Special Interest Group

Official Website

You can find the official website of the special interest group under https://fg-oc.gi.de/.

How to participate

• If you’re already a member of the “Gesellschaft für Informatik”, you may simply request to join the group by sending an e-mail to including your name and membership number.
• If you’re not a member yet, you must first acquire membership following the steps at https://gi.de/mitgliedschaft/. After completing the steps you will receive all necessary information needed to join the special interest group.

Speaker
Jun.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Anthony Stein,

Anthony Stein is a tenure track professor for Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. His research is concerned with the development of Evolutionary AI methods and their application to complex self-adaptive and self-organizing (SASO) systems with a focus on the domain of digital agriculture.

Web: https://ki-agrartechnik.uni-hohenheim.de/en

Main topics: Organic Computing, Learning Classifier Systems, Self-Learning Adaptive Systems, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Digital Agriculture, AgTech Systems

Deputy Speaker
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Tomforde,

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Tomforde’s main research interest is in investigating and engineering self-organised distributed systems with special focus on controlled self-organisation, learning in safety-critical environments and runtime versions of former design time decisions.

Web: https://www.ins.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en

Main topics: Organic Computing, Controlled Self-organisation, Sensor-/Actuator- Networks, Applied Machine Learning techniques, Adaptive communication systems, Observer/controller architectures, Collaborative runtime optimisation, Vehicular traffic control as example for self-organised  distributed systems, Runtime control of technical systems / Moving design time decision into the runtime, Embedded control of distributed and safety-critical – systems

Deputy Speaker
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jörg Hähner,

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jörg Hähner’s main research interest is in investigating and engineering self-organised distributed systems with special focus on controlled self-organisation, collaborative problem solving, runtime versions of former design time decisions, and applicable learning solutions for complex real-world problems.

Web: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/fai/informatik/prof/oc/

Main topics: Organic Computing, Controlled Self-organisation, Sensor-/Actuator- Networks, Applied Machine Learning techniques, Adaptive communication systems, Observer/controller  architectures, Collaborative runtime optimisation, Self-organised surveillance systems, Traffic control as example for self-organised distributed systems, Runtime control of technical systems / Moving design time decision into the runtime, embedded control of distributed and safety-critical – systems

Steering Committee

• Prof. Dr. Uwe Brinkschulte, Eingebettete Systeme, Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main
• Christian Gruhl, Fachgebiet Intelligent Embedded Systems, Universität Kassel
• Prof. Dr. Heiko Hamann, Professur für Service Robotik, Universität zu Lübeck
• Prof. Dr. Jörg Hähner, Lehrstuhl Organic Computing, Universität Augsburg
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Karl, Lehrstuhl für Rechnerarchitektur und Parallelverarbeitung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Krupitzer, Fachgebiet Lebensmittelinformatik, Universität Hohenheim
• Dr. Hella Ponsar, Institut für Software und Systems Engineering, Universität Augsburg
• Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schmeck, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe
• Prof. Dr. Gregor Schiele, Fachgebiet Eingebettete Systeme der Informatik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Sick, Fachgebiet Intelligente Eingebettete Systeme, Universität Kassel
• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anthony Stein, Fachgebiet Künstliche Intelligenz in der Agrartechnik, Universität Hohenheim
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Teich, Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Tomforde, Fachgebiet Intelligente Systeme, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Prof. Sebastian von Mammen, PhD, Professur für Games Engineering, Universität Würzburg
• Dr. Stefan Wildermann, Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Organic Computing Initiative

Members

• Kirstie L Bellman – The Aerospace Corp
• Uwe Brinkschulte – Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Michael Beigl – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Ada Diaconescu – Telecom ParisTech
• Frank Dürr – Universität Stuttgart
• Lukas Esterle – Aarhus University
• Jörg Hähner – Universität Augsburg
• Andreas Herkersdorf – Technische Universität München
• Wolfgang Karl – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Bernd Kleinjohann – Universität Paderborn
• Erik Maehle – Universität zu Lübeck
• Sanaz Mostaghim – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Gero Mühl – Universität Rostock
• Christian Müller-Schloer – Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Mathias Pacher – Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Franz Rammig – Universität Paderborn
• Wolfgang Reif – Universität Augsburg
• Christian Renner – Universität zu Lübeck
• Kay Römer – Technische Universität Graz
• Hartmut Schmeck – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Ingo Scholtes – University of Zurich
• Bernhard Sick – Universität Kassel
• Anthony Stein – Universität Hohenheim
• Jürgen Teich – Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Sven Tomforde – Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Stefan Wildermann – Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg