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ACM has just concluded the email balloting of SIGEVO members for election of nine new members of the SIGEVO (Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation) Executive Committee. Franz Rothlauf has been a newly elected member and will take office on July 1, 2007. The other newly elected members of the executive commitee are Darrell Whitley, John Holland, Riccardo Poli, John Koza, Marc Schoenauer, Kalyanmoy Deb, Dirk Thierens, and Dave Davis.

The scope of SIGEVO is genetic and evolutionary computation, including all aspects of its organization, structure, design, and engineering.

More information on the ACM SIGEVO can be found at http://www.sigevo.org/

Since January 1st 2007, Wolfgang Steitz works as a research assistant at the chair of business administration and computer science.

Wolfgang Steitz studied Business IT with an emphasis on information systems, logistics and network engineering/multimedia at the University of Mannheim. His diploma thesis dealt with the development of efficient evolutionary algorithms in the planning of communication and IT networks as well as with the representation for genetic algorithms.

His doctorate thesis will presumably concentrate on the domain of genetic (evolutionary) algorithms/metaheuristics.