With just a week to go until the GECCO 2011 conference, we would like to remind you that Stefan Wagner and Gabriel Kronberger will hold a HeuristicLab Tutorial there. In particular, they will show how to

• parameterize and execute evolutionary algorithms to solve combinatorial optimization problems (traveling salesman, vehicle routing) as well as data analysis problems (regression, classification).
• model custom optimization algorithms in the graphical algorithm designer.
• setup a large scale optimization experiment and execute such experiments on multi‐core or cluster systems.
• inspect executed t...

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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