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Anthony Stein, M.Sc.

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Wiss. Mitarbeiter

E-Mail: anthony.stein@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
Telefon: +49 821 598 - 46 28
Fax: +49 821 598 - 46 27
Raum: 503
Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung
Hausanschrift: Eichleitnerstr. 30
86159 Augsburg


RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research is mainly concerned with the enhancement of Learning Classifier Systems (LCS), a family of evolutionary rule-based online machine learning algorithms, and their application to intelligent, i.e., self-learning adaptive systems. In this context, I pursue the mission of revealing the strong potentials underlying this unique learning paradigm, i.e., their inherent ability to self-adapt to continuing change while at the same time evolving an explainable and interpretable knowledge base. In order to adequately counteract occurring knowledge gaps detected during the productive runtime, I am augmenting intelligent systems to equip them with more robust means to (1) reactively bridge such gaps via knowledge transduction approaches, and, (2) proactively constructing new knowledge, e.g., via Active Learning techniques.  

Beside my research focus, I'm also very interested in:

  • Further Evolutionary Machine Learning techniques (GP, Neuroevolution, etc.)
  • (Deep) Reinforcement Learning
  • Knowledge transfer & extraction from black box models
  • Artificial Intelligence in general, esp. Machine Learning and its unsolved challenges
  • Design of Organic, Autonomic and general Self-* Systems

PUBLICATIONS:

Please follow this link to my publication page

TEACHING:

  • Summer 2019 Lecture: Organic Computing II (Master)
  • Winter 2018 Lecture: Fundamentals of Organic Computing/Grundlagen des Organic Computing (Bachelor)
  • Summer 2018 Seminars: Nature-inspired Algorithms and Multiagent Systems/Naturanaloge Algorithmen und Multiagentensysteme (Master) & Self-Organisation in Distributed Systems/Selbstorganisation in verteilten Systemen (Bachelor)
  • Winter 2017 Lab/Lecture (p.p.): Fundamentals of Organic Computing/Grundlagen des Organic Computing (Bachelor)
  • Summer 2017 Lab: Organic Computing II (Master)
  • Winter 2016 Lab/Lecture (p.p.): Fundamentals of Organic Computing/Grundlagen des Organic Computing (Bachelor)
  • Summer 2016 Seminars: Nature-inspired Algorithms and Multiagent Systems/Naturanaloge Algorithmen und Multiagentensysteme (Master) & Self-Organisation in Distributed Systems/Selbstorganisation in verteilten Systemen (Bachelor)
  • Winter 2015 Lab/Lecture (p.p.): Fundamentals of Organic Computing/Grundlagen des Organic Computing (Bachelor)
  • Summer 2015 Lab: Advanced Operating Systems/Weiterführende Betriebssystemkonzepte (Master)
  • Winter 2014 Lab/Lecture (p.p.): Peer-to-Peer and Cloud Computing (Master)

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:

  • 22nd International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2019), to be held at GECCO 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic (website)
  • Intelligent Systems Workshop - 7th Edition in the Series on Autonomously Learning and Optimising Systems (SAOS 2019), to be held at ARCS Conference 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark (website)
  • 21st International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2018), held at GECCO 2018 in Kyoto, Japan (website)
  • 6th International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems (SAOS 2018), to be held at ARCS Conference 2018 in Braunschweig, Germany (website)
  • 5th International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems (SAOS 2017), to be held at ARCS Conference 2017 in Vienna, Austria (website)

SESSION CHAIRING:

  • Session on `Machine Learning and Applications' at the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2017), Funchal, Madeira-Portugal, 2017

REVIEWING:

Journals:

  • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 2018

Conferences:

  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019) and its Special Session on New Directions in Evolutionary Machine Learning
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) Program Committee Member of the Evolutionary Machine Learning (EML) Track, since 2018
  • Subreviewer for International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016)
  • Subreviewer for International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2015)

Workshops:

  • 1. Workshop on Evaluations and Measurements in Self-Aware Computing Systems (EMSAC 2019)
  • International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS) @ GECCO, since 2018
  • International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY) @ SASO/ICAC, since 2016
  • International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems (SAOS) @ARCS, since 2016

Others:

  • Member of the Reviewing Committee for the book: Organic Computing - Technical Systems for Survival in the Real World, Birkhäuser, 2017

MEMBERSHIPS:

  • Special Interest Group Organic Computing, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

CERTIFICATES & ADVANCED EDUCATIONS:

  • `Machine Learning and Data Mining with R', Certificate of the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (LMU München)
  • `Academic Teaching', Certificate of the Bavarian Universities, ProfiLehrePlus

FUNDING:

  • Travel Grant of the Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the Participation on the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2016) in Vancouver, Canada, 2016