The Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences (Austria) offers a funded PhD position within the scope of the International PhD Program in Informatics Hagenberg. The group conducts scientific research in the field of metaheuristics for solving business, engineering, and biomedical problems.

The focus of the PhD research project should be to gain a better understanding of the evolutionary process by analyzing the search trajectories of genetic programming (GP) algorithms in different hypothesis spaces for academic as well as real-world d...

Michael Affenzeller and Stefan Wagner represented HEAL at the 5th Austrian FH Research Forum (FFH 2011), which took place in Vienna from 27. to 28. April 2011. The aim of the event was to highlight recent scientific research conducted at Universities of Applied Sciences and network with fellow researchers, decision makers and business representatives. In total, 165 papers and posters from diverse research branches were presented at the forum. Our contribution, "HeuristicLab 3.3: An Extensible and Flexible Software System for Heuristic Optimization", received the runner-up best poster award.

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The HeuristicLab development team is pleased to announce that you can now download HeuristicLab 3.3.4. We have added some exciting new features in this last release, such as:

• New algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization, Variable Neighborhood Search, Support Vector Machines for Classification
• New problems: Quadratic Assignment Problem, Multi-objective Symbolic Regression Problem

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