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| July 18, 2008 |
| Stephan Winkler attended the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008) in Atlanta, Georgia, this week to present his contribution Fine-Grained Population Diversity Estimation for Genetic Programming Based Structure Identification (which is available as poster [pdf, 3.2 MB]). |
| July 18, 2008 |
| Our colleague Gabriel Kronberger is currently in Hamburg, Germany, to present the paper On the Effects of Enhanced Selection Models on Quality and Comparability of Classifiers Produced by Genetic Programming at the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2008). |
| July 8, 2008 |
| The HeuristicLab development team proudly announces that our joint proposal for a Josef Ressel Centre for Heuristic Optimization (Heureka!) has been accepted for funding by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). Heureka! is among the three first research laboratories for universities of applied sciences in Austria and will start in fall 2008. |
| June 19, 2008 |
| The paper A Comparative Study of Genetic Algorithm Components in Simulation-Based Optimisation, a joint contribution of Birkan Can and Cathal Heavey from the University of Limerick, IE and our Andreas Beham has been accepted to be presented at the upcoming Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'08) this December. |
| June 18, 2008 |
| Presentations of the last HEAL meeting on June 11th have been added to the presentations section. The topics this time cover the fields of evolutionary art and software parallelization. |
| June 2, 2008 |
| Stephan Winkler is attending the Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS 2008) to present his contribution On the Reliability of Nonlinear Modeling Using Enhanced Genetic Programming Techniques. |
| May 21, 2008 |
| Members of the HeuristicLab development team are going to present their recent studies on the 20th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium in Briatico, Italy in September 2008. Accepted contributions can be seen on the publications page. |
| Apr 21, 2008 |
| The HeuristicLab development team welcomes a new PhD! Dr. Stephan Winkler has today successfully defended his PhD thesis Evolutionary System Identification - Modern Concepts and Practical Applications and receives the title Doktor der Technischen Wissenschaften (Doctor Technicae) from the Johannes Kepler University Linz. The whole team congratulates whole-heartedly to this achievement! |
| Apr 19, 2008 |
| Michael Affenzeller is attending the OEGOR/GOR meeting Entscheidungsunterstützung in der Logistik - Geographische Informationssysteme, Simulation und Optimierung in Salzburg presenting our latest efforts to combine HeuristicLab 3.0 with simulation for general, user-friendly and fully customizable simulation optimization tasks. |
| Apr 14, 2008 |
| Andreas Beham is attending the 11th NIDISC workshop at the IPDSP'2008 with his contribution titled A Genetic Programming Approach to solve Scheduling Problems with Parallel Simulation. |
| Mar 13, 2008 |
| Birkan Can and Cathal Heavey from the University of Limerick, Ireland are presenting a collaborative work with Andreas Beham on the Buffer Allocation Problem at the Operational Research Society, 4th Simulation Workshop (SW08) in Worcestershire, England. The titel of the contribution is called Simulation-based Evolutionary Optimisation of Buffer Allocation Problem. The work is based on HeuristicLab 1.1 and can be found here. |
| Mar 11, 2008 |
| The About HeuristicLab section has been updated with information about HeuristicLab 3.0. |
| Mar 10, 2008 |
| The news page is available as RSS feed as well. Point your RSS reader to http://www.heuristiclab.com/rss.xml to make all the news available directly in your favourite news reader. |
| Feb 6, 2008 |
| Stephan Winkler's paper On the Reliability of Nonlinear Modeling Using Enhanced Genetic Programming Techniques has been accepted to be presented at the Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS 2008) in Chania, Greece. |
| Feb 1, 2008 |
| The Presentations section is updated with new presentations from the last HEAL meetings. There is a lot of insight into the operation of the next evolutionary step in our optimization environment HeuristicLab 3.0 as well as a first interesting Bioinformatic application regarding the topic of protein folding! |
| Jan 31, 2008 |
| Andreas Beham's paper A Genetic Programming Approach to Solve Scheduling Problems with Parallel Simulation has been accepted to be presented at the 11th NIDISC international workshop during the IPDPS'2008 conference in Miami, FL, United States. |
| Jan. 28, 2008 |
| During the 20th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMSS2008) a workshop on Soft Computing and Modelling & Simulation is organized by Witold Jacak and Michael Affenzeller from the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences.The goal of the workshop is to bring together academics from the fields of modeling and simulation with experts from the fields of soft computing and computational intelligence as well as practitioners interested in potential applications arising out of this context. For more detailed information see the call for papers. |
| Dec. 5, 2007 |
| Monika Kofler received the Würdigungspreis des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung in recognition of her excellent diploma thesis titled Lowcost 3D Ultrasound in Vienna. The prize was presented by Austria's minister for science and research Dr. Johannes Hahn. Monika's advisor Dr. Werner Backfrieder joined the congratulations. The whole HeuristicLab Development Team congratulates wholeheartedly to this success!
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| Nov. 19, 2007 |
| Michael Affenzeller and Stephan Winkler are going to attend the Austrian Workshop on Metaheuristics 5 (AWM 5 '07). The event will take place on November 27th, 2007 at the Faculty of Social and Economical Sciences at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria; the presentations to be given can be found in the presentations section. |
| Nov. 09, 2007 |
| The presentations given at the HEAL Meeting on November, 7th 2007 at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria are online. Head over to the presentations section and have a look at the topics and slides. |
| Oct. 08, 2007 |
| The project Heuristische Produktionsfeinplanung in komplexen volatilen Systemen (HPF) has been officially started in Rankweil, Vorarlberg. From the HeuristicLab team Andreas Beham is working on the project which treats the topic of production planning in volatile systems. The project aims at finding an approach that takes benefit of both scheduling and dispatching during the detailed planning process. The project is funded by the Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH. |
| Aug. 08, 2007 |
| The section About HeuristicLab contains new information and presents an insight into the developments and results of HeuristicLab 2.0. |
| July 12, 2007 |
| The paper Heuristic Optimization Methods for the Tuning of Input Parameters of Simulation Models is accepted to be published in the proceedings of the 19th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMSS'07). The EMSS conference will take place from October 4-6, 2007 in Bergeggi (Sv), Italy. |
| June 19, 2007 |
| Michael Affenzeller is awarded the title Prof. (FH) for his dedication as professor at the Upper Austrian Unviersity of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. The HeuristicLab Development team congratulates whole-heartedly! |
| June 16, 2007 |
| Stephan Winkler is going to present the paper Evolutionary Design of Virtual Sensors (written by Stephan Winkler, Michael Affenzeller, Stefan Wagner, Gabriel Kronberger and Andreas Beham) at the Industrial Symposium on Mechatronics ISM2007 on October 4, 2007 at the Design Center in Linz, Austria. |
| May 25, 2007 |
| The HeuristicLab development team is once again proud to officially welcome Monika Kofler on board. Monika has studied Medical Software Engineering at the Upper Austrian University of Applied Science in Hagenberg and graduated last year with distinction. More details are available at her contact page. |
| May 21, 2007 |
| Stephan Winkler is going to present the paper Variables Diversity in Systems Identification based on Extended Genetic Programming at the XVI International Conference on Systems Science, September 4 - 6, 2007 in Wroclaw, Poland. |
| May 15, 2007 |
| Michael Affenzeller is going to present a joint contribution with Stefan Wagner and Stephan Winkler titled Aspects of Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Evolution in July at the upcoming GECCO'07 in London, UK. |
| May 08, 2007 |
| The HeuristicLab development team is pleased to officially welcome Andreas Beham on board. Andreas has developed several plug-ins since 2004, e.g. Tabu Search, Scatter Search and Sudoku and we're pleased that we could integrate him into our team. More details are available at his contact page. |
| Feb. 12-16, 2007 |
| The HeuristicLab development team is attending the EuroCAST2007 conference. Papers will be published in an upcoming edition of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. |
| Jul. 13, 2006 |
| During the Eleventh International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (eurocast 07) a workshop on Heuristic Problem Solving is organized by Michael Affenzeller and Stefan Wagner. The Workshop will mainly focus on new algorithmic developments, theory and applications of Genetic Algorithms, theory and applications of Genetic Programming, other metaheuristics (like Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Scatter Search, Ant Systems), hybridization, parallel metaheuristics, and applications in combinatorial optimization, bio- and medical informatics, networks and telecommunications. |
| Feb. 08, 2006 |
| With the 1st of February the FWF Translational-Research-Project "GP-Based Methods for the Design of Virtual Sensors" has started. The project is held in cooperation with the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems of the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Together with the official start of the project we are glad to welcome back Stephan Winkler also locally. Further details are available at his contact page. |
| Dec. 21, 2005 |
| The HeuristicLab development team is pleased to officially welcome Gabriel Kronberger on board. Gabriel has developed HeuristicLab Hive, HeuristicLab Grid and several plug-ins since 2004 and so it's high time now to make him a steady team member. More details are available at his contact page. |
| Nov. 19, 2005 |
| The two papers "Solving Multiclass Classification Problems by Genetic Programming" and "SexualGA: Gender-Specific Selection for Genetic Algorithms" presented at WMSCI 2005 were honored with the best paper awards for the sessions "Management Information Systems" and "Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems". More details are available at the publications page. |
| Nov. 07, 2005 |
| With the 1st of November Michael Affenzeller started to work as professor for applied computer science at the Department of Software Engineering of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences. More details can be found on his contact page. |
| Oct. 24, 2005 |
| The new version 1.3.0 of the VRP plug-in (implemented by Michael Bögl) and the new version 1.1.1 of the SAT plug-in (implemented by Florian Lonsing) are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Oct. 18, 2005 |
| The FWF Translational-Research-Project "GP-Based Methods for the Design of Virtual Sensors" has been approved. The project is planned to start in January 2006 in cooperation with the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems of the Johannes Kepler University Linz. |
| Sep. 30, 2005 |
| With the 1st of October Stefan Wagner will start to work as associate professor for software project engineering at the Department of Software Engineering of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences. More details can be found on his contact page. |
| Sep. 10, 2005 |
| The project paper of the Satisfiability Problem (SAT) plug-in (implemented by Florian Lonsing) is available at the documentation page. |
| Sep. 09, 2005 |
| A new HeuristicLab 1.1.0 Setup is available containing the latest versions of all plug-ins. It can be downloaded from the download page. |
| Sep. 09, 2005 |
| Release of the Genetic Algorithm-Based Machine Learning (GBML) plug-in and the Standard Genetic Algorithm for Machine Learning (SGAML) plug-in (both implemented by Dietmar Langer). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Sep. 09, 2005 |
| Release of the Satisfiability Problem (SAT) plug-in (implemented by Florian Lonsing). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Sep. 09, 2005 |
| Release of the Scatter Search (SS) plug-in and the Standard Tabu Search (STS) plug-in (both implemented by Andreas Beham). The STS plug-in replaces the old Tabu Search plug-in (TS). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Sep. 09, 2005 |
| New versions of the ATSP (1.1.1), TSP (1.1.1), VRP (1.2.0), TF2D (1.1.1), TFND (1.1.1), and GP (1.1.1) plug-ins are available. In the new version of the GP plug-in the bugs reported at the 25th of August are corrected. More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Sep. 05, 2005 |
| The paper "New Methods for the Identification of Nonlinear Model Structures Based Upon Genetic Programming Techniques" by Stephan Winkler, Michael Affenzeller and Stefan Wagner has been published in the Journal of System Science (vol. 31, no. 1). More details are available at the publications page. |
| Aug. 25, 2005 |
| Due to the upgrade from version 1.0.0 to version 1.1.0 the GP plug-in got unstable. A bugfix will be released within the next few days. |
| Aug. 22, 2005 |
| Roland Braune started to work at the R&D Competence Center of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences. More details can be found on his contact page. |
| Aug. 19, 2005 |
| Release of HeuristicLab 1.1.0 The new version of HeuristicLab is available at the download page. More details about the changes can be found on the project history page. |
| Aug. 17, 2005 |
| The book "Moderne Heuristiken der Produktionsplanung am Beispiel der Maschinenbelegung" written by G. Zäpfel and R. Braune has been published by the Vahlen Verlag München. More details are available at the publications page. |
| Aug. 17, 2005 |
| Some problem examples for the Genetic (Symbolic) Regression Problem (GR) plug-in are available. They can be downloaded from the plug-ins page. |
| Aug. 16, 2005 |
| Release of the Genetic (Symbolic) Regression Problem (GR) plug-in (implemented by Reinhard Zierhofer). More details about the plug-in are available at the documentation page and in Reinhard's master thesis. |
| Aug. 16, 2005 |
| Release of the Sudoku Problem (Sudoku) plug-in (implemented by Andreas Beham). More details about the Sudoku Problem are available at wikipedia here. |
| Jul. 27, 2005 |
| The paper "On-Line Modeling Based on Genetic Programming" written by S. Winkler, H. Efendic, M. Affenzeller, L. Del Re and S. Wagner will be presented at ALaRT 05 and has been accepted for publication in a Special Issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJISTA). More details are available at the publications page. |
| Jun. 13, 2005 |
| "Population Genetics and Evolutionary Computation: Theoretical and Practical Aspects", the habilitation thesis of Michael Affenzeller, has been published as a book by the Universitätsverlag Rudolf Trauner. More details are available at the publications page. |
| Jun. 09, 2005 |
| The two papers "The Influence of Population Genetics for the Redesign of Genetic Algorithms" and "HeuristicLab Grid - A Flexible and Extensible Environment for Parallel Heuristic Optimization" by Michael Affenzeller and Stefan Wagner have been published in the Journal of System Science (vol. 30, no. 4). More details are available at the publications page. |
| May 20, 2005 |
| Starting shot of the development of HeuristicLab 2.0. More details will be published soon. |
| Apr. 10, 2005 |
| A new paid master thesis topic titled "Using Genetic Programming to Optimize Priority Rules" is available. More details can be found on the theses page. |
| Feb. 24, 2005 |
| The three papers of Stefan Wagner, Stephan Winkler, and Roland Braune were accepted at the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI) 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA. More details are available at the publications page. |
| Feb. 12, 2005 |
| Experimental results concerning Allele Frequency Analysis are now presented in the Results section. |
| Feb. 03, 2005 |
| Experimental results concerning Logistic Regression are now presented in the new Results section. |
| Feb. 03, 2005 |
| "Looking Inside Genetic Algorithms", the diploma thesis of Stefan Wagner, has been published as a book by the Universitätsverlag Rudolf Trauner. More details are available at the publications page. |
| Jan. 14, 2005 |
| We are pleased to welcome Roland Braune and Stephan Winkler, who have become main members of the HeuristicLab development team. Take a look at the contact pages to get more information about them. |
| Nov. 22, 2004 |
| The paper "HeuristicLab: A Generic and Extensible Optimization Environment" was accepted at the International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA) 2005 in Coimbra, Portugal. |
| Nov. 18, 2004 |
| Release of HeuristicLab 1.0.0 |
| Nov. 04, 2004 |
| HeuristicLab homepage goes online |
| Oct. 11, 2004 |
| Release of the Tabu Search (TS) plug-in (implemented by Andreas Beham). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Oct. 08, 2004 |
| Release of the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) plug-in (implemented by Roland Braune). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Sep. 16, 2004 |
| Release of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) plug-in (implemented by Michael Bögl). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Sep. 08, 2004 |
| Presentation of the paper "HeuristicLab Grid - A Flexible and Extensible Environment for Parallel Heuristic Optimization" at the International Conference of Systems Science (ICSS) 2004 in Wroclaw, Poland |
| Jul. 01, 2004 |
| Release of the Genetic Programming (GP) plug-in (implemented by Jörg Pührer). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Oct. 23, 2003 |
| Release of the n-dimensional Test Functions (TestFunctionsND) plug-in (implemented by Stefan Wagner). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Aug. 26, 2003 |
| Beginning of the development of HeuristicLab Grid |
| Aug. 20, 2003 |
| Release of the Coarse-Grained Parallel Genetic Algorithm (IslandGA) plug-in (implemented by Stefan Wagner). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Aug. 07, 2003 |
| Release of the Evolution Strategy (ES) plug-in (implemented by Mihaela Ionescu). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Jul. 08, 2003 |
| Release of the Steady-State Genetic Algorithm (SSGA) plug-in (implemented by Stefan Pichler). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Jul. 08, 2003 |
| Release of the Simulated Annealing (SA) plug-in (implemented by Florian Ortner and Harald Radi). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Apr. 29, 2003 |
| Release of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) plug-in (implemented by Stefan Wagner). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Apr. 04, 2003 |
| Release of the 2-dimensional Test Functions (TestFunctions2D) plug-in (implemented by Stefan Wagner). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Mar. 11, 2003 |
| Birth of SASEGASA |
| Feb. 26, 2003 |
| Release of the Rotor Machine Analysis Problem (RMAP) plug-in (implemented by Stefan Wagner and Daniel Schragl). More details are available at the plug-ins page. |
| Dec. 27, 2002 |
| First inofficial release of HeuristicLab 1.0.0. equipped with Random Search (RS), Standard Genetic Algorithm (SGA), Sexual Genetic Algorithm (SXGA), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (ATSP), Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP), and Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem (MPSP) plug-ins. JSSP and MPSP were implemented by Stephan Winkler. |
| Summer 2002 |
| Starting shot of the development of HeuristicLab |
| Summer 2000 |
| Birth of SEGA |
