We are pleased to announce that Michael Affenzeller and Stefan Wagner will once again chair the Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft) Workshop at the GECCO 2013 conference. GECCO 2013 will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from July 06-10, 2013.

We are delighted to announce that long-term HEAL member Viktoria Dorfer received the Junior Researcher Award 2012 for her contributions to the field of bioinformatics.

David Davis has just left for Australia and we can already announce the next visitor: Pilar Caamaño Sobrino from the Universidad de la Coruña is in Austria this week to prepare a joint research proposal with our group. Her research focuses on the analysis of evolutionary algorithms via fitness landscape analysis, which ties in nicely with the work of HEAL members Erik Pitzer and Andreas Beham. We are therefore pleased to announced that Dr. Caamaño Sobrino will present some of her recent work in Hagenberg this week.

Fitness Landscape and Evolutionary Algorithm Characterization in Real-Coded Opt...