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20152021
most citedA new Taxonomy of Continuous Global Optimization Algorithms

123 citations · 262 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.AI2021

Underwater Acoustic Networks for Security Risk Assessment in Public Drinking Water Reservoirs

Jörg Stork, Philip Wenzel, Severin Landwein +8

We have built a novel system for the surveillance of drinking water reservoirs using underwater sensor networks. We implement an innovative AI-based approach to detect, classify an…

cs.NE2021★ 5 cited

Behavior-based Neuroevolutionary Training in Reinforcement Learning

Jörg Stork, Martin Zaefferer, Nils Eisler +3

In addition to their undisputed success in solving classical optimization problems, neuroevolutionary and population-based algorithms have become an alternative to standard reinfor…

cs.DC2020★ 28 cited

CAAI -- A Cognitive Architecture to Introduce Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical Production Systems

Andreas Fischbach, Jan Strohschein, Andreas Bunte +4

This paper introduces CAAI, a novel cognitive architecture for artificial intelligence in cyber-physical production systems. The goal of the architecture is to reduce the implement…

cs.NE2019★ 9 cited

Surrogate Models for Enhancing the Efficiency of Neuroevolution in Reinforcement Learning

Jörg Stork, Martin Zaefferer, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein +1

In the last years, reinforcement learning received a lot of attention. One method to solve reinforcement learning tasks is Neuroevolution, where neural networks are optimized by ev…

cs.NE2019★ 8 cited

Prediction of neural network performance by phenotypic modeling

Alexander Hagg, Martin Zaefferer, Jörg Stork +1

Surrogate models are used to reduce the burden of expensive-to-evaluate objective functions in optimization. By creating models which map genomes to objective values, these models…

cs.NE2019★ 1 cited

Improving NeuroEvolution Efficiency by Surrogate Model-based Optimization with Phenotypic Distance Kernels

Jörg Stork, Martin Zaefferer, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

In NeuroEvolution, the topologies of artificial neural networks are optimized with evolutionary algorithms to solve tasks in data regression, data classification, or reinforcement…

cs.NE2018★ 123 cited

A new Taxonomy of Continuous Global Optimization Algorithms

Jörg Stork, A. E. Eiben, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

Surrogate-based optimization, nature-inspired metaheuristics, and hybrid combinations have become state of the art in algorithm design for solving real-world optimization problems.…

cs.NE2018★ 1 cited

Distance-based Kernels for Surrogate Model-based Neuroevolution

Jörg Stork, Martin Zaefferer, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

The topology optimization of artificial neural networks can be particularly difficult if the fitness evaluations require expensive experiments or simulations. For that reason, the…

cs.NE2018★ 1 cited

Linear Combination of Distance Measures for Surrogate Models in Genetic Programming

Martin Zaefferer, Jörg Stork, Oliver Flasch +1

Surrogate models are a well established approach to reduce the number of expensive function evaluations in continuous optimization. In the context of genetic programming, surrogate…

stat.AP2015★ 86 cited

Comparison of different Methods for Univariate Time Series Imputation in R

Steffen Moritz, Alexis Sardá, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein +2

Missing values in datasets are a well-known problem and there are quite a lot of R packages offering imputation functions. But while imputation in general is well covered within R,…