Univ.-Prof. Dr.Franz Rothlauf
Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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- Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
BIO
Franz Rothlauf received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany, a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and a Habilitation from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 1997, 2001, and 2007, respectively.
Since 2007, he is professor of Information Systems at the University of Mainz. He has published more than 120 technical papers in the context of planning and optimization, evolutionary computation, e-business, and software engineering, co-edited several conference proceedings and edited books, and is author of the books "Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms" and "Design of Modern Heuristics". At the University Mainz, he is Academic Co-Director of the Gutenberg School of Business (since 2013) and Chief Information Officer (since 2016).
His main research interests are the application of modern heuristics in planning and optimization systems. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) and ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (TELO). Since 2007, he is member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGEVO. He was treasurer of ACM SIGEVO from 2011 to 2019. Since 2019, he serves as chair for ACM SIGEVO. He was general chair of GECCO 2009.
Since 2007, he is professor of Information Systems at the University of Mainz. He has published more than 120 technical papers in the context of planning and optimization, evolutionary computation, e-business, and software engineering, co-edited several conference proceedings and edited books, and is author of the books "Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms" and "Design of Modern Heuristics". At the University Mainz, he is Academic Co-Director of the Gutenberg School of Business (since 2013) and Chief Information Officer (since 2016).
His main research interests are the application of modern heuristics in planning and optimization systems. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) and ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (TELO). Since 2007, he is member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGEVO. He was treasurer of ACM SIGEVO from 2011 to 2019. Since 2019, he serves as chair for ACM SIGEVO. He was general chair of GECCO 2009.