modified: June, 25th 2007

Contact Information of Michael Affenzeller

Address & Affiliation

Prof. (FH) Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Michael Affenzeller
Head of Research Group, Scientific Director, Project Coordination & Management


Department of Software Engineering
Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences
Softwarepark 11
A-4232 Hagenberg
AUSTRIA

Phone:   +43 7236 3888 2031
Fax:   +43 7236 3888 2099
E-Mail:   michael.affenzeller@heuristiclab.com

 

Short Biography

1972:   born in Grieskirchen, Austria
1991 - 1997:   Studies in Industrial Mathematics (Mathematical Computer Science) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
October 1997:   MSc in Industrial Mathematics (Mathematical Computer Science)
1998:   Military Service at the Ostarrichi Kaserne Amstetten, Austria
1998 - 1999:   Designing Engineer at Voest Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Linz, Austria
1999 - 2004:   University Assistant at the Institute of Systems Science, Department of Systems Theory and Information Technology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
October 2001:   PhD in Computer Science
April 2002:   Foundation of Michael Affenzeller's Genetic Algorithms Research Group
since 2002:   Core developer of HeuristicLab
June 2004:   Habilitation in "Applied Systems Sciences with particlular regard to Heuristic Optimization" at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
2004 - 2005:   Assistant Professor at the Institute of Formal Models and Verification at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
since 11/2005:   Professor for Applied Computer Science at the Department of Software Engineering of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria

 

Research Interests

  • Heuristic Algorithms
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Algorithm Theory and Development
  • Production Planning and Logistics Optimization
  • Nonlinear Systems Identification
  • Structure Identification, Regression and Time Series
  • Heuristic Optimization Techniques in Bioinformatics / Chemoinformatics

 

Professional Activities

  • Workshop Organization
    • Simulation in Medicine (EMSS 2006, Barcelona, together with W. Jacak)
    • Heuristic Problem Solving (EUROCAST 2007, Las Palmas, together with S. Wagner)
    • Softcomputing and Modelling/Simulation (EMSS 2008, Briatico, together with W. Jacak)
    • Heuristic Problem Solving (EUROCAST 2009, Las Palmas, together with G. Raidl)
  • Reviewer for:
    • Journal of Heuristics
    • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
    • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
    • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
    • International Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
    • Annals of Operations Research
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
    • Dutch Technology Foundation (STW)
    • Several conferences such as GECCO, NIDISC, IWANN, IWINAC,...

 

Awards

July 2005:   Best Paper Award of the session "Management Information Systems" at WMSCI 2005 for the paper "Solving Multiclass Classification Problems by Genetic Programming"
July 2005:   Best Paper Award of the session "Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems" at WMSCI 2005 for the paper "SexualGA: Gender-Specific Selection for Genetic Algorithms" (pdf, ps, ps.gz)
April 2004:   Best Paper Award at EMCSR 2004 for the paper "Identifying Nonlinear Model Structures Using Genetic Programming Techniques" (pdf, ps, ps.gz)
October 2002:   Sparkassen-Kepler-Award for Dissertations 2002 for the Dissertation "New Hybrid Variants of Genetic Algorithms - Theoretical and Practical Aspects"

 

Publications

Michael Affenzeller's list of publications can be found here.