Systematical Optimization of Models in Automation and IT

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This BMBF-sponsored project was conducted in 2009-2013. Project partner were Leiden University, NL, University Bochum, Nurogames GmbH, Cologne and  divis GmbH, Dortmund.
Systematic optimization of models for complex applications in IT and automation, here with the goal of forecasting and optimal control of plants or processes, is the topic of this project. It poses still a great challenge for the practioner in computer science or engineering. In many cases it is not alone a problem of the right model parametrization, but also a task of intelligent data preprocessing and data selection. Here the project SOMA aims at developing and offering new solutions and tools.
Under the umbrella of SOMA several sub-projects were undertaken:  Tuned data mining (TDMR), gesture recognition, reinforcement learning for strategic games, intelligent methods for feature generation like slow feature analysis (SFA) or n-tuple systems. 
Topics: Applied computer science, modeling, simulation, learning system, computational intelligence (evolutionary algorithms, neural networks), data mining.

Publications SOMA

2018

Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick

The TDMR 2.0 Package: Tuned Data Mining in R Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 02/2018, 2018, (Last update: April 2018 (original version: 2012)).

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Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick

The TDMR 2.0 Tutorial: Examples for Tuned Data Mining in R Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 03/2018, 2018, (Last update: April 2018 (original version: 2012)).

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2015

Stork, Jörg; Ramos, Ricardo; Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang

SVM ensembles are better when different kernel types are combined Book Section

In: Lausen, Berthold; Krolak-Schwerdt, Sabine (Ed.): Data Science, Learning by Latent Structures, and Knowledge Discovery, pp. 191–201, Springer, 2015.

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2013

Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang

Subsampling strategies in SVM ensembles Proceedings Article

In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Ed.): Proceedings 23. Workshop Computational Intelligence, pp. 119–134, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2013.

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Stork, Jörg; Ramos, Ricardo; Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang

SVM ensembles are better when different kernel types are combined Proceedings Article

In: Lausen, Berthold (Ed.): European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA13), GfKl, 2013.

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2012

Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick

The TDMR Package: Tuned Data Mining in R Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 02/2012, 2012, (Last update: June 2017).

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Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick

The TDMR Tutorial: Examples for Tuned Data Mining in R Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 03/2012, 2012, (Last update: May, 2016).

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Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang

Efficient sampling and handling of variance in tuning data mining models Proceedings Article

In: Coello Coello, Carlos; Cutello, Vincenzo; others, (Ed.): PPSN'2012: 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Taormina, pp. 195–205, Springer, Heidelberg, 2012.

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Thill, Markus; Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang

Reinforcement learning with n-tuples on the game Connect-4 Proceedings Article

In: Coello Coello, Carlos; Cutello, Vincenzo; others, (Ed.): PPSN'2012: 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Taormina, pp. 184–194, Springer, Heidelberg, 2012.

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Koch, Patrick; Bischl, Bernd; Flasch, Oliver; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas; Weihs, Claus; Konen, Wolfgang

Tuning and Evolution of Support Vector Kernels Journal Article

In: Evolutionary Intelligence, vol. 5, pp. 153–170, 2012.

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2011

Konen, Wolfgang

Der SFA-Algorithmus für Klassifikation Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 08/11, 2011, ISSN: 2191-365X.

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Konen, Wolfgang

SFA classification with few training data: Improvements with parametric bootstrap Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 09/11, 2011, ISSN: 2191-365X.

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Koch, Patrick; Bischl, Bernd; Flasch, Oliver; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas; Konen, Wolfgang

On the Tuning and Evolution of Support Vector Kernels Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Scienceand Engineering Science, no. 04/11, 2011, ISSN: 2191-365X.

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Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick; Flasch, Oliver; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas; Friese, Martina; Naujoks, Boris

Tuned Data Mining: A Benchmark Study on Different Tuners Technical Report

Cologne University of Applied Sciences no. 03/11, 2011.

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Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang; Naujoks, Boris; Flasch, Oliver; Friese, Martina; Zaefferer, Martin; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas

Tuned Data Mining in R Proceedings Article

In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Ed.): Proceedings 21. Workshop Computational Intelligence, pp. 147–160, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2011.

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Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick; Flasch, Oliver; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas; Friese, Martina; Naujoks, Boris

Tuned Data Mining: A Benchmark Study on Different Tuners Proceedings Article

In: Krasnogor, Natalio (Ed.): GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Genetic andEvolutionary Computation, pp. 1995–2002, 2011.

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Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick

The slowness principle: SFA can detect different slow components in nonstationary time series Journal Article

In: International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (IJICA), vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 3–10, 2011.

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2010

Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang; Hein, Kristine

Gesture Recognition on Few Training Data using Slow Feature Analysis and Parametric Bootstrap Proceedings Article

In: 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2010.

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Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang; Flasch, Oliver; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas

Optimizing Support Vector Machines for Stormwater Prediction Proceedings Article

In: Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas; Chiarandini, M.; Paquete, L.; Preuss, Mike (Ed.): Proceedings of Workshop on Experimental Methods for the Assessment of Computational Systems joint to PPSN2010, pp. 47–59, TU Dortmund, 2010.

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Koch, Patrick; Konen, Wolfgang; Flasch, Oliver; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas

Optimization of Support Vector Regression Models for Stormwater Prediction Proceedings Article

In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Ed.): Proceedings 20. Workshop Computational Intelligence, pp. 146–160, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2010.

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Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick; Flasch, Oliver; Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas

Parameter-Tuned Data Mining: A General Framework Proceedings Article

In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Ed.): Proceedings 20. Workshop Computational Intelligence, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2010.

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Konen, Wolfgang; Koch, Patrick

How slow is slow? SFA detects signals that are slower than the driving force Proceedings Article

In: Filipic, Bogdan; Silc, Juri (Ed.): Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications, BIOMA, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2010.

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Hein, Kristine

Gestenerkennung mit Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) - Klassifizierung von beschleunigungsbasierten 3D-Gesten des Wii-Controllers Masters Thesis

TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences, 2010, (Master thesis, 3rd prize in Opitz award 2011).

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2009

Konen, Wolfgang

How slow is slow? SFA detects signals that are slower than the driving force Technical Report

Cologne University of Applied Sciences no. 05/09, 2009, (e-print published at http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4397).

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Konen, Wolfgang

On the numeric stability of the SFA implementation sfa-tk Technical Report

Cologne University of Applied Sciences no. 05/10, 2009, (e-print published at http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1064).

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