At last weeks I3M-Multiconference in Lisbon, Portugal, Michael Affenzeller had the honor to welcome the I3M community in his role as EMSS Program Chair. The European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMSS) is the oldest and most established event at the I3M-Multiconference and a very important platform for the scientific community.

We are happy to announce the release of HeuristicLab 3.3.16, which is named after the location of this year's Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Prague, Czech Republic.

We would like to congratulate our colleague Andreas Beham who successfully defended his PhD thesis!