The opening ceremony of the Josef Ressel-Centre HEUREKA! will take place at campus Hagenberg of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences (FH-OÖ). The event will start on October 23rd 2008 at 15:30. Following are the topics and speakers of the opening ceremoney.

Welcome

• Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Witold Jacak, Dean FH-Campus Hagenberg
• Dr. Gerald Reisinger, CEO FH-OÖ Research in Upper Austria
• KommR Viktor Sigl, Minister of Economy, Labour, Youth, Education and European Affairs, Upper Austria R&D at Austria's Universities of Applied Sciences
• Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Norbert Vana, Member of the Fach...

Stefan Wagner is staying in Sydney, Australia as guest professor. He will give some talks at the University of Technology, Sydney, as well as meet with Zenon Chaczko, a renowned software engineer and professor at the university.

The article AbYSS: Adapting Scatter Search to Multiobjective Optimization has been published in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 12 Issue 4 2008. It is a joint contribution of Antonio Nebro, Francisco Luna, Enrique Alba, Bernabé Dorronsoro, Juan Durillo from the University of Málaga and our Andreas Beham. The reference can be found, e.g. on the publication page.