Dr. Oliver Kosak

Assistant Professor
Institute for Software & Systems Engineering
Phone: +49 821 598 2177
Fax: +49 821 598 2175
Email:
Room: 3043 (N)
Address: Universitätsstraße 6a, 86159 Augsburg

curriculum vitae and awards

 

since    2022 - Senior Researcher (University of Augsburg)

            2022 - Bavarian Culture Award, Category Science

            2021 - Doctoral Thesis on „Mission Programming for Flying Ensembles: Combining Planning with Self-Organization“

since    2020 - Coordinator of the Topic "Self-organizing Process Route Planning" within the "KI-Production Network Augsburg"

            2014 - M.Sc. Computer Sciences (University of Augsburg)

            2012 - B.Sc. Computer Sciences (University of Augsburg)

Academic Services

Organization Committee

  • SASO 2016 in Augsburg: Local Organization Committee Member

 

Reviewer for Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Elsevier Journal 2019
  • Palydyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics - De Gruyter Journal 2018
  • Swarm and Evolutionary Computation - Elsevier Journal 2020

Program Committee for Conferences & Symposia

  • The Eleventh International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE 2019 Conference
  • 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (Part of FAS*2018 Conference) (Subreviewer)
  • The Tenth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE 2018 Conference
  • 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (Part of FAS*2017 Conference) (Subreviewer)
  • The Eighth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE 2016 Conference (Subreviewer)
  • The Seventh International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE 2015 Conference (Subreviewer)
  • 9th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation Track on    Rigorous Engineering of Collective Adaptive Systems

Program Committee for Workshops

  • 3rd Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (OC-DDC'18)  (Subreviewer)

  • 2nd eCAS Workshop on Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems (ECAS 2017) (Co-located with SASO 2017 Conference)

  • 3rd Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (OC-DDC'15) (Subreviewer)

Courses

 

Teaching in Courses

  • Bachelor: Self-organizing, embedded Systems (since 2016)
  • Master: Self-organizing, adaptive Systems (since 2015)
  • Master Seminary on Software- und Systems Engineering: Artificial Intelligence (2017)
  • Bachelor Seminary on Software- und Systems Engineering: Mobile Robotik (2015)
  • Master Seminary on Software- und Systems Engineering (2015)

 

 

Publications

2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2013

2021

Jonas Wilfert, Niklas Paprotta, Oliver Kosak, Simon Stieber, Alexander Schiendorfer and Wolfgang Reif. 2021. A real-word realization of the AntNet routing algorithm with ActivityBots. DOI: 10.1109/ACSOS-C52956.2021.00072
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Martin Schörner, Constantin Wanninger, Alwin Hoffmann, Oliver Kosak and Wolfgang Reif. 2021. Architecture for emergency control of autonomous UAV ensembles. DOI: 10.1109/RoSE52553.2021.00014
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Joseph Hirsch, Martin Neumayer, Hella Ponsar, Oliver Kosak and Wolfgang Reif. 2021. Distributed constraint optimization for task allocation in self-adaptive manufacturing systems. DOI: 10.1109/acsos-c52956.2021.00034
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Oliver Kosak. 2021. Mission programming for flying ensembles: combining planning with self-organization.
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Constantin Wanninger, Luca Alfano, Martin Schörner, Alwin Hoffmann, Oliver Kosak and Wolfgang Reif. 2021. Semantic plug and play: an architecture combining linked data and reconfigurable hardware. DOI: 10.1109/icsc50631.2021.00043
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2020

Joseph Hirsch, Martin Neumayer, Hella Ponsar, Oliver Kosak and Wolfgang Reif. 2020. Deadlock avoidance for multiple tasks in a self-organizing production cell. DOI: 10.1109/ACSOS49614.2020.00040
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Oliver Kosak, Lukas Huhn, Felix Bohn, Constantin Wanninger, Alwin Hoffmann and Wolfgang Reif. 2020. Maple-Swarm: programming collective behavior for ensembles by extending HTN-planning. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61470-6_30
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Martin Schörner, Constantin Wanninger, Alwin Hoffmann, Oliver Kosak, Hella Ponsar and Wolfgang Reif. 2020. Modeling and execution of coordinated missions in reconfigurable robot ensembles. DOI: 10.1109/IRC.2020.00053
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Oliver Kosak, Felix Bohn, Lennart Eing, Dennis Rall, Constantin Wanninger, Alwin Hoffmann and Wolfgang Reif. 2020. Swarm and collective capabilities for multipotent robot ensembles. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61470-6_31
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2019

Oliver Kosak, Felix Bohn, Felix Keller, Hella Ponsar and Wolfgang Reif. 2019. Ensemble programming for multipotent systems. DOI: 10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00037
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Oliver Kosak, Constantin Wanninger, Alwin Hoffmann, Hella Ponsar and Wolfgang Reif. 2019. Multipotent systems: combining planning, self-organization, and reconfiguration in modular robot ensembles. DOI: 10.3390/s19010017
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2018

Oliver Kosak. 2018. Multipotent systems: a new paradigm for multi-robot applications. DOI: 10.19211/KUP9783737606974
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Julian Hanke, Oliver Kosak, Alexander Schiendorfer and Wolfgang Reif. 2018. Self-organized resource allocation for reconfigurable robot ensembles. DOI: 10.1109/saso.2018.00022
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Constantin Wanninger, Christian Eymüller, Alwin Hoffmann, Oliver Kosak and Wolfgang Reif. 2018. Synthesizing capabilities for collective adaptive systems from self-descriptive hardware devices bridging the reality gap. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03424-5_7
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2017

Oliver Kosak and Wolfgang Reif. 2017. Facilitating planning by using self-organization. DOI: 10.1109/FAS-W.2017.178
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B. Wolf, Christian Chwala, Benjamin Fersch, J. Garvelmann, W. Junkermann, M. J. Zeeman, Andreas Angerer, B. Adler, Christoph Beck, C. Brosy, P. Brugger, S. Emeis, M. Dannenmann, F. De Roo, E. Diaz-Pines, E. Haas, M. Hagen, I. Hajnsek, Jucundus Jacobeit, Thomas Jagdhuber, N. Kalthoff, R. Kiese, Harald Kunstmann, Oliver Kosak, R. Krieg, C. Malchow, M. Mauder, R. Merz, C. Notarnicola, Andreas Philipp, Wolfgang Reif, S. Reineke, T. Rödiger, N. Ruehr, K. Schäfer, M. Schrön, A. Senatore, H. Shupe, I. Völksch, Constantin Wanninger, S. Zacharias and H. P. Schmid. 2017. The SCALEX campaign: scale-crossing land surface and boundary layer processes in the TERENO-preAlpine observatory. DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-15-00277.1
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2016

Oliver Kosak, Constantin Wanninger, Andreas Angerer, Alwin Hoffmann, Andreas Schierl and Hella Seebach. 2016. Decentralized coordination of heterogeneous ensembles using Jadex.
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Heiko Hamann, Yara Khaluf, Jean Botev, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Eliseo Ferrante, Oliver Kosak, Jean-Marc Montanier, Sanaz Mostaghim, Richard Redpath, Jon Timmis, Frank Veenstra, Mostafa Wahby and Aleš Zamuda. 2016. Hybrid societies: challenges and perspectives in the design of collective behavior in self-organizing systems. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2016.00014
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Gerrit Anders, Florian Siefert, Alexander Schiendorfer, Hella Seebach, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Benedikt Eberhardinger, Oliver Kosak and Wolfgang Reif. 2016. Specification and design of trust-based open self-organising systems. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29201-4_2
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Oliver Kosak, Constantin Wanninger, Andreas Angerer, Alwin Hoffmann, Alexander Schiendorfer and Hella Seebach. 2016. Towards self-organizing swarms of reconfigurable self-aware robots. DOI: 10.1109/FAS-W.2016.52
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2015

Oliver Kosak. 2015. A decentralised swarm approach for mobile robot-systems.
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Oliver Kosak, Gerrit Anders, Florian Siefert and Wolfgang Reif. 2015. An approach to robust resource allocation in large-scale systems of systems. DOI: 10.1109/saso.2015.8
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2013

Gerrit Anders, Florian Siefert, Nizar Msadek, Rolf Kiefhaber, Oliver Kosak, Wolfgang Reif and Theo Ungerer. 2013. TEMAS - a Trust-Enabling Multi-Agent System for open environments.
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Institute for Software & Systems Engineering

The Institute for Software & Systems Engineering (ISSE), directed by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reif, is a scientific institution within the Faculty of Applied Computer Science of the University of Augsburg. In research, the institute supports both fundamental and application-oriented research in all areas of software and systems engineering. In teaching, the institute facilitates the further development of the faculty's and university's relevant course offerings.

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