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.

After the great success of the workshop “Modeling and Simulation” at FH OÖ in January, two follow-up events have been scheduled:

• "Process and Prodution Simulation": May 2nd, 2011, 16:00 – 20:00 at FH OÖ, Campus Steyr (Coordination: Prof.(FH) DI Dr. Herbert Jodlbauer)
• "Simulation and Optimization": May 4th, 2011, 15:00 – 19:00 at FH OÖ, Campus Hagenberg (Coordination: Prof.(FH) PD DI Dr. Michael Affenzeller)

If you are interested in these topics and current plans regarding R&D projects, then please don’t hesitate and join us in these workshops! The attendance of the workshops is free, please ...