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In July 2024, Franz Rothlauf has been awarded with the ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award. The awards goes to Professor Rothlauf in recognition of his fundamental and influential research on solution representations in evolutionary computation and of his extraordinary servie to ACM SIGEVO. The awards carries a monetary value of $1,000 and a plaque contributed by SIGEVO.

Further details on this prestigious award can be found at https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=ACM%20SIGEVO%20Outstanding%20Contribution%20Award

In acknowledgement of his accomplishments in education and science, the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, has awarded Dr. Philipp Goedeking the honorary professorship at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) upon the proposal of the Faculty of Law, Management and Economics. On Friday, 29 October 2021, Dr. Goedeking was solemnly handed over the certificate of appointment at the Presidential Office of the JGU.

Since the summer semester of 2015, Dr. Goedeking has been offering the lecture "Airline Strategies", which is complemented by seminars and project theses at the graduate level.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Goedeking, a highly renowned and respected expert in the aviation industry, as an honorary professor at the faculty.

Until 10.08.2021 students can register for the master seminar at our chair. The current list of topics as well as the schedule including information on registration can be found in our Moodle group https://lms.uni-mainz.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=20604 .

For general or organizational questions you can contact Ms. Zielonka (j.zielonka[at]uni-mainz.de). For questions on specific topics, please contact the respective supervisor directly. We appreciate your interest.

Recent Publications

Röchner, 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. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 215-222). Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI
Boldi, R., Bao, A., Briesch, M., et al. (2024). A Comprehensive Analysis of Down-sampling for Genetic Programming-based Program Synthesis. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 487-490. DOI
Briesch, M., Boldi, R., Sobania, D., et al. (2024). Improving Lexicase Selection with Informed Down-Sampling. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 25-26. DOI

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Books

Franz Rothlauf (2011): Design of Modern Heuristics

Franz Rothlauf (2006): Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms

Andreas Fink, Franz Rothlauf (2009): Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management

GECCO '09: Proceedings

Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2009

Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2008

Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2007

Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2006

Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2005

Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2004