The first meeting of the EURO working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (VeRoLog) takes place in Bologna, Italy this week. Stefan Vonolfen will represent our research group in the special session on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems and present his paper "New measures for describing the structure of dynamic vehicle routing problems".

Meanwhile, fellow HEAL researcher Stephan Hutterer has returned from the 12th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2012), which was organized by Istanbul Technical University. Stephan pre...

HEAL researcher Andreas Beham is currently visiting Prof. Dr. Enrique Alba and his group at the University of Málaga, Spain. This is Andreas' second extended research visit to Spain. Back in 2005 he already spent a couple of months as exchange student at the University of Granada and also worked with the group of Enrique Alba on an adaption of scatter search for multiobjective optimization.

In the well occupied auditorium HS3, students, external experts, and university employees alike listened to guest lecturer Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo’s captivating talk about "New Insights in Computational Neuroscience and Neural Computation Based Decision Support Systems" last Thursday.

Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo is the head of the Neural and Adaptive Computation and Computational Neuroscience (COMCIENCIA) Research Group at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Among other things, her group has developed an interesting new neural architecture that models the brain more closely, ca...