Adalbert F.X. Wilhelm | Constructor University

Research Interests

Information and Knowledge Management

Statistical Visualization

Data Mining

Exploratory Data Analysis

Computational Statistics

University Education

2000 Venia Legendi in Mathematics, University of Augsburg

1993 Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Augsburg

1988 Diploma in Mathematics with minor in Business Administration, University of Augsburg

Research and Teaching Positions

06/17-07/17 Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics and Economics, University of Cagliari

06/15 Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics and Economics, University of Cagliari

05/12 Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics and Economics, University of Cagliari

02/11-08/11 Visiting Professor, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

02/02 Commerzbank Chair for Information Management, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University Bremen

09/01 Associate Professor of Statistics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University Bremen

02/98-08/01 Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, University of Augsburg

02/97-01/98 Visiting lecturer at the Center for Computational Statistics at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

11/93-01/97 Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, University of Augsburg

11/88-10/93 Scientific employee, Department of Stochastics and its Applications, University of Augsburg

Selected Publications

L. Lausser, F. Schmid, L.-R. Schirra, A. Wilhelm, and H.A. Kestler. Rank-based classifiers for extremely high-dimensional gene expression data. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, pages 1–20, 2016. online first.

A. and H. A. Kestler, editors. Analysis of Large and Complex Data. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Heidelberg, 2016.

A. Lerchl, M. Klose, K. Grote, A. Wilhelm, O. Spathmann, T. Fiedler, J. Streckert, V. Hansen, and M. Clemens. Tumor promotion by exposure to ra- diofrequency electromagnetic fields below exposure limits for humans. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 459(4):585 – 590, 2015.

B. Olk, E. Tsankova, R. Petca, and A. Wilhelm. Measuring effects of voluntary attention: A comparison among predictive arrow, colour and number cues. The Quaterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(10):2025–2041, 2014.

I. Ilies and A. Wilhelm. Projection-based partitioning for large, high-dimensional datasets. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 19(2):474–492, 2010.

K. Boehnke, P. Lietz, M. Schreier, and A. Wilhelm. Sampling: The Selection of Cases for Culturally Comparative Psychological Research. In David Matsumoto and Fons van den Vijver, editors, Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology, pages 199–215. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010.

F. J. Schmitz-Justen, A. Wilhelm, "An Empirical Study of Factors Impacting on Knowledge Processes in Online Forums: Structural Equation Modeling Analysis and Results", International Journal Web Based Communities (IJWBC) 3(3), pp. 252-270, 2007.

F. J. Schmitz-Justen, A. Wilhelm. "An Empirical Study of Factors Impacting on Knowledge Processes in Online Forums: Factors of Interest and Model Outline", International Journal Web Based Communities (IJWBC) 2(3), pp. 318-338, 2006.

F. J. Schmitz-Justen, A. Wilhelm, "Online Knowledge Communities: Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Transfer with Online Communities - An Exploratory Case Study", CELDA 2005 - Proceedings of International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, International Association for Development of the Information Society - IADIS, Porto, Portugal, pp. 69-77, 2005.

F. J. Schmitz-Justen, A. Wilhelm, "Forum Based Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Project Outline and First Results", WM-LOKMOL 2005 - Proceedings of the 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Learner-Oriented Knowledge Management & KM-Oriented E-Learning 2005, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz - DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany, pp. 176-179, 2005.

F. J. Schmitz-Justen, A. Wilhelm, "Forum Based Collaborative Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing: A Measurement and Structural Model", WBC 2005 - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2005, International Association for Development of the Information Society IADIS, Lisbon, pp. 316-321, 2005.

A. Wilhelm, Data and Knowledge Mining in W. Härdle, J. Gentle, Y. Mori (Hrsg.), Handbook of Computational Statistics, S. 787-812, Springer Verlag, 2004.

A. Wilhelm, "User Interaction at Various Levels of Data Displays", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 43, pp. 471-494, 2003.

H. Hofmann, A. Unwin und A. Wilhelm, ``Direct manipulation graphics for Data Mining'', International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2(1), pp. 49-65, 2002.

H. Hofmann und A. Wilhelm, ``Visual Comparison of Association Rules'', Computational Statistics, 16 (3), pp.399 - 415, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001.

H. Hofmann, Arno Siebes und A. Wilhelm, ``Visualising Association Rules'', in R. Ramakrishnan, S. Stalfo, R. Bayardo, and I. Parsa (Hrsg.), KDD-2000 -Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp.227-235, ACM, New York, 2000.

A. Wilhelm, E.J. Wegman und J. Symanzik, ``Visual Clustering and Classification: The Oronsay particle size data set revisited'', Computational Statistics, 14 (1), pp.109-146, 1999.

A. Wilhelm und M. Sander, ``Interactive statistical analysis of dialect features'', The Statistician, 47, pp.445-455, 1998.

A. Wilhelm, ``Computing optimal designs by bundle trust methods'', Statistica Sinica, 7, pp.739-753, 1997.

Publications on Scopus

Clustering large mixed-type data with ordinal variables

Szepannek, G. Aschenbruck, R. Wilhelm, A.

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 2024

Is there a role for statistics in artificial intelligence?

Friedrich, S. Leitgöb, H. Pauly, M. Steland, A. Wilhelm, A. Friede, T. Antes, G. Behr, S. Binder, H. Brannath, W. Dumpert, F. Ickstadt, K. Kestler, H.A. Lederer, J.

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 2022 16 (4) pp. 823-846

Authors’ response: on the role of data, statistics and decisions in a pandemic