The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO), the Province of Upper Austria (Land OÖ) and the OÖ. Technologie- und Marketinggesellschaft m.b.H. (TMG) cordially invite anyone interested to an information event about applied research in Christian Doppler Laboratories and Josef Ressel Centres. In particular, the event will showcase how small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) can participate in these research projects. The Province of Upper Austria wishes to strengthen the 'innovation capacity' of SMEs and we can definitely recommend the event for entrepreneurs who want the support of established ...

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...