David Davis from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is currently visiting Linz to attend a conference and will use the opportunity to give two guest lectures in Hagenberg:

• Friday 23.11.2012, 18:00, HS3: "Information and Communication Systems in Australia"
• Wednesday 28.11.2012, 18:00, HS3: "Principles of System Analysis in Software Development

Entry is free and knowing David we can look forward to two exciting talks.

As previously noted, the HeuristicLab 3.3.7 release features a new implementation of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) plugin, which now includes dynamic and stochastic VRP variants. Our routing expert Stefan Vonolfen writes about the changes on the HeuristicLab Blog. Comments and questions are of course always welcome, either directly via mail or in our google group!

HEAL member Gabriel Kronberger is currently in Bristol, UK, attending the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD2012). He will give a "Spotlight Demo" on symbolic regression with HeuristicLab. For those who cannot attend the demo or who would like some follow-up information, we can recommend the Additional Material page in the HeuristicLab development wiki, which provides complementary material such as slides, video tutorials, test data and pre-configured HeuristicLab experiments and results for our publications and tu...