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Dr. Oliver Kosak

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

curriculum vitae and awards

Vita

since    2022 - Senior Researcher (Academic Council / Assistant Professor) at the Chair of Prof. Reif, University of Augsburg

            2021 - Doctoral Thesis on „Mission Programming for Flying Ensembles: Combining Planning with Self-Organization“
since    2014 - 2022 Researcher at the Chair of Prof. Reif, University of Augsburg

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

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

 

Awards

 

            2022 - Bavarian Culture Award, Category Science

 

Administration and Coordination

 

since    2021    Coordinator of the Topic "Self-Organizing Process Route Planning" within the "KI-Production Network Augsburg"

since    2019    Coordination Deputy of the Self-Organizing Systems Group

Main Research Interest

I focus on the following research topics: 

  • Self-organization and self-adaptation of technical systems

  • Automated Planning, Constraint Solving, Swarm Robotics

  • Multi-Agent Systems and Multi-Robot Systems

  • Self-organizing production systems (Industry 4.0)

 

I am involved in the following research areas and projects:

 

Recent Projects, Demonstrations, Exhibitions:

 

External Links:

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. In Esam El-Araby, Vana Kalogeraki, Danilo Pianini, Frédéric Lassabe, Barry Porter, Sona Ghahremani, Ingrid Nunes, Mohamed Bakhouya and Sven Tomforde (Ed.). 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C), DC, USA, 27 September - 1 October 2021. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 289-290. 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. In 3rd International Workshop on Robotic Software Engineering (RoSE’21), co-located with ICSE 2021, Virtual, Madrid, Spain, May 23 – 29, 2021. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 41-46 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. In Esam El-Araby, Vana Kalogeraki, Danilo Pianini, Frédéric Lassabe, Barry Porter, Sona Ghahremani, Ingrid Nunes, Mohamed Bakhouya and Sven Tomforde (Ed.). 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C), 27 September - 1 October 2021, DC, USA. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 62-67. DOI: 10.1109/acsos-c52956.2021.00034
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Oliver Kosak. 2021. Mission programming for flying ensembles: combining planning with self-organization. Dissertation, Universität Augsburg. .
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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. In Dick Bulterman, Atsushi Kitazawa, David Ostrowski, Phillip Sheu and Jeffrey Tsai (Ed.). 2021 IEEE 15th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 27-29 January 2021, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, virtual event. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 203-206. 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. In Tarek El-Ghazari, Manish Parashar, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer (Eds.). 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) 2020, 17-21 August 2020, Washington, DC, USA. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 178-187 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. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12477, 507-524. 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. In Davide Brugali, Jean-Claude Latombe, Phillip Sheu, Rouh-Mei Hu (Eds.). IEEE Robotic Computing IRC 2020 - The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, 9-11 November 2020, Taichung, Taiwan. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 290-293 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. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12477, 525-540. 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. In 4th eCAS Workshop on Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems, 2019, in conjunction with the the 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019) and the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2019), FAS*, Umeå, Sweden, 16 June 2019. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 104-109. 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. Sensors 19, 1, 17. DOI: 10.3390/s19010017
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2018

Oliver Kosak. 2018. Multipotent systems: a new paradigm for multi-robot applications. In Sven Tomforde and Bernhard Sick (Ed.). Organic Computing: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2018. kassel university press, Kassel (Intelligent Embedded Systems ; 13), 125-142. 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. In Antonio Bucchiarone and Alberto Montresor (Ed.). 2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 3-7 Sept. 2018, Trento, Italy. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 110-119. 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. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11246, 94-108. 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. In Christopher K. Frantz, Stefano Iannucci and Jeremy Pitt (Ed.). Doctoral Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Self-* Systems (FAS*W), in conjunction with SASO 2017 - 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 18-22 September 2017. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 371-374. 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. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98, 6, 1217-1234. 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. In SASO 2016: 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 12-16, 2016, Augsburg, Germany.
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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. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 3, 14. 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. In Wolfgang Reif, Gerrit Anders, Hella Seebach, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Elisabeth André, Jörg Hähner, Christian Müller-Schloer and Theo Ungerer (Ed.). Trustworthy Open Self-Organising Systems. Springer International, Cham (Autonomic Systems (ASYS)), 17-54. 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. In Sameh Elnikety, Peter R. Lewis and Christian Müller-Schloer (Ed.). 1st eCAS Workshop on Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems, September 12th, 2016, co-located with the 10th IEEE international conference on Self-Adaptive Self-Organizing Conference SASO 2016, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 204-209. DOI: 10.1109/FAS-W.2016.52
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2015

Oliver Kosak. 2015. A decentralised swarm approach for mobile robot-systems. In Sven Tomforde and Bernhard Sick (Ed.). Organic Computing: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2015. Kassel University Press, Kassel (Intelligent Embedded Systems ; 7), 53-62.
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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. In Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Emma Hart and Gregory T. Sullivan (Ed.). 2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 21-25 September 2015, Cambridge, MA, USA. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-10. 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. Reports / Technische Berichte der Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik der Universität Augsburg 2013-04. .
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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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