., and Rothlauf, F. (2020). On the Disadvantages of Rented Software with Regard to Psychological Ownership in the Context of Private Customers. AMCIS 2020 PROCEEDINGS. Published. Author/Publisher URL

2019

Dal Piccol Sotto, L. F., and Rothlauf, F. (2019). On the Role of Non-effective Code in Linear Genetic Programming. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO’19), 1075-1083. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Huschens, M., Rothlauf, F., and Rothe, R. (2019). On the Role of Social Comparison Processes in Gamified Work Situations. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1-10. DOI
Huschens, M., Rothlauf, F., and Rothe, R. (2019). On the Role of Social Comparison Processes in Gamified Work Situations. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 52ND ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, 1446-1455. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2019). Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION (GECCCO’19 COMPANION), 726-746. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2019). Teaching GP to program like a human software developer: Using Perplexity Pressure to Guide Program Synthesis Approaches. GECCO ’19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1065-1074. DOI Author/Publisher URL

2018

Rothlauf, F. (2018). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 518-538. DOI
Herrmann, S., Ochoa, G., and Rothlauf, F. (2018). PageRank centrality for performance prediction: the impact of the local optima network model. Journal of Heuristics, 24(3), 243-264. DOI
Bremser, C., Piller, G., and Rothlauf, F. (2018). How to start with big data – a multiple case study. In A. Pucihar, M. K. Borstnar, P. Ravesteijn, et al. (eds.), Bled eConference (pp. 40-40). University of Maribor Press / Association for Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL
Brouthers, K. D., Geisser, K. D., and Rothlauf, F. (2018). Explaining the Internationalization of iBusiness Firms. In INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE PURSUIT OF OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS (pp. 217-264). DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2018). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. In H. E. Aguirre, K. Takadama (eds.), GECCO (Companion) (pp. 518-538). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Schweim, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2018). An Analysis of the Bias of Variation Operators of Estimation of Distribution Programming. GECCO’18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, 1191-1198. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Schweim, D., Thorhauer, A., and Rothlauf, F. (2018). On the non-uniform redundancy of representations for grammatical evolution : the influence of grammars. In C. Ryan (ed.), Handbook of grammatical evolution (pp. Seiten: 55-78). Cham:Springer International Publishing – Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Sobania, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2018). CovSel: A new approach for ensemble selection applied to symbolic regression problems. In H. E. Aguirre, K. Takadama (eds.), GECCO ’18: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 529-536). ACM. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Bremser, C., Piller, G., and Rothlauf, F. Vorgehensweisen zur Einführung von Big Data in Unternehmen. Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lüneburg.

2017

Seredyński, A., Steitz, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2017). Code-share connectivity within global airline alliances – How much potential is utilized?. Journal of Air Transport Management, 65, 43-53. DOI
Scholz, M., Pfeiffer, J., and Rothlauf, F. (2017). Using PageRank for non-personalized default rankings in dynamic markets. European Journal of Operational Research, 260(1), 388-401. DOI
Probst, M., Rothlauf, F., and Grahl, J. (2017). Scalability of using Restricted Boltzmann Machines for combinatorial optimization. European Journal of Operational Research, 256(2), 368-383. DOI
Bremser, C., Piller, G., and Rothlauf, F. (2017). Strategies and Influencing Factors for Big Data Exploration. AMCIS 2017 PROCEEDINGS. Published. Author/Publisher URL
Castiello, C., Mencar, C., Lucarelli, M., and Rothlauf, F. (2017). Efficiency Improvement of DC* through a Genetic Guidance. 2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUZZY SYSTEMS (FUZZ-IEEE). Published. Author/Publisher URL
Herrmann, S., Herrmann, M., Ochoa, G., and Rothlauf, F. (2017). Shaping Communities of Local Optima by Perturbation Strength. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO’17), 266-273. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2017). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. In P. A. N. Bosman (ed.), GECCO (Companion) (pp. 489-509). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2017). Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE COMPANION (GECCO’17 COMPANION), 489-509. DOI Author/Publisher URL

2016

Brouthers, K. D., Geisser, K. D., and Rothlauf, F. (2016). Explaining the internationalization of ibusiness firms. Journal of international business studies, 47(5), Seiten: 513-534. Author/Publisher URL
Celik, E., Ernst, C.-P. H., and Rothlauf, F. (2016). Antecedents of Willingness to Share Information in Supply Chain IS. In V. Nissen, D. Stelzer, S. Straßburger, and D. Fischer (eds.), MKWI (pp. 1503-1510). Universitätsverlag Ilmenau. Author/Publisher URL
Herrmann, S., Ochoa, G., and Rothlauf, F. (2016). Coarse-Grained Barrier Trees of Fitness Landscapes. In J. Handl, E. Hart, P. R. Lewis, et al. (eds.), PPSN (Vols. 9921, pp. 901-910). Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Huschens, M., Müller, H., Rothlauf, F., and Schunk, D. (2016). Effects of Performance Transparency in E-Learning Applications: A Field Study in Primary Schools. Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik, Ilmenau.
Rothlauf, F. (2016). Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. In T. Friedrich, F. Neumann, A. M. Sutton (eds.), GECCO (Companion) (pp. 413-434). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Ernst, C.-P. H., and Scheurer, M. (2016). TV Series Characters Are Almost Like Friends to Me – The Influence of Perceived Belonging on TV Series Addiction. Dependence in/to TV Series, Nanterre.
Rothlauf, F., Wimmer, J., Ernst, C.-P. H., and Herrmann, S. (2016). Social Network Sites: The Influence of the Number of Friends on Social Capital. Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik, Ilmenau.
Seredynski, A., Grosche, T., and Rothlauf, F. (2016). Impact of timetable synchronisation on hub connectivity of European carriers. Journal of Airtransport Studies, 7(1), 71-94. Author/Publisher URL
Herrmann, S., Ochoa, G., and Rothlauf, F. Communities of Local Optima as Funnels in Fitness Landscapes. 325-331. DOI

2015

Rothlauf, F. (2015). Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms. Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 345-366. DOI
Ernst, C.-P. H. (2015). The Influence of Perceived Belonging on Social Network Site Usage. 29-44. DOI
Ernst, C.-P. H., Hock, C., Rothlauf, F. (2015). Proposing a Research Model for Slot Machine Usage. AMCIS 2015 PROCEEDINGS. Published. Author/Publisher URL
Ernst, C.-P. H., Pfeiffer, J., Rothlauf, F. (2015). Privacy Protecting Behavior in Social Network Sites. 57-81. DOI
Ernst, C.-P. H., Pfeiffer, J., Rothlauf, F. (2015). The Influence of Social Curiosity on the Observing Behavior of Users on Social Network Sites. AMCIS 2015 PROCEEDINGS. Published. Author/Publisher URL
Golle, U., Rothlauf, F., Boysen, N. (2015). Iterative beam search for car sequencing. Annals of operations research, 226(1), Seiten: 239-254. Author/Publisher URL
Herrmann, S., Rothlauf, F. (2015). Predicting Heuristic Search Performance with PageRank Centrality in Local Optima Networks. GECCO’15: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, 401-408. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Pfeiffer, J., Duzevik, D., Rothlauf, F., et al. (2015). An optimized design of choice experiments : a new approach for studying decision behavior in choice task experiments. Journal of behavioral decision making, 28(3), Seiten: 262-280. Author/Publisher URL
Probst, M., Rothlauf, F. (2015). Deep Boltzmann Machines in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization. CoRR, abs/1509.06535.
Probst, M., Rothlauf, F. (2015). Training a Restricted Boltzmann Machine for Classification by Labeling Model Samples. CoRR, abs/1509.01053.
Rothlauf, F. (2015). Design of Representations and Search Operators. In SPRINGER HANDBOOK OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (pp. 1061-1083). Author/Publisher URL
Thorhauer, A., Rothlauf, F. (2015). On the Bias of Syntactic Geometric Recombination in Genetic Programming and Grammatical Evolution. GECCO’15: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, 1103-1110. DOI Author/Publisher URL

2014

Rothlauf, F. (2014). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 323-344. DOI
Fink, A., Kliewer, N., Mattfeld, D., et al. (2014). Model-Based Decision Support in Manufacturing and Service Networks. BUSINESS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, 6(1), 17-24. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Fink, A., Kliewer, N., Mattfeld, D., et al. (2014). Modellbasierte Entscheidungsunterstützung in Produktions- und Dienstleistungsnetzwerken. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, 56(1), 21-29. DOI
Goertz, T., Pfeiffer, J., Schmidt, H., Rothlauf, F. (2014). Integrating keyword advertising and dynamic pricing for an online market place (D. Huisman, ed.; pp. Seiten: 145-152). Cham:Springer International Publishing.
Golle, U., Rothlauf, F., Boysen, N. (2014). Car sequencing versus mixed-model sequencing : a computational study. European journal of operational research, 237(1), Seiten: 50-61. Author/Publisher URL
Herrmann, S., Grahl, J., Rothlauf, F. (2014). Problem Complexity in Parallel Problem Solving. CoRR, abs/1403.6330.
Pfeiffer, J., Benbasat, I., Rothlauf, F. (2014). Minimally Restrictive Decision Support Systems. In M. D. Myers and D. W. Straub (eds.), ICIS. Association for Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL
Pfeiffer, J., Meißner, M., Brandstätter, E., et al. (2014). On the influence of context-based complexity on information search patterns : an individual perspective. Journal of neuroscience, psychology, and economics, 7(2), Seiten: 103-124. Author/Publisher URL
Probst, M., Rothlauf, F., Grahl, J. (2014). An Implicitly Parallel EDA Based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines. GECCO’14: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2014 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, 1055-1062. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Ernst, C.-P. H., Edel, K. (2014). Students’ Acceptance of ELearning Technologies: Combining the Technology Acceptance Model with the Didactic Circle. Americas Conference on Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Graf, N. (2014). Influencing supporters’ attitudes towards NGO-firm collaborations. Competitive paper session.
Rothlauf, F., Herrmann, S., Grahl, J. (2014). Problem Complexity in Parallel Problem Solving. International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Management of Social Networks and their Applications. Author/Publisher URL
Seredyński, A., Rothlauf, F., Grosche, T. (2014). An airline connection builder using maximum connection lag with greedy parameter selection. Journal of air transport management, 36, Seiten: 120-128. Author/Publisher URL
Thorhauer, A., Rothlauf, F. (2014). On the Locality of Standard Search Operators in Grammatical Evolution. PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE – PPSN XIII, 8672, 465-475. Author/Publisher URL

2013

Bläsi, C., and Rothlauf, F. (2013). On the interoperability of ebook formats. Brussels:European and international booksellers federation. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Ernst, C.-P. H., Pfeiffer, J., and Rothlauf, F. (2013). The Influence of Perceived Belonging on Social Network Site Adoption <i>Completed Research Paper</i>. AMCIS 2013 PROCEEDINGS. Published. Author/Publisher URL
Hielscher, M., Hartmann, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2013). Entwicklung eines Autorenwerkzeuges für digitale, multimediale und interaktive Lernbausteine im Web 2.0. In A. Breiter and C. Rensing (eds.), DeLFI: Vol. P-218 (pp. 203-214). GI. Author/Publisher URL
Hielscher, M., Hartmann, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2013). LearningApps.org: multimediale und interaktive Lernbausteine im Web 2.0. Computer & Unterricht, 2013(89), 42-45.
Rothlauf, F., Ernst, C.-P. H., and Pfeiffer, J. (2013). The Influence of Perceived Belonging on Social Network Site Adoption. AMCIS 2013 Proceedings. Americas Conference on Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL
Thorhauer, A., and Rothlauf, F. (2013). Structural difficulty in grammatical evolution versus genetic programming (C. Blum, ed.; pp. Seiten: 997-1004). New York, NY:ACM. Author/Publisher URL

2012

Graf, N. F. S., and Rothlauf, F. (2012). Firm-NGO collaborations. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 82(S6), 103-125. DOI
Rothlauf, F. (2012). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. Proceedings of the 14th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 873-894. DOI
Heimbach, I., Grahl, J., and Rothlauf, F. (2012). The effects of state-dependent human behavior on the design of a serial line. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 82(7-8), 745-762. DOI
Pfeiffer, J., Probst, M., Steitz, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2012). Inferring decision strategies from clickstreams in decision support systems: a new process-tracing approach using state machines. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 82(S4), 25-46. DOI
Steitz, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2012). Using penalties instead of rewards: Solving OCST problems with guided local search. SWARM AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 3, 46-53. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Steitz, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2012). Edge Orientation and the Design of Problem-Specific Crossover Operators for the OCST Problem. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 16(1), 108-116. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., and Ernst, C.-P. H. (2012). Potenzielle Erfolgsfaktoren von SaaS-Unternehmen (D. Mattfeld and S. Robra-Bissantz, eds.; pp. 587-598). GITO Verlag.
Rothlauf, F., and Ernst, C.-P. H. (2012). SaaS-Geschäftsmodelle: Alle gleich, alle verschieden? (D. Mattfeld and S. Robra-Bissantz, eds.; pp. 551-558). GITO Verlag.
Rothlauf, F., and Graf, N. (2012). Being Unfaithful or Staying True To Its Mission: How an NGO Can Influence Its Supporters. 38th European International Business Academy Annual Conference, Brighton.
Rothlauf, F., and Grahl, J. (2012). Social contagion: Seeding strategies under incomplete information (S. Aral, F. Provost, and A. Sundararajan, eds.).

2011

Rothlauf, F. (2011). Representations for evolutionary algorithms. Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 1191-1212. DOI
Boysen, N., Golle, U., Rothlauf, F. (2011). The car resequencing problem with pull-off tables. Business research, 4(2), Seiten: 276-292.
Derigs, U., Gottlieb, J., Kalkoff, J., et al. (2011). Vehicle routing with compartments : applications, modelling and heuristics. OR spectrum, 33(4), Seiten: 885-914. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2011). Design of Modern Heuristics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Nikolaeva, I., Grahl, J. (2011). The Effects of Human State-Dependent Behavior on Work Allocation in Serial Lines. 73. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
Rothlauf, F., Pfeiffer, J., Steitz, W., Probst, M. (2011). Inferring Decision Strategies from Clickstreams in Decision Support Systems: A new Process-Tracing Approach using State Machines. 73. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
Steitz, W., Rothlauf, F. (2011). Guided local search for the optimal communication spanning tree problem. Seiten: 51-52.
Woerle de Lima, T., Delbem, C. A., Rothlauf, F. (2011). Analysis of properties of recombination operators proposed for the node-depth encoding. Seiten: 137-138.

2010

Golle, U., Boysen, N., and Rothlauf, F. (2010). Analysis and design of sequencing rules for car sequencing. European journal of operational research, 206(3), Seiten: 579-585. Author/Publisher URL
Steitz, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2010). Solving OCST problems with problem-specific guided local search. Seiten: 301-302.

2009

Pfeiffer, J., Duzevik, D., Rothlauf, F., and Yamamoto, K. (2009). A genetic algorithm for analyzing choice behavior with mixed decision strategies. Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 1585-1592. DOI
Grahl, J., Minner, S., and Rothlauf, F. (2009). Decomposition of Dynamic Single-Product and Multi-product Lotsizing Problems and Scalability of EDAs. In A. Fink and F. Rothlauf (eds.), Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management (pp. 231-251). Berlin Heidelberg:Springer. DOI
Pfeiffer, J., Riedl, R., and Rothlauf, F. (2009). On the Relationship between Interactive Decision Aids and Decision Strategies: A Theoretical Analysis. In H. R. Hansen, D. Karagiannis, and H.-G. Fill (eds.), Wirtschaftsinformatik (2) (Vols. 247, pp. 161-176). Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2009). An encoding in metaheuristics for the minimum communication spanning Tree problem. INFORMS journal on computing, 21(4), Seiten: 575-584. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2009). On optimal solutions for the optimal communication spanning tree problem. Operations research, 57(2), Seiten: 413-425. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2009). On the bias and performance of the edge-set encoding. IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation, 13(3), Seiten: 486-499. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Giacobini, M., Brabazon, A., … Yang, S. (eds.). (2009). Applications of Evolutionary Computing (Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vols. 5484). Springer Science & Business Media.
Rothlauf, F., … Raidl, G. (eds.). (2009). GECCO-2009 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press.
Steitz, W., and Rothlauf, F. (2009). New insights into the OCST problem: Integrating Node Degrees and their Location in the Graph. Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation – GECCO ’09. Published. ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009). DOI

2008

Deibert, S., Heinzl, A., Rothlauf, F. (2008). The Impact Logic of Mobile Technology Usage on Job Production. In I. Benbasat and A. R. Montazemi (eds.), AMCIS (pp. 160-160). Association for Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL
Fink, A., … Rothlauf, F. (eds.). (2008). Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vols. 144). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F., Geisser, M., et al. (2008). Approaches to Collaborative Software Development. 2008 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 523-528. DOI
Lima, T. W. de, Rothlauf, F., Delbem, A. C. B. (2008). The node-depth encoding: analysis and application to the bounded-diameter minimum spanning tree problem. In C. Ryan and M. Keijzer (eds.), GECCO (pp. 969-976). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Pfeiffer, J., Golle, U., Rothlauf, F. (2008). Reference point based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for group decisions. In C. Ryan and M. Keijzer (eds.), GECCO (pp. 697-704). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Giacobini, M., Brabazon, A., … Yang, S. (eds.). (2008). Applications of Evolutionary Computing 2008 (Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vols. 4974). Springer Science & Business Media.
Steitz, W., Rothlauf, F. (2008). Orientation matters: how to efficiently solve ocst problems with problem-specific EAs. In C. Ryan and M. Keijzer (eds.), GECCO (pp. 563-570). ACM. Author/Publisher URL

2007

Geisser, M., Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F., Atkinson, C. (2007). An Evaluation Method for Requirements Engineering Approaches in Distributed Software Development Projects. International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), 39-39. DOI
Pfeiffer, J., Rothlauf, F. (2007). Analysis of greedy heuristics and weight-coded eas for multidimensional knapsack problems and multi-unit combinatorial auctions. Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 1529-1529. DOI
Beimborn, D., Fladung, R. B., Rothlauf, F. (2007). How to Configure Cost-optimal Procurement Consortia for Academic Libraries. In J. A. Hoxmeier and S. C. Hayne (eds.), AMCIS (pp. 316-316). Association for Information Systems. Author/Publisher URL
Berkling, K., Geisser, M., Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F. (2007). Offshore Software Development: Transferring Research Findings into the Classroom. In B. Meyer and M. Joseph (eds.), SEAFOOD (Vols. 4716, pp. 1-18). Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Birkhofer, A., Deibert, S., Rothlauf, F. (2007). Critical Success Factors for Mobile Field Service Applications: A Case Research. In A. Oberweis, C. Weinhardt, H. Gimpel, et al. (eds.), Wirtschaftsinformatik (1) (pp. 291-308). Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe. Author/Publisher URL
Bosman, P. A. N., Grahl, J., Rothlauf, F. (2007). SDR: a better trigger for adaptive variance scaling in normal EDAs. In H. Lipson (ed.), GECCO (pp. 492-499). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Bosman, P. A. N., Grahl, J., Rothlauf, F. (2007). SDR: A better Trigger for Adaptive Variance Scaling in normal EDAs. Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation – GECCO ’07, 492-499. DOI
Butter, T., Rothlauf, F., Grahl, J., et al. (2007). Genetic Algorithms for Finding Optimal Strategies for a Student’s Game. 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, 346-351. DOI
Geisser, M., Heinzl, A., Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F. (2007). Verteiltes, internetbasiertes Requirements-Engineering. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 49(3), Seiten: 199-207. Author/Publisher URL
Grosche, T., Rothlauf, F., Heinzl, A. (2007). Gravity models for airline passenger volume estimation. Journal of air transport management, 13(4), Seiten: 175-183. Author/Publisher URL
Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F., Heinzl, A. (2007). Approaches to collaborative software development. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, 49, 72-80. Author/Publisher URL
Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F., Heinzl, A. (2007). Ansätze zur kollaborativen Softwareerstellung. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 49(Sonderheft), Seiten: 72-80.
Pfeiffer, J., Rothlauf, F. (2007). Greedy Heuristics and Weight-Coded EAs for Multidimensional Knapsack Problems and Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions. In J. Kalcsics, S. Nickel (eds.), OR (pp. 153-158). Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2007). Design and Application of Metaheuristics [PhD Thesis].
Rothlauf, F. (2007). Konzeption und Implementierung eines Planungssystems für Schnittstellentests. In A. Oberweis, C. Weinhardt, H. Gimpel, et al. (eds.), Wirtschaftsinformatik (2) (pp. 483-500). Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Deibert, S. (2007). On the Bene t of Using Mobile Technologies in Business Processes (P. Cunningham and M. Cunningham, eds.; Issue Exploiting the Knowledge Economy – Issues, Applications, Case Studies, pp. 1721-1728). IOS Press.
Rothlauf, F., Giacobini, M., Brabazon, A., … Yang, S. (eds.). (2007). Applications of Evolutionary Computing (Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vols. 4448). Springer Science & Business Media.

2006

Butter, T., Deibert, S., Rothlauf, F. (2006). Using Private and Public Context – An Approach for Mobile Discovery and Search Services. In T. Kirste, B. König-Ries, K. Pousttchi, and K. Turowski (eds.), MMS: Vol. P-76 (pp. 144-155). GI. Author/Publisher URL
Butter, T., Rothlauf, F., Grahl, J., et al. (2006). Genetic algorithms and mixed integer linear programs for optimal strategies in a student’s “sports” activity. In M. Cattolico (ed.), GECCO (pp. 1853-1854). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Grahl, J., Bosman, P. A. N., Rothlauf, F. (2006). The correlation-triggered adaptive variance scaling IDEA. In M. Cattolico (ed.), GECCO (pp. 397-404). ACM. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2006). Representations for genetic and evolutionary algorithms (2. Aufl., p. 325 S.). Berlin u.a.:Springer.
Rothlauf, F., Oetzel, M. (2006). On the locality of grammatical evolution (P. Collet, ed.; pp. Seiten: 320-330). Berlin:Springer.
Rothlauf, F., Thierens, D. (2006). Guest editorial special section on analysis and design of representations and operators. Ieee transactions on evolutionary computation, 10(2), Seiten: 105-107. Author/Publisher URL
Zöller, A., Braubach, L., Pokahr, A., et al. (2006). Evaluation of a Multi-Agent System for Hospital Patient Scheduling. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, 1(4), 375-380.

2005

Rothlauf, F., Branke, J., Cagnoni, S., … Corne, D. W. (eds.). (2005). Applications of Evolutionary Computing Evoworkshops: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHot, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC (Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vols. 3449). Heidelberg:Springer Science & Business Media. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Grahl, J., Minner, S., and Rothlauf, F. (2005). Behaviour of UMDAc with truncation selection on monotonous functions. Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2553-2559. Author/Publisher URL
Reichelt, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2005). Reliable Communication Network Design with Evolutionary Algorithms. Int. J. Comput. Intell. Appl., 5, 251-266.
Reichelt, D., and Rothlauf, F. (2005). Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Zuverlässigkeit von Kommunikationsnetzwerken: Eine Studie zu exakten und approximativen Verfahren. In H. Federrath (ed.), Sicherheit: Vol. P-62 (pp. 89-100). GI. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (ed.). (2005). GECCO Workshop Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. ACM Press.
Rothlauf, F., and Tzschoppe, C. (2005). Making the edge-set encoding fly by controlling the bias of its crossover operator. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION, PROCEEDINGS, 3448, 202-212. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Schunk, D., and Pfeiffer, J. (2005). Classification of Human Decision Behavior: Finding Modular Decision Rules with Genetic Algorithms (H.-G. Beyer, ed.; pp. 2021-2028). ACM Press. DOI

2004

Grahl, J., and Rothlauf, F. (2004). PolyEDA: Combining estimation of distribution algorithms and linear inequality constraints. GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION – GECCO 2004, PT 1, PROCEEDINGS, 3102, 1174-1185. Author/Publisher URL
Reichelt, D., Rothlauf, F., and Gmilkowsky, P. (2004). Designing reliable communication networks with a genetic algorithm using a repair heuristic. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION, PROCEEDINGS, 3004, 177-187. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2004). OptiNet: Ein Optimierungswerkzeug für baumförmige Netzwerkprobleme (L. Suhl and S. Voß, eds.; pp. 15-34).
Rothlauf, F., and Heinzl, A. (2004). Gasteditorial. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 18, 4-4. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Paulussen, T. O., and Heinzl, A. (2004). Service – Applications of Software Agents. Künstliche Intell., 18, 42-42.
Rothlauf, F., Raidl, G. R., Cagnoni, S., … Squillero, G. (eds.). (2004). Applications of Evolutionary Computing (Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vols. 3005). Springer Science & Business Media.
Rothlauf, F., … Heinzl, A. (eds.). (2004). Application of Software Agents: Vol. 2/2004. arenaDTaP Verlag.
Tzschoppe, C., Rothlauf, F., and Pesch, H. J. (2004). The edge-set encoding revisited: On the bias of a direct representation for trees. GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION GECCO 2004 , PT 2, PROCEEDINGS, 3103, 258-270. Author/Publisher URL

2003

Rothlauf, F. (2003). On the locality of representations of Integers on the Performance of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms. GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION – GECCO 2003, PT II, PROCEEDINGS, 2724, 1608-1609.
Rothlauf, F. (2003). Population sizing for the redundant trivial voting mapping. GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION – GECCO 2003, PT II, PROCEEDINGS, 2724, 1307-1319. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., and David E. Goldberg. (2003). Redundant representations in evolutionary computation. Evolutionary computation, 11(4), Seiten: 381-415.
Schwind, M., Stockheim, T., and Rothlauf, F. Optimization heuristics for the combinatorial auction problem. The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2003. CEC ’03., 1588-1595. DOI

2002

Rothlauf, F. (2002). Binary Representations of Integers and the Performance of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms. In J. J. M. Guervós, P. Adamidis, H.-G. Beyer, et al. (eds.), PPSN (Vols. 2439, pp. 99-110). Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2002). Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vols. 104). Heidelberg:Springer. DOI Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2002). The Influence Of Binary Representations Of Integers On The Performance Of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms. In W. B. Langdon, E. Cantú-Paz, K. E. Mathias, et al. (eds.), GECCO (pp. 695-695). Morgan Kaufmann. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., Goldberg, D., and Heinzl, A. (2002). Network random keys : a tree network representation scheme for genetic and evolutionary algorithms. Evolutionary computation, 10(1), Seiten: 75-97.
Schindler, B., Rothlauf, F., and Pesch, H. J. (2002). Evolution strategies, network random keys, and the one-max tree problem. APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, 2279, 143-152. Author/Publisher URL

2001

Gaube, T., and Rothlauf, F. (2001). The link and node biased encoding revisited: Bias and adjustment of parameters. APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, 2037, 1-10. Author/Publisher URL
Grosche, T., Heinzl, A., and Rothlauf, F. (2001). A conceptual approach for simultaneous flight schedule construction with genetic algorithms. APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, 2037, 257-267. Author/Publisher URL
Paulussen, T. O., Rothlauf, F., and Heinzl, A. (2001). Konzeption eines Koordinationsmechanismus zur dezentralen Ablaufplanung in medizinischen Behandlungspfaden (MEDPACO). In H. U. Buhl, A. Huther, and B. Reitwiesner (eds.), Wirtschaftsinformatik (pp. 62-62). Physica Verlag / Springer. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F. (2001). Towards a Theory of Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms – Development of Basic Concepts and their Application to Binary and Tree Representations [PhD Thesis].
Rothlauf, F. (2001). Towards a theory of representations for genetic and evolutionary algorithms: development of basic concepts and their application to binary and tree representations.: Vol. D-2 (H. Beilner, H. Fiedler, O. Günther, et al., eds.; pp. 157-167). GI. Author/Publisher URL
Rothlauf, F., and Schmitt, F. (2001). On the Importance of the Second Largest Eigenvalue on the Convergence Rate of Genetic Algorithms (W. B. Langdon, ed.; pp. 559-564). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Rothlauf, F., Gottlieb, J., Julstrom, B., and Raidl, G. (2001). Prüfer Numbers: A Poor Representation of Spanning Trees for Evolutionary Search (W. B. Langdon, ed.; pp. 343-350). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

2000

Rothlauf, F., and Goldberg, D. E. (2000). Pruefer Numbers and Genetic Algorithms: A Lesson on How the Low Locality of an Encoding Can Harm the Performance of GAs. In M. Schoenauer, K. Deb, G. Rudolph, et al. (eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN VI (pp. 395-404). Heidelberg:Springer. DOI
Rothlauf, F., Goldberg, D. E., and Heinzl, A. (2000). Bad Codings and the Utility of Well-Designed Genetic Algorithms. In L. D. Whitley, D. E. Goldberg, E. Cantú-Paz, et al. (eds.), GECCO (pp. 355-364). Morgan Kaufmann. Author/Publisher URL

1999

Rothlauf, F. (1999). Tree Network Design with Genetic Algorithms – An Investigation in the Locality of the Pruefernumber Encoding. In S. Brave and A. S. Wu (eds.), Late Breaking Papers at the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 238-244). Orlando, Florida:.

1997

Rothlauf, F. (1997). Impulsverkürzung für die Maximum-Likelihood Sequenzschätzung und Mehrträgerübertragungsverfahren. [PhD Thesis].

1996

Rothlauf, F. (1996). Erweiterung eines Hochstrombrückengleichrichters [Undergraduate Dissertation].

Not dated

Bremser, C., Piller, G., and Rothlauf, F. How Smart Cities Explore New Technologies. Proceedings on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research – 18th International Conference, 1-15.
Grosche, T., and Rothlauf, F. Simultaneous Airline Scheduling. In Studies in Computational Intelligence (pp. 81-108). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. DOI
Reichelt, D., and Rothlauf, F. CURE: Eine Reparaturheuristik für die Planung ökonomischer und zuverlässiger Kommunikationsnetzwerke mit Hilfe von heuristischen Optimierungsverfahren. 283-294. DOI
Zielonka, J. T., Rothlauf, F., and Heigl, R. From Block to TOE: Analyzing Opportunities of Blockchain Technologies in the Automotive Industry. In 2022 IEEE/ACIS 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS). Author/Publisher URL

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