We are proud to welcome another official member to the Heureka/HeuristicLab team. Erik Pitzer has already been an active developer on the 2nd iteration of the HeuristicLab architecture, but took the chance to go to Harvard Medical School in the mean time. He is now back and working on structure identification problems within Heureka as well as working actively on the next version of the HeuristicLab architecture, which is scheduled for release in the beginning of next year.

The article "Evolutionary Systems Identification: New Algorithmic Concepts and Applications" by Michael Affenzeller, Stephan Winkler, and Stefan Wagner has been bublished in the book Advances in Evolutionary Algorithms. This book, edited by Xiong Zhihui and published by IN-TECH Education and Publishing, can be downloaded here.

Members of the Heureka Team talked to students about their research and education work during the annual open day in Hagenberg. Interested people were introduced into the world of heuristic optimization. We talked a lot about the importance and the inspiration that comes from nature for deriving new optimization techniques as well as giving an overview of the range of applications from route planning, to schedule optimization and system identification.