(Photo: Matthias Ziegler)

Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hamann

Professor for Cyber-physical Systems

e-mail: heiko.hamann [at] uni-konstanz.de

University of Konstanz
Department of Computer and Information Science
78457 Konstanz
Germany

Member of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, Konstanz

Editor-in-Chief of Swarm Intelligence, published by Springer Nature

(last update: 2024/05/27)







I'm developing innovative methods to govern the ever increasing
complexity of engineered systems. Novel applications of tools from
physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology help me to develop new
design strategies for self-organizing systems.



Short CV


Research


Current Projects




Publications

Authored Books, Edited Proceedings, Guest-edited Special Issues

[B9]
Julien Bourgeois, Jamie Paik, Benoît Piranda, Justin Werfel, Sabine Hauert, Alyssa Pierson, Heiko Hamann, Tin Lun Lam, Fumitoshi Matsuno, Negar Mehr, Abdallah Makhoul (eds.)
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (16th DARS 2022), ISBN 978-3-031-51496-8, Springer, 2024

[B8]
Marco Dorigo, Heiko Hamann, Manuel López-Ibáńez, José García-Nieto, Andries Engelbrecht, Carlo Pinciroli, Volker Strobel, Christian Camacho-Villalón (eds.)
Swarm Intelligence - 13th International Conference (ANTS 2022), LNCS vol. 13491, ISBN 978-3-031-20176-9, Springer, 2022

[B7]
Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle, M. J. Blesas Aguilera, Christian Blum, Heiko Hamann, Mary K. Heinrich, Volker Strobel, (eds.)
Swarm Intelligence - 12th International Conference (ANTS 2020), LNCS vol. 12421, ISBN 978-3-030-60375-5, Springer, 2020

[B6]
Heiko Hamann
Schwarmintelligenz (German)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-58961-8
ISBN 978-3-662-58960-1, Springer Spektrum, August 2019
SpringerLink Springer Spektrum

[B5][supplement]
Heiko Hamann
Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-74528-2
ISBN 978-3-319-745268, Springer, February 2018
SpringerLink Springer

[B4]
Heiko Hamann, Sebastian von Mammen, Ingo Mauser
Special Issue on Self-organised Construction
Editorial, Swarm Intelligence 12(2), Springer, June 2018

[B3]
Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Simon Garnier, Heiko Hamann, Marco Montes de Oca, Christine Solnon, Thomas Stützle (eds.)
Swarm Intelligence - 9th International Conference (ANTS 2014), LNCS vol. 8667, ISBN 978-3-319-09951-4, Springer, 2014

[B2]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl
Special Issue on Modelling the Swarm in Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems 18(1), Taylor & Francis, 2012

[B1]
Heiko Hamann
Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Global-to-Local Programming
Cognitive Systems Monographs, Vol. 9, ISBN 978-3-642-13376-3, Springer, 2010

International Journals

[J32][.pdf]
Eduard Buss, Till Aust, Mostafa Wahby, Tim-Lucas Rabbel, Serge Kernbach, Heiko Hamann
Stimuli Classification with Electrical Potential and Impedance of Living Plants: Comparing Discriminant Analysis and Deep Learning Methods
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2023 (open access)

[J31][.pdf]
Gabriele Valentini, Heiko Hamann, Marco Dorigo
Global-to-Local Design for Self-Organized Task Allocation in Swarms
Intelligent Computing, 9761694, 2022

[J30][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser, Heiko Hamann
Innate Motivation for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise: From Simple Simulations to Real-World Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 38(6):3582-3601, 2022

[J29][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Andreagiovanni Reina
Scalability in Computing and Robotics
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 71:1453-1465, 2021

[J28][pdf]
Thomas Schmickl, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann
A Simple Benchmark for Evolvability of Behavioral Complexity
Applied Sciences, 11(5):1994, 2021

[J27][.pdf]
Marcel Wever, Lorijn van Rooijen, and Heiko Hamann
Multi-Oracle Coevolutionary Learning of Requirements Specifications from Examples in On-The-Fly Markets
Evolutionary Computation, 28(2):165-193, 2020

[J26][.pdf]
Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Tanja Kaiser, Mostafa Wahby, and Heiko Hamann
Swarm Robotics: Robustness, Scalability, and Self-X Features in Industrial Applications
it - Information Technology, 61(4), 2019

[J25][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser and Heiko Hamann
Engineered Self-organization for Resilient Robot Self-assembly with Minimal Surprise
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 122:103293, 2019

[J24][.pdf]
Mary Katherine Heinrich, Sebastian von Mammen, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mostafa Wahby, Payam Zahadat, Tomasz Skrzypczak, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Rafal Krela, Wojciech Kwiatkowski, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Kasper Stoy and Heiko Hamann
Constructing Living Buildings: A Review of Relevant Technologies for a Novel Application of Biohybrid Robotics
Journal of the Royal Sosciety Interface 16(156):20190238, 2019 (open access)

[J23][.pdf]
Mohammad Divband Soorati, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Javad Ghofrani, Payam Zahadat and Heiko Hamann
Photomorphogenesis for Robot Self-assembly: Adaptivity, Collective Decision-making, and Self-repair
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 14(5):056006, 2019 (open access)

[J22][video]
Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Julian Petzold, Igor Kuksin, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Heiko Hamann
Robotic Sensing and Stimuli Provision for Guided Plant Growth
Journal of Visualized Experiments 149:e59835, 2019 (open access)

[J21][.pdf]
Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens, Heiko Hamann
The Neglected Pieces of Designing Collective Decision-Making Processes
frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6, 2019 (open access)

[J20][.pdf]
Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Ewald Neufeld, Igor Kuksin, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Heiko Hamann
Autonomously Shaping Natural Climbing Plants: A Bio-hybrid Approach
Royal Society Open Science, 5:180296, 2018 (open access)

[J19][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann
Opinion Dynamics with Mobile Agents: Contrarian Effects by Spatial Correlations
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 5:63. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2018.00063, 2018 (open access)

[J18][.pdf]
Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl
Evolved Control of Natural Plants: Crossing the Reality Gap for User-defined Steering of Growth and Motion
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 12(3):1-24, ACM, 2017 (open access)

[J17][.pdf]
Yara Khaluf, Carlo Pinciroli, Gabriele Valentini, Heiko Hamann
The Impact of Agent Density on Scalability in Collective Systems: Noise-Induced vs Majority-Based Bistability
Swarm Intelligence, 11(2):155-179, 2017

[J16][.pdf .bib]
Heiko Hamann, Yara Khaluf, Jean Botev, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Eliseo Ferrante, Oliver Kosak, Jean-Marc Montanier, Sanaz Mostaghim, Richard Redpath, Jonathan Timmis, Frank Veenstra, Mostafa Wahby, Ales Zamuda
Hybrid Societies: Challenges and Perspectives in the Design of Collective Behavior in Self-organizing Systems
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, section Computational Intelligence, 3(14), 2016 (open access)

[J15][.pdf .bib supplement]
Gabriele Valentini, Eliseo Ferrante, Heiko Hamann, Marco Dorigo
Collective Decision with 100 Kilobots: Speed versus Accuracy in Binary Discrimination Problems
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(3):553-580, 2016

[J14][.pdf]
Gabriele Valentini, Heiko Hamann
Time-Variant Feedback Processes in Collective Decision-Making Systems: Influence and Effect of Dynamic Neighborhood Sizes
Swarm Intelligence, 9(2-3):153-176, 2015

[J13][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann
Lessons from Speciation Dynamics: How to Generate Selective Pressure Towards Diversity
Artificial Life, 21(4):464-480, 2015

[J12][.pdf .bib]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Analysis of Swarm Behaviors Based on an Inversion of the Fluctuation Theorem
Artificial Life, 20(1):77-93, 2014

[J11][.pdf .bib supplement]
Heiko Hamann
Towards Swarm Calculus: Urn Models of Collective Decisions and Universal Properties of Swarm Performance
Swarm Intelligence, 7(2-3):145-172, 2013

[J10][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Istvan Karsai, Thomas Schmickl
Time Delay Implies Cost on Task Switching: A Model to Investigate the Efficiency of Task Partitioning
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 75(7):1181-1206, July 2013

[J9][.pdf .bib cited by]
Jürgen Stradner, Ronald Thenius, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl
Algorithmic Requirements for Swarm Intelligence in Differently Coupled Collective Systems
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 50:100-114, 2013 (open access)

[J8][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
A Hormone-Based Controller for Evaluation-Minimal Evolution in Decentrally Controlled Systems
Artificial Life, 18(2): 165-198, 2012

[J7][.pdf .bib]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Self-Organized Pattern Formation in a Swarm System as a Transient Phenomenon of Non-Linear Dynamics
Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems 18(1): 39-50, 2012

[J6][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim
Analysis of Emergent Symmetry Breaking in Collective Decision Making
Neural Computing & Applications, Special Issue: Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics. Guest Editors: Nikolaus Correll, Zhihua Cui, Xiao-Zhi Gao, Roderich Gross, 21(2): 207-218, 2012

[J5][.pdf .bib]
Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Karl Crailsheim
Modelling a Hormone-Inspired Controller for Individual- and Multi-Modular Robotic Systems
Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, 17(3): 221-242, 2011

[J4][.pdf .bib cited by]
Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim
Two Different Approaches to a Macroscopic Model of a Bio-Inspired Robotic Swarm
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 57(9): 913-921, September 2009

[J3][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
A Framework of Space-Time Continuous Models for Algorithm Design in Swarm Robotics
Swarm Intelligence, Special Issue: Swarm Robotics. Guest Editors: Erol Sahin and Alan Winfield, 2(2-4): 209-239, October 2008

[J2][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
Embodied Computation
Parallel Processing Letters, Marius Nagy and Naya Nagy (editors), 17(3): 287-298, September 2007

[J1][.bib cited by supplement]
Heiko Hamann
Definition and Behavior of Langton's Ant in Three Dimensions
Complex Systems, 14(3): 263-268, 2003


Book Chapters

[BC5] Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mostafa Wahby, Marco Dorigo, Heiko Hamann
Swarm Robotics
Cognitive Robotics, Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada (eds.), pp. 77-98, ISBN: 978-0262046831, MIT Press, 2022

[BC4] Heiko Hamann and Sebastian von Mammen
Swarm Robotics
Organic Computing - Technical Systems for Survival in the Real World, C. Mueller-Schloer and S. Tomforde (eds.), pp. 525-535, ISBN: 978-3-0348-0129-4, Springer, 2018

[BC3] Nikolaus Correll and Heiko Hamann
Probabilistic Modeling of Swarming Systems
Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, J. Kacprzyk, W. Pedrycz (eds.), pp. 1423-1431, ISBN: 9783662435045, 2015

[BC2][.pdf cited by]
Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann
BEECLUST: A Swarm Algorithm Derived from Honeybees. Derivation of the Algorithm, Analysis by Mathematical Models and Implementation on a Robot Swarm
Bio-inspired Computing and Networking, Yang Xiao (editor), pp. 95-137, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), ISBN: 9781420080322, 2011

[BC1]
Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Karl Crailsheim
Hormone-based Control for Multi-modular Robotics
Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms: Reliability, Adaptability, Evolution, Paul Levi and Serge Kernbach (editors), pp. 240-263, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 9783642116919, 2010


International Conferences (peer-reviewed)

[C106]
Julian Kaduk, Müge Cavdan, Knut Drewing, Heiko Hamann
From One to Many: How Active Robot Swarm Sizes Influence Human Cognitive Processes
IEEE RO-MAN, 2024 (accepted)

[C105]
Mohamed Roshdi, Julian Petzold, Mostafa Wahby, Hussein Ebrahim, Mladen Berekovic, Heiko Hamann
On the Road to Clarity: Exploring Explainable AI for World Models in a Driver Assistance System
IEEE CAI, 2024 (accepted)

[C104][.pdf]
Jonas Kuckling, Robin Luckey, Viktor Avrutin, Andrew Vardy, Andreagiovanni Reina, Heiko Hamann
Do We Run Large-scale Multi-robot Systems on the Edge? More Evidence for Two-phase Performance in System Size Scaling
ICRA, 2024 (accepted) *IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems*

[C103][.pdf]
Karthik Soma, Vivek Shankar Vardharajan, Heiko Hamann, Giovanni Beltrame
Congestion and Scalability in Robot Swarms: a Study on Collective Decision Making
IEEE MRS, 2023

[C102][.pdf]
Julian Petzold, Mostafa Wahby, Youssef Ziad, Mostafa ElSheikh, Ahmed Dawood, Mladen Berekovic, Heiko Hamann
Protecting Vulnerable Road Users: Semantic Video Analysis for Accident Prediction
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2023

[C101][.pdf]
Kai Pfister, Heiko Hamann
Collective Decision-Making and Change Detection with Bayesian Robots in Dynamic Environments
IROS, 2023

[C100][.pdf]
Mohsen Raoufi, Pawel Romanczuk, Heiko Hamann
Individuality in Swarm Robots with the Case-study of Kilobots: Noise, Bug, or Feature?
ALIFE, MIT Press, 2023

[C99][extended abstract][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl
Free Lunch in Evolutionary Embodied Computation
ALIFE, MIT Press, 2023

[C98][extended abstract][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser, Christopher Kluth, Heiko Hamann
Evolving Dynamic Collective Behaviors by Minimizing Surprise
ALIFE, MIT Press, 2023

[C97][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser, Tristan Potten, Heiko Hamann
Evolution of Collective Decision-Making Mechanisms for Collective Perception
IEEE 2023 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2023

[C96][.pdf]
Mohsen Raoufi, Pawel Romanczuk, Heiko Hamann
Estimation of Continuous Environments by Robot Swarms: Correlated Networks and Decision-making
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5486-5492, IEEE, 2023

[C95][.pdf]
Julian Kaduk, Müge Cavdan, Knut Drewing, Argiro Vatakis, Heiko Hamann
Effects of Human-Swarm Interaction on Subjective Time Perception: Swarm Size and Speed
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction , pp. 456-465, ACM, 2023 (open access)

[C94][.pdf]
Honghu Xue, Rui Song, Julian Petzold, Benedikt Hein, Heiko Hamann, Elmar Rueckert
End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for First-Person Pedestrian Visual Navigation in Urban Environments
IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 350-357, IEEE, 2022

[C93][.pdf]
Eduard Buss, Tim-Lucas Rabbel, Viktor Horvat, Marko Krizmancic, Stjepan Bogdan, Mostafa Wahby, Heiko Hamann
PhytoNodes for Environmental Monitoring: Stimulus Classification based on Natural Plant Signals in an Interactive Energy-efficient Bio-hybrid System
GoodIT, ACM, 2022 (open access) *best paper award*

[C92][.pdf]
Marko Krizmancic, Tim-Lucas Rabbel, Eduard Buss, Mostafa Wahby, Heiko Hamann, Stjepan Bogdan
Distributed Connectivity Control in Bio-Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks
GoodIT, ACM, 2022 (open access)

[C91][.pdf]
Kai Pfister, Heiko Hamann
Collective Decision-Making with Bayesian Robots in Dynamic Environments
IROS, IEEE, 2022

[C90][.pdf]
Till Aust, Mohamed S. Talamali, Marco Dorigo, Heiko Hamann, Andreagiovanni Reina
The Hidden Benefits of Limited Communication and Slow Sensing in Collective Monitoring of Dynamic Environments
ANTS, LNCS 13491, Springer, 2022

[C89][.pdf]
Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Heiko Hamann
Minimize Surprise MAP-Elites: A Task-Independent MAP-Elites Variant for Swarms
GECCO, pp. 116-119, ACM, 2022

[C88][.pdf]
Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Marian Johannes Begemann, Tavia Plattenteich, Lars Schilling, Georg Schildbach, Heiko Hamann
ROS2SWARM - A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behavior
ICRA, IEEE, 2022

[C87][.pdf]
Julian Petzold, Mostafa Wahby, Franek Stark, Ulrich Behrje, Heiko Hamann
"If you could see me through my eyes": Predicting Pedestrian Perception
8th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), 2022

[C86][.pdf]
Jean Botev, Knut Drewing, Heiko Hamann, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens, Argiro Vatakis
ChronoPilot: Modulating Time Perception
IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), pp. 215-218, IEEE, 2021

[C85][.pdf]
Mohsen Raoufi, Heiko Hamann, Pawel Romanczuk
Speed-vs-Accuracy Tradeoff in Collective Estimation: An Adaptive Exploration Exploitation Case
International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), pp. 47-55, IEEE, 2021

[C84]
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Lars Schilling, Michael Sebastian Angern, Heiko Hamann, Floris Ernst, Georg Schildbach
B-spline Path Planner for Safe Navigation of Mobile Robots
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 339-345, IEEE, 2021

[C83][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Stjepan Bogdan, Antonio Diaz-Espejo, Laura Garcia-Carmona, Virginia Hernandez-Santana, Serge Kernbach, Andreas Kernbach, Alfredo Quijano-Lopez, Babak Salamat, Mostafa Wahby
WatchPlant: Networked Bio-hybrid Systems for Pollution Monitoring of Urban Areas
Proceedings of ALIFE, MIT Press, 2021

[C82][extended abstract][.pdf]
Mostafa Wahby, Julian Petzold, Heiko Hamann
A Concept of Full Plant Morphology Modeling for Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids
Proceedings of ALIFE, MIT Press, 2021

[C81][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser, Christine Lang, Florian Andreas Marwit, Christian Charles, Sven Dreier, Julian Petzold, Max Ferdinand Hannawald, Marian Johannes Begemann, Heiko Hamann
An Innate Motivation to Tidy Your Room: Online Onboard Evolution of Manipulation Behaviors in a Robot Swarm
DARS and SWARM, pp. 190-201, Springer, 2021

[C80]
Heiko Hamann, Julian Schwarzat, Ingo Thomsen, Sven Tomforde
A Self-organising System Combining Self-adaptive Traffic Control and Urban Platooning: A Concept for Autonomous Driving
7th Int. Conf. on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS), pp. 429-437, Scitepress, 2021

[C79][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Till Aust, Andreagiovanni Reina
Guerrilla Performance Analysis for Robot Swarms: Degrees of Collaboration and Chains of Interference Events
ANTS 2020: Swarm Intelligence, pp. 134-147, Springer, 2020

[C78][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser, Heiko Hamann
Evolution of Diverse Swarm Behaviors with Minimal Surprise
ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 384-392, MIT Press, 2020

[C77][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser, Heiko Hamann
Diversity in Swarm Robotics with Task-independent Behavior Characterization
GECCO: Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, pp. 83-84, ACM, 2020

[C76][.pdf]
Catriona Eschke, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mostafa Wahby, Heiko Hamann
Self-Organized Adaptive Paths in Multi-Robot Manufacturing: Reconfigurable and Pattern-Independent Fibre Deployment
IROS, Macau, China, IEEE, 2019

[C75][.pdf]
Mohammad Divband Soorati, Maximilian Krome, Marco Mora-Mendoza, Javad Ghofrani, Heiko Hamann
Plasticity in Collective Decision-Making for Robots: Creating Global Reference Frames, Detecting Dynamic Environments, and Preventing Lock-ins
IROS, Macau, China, IEEE, 2019

[C74][.pdf]
Mostafa Wahby, Julian Petzold, Catriona Eschke, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann
Collective Change Detection: Adaptivity to Dynamic Swarm Densities and Light Conditions in Robot Swarms
Alife, Newcastle, UK, MIT Press, 2019 (open access)

[C73][.pdf]
Yara Khaluf, Heiko Hamann
Modulating Interaction Times in an Artificial Society of Robots
Alife, Newcastle, UK, MIT Press, 2019 (open access)

[C72][.pdf]
Tanja Kaiser, Heiko Hamann
Self-Organized Construction by Minimal Surprise
SOCO (3rd International Workshop on Self-Organised Construction), Umea, Sweden, IEEE, 2019

[C71][.pdf]
Michael Niess, Heiko Hamann
Self-Organized Construction by Population Coding
SOCO (3rd International Workshop on Self-Organised Construction), Umea, Sweden, IEEE, 2019

[C70][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Carlo Pinciroli, Sebastian von Mammen
A Gamification Concept for Teaching Swarm Robotics
EWME (12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education), Braunschhweig, Germany, IEEE, 2019

[C69] [supplement]
Tanja Kaiser, Heiko Hamann
Self-Assembly in Patterns with Minimal Surprise: Engineered Self-Organization and Adaptation to the Environment
DARS, Boulder, CO, USA, pp. 183-195, Springer, 2019

[C68] [supplement]
Mohammad Divband Soorati, Javad Ghofrani, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann
Adaptive Path Formation in Self-Assembling Robot Swarms by Tree-like Vascular Morphogenesis
DARS, Boulder, CO, USA, pp. 299-311, Springer, 2019

[C67] [supplement]
Mohammad Divband Soorati, Javad Ghofrani, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann
Robust and Adaptive Robot Self-Assembly Based on Vascular Morphogenesis
IROS, Madrid, Spain, pp. 4282-4287, IEEE, 2018

[C66][.pdf supplement]
Heiko Hamann
The Role of Largest Connected Components in Collective Motion
ANTS, Rome, Italy, pp 290-301, Springer, 2018

[C65][.pdf]
Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadtler, Payam Zahadat, Sebastian Risi, Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann
A Robot to Shape your Natural Plant: The Machine Learning Approach to Model and Control Bio-Hybrid Systems
GECCO, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 165-172, 2018

[C64][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Christine Markarian, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Mostafa Wahby
Pick, Pack, & Survive: Charging Robots in a Modern Warehouse based on Online Connected Dominating Sets
9th Int. Conf. on Fun with Algorithms, La Maddalena, Italy, pp. 22:1-22:13, 2018

[C63][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann
Superlinear Scalability in Parallel Computing and Multi-Robot Systems: Shared Resources, Collaboration, and Network Topology
31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Braunschweig, Germany, pp. 31-42, Springer, 2018

[C62]
Daniel Wagner, Christian Hofmann, Heiko Hamann, Sebastian von Mammen
Design and Exploration of Braiding Swarms in VR
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '17), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 13:1-13:4, ACM, 2017

[C61]
Lorijn van Rooijen, Frederik Bäumer, Marie Christin Platenius, Michaela Geierhos, Heiko Hamann, Gregor Engels
From User Demand to Software Service: Using Machine Learning to Automate the Requirements Specification Process
Fourth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE'17) workshop - in conjuction with RE'17, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 379-385, IEEE 2017

[C60][.pdf bib]
Marcel Wever, Lorijn van Rooijen, Heiko Hamann
Active Coevolutionary Learning of Requirements Specifications from Examples
GECCO 2017, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1327-1334, ACM, 2017 *best paper award*

[C59][extended abstract]
Richard Borkowski, Heiko Hamann
Evolving robot swarm behaviors by minimizing surprise: results of simulations in 2-d on a Torus
Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics Workshop, GECCO 2017, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1679-1680, ACM, 2017

[C58][.pdf]
Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mostafa Wahby, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Payam Zahadat, Phil Ayres, Kasper Střy, Heiko Hamann
Self-Organized Construction with Continuous Building Material: Higher Flexibility based on Braided Structures
1st International Workshop on Self-Organising Construction (SOCO), SASO 2016, Munich, Germany, pp. 154-159, IEEE, 2016

[C57][.pdf]
Sebastian von Mammen, Heiko Hamann, Michael Heider
Robot Gardens: An Augmented Reality Prototype for Plant-Robot Biohybrid Systems
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'16), Munich, Germany, pp. 139-142, ACM, 2016

[C56][.pdf]
Lorijn van Rooijen, Heiko Hamann
Requirements Specification-by-Example Using a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm
Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE'16), Beijing, China, pp. 3-9, IEEE, 2016

[C55][.pdf]
Mohammad Divband Soorati, Heiko Hamann
Robot Self-Assembly as Adaptive Growth Process: Collective Selection of Seed Position and Self-Organizing Tree-Structures
IROS 2016, Daejeon, South Korea, pp. 5745-5750, 2016

[C54][.pdf]
Mostafa Wahby, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann
An Evolutionary Robotics Approach to the Control of Plant Growth and Motion: Modeling Plants and Crossing the Reality Gap
SASO 2016, Augsburg, Germany, IEEE, 2016

[C53][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Gabriele Valentini, Marco Dorigo
Population Coding: A New Design Paradigm for Embodied Distributed Systems
ANTS 2016, Brussels, Belgium, LNCS 9882, pp. 173-184, Springer, 2016

[C52]
Yara Khaluf, Heiko Hamann
On the Definition of Self-organizing Systems: Relevance of Positive/Negative Feedback and Fluctuations
ANTS 2016, Brussels, Belgium, LNCS 9882, p. 298, Springer, 2016

[C51]
Gabriele Valentini, Davide Brambilla, Heiko Hamann, Marco Dorigo
Collective Perception of Environmental Features in a Robot Swarm
ANTS 2016, Brussels, Belgium, LNCS 9882, pp. 65-76, Springer, 2016

[C50][.pdf supplement]
Milan Rybar, Heiko Hamann
Inspiration-Triggered Search: Towards Higher Complexities by Mimicking Creative Processes
GECCO 2016, Denver, CO, USA, pp. 165-172, ACM, 2016

[C49]
Thomas Kuehne, Heiko Hamann, Svetlana Arifulina, Gregor Engels
Patterns for Constructing Mutation Operators: Limiting the Search Space in a Software Engineering Application
EvoStar 2016, Porto, Portugal, LNCS 9594, pp. 278-293, 2016

[C48][.pdf]
Mostafa Wahby, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Sebastian von Mammen, Heiko Hamann
Evolution of Controllers for Robot-Plant Bio-Hybdrids: A Simple Case Study Using a Model of Plant Growth and Motion
Proc. of the 25th Workshop on Computational Intelligence (open access), Dortmund, Germany, pp. 67-86, 2015

[C47][.pdf]
Mostafa Wahby, Alexander Weinhold, Heiko Hamann
Revisiting BEECLUST: Aggregation of Swarm Robots with Adaptiveness to Different Light Settings
9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT 2015), New York City, US, pp. 272-279, ACM, 2015

[C46][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Mostafa Wahby, Thomas Schmickl, Payam Zahadat, Daniel Hofstadler, Kasper Stoy, Sebastian Risi, Andres Faina, Frank Veenstra, Serge Kernbach, Igor Kuksin, Olga Kernbach, Phil Ayres, Przemyslaw Wojtaszek
flora robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids
Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life IEEE ALIFE 2015, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 1102-1109, IEEE, 2015

[C45]
Hongli Ding, Heiko Hamann
Dependability in Swarm Robotics: Error Detection and Correction
First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics SWARM 2015, Kyoto, Japan, 2015 (in press)

[C44][.pdf]
Daniela Kengyel, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Gerald Radspieler, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl
Potential of Heterogeneity in Collective Behaviors: A Case Study on Heterogeneous Swarms
Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2015, Bertinoro, Italy, pp. 201-217, 2015

[C43][extended abstract][.pdf]
Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl
Evolving Collective Behaviors With Diverse But Predictable Sensor States
13th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2015), York, UK, p. 174, MIT Press, 2015

[C42][extended abstract][.pdf]
Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl
Evolving Diverse Collective Behaviors Independent of Swarm Density
Workshop Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics, GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1245-1246, ACM, 2015

[C41][.pdf]
Mohammad Divband Soorati, Heiko Hamann
The Effect of Fitness Function Design on Performance in Evolutionary Robotics: The Influence of a priori Knowledge
GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain, pp. 153-160, ACM, 2015

[C40][.pdf cited by]
Gabriele Valentini, Heiko Hamann, Marco Dorigo
Efficient Decision-Making in a Self-Organizing Robot Swarm: On the Speed Versus Accuracy Trade-Off
AAMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1305-1314, IFAAMAS, 2015 [best paper nominee]

[C39][video]
Gabriele Valentini, Heiko Hamann, Marco Dorigo
Self-Organized Collective Decisions in a Robot Swarm
AAAI Video Competition 2015, Austin, TX, USA, 2015 [best student video award]

[C38][.pdf supplement]
Mostafa Wahby, Heiko Hamann
On the Tradeoff between Hardware Protection and Optimization Success: A Case Study in Onboard Evolutionary Robotics for Autonomous Parallel Parking
EvoStar 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, Antonio M. Mora, Giovanni Squillero (eds.), LNCS 9028, pp. 759-770, Springer, 2015 [best paper nominee (EvoRobot track)]

[C37][extended abstract]
Istvan Karsai, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Allison Hilbun
The common stomach: Organizing task allocation in wasp societies
Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research, Claremont, CA, USA, 2014

[C36][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Gabriele Valentini, Yara Khaluf, Marco Dorigo
Derivation of a Micro-Macro Link for Collective Decision-Making Systems: Uncover Network Features Based on Drift Measurements
13th Intern. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014), Ljubljana, Slovenia, T. Bartz-Beielstein et al. (eds.), LNCS 8672, pp. 181-190, Springer, 2014

[C35][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann
Evolution of Collective Behaviors by Minimizing Surprise
14th Int. Conf. on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, USA, Hiroki Sayama, John Rieffel, Sebastian Risi, René Doursat and Hod Lipson (eds.), pp. 344-351, MIT Press, 2014

[C34][.pdf]
Heiko Hamann, Gabriele Valentini
Swarm in a fly bottle: Feedback-based Analysis of Self-organizing Temporary Lock-ins
Ninth Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2014), Brussels, Belgium, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Simon Garnier, Heiko Hamann, Marco Montes de Oca, Christine Solnon, Thomas Stützle (eds.), LNCS 8667, pp. 170-181, Springer, 2014 [best paper nominee]

[C33][.pdf]
Hongli Ding, Heiko Hamann
Sorting in Swarm Robots Using Communication-Based Cluster Size Estimation
Ninth Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2014), Brussels, Belgium, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Simon Garnier, Heiko Hamann, Marco Montes de Oca, Christine Solnon, Thomas Stützle (eds.), LNCS 8667, pp. 262-269, Springer, 2014

[C32][extended abstract][pdf]
Heiko Hamann
Evolving Prediction Machines: Collective Behaviors Based on Minimal Surprisal
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, Canada, Christian Igel (ed.), pp. 31-32, ACM, 2014

[C31][.pdf]
Yara Khaluf, Mauro Birattari, Heiko Hamann
A Swarm Robotics Approach to Task Allocation Under Soft Deadlines and Negligible Switching Costs
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2014), Castellon, Spain, Angel P. del Pobil, Eris Chinellato, Ester Martinez-Martin, John Hallam, Enric Cervera, Antonio Morales (eds.), pp. 270-279, LNCS 8575, Springer, 2014

[C30][.pdf cited by]
Gabriele Valentini, Heiko Hamann, Marco Dorigo
Self-Organized Collective Decision Making: The Weighted Voter Model
13th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Mutli-agent Systems (AAMAS 2014), Paris, France, Alessio Lomuscio, Paul Scerri, Ana Bazzan, Michael Huhns (eds.), pp. 45-52, ACM, 2014

[C29][.pdf supplement]
Heiko Hamann
A Reductionist Approach to Hypothesis-Catching for the Analysis of Self-Organizing Decision-Making Systems
7th IEEE Int. Conf. on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), Philadelphia, USA, pp. 227-236, IEEE, 2013

[C28][.pdf .bib]
Heiko Hamann
Speciation Dynamics: Generating Selective Pressure Towards Diversity
12th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2013), Taormina, Italy, Pietro Liň, Orazio Miglino, Giuseppe Nicosia, Stefano Nolfi and Mario Pavone (eds.), pp. 947-954, MIT Press, 2013 [nominee for best paper award (top 8)]

[C27][.pdf .bib]
Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Christopher S. F. Schwarzer, Nico K. Michiels, Thomas Schmickl
Virtual Spatiality in Agent Controllers: Encoding Compartmentalization
EvoStar 2013, Vienna, Austria, Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alcazar (ed.), LNCS 7835, pp. 579-588, Springer-Verlag, 2013

[C26][.pdf .bib cited by supplement]
Heiko Hamann
Towards Swarm Calculus: Universal Properties of Swarm Performance and Collective Decisions
ANTS 2012, Brussels, Belgium, Marco Dorigo et al. (eds.), LNCS 7461, pp. 168-179, Springer-Verlag, 2012 [best paper award]

[C25][extended abstract][.pdf .bib]
Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
On-line, On-board Evolution of Reaction-Diffusion Control for Self-Adaptation
Alife XIII, East Lansing, MI, USA, Christoph Adami, David M. Bryson, Charles Ofria, Robert T. Pennock (eds.), pp. 597-598, MIT Press, 2012

[C24][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmickl
Towards Morphological Flexibility: Modular Robotics and Bio-inspired Control
Austrian Robotics Workshop (Operational Programme Slovenia-Austria), Graz, Austria, 2012

[C23][.pdf .bib]
Leo Cazenille, Nicolas Bredeche, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner
Impact of Neuron Models and Network Structure on Evolving Robot Neural Network Controllers
14th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2012, Philadelphia, USA, pp. 89-96, ACM, 2012

[C22][.pdf .bib]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Explaining Emergent Behavior in a Swarm System Based on an Inversion of the Fluctuation Theorem
Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011, Paris, France, Tom Lenaerts, Mario Giacobini, Hugues Bersini, Paul Bourgine, Marco Dorigo, Rene Doursat (eds.), pp. 302-309, MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-29714-1 (open access), 2011 [selected as top 10 paper]

[C21][.pdf .bib cited by supplement]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Coupled Inverted Pendulums: A Benchmark for Evolving Decentral Controllers in Modular Robotics
13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011, Dublin, Ireland, Natalio Krasnogor and Pier Luca Lanzi (eds.), pp. 195-202, ACM, 2011

[C20][.pdf .bib cited by]
Thomas Schmickl, Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Lutz Winkler, Karl Crailsheim
Major Feedbacks Supporting Artificial Evolution in Multi-Modular Robotics
New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics (Studies in Computational Intelligence Vol. 341), Stephane Doncieux, Nicolas Bredeche, Jean-Baptiste Mouret (editors), p. 195-209, Springer-Verlag, 2011

[C19][.pdf .bib cited by]
Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim
Evolving a Novel Bio-Inspired Controller in Reconfigurable Robots
10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09), Budapest, Hungary, LNCS 5777, pp. 132-139, Springer-Verlag, 2011

[C18][.pdf .bib]
Daniela Kengyel, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim
Embodiment of Honeybee's Thermotaxis in a Mobile Robot Swarm
10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09), Budapest, Hungary, LNCS 5778, pp. 69-76, Springer-Verlag, 2011

[C17][.pdf .bib]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Evolving for Creativity: Maximizing Complexity in a Self-Organized Multi-Particle System
10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09), Budapest, Hungary, LNCS 5777, pp. 442-449, Springer-Verlag, 2011

[C16][.pdf .bib cited by supplement]
Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Thermodynamics of Emergence: Langton's Ant Meets Boltzmann
IEEE ALIFE - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Paris, France, pp. 62-69, IEEE, 2011

[C15][.pdf .bib]
Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Karl Crailsheim
Robotic Organisms: Artificial Homeostatic Hormone System and Virtual Embryogenesis as Examples for Adaptive Reaction-Diffusion Controllers
Reconfigurable Modular Robotics: Challenges of Mechatronic and Bio-Chemo-Hybrid Systems (IROS 2011 Workshop), Serge Kernbach and Robert Fitch (eds.), 2011

[C14][.pdf .bib supplement cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Artificial Hormone Reaction Networks: Towards Higher Evolvability in Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics
Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, pp. 773-780, MIT Press (open access), 2010

[C13][.pdf .bib cited by]
Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Ralf Mayet, Karl Crailsheim
Complex Taxis-Behaviour in a Novel Bio-Inspired Robot Controller
Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, pp. 648-655, MIT Press (open access), 2010

[C12][.pdf .bib]
Serge Kernbach, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Christopher Schwarzer, Florian Schlachter, Alan F.T. Winfield, Rene Matthias
Adaptive Action Selection Mechanisms for Evolutionary Multimodular Robotics
Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, pp. 781-788, MIT Press (open access), 2010

[C11][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Bernd Meyer, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
A Model of Symmetry Breaking in Collective Decision-Making
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'10), Paris, France, LNAI 6226, pp. 639-648, Springer-Verlag, 2010

[C10][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
A Hormone-Based Controller for Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics: From Single Modules to Gait Learning
Proc. of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'10), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 244-251, IEEE Press, 2010

[C9][.pdf .bib cited by]
Serge Kernbach, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim, A.C. van Rossum, Michele Sebag, Nicolas Bredeche, Yao Yao, Guy Baele, Yves Van de Peer, Jon Timmis, Maizura Mohktar, Andy Tyrrell, A.E. Eiben, S.P. McKibbin, Wenguo Liu, Alan F.T. Winfield
On Adaptive Self-Organization in Artificial Robot Organisms
The First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE'09), Athens, Greece, November 15-20, IEEE Press, 2009

[C8][.pdf .bib cited by]
Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
Analysis and Implementation of an Artificial Homeostatic Hormone System: A First Case Study in Robotic Hardware
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 11-15, IEEE Press, 2009

[C7][.pdf .bib supplement]
Heiko Hamann
Pattern Formation as a Transient Phenomenon in the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Multi-Agent System
MATHMOD 2009 - 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, Austria, February 11-13, 2009

[C6][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl
Spatial Macroscopic Models of a Bio-Inspired Robotic Swarm Algorithm
IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS'08), Nice, France, September 22-26, pp. 1415-1420, IEEE Press, 2008

[C5][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
Aggregating Robots Compute: An Adaptive Heuristic for the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem
The tenth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'08), Osaka, Japan, July 7-12, LNAI 5040, pp. 447-456, Springer-Verlag, 2008

[C4][.pdf .bib]
Heinz Wörn, Ramon Estana, Heiko Hamann, Marc Szymanski
From Micro to Nano and Swarm Robotics
Advances in Climbing and Walking Robots. Proceedings of 10th International Conference (CLAWAR'07), Singapore, July 16-18, World Scientific Pub., 2007

[C3][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
A Space- and Time-Continuous Model of Self-Organizing Robot Swarms for Design Support
First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'07), Boston, USA, July 9-11, pp. 23-31, IEEE Press, 2007

[C2][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Marc Szymanski, Heinz Wörn
Orientation in a Trail Network by Exploiting its Geometry for Swarm Robotics
IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Honolulu, USA, April 1-5, pp. 310-315, IEEE Press, 2007

[C1][.pdf .bib cited by]
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
An Analytical and Spatial Model of Foraging in a Swarm of Robots
Swarm Robotics - Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, LNCS 4433, pp. 43-55, Springer-Verlag, 2007

Theses

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Heiko Hamann
Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Global-to-Local Programming
PhD Thesis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008

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Heiko Hamann
Modeling and Investigation of Robot Swarms
Diploma (Master) Thesis, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2006

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Heiko Hamann
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Coupled Map Lattices
Student research project, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2004