Simon Fischer

email: postal address: RWTH Aachen Lehrstuhl für Informatik 1 Ahornstr. 55 D-52074 Aachen Germany office: Ahornstr. 55 Room ?? D - 52056 Aachen phone: +49 241 80 21104 gpg: download public key Fingerprint: D5A7 E6B3 AAF8 6F3E CAB2 C2D7 9C50 2BD2 3D45 6129

Research and Teaching

I am interested in

• Game Theory and Networks
• Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms (e.g. on the Ising model)
• Data Mining

I worked on

• Yale - Yet Another Learning Environment. Yale is a flexible, operator based environment for conducting data mining experiments. It is written in Java and distributed under the GPL. It was started as part of the Collaborative Research Center 531 "Computational Intelligence" and I worked on it when I was a student assistant at the AI unit in Dortmund.
• FreeHEP is a Java library designed for use in high energy physics and distributed under the LGPL. I worked on FreeHEP when I was a summer student at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) in 2001. FreeHEP is now mainly developed at SLAC (Stanford, US).

Teaching Assistance

• Winter 2005: Seminar Algorithmische Spieltheorie
• Summer 2005: Vorlesung Optimierung und Spieltheorie
• Summer 2004: Tutorial Effiziente Algorithmen und Komplexitätstheorie

Publications

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Simon Fischer and Berthold Vöcking: On the Evolution of Selfish Routing. In: Susanne Albers and Tomasz Radzik (editors): Proc. of the 12th European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), LNCS 3221, pages 323-334, Bergen, Norway, September 2004. Springer-Verlag. © Springer-Verlag
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  An extended version of this article is available as a technical report at the DELIS web server.
• Simon Fischer and Ingo Wegener: The Ising Model on the Ring: Mutation versus Recombination. In: Deb et al. (editors): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2004, LNCS 3102(1) pages 1113-1124, June 2004. Springer-Verlag. © Springer-Verlag
   (126 kB),  (578 kB), [abstract.txt] (993 bytes)
  An extended version of this article is available as a technical report at the web server of the Collaborative Research Center "Computational Intelligence".
• Simon Fischer: A Polynomial Upper Bound for a Mutation-Based Algorithm on the Two-Dimensional Ising Model. In: Deb et al. (editors): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2004, LNCS 3102, pages 1100-1112, June 2004. Springer-Verlag. © Springer-Verlag
   (143 kB),  (342 kB), [abstract.txt] (782 bytes)
  This article is also available as a technical report at the web server of the Collaborative Research Center "Computational Intelligence".

Thesis

• Simon Fischer: Evolutionäre Algorithmen für verallgemeinerte Ising-Modelle. Master's Thesis, Lehrstuhl für effiziente Algorithmen und Komplexitätstheorie, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, September 2003. (Includes gimmick! German only.)
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Technical reports and non-refereed conference papers

• Ingo Mierswa, Ralf Klinkberg, Simon Fischer, and Oliver Ritthoff: A Flexible Platform for Knowledge Discovery Experiments: YALE - Yet Another Learning Environment. In: LLWA 03 - Tagungsband der GI-Workshop-Woche Lernen - Lehren - Wissen - Adaptivität, 2003.
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• Oliver Ritthoff, Ralf Klinkenberg, Simon Fischer, and Ingo Mierswa: A Hybrid Approach to Feature Selection and Generation Using an Evolutionary Algorithm. In: John A. Bullinaria (editors): Proceedings of the 2002 U.K. Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-02), pages 147-154, Birmingham, UK, September 2002. University of Birmingham. (ISBN 0704423685)
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• Simon Fischer, Ralf Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa, and Oliver Ritthoff: Yale: Yet Another Learning Environment - Tutorial. Technical report, CI-136/02, Collaborative Research Center 531, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, June 2002. http://yale.sourceforge.net. (Go to the Yale homepage to find the latest version.)
   (819 kB),  (176 kB)
• Oliver Ritthoff, Ralf Klinkenberg, Simon Fischer, Ingo Mierswa, and Sven Felske: Yale: Yet Another Learning Environment. In: Ralf Klinkenberg, Stefan Rüping, Andreas Fick, Nicola Henze, Christian Herzog, Ralf Molitor, and Olaf Schröder (editors): LLWA 01 - Tagungsband der GI-Workshop-Woche Lernen - Lehren - Wissen - Adaptivität, number 763 of Forschungsberichte des Fachbereichs Informatik, Universität Dortmund, pages 84-92, Dortmund, Germany, October 2001. (ISSN 0933-6192)
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