Publications

@inproceedings{Konen20b,

title = {Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games: The Importance of Final Adaptation},

author = {Wolfgang Konen and Samineh Bagheri},

editor = {Massimiliano Vasile and Bogdan Filipic },

url = {https://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/ciopwebpub/Konen20b.d/bioma20-TDNTuple.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-10-01},

urldate = {2020-10-01},

booktitle = {9th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications (BIOMA)

},

address = {Bruxelles. Video (15 min) + slides available at https://youtu.be/OcpX7ITeH9w},

keywords = {CI, Game Learning, general game playing, learning, optimization, reinforcement learning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Konen19b,

title = {General Board Game Playing for Education and Research in Generic AI Game Learning},

author = {Wolfgang Konen},

editor = {Diego Perez and Sanaz Mostaghim and Simon Lucas},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06508},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-20},

booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Games},

address = {London},

keywords = {CI, Game Learning, general game playing, learning, optimization, reinforcement learning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bagh19c,

title = {Solving Optimization Problems with High Conditioning by Means of Online Whitening},

author = {Samineh Bagheri and Wolfgang Konen and Thomas Bäck},

editor = {Manuel Lopez-Ibanez},

url = {http://blogs.gm.fh-koeln.de/ciop/files/2019/07/GECCO2019.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-07-01},

booktitle = {Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2019 (GECCO'19), Prague},

pages = {243-244},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {CI, constraints, MONREP, optimization, SACOBRA, surrogate models},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bagh17c,

title = {Comparing Kriging and Radial Basis Function Surrogates},

author = {Samineh Bagheri and Wolfgang Konen and Thomas Bäck},

editor = {Frank Hoffmann and Eyke Hüllermeier},

url = {https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000074341},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-11-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings 27. Workshop Computational Intelligence},

pages = {243-259},

publisher = {Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe},

keywords = {CI, constraints, Kriging, MONREP, optimization, surrogate models},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bagh17a,

title = {Constraint Handling in Efficient Global Optimization},

author = { Samineh Bagheri and Wolfgang Konen and Richard Allmendinger and Jürgen Branke and Kalyanmoy Deb and Jonathan Fieldsend and Domenico Quagliarella and Karthik Sindhya},

editor = {Bosman, Peter A. N.},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~konen/Publikationen/Bagh17-GECCO.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-07-01},

booktitle = {Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2017 (GECCO'17), Berlin},

pages = {1},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {CI, constraints, Kriging, MONREP, optimization, surrogate models},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bagh16c,

title = {Online Selection of Surrogate Models for Constrained Black-Box Optimization},

author = {Samineh Bagheri and Wolfgang Konen and Thomas Bäck},

editor = {Yaochu Jin},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~konen/Publikationen/Bagh16-SSCI.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-12-01},

booktitle = {SSCI'2016, Athens},

pages = {1},

publisher = {IEEE},

note = {**Best Student Paper Award**},

keywords = {CI, constraints, ensemble, MONREP, optimization},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bagh16a,

title = {Equality Constraint Handling for Surrogate-Assisted Constrained Optimization},

author = { Samineh Bagheri and Wolfgang Konen and Thomas Bäck},

editor = {Tan, Kay Chen},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~konen/Publikationen/Bagh16-WCCI.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-07-01},

booktitle = {WCCI'2016, Vancouver},

pages = { 1924--1931},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {CI, constraints, MONREP, optimization},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bagh15b,

title = {SACOBRA: Self-Adjusting Constrained Black-Box Optimization with RBF},

author = { Samineh Bagheri and Wolfgang Konen and Christophe Foussette and Peter Krause and Thomas Bäck and Patrick Koch},

editor = {Hoffmann, Frank and Hüllermeier, Eyke},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~konen/Publikationen/Bagh15-GMA-CI.pdf},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-11-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings 25. Workshop Computational Intelligence},

pages = {87-98},

publisher = {Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe},

note = {**Young Author Award**},

keywords = {CI, constraints, MONREP, optimization},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Thil14,

title = {Temporal Difference Learning with Eligibility Traces for the Game Connect-4},

author = { Markus Thill and Samineh Bagheri and Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen},

editor = {Preuss, Mike and Rudolph, Günther},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~konen/Publikationen/ThillCIG2014.pdf},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {CIG'2014, International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games, Dortmund},

pages = {84 -- 91},

keywords = {CI, Game Learning, learning, reinforcement learning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Thil12,

title = {Reinforcement learning with n-tuples on the game Connect-4},

author = { Markus Thill and Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen},

editor = {Coello Coello, Carlos and Cutello, Vincenzo and others},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/ciopwebpub/Thi12.d/Thil12.pdf},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-09-01},

booktitle = {PPSN'2012: 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Taormina},

pages = {184--194},

publisher = {Springer},

address = {Heidelberg},

keywords = {CI, Game Learning, learning, reinforcement learning, SOMA},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bart11b,

title = {Noisy optimization with sequential parameter optimization and optimal computational budget allocation},

author = { Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Martina Friese and Martin Zaefferer and Boris Naujoks and Oliver Flasch and Wolfgang Konen and Patrick Koch},

url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2001858.2001926},

doi = {10.1145/2001858.2001926},

isbn = {978-1-4503-0690-4},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation},

pages = {119--120},

publisher = {ACM},

address = {Dublin, Ireland},

series = {GECCO '11},

keywords = {CI, optimization, parameter tuning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Frie11a,

title = {Ensemble Based Optimization and Tuning Algorithms},

author = { Martina Friese and Martin Zaefferer and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Oliver Flasch and Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen and Boris Naujoks},

editor = {Hoffmann, Frank and Hüllermeier, Eyke},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings 21. Workshop Computational Intelligence},

pages = {119--134},

publisher = {Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe},

keywords = {CI, ensemble, optimization, parameter tuning, TDMR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Flas10e,

title = {Comparing SPO-tuned GP and NARX prediction models for stormwater tank fill level prediction},

author = { Oliver Flasch and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Artur Davtyan and Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen and Tosin Daniel Oyetoyan and Michael Tamutan},

editor = {Fogel, Gary and others},

doi = {10.1109/CEC.2010.5586172},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Congress Evolutionary Computation (CEC)},

pages = {1579--1586},

keywords = {CI, GP, parameter tuning, SPOT},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Flas10f,

title = {Clustering Based Niching for Genetic Programming in the R Environment},

author = { Oliver Flasch and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen},

editor = {Hoffmann, Frank and Hüllermeier, Eyke},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings 20. Workshop Computational Intelligence},

pages = {33--46},

publisher = {Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe},

keywords = {CI, GP},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Koch10b,

title = {Optimizing Support Vector Machines for Stormwater Prediction},

author = { Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen and Oliver Flasch and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein},

editor = {Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas and Chiarandini, M. and Paquete, L. and Preuss, Mike},

url = {ls11-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/_media/techreports/tr10-07.pdf},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of Workshop on Experimental Methods for the Assessment of Computational Systems joint to PPSN2010},

number = {TR10-2-007},

pages = {47--59},

address = {TU Dortmund},

keywords = {CI, optimization, parameter tuning, SOMA, SVM, TDMR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Koch10c,

title = {Optimization of Support Vector Regression Models for Stormwater Prediction},

author = { Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen and Oliver Flasch and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein},

editor = {Hoffmann, Frank and Hüllermeier, Eyke},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings 20. Workshop Computational Intelligence},

pages = {146--160},

publisher = {Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe},

keywords = {CI, optimization, parameter tuning, SOMA, SVM, TDMR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Zieg10b,

title = {Optimization of Biogas Production with Computational Intelligence -- A Comparative Study},

author = { Jörg Ziegenhirt and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Oliver Flasch and Wolfgang Konen and Martin Zaefferer},

editor = {Fogel, Gary and others},

doi = {10.1109/CEC.2010.5586509},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

booktitle = {Proc. 2010 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'10) within IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'10), Barcelona, Spain},

pages = {3606--3613},

publisher = {IEEE Press},

address = {Piscataway NJ},

keywords = {CI, optimization, parameter tuning, SPOT},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Flas09a,

title = {Genetic Programming Applied to Predictive Control in Environmental Engineering},

author = { Oliver Flasch and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Patrick Koch and Wolfgang Konen},

editor = {Hoffmann, Frank and Hüllermeier, Eyke},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings 19. Workshop Computational Intelligence},

pages = {101--113},

publisher = {KIT Scientific Publishing},

address = {Karlsruhe},

keywords = {CI, GP},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Kone09a,

title = {Reinforcement learning for games: failures and successes -- CMA-ES and TDL in comparision},

author = { Wolfgang Konen and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~konen/Publikationen/evo-reinforce-GECCO2009.pdf},

doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1570256.1570375},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {GECCO '09: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference},

pages = {2641--2648},

publisher = {ACM},

address = {Montreal, Québec, Canada},

keywords = {CI, CMA, Game Learning, learning, reinforcement learning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Kone08a,

title = {Reinforcement Learning: Insights from Interesting Failures in Parameter Selection},

author = { Wolfgang Konen and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein},

editor = {Rudolph, Günter and others},

url = {http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~konen/Publikationen/ppsn2008.pdf},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-09-01},

booktitle = {PPSN'2008: 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Dortmund},

pages = {478--487},

publisher = {Springer},

address = {Berlin},

keywords = {CI, Game Learning, learning, reinforcement learning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bart08c,

title = {Parameterselektion für komplexe Modellierungsaufgaben der Wasserwirtschaft -- Moderne CI-Verfahren zur Zeitreihenanalyse},

author = { Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Tobias Zimmer and Wolfgang Konen},

editor = {Mikut, Ralf and Reischl, Markus},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

booktitle = {Proc. 18th Workshop Computational Intelligence},

pages = {136--150},

publisher = {Universitätsverlag, Karlsruhe},

keywords = {CI, parameter tuning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Konen20b,

title = {Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games: The Importance of Final Adaptation},

author = {Wolfgang Konen and Samineh Bagheri},

editor = {Massimiliano Vasile and Bogdan Filipic },

url = {https://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/ciopwebpub/Konen20b.d/bioma20-TDNTuple.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-10-01},

urldate = {2020-10-01},

booktitle = {9th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications (BIOMA)

},

address = {Bruxelles. Video (15 min) + slides available at https://youtu.be/OcpX7ITeH9w},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Konen19b,

title = {General Board Game Playing for Education and Research in Generic AI Game Learning},

author = {Wolfgang Konen},

editor = {Diego Perez and Sanaz Mostaghim and Simon Lucas},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06508},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-20},

booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Games},

address = {London},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Bagh19c,

title = {Solving Optimization Problems with High Conditioning by Means of Online Whitening},

author = {Samineh Bagheri and Wolfgang Konen and Thomas Bäck},

editor = {Manuel Lopez-Ibanez},

url = {http://blogs.gm.fh-koeln.de/ciop/files/2019/07/GECCO2019.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-07-01},

booktitle = {Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2019 (GECCO'19), Prague},

pages = {243-244},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}