We are proud to announce that HEAL member Andreas Beham scored 2nd place with his algorithm titled MemPR submitted to the 2nd Combinatorial Black Box Optimization Competition (CBBOC) at the GECCO 2016 conference in Denver, USA. Congratulations!

Once again, the 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications is held in Porto, Portugal from 9-11th November 2016. Everyone is invited to submit a contribution addressing a number of different aspects. The deadline for the Regular Paper Submission is June 2nd, 2016.

Michael Affenzeller and Michael Kommenda are going to attend this years GPTP 2016 workshop which takes place this week at the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The GPTP workshop is a small invite-only event and offers a good opportunity to discuss in depth important challenges and approaches in the field of genetic programming.