We are very pleased to announce the following HEAL team members have been accepted to present recent research at GECCO 2011 in Dublin, Ireland from 12-16 July 2011.

• HeuristicLab head developer Stefan Wagner and Gabriel Kronberger will demonstrate how to apply and analyze metaheuristics using our open source optimization environment HeuristicLab. More information is available on the HeuristicLab Tutorial homepage.
• In addition, Gabriel Kronberger will give a talk about "Overfitting Detection and Adaptive Covariant Parsimony Pressure for Symbolic Regression" in the Symbolic Regression and Modeli...

We will present our HeuristicLab optimization system at the next GECCO conference. If you are interested, come and join our tutorial. We will show how to use HeuristicLab for the purpose of doing research and teaching in the field of metaheuristic optimization and several of the frameworks most exciting features.

See you at GECCO 2011!

The entire Heureka! project consortium meets roughly twice a year to network, exchange best practises and report on progress in the different research branches. This time, Ing. Reinhard Aschauer from CARVATECH Karosserie & Kabinenbau GmbH invited everyone to Steyrermühl, starting with a diverting tour of the Austrian Papermill Museum, which included the creation of a handmade piece of paper. After coffee and small refreshments Heureka! researchers presented recent developments:

1. Newly minted PhD Gabriel Kronberger repeated his final thesis presentation, which focused on the generation of Genet...