We are very happy to announce that two long-term HEAL affiliates from the Institute for Production and Logistics Management at the Johannes Kepler University Linz have successfully defended their PhD theses. The orals were scheduled back to back on Tuesday with many friends and colleagues in the audience. Their individual research areas were:

• Roland Braune: Job Shop Scheduling with Total Weighted Tardiness Objective: Enhancements to Local Search and Bottleneck-based Methods.
• Michael Bögl: Suchraumstrukturanalysen und selbstlernende nachbarschaftsbasierte Suchverfahren am zeitfensterbeschränkt...

We are proud to announce that HEAL members have received the Best Paper Award of the 23rd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2011) for their paper On the Use of Estimated Tumor Marker Classifications in Tumor Diagnosis Prediction!

In this paper recent research results in the area of medical data mining and modeling have been summarized. The paper was written by HEAL members Stephan Winkler, Michael Affenzeller, Gabriel Kronberger, Michael Kommenda, and Stefan Wagner in close collaboration with Prim. Dr. Herbert Stekel from the General Hospital Linz (AKH Linz) and Prof. Dr. Witold J...

Michael Affenzeller and Stephan Winkler will represent the Josef Ressel-Centre Heureka! and the bioinformatics research group at the Joint Conference of the German, Austrian, and Swiss Societies for Haematology and Oncology in Basel from Sept. 30th to Oct. 4th, 2011.

We are very pleased by the opportunity to present recent research results in the area of medical data mining and modeling at a conference for medical professionals. The two posters were prepared in close collaboration with Prim. Dr. Herbert Stekel, MD, from the General Hospital Linz (AKH Linz), and Prof. Dr. Witold Jacak from the ...