Ingo Wegener

Wegener was educated at the Bielefeld University. He earned a diploma in mathematics there in 1976, a doctorate in 1978, and a habilitation in 1981.{{r|eatcs}} His doctoral dissertation, Boolesche Funktionen, deren monotone Komplexität fast quadratisch ist, was jointly supervised by {{ill|Wolfgang Paul (computer scientist)|de|Wolfgang Paul (Informatiker)|lt=Wolfgang Paul}} and Rudolf Ahlswede.{{r|mg}}

He was a computer science professor at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1980 until 1987, when he moved to the Technical University of Dortmund. He remained at Dortmund until his death.{{r|eatcs}}

Wegener's dissertation research concerned circuit complexity, and he was known for his research on Boolean functions and binary decision diagrams.{{r|eatcs|lance}}

He wrote two books on related topics, The Complexity of Boolean Functions (Wiley, 1987, also called "the blue book"){{r|cbf}} and Branching Programs and Binary Decision Diagrams: Theory and Applications (SIAM Press, 2000).{{r|bb}}

Beginning in the 1990s, his research interests shifted towards the theoretical analysis of metaheuristics and evolutionary computation.{{r|eatcs|lance}}

Wegener was elected as a fellow of the German society for computer science, the Gesellschaft für Informatik, in 2004.{{r|gif}} For his merits on teaching and research in the field of theoretical computer science, he earned in 2006 the Konrad Zuse Medal from the Gesellschaft für Informatik.{{r|eatcs}}

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Reviews of Branching Programs and Binary Decision Diagrams:

• {{citation|title=none|year=2001|journal=Mathematical Reviews|first=Christoph|last=Meinel|mr=1775233|doi=10.1137/1.9780898719789|isbn=978-0-89871-458-6}}
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Review of The Complexity of Boolean Functions:

• {{citation|title=none|year=1989|journal=Mathematical Reviews|first=Juraj|last=Hromkovič|mr=0905473}}

{{citation|last1=Jansen|first1=Thomas|last2=Schmidt|first2=Melanie|author2-link=Melanie Schmidt|last3=Sudholt|first3=Dirk|last4=Witt|first4=Carsten|last5=Zarges|first5=Christine|date=March 2009|department=In Memoriam|doi=10.1162/evco.2009.17.1.1|issue=1|journal=Evolutionary Computation|pages=1–2|title=Ingo Wegener|volume=17|s2cid=207686101}}

[http://www.gi.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Wettbewerbe/Fellowship/wegener-fellow2004.pdf GI-Fellow citation], retrieved 2012-03-09.

{{citation|publisher=European Association for Theoretical Computer Science|url=http://www.eatcs.org/index.php/component/content/article/1-news/545-in-memoriam-of-prof-dr-ingo-wegener|title=In memoriam of Prof. Dr. Ingo Wegener, 1950—2008}}

{{citation|last=Fortnow|first=Lance|author-link=Lance Fortnow|date=December 9, 2008|work=Computational Complexity|title=Ingo Wegener (1950-2008)|url=https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2008/12/ingo-wegener-1950-2008.html}}

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