Practical Optimization Algorithm Design (实用算法设计)

1. WS 2010 (USTC, 中国科学技术大学): Lectures and Exercises (English)

Distributed Operating Systems (高级操作系统)

1. SS 2010 (USTC, 中国科学技术大学): Lectures and Exercises (English) (Access Restricted)

Operating Systems

1. WS 2008 (Uni Kassel): Exercises (German) (Access Restricted)
2. WS 2007 (Uni Kassel): Exercises (German) (Access Restricted)
3. WS 2006 (Uni Kassel): Exercises (German) (Access Restricted)
4. WS 2005 (Uni Kassel): Exercises (German) (Access Restricted)
5. WS 2004 (TU Chemnitz): Exercises (German)

Distributed Systems — Fundamental Algorithms

1. SS 2009 (Uni Kassel): Exercises (English) (Access Restricted)
2. SS 2008 (Uni Kassel): Exercises (English) (Access Restricted)
3. SS 2007 (Uni Kassel): Exercises (English) (Access Restricted)

Supervised Seminars

1. WS 2008 (Uni Kassel): KaSWoSDS'09 — Sicherheit in Verteilten System (English)
2. WS 2007 (Uni Kassel): KaSWoSDS'08 — Sicherheit in Verteilten System (English)
3. SS 2006 (Uni Kassel): Agenten und Autonome Systeme — Mobile Roboter als Beispiel Autonomer Systeme (German)

Supervised Theses

1. "Intelligente Planung und Optimierung des Güterverkehrs auf Straße und Schiene mit evolutionären Algorithmen", master's thesis by Alexander Podlich.
   This thesis has resulted in the following publications:
   • Solving Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems with Evolutionary Algorithms (chapter)
   • Evolutionary Freight Transportation Planning (paper)
   • Intelligente Wechselbrückensteuerung für die Logistik von Morgen (paper)
   • Optimierte Güterverkehrsplanung mit Evolutionären Algorithmen (article)
   See also the in.west page of my website including promotion videos of the project Alex worked on (or check the official in.west project page).
2. "Integration of Evolutionary (trained) Classifiers into Weka", bachelor's thesis by Christian Voigtmann.
   The following files are provided at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html#V2008DM:
   • thesis (pdf)
   • sources (zipped Java)
   • the executable (zipped jar)
   • test datasets (zipped text files)
3. "A Model Problem with Tunable Hardness for the Evaluation of Evolutionary Algorithms", master's thesis by Stefan Niemczyk.
   The following files are provided at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html#N2008MPMES:
   • thesis (pdf)
   • presentation (pdf)
   • the tunable model (Java)
   • complete source (zipped Java)
   • This thesis has resulted in the publication A Tunable Model for Multi-Objective, Epistatic, Rugged, and Neutral Fitness Landscapes (paper).

Supervised Projects

1. "A General Framework for Multi-Model Estimation of Distribution Algorithms": Stefan Niemczyk, 2009/2010
   The documents are provided at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html#NW2010AGFFMMEODA.
   • report (pdf)
   • demo (jar)
2. "Data Mining": Christian Voigtmann, Bernhard Grusie, and Mario Groß — Participation in the 2008 Data Mining Cup.
3. "Evaluierung verschiedener EA-Einstellungen an einem Modellproblem": Sigita Andrulyte in 2008
4. "Evolving Classifiers — Evolutionary Algorithms in Data Mining": Stefan Achler, Martin Göb, and Christian Voigtmann; Participation in the 2007 Data Mining Cup.
   The documents are provided at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html#WAGVZ2007DMC.
   • report (pdf)
   • summary (pdf)
5. "Erstellung einer grafischen Benutzeroberfläche für das DGPF": Mirko Dietrich, Lado Kumsiashvili in 2006.
   The documents are provided at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html#W2006DGPFo.
   • documents (pdf)
   • slides (pdf)
   • software (zipped Java)
6. "Implementierung von Simulated Annealing in einem DGPF": Marc Kirchhoff in 2006.
   The documents are provided at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html#W2006DGPFo (see the project above).
7. "Lösen mathematischer Funktionen und Sudokus mit Hilfe des DGPF": Stefan Niemczyk in 2006.
   The documents are provided at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html#W2006DGPFo (see the project above).

Getting started with optimization

An extracurricular teaching page which aims at providing students with some toy problems as food for thought for getting started with optimization. My summary on optimization algorithms Global Optimization Algorithms — Theory and Application may be of further aid to learn about the principles behind optimization and the available algorithms.