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• 1997 – 2003: Student of Computer Science at the University of Darmstadt, Germany
• July 2003: Diploma (M.Sc.) in Computer Science
• November 2003 - December 2008: PhD Student at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• December 2008: Dr.-Ing. (Doctor of Engineering)
• since March 2009: Lecturer at the Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden

Publications

1. Thomas Fischer, "Distributed Memetic Algorithms for Graph-Theoretical Combinatorial Optimization Problems", University of Kaiserslautern, Logos Verlag Berlin, Germany, 2009. External link.
2. Thomas Fischer, Kerstin Bauer, and Peter Merz, "Solving the Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem with a Multilevel Distributed Memetic Algorithm", Memetic Computing, Vol. 1, No. 2, Springer, Berlin, pp. 101–123, 2009. External link.
3. Thomas Fischer, Kerstin Bauer, and Peter Merz, "A Distributed Memetic Algorithm for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem", In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN X - 10th International Conference, Vol. 5199, LNCS, Springer, Dortmund, Germany, pp. 879–888, 2008. External link.
4. Kerstin Bauer, Thomas Fischer, Sven O. Krumke, Katharina Gerhardt, Stephan Westphal, and Peter Merz, "Improved Construction Heuristics and Iterated Local Search for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem", In EvoCOP 2008 - Eighth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation, Vol. 4972, LNCS, Springer, Naples, Italy, pp. 158–169, 2008. Online paper. External link.
5. Thomas Fischer, Kerstin Bauer, and Peter Merz, "A Multilevel Approach for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem", In Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2008) at the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2008), IEEE Computer Society, Turku, Finland, pp. 225–228, 2008. External link.
6. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "Reducing the Size of Traveling Salesman Problem Instances by Fixing Edges", In Recent Advances in Evolutionary Computation for Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 153, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, pp. 243–258, 2008. External link.
7. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "A Memetic Algorithm for the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem", In Hybrid Metaheuristics, 4th International Workshop, HM 2007, Dortmund, Germany, October 8-9, 2007, Proceedings, Vol. 4771, LNCS, Springer, pp. 170–184, 2007. Online paper. External link.
8. Peter Merz and Thomas Fischer, "A Memetic Algorithm for Large Traveling Salesman Problem Instances", In MIC'2007 - 7th Metaheuristics International Conference, 2007. Online paper.
9. Thomas Fischer, "Improved Local Search for Large Optimum Communication Spanning Tree Problems", In MIC'2007 - 7th Metaheuristics International Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2007. Online paper.
10. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "Reducing the Size of Travelling Salesman Problem Instances by Fixing Edges", In EvoCOP 2007 - Seventh European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 4446, LNCS, Springer, València, Spain, pp. 72–83, 2007. Candidate for Best Paper Award. Online paper. External link.
11. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "Embedding a Chained Lin-Kernighan Algorithm into a Distributed Algorithm", In Metaheuristics - Progress in Complex Systems Optimization, Vol. 39, Operations Research / Computer Science Interfaces, Springer, pp. 277–295, 2007. Online paper.
12. Thomas Fischer, Stephan Fudeus, and Peter Merz, "A Middleware for Job Distribution in Peer-to-Peer Networks", In Applied Parallel Computing - State of the Art in Scientific Computing, Vol. 4699, LNCS, pp. 1147–1157, 2007. External link.
13. Thomas Fischer, Stephan Fudeus, and Peter Merz, "A Middleware for Job Distribution in Peer-to-Peer Networks", In Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing, PARA '06, Umeå, Sweden, 2006. External link.
14. Christian Bartelt, Thomas Fischer, Dirk Niebuhr, Andreas Rausch, Franz Seidl, and Marcus Trapp, "Dynamic Integration of Heterogeneous Mobile Devices", In ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 30, pp. 1–7, 2005. Also published in Proceedings of the Workshop on Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software (ICSE/DEAS 2005). Online paper.
15. Thomas Fischer, "Evaluation eines Verschmelzungsalgorithmus für Lösungen des Handlungsreisendenproblems", Internal Report, No. 337/05, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2005. Online paper.
16. Thomas Fischer, Thomas Stützle, Holger H. Hoos, and Peter Merz, "An Analysis of the Hardness of TSP Instances for Two High-performance Algorithms", In MIC'2005 - 6th Metaheuristics International Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2005. Online paper.
17. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "Embedding a Chained Lin-Kernighan Algorithm into a Distributed Algorithm", In MIC'2005 - 6th Metaheuristics International Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2005. Online paper.
18. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "A Distributed Chained Lin-Kernighan Algorithm for TSP Problems", In Proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), IEEE Computer Society, Denver, CO, USA, 2005. Online paper. External link.
19. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "Embedding a Chained Lin-Kernighan Algorithm Into a Distributed Algorithm", Internal Report, No. 331/04, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2004. Online paper.

All references are available in a BibTeX file: dag.bib

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