Contributors
Michael Affenzeller is at the Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory,
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria, and Institute for
Formal Models and Verification, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Wolfgang Banzhaf is at the Department of Computer Science, Memorial Univer-
sity of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada,
Bogdan Burlacu is at the Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory,
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria
Institute for Formal Models and Verification, Johannes Kepler University, Linz,
Austria
Mauro Castelli is at NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
David Donatucci Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
Morris, Morris, MN, USA
Achiya Elyasaf is at the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University,
Beer-Sheva, Israel
Steven Gustafson is at Knowledge Discovery Lab, GE Global Research,
Niskayuna, NY, USA
Thomas Helmuth is a PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Babak Hodjatis chief scientist and cofounder of Genetic Finance, responsible
for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed evolutionary system.
Babak is an entrepreneur having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as
main inventor and technologist. He was also senior director of engineering at Sybase
Anywhere from 2004 to 2008, where he led Mobile Solutions Engineering including
the AvantGo Platform and the mBusiness Anywhere and Answers Anywhere
product suites. Previously, Babak was the cofounder of CTO and board member
of Dejima Inc. acquired by Sybase in April 2004. Babak is the primary inventor
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