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Juniorprofessor Dr.-Ing. Peter Merz

Prof. Peter Merz
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Room 410, Building 36 (Uni Campus)
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(+49) 631 205 3292
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(+49) 631 205 3289 (registry)
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Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Fachbereich Informatik
Postfach 3049
D-67653 Kaiserslautern
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Curriculum Vitae (in German)

Publications

  1. Thomas Fischer, Kerstin Bauer, and Peter Merz, "A Distributed Memetic Algorithm for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem", In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN X, 2008. To appear.
  2. 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, (Jano van Hemert and Carlos Cotta, eds.), Vol. 4972, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Naples, Italy, pp. 158-169, 2008. Online paper. External link.
  3. 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), (Mario Koeppen and Guenther Raidl, eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008.
  4. Peter Merz, Florian Kolter, and Matthias Priebe, "Free-Riding Prevention in Super-Peer Desktop Grids", In Proceedings of the 3rd International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI 2008), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, 2008. To appear.
  5. Peter Merz, Matthias Priebe, and Steffen Wolf, "Super-Peer Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks using Network Coordinates", In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2008), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 385-390, 2008. External link.
  6. Mathias Dalheimer, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, and Peter Merz, "Formal Verification of a Grid Resource Allocation Protocol", In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2008), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 332-339, 2008. External link.
  7. Peter Merz, Jan Ubben, and Matthias Priebe, "On the Construction of a Super-Peer Topology underneath Middleware for Distributed Computing", In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2008), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 590-595, 2008. External link.
  8. Steffen Wolf and Peter Merz, "Evolutionary Local Search for the Minimum Energy Broadcast Problem", In EvoCOP 2008 - Eighth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, (Jano van Hemert and Carlos Cotta, eds.), Vol. 4972, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Naples, Italy, pp. 61-72, 2008. Online paper. External link.
  9. Peter Merz, Matthias Priebe, and Steffen Wolf, "A Simulation Framework for Distributed Super-Peer Topology Construction Using Network Coordinates", In Proceedings of the 16th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, (Didier El Baz and Julien Bourgeois and Francois Spies, eds.), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 491-498, 2008. External link.
  10. 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, (Jano van Hemert and Carlos Cotta, eds.), Vol. 7092, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2008. To appear.
  11. Tim Nonner, Sven O. Krumke, Peter Merz, and Katharina Rupp, "Distributed approximation algorithms for finding 2-edge-connected subgraphs", In Proc. 11th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2007. To appear.
  12. Sameh Al-Shihabi, Peter Merz, and Steffen Wolf, "Nested Partitioning for the Minimum Energy Broadcast Problem", In LION II: Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Trento, Italy, Dec 10-12, 2007. Won a Best Paper Award. Post-Proceedings to appear. Online paper.
  13. 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, (Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Maria Jose Blesa Aguilera and Christian Blum and Boris Naujoks and Andrea Roli and Guenther Rudolph and Michael Sampels, eds.), Vol. 4771, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 170-184, 2007. Online paper. External link.
  14. Steffen Wolf and Peter Merz, "Evolutionary Local Search for the Super-Peer Selection Problem and the p-Hub Median Problem", In Hybrid Metaheuristics, 4th International Workshop, HM 2007, Dortmund, Germany, October 8-9, 2007, Proceedings, (Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Maria Jose Blesa Aguilera and Christian Blum and Boris Naujoks and Andrea Roli and Guenther Rudolph and Michael Sampels, eds.), Vol. 4771, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 1-15, 2007. Online paper. External link.
  15. Peter Merz and Matthias Priebe, "A New Iterative Method to Improve Network Coordinates-Based Internet Distance Estimation", In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 169-176, 2007. External link.
  16. Peter Merz and Thomas Fischer, "A Memetic Algorithm for Large Traveling Salesman Problem Instances", In MIC'2007 - 7th Metaheuristics International Conference, 2007. Online paper.
  17. 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, (Carlos Cotta and Jano van Hemert, eds.), Vol. 4446, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 72-83, 2007. Candidate for Best Paper Award. Online paper. External link.
  18. Steffen Wolf and Peter Merz, "A Hybrid Method for Solving Large-Scale Supply Chain Problems", In EvoCOP 2007 - Seventh European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, (Carlos Cotta and Jano van Hemert, eds.), Vol. 4446, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2007. Online paper. External link.
  19. Peter Merz and Steffen Wolf, "TreeOpt: Self-Organizing, Evolving P2P Overlay Topologies Based On Spanning Trees", In Proceedings of SAKS'07 (Selbstorganisierende, Adaptive, Kontextsensitive verteilte Systeme) co-located with Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS'07), 2007. Online paper.
  20. 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, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Umea, Sweden, pp. 1147-1157, 2007. Online paper. External link.
  21. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "Embedding a Chained Lin-Kernighan Algorithm into a Distributed Algorithm", In Metaheuristics - Progress in Complex Systems Optimization, (Karl F. Doerner and Michel Gendreau and Peter Greistorfer and Walter J. Gutjahr and Richard F. Hartl and Marc Reimann, eds.), Vol. 39, Operations Research / Computer Science Interfaces, Springer, pp. 277-295, 2007. Online paper. External link.
  22. Peter Merz and Katja Gorunova, "Fault-Tolerant Resource Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Grids", Journal on Grid Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 319-335, 2007. External link.
  23. Peter Merz, "Self-Organizing Networks for Performance Optimization", In GI/ITG/MMB/KuVS Workshop on Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems, co-located with: International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006), University of Passau, Germany, pp. 19-23, 2006. External link.
  24. Peter Merz and Steffen Wolf, "Evolutionary Local Search for Designing Peer-to-Peer Overlay Topologies based on Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Trees", In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, (Thomas Philip Runarsson and Hans-Georg Beyer and Edmund Burke and Juan J. Merelo-Guervos and L. Darrell Whitley and Xin Yao, eds.), Vol. 4193, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 272-281, 2006. Online paper. External link.
  25. Peter Merz and Katja Gorunova, "Fault-Tolerant Resource Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Grids", Working Paper, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2005.
  26. Peter Merz and Katja Gorunova, "Reliable Multicast and its Probabilistic Model for Job Submission in Peer-to-Peer Grids", In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Enginieering (WISE 2005), Vol. 3806, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, New York, USA, pp. 504-511, 2005. External link.
  27. Mathias Dalheimer, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, and Peter Merz, "Agent-based Grid Scheduling with Calana", In Parallel Procedding and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2005), Vol. 3911, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 741-750, 2005. Online paper. External link.
  28. Mathias Dalheimer, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, and Peter Merz, "Calana: A General-purpose Agent-based Grid Scheduler", In Proceedings of the The 14th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, pp. 279-280, 2005. External link.
  29. Thomas Fischer, Thomas Stuetzle, 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.
  30. 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.
  31. Peter Merz and Katja Gorunova, "Efficient Broadcast in P2P Grids", In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005), Cardiff, UK, pp. 237-242, 2005. Online paper. External link.
  32. 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 Press, Denver, CO, USA, 2005. Online paper. External link.
  33. Thomas Fischer and Peter Merz, "Embedding a Chained Lin-Kernighan Algorithm Into a Distributed Algorithm", Interner Bericht, No. 331/04, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2004. Online paper.
  34. K. Knoedler, J. Poland, Peter Merz, and Andreas Zell, "Using Memetic Algorithms for Optimal Calibration of Automotive Combustion Engines", In Recent Advances in Memetic Algorithms, (W. E. Hart and N. Krasnogor and J. E. Smith, eds.), Vol. 166, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Springer, pp. 87-104, 2004. Online paper.
  35. Peter Merz, "NK-Fitness Landscapes and Memetic Algorithms with Greedy Operators and k-opt Local Search", In Recent Advances in Memetic Algorithms, (W. E. Hart and N. Krasnogor and J. E. Smith, eds.), Vol. 166, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Springer, pp. 209-228, 2004. Online paper.
  36. Peter Merz, "Advanced Fitness Landscape Analysis and the Performance of Memetic Algorithms", Evolutionary Computation, Special Issue on Memetic Evolutionary Algorithms, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 303-326, 2004. Online paper.
  37. Peter Merz and K. Katayama, "Memetic Algorithms for the Unconstrained Binary Quadratic Programming Problem", Bio Systems, Vol. 78, No. 1-3, pp. 99-118, 2004. Online paper.

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