The global economic development puts all fields of the supply chain up against new logistic challenges. Therefore the scope of topics presented at the EULOG conference in Salzburg on May 10-11 was very broad and ranged from bike sharing, warehouse and production optimization to the dispatching of freight wagons. HEAL researcher Monika Kofler was invited to present recent scientific and practical advances in warehouse optimization that our group developed within the Josef Ressel Centre Heureka! in close cooperation with Rosenbauer International and voestalpine.

In addition, many of our long...

The EU Project BioBoost has just started with the beginning of 2012. BioBoost investigates the production, logistics and valuation of various energy-rich intermediate products from biogenous residues.

Our participation is a collaboration between HEAL and Logistikum where we will concentrate on the creation and optimization of a holistic logistic model to help determine economic and ecologic viability and sustainability. Erik Pitzer and Stephan Hutterer have attended the Kick-Off meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Project Homepage is available at bioboost.eu. A more detailed press-release can b...

We are constantly extending and improving the documentation for HeuristicLab to lower the barrier for new users and provide additional insights for our growing user base. Therefore we have created a number of short video tutorials that show some of the functionality. You can find these video tutorials on our website's tutorials section.

Additionally, we have created a YouTube Channel which you can subscribe to and receive future updates.

To get a good overview of some of the most important features in HeuristicLab, we have created a short tour. In this tour we quickly highlight different aspec...