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Contact Information of Michael Affenzeller
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Prof. (FH) Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Michael Affenzeller Head of research group, scientific direction, project coordination & management Department of Software Engineering Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences Softwarepark 11 A-4232 Hagenberg AUSTRIA
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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.