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Professor

Department:

Department of Engineering

Study area:

IT, Technology & Engineering

Professorship or teaching area:

Software engineering

Institute or organisation:

IAE | Institute of Computer Science, Automation and Electronics

Education



  • 1972-1978

    Studied physics at Lomonosov University in Moscow

  • 1978-1981

    Trainee at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and at the Dubna Nuclear Research Centre


Professional stations



  • 1981-1985

    Research assistant at the Physics Section of Leipzig University, work on theoretical high-energy physics

  • 1985-1996

    Research associate at the Rossendorf Research Centre, work on chaos theory and optimisation of complex systems

  • 1997-1998

    Work at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and at the TU Dresden

  • 1998-2002

    Employee of a large IT and software company


Dissertation



  • 1982

    Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.), dissertation on analytical and numerical methods in many-body theory, Lomonosov Moscow University

  • 1998

    Habilitation in the field of theoretical physics, work on modelling and optimisation of complex systems, TU Dresden


Work at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences



  • since 04/2002

Selection:



  • Complexity - Why the railway is never on time, Springer 2012

  • On the decay of quantum systems with few open channels, Phys. Rep., 2000

  • Democratic optimization - a new general purpose Monte-Carlo optimization algorithm, PRL, 1996

  • Light cone quantisation, Ann. Phys., 1985

Courses


in the study programmes AEE, INF, ITA and SE:



  • Fundamentals of programming (engineering foundation course)

  • Programming languages (AEE, ITA)

  • Databases (AEE, ITA)

  • Software Engineering (ITA)

  • Fuzzy Logic (AEE)

  • Human-machine communication (SE)

  • Complexity (SE)


Main research areas



  • Optimisation of complex systems


Further university involvement



  • SALT Solutions GmbH, database development, final theses

  • Daimler AG, optimisation problems, time series analysis

  • Volkswagen AG, final theses






  • SALT Solutions GmbH, database development, final theses

  • Daimler AG, optimisation problems, time series analysis

  • Volkswagen AG, final theses





Prof. Dr rer. nat. habil. Frank-Michael Dittes