Jörg Zimmermann

Address	Institute of Computer Science III University of Bonn Römerstr. 164 53117 Bonn, Germany
Office	Room A 208
Phone	+49 228 73 4530
Fax	+49 228 73 4382
Email	jz@iai.uni-bonn.de

Research Interests

I am currently working on the foundations of machine learning and the application of evolutionary algorithms
to Real World learning problems. The search for foundations of machine learning leads to three main questions:

How should a learning system represent and process uncertain information, or, what is the proper inductive logic?

What set of possible explanations/models should the system consider?

How to balance evidence and complexity of explanations/models?

In the long run, the learning system should be able to detect all algorithmic definable regularities in a data stream.

Application Areas

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Analysis of Microarray Data
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Computational Finance
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Planning of Mobile Radio Networks
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Teaching

Summer Lecture 2008: Analysis of Microarray Data and Gene Co-Expression Networks

Lecture Slides (last updated: 2008-10-30 (results of resit))

The exam for this course will be on Wednesday, 2008-07-23, from 10:00 to 12:00, at Rheinsaal, B-IT.

The resit will be on Wednesday, 2008-10-01, from 10:00 to 12:00, at Marschallsaal, B-IT. (Only students who were registered for the first exam are admitted to the resit)

IPEC Winterschool 2008: Analyzing Microarray Data with Methods from Statistics and Machine Learning

Kickoff-Meeting (Vorbesprechung)

Literature for talks

Background-Literature:

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman:

The Elements of Statistical Learning, Springer, 2001

Sandrine Dudoit, Jane Fridlyand, Terence P. Speed:

Comparison of Discrimination Methods for the Classification of Tumors Using Gene Expression Data

Lunch Seminar on June 12, 2008

An Overview of Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis

Professor Steve Horvath, PhD, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, School of Public Health, University of California, USA

Slides of the talk

Publications

Jörg Zimmermann, Robin Höns, Heinz Mühlenbein:

From Theory to Practice: An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Antenna Placement Problem

Advances in Evolutionary Computation

Jörg Zimmermann, Robin Höns, Heinz Mühlenbein:

ENCON: An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Antenna Placement Problem

Computers & Industrial Engineering

Frank Schweitzer, Jörg Zimmermann, Heinz Mühlenbein:

Coordination of Decisions in a spatial agent model

Physica A

Frank Schweitzer, Jörg Zimmermann:

Communication and Self-Organisation in Complex Systems: A Basic Approach

Knowledge, Complexity and Innovation Systems,

Heinz Mühlenbein, Jörg Zimmermann:

Size of Neighborhood More Important than Temperature for Stochastic Local Search

Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC),

Jörg Zimmermann, Robin Höns, Heinz Mühlenbein:

The Antenna Placement Problem - An Evolutionary Approach

8th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems,