Christine Zarges

Contact

Department of Computer Science
Room CS.224
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom		 Tel: +44 24 7652 3669
Fax: +44 24 7657 3024
EMail: zargessymboldcs.warwick.ac.uk

 

I am supported by a fellowship within the Postdoc program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

 

Recent Activities

Research Interests

  • Analysis of randomised algorithms
  • Randomised search heuristics, in particular artificial immune systems, evolutionary algorithms and random local search
  • Balls-into-bins games
  • Graph algorithms

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Benjamin Doerr, Thomas Jansen, Dirk Sudholt, Carola Winzen and Christine Zarges (2012):
    Mutation Rate Matters Even When Optimizing Monotone Functions.
    To appear in Evolutionary Computation.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2011):
    On the Role of Age Diversity for Effective Aging Operators.
    Evolutionary Intelligence, 4(2):99-125.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2011):
    On Benefits and Drawbacks of Aging Strategies for Randomized Search Heuristics.
    Theoretical Computer Science, 412(6):543-559.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2011):
    Analyzing Different Variants of Immune Inspired Somatic Contiguous Hypermutations.
    Theoretical Computer Science, 412(6):517-533.

Conference Articles

  • Thomas Jansen, Pietro S. Oliveto and Christine Zarges (2011):
    On the Analysis of the Immune-Inspired B-Cell Algorithm for the Vertex Cover Problem.
    In: Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2011), LNCS 6825, pp. 117-131, Springer.
    Best Paper Award
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2011):
    Variation in Artificial Immune Systems: Hypermutations with Mutation Potential.
    In: Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2011), LNCS 6825, pp. 132-145, Springer.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2011):
    Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms: From Computational Complexity Analysis to Algorithm Engineering.
    In: Proc. of the 11th ACM SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2011), pp. 1-14, ACM Press.
  • Dirk Sudholt and Christine Zarges (2010):
    Analysis of an Iterated Local Search Algorithm for Vertex Coloring.
    In: Proc. of the 21st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2010), LNCS 6506, pp. 340-352, Springer.
  • Benjamin Doerr, Thomas Jansen, Dirk Sudholt, Carola Winzen and Christine Zarges (2010):
    Optimizing Monotone Functions Can Be Difficult.
    In: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI, LNCS 6238, pp. 42-51, Springer.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2010):
    On the Benefits of Aging and the Importance of Details.
    In: Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2010), LNCS 6209, pp. 61-74, Springer.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2010):
    Aging Beyond Restarts.
    In: Proc. of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2010), pp. 705-712, ACM Press.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2009):
    A Theoretical Analysis of Immune Inspired Somatic Contiguous Hypermutations for Function Optimization.
    In: Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2009), LNCS 5666, pp. 80-94, Springer.
  • Thomas Jansen and Christine Zarges (2009):
    Comparing Different Aging Operators.
    In: Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2009), LNCS 5666, pp. 95-108, Springer.
  • Christian Horoba, Thomas Jansen, and Christine Zarges (2009):
    Maximal Age in Randomized Search Heuristics with Aging.
    In: Proc. of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), pp. 803-810, ACM Press.
    Nominated for a Best Paper Award.
  • Christine Zarges (2009):
    On the Utility of the Population Size for Inversely Fitness Proportional Mutation Rates.
    In: Proc. of the tenth ACM SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2009), pp. 39-46, ACM Press.
  • Christine Zarges (2008):
    Rigorous Runtime Analysis of Inversely Fitness Proportional Mutation Rates.
    In: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN X, LNCS 5199, pp. 112-122, Springer.
    Best Student Paper Award
  • Walter Nistico, Matthias Hebbel, Thorsten Kerkhof and Christine Zarges (2007):
    Cooperative Visual Tracking in a Team of Autonomous Mobile Robots.
    In: RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, LNCS 4434, pp. 146-157, Springer.