EU Project BioBoost
May 14, 2012
| The EU Project BioBoost has just started with the beginning of 2012. BioBoost investigates the production, logistics and valuation of various energy-rich intermediate products from biogenous residues. |  |
Our participation is a collaboration between HEAL and Logistikum where we will concentrate on the creation and optimization of a holistic logistic model to help determine economic and ecologic viability and sustainability. Erik Pitzer and Stephan Hutterer have attended the Kick-Off meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Project Homepage is available at bioboost.eu. A more detailed press-release can be found at the coordinator's webpage and in CORDIS.
HeuristicLab Video Tutorials and YouTube Channel
Apr 12, 2012
We are constantly extending and improving the documentation for HeuristicLab to lower the barrier for new users and provide additional insights for our growing user base. Therefore we have created a number of short video tutorials that show some of the functionality. You can find these video tutorials on our website's tutorials section.
Additionally, we have created a YouTube Channel which you can subscribe to and receive future updates.
To get a good overview of some of the most important features in HeuristicLab, we have created a short tour. In this tour we quickly highlight different aspects such as implemented problems, algorithm execution, experiment design and analysis, and more.
HeuristicLab 3.3.6 Released
Jan 3, 2012
| Happy new year! The HeuristicLab development team kicks off 2012 with the brand new HeuristicLab 3.3.6 release. |  |
| One of the most exciting new features of HeuristicLab 3.3.6 is HeuristicLab Hive which provides an infrastructure for parallel and distributed computation. Hive consists of a server with a database and a number of computation slaves. A user can upload a job to the Hive server which distributes the jobs among the available slaves and automatically retrieves the results after they are finished. While the main purpose of HeuristicLab Hive is to execute HeuristicLab algorithms, it can also be used independently. A detailed intro to Hive can be found in the Hive How-To on the HeuristicLab webpage. | |
Additional new features in HeuristicLab 3.3.6 include:
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| For the full feature list, samples and documentation, go to http://dev.heuristiclab.com. | |
EvoSoft Workshop @ GECCO 2012
Jan 2, 2012
| We are pleased to announce that Michael Affenzeller and Stefan Wagner will chair the Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft) Workshop at the GECCO 2012 conference. Stefan Wagner is the the project manager and head developer of the HeuristicLab optimization environment. The workshop will help to identify common efforts in the development of evolutionary computation software systems and will be a great platform to discuss cooperation potentials and synergies between different research groups. |  |
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GECCO 2012 will take place in Philadelphia, USA, from July 07-11, 2012.
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Financial Analysis with HeuristicLab (Part 2)
Dec 23, 2011
| Back in September Gabriel Kronberger posted about financial analysis over at the HeuristicLab Blog and showed some preliminary results for modelling the European interest rate swap yield with genetic programming. After many months of algorithm tweaking and refinement he presented the completed analysis and generated prognosis models to scientific peers at the ERCIM11 conference in London last weekend. ERCIM11 was organized by the London School of Economics, Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck University of London. |  |
Michael Affenzeller as Guest Lecturer in Las Palmas
Dec 20, 2011
| Michael Affenzeller spent the better part of last week at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. He was invited by Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo, the university’s vice head of internationalization, to hold a guest lecture in her PhD seminar and discuss future collaboration opportunities between our research groups. |  |
Carmen Paz and her group conduct research in the area of artificial neural networks (ANN) with a special focus on (bio-)medical applications and hybrid algorithmic variants. We found that their research on modeling Alzheimer's Disease and related forms of dementia via ANN might tie in nicely with the heuristic dementia models developed by researchers around long-term HEAL member and bioinformatics research group head Stephan Winkler. Our groups are currently preparing a joint research proposal in that area, which will be submitted to the funding agency within the next couple of months. As usual, we will keep you posted about new developments on our homepage. |
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HeuristicLab Tutorial in Barcelona
Oct 27, 2011
| During the IMMM 2011 a tutorial on "System Identification and Data Mining with HeuristicLab" was held by Andreas Scheibenpflug and Michael Kommenda. In particular, they showed how to |  |
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Large Experiments in HeuristicLab
Oct 27, 2011
| Andreas Beham recently had to run some large parameter experiments in HeuristicLab - and by large we mean about 400 configurations per experiment and more than 27,000 individual runs. The goal of this experiment was to test several parameter configurations on a number of problem instances in order to find the configuration that performed best in those instances. |  |
| Andreas shares his thoughts on the design of large parameter experiments and how you can make them as memory-friendly as possible on the HeuristicLab Blog. The blog entry also comes with a helpful code sample that should get you started, if you face a similar problem. Comments and questions are of course always welcome, either directly via mail or in our google group! | |
Best Paper Award at EMSS 2011
Sep 29, 2011
| We are proud to announce that HEAL members have received the Best Paper Award of the 23rd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2011) for their paper On the Use of Estimated Tumor Marker Classifications in Tumor Diagnosis Prediction! | |
In this paper recent research results in the area of medical data mining and modeling have been summarized. The paper was written by HEAL members Stephan Winkler, Michael Affenzeller, Gabriel Kronberger, Michael Kommenda, and Stefan Wagner in close collaboration with Prim. Dr. Herbert Stekel from the General Hospital Linz (AKH Linz) and Prof. Dr. Witold Jacak from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. |
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The paper was presented by Stephan Winkler at the EMSS Workshop on Modeling and Simulation in Healthcare. Congratulations! |
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Haematology and Oncology Congress in Basel
Sep 27, 2011
| Michael Affenzeller and Stephan Winkler will represent the Josef Ressel-Centre Heureka! and the bioinformatics research group at the Joint Conference of the German, Austrian, and Swiss Societies for Haematology and Oncology in Basel from Sept. 30th to Oct. 4th, 2011. |  |
We are very pleased by the opportunity to present recent research results in the area of medical data mining and modeling at a conference for medical professionals. The two posters were prepared in close collaboration with Prim. Dr. Herbert Stekel, MD, from the General Hospital Linz (AKH Linz), and Prof. Dr. Witold Jacak from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria:
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