Assoc Prof Bernd Meyer - Researcher Profile

Bernd Meyer

Address

Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 52240

Email: Bernd.Meyer@monash.edu


Biography

Bernd works in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University as an Associate Professor.

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Research & Supervision Interests

Keywords

Biological Modelling, Complex Systems Modelling, Intelligent Systems, Optimisation and Constraint Solving, Simulation and Reasoning Under Uncertainty

Qualifications

Dr. rer. nat.
Institution: University of Hagen
Year awarded: 1994

Publications

Books

Marriott, K., Meyer, B., Wittenburg, K., 1997, A survey of visual language specification and recognition, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Marriott, K., Meyer, B. (eds), 1997, TVL97 International Workshop on Theory of Visual Languages, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Germany.

Marriott, K., Meyer, B., 1997, The CCMG visual language hierarchy, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Meyer, B., 2008, Hybrids of constructive metaheuristics and constraint programming: A case study with ACO, in Hybrid Metaheuristics: An Emerging Approach to Optimization, eds Christian Blum, Maria Jose Blesa Aguilera, Andrea Roli and Michael Sampels, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 151-183.

Meyer, B., Bottoni, P., 2008, Visual and diagrammatic languages: The logic perspective, in Visual Languages for Interactive Computing: Definitions and Formalizations, eds Fernando Ferri, Information Science Publishing, Hershey PA USA, pp. 22-50.

Meyer, B., 2002, Diagrammatic evaluation of visual mathematical notations, in Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning, eds M Anderson, B Meyer and P Oliver, Springer-Verlag, London UK, pp. 261-277.

Meyer, B., Marriott, K.G., Allwein, G., 2002, Intelligent diagrammatic interfaces: state of the art, in Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning, eds M Anderson, B Meyer and P Oliver, Springer-Verlag, London UK, pp. 411-429.

Marriott, K., Meyer, B., Wittenberg, K.B., 1998, A Survey of Visual Language Specification and recognition, in Visual Language Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York NY USA, pp. 5-83.

Marriott, K., Meyer, B., 1998, The CCMG Visual Language Hierarchy, in Visual Language Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York NY USA, pp. 129-169.

Meyer, B., Marriott, K., 1997, Specifying diagram animation with rewrite systems, in TVL97 International Workshop on Theory of Visual Languages, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Germany, pp. 85-96.

Journal Articles

Thiruvady, D.R., Singh, G., Ernst, A.T., Meyer, B., 2012, Constraint-based ACO for a shared resource constrained scheduling problem, International Journal of Production Economics [P], vol 141, issue 1, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 230-242.

Vigelius, M., Meyer, B., 2012, Multi-dimensional, mesoscopic Monte Carlo simulations of inhomogeneous reaction-drift-diffusion systems on graphics-processing units, PLoS ONE [P], vol 7, issue 4, Public Library Science, San Francisco CA USA, pp. 1-13.

Vigelius, M., Meyer, B., 2012, Stochastic simulations of pattern formation in excitable media, PLoS ONE [P], vol 7, issue 8, Public Library Science, San Francisco CA USA, pp. 1-14.

Vigelius, M., Lane, A.A., Meyer, B., 2010, Accelerating reaction-diffusion simulations with general purpose Graphics Processing Units, Bioinformatics [P], vol E, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 1-3.

Dussutour, A., Beekman, M., Nicolis, S.C., Meyer, B., 2009, Noise improves collective decision-making by ants in dynamic environments, Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences (Series B) [P], vol 276, issue 1677, The Royal Society, London UK, pp. 4353-4361.

Meyer, B., 2008, On the convergence behaviour of ant colony search, Complexity International [P], vol 12, Charles Sturt University, Australia, pp. 1-15.

Handl, J., Meyer, B., 2007, Ant-based and swarm-based clustering, Swarm Intelligence, vol 1, issue 2, Springer, New York NY USA, pp. 95-113.

Hansen, T., Marriott, K., Meyer, B., Stuckey, P.J., 2002, Flexible graph layout for the web, Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, vol 13, issue 1, Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 35-60.

Handl, J., Meyer, B., 2002, Improved ant-based clustering and sorting in a document retrieval interface, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2439, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 913-923.

Bottoni, P., Meyer, B., Marriott, K., Presicce, F.P., 2001, Deductive parsing of visual languages, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 2099, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 79-94.

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 2001, TMWLego* - An Object Oriented Image Modelling Framework, Proceedings DCC2001 Data Compression Conference, IEEE, Los Alamitos CA USA, p. 504.

Bottoni, P., Meyer, B., Presicce, F.P., 2001, Visual multiset rewriting: applications to diagram parsing and reasoning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2235, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 45-67.

Meyer, B., 2000, A constraint-based framework for diagrammatic reasoning, Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol 14, issue 4, Taylor and Francis inc., USA, pp. 327-344.

Marriott, K., Meyer, B., 2000, Non-standard Logics for Diagram Interpretation, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 1889, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 42-57.

Meyer, B., Mingins, C., 1999, Component-Based Development: From Buzz to Spark, Computer, vol 32 number 7, IEEE, Inc., New Jersey USA, pp. 35-37.

Meyer, B., 1999, Constraint Diagram Reasoning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'99), 5th International Conference, vol j jaffar, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg GERMANY, pp. 316-330.

Marriott, K., Meyer, B., 1997, On the classification of visual languages by grammar hierarchies, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, vol 8, Academic Press Limited, London UK, pp. 375-402.

Conference Proceedings

Mullins, J., Meyer, B., Hu, A.P., 2012, Collective robot navigation using diffusion limited aggregation, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XII: 12th International Conference Proceedings, Part II, 1 September 2012 to 5 September 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 266-276.

Chen, L.J., Tong, W.S., Meyer, B., Abdolkhani, A., Hu, A.P., 2011, A contactless charging platform for swarm robots, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 7 November 2011 to 10 November 2011, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 4088-4093.

Thiruvady, D.R., Meyer, B., Ernst, A.T., 2011, Car sequencing with constraint-based ACO, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 12 July 2011 to 16 July 2011, ACM, New York NY USA, pp. 163-170.

Hamann, H., Meyer, B., Schmickl, T., Crailsheim, K., 2010, A model of symmetry breaking in collective decision-making, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour: From Animals to Animats 11, 25 August 2010 to 28 August 2010, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 639-648.

Lopez-Ibanez, M., Blum, C., Thiruvady, D.R., Ernst, A.T., Meyer, B., 2009, Beam-ACO based on stochastic sampling for makespan optimization concerning the TSP with time windows, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, 15 April 2009 to 17 April 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 97-108.

Thiruvady, D.R., Blum, C., Meyer, B., Ernst, A.T., 2009, Hybridizing beam-ACO with constraint programming for single machine job scheduling, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2009), 16 October 2009 to 17 October 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 30-44.

Meyer, B., Marriott, K.G., Bickerstaffe, A.C., Knipping, L., 2009, Intelligent diagramming in the electronic online classroom, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI'09), 21 May 2009 to 23 May 2009, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 177-183.

Meyer, B., 2008, A tale of two wells: Noise-induced adaptiveness in self-organized systems, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 20 October 2008 to 24 October 2008, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 435-444.

McCormack, C., Marriott, K.G., Meyer, B., 2008, Authoring adaptive diagrams, Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 16 September 2008 to 19 September 2008, The Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 154-163.

Bickerstaffe, A.C., Lane, A.A., Meyer, B., Marriott, K.G., 2008, Developing domain-specific gesture recognizers for smart diagram environments, Proceedings of the 7th International workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2007), 20 September 2007 to 21 September 2007, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 145-156.

Meyer, B., Beekman, M., Dussutour, A., 2008, Noise-induced adaptive decision-making in ant-foraging, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour: From Animals to Animats 10 (SAB 2008), 7 July 2008 to 12 July 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 415-425.

Thiruvady, D.R., Meyer, B., Ernst, A.T., 2008, Strip packing with hybrid ACO: Placement order is learnable, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 1 June 2008 to 6 June 2008, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 1207-1213.

McCormack, C., Marriott, K.G., Meyer, B., 2007, Compiling adaptive diagrams in SVG, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, 4 September 2007 to 7 September 2007, Japan Information Processing Development Corporation, Japan, pp. 1-21.

Meyer, B., 2005, Constraint handling and stochastic ranking in ACO, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 02 September 2005 to 05 September 2005, IEEE Press, Piscataway USA, pp. 2683-2690.

Meyer, B., Ernst, A., 2004, Integrating ACO and constraint propagation, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2004), 5 September 2004 to 8 September 2004, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 166-177.

Meyer, B., 2004, On the convergence behaviour of ant colony search, Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference (COMPLEX 2004), 06 December 2004 to 10 December 2004, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton Qld Australia, pp. 153-167.

Marriott, K.G., Meyer, B., Stuckey, P.J., 2004, Towards flexible graphical communication using adaptive diagrams, Proceedings of the 9th Asian Computing Science Conference in Advances in Computer Science (ASIAN 2004), 8 December 2004 to 10 December 2004, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 380-394.

Jansen, A.R., Marriott, K.G., Meyer, B., 2003, CIDER: a component-based toolkit for creating Smart Diagram Environments, Proceedings of the International Conference on Visual Languages and Computing 2003, 24 September 2003 to 26 September 2003, Knowledge Systems Institute, Skokie IL USA, pp. 353-359.

Marriott, K.G., Meyer, B., Tardif, L., 2002, Fast and efficient client-side adaptivity for SVG, The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, 07/05/2002 to 11/05/2002, Association for Computing Machinery, Honolulu Hawaii USA, pp. 496-507.

Badros, G.J., Tirtowidjojo, J.J., Marriott, K., Meyer, B., Portnoy, W., Borning, A., 2001, A constraint extension to scalable vector graphics, Proceedings of The Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, 01 May 2001 to 05 May 2001, The Association for Computing Machinery, NY USA, pp. 489-498.

Bottoni, P., Meyer, B., Parisi-Presicce, F., 2001, On a uniform logical framework for diagrammatic reasoning, Proceedings of the Symposia on Human-Centric Computing: Languages and Environments, 05 September 2001 to 07 September 2001, The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., USA, pp. 64-71.

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 1998, Extending TMW for Near Lossless Compression of Greyscale Images, Data Compression Conference Proceedings, Snowbird USA, 30 March - 1 April 1998, IEEE Inc., Piscataway USA, pp. 458-470.

Seemann, T., Tischer, P.E., Meyer, B., 1997, History-based blending of image sub-predictors, PCS97 1997 Picture Coding Symposium, Berlin Germany, 10-12 September 1997, VDE-Verlag GMBH, Berlin Germany, pp. 147-151.

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 1997, TMW - a new method for lossless image compression, PCS97 1997 Picture Coding Symposium, Berlin Germany, 10-12 September 1997, VDE-Verlag GMBH, Berlin Germany, pp. 533-538.

Other

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 2001, Glicbawls - Grey Level Image Compression by Adaptive Weighted Least Squares, IEEE, Los Alamitos CA USA, p. 503.

Activities

Faculty academic committee

Chair
Board of Examiners
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Chair
Faculty Discipline Committee
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Chair
Faculty Education Committee
Monash University

Faculty executive committee

Member
Faculty Board
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Member
Senior Leadership Team
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Grants

Title:
A Computational Framework for Reasoning With Diagrams.
Investigators:
Meyer, B, Marriott, K
Funding:
(2001 - 2004). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Adaptiveness of self-organised decision making.
Investigators:
Meyer, B, Dussutour, A
Funding:
(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2008 - 2012). Monash University.
Title:
Modelling and simulation of self-organised behaviour in biological and bio-inspired systems.
Investigators:
Meyer, B, Hughes, B, Nakagaki, T
Funding:
(2011 - 2014). Monash University.
(2011 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Supporting adaptive diagrammatic communication.
Investigators:
Marriott, K, Meyer, B, Stuckey, P
Funding:
(2004 - 2008). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2004 - 2008). Monash University.
(2004 - 2008). The University of Melbourne.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Computational and mathematical modelling of self organization in biological systems.
Supervisors:
Meyer, B (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Mina, A.
Program of Study:
A SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION. 2002.
Supervisors:
Meyer, B (Main).
Student:
Thiruvady, D.
Program of Study:
Hybrids of stochastic metaheuristics and constraint programming for combinatorial optimization. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Meyer, B (Main).