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...

Michael Affenzeller, in his role as general chair of the 11th International Conference on Modeling and Applied Simulation (MAS 2012), is giving an opening talk tomorrow morning at the conference venue in Vienna, Austria. The MAS conference is, as in previous years, part of the I3M, the International Multidisciplinary Modeling & Simulation Multiconference.