Franz Josef Radermacher (born 20 March 1950) is a German

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and

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. He is Professor of

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Ulm University Ulm University (german: Universität Ulm) is a public university in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer scie ...

. He is one of the co-founders of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative that suggests a socio-ecological plan to eradicate

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, increasing global

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while protecting

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Scientific career

Radermacher earned a PhD in Mathematics from RWTH Aachen in 1974. He earned a second PhD in Economics from the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

in 1976. From 1983 till 1987, Radermacher was Professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Passau. Since 1987 he is Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Databases at the University of Ulm. From 1988 till 1992 he was the President of the Society for Mathematics, Economics and Operations Research. Radermacher is an authority in the fields of

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, innovation,

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and global

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Awards

He was awarded the Planetary Consciousness Prize in 2004 by the

Club of Budapest Ervin László founded international organization the Club of Budapest in 1993 to expand beyond the scientific purpose of the General Evolution Research Group to try to mobilize the resources of humanity to meet future challenges. The Club of Buda ...

Publications

*FJ Radermacher: The Importance of Metaknowledge for Environmental Information Systems, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases *RH Möhring, R Müller and FJ Radermacher: Advanced DSS for scheduling: software engineering aspects and the role of Eigenmodels, Annals of Operations Research *RH Mohring, FJ Radermacher: Introduction to stochastic scheduling problems, Contributions to operations research *R Kalakota, FJ Radermacher: Electronic commerce: building blocks of new business opportunity, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce *M Bartusch, RH Mohring, FJ Radermacher: M-Machine Unit Time Scheduling: A Report on Ongoing Research, Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems *O Günther, FJ Radermacher, WF Riekert: Environmental monitoring: Models, methods, and systems, Environmental Informatics *FJ Radermacher: Global Marshall Plan:: a Planetary Contract, lobalmarshallplan.org Global Marshall Plan*T Schauer, FJ Radermacher: The Challenge of the Digital Divide: Promoting a Global Society Dialogue, University of Ulm Publishing Group

References

www.tagesspiegel.deThe Global Marshall Plan for a World Wide Eco-Social Market Economy: An Austrian Idea Gains Steam
Living people German economists Academic staff of the University of Ulm Academic staff of the University of Passau 1950 births {{Germany-economist-stub