Dipl.-Math. Manuel Schmitt
	Address:
	Department of Computer Science 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design) University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Cauerstraße 11 D-91058 Erlangen Germany
	Phone:	+49 9131 85-25387
	Email:	manuel.schmitt@cs.fau.de

Research interests

• Satisfiability Problem
• Markov Chains
• Particle Swarm Optimization

Publications

• Schmitt, M.; Wanka, R.:
  Particle Swarm Optimization Almost Surely Finds Local Optima;
  in: Proc. 15th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); pp. 1629-1636, 2013 [Best Paper Award].
  [doi:10.1145/2463372.2463563]
  
  
• Schmitt, M.; Wanka, R.:
  Particles Prefer Walking Along the Axes: Experimental Insights into the Behavior of a Particle Swarm;
  in: Companion of Proc. 15th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); pp. 17-18, 2013.
  
  
• Schmitt, M.; Wanka, R.:
  Exploiting Independent Subformulas: A Faster Approximation Scheme for #k-SAT;
  Information Processing Letters 113 (2013) 337-344.
  [doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2013.02.013]
  arXiv: CoRR abs/1302.6900 (2013)
  
  
• Bassimir, B.; Schmitt, M.; Wanka, R.:
  How Much Forcing is Necessary to Let the Results of Particle Swarms Converge?
  in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence Based Optimization (ICSIBO), 2014, to appear.