PROFILE:
Markus Fromherz
Vice President, Director of Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Dr. Markus Fromherz directs PARC's Intelligent Systems Laboratory, which develops advanced information and automation systems based on intelligent user interfaces, language and image understanding, and reasoning algorithms. Applications range from business software to embedded systems to cleantech applications.
Fromherz is a Principal Engineer at PARC. He has led and contributed to several research, development, and technology transfer efforts in intelligent control systems for Xerox products, including the award-winning flagship iGen3™ digital production printing system.
Fromherz' research interests are in the domain of intelligent embedded software include constraint-based modeling; model-based planning, scheduling, and control; and model-based design analysis and optimization. He has published widely and spoken internationally and has more than 40 issued and pending patents.
Fromherz joined PARC in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1991) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and his M.S. in Computer Science (1987) from ETH Zurich.
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2009
2007
Model-based planning and control for reconfigurable manufacturing and packaging
World Batch Forum North American Conference
30 April 2007
2006
A robust and efficient flooding-based routing for wireless sensor networks
Journal of Interconnection Networks
31 December 2006
Constrained flooding: a robust and efficient routing framework for wireless sensor networks
20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006)
18 April 2006
2005
Synchronization of state based control processes with delayed and asynchronous measurements
14th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
12 December 2005
On-line planning and scheduling for high-speed manufacturing
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-05)
5 June 2005
2004
Localization from connectivity in sensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
1 November 2004
Smart routing with learning-based QoS-aware routing strategies
First Workshop on QoS Routing
1 October 2004
Feedback control for real-time solving
Constraint Programming 2004 International Workshop on Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty
27 September 2004
Not all ants are born equal: improvements on ant-routing for sensor networks
Fourth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2004)
5 September 2004
Search-based adaptive routing strategies for sensor networks
AAAI Sensor Network Workshop
26 July 2004
On-line planning and scheduling in a high-speed manufacturing domain
ICAPS '04 Workshop on Integrating Planning into Scheduling
4 June 2004
Message-initiated constraint-based routing for wireless ad-hoc sensor networks
First IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2004)
5 January 2004
2003
Model-based computing for design and control of reconfigurable systems
AI Magazine, Special Issue on Qualitative Reasoning
31 December 2003
Localization from mere connectivity
Fourth International ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
1 June 2003
Physics-based encapsulation in embedded software for distributed sensing and control applications
Proceedings of the IEEE
2 January 2003
2002
A general constraint-based control framework with examples in modular self-reconfigurable robots
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002)
2 October 2002
Developing efficient cooperative solvers for constrained optimization
CP02 Workshop on Cooperative Solvers in Constraint Programming
8 September 2002
Efficient cooperative solvers for nonlinear continuous constraint problems
International Congress of Mathematical Software (ICMS) 2002
17 August 2002
Distributed adaptive constrained optimization for smart matter systems
Intelligent Distributed and Embedded Systems, Papers from the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium
25 March 2002
Handling ambiguity in constraint-based recognition of stick figure sketches
SPIE 14th International Symposium on Electronic Imaging; Document Recognition and Retrieval IX
20 January 2002
2001
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2001
4 December 2001
Interpreting sloppy stick figures with constraint-based subgraph matching
7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
26 November 2001
Interpreting sloppy stick figures by graph normalization and constraint-based matching
4th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2001)
7 September 2001
Complexity of continuous, 3-SAT-like constraint satisfaction problems
IJCAI'01 Workshop on Stochastic Search Algorithms
6 August 2001
Modular robot control and continuous constraint satisfaction
IJCAI `01 Workshop on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints
5 August 2001
2000
Air-jet paper mover: an example of mesoscale MEMS
SPIE International Symposium on Micromachining and Microfabrication
19 September 2000
Distributed allocation using analog market wire computation and communication.
Mechatronics 2000
6 September 2000
Motion control of macro-scale objects using large-area arrays of MEMS-like distributed manipulators
7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference
6 September 2000
Predictable motion of hyper-redundant manipulators using constrained optimization control
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
26 June 2000
Towards an ontological framework for knowledge-based systems design
Artificial Intelligence in Design 2000
1 June 2000
1999
Paper transport using modulated air jet arrays
International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies
1 November 1999
Towards constraint-based actuation allocation for hyper-redundant manipulators.
CP'99 Workshop on Constraints in Control
16 October 1999
Model-based computing: developing flexible machine control software
Artificial Intelligence
October 1999
Model-based configuration of machine control software
AAAI'99 Workshop on Configuration
18 July 1999
Hybrid problems in smart matter control
AAAI 1999: Hybrid Systems and AI: Modeling, Analysis and Control of Discrete + Continuous Systems
22 March 1999
1997
1995
Model-based computing: using concurrent constraint programming for modeling and model compilation
Constraint Programming '95 Conference
19 September 1995
Model-based computing: constructing constraint-based software for electro-mechanical systems
Practical Applications of Constraint Technology
7 April 1995
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