Honorary Chair (2016 edition)
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK
General Chairs
Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy
Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Program Chairs
Christian Blum, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
El-Ghazali Talbi, Polytech’Lille, University of Lille 1, France
Publication Chair
Maria J. Blesa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Publicity Chair
Antonio D. Masegosa, University of Deusto, Spain
Program Committee
Andy Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK
Lyuba Alboul, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Jason Atkin, University of Nottingham, UK
Peter J. Bentley, University College London, UK
Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Jacek Blazewicz, University of Poznan, Poland
Juergen Branke, Warwick Business School, UK
Fabio Caraffini, De Montfort University, UK
Francesco Carrabs, University of Salerno, Italy
Carmine Cerrone, University of Salerno, Italy
Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy
Francisco Chicano, University of Malaga, Spain
Camelia Chira, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Pietro Consoli, University of Birmingham, UK
Salvatore Corrente, University of Catania, Italy
Xavier Delorme, ENSM-SE, France
Antonio Di Nola, University of Salerno, Italy
Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Luca di Gaspero, University of Udine, Italy
Karl Doerner, University of Vienna, Austria
Andreas Ernst, Monash University, Australia
Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, India
Paola Festa, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Grazziela Figueredo, University of Nottingham, UK
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Luca Maria Gambardella, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Haroldo Gambini-Santos, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil
Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy
Said Hanafi, University of Valenciennces, France
Julia Handl, University of Manchester, UK
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Laetitia Jourdan, University of Lille 1, INRIA Lille, France
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
Natalio Krasnogor, University of Newcastle, UK
Meng-Hiot Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marco Locatelli, University of Parma, Italy
Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy
Manuel López-Ibáñez, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy
Yannis Marinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Silvano Martello, University of Bologna, Italy
Roshan Joy Martis, St. Joseph Engineering College, India
Antonio D. Masegosa, University of Deusto, Spain
Daniel Merkle, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Amir Nakib, Université Paris Est, France
Ferrante Neri, De Montfort University, UK
Frank Neumann, University of Adelaide, Australia
Eneko Osaba, University of Deusto, Spain
Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Portsmouth, UK
Luis Paquete, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Andrew Parkes, University of Nottingham, UK
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
David Pelta, University of Granada, Spain
Camelia Pintea, Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Günther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Helena Ramalhinho-Lourenço, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Andreas Reinholz, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Mauricio G.C. Resende, Mathematical Optimization and Planning, Amazon.com, USA
Celso C. Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Andrea Roli, University of Bologna, Italy
Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy
Marc Sevaux, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, France
Roman Slowiński, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
Kenneth Sörensen, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Maria Grazia Speranza, University of Brescia, Italy
Thomas Stützle, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Éric Taillard, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Guy Theraulaz, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, CNRS, France
Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, Italy
José Luis Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain
Luis Nunes Vicente, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy
Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg, Germany
Alan Winfield, University of the West England, UK