2023
Towards Learning Rubik's Cube with N-tuple-based Reinforcement Learning Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.12167, 2023.
2022
The GBG Class Interface Tutorial V2.3: General Board Game Playing and Learning Technical Report
TH Köln 2022.
AlphaZero-Inspired Game Learning: Faster Training by Using MCTS Only at Test Time Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Games, 2022.
AlphaZero-Inspired Game Learning: Faster Training by Using MCTS Only at Test Time Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13307, 2022, (Preprint of the IEEE ToG 2022 paper).
2021
Final adaptation reinforcement learning for N-player games Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14375, 2021.
Surrogate-assisted optimization for augmentation of finite element techniques Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Science, vol. 54, S. 101427, 2021.
2020
Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games: The Importance of Final Adaptation Proceedings Article
In: Vasile, Massimiliano; Filipic, Bogdan (Hrsg.): 9th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications (BIOMA) , Bruxelles. Video (15 min) + slides available at https://youtu.be/OcpX7ITeH9w, 2020.
The GBG Class Interface Tutorial V2.2: General Board Game Playing and Learning Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining), Oct 2020.
Final Adaptation Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) 2020.
2019
General Board Game Playing for Education and Research in Generic AI Game Learning Proceedings Article
In: Perez, Diego; Mostaghim, Sanaz; Lucas, Simon (Hrsg.): IEEE Conference on Games, London, 2019.
SACOBRA with Online Whitening for Solving Optimization Problems with High Conditioning Technical Report
arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08397 2019.
Solving Optimization Problems with High Conditioning by Means of Online Whitening Proceedings Article
In: Lopez-Ibanez, Manuel (Hrsg.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2019 (GECCO'19), Prague, S. 243-244, ACM, 2019.
How to Solve the Dilemma of Margin-Based Equality Constraint Handling Methods Journal Article
In: at-Automatisierungstechnik, vol. submitted, 2019.
The GBG Class Interface Tutorial V2.0: General Board Game Playing and Learning Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) 2019.
2018
How to Solve the Dilemma of Margin-Based Equality Handling Methods Proceedings Article
In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke; Mikut, Ralf (Hrsg.): Proceedings - 28. Workshop Computational Intelligence, Dortmund, 29. - 30. November 2018, S. 257-270, KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-7315-0845-8, (**Young Author Award**).
2017
Comparing Kriging and Radial Basis Function Surrogates Proceedings Article
In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Hrsg.): Proceedings 27. Workshop Computational Intelligence, S. 243-259, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2017.
Constraint Handling in Efficient Global Optimization Proceedings Article
In: Bosman, Peter A. N. (Hrsg.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2017 (GECCO'17), Berlin, S. 1, ACM, 2017.
The GBG Class Interface Tutorial: General Board Game Playing and Learning Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, 2017, (e-print published at http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/ciopwebpub/Kone17a.d/TR-GBG.pdf).
Self-adjusting parameter control for surrogate-assisted constrained optimization under limited budgets Journal Article
In: Applied Soft Computing, vol. 61, S. 377-393, 2017, ISSN: 1568-4946.
2016
Online Selection of Surrogate Models for Constrained Black-Box Optimization Proceedings Article
In: Jin, Yaochu (Hrsg.): SSCI'2016, Athens, S. 1, IEEE, 2016, (**Best Student Paper Award**).
Equality Constraint Handling for Surrogate-Assisted Constrained Optimization Proceedings Article
In: Tan, Kay Chen (Hrsg.): WCCI'2016, Vancouver, S. 1924–1931, IEEE, 2016.
Online Adaptable Learning Rates for the Game Connect-4 Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, vol. 8, no. 1, S. 33-42, 2016, (accepted 11/2014).
2015
Solving the G-problems in less than 500 iterations: Improved efficient constrained optimization by surrogate modeling and adaptive parameter control Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 06/15; arXiv: 1512.09251, 2015, ISSN: 2191-365X, (e-print published at http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.09251).
SACOBRA: Self-Adjusting Constrained Black-Box Optimization with RBF Proceedings Article
In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Hrsg.): Proceedings 25. Workshop Computational Intelligence, S. 87-98, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2015, (**Young Author Award**).
A New Repair Method For Constrained Optimization Proceedings Article
In: Jiménez-Laredo, Juan Luis (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 17th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'15), 2015.
Efficient multi-criteria optimization on noisy machine learning problems Journal Article
In: Applied Soft Computing, vol. 29, S. 357-370, 2015.
The rCMA Tutorial: Examples for using CMA-ES in R Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, 2015.
2014
Online Adaptable Learning Rates for the Game Connect-4 Technical Report
CIplus no. TR 03/2014, 2014, (Preprint version of the article in IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 2016).
Constrained Optimization with a Limited Number of Function Evaluations Proceedings Article
In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Hrsg.): Proceedings 24. Workshop Computational Intelligence, S. 119–134, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2014, (**Young Author Award**).
2011
Ensemble-Based Modeling Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization andData Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Scienceand Engineering Science, no. 06/11, 2011, ISSN: 2191-365X.
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.
Noisy optimization with sequential parameter optimization and optimal computational budget allocation Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation, S. 119–120, ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0690-4.
Ensemble Based Optimization and Tuning Algorithms Proceedings Article
In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Hrsg.): Proceedings 21. Workshop Computational Intelligence, S. 119–134, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2011.
2010
Optimization of Biogas Production with Computational Intelligence -- A Comparative Study Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 03/10, 2010, ISSN: 2191-365X.
Optimizing Support Vector Machines for Stormwater Prediction Proceedings Article
In: Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas; Chiarandini, M.; Paquete, L.; Preuss, Mike (Hrsg.): Proceedings of Workshop on Experimental Methods for the Assessment of Computational Systems joint to PPSN2010, S. 47–59, TU Dortmund, 2010.
Optimization of Support Vector Regression Models for Stormwater Prediction Proceedings Article
In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Hrsg.): Proceedings 20. Workshop Computational Intelligence, S. 146–160, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2010.
Optimization of Biogas Production with Computational Intelligence -- A Comparative Study Proceedings Article
In: Fogel, Gary; others, (Hrsg.): Proc. 2010 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'10) within IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'10), Barcelona, Spain, S. 3606–3613, IEEE Press, Piscataway NJ, 2010.
2009
Optimized Modelling of Fill Levels in Stormwater Tanks Using CI-based Parameter Selection Schemes (in german) Journal Article
In: at-Automatisierungstechnik, vol. 57, no. 3, S. 155–166, 2009.
2008
Datenanalyse und Prozessoptimierung am Beispiel Kläranlagen Technical Report
Cologne University of Applied Sciences 2008.
2007
Datenanalyse und Prozessoptimierung für Kanalnetze und Kläranlagen mit CI-Methoden Proceedings Article
In: Mikut, Ralf; Reischl, Markus (Hrsg.): Proc. 17th Workshop Computational Intelligence, S. 132–138, Universitätsverlag, Karlsruhe, 2007.
2001
Revenue Management beim weltgrößten Reiseveranstalter: Der Kollege "Prognose" Journal Article
In: IS Report, Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Informationssysteme, vol. 10, 2001.
Revenue Management in liberalisierten Energiemärkten (White Paper) Technical Report
Thinking Networks AG Markt 45-47, D - 52062 Aachen, 2001.
Suchfeld
Towards Learning Rubik's Cube with N-tuple-based Reinforcement Learning Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.12167, 2023.
The GBG Class Interface Tutorial V2.3: General Board Game Playing and Learning Technical Report
TH Köln 2022.
AlphaZero-Inspired Game Learning: Faster Training by Using MCTS Only at Test Time Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Games, 2022.
AlphaZero-Inspired Game Learning: Faster Training by Using MCTS Only at Test Time Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13307, 2022, (Preprint of the IEEE ToG 2022 paper).
Final adaptation reinforcement learning for N-player games Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14375, 2021.
Surrogate-assisted optimization for augmentation of finite element techniques Journal Article
In: Journal of Computational Science, vol. 54, S. 101427, 2021.
Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games: The Importance of Final Adaptation Proceedings Article
In: Vasile, Massimiliano; Filipic, Bogdan (Hrsg.): 9th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications (BIOMA) , Bruxelles. Video (15 min) + slides available at https://youtu.be/OcpX7ITeH9w, 2020.
Self-Adjusting Surrogate-Assisted Optimization Techniques for Expensive Constrained Black Box Problems PhD Thesis
Leiden University and TH Köln, 2020, (PhD thesis, TH Köln dissertation price 2020).
The GBG Class Interface Tutorial V2.2: General Board Game Playing and Learning Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining), Oct 2020.
Final Adaptation Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games Technical Report
Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) 2020.