HEAL researchers Andreas Beham and Stefan Vonolfen are heading to Budapest, Hungary, on Wednesday to attend the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Logistics and Industrial Informatics (LINDI 2011). We have been quite busy in the area of logistics and production optimization, as the titles of our accepted LINDI papers indicate:

• Solving Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problem Instances Using an Island-Model Offspring Selection Genetic Algorithm
• A New Metric to Measure Distances between Solutions to the Quadratic Assignment Problem
• Re-Warehousing vs. Healing: Strategies for Warehouse Storage Locati...

Right on time for the upcoming GECCO Tutorial we have released HeuristicLab 3.3.5. Let us know what you think! New features include:

• Random forests (wrapper for ALGLIB implementation)
• Allele frequency analyzer for symbolic data analysis expression trees
• Optional caching and parallel execution of external evaluation results
• New analyzers and operators for the quadratic assignment problem (QAP)
• New tree view for experiments etc.

For the full feature list, samples and documentation, go to http://dev.heuristiclab.com.

With just a week to go until the GECCO 2011 conference, we would like to remind you that Stefan Wagner and Gabriel Kronberger will hold a HeuristicLab Tutorial there. In particular, they will show how to

• parameterize and execute evolutionary algorithms to solve combinatorial optimization problems (traveling salesman, vehicle routing) as well as data analysis problems (regression, classification).
• model custom optimization algorithms in the graphical algorithm designer.
• setup a large scale optimization experiment and execute such experiments on multi‐core or cluster systems.
• inspect executed t...