The research group HEAL situated at FH-OÖ campus Hagenberg has organized several workshops to gather researchers and practitioners in the field of metaheuristics, optimization and soft computing. Members of this research group also aim to continuously extend their networks to international scientific partners and present their work and results at numerous conferences in the field of optimization and metaheuristics.

Workshop and conference organization

• Workshop on Heuristic Problem Solving at the International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EuroCAST'07)
• Workshop on Soft Computing and Modelling & Simulation at the European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMSS'08)
• Workshop on Heuristic Problem Solving at the International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EuroCAST'09)
• International Symposium on Logistics and Industrial Informatics (LINDI 2009)
• Workshop on Heuristic Problem Solving at the International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EuroCAST'10)

Conference and workshop participation

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
• Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN)
• European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP)
• Nature Inspired Distributed Computing Workshop (NIDISC) at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
• International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA)