We’re happy to share that our team won the Best Poster Award at EvoStar 2025 in Trieste, Italy!
Our paper, “Was Tournament Selection All We Ever Needed? A Critical Reflection on Lexicase Selection”, took a fresh look at how we select individuals in genetic programming. We found that tournament selection, when combined with down-sampling, performs similar to lexicase selection while being more efficiently!
Thanks to Alina Geiger and Martin Briesch who represented us in Trieste and presented the poster.
You can check out the paper here if you’re curious about the details.
Congratulations to Clarissa Krämer (MSc.), Susanne Schmitt (MSc.), and Prof. Dr. Franz Rothlauf on receiving the Best Student Paper Award at the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, from May 19-21, 2025.
Their award-winning paper, "Using Machine Learning for the Fusion of Tumor Records on a Real-World Dataset" focuses on consolidating multiple records describing the same tumor into a single record for each tumor. They used an artificial neural network and compared its performance with that of a deterministic, rule-based approach. They used a tabular, real-world dataset that included colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer.
Key findings were that
- Artificial Neural Networks outperform the deterministic rule-based approach.
- The performance depends on the number of features and the distribution of data.
- The predictive performance increases with a lower number of categories within a variable and a more balanced dataset.
Read the paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40380540/
We are happy to announce our Sustainable Aviation Day as part of the Airline Strategies lecture on Friday, April 11, 2025.
Sustainability has become a major strategic challenge for the airline industry. High uncertainties regarding technological advancements and regulatory changes make long-term strategies and their financing increasingly complex.
At the event, internationally renowned experts from academia, finance, regulation and the industry will discuss:
- The role of science in developing sustainable aviation strategies.
- Policies related to sustainability in aviation.
- Whether there is a single best strategy for making aviation more sustainable.
The event will take place on Friday, April 11, 2025, starting at 9:00 AM (CEST) in room 00 135 RW 2 in ReWi I and online via Microsoft Teams as a hybrid series of one-hour online lectures.
Our special thanks go to Lufthansa Frankfurt, SMBC Aviation Capital Dublin, UCL London, Cirium Risk Data London, EU Commission – Directorate General Clima, Arena Aviation Capital Amsterdam, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - UC San Diego, Boeing Seattle and Impact on sustainable aviation e.V. Frankfurt am Main for their support in making this event possible.
We look forward to your participation.
Register until Tuesday, April 8, 2025 using the following link: https://zukunft.uni-mainz.de/sustanable-aviation/
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