Dr. Gunnar Völkel

Interests

Discrete Optimization / Combinatorial Optimization
Metaheuristics, e.g.:
- Ant Colony Optimization
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Simulated Annealing
Optimization problems in Logistics

Exercises for Praktische Algorithmen der Bioinformatik und Computerlinguistik mit Lisp (SS 2019)
Exercises for Einführung in die evolutionären Algorithmen (SS2019)
Exercises for Praktische Algorithmen der Bioinformatik und Computerlinguistik mit Lisp (SS 2018)
Software-Engineering Project: Semantic Feature Selection (SS 2017)
Exercises for Praktische Algorithmen der Bioinformatik und Computerlinguistik mit Lisp (SS 2017)
Project: Semantic Machine Learning (SS2016)
Software-Engineering Project: Semantic Feature Selection (SS 2016)
Software-Engineering Project: Semantic Feature Selection (SS 2015)
Project Algorithmen für Optimierungsprobleme (SS 2014)
Exercises for Praktische Algorithmen der Bioinformatik und Computerlinguistik mit Lisp (SS 2014)
Seminar Natur-inspirierte Algorithmen (WS 2013/2014)
Exercises for Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen (WS 2013/2014)
Exercises for Einführung in die Informatik (SS 2013)
Exercises for Kryptologie: Algorithmen und Methoden (SS 2013)
Exercises for Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen (WS 2012/2013)
Exercises for Praktische Algorithmen der Bioinformatik und Computerlinguistik mit Lisp (WS 2012/2013)

Gunnar Völkel, Sebastian Wiese, Karlheinz Holzmann, Johann M. Kraus, Fabian Schneider, Matthias Görlach, Hans A. Kestler: TraqBio - Flexible Progress Tracking for Core Unit Projects, PLoS ONE 11(9): e0162857, 2016.

Gunnar Völkel, Markus Maucher, Christoph Müssel, Uwe Schöning, and Hans A. Kestler: Information Theoretic Measures for Ant Colony Optimization, in Analysis of Large and Complex Data, A. F. X. Wilhelm and H. A. Kestler, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, S. 519–530, 2016.

Gunnar Völkel, Ludwig Lausser, Florian Schmid, Johann M. Kraus, Hans A. Kestler: Sputnik: ad hoc distributed computation, Bioinformatics, 31 (8), S. 1298-1301, 2015.

Gunnar Völkel, Markus Maucher, Uwe Schöning, Hans A. Kestler: Ant Colony Optimization with Group Learning, Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference, S. 57-64, ACM, 2014.

Gunnar Völkel, Markus Maucher, Hans A. Kestler: Group-Based Ant Colony Optimization, Proceedings of the fifteenth international conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference, S. 121-128, ACM, 2013.
Tobias Eibach, Gunnar Völkel, Enrico Pilz: Optimising Gröbner Bases on Bivium, Mathematics in Computer Science Vol. 3, 2008, S. 159-172. (Python Quellcode zur Verwendung mit SAGE)
Tobias Eibach, Gunnar Völkel: Optimising Gröbner Bases on Bivium, Proceedings of SCC’08—First International Conference on Symbolic Computation and Cryptography, S. 83–94. LMIB Beihang University (2008)
Tobias Eibach, Enrico Pilz, Gunnar Völkel: Attacking Bivium Using SAT Solvers, SAT 2008,Vol. 4996 Springer (2008), S. 63-76
Gunnar Völkel: Gröbner Bases in Cryptography, Diplomarbeit, 2009

Automated Design of Search Algorithms for Feature Set Ensembles, Statistical Computing 2016, Schloss Reisensburg, Günzburg, 20.07.2016

Parallel Algorithms with Sputnik, Statistical Computing 2015, Schloss Reisensburg, Günzburg, 21.07.2015

Information Theoretic Measures for Ant Colony Optimization, Second European Conference on Data Analysis 2014, Jacobs University, Bremen, 04.07.2014

Information Theoretic Measures for Strategy Evaluation in Ant Colony Optimization, Statistical Computing 2013, Schloss Reisensburg, Günzburg, 25.06.2013

Group-Based Ant Colony Optimization, GfKl 2012 - The 36th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery, Hildesheim, 01.08.2012

Group-Based Ant Colony Optimization, Statistical Computing 2012, Schloss Reisensburg, Günzburg, 27.06.2012

Gunnar Völkel, Johann M. Kraus, Hans A. Kestler: Algorithm Engineering with Clojure, European Lisp Symposium 2012, University of Zadar, Kroatien.
"Can ants solve optimization problems?", Talk at the annual meeting 2011 of the Graduate School, 17.02.2011
"Gutjahr's Convergence Proof (2002)", Talk, 13.08.2010
"Ant Colony Optimization - A survey of current research", Talk at Graduate School, 10.06.2010