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Dr. Tobias Jacobs

Senior Researcher

Group Involvement, NEC Laboratories Europe

Data Ecosystems and Standards Group

Research Interests

Tobias generally enjoys working on challenging problems in Machine Learning and Computational Optimization. He is particularly interested in Reinforcement Learning techniques for problems with graph-structured data, representing both factual and procedural knowledge.

Publications

  • Gürkan Solmaz, Flavio Cirillo, Jonathan Fürst, Tobias Jacobs, Martin Bauer, Ernö Kovacs, Juan Ramón Santana, Luis Sánchez: Enabling data spaces: existing developments and challenges. DE@CoNEXT 2022: 42-48
  • Tobias Jacobs, Jingyi Yu, Julia Gastinger, Timo Sztyler: ProcK: Machine Learning for Knowledge-Intensive Processes. ECML/PKDD (2) 2022: 107-121
  • Tobias Jacobs, Francesco Alesiani, Gülcin Ermis: Reinforcement Learning for Route Optimization with Robustness Guarantees. IJCAI 2021: 2592-2598
  • Laura Coconea, Miha Cimperman, Tobias Jacobs: ITS and Real Time Cross Border Logistic Operations Optimization. CoRR abs/2101.03803 (2021)
  • Mischa Schmidt, Shahd Safarani, Julia Gastinger, Tobias Jacobs, Sebastien Nicolas, Anett Schülke: On the Performance of Differential Evolution for Hyperparameter Tuning. IJCNN 2019: 1-8
  • Prabhant Singh, Tobias Jacobs, Sebastien Nicolas, Mischa Schmidt: A Study of the Learning Progress in Neural Architecture Search Techniques. CoRR abs/1906.07590 (2019)
  • Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Martino Trevisan, Tobias Jacobs, Simon Kuenzer, Stefano Salsano, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Felipe Huici: Re-Designing Dynamic Content Delivery in the Light of a Virtualized Infrastructure. IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 35(11): 2574-2585 (2017)
  • Tobias Jacobs, Sebastien Nicolas, Tae-Gil Noh, Anett Schuelke, Hans Auer, Daniel Schwabeneder, Daniele Basciotti, Edmund Widl, Sawsan Henein, Olatz Terreros: A holistic study of energy network hybridization in a Northern European City. ISGT Europe 2017: 1-6
  • Tobias Jacobs, Sebastien Nicolas, Tae-Gil Noh, Anett Schuelke, Hans Auer, Daniel Schwabeneder, Daniele Basciotti, Edmund Widl, Sawsan Henein, Olatz Terreros: Increasing the Utilization Ratio of Photovoltaic Energy by Network Hybridization. BDCloud-SocialCom-SustainCom 2016: 445-452
  • Wiebke Höhn, Tobias Jacobs: On the Performance of Smith's Rule in Single-Machine Scheduling with Nonlinear Cost. ACM Trans. Algorithms 11(4): 25:1-25:30 (2015)
  • Tobias Jacobs, Salvatore Longo: A Study of Caching Strategies for Web Service Discovery. ICWS 2015: 464-471
  • Ferdinando Cicalese, Tobias Jacobs, Eduardo Sany Laber, Marco Molinaro: Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Average-Case Tree Searching Problem. Algorithmica 68(4): 1045-1074 (2014)
  • Hiroshi Fujiwara, Tobias Jacobs: On the Huffman and Alphabetic Tree Problem with General Cost Functions. Algorithmica 69(3): 582-604 (2014)
  • Flavio Cirillo, Tobias Jacobs: Link discovery in social networks. ASONAM 2014: 898-905
  • Tobias Jacobs, Salvatore Longo: A New Perspective on the Windows Scheduling Problem. CoRR abs/1410.7237 (2014)
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