Dr. Robert Stahlbock

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Academic Activities
- Graduate School chair and representative of the academic staff at the BA Faculty, University of Hamburg
- Member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Shipping and Trade" (JST), Springer
- 2018-now: General Chair of the International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA), Las Vegas, NV, USA
- 2006-2017: General Conference Chair of the International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Member of the Program Committee of the 3rd Workshop on Quality Issues, Measures of Interestingness and Evaluation of Data Mining Models 2013 (QIMIE'13), organized in association with the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2013 (PAKDD'13), April 14-17, 2013, Gold Coast, Australia
- Member of the Program Committee and Co-Organizer of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Logistics 2012 (ICCL 2012), Shanghai,China
- Member of the Program Committee of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2011, Nov 5-8, 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi
- Member of the Program Committee and Co-Organizer of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Logistics 2011 (ICCL 2011), Hamburg, Germany
- Member of the Program Committee of the International Network Optimization Conference 2011 (INOC 2011), Hamburg, Germany
- Member of the Program Committee of the Quality issues, measures of interestingness and evaluation of data mining models Workshop 2011 (QIMIE'11), organized in association with the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2011 (PAKDD'11), Shenzhen, China
- Member of the Program Committee of the Quality issues, measures of interestingness and evaluation of data mining models Workshop 2009 (QIMIE'09), organized in association with the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2009 (PAKDD'09), Bangkok, Thailand
- Member of the Program Committee of the Track KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence of the 14th Portuguese Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), Oct 12-15, 2009, University of Aveiro, Portugal
- Member of the Program Committee of the IADIS WWW/Internet 2008 Conference (ICWI 2008), Freiburg, Germany
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the Workshop on Business Intelligence (BI'07) organized in association with the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007), Guimarães, Portugal
- Invited reviewer for The 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006) and other international conferences such as IEEE IJCNN, IEEE WCCI, HICSS, HMS, etc.
- Invited reviewer for the European Journal of Operational Research; Transportation Science; Decision Support Systems; Transportation Research (Part E); Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering; International Journal of Forecasting; Flexible Services and Manufacturing; International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice; Mathematical and Computer Modelling; and several other international journals
Research Interests
One focus of my research interests is the field of information systems, data analysis and application of bioanalogical algorithms (artificial neural nets, evolutionary algorithms) as well as support vector machines for solving economic forecasting problems and classification tasks to support managerial decision making. The objective beside of the problem modelling is the examination and the improvement of the efficiency and performance of existing algorithms. Within my PhD thesis a combination of evolutionary algorithms for data selection and construction of neural nets was developed and successfully applied to a real-world problem. Applications of artificial neural nets (like Multilayer Perceptron, Learning Vector Quantization, Probabilistic Neural Net) and their evolutionary design, if possible implemented as parallel algorithm on a PC network, have been examined in cooperation with companies. Results of good quality have been demonstrated.
Another field of research is the examination and application of methods of operations research for solving logistic problems at maritime container terminals with focus on crane scheduling in an automated yard.
You can find more information on forecasting and data mining with neural networks and support vector machines at BISlab.com which is the main homepage of the institutes competence centre for business intelligence.
Lectures and Courses
Undergraduate Teaching
- Introduction to Business Administration
- Exercise courses on Statistics
- Tutorials on Information Systems/Management
- Introductory Seminar for Industrial Engineers, e.g. on Maritime Logistics
- Introduction to common IT Office Applications
- Supervision of Introductory Seminar Theses and Bachelor Theses
- E-Business
- Study
Graduate Teaching
- Business Intelligence and Data Mining (Theory, Methods, Exercises RapidMiner)
- Supervision of Master Theses
- Study
- Project/Seminar
Postgraduate Teaching
- Supervision of working papers and presentations in Seminars on Information Management and Logistics
Editorial Boards
R. Stahlbock, G. M. Weiss (eds.) (2013) Proc. of The 2013 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'13), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 22-25, 2013, CSREA Press
R. Stahlbock (with H. Hu, X. Shi, S. Voß): Computational Logistics - Proc. of the Third International Conference, ICCL 2012, Shanghai, China, September 2012, LNCS 7555, Springer
R. Stahlbock, G. M. Weiss (eds.) (2012) Proc. of The 2012 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'12), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 16-19, 2012, CSREA Press
R. Stahlbock (with J. Böse, H. Hu, C. Jahn, X. Shi, S. Voß): Computational Logistics - Proc. of the Second International Conference, ICCL 2011, Hamburg, Germany, September 2011, LNCS 6971, Springer
R. Stahlbock (ed.) (2011) Proc. of The 2011 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'11), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 18-21, 2011, CSREA Press
R. Stahlbock, S. F. Crone (eds.) (2010) Proc. of The 2010 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'10), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 12-15, 2010, CSREA Press
R. Stahlbock, S. F. Crone, S. Lessmann (eds.) (2009) Proc. of The 2009 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'09), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 13-16, 2009, CSREA Press
R. Stahlbock, S. F. Crone, S. Lessmann, (2009), Data Mining - Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems, Vol. 8, 2010, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1280-0, ISSN 1934-3221 [Springer]
R. Stahlbock, S. F. Crone, S. Lessmann (eds.) (2008) Proc. of The 2008 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 14-17, 2008, CSREA Press (Vol. I, II)
R. Stahlbock, S. F. Crone, S. Lessmann (eds.) (2007) Proc. of The 2007 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'07), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 2007, CSREA Press
S. F. Crone, S. Lessmann, R. Stahlbock (eds.) (2006) Proc. of The 2006 Intern. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 26-29, 2006, CSREA Press
S. F. Crone, S. Lessmann, R. Stahlbock (associate eds.) (2005) Proc. of The 2005 Intern. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'05), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 27-30, 2005, CSREA Press
Corporate Research Collaborations
2003-2004 | Evaluation of efficiency within automated container terminals (large German container terminal) |
2003 | Response optimisation in subscription based marketing. Consultant in a team of 3 faculty members for data mining project with a German leading publishing house, using various neural network methods & support vector machines for cross selling in competition to SPSS Clementine |
1998-2000 | Evaluation of locations for retail stores (with a large German company) |
1998 | Modelling the consumer's coffee market (market share and prices) with artificial neural networks (with a German leading coffee company) |
1996-1998 | Forecasting of USD-DEM exchange rate with artificial neural networks (with a large German financial institution) |
Background
since 07/2003 | Lecturer at FOM (Fachhochschule für Oekonomie und Management - University of Applied Science), in particular for Controlling, Cost Accounting, Logistics, Algorithms, Information Management, E-Business, IT Management Lecturer at VWA (Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts-Akademie), in particular for Supply Chain Management, Computer Sciences |
since 2002 | Managing Board Member of Business Intelligence laboratory (BISlab) |
since 12/1996 | Lecturer at the Institute (Information Systems, University of Hamburg) |
02/1996-11/1996 | Research & Teaching Assistant (Information Systems, University of Hamburg) |
10/1995-01/1996 | Project work (Information Systems, University of Hamburg) |
1991-1995 | Consultant (Konsys GmbH, Hamburg) |
1990-1995 | Undergraduate & Postgraduate Studies in Business Administration with focus on IT and OR (University of Hamburg) |
1988-1990 | Bank trainee and clerk (Commerzbank AG, Hamburg) |
Awards and Distinctions
and additional ones (will be added soon) | |
2013 | World Congress in Computer Sciene, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13): Achievement Award in Recognition and Appreciation of his Leadership and Contributions to the Field of Data Mining |
2012 | The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'12): Outstanding Achievement Award in Recognition and Appreciation of Service and Research Contributions to the Field of Data Mining |
2011 | The 2011 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'11: Achievement Award in Recognition and Appreciation of Service and Research Contributions to the Field of Computer Science |
2010 | DFG (German Research Foundation), Travel Grant LOGMS 2010/Korean-German Container Workshop, Busan (Korea) |
2010 | The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'10: Achievement Award in Recognition and Appreciation of Service and Research Contributions to the Fields of Computer Science and Applied Computing |
2009 | World Academy of Science - The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'09: Distinguished Service Award in Recognition and Appreciation of His Outstanding Service to the Profession of Computer Science and Applied Computing |
2009 | DFG (German Research Foundation) Travel Grant, MLOG 2009, Singapore |
2008 | World Academy of Science - The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'08: Distinguished Service Award in Recognition and Appreciation of His Outstanding Service to the Profession of Computer Science and Applied Computing |
2008 | DFG (German Research Foundation) Travel Grant, German-Korean Container Workshop, Bremen |
2008 | DFG (German Research Foundation) Travel Grant, WCCI 2008, Hong Kong |
2007 | World Academy of Science - The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'07: Achievement Award in recognition and appreciation of research contributions to the field and to WORLDCOMP'07 |
2006 | World Academy of Science - The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,nullComputer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP06: Achievement Award in recognition and appreciation of research contributions to the field and to WORLDCOMP06 |
2006 | University of Hamburg Travel Grant, DMIN'06, Las Vegas |
2005 | University of Hamburg Travel Grant, IJCNN 05, Montréal |
2005 | World Academy of Science- The 2005 International MultiConference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering: Achievement Award in recognition and appreciation of research contributions to the field and to The 2005 International MultiConference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering |
2005 | DFG (German Research Foundation) Travel Grant, ICAI 05, Las Vegas |
2004 | University of Hamburg Travel Grant, IJCNN 04, Budapest |
2004 | DFG (German Research Foundation) Travel Grant, ICAI 04, Las Vegas |
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