Happy new year! The HeuristicLab development team kicks off 2012 with the brand new HeuristicLab 3.3.6 release. One of the most exciting new features of HeuristicLab 3.3.6 is HeuristicLab Hive which provides an infrastructure for parallel and distributed computation. Hive consists of a server with a database and a number of computation slaves. A user can upload a job to the Hive server which distributes the jobs among the available slaves and automatically retrieves the results after they are finished. While the main purpose of HeuristicLab Hive is to execute HeuristicLab algorithms, it can al...

We are pleased to announce that Michael Affenzeller and Stefan Wagner will chair the Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft) Workshop at the GECCO 2012 conference. Stefan Wagner is the the project manager and head developer of the HeuristicLab optimization environment. The workshop will help to identify common efforts in the development of evolutionary computation software systems and will be a great platform to discuss cooperation potentials and synergies between different research groups.

GECCO 2012 will take place in Philadelphia, USA, from July 07-11, 2012.

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Back in September Gabriel Kronberger posted about financial analysis in the HeuristicLab Blog and showed some preliminary results for modelling the European interest rate swap yield with genetic programming. After many months of algorithm tweaking and refinement he presented the completed analysis and generated prognosis models to scientific peers at the ERCIM11 conference in London last weekend. ERCIM11 was organized by the London School of Economics, Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck University of London.