News

Partners meeting announcement

The Heureka! team is proud to announce the first partners meeting where first results are to be discussed and presented. The meeting will take place at campus Hagenberg of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences.

There are currently three topics on the agenda:

Presentation of the centre's topics in more detail
Introduction of the part data based structure identification
Introduction of the part optimization in production environments

Call for Papers

Michael Affenzeller is one of the program chairs of the upcoming 2nd International Symposium on Logistics and Industrial Informatics (LINDI 2009). The conference will take place in Linz, Austria from Septemer 10-12, 2009. Interested people are invited to send contributions. The deadline of full paper submissions is April 30, 2009. More information can be found in the call for papers as well as on the official homepage. It is also a good chance to visit Linz, especially as it is the european culture capital of 2009 (along with Vilnius, Lithuania).

Happy new year

The HeuristicLab development team wishes everyone a successful and happy new year 2009! We're glad about the worldwide interest in our software and hope that you're on board with us the coming year. The next chance to meet with members of the team is at the EuroCAST 2009 conference in Gran Canaria, Spain from February 15-20. We are there co-organizing a workshop on heuristic problem solving together with the group of Günther Raidl from the University of Vienna.

Research award received

Stephan Winkler today received the Junior Researcher Award 2008 from the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences (FH OÖ). He was given the prize in recognition of his excellent research work, presented in his PhD thesis and more than 30 peer reviewed publications over the course of the last 4 years! The whole team congratulates whole-heartedly to this success!

Heureka! opening ceremony

The Josef Ressel-Centre HEUREKA! has been officially opened in a ceremony at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Campus Hagenberg. There were a number of interesting talks and people from the industry, science and politics later gathered at the buffet. Please find below several pictures of the opening ceremony.