Intelligent Systems and Bio-Inspired Optimization
- When?
- Thursday 12 August 2010, 14:00 to 15:00
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Students, Staff
- Speaker:
- Dr Thomas Runkler, Affiliation: Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Corporate Research and Technologies, Munich, Germany
Dr Runkler will give a short overview of the research activities on intelligent systems at Siemens Corporate Technology. In this talk, particular focus will be given to bio-inspired optimization methods and their applications, including ant colony optimization, wasp swarm optimization, fuzzy decision making and fuzzy weighted aggregation. These methods will be illustrated on several real-world industrial applications, including delivery logistics, cash management, car manufacturing, communication networks, maintenance scheduling, and electronics assembly.
Thomas Runkler received his MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and became an associate professor for computer science at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2001. Since 1995 he has been working for Siemens Corporate Technology, currently in the position of the global technology leader for intelligent systems and control with about 100 employees located in Germany, USA, Russia, and India. Thomas authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific publications in the field of computational intelligence. His main research interests include fuzzy systems, cluster analysis, swarm intelligence, self-organization and control. He is a Vice Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Committee on Technology Transfer and speaker of the Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing group of the German Association for Computer Science (GI).