We are proud to announce that our graph-drawing software project OGDF has been selected as a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2012. Overall, only 180 open-source organizations have been selected worldwide.
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Google sponsors $5,000 for each successful student. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together nearly 5,500 successful student participants and over 3000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code.
Students interested in our projects should visit the OGDF GSoC page. Deadline for student applications is April 6.
The AlgE group members Karsten Klein, Nils Kriege, and Petra Mutzel have won the Best Paper award at this year's International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2012) for their publication “Scaffold Hunter - Visual Analysis of Chemical Compound Databases”. The paper describes Scaffold Hunter, an interactive software tool for the exploration and analysis of chemical compound databases. Scaffold Hunter allows to explore the chemical space spanned by a compound database, fosters intuitive recognition of complex structural and bioactivity relationships, and helps to identify interesting compound classes with a desired bioactivity. Thus, the tool supports chemists during the complex and time-consuming drug discovery process to gain additional knowledge and to focus on regions of interest, facilitating the search for promising drug candidates.
Best Paper award für die Veröffentlichung “Scaffold Hunter - Visual Analysis of Chemical Compound Databases” von Karsten Klein, Nils Kriege und Petra Mutzel auf der diesjährigen International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2012). Die Veröffentlichung beschreibt Scaffold Hunter, eine Software zur visuellen Analyse von chemischen Strukturdatenbanken.
The EURO Journal on Computational Optimization is about to start. The editorial management system has already been set-up, papers can be submitted from now on. The new Journal will be run by the EURO association, and has been set up to publish original research articles in which Operations Research and Computer Science are connected. Submissions on advanced applications in computational optimization focusing on mathematical models, methodologies, or computational results are welcome. The editorial board consists of leading international scientists of the optimization community. Editor-in-Chief is Professor Dr. Martine Labbe from Universite Libre de Brussels, Professor Dr. Petra Mutzel has been appointed as editor.
Das Programm von ALENEX 2012, des 14.-ten internationalen Workshops für “Algorithm Engineering and Experiments” steht nun fest. Aus 49 eingesendeten wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen hat das aus 14 Mitgliedern bestehende Programmkomitee unter der Leitung von David A. Bader und Petra Mutzel 15 hochkarätige Beiträge zur Veröffenlichung ausgewählt, die am 16. Januar 2012 in Kyoto präsentiert werden. Daneben gibt es auch zwei eingeladene Vorträge von Guy Blelloch und J. Ian Munro.
Die ALENEX Workshops gehören zu den weltweit wichtigsten im Bereich des Algorithm Engineering und werden seit vielen Jahren zeitgleich mit dem ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) durchgeführt und von SIAM sowie der Algorithmen-SIGACT Gruppe von ACM gesponsert. Die SODA gilt als eine der wichtigsten und kompetitivsten Konferenzen im Algorithmen-Bereich weltweit. Im Jahr 2011 waren nur zwei in Deutschland ansässige Vertreter im Programmkomitee von SODA verteten: Christian Sohler und Petra Mutzel, beide an der TU Dortmund. Dies unterstreicht die große internationale Bedeutung der TU Dortmund im Bereich der Algorithmik.
Weitere Informationen: ALENEX 2012 und SODA 2012.