معرفی
Prof. Dr. Thomas Farrenkopf is a full-time Professor in the Department of Business Informatics at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, serving as Dean of Studies. He leads the Business Informatics Bachelor program and specializes in digitalization, multi-agent systems, and AI-driven decision support.
- Expertise Areas: Industry 4.0, Smart Factory, Semantic Web, full-stack software development
- Contact: thomas.farrenkopf@mnd.thm.de
Research Focus: His work bridges knowledge-based methods with practical applications in artificial intelligence, particularly through multi-agent systems for traffic modeling and business simulations. He developed AGADE Traffic (a knowledge-based traffic simulator) and ATHOS (a domain-specific language for multi-agent simulations), focusing on scalability and complexity reduction. Recent studies explore individual preferences' impact on traffic policies and agent-based feedback mechanisms in business contexts.
Academic Contributions: With over 15 publications since 2013, his research spans agent-based modeling, semantic web applications, and smart manufacturing - notably improving throughput times in toolmaking by 90% through Industry 4.0 implementations.
Teaching & Supervision: Actively supervises Bachelor's Practical Projects (BPP), providing guidance for internship-related academic work through structured evaluation processes and electronic reporting systems.
Collaborations: Works with international researchers like Johannes Nguyen, Simon T. Powers, and Michael Guckert, publishing in venues such as SN Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
