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The corona crisis is hitting the aviation industry on an unprecedented scale. How should airlines now react strategically to ensure the survival of the company? What impact does this crisis have on strategic decisions by international banks, which finance aircrafts? These and other questions will be addressed in the master seminar "Airline Strategies" in the winter semester 2020/2021 in cooperation with high-ranking industry partners.
The kick-off date for the master seminar will be on 02.11.2020 from 8.30 to 10 am and will take place as a hybrid solution. All interested students who have already registered for the seminar or would like to find out more about the seminar and content are invited to attend.
Please register for the information event until 29.10.2020 directly with Dr. Goedeking via email: pgoedeki@uni-mainz.de

The Download Center will be replaced by our new moodle group. From now on you will find in Moodle the materials provided by our chair for students, such as seminar topic list, schedules, documents for scientific work.

The seminar topics as well as the seminar schedules for the WiSe 2020/2021 are now also published there and the registration period for the master seminar has started. We are looking forward to your registrations.

Besides learning how to apply metaheuristics, the interactive 4-day VHB course deals with the following questions:

How to systematically choose among different metaheuristics based on the properties of the problem that should be solved?
How to systematically design efficient and high-performing metaheuristics?
How to consider problem-specific knowledge for the design of metaheuristics?

Read more on https://vhbonline.org/veranstaltungen/prodok/kurse-2020/2010or02

During the annual SIGEVO Executive Board meeting at Prague in July 2019 Franz Rothlauf was elected as Chair of SIGEVO. SIGEVO is the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. SIGEVO is the scientific community which sponsors the GECCO and FOGA conference series. The chair of SIGEVO is elected for two years. Before elected as SIGEVO chair, Franz served as treasurer for SIGEVO from 2011 to 2019. The photo shows the Executive Board of SIGEVO together with the GECCO 2019 organizers in Prague.

Dr. Adam Seredynski has successfully completed his Dr. rer. pol. on the topic “On the Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition in Connected Flight Networks” with his defense on 30.11.3018. We congratulate him for the great work and wish him continued success in his professional carrier.

Mr Seredynski studied in JGU in years 2006-2008 in cooperation with SGH Warsaw and completed his double degree with a diploma thesis on “The forecasting of the transfer passenger flows in the hubs of the German Lufthansa AG: FRA and MUC”. He started working as external PhD student in 2009 after joining airconomy GmbH&Co KG which he continued after the acquisition of airconomy by Amadeus. He submitted his thesis in 2017.

Franz Rothlauf was reelected as one of six new members of the executive committee of ACM SIGEVO. Franz will be in office for six years.

Continue reading "Franz Rothlauf reelected as member of the ACM SIGEVO Executive Committee"

In September 2014 three theses have been successfully completed at the chair of Information Systems and Business Administration.

Continue reading "Three outstanding doctoral theses at the chair of Information Systems and Business Admininstration – Congratulations"

Study confirms online sales are enhanced by social recommendations and determines the actual value of "likes"

When online retailers display customer recommendations next to their product descriptions, it can significantly increase the sales of these. This is the conclusion reached following a study undertaken by academics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt.

Continue reading "Facebook recommendations could be worth millions of euros"

Franz Rothlauf was re-elected as member of the editorial board of Evolutionary Computation Journal (http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/evco). ECJ is a leading journal in the field of evolutionary computation. In 2008, the journal had an impact factor of 3,0 ranking it 13th (out of 94) in the area "Computer science, artificial intelligence" and fifth (out of 85) in the area "Computer Science, theory and method" (source: Thomson).

Franz Rothlauf publishes a new book on the "Design of Modern Heuristics".

The book is published at Springer and provides an integrated view on modern heuristics. The following paragraphs provide a short summary of the book:

"Most textbooks on modern heuristics provide the reader with detailed descriptions of the functionality of single examples like genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Tabu search, simulated annealing, and others, but fail on teaching the underlying concepts behind all these
different approaches.

This book focuses on the users' needs and gives answers to three fundamental questions: First, it tells us for which types of problems modern heuristics are expected to perform well and which ones should be left to traditional optimization methods. Second, it teaches us how we can systematically design the ``right'' modern heuristic for a particular problem by providing a coherent view on design elements and working principles. Third, it shows us how we can make us of problem-specific knowledge for the design of efficient and effective modern heuristics that solve not only small toy problems but also perform well on large real-world problems.

The book is written in an easy-to-read style and aimed at students and practitioners who want to understand modern heuristics and are interested in a guide to their systematic design and use."

More information about the book can be found at
http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-540-72961-7
Parts of the book can be electronically accessed at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-72962-4#section=925019&page=1
Reviews of the book can be found at
http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-540-72961-7?detailsPage=reviews