Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott

Work at ZHAW

Position

Director of Institute of Computational Life Sciences

Focus

Bio-inspired Computing, Applied Neuroinformatics (Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning), Modelling of Complex Systems Forecast methodologies for traffic and logistics Digital Health Assistance Systems

Teaching

• Systeme und Modelle der Physik (BSc ADLS)
• Optimisation Methods and Bio-inspired Algorithms (MSc Life Sciences ACLS)

Network

Membership of networks

• ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1635-7816

Social media

Linkedin

Projects

• Stability of self-organizing net fragments as inductive bias for next-generation deep learning / Team member / Project ongoing
• Shapescience – AI for morpholigcally based fruit variety recognition / Project leader / Project ongoing
• An experimental framework to allow evidence-based sustainability policymaking / Project leader / Project completed
• Extension SARS-CoV-2 Intervention modelling / Team member / Project completed
• Predictive Analytics for Hospital Supply Chain Management / Project leader / Project completed
• PiaBreed: Machine Learning for automated ovulation and birth monitoring in horses / Project leader / Project completed
• Fighting bites with bytes: Promoting public health with crowdsourced tick prevention / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Smartstones - AI for plant breeding / Project leader / Project completed
• Neuronal Growth Modelling (BioDynaMo Initial Project) / Project leader / Project completed
• Infectiology++ - Germ Tracking / Project leader / Project completed
• Next Generation: Neural Recommendation System / Project leader / Project completed
• Efficient Urban Pluvial Flood Simulation / Team member / Project completed
• Comprehensive Sales Forecasting for Supply Chain Optimization in Food Industry / Project leader / Project completed
• Multi-Asset Investment Process using Bayes Ensembles of Trading Models / Project leader / Project completed
• Intelligent sensor-based assistance system for retail / Project leader / Project completed
• Design of an online expert system based on Bayes’ian Networks and its first market implementation / Project leader / Project completed
• Remote sensing for grape ripeness analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• Clustering of high-throughput flow-cytometry data / Project leader / Project completed
• Wirksamkeit von Kostform-Optimierungen in Schweizer Akutspitälern / Team member / Project completed
• Online clustering for crowdsourcing platform / Project leader / Project completed
• Forecasting techniques and systems for congestions / Project leader / Project completed
• Feasibility study for IR-based discrimination of fruits and vegetables / Project leader / Project completed
• A tool for coherence analysis and clustering of survey data / Project leader / Project completed
• Machine learning methods for wine IR spectra analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• Coherence measures / Project leader / Project completed
• Statistical Analysis of E-Recycling Management SWCO / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Epper, Pascale; Glüge, Stefan; Vidondo, Beatriz; Wróbel, Anna; Ott, Thomas; Sieme, Harald; Kaeser, Rebekka; Burger, Dominik,

  2023.

  Increase of body temperature immediately after ovulation in mares.

  Journal of Equine Veterinary Science.

  127(104565).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jevs.2023.104565

• Glüge, Stefan; Balabanov, Stefan; Koelzer, Viktor Hendrik; Ott, Thomas,

  2023.

  Evaluation of deep learning training strategies for the classification of bone marrow cell images.

  Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.

  (243), pp. 107924.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107924

• Müller, Antonia; Glüge, Stefan; Vidondo, Beatriz; Wróbel, Anna; Ott, Thomas; Sieme, Harald; Burger, Dominik,

  2022.

  Increase of skin temperature prior to parturition in mares.

  Theriogenology.

  190, pp. 46-51.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2022.07.007

• Garcia, Victor; Horn, Claus; Ott, Thomas,

  2022.

  The sciences of data – moving towards a comprehensive systems perspective.

  Archives of Data Science, Series A.

  8(2).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000150241

• Uwate, Yoko; Nishio, Yoshifumi; Ott, Thomas,

  2021.

  Synchronization of chaotic circuits with stochastically-coupled network topology.

  International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

  31(01), pp. 2150015.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127421500152

• Uwate, Yoko; Takamaru, Yuji; Ott, Thomas; Nishio, Yoshifumi,

  2019.

  Clustering using chaotic circuit networks with weighted couplings.

  International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

  29(4), pp. 1950053.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127419500536

• Tanner, Carmen; Narvaez, Darcia; Christen, Markus; Ott, Thomas,

  2016.

  Using thesauruses as a heuristics for mapping values.

  Cognitive Systems Research.

  40, pp. 59-74.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2016.02.003

• Schwendner, Peter; Schüle, Martin; Ott, Thomas; Hillebrand, Martin,

  2015.

  European government bond dynamics and stability policies : taming contagion risks.

  Journal of Network Theory in Finance.

  1(4), pp. 1-25.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21314/JNTF.2015.012

• Christen, Markus; Niederberger, Thomas; Ott, Thomas; Aryobsei, Suleiman; Hofstetter, Reto,

  2015.

  Micro-text classification between small and big data.

  Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications.

  6(4), pp. 556-569.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1587/nolta.6.556

• Christen, Markus; Ott, Thomas; Schwarz, Daniel,

  2013.

  A new measure for party coherence : applying a physics-based concept to the Swiss party system.

  Advances in Complex Systems.

  16(6), pp. 1350011.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525913500112

• Savi, Daniel; Kasser, Ueli; Ott, Thomas,

  2013.

  Depollution benchmarks for capacitors, batteries and printed wiring boards from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).

  Waste Management.

  33(12), pp. 2737-2743.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2013.08.014

• Landis, Florian; Ott, Thomas; Stoop, Ruedi,

  2010.

  Hebbian self-organizing integrate-and-fire networks for data clustering.

  Neural Computation.

  22(1), pp. 273-288.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.2009.12-08-926

• Ott, Thomas; Glüge, Stefan; Bödi, Richard; Kauf, Peter,

  2019.

  Economic measures of forecast accuracy for demand planning : a case-based discussion

  .

  In:

  Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 371-386.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_20

• Christen, Markus; Ott, Thomas,

  2013.

  Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency

  .

  In:

  Musschenga, Bert; van Harskamp, Anton, eds.,

  What makes us moral? : on the capacities and conditions for being moral.

  Dordrecht:

  Springer.

  pp. 73-96.

  Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy ; 31.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_5

• Wróbel, Anna; Sandamirskaya, Yulia; Ott, Thomas,

  2023.

  A spiking neural network for classifying NIR spectra of fruits [paper].

  In:

  International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA), Catania, Italy, 26-29 September 2023.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30070

• Gygax, Gregory; Ratnaweera, Nils; Tischhauser, Werner; Smits, Theo H. M.; Laube, Patrick; Ott, Thomas,

  2023.

  An oracle for the optimization of underconstrained compositions of neural networks : the tick hazard use case [paper].

  In:

  Schneider, Johannes Josef; Weyland, Mathias Sebastian; Flumini, Dandolo; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel, eds.,

  Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation.

  XV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 September 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 24-31.

  Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 1722.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_3

• Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Ambühl, Jacques; Faggian, Alessia; Fellermann, Harold M.; Flumini, Dandolo; Geller, Armando; Hanczyc, Martin M.; Klinkert, Andreas; Krütli, Pius; Matuttis, Hans-Georg; Ott, Thomas; Scheidegger, Stephan; Schmid, Gary Bruno; Smieszek, Timo; Schneider, Johannes J.; Steiner, Albert; Weyland, Mathias S.,

  2023.

  Ethical aspects of computational modelling in science, decision support and communication [paper].

  In:

  Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation.

  XV Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 September 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 1722.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_24

• Vachey, Gabriel; Ott, Thomas,

  2022.

  Self-organizing maps of artificial neural classifiers : a brain-like pin factory [paper].

  In:

  Schneider, Johannes Josef; Weyland, Mathias Sebastian; Flumini, Dandolo; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel, eds.,

  Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation.

  XV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 September 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 163-171.

  Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 1722.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_16

• Uwate, Yoko; Nishio, Yoshifumi; Ott, Thomas,

  2021.

  Frustrated complex networks of nonlinear circuits with stochastically coupling [paper].

  In:

  2020 International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC).

  International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Yeosu, South Korea, 21-24 October 2020.

  IEEE.

  pp. 181-182.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC50952.2020.9333023

• Uwate, Yoko; Ott, Thomas; Nishio, Yoshifumi,

  2021.

  Effect of stochastically coupling on frustrated triangular oscillatory network [paper].

  In:

  2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Daegu, Korea, 22-28 May 2021.

  IEEE.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401462

• Uwate, Yoko; Schüle, Martin; Ott, Thomas; Noshio, Yoshifumi,

  2020.

  Echo state network with chaos noise for time series prediction [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 2020 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications.

  International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), Okinawa, Japan, 16–19 November 2020.

  pp. 274.

• Miniussi, Myriam; Ott, Thomas; Fellermann, Harold,

  2020.

  Impact of noise and network size in coupled maps with asymmetric influence amplification [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the NOLTA 2020 Conference.

  2020 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2020), Online Conference, 16-19 November 2020.

  pp. 282-285.

• Gygax, Gregory; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Ott, Thomas,

  2020.

  Self-organized division of labor in networks of forecasting models for time series with regime switches [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the NOLTA 2020 Conference.

  2020 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2020), Online Conference, 16-19 November 2020.

  pp. 278-281.

• Wróbel, Anna; Gygax, Gregory; Schmid, Andi; Ott, Thomas; et al.,

  2020.

  Going for 2D or 3D? : investigating various machine learning approaches for peach variety identification [paper].

  In:

  Schilling, Frank-Peter; Stadelmann, Thilo, eds.,

  Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition.

  9th IAPR TC 3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (ANNPR'20), Winterthur, Switzerland, 2-4 September 2020.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 257-265.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 12294.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58309-5_21

• Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Schneider, Johannes Josef; Ott, Thomas; Walker, Richard,

  2019.

  Simplified modeling of the evolution of skills in a spatially resolved environment [paper].

  In:

  Fellermann, Harold; Bacardit, Jaume; Goñi-Moreno, Angel; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel, eds.,

  Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2019.

  International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE), Newcastle, United Kingdom, 29 July - 2 August 2019.

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  pp. 324-330.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00182

• Uwate, Yoko; Ott, Thomas; Nishio, Yoshifumi,

  2018.

  Producing complex networks using coupled oscillatory circuits with evolutionary connections [paper].

  In:

  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

  EEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florenz, Italy, 27-30 May 2018.

  IEEE.

  pp. 1-5.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351665

• Ott, Thomas; Schüle, Martin; Fellermann, Harold; Uwate, Yoko,

  2018.

  Structural evolution in networks of coupled maps with asymmetric influence amplification [paper].

  In:

  2018 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2018), Tarragona, Spain, 2-6 September 2018.

  pp. 546-549.

• Schüle, Martin; Ott, Thomas,

  2018.

  Synchronization in cellular automata : the learning approach [paper].

  In:

  2018 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2018), Tarragona, Spain, 2-6 September 2018.

• Glüge, Stefan; Böck, Ronald; Ott, Thomas,

  2017.

  Emotion recognition from speech using representation learning in extreme learning machines [paper].

  In:

  Sabourin, Christophe; Julian Merelo, Juan; O'Reilly, Una-May; Madani, Kurosh; Warwick, Kevin, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence.

  9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, Funchal, Portugal, 1-3 November 2017.

  SciTePress.

  pp. 179-185.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0006485401790185

• Ott, Thomas; Schüle, Martin; Held, Jenny; Albert, Carlo; Stoop, Ruedi,

  2016.

  Clustered multidimensional scaling with Rulkov neurons [paper].

  In:

  2016 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications.

  Nonlinear Theory and Applications 2016 (NOLTA), Yugawara, Japan, 27-30 November 2016.

  IEICE.

  pp. 389-392.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3532

• Schüle, Martin; Ott, Thomas; Schwendner, Peter,

  2016.

  Forecasting correlation structures [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 2016 international symposium on nonlinear theory and its applications.

  2016 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2016), Yugawara, Japan, 27-30 November 2016.

  IEICE.

• Nef, Annina; Glüge, Stefan; Ott, Thomas; Kauf, Peter,

  2014.

  Causality detection in complex time dependent systems examplified in financial time series [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA2014).

  Nonlinear Theory and Applications 2014 (NOLTA), Luzern, 14-18 September 2014.

  IECE.

  pp. 176-179.

  Available from: http://www.ieice.org/nolta/symposium/archive/2014/nolta14fullvol.pdf

• Eggel, Thomas; Christen, Markus; Ott, Thomas,

  2014.

  Generating low-dimensional denoised representations of nonlinear data with superparamagnetic agents [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA2014).

  Nonlinear Theory and Applications 2014 (NOLTA), Luzern, 14-18 September 2014.

  IEICE.

  pp. 180-183.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3565

• Bruckmann, Dirk; Jackson, Clare; Ott, Thomas; Weidmann, Ulrich,

  2014.

  Improving the forecast of freight transport demand using machine learning and time series analysis [paper].

  In:

  14th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, 14-16 May 2014.

• Glüge, Stefan; Pomati, Francesco; Albert, Carlo; Kauf, Peter; Ott, Thomas,

  2014.

  The challenge of clustering flow cytometry data from phytoplankton in Lakes [paper].

  In:

  Mladenov, V.M.; Ivanov, P.C., eds.,

  Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems 22nd International Conference, NDES 2014, Albena, Bulgaria, July 4-6, 2014. Proceedings.

  NDES 2014, 22nd Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Albena, Bulgaria, 4-6 July 2014.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 379-386.

  Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 438.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08672-9_45

• Müller, Claudia; Grabherr, Patrizia Margrith; Ott, Thomas; Brombach, Christine; Hauck, René,

  2013.

  A user-friendly tool for assessing sustainability of menus in large-scale catering [poster].

  In:

  Resource efficiency, governance and lifestyles : meeting report.

  World Resources Forum 2013, Davos, Switzerland, 6-9 October 2013.

  St.Gallen:

  World Resource Forum WRF.

• Uwate, Yoko; Ott, Thomas; Nishio, Yoshifumi,

  2013.

  Clustering phenomena in coupled chaotic circuits with different coupling strength [paper].

  In:

  European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Dresden, Deutschland, 8-12 September 2013.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCTD.2013.6662220

• Takamaru, Yuji; Uwate, Yoko; Ott, Thomas; Nishio, Yoshifumi,

  2012.

  Clustering phenomena of coupled chaotic circuits for large scale networks [paper].

  In:

  Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, Proceedings of NDES 2012.

  NDES 2012, 20th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Wolfenbüttel, Deutschland, 11-13 July 2012.

  VDE.

  pp. 70-73.

  Available from: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6293766

• Niederberger, Thomas; Stoop, Norbert; Christen, Markus; Ott, Thomas,

  2012.

  Hebbian principal component clustering for information retrieval on a crowdsourcing platform [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of NDES 2012.

  NDES 2012, 20th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Wolfenbüttel, Deutschland, 11-13 July 2012.

  VDE.

  pp. 249-252.

  Available from: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6293769

• Niederberger, Thomas; Merlo, Olivier; Ott, Thomas,

  2011.

  Predator-prey dynamics in Hopfield-type networks [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA2011).

  International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA2011), Kobe, Japan, 4-7 September 2011.

  IECE.

  pp. 541-544.

  Available from: http://www.ieice.org/proceedings/NOLTA2011/nolta11fullvol.pdf

• Mürset, Urs; Ott, Thomas,

  2010.

  Data clustering based on Hebbian learning in inhomogeneous coupled map lattices [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of NDES.

  NDES 2010, 18th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, 2010.

• Christen, Markus; Starostina, Tatiana; Schwarz, Daniel; Ott, Thomas,

  2009.

  A spin-based measure of the coherence of belief-systems : theory and application [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings od NDES'09.

  NDES 2009, 17th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, 2009.

• Mürset, Urs; Ott, Thomas,

  2009.

  Semi-supervised classifiaction with single-layer isingtrons [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of NDES'09.

  NDES 2009, 17th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, 2009.

• Schüle, Martin; Stoop, Ruedi; Ott, Thomas,

  2008.

  Global dynamics of finite cellular automata [paper].

  In:

  Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008 : Proceedings Part I.

  International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, 3-6 September 2008.

  Springer.

  pp. 71-78.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5163.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87536-9_8

• Jasa, Tom; Stoop, Ruedi; Ott, Thomas; Lanz, Thomas,

  2008.

  Sequential superparamagnetic clustering as a predictor of visual fixations [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of NOLTA (Nonlinear Theory and Applications), Budapest, Hungary, September 7-10, 2008.

  Nonlinear Theory and Applications 2008 (NOLTA), Budapest, Hungary, 7-10 September 2008.

  IECE.

  pp. 120-123.

  Available from: http://www.ieice.org/proceedings/NOLTA2008/nolta08fullvol.pdf

• Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Krütli, Pius; Ott, Thomas; Scheidegger, Stephan; Schneider, Johannes Josef; Seric, Marko; Smieszek, Timo; Weyland, Mathias S.,

  2022.

  Minimal models for spatially resolved population dynamics : applications to coexistence in multi – trait models [paper].

  In:

  ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life.

  International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE), online, 18-22 July 2022.

  Cambridge:

  MIT Press.

  pp. 75.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00504

• Kauf, Peter; Ott, Thomas,

  2017.

  Smart together : lernfähige Prognose-Algorithmen unterstützen Menschen.

  Logistics Innovation.

  2017(1), pp. 32-35.

• Dorndorf, Ulrich; Kauf, Peter; Ott, Thomas,

  2015.

  Bessere Absatzprognosen : eine Frage der Faktoren.

  Logistics Innovation.

  2015(2), pp. 8-11.

• Burkhard, Marcel; Ott, Thomas; Stoop, Norbert; Kauf, Peter; Jackson, Clare Estelle; Frei, Simone; Ruesch, Martin; Hegi, Philipp; Moreni, Gianni; Koy, Thorsten,

  2014.

  Stauprognoseverfahren und -systeme : Forschungsprojekt ASTRA 2011/010.

  Forschungsberichte SVI

  ; 1499.

  Bern:

  Bundesamt für Strassen.

• Takamaru, Yuji; Uwate, Yoko; Ott, Thomas; Nishio, Yoshifumi,

  2013.

  Dependence of clustering patterns on density of chaotic circuits in networks.

  Journal of Signal Processing.

  17(4), pp. 103-106.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2299/jsp.17.103

• Köhler, Sven; Ott, Thomas,

  2013.

  Einflussfaktoren auf das Patientenaufkommen in Notfallstationen.

  Transfer.

  2013(1), pp. 7.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4415

• Koller, Christoph; Kellenberger, Remo; Ott, Thomas; Meyer, Thalia,

  2013.

  PV-Tracking-System auf dem Skilift in Tenna - eine erste Auswertung : Annual Report 2012

  .

  In:

  Programm Photovoltaik Ausgabe 2013 : Überblicksbericht, Liste der Projekte : Jahresberichte der Beauftragen 2012.

  Bern:

  Bundesamt für Energie.

  pp. 251-256.

  Available from: https://netenergy.ch/fileadmin/webmaster/dokumente/Jahresberichte/PVJB2013_4th.pdf

• Krüsi, Bertil; Lustenberger, Petra Irène; Hepenstrick, Daniel; Ott, Thomas,

  2012.

  iGräser - das innovative und benutzerfreundliche mobile Gräserbestimmungs-Tool fürs iPhone.

  Ingenieurbiologie.

  2012(3), pp. 61-71.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2033

• Ott, Thomas; Krüsi, Bertil,

  2012.

  Zukünftige Bestimmungsschlüssel denken mit.

  Transfer.

  2012(3), pp. 6.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4410

• Christen, Markus; Ott, Thomas; Schwarz, Daniel,

  2011.

  Spaltpilz in den Parteien : mit Physik die Politik erklären.

  Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

• Ott, Thomas; Glüge, Stefan; Schüle, Martin; Hill, Christopher,

  2018.

  A dynamic network approach for the analysis of pathogen transmission chains.

  In:

  The 26th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, (NDES 2018), Acireale, 11-13 June 2018.

• Schüle, Martin; Ott, Thomas; Schwendner, Peter,

  2018.

  Influence networks in financial markets : forecast scenarios.

  In:

  NDES 2018, 26th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Acireale, Italy, June, 11-13 2018.

• Schwendner, Peter; Schüle, Martin; Ott, Thomas; Hillebrand, Martin,

  2018.

  Sentiment in European sovereign bonds.

  In:

  3rd European COST Conference on Mathematics for Industry in Switzerland, Winterthur, 6 September 2018.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/engineering/institute-zentren/iamp/sp_acss/Schwendner_20180906.pdf

• Schüle, Martin; Ott, Thomas; Schwendner, Peter,

  2017.

  Forecasting correlation structures.

  In:

  NDES 2017, 25th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Zernez, 5-7 June 2017.

  Available from: https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~lorimert/NDES2017/assets/NDES2017_programme_booklet.pdf

• Ott, Thomas; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel,

  2017.

  The future's back : first generic models of self-defeating road traffic forecasting.

  In:

  NDES 2017, 25th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Zernez, 5-7 June 2017.

• Ott, Thomas,

  2016.

  (Machine × Human Learning)^n – Partners Learning Together : Keynote.

  In:

  CeBIT 2016, Hannover, Deutschland, 14.-18. März 2016.

• Hillebrand, Martin; Ott, Thomas; Schüle, Martin; Schwendner, Peter,

  2016.

  European government bond dynamics and stability policies.

  In:

  ADEMU Workshop on Risk-Sharing Mechanisms for the European Union, Fiesole, Italy, 20-21 May 2016.

• Kauf, Peter; Ott, Thomas,

  2016.

  Humans and algorithms : creation and measurement of economic value in demand forecasting.

  In:

  3rd Swiss Conference on Data Science, Winterthur, 16. September 2016.

  Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF_KG0bIjZU

• Ott, Thomas,

  2015.

  A spin physics-based framework for hybrid recommendation systems.

  In:

  NDES 2015, 23th Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Como, Italy, 2015.

• Ott, Thomas,

  2015.

  Big Data und Produktionssteuerung in der Lebensmittel-Industrie.

  In:

  Wädenswiler Lebensmitteltagung: Lebensmittel 4.0, Wädenswil, 19. November 2015.

• Ott, Thomas,

  2014.

  Complex forecasting.

  In:

  Rüdlinger Tagung 2014, Rüdlingen, 9.-10. September 2014.

• Ott, Thomas,

  2014.

  Stauentwicklungen : Daten- und modellgestützte Erkenntnisse zur Verkehrsflussprognose und Verkehrsflussoptimierung.

  In:

  1. Nationaler Anti-Stautag Viasuisse, Luzern, 19. Mai 2014.

• Grabherr, Patrizia Margrith; Ott, Thomas; Brombach, Christine; Hauck, René; Müller, Claudia,

  2013.

  Benutzerfreundliches Tool zur Nachhaltigkeitsbeurteilung von Menüs in der Gemeinschaftsgastronomie.

  In:

  50. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DGE, Bonn, Deutschland, 20.-22. März 2013.

• Ott, Thomas; Christen, Markus; Niederberger, Thomas; Aebersold, Reto; Suleiman, Aryobsei; Hofstetter, Reto,

  2013.

  A semi-supervised learning system for micro-text classification.

  In:

  NDES 2013, 21st Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Bari, Italy, 2013.

• Niederberger, Thomas; Ott, Thomas; Albert, Carlo; Pomati, Francesco,

  2013.

  A sequential classification concept using flawed training data : an application to flow cytometry.

  In:

  NDES 2013, 21st Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Bari, Italy, 2013.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• • T. Ott and R. Stoop; Benefits and Pitfalls of Belief Propagation-mediated Superparamagnetic Clustering. Physical Review E 74 (4): 042103, 2006. • M. Christen, A. Nicol, K. Kendrick, T. Ott and R. Stoop; Odour Encoding in Olfactory Neuronal Networks Beyond Synchronisation. Neuroreport, 17 (14): 1499-1503, 2006. • M. Christen, A. Kohn, T. Ott and R. Stoop; Measuring Spike Pattern Reliability with the Lempel-Ziv Distance. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 156: 342-350, 2006. • T. Ott and R. Stoop; The Neurodynamics of Belief Propagation on Binary Markov Random Fields. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS ’06, 2006. • R. Stoop and T. Ott; Towards a Quantitative Theory of Biocomputation. Proc. of NOLTA ’06 Bologna, 2006. • N. Stoop, T. Ott and R. Stoop; Loopy Belief Propagation: Benefits and Pitfalls on Ising-like Systems. Proc. of NOLTA ’06 Bologna, 2006. • T. Ott, A. Kern and R. Stoop; Faster Spike Sorting with Belief Propagation. Proc. of NOLTA ’06 Bologna, 2006.
• • A. Kern, T. Ott and R. Stoop; Acoustic Source Separation by Atomic Signal Decomposition. Proceedings of NOLTA ’06 Bologna, 2006. • A. Kern, T. Ott and R. Stoop; Source Separation by Atomic Signal Decomposition. Proc. of NDES’06, p. 77-80, 2006. • T. Ott, M. Christen and R. Stoop; An Unbiased Clustering Algorithm Based on Self-organisation processes in Spiking Neural Networks. Proc. of NDES’06, p. 143-146, 2006. • Y. Uwate, T. Ott, R. Stoop and Y. Nishio; Performance of Feedforward Neural Network with External Influence Function for Back Propagation Learning. RISP InternationalWorkshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing (NCSP’06), 2006. • T. Ott, A. Kern, W.-H. Steeb and R. Stoop; Sequential Clustering: Tracking Down the Most Natural Clusters. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: theory and experiment: P11014, 2005.
• • M. Christen, T. Ott, A. Kern, N. Stoop and R. Stoop; Periodic Economic Cycles: The Effect of Evolution and Control. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: theory and experiment: P11013, 2005. • T. Ott, M. Frey, R. Stoop; Criticality and Computation in Random Threshold Networks with Noise. Proc. of NOLTA 2005 Bruges, 2005. • T. Ott, J. Dauwels and R. Stoop; Sequential Clustering by Loopy Belief Propagation. Proc. of ECCTD 2005 Cork, 2005. • T. Ott, A. Kern, A. Schuffenhauer, M. Popov, P. Acklin, E. Jacoby and R. Stoop; Sequential Superparamagnetic Clustering for Unbiased Classification of High-dimensional Chemical Data. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 44 (4): 1358-1364, 2004.
• • J.-J. van der Vyver, M. Christen, N. Stoop, T. Ott, W.-H. Steeb and R. Stoop; Towards Genuine Machine Autonomy. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 46 (3): 151-157, 2004. • T. Ott and R. Stoop; Human-like Perception Using Sequential Superparamagnetic Clustering. Proceedings of NOLTA’04 Fukuoka, 2004. • T. Ott, W.-H. Steeb and R. Stoop; The Stochastic Network Approach to Clustering. Proc. of NOLTA’04 Fukuoka, 2004.   • M. Christen, T. Ott and R. Stoop; Spike Train Clustering Using a Lempel-Ziv Complexity-based Distance Measure. Proc. of NOLTA’04 Fukuoka, 2004.

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