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<h2>About</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">Information on the team of developers, contributors, and awards that HeuristicLab has received.</p>
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  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/About%20HeuristicLab">About HeuristicLab</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/First%20Steps">First Steps with HeuristicLab</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/FAQ">Frequently asked questions (FAQ)</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Research">Research activities and publications</a></li>
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<h2>Developer Resources</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">HeuristicLab is continously improved and extended. Here you will find helpful resources in setting up your development environment, read articles on the architecture of HeuristicLab and keep in touch with the official development roadmap.</p>
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  <li><a href="/roadmap">Roadmap</a></li>
  <li><a href="/timeline">Timeline</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/DevelopmentCenter">Development center</a></li>
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<h2>Reference</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">HeuristicLab includes many algorithms, problems, and operators. Here several of these are explained in more detail.</p>
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  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Reference">Reference for algorithms, problems, and more</a></li>
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<h2>Howtos</h2>
<p>Howtos are detailed instructions that show how to work with HeuristicLab such as designing new problems in the GUI and how to extend HeuristicLab with new features that can be added in new plugins.</p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">Working with HeuristicLab</h3>
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  <li><a href="/browser/core/trunk/documentation/Tutorials/Algorithm%20and%20Experiment%20Design%20with%20HeuristicLab.pdf">Tutorial slides: Algorithm and experiment design</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Define Custom Problems">Define custom problems in the GUI</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Optimize AnyLogic Models">Optimize AnyLogic simulation models</li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Optimize External Applications">Optimize external applications</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Use Hive For Optimization">Experiment calculation with HeuristicLab Hive</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Use Hive Engine">Use Hive engine for fine-grained parallel algorithms</a></li>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">Extending HeuristicLab</h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-top: 0.2em">Please also visit the <a href="/wiki/Documentation/DevelopmentCenter">Development Center</a> for quick guides and background on the HeuristicLab architecture if you want to explore these Howtos in more depth.</p>
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  <li><a href="/browser/core/trunk/documentation/Tutorials/Programming%20HeuristicLab%20-%20Basics.pdf">Tutorial slides: HeuristicLab programming basics</a></li>
  <li><a href="/browser/core/trunk/documentation/Tutorials/Programming%20HeuristicLab%20-%20Algorithms%20and%20Problems.pdf">Tutorial slides: HeuristicLab programming algorithms and problems</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Implement a Basic Algorithm">Implement a basic algorithm</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Implement Custom Problems">Implement custom problems</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Implement Genetic Programming Problems">Implement GP problems</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Implement a New VRP Encoding">Implement a new VRP encoding</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Implement a New VRP Evaluator">Implement a new VRP evaluator</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Implement a New VRP Problem Instance">Implement a new VRP problem instance</a></li>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">Additional Infrastructure</h3>
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  <li><a href="/wiki/UsersHowtosSetupHiveServer">Setup Hive server</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/UsersHowtosSetupHiveSlave">Setup Hive slave</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/UsersHowtosSetupOKBServer">Setup OKB server</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/UsersHowtosDevelopServices">Develop services</a></li>
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<h2><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials">Video Tutorials</a></h2>
<p>Video tutorials show how to use the HeuristicLab environment to complete tasks such as experiment analysis, algorithm prototyping or solving regression problems.</p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">Basic Tutorials</h3>
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  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/UsabilityViews">Usability and views</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/ExecuteAlgorithms">How to execute algorithms</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/ExperimentDesign">Experiment design and analysis</a></li>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">Advanced Tutorials</h3>
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  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/CustomAlgorithms">How to create custom algorithms</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/UserDefinedProblems">How to create user-defined problems</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/HeuristicLabHive">How to use HeuristicLab Hive</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/Scripting">Rapid prototyping using the scripting environment</a></li>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em">Application-specific Tutorials</h3>
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  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/SymbolicRegression">Symbolic regression with HeuristicLab</a></li>
  <li><a href="/wiki/Documentation/VideoTutorials/SymbolicClassification">Symbolic classification with HeuristicLab</a></li>
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