HeuristicLab FAQ

How to cite HeuristicLab

If you find HeuristicLab useful and employ it to develop your own software or solve an interesting application problem, please share improvements or enhancements with us and the metaheuristic community (as per the GNU Public License). In particular, if you publish any results derived from the use of HeuristicLab we will be grateful if you cite (one or both) the following references in your papers:

• S. Wagner, Heuristic Optimization Software Systems - Modeling of Heuristic Optimization Algorithms in the HeuristicLab Software Environment, PhD Thesis, Institute for Formal Models and Verification, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 2009.

• Wagner, S., S. Winkler, R. Braune, G. Kronberger, A. Beham, and M. Affenzeller, Benefits of plugin-based heuristic optimization software systems. In Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2007, ed. R. Moreno-Diaz, F. Pichler, and A. Quesada-Arencibia, Volume 4739 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 747–754, Springer, 2007.