Gabriel Kronberger is blogging about financial analysis in the HeuristicLab Blog. He modeled the European interest rate swap yield with genetic programming and performed variable impact analysis, getting interesting results about the influences of the US mortgage market and Euro-zone employment on the interest rate. For details, head over to the blog.

We have posted a lot about our research in logistics and industrial applictions recently, so it's time to showcase our (bio-)medical researchers again. Research group head Michael Affenzeller will be in Rome next week to attend the 23rd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2011). Stephan Winkler and Viktoria Dorfer from the bioinformatics research group will accompany him. HEAL researchers and affiliates will present the following papers at the conference:

• On the Use of Estimated Tumor Marker Classifications in Tumor Diagnosis Prediction - A Case Study for Breast Cancer
• Missing Data...

We are constantly working on new features to improve HeuristicLab, our framework for heuristic and evolutionary algorithms, as evident if you have a look at the change and ticket history on our development homepage http://dev.heuristiclab.com. However, we know that our wiki and issue tracking system can be a bit overwhelming.

The solution: Our brand new HeuristicLab Development Blog. The blog will allow our developers to post about new, exciting features they are working on, link to tutorials, teaching materials and additional goodies. We will of course still announce releases and important ne...