Dr. rer. nat. Michael Forster

Addresses

Zehntfeldstraße 182
81825 München
GERMANY

Tegernbach 35
84546 Egglkofen
GERMANY

Email

Private

Business

Positions

from 09/2007

Software Engineer, Google Germany Gmbh, Munich, Germany

05/2006 – 08/2007

Freelancer (Software Development and Consulting), Munich, Germany

12/2005 – 04/2006

Research Assistant and Lecturer, University of Passau, Germany

03/2005 – 11/2005

Researcher, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Sydney, Australia

11/1999 – 03/2005

Research Assistant and Lecturer, University of Passau, Germany

01/1996 – 10/1999

Student Research Assistant, University of Passau, Germany

Education

11/1999 – 02/2005

Dr. rer. nat. (~ PhD) in Computer Science, University of Passau, Germany

11/1995 – 10/1999

Diplom (~ B. S. + M. S.) in Computer Science / Mathematics, University of Passau, Germany

Publications

2010

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  Crossing Minimization in Extended Level Drawings of Graphs
  C. Bachmaier, H. Buchner, M. Forster, S.-H. Hong,
  Discrete Applied Mathematics, DAM 158(3):159-179, 2010, © Elsevier

2006

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  Crossing Reduction for Hierarchical Graphs with Intra-Level Edges
  C. Bachmaier, M. Forster
  Technical Report MIP-0608, University of Passau, 2006
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  A Radial Adaption of the Sugiyama Framework for Hierarchical Graph Drawing
  C. Bachmaier, M. Forster
  Technical Report MIP-0603, University of Passau, 2006
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  GEOMI: GEOmetry for Maximum Insight
  A. Ahmed, T. Dwyer, M. Forster, X. Fu, J. Ho, S.-H. Hong, D. Koschützki, C. Murray, N. S. Nikolov, R. Taib, A. Tarassov, K. Xu
  P. Healy, P. Eades (Eds.), Proc. Graph Drawing, GD 2005, LNCS 3843, pp. 468-479, © Springer Verlag, 2006

2005

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  Radial Level Planarity Testing and Embedding in Linear Time
  C. Bachmaier, F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster
  Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, JGAA, 9(1):53-97, 2005
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  Radial Coordinate Assignment for Level Graphs
  C. Bachmaier, F. Fischer, M. Forster
  L. Wang (Ed.), Proc. Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2005, LNCS 3595, pp. 401-410, © Springer Verlag, 2005
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  A Fast and Simple Heuristic for Constrained Two-Level Crossing Reduction
  M. Forster
  J. Pach (Ed.), Proc. Graph Drawing, GD 2004, LNCS 3383, pp. 206-216, © Springer Verlag, 2005
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  Gravisto: Graph Visualization Toolkit (Poster)
  C. Bachmaier, F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster, M. Raitner, P. Holleis
  J. Pach (Ed.), Proc. Graph Drawing, GD 2004, LNCS 3383, pp. 502-503, © Springer Verlag, 2005

2004

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  Crossings in Clustered Level Graphs
  M. Forster
  Dissertation, University of Passau, 2004
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  Clustered Level Planarity
  M. Forster, C. Bachmaier
  P. Van Emde Boas, J. Pokorny, M. Bielikova, J. Stuller (Eds.), Proc. SOFSEM 2004, vol. 1, pp. 218-228, LNCS 2932, © Springer Verlag, 2004
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  Track Planarity Testing and Embedding
  C. Bachmaier, F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster
  P. Van Emde Boas, J. Pokorny, M. Bielikova, J. Stuller (Eds.), Proc. SOFSEM 2004, vol. 2, pp. 3-17, MatFyzPress, 2004
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  Radial Level Planarity Testing and Embedding in Linear Time (Extended Abstract)
  C. Bachmaier, F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster
  G. Liotta (Ed.), Proc. Graph Drawing, GD 2003, LNCS 2912, pp. 393-405, © Springer Verlag, 2004
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  BioPath - Exploration and Visualization of Biochemical Pathways
  F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster, A. Pick, M. Raitner, F. Schreiber
  M. Jünger, P. Mutzel (Eds.), Graph Drawing Software, pp. 215-236, © Springer Verlag, 2004

2003

• [ Abstract | BibTeX | PDF | CiteSeer ]
  Radial Level Planarity Testing and Embedding in Linear Time
  C. Bachmaier, F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster
  Technical Report MIP-0303, University of Passau, 2003

2002

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  Applying Crossing Reduction Strategies to Layered Compound Graphs
  M. Forster
  M. T. Goodrich and S. G. Kobourov (Eds.), Proc. Graph Drawing, GD 2002, LNCS 2528, pp. 276-284 © Springer Verlag, 2002
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  BioPath
  F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster, A. Pick, M. Raitner, F. Schreiber
  P. Mutzel, M. Jünger, S. Leipert (Eds.), Proc. Graph Drawing, GD 2001, LNCS 2265, pp. 455-456, © Springer Verlag, 2002
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  The System Architecture of the BioPath System
  M. Forster, A. Pick, M. Raitner, F. Schreiber, F. J. Brandenburg
  In Silico Biology, ISB, 2(3):415-426, 2002

2001

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  BioPath - Visualization of Biochemical Pathways
  F. J. Brandenburg, M. Forster, A. Pick, M. Raitner, F. Schreiber
  Proc. German Conference on Bioinformatics, GCB 2001, 11-15, 2001

1999

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  Zeichnen ungerichteter Graphen mit gegebenen Knotengrößen durch ein Springembedder-Verfahren
  M. Forster
  Diploma Thesis, University of Passau, 1999