Tamás Vinkó

Short bio

I received my MSc and PhD in mathematics and computer science from the University of Szeged, Hungary (under the supervision of Tibor Csendes). In 2003 worked in the group of Arnold Neumaier (University of Vienna, Austria) in the COCONUT FP6 project. Between September 2003 and March 2006 I was a research assistant in the Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Science. From March 2006 till March 2008 I was a research fellow of the Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency. In April 2008 I moved to TU Delft, where I started to work on peer-to-peer computing and got involved into the QLectives FP7 FET project as post-doc researcher.

In 2012 I came back to the University of Szeged, Hungary to be an assistant professor at the Department of Computational Optimization. I received my habilitation degree in 2016.

In July 2017 I got promoted to be associate professor.

Since July 2020 I serve as a vice-dean of public affairs at the Faculty of Science and Informatics.


Profiles

Journal papers
  • Eszter Csókás and Tamás Vinkó. A heuristic for influence maximization under deterministic linear threshold model. Informatica, accepted for publication, 2024
    [ pdf file ] [ doi: ]

  • Ahmad T. Anaqreh, Boglárka Gazdag-Tóth, Tamás Vinkó. New methods for maximizing the smallest eigenvalue of the grounded Laplacian matrix. Annales Mathematicae et Informaticae, 2024
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.33039/ami.2024.02.001 ]

  • Viktor Homolya and Tamás Vinkó. Closeness centrality reconstruction of tree graphs. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2024
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10100-023-00900-1 ]

  • Eszter Csókás and Tamás Vinkó. Constraint generation approaches for submodular function maximization leveraging graph properties. Journal of Global Optimization 88(2024), 377-394
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10898-023-01318-4 ]

  • Eszter Csókás and Tamás Vinkó. An exact method for influence maximization based on deterministic linear threshold model. Central European Journal of Operations Research 31(2023), 269–286
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10100-022-00807-3 ]

  • Ahmad T. Anaqreh, Boglárka Gazdag-Tóth, Tamás Vinkó. Algorithmic upper bounds for graph geodetic number. Central European Journal of Operations Research 30(2022), 1221–1237
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10100-021-00760-7 ]

  • Gábor Kőrösi and Tamás Vinkó. A practical framework for real life webshop sales promotion targeting. Informatica 45(2021) 625-632
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.31449/inf.v45i4.3066 ]

  • Ahmad T. Anaqreh, Boglárka Gazdag-Tóth, Tamás Vinkó. Symbolic Regression for Approximating Graph Geodetic Number. Acta Cybernetica 25(2021), 151-169
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.14232/actacyb.289041 ]

  • Orsolya Kardos, András London and Tamás Vinkó. Stability of network centrality measures: a numerical study. Social Networks Analysis and Mining 10, 80 (2020)
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s13278-020-00693-0 ]

  • Homolya Viktor és Vinkó Tamás. Befolyás terjedés optimumainak hálózatáról. Alkalmazott Matematikai Lapok 37(2020) 167-179
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.37070/AML.2020.37.2.03 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó and Kitti Gelle. Basin Hopping Networks of Continuous Global Optimization Problems. Central European Journal of Operations Research 25(2017) 985-1006
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10100-017-0480-0 ]

  • Dobjánné Antal Elvira és Vinkó Tamás. Egy nemlineáris vegyes-egészértékű optimalizálási feladat különféle modelljeinek komparatív elemzése. Alkalmazott Matematikai Lapok 34(2017) 73-95
    [ pdf fájl ]

  • Elvira Antal and Tamás Vinkó. Modeling max–min fair bandwidth allocation in BitTorrent communities. Computational Optimization and Applications, 66(2017) 383-400
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10589-016-9866-5 ]

  • Elvira Antal and Tamás Vinkó. On maximum throughput in BitTorrent. GRADUS, 3(2016) 67-72
    [ pdf file ]

  • Tamás Vinkó and Bea Botyánszki. Empirical investigation of BitTorrent community graphs. Computing, 98(2016) 567-582
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s00607-015-0470-9 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó. Robustness of BitTorrent-like VoD protocols. Acta Cybernetica, 22(2016) 673-685
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.14232/actacyb.22.3.2016.8 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó and Helga Najzer. On the sustainability of credit-based P2P communities. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 23(2015) 953-967
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10100-015-0407-6 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó and David Hales. Towards the Coevolution of Incentives in BitTorrent. Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 12(2015) 181-199
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.12700/APH.12.6.2015.6.11]

  • Lucia D'Acunto, Nitin Chiluka, Tamás Vinkó, and Henk Sips. BitTorrent-like P2P Approaches for VoD: a Comparative Study. Computer Networks, 57(2013) 1253-1276
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2012.12.016 ]

  • Adele L.Jia, Rameez Rahman, Tamás Vinkó, Johan A.Pouwelse, and Dick H.J.Epema. Systemic risk and user-level performance in private P2P communities. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24(2013) 2503-2512
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1109/TPDS.2012.332 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó, Flávio Santos, Nazareno Andrade, and Mihai Capotă. On swarm-level resource allocation in BitTorrent communities. Optimization Letters, 7(2013) 923-932
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s11590-012-0477-5 ]

  • Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Linet Özdamar, Tibor Csendes, and Tamás Vinkó. Efficient Interval Partitioning for Constrained Global Optimization. Journal of Global Optimization, 42(2008) 369-384.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10898-008-9297-7 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó and Arnold Neumaier. New bounds for Morse clusters. Journal of Global Optimization, 39(2007) 483-494
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10898-007-9151-3 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó. Minimal inter-particle distance in atom clusters. Acta Cybernetica, 17(2005) 105-119.
    [ pdf file ]

  • Arnold Neumaier, Oleg Shcherbina, Waltraud Huyer and Tamás Vinkó. A comparison of complete global optimization solvers. Mathematical Programming, 103(2005) 335-356.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10107-005-0585-4 ]
    Detailed results are here.

  • Tamás Vinkó and Dietmar Ratz. A multidimensional branch-and-prune method for interval global optimization. Numerical Algorithms 37(2004) 391--399.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1023/B:NUMA.0000049490.96077.99 ]

  • Tamás Vinkó, Jean-Louis Lagouanelle and Tibor Csendes. A new inclusion function for optimization: kite - The one dimensional case. Journal of Global Optimization 30(2004) 435--456.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/s10898-004-8430-5 ]


Conference proceedings
  • Viktor Homolya, Tamás Vinkó. Leveraging Local Optima Network Properties for Memetic Differential Evolution. In Optimization of Complex Systems: Theory, Models, Algorithms and Applications (WCGO 2019) AISC 991, 2019.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21803-4_11 ]

  • Viktor Homolya, Tamás Vinkó. Memetic Differential Evolution using Network Centrality Measures. In AIP Conference Proceedings 2070, 020023 (14th Int’l Global Optimization Workshop), 2019.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1063/1.5089990 ]

  • Dimitra Gkorou, Tamás Vinkó, Johan Pouwelse, and Dick Epema. Leveraging Node Properties in Random Walks for Robust Reputations in Decentralized Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2013), 2013.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1109/P2P.2013.6688708 ]

  • Dimitra Gkorou, Tamás Vinkó, Nitin Chiluka, Johan Pouwelse, and Dick Epema. Reducing the History in Decentralized Interaction-based Reputation Systems. In Proceedings of IFIP/TC6 Networking 2012, LNCS 7290, pp. 238-251.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30054-7_19 ]

  • Lucia D'Acunto, Tamás Vinkó, and Henk Sips. Bandwidth Allocation in BitTorrent-like VoD Systems under Flashcrowds. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2011), pp.192-201, 2011.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1109/P2P.2011.6038735 ]

  • Mihai Capotă, Nazareno Andrade, Tamás Vinkó, Flávio Santos, Johan Pouwelse, and Dick Epema. Inter-swarm resource allocation in BitTorrent communities. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2011), pp.300-309, 2011.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1109/P2P.2011.6038748 ]

  • Adele L. Jia, Rameez Rahman, Tamás Vinkó, Johan Pouwelse, and Dick Epema. Fast Download but Eternal Seeding: The Reward and Punishment of Sharing Ratio Enforcement. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2011), pp.280-289, 2011.
    [ pdf file] [ doi:10.1109/P2P.2011.6038746 ]

  • Rameez Rahman, Tamás Vinkó, David Hales, Johan Pouwelse, and Henk Sips. Design Space Analysis for Modeling Incentives in Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, (SIGCOMM'11), pp.182-193
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1145/2018436.2018458 ]

  • Kornél Csernai, Márk Jelasity, Johan Pouwelse, and Tamás Vinkó. Modeling unconnectable peers in private BitTorrent communities. In Proceedings of the 19th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'11), pages 582-589, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 2011. MSOP2P special track.
    [pdf file] [ doi:10.1109/PDP.2011.21 ]

  • Lucia D'Acunto, Tamás Vinkó, Johan Pouwelse. Do BitTorrent-like VoD Systems Scale under Flash-Crowds? In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2010) art.no.5569998, Delft, the Netherlands, August 25-27, 2010.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1109/P2P.2010.5569998]

  • Rameez Rahman, David Hales, Tamás Vinkó, Johan Pouwelse, Henk Sips. No more crash or crunch: sustainable credit dynamics in a P2P community. In Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS 2010), pp. 332-340, 2010.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1109/HPCS.2010.5547112 ]

  • Carlo Pinciroli, Mauro Birattari, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo, Marco Del Rey Zapatero, Tamás Vinkó, Dario Izzo. Lattice Formation in Space for a Swarm of Pico Satellites. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS '08), LNCS 5217, pp.347-354, 2008.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_36 ]

  • Carlo Pinciroli, Mauro Birattari, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo, Marco Del Rey Zapatero, Tamás Vinkó, Dario Izzo. Self-Organizing and Scalable Shape Formation for a Swarm of Pico Satellites. In Proceedings of the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2008), pages 57-61, June 2008. IEEE-CS Press, Washington, DC, USA.
    [ pdf file ] [ doi:10.1109/AHS.2008.41 ]

  • Dario Izzo, Tamás Vinkó, Claudio Bombardelli, Stefan Brendelberger, and Simone Centuori. Automated Asteroid Selection for a Grand Tour Mission. 58th International Astronautical Congress, Paper IAC-07-C1.7.07, pp. 4603-4610, Hyderabad, India, 2007.
    [pdf file ]

  • Tamás Vinkó, Dario Izzo and Claudio Bombardelli. Benchmarking different global optimisation techniques for preliminary spacetrajectory design. 58th International Astronautical Congress, Paper IAC-07-A1.3.01, pp. 4181-4190, Hyderabad, India, 2007.
    [pdf file ] [Supplement material: GTOP database]

  • Márk Jelasity, Boglárka Tóth, and Tamás Vinkó. Characterizations of trajectory structure of fitness landscapes based on pairwise transition probabilities of solutions. In Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC99), pages 623-630. IEEE Press, 1999.
    [pdf file] [doi:10.1109/CEC.1999.781990]


Dissertation
  • Globális optimalizálási módszerek továbbfejlesztése, tesztelése és alkalmazása atomklaszter feladatokra. (In Hungarian)
    (English title: Development, comparison and application of global optimization methods and investigation of atomic cluster problems)
    PhD dissertation, Szeged, Hungary, 2006.
    [pdf file] [ps.gz file] Extended abstract in English: [ pdf file ]


Presentations, scientific reports
  • Ben-Abdallah P., Llorens J.M., Bergamin L., Vinko T. Reverse Engineering Design of Directional Microstructured Radiators.In 6th ESA Round Table on Micro&Nano Technologies for Space Applications, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 2007
    [pdf file]

  • T.Vinkó and D.Izzo: Learning the Best Combination of Solvers in a Distributed Global Optimization Environment. In Proceedings of AGO2007 conference, Mykonos, Greece, June 13-17, 2007.
    [pdf file]

  • C. Pedamallu, T. Vinkó, T. Csendes: An Interval Partitioning Approach for Global Optimization. In Proceedings of SCAN2006 Conference, Duisburg, Germany, 26-29 September, 2006.

  • Tamás Vinkó and Arnold Neumaier: Improved Lower Bounds for the Optimization Problems Related to Atom Clusters. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Global Optimization, pp253-255, San Jose, Almeria, Spain, September 18-22, 2005.

  • Tamás Vinkó and Arnold Neumaier: Lower Bounds for the Optimization Problems Related to Atom Clusters. In SCAN2004 Book of abstracts, p117, Fukuoka, Japan, October 4-8, 2004.

  • Tamás Vinkó: Reliable global optimization on atom clusters. In Extended Abstracts of the CSCS04 conference, Szeged, Hungary, July 1-4, 2004.

  • Vinkó Tamás, Arnold Neumaier: Általános módszer atomklaszterek optimális szerkezetének vizsgálatára. A XXVI. Magyar Operációkutatási Konferencia Előadáskivonatai kötete, Győr, 2004.

  • Tamás Vinkó: Multidimensional Branch-and-Prune Methods for Interval Global Optimization. In SCAN2002 Book of abstracts, Paris, France, September 23-27, 2002.

  • Tamás Vinkó: Branch and Prune Techniques in Multidimensional Interval Global Optimization Algorithms. In Extended Abstract of the CSCS2002 conference, Szeged, Hungary, July 1-4, 2002.

  • Vinkó, T., J.-L. Lagouanelle, and T. Csendes: Kite: a new inclusion function for optimization. Validated Computing, Extended Abstracts, pages 179-181, Toronto, Canada, 2002.

  • Lagouanelle, J.-L., T. Csendes, and T. Vinkó: Kite: a new inclusion function for optimization. SIAM Conference on Optimization, Final Program and Abstracts, page 43, Toronto, Canada, 2002,

  • Tóth Boglárka és Vinkó Tamás. Egy hatékony számítógépes eszköz matematikai problémák megoldására. POLYGON, (11)2002 19-42.
    [ ps.gz file]

  • Vinkó Tamás. Egy új intervallumos befoglalófüggvényről. A XXV. Magyar Operációkutatási Konferencia Előadáskivonatai kötete, Debrecen, 2001.

  • Vinkó Tamás és Tóth Boglárka. Hatékony globális optimalizálási módszerek vizsgálata. Tudományos Diákköri Dolgozat. XXV. Országos Diákköri Konferencia, Eger, 2001. április 16-19.

  • Tóth Boglarka és Vinkó Tamás. Problémák nehézségének jellemzése az evolúciós optimalizálásban sztochasztikus modellek segítségével. Tudományos Diákköri Dolgozat. XXV. Országos Diákköri Konferencia, Eger, 2001. április 16-19. (I. helyezés).

  • Mihaly Csaba Markot, Peter Gabor Szabo, Boglarka Toth and Tamas Vinko. Verification solutions of packing circle problems. In Extended Abstract of EURO XVII, Budapest, Hungary, 2000.

  • Peter Gabor Szabo, Mihaly Csaba Markot, Boglarka Toth and Tamas Vinko. Minimal polynomials and similar structures in the densest packing ofequal circles in a square problem. In Extended Abstract of EURO XVII, Budapest, Hungary, p. 134 2000.

  • Mark Jelasity, Boglarka Toth and Tamas Vinko. Measuring hardness of problems in evolutionary computations based on Markov-processes. In Extended Abstract of Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science 2000, Szeged, Hungary.

  • M Cs Markót, P G Szabo, Boglarka Toth, Tamas Vinko. Verification solutions of packing circle problems. In Extended Abstract of Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science 2000, Szeged, Hungary, p. 70, 2000.

  • P G Szabó, B Tóth, T Vinkó. Optimal disk packings in the square. In Extended Abstract of Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science 2000, Szeged, Hungary, p.92, 2000