We are proud to announce that team HEAL achieved the first place at the symbolic regression competition of the EvoCompetitions side event of Evo* 2010. The goal of the competition was to create a prediction-model for a variable that is expensive to measure based on 57 other variables that can be easily measured based on data from a real world chemical process.

In the modeling process we tried to find a simple model that can be readily interpreted and validated by the domain experts. We put more emphasis on the interpretability, the prediction error of our final model is thus relatively large.

Team HEAL achieved second place at the financial time series prediction competition of the EvoCompetitions side event of Evo* 2010. The goal of the competition was to prognose the future values of ten financial time series for a horizon of ten time steps. We used HeuristicLab and genetic programming to create our forecast.

The HeuristicLab developement team is proud to announce the next expansion of the research group. Stefan Vonolfen is joining the team to work on projects in the field of logistic optimization. He has contributed to the upcoming HeuristicLab 3 and is eager to continue working with us. We are very glad to have him on board.