Hans-Paul Schwefel studied Aero- and Space-Technology at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). Before and after receiving his engineer diploma in 1965 he worked at the Hermann-Foettinger-Institute of Hydrodynamics, from 1967 to 1970 at the industrial AEG research institute, and from 1971 to 1975 again at the TUB, from where he got his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1975. Coherent during that period at Berlin was the development of a new experimental and later on also numerical optimisation method called Evolutionsstrategie. Since 1985 until he was pensioned in 2006 he was holder of a Chair for Systems Analysis at the University of Dortmund, Department of Computer Science. He is member of the editorial boards of the journals Evolutionary Computation (MIT press), IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and Natural Computing (Kluwer/Springer), advisory board member of the Springer book series on Natural Computation as well as the World Scientific Publ. Co. book series on Advances in Natural Computation. In 1990 he was co-founder of the international conference series on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), which has been held biennially ever since.

Email: hps at uDo.edu
Webpage: http://www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/people/schwefel

Marc Schoenauer is Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) with INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. He graduated at Ecole Normale Supèrieure in Paris, and obtained a PhD in Numerical Analysis at Université Paris 6 in 1980. From 1980 until Aug. 2001 he has been full time researcher with CNRS (the French National Research Center), working at CMAP (the Applied Maths Laboratory) at École Polytechnique. He then became Directeur de Recherche at INRIA and worked in the Projet Fractales, before founding the TAO team in September 2003 together with Michèle Sebag.

Email: marc.schoenauer at inria.fr
Webpage: http://www.lri.fr/~marc
LinkedIn: http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/marc-schoenauer/10/a66/521

Darrell Whitley is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University. From 1993 to 1997 Prof. Whitley served as Chair of the Governing Board of the International Society for Genetic Algorithms. In 1999 ISGA merged with the Genetic Programming community to form the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. From 1997 to 2002 Prof. Whitley served as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Evolutionary Computation published by MIT Press. His research interests include genetic algorithm, neural networks, heuristic search and nonlinear optimisation applications among other things.

Email: whitley at cs.colostate.edu
Webpage: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~whitley/

Laurie Tratt is a senior lecturer at King's College London. He is an Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Software and sit on the editorial board of The Journal of Object Technology. His research interests relate to practical aspects of software engineering, with the aim of facilitating the rapid and reliable development and maintenance of both large and small software systems.

Email: laurie at tratt.net
Webpage: http://tratt.net/laurie/
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/laurence-tratt/0/1b6/b29

Gregg Rothermel is a Professor of Software Engineering in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Nebraska. He is a co-founder of and co-principal investigator with the EUSES Consortium, sponsored by an NSF ITR Award, and he is a principal investigator on an NSF SEL Program award involving the empirical study of testing techniques. His research has also been supported by Microsoft Incorporated, Rogue Wave Software, Incorporated, and Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.

Email: grother at cse.unl.edu
Webpage: http://csce.unl.edu/~grother

Giuliano Antoniol is a Professor at École Polytechnique Montréal. His research interests include search based software engineering, reverse engineering, software quality evaluation and clone detection among other things.

Email: antoniol at ieee.org
Webpage: http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/~antoniol/
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/giuliano-antoniol/5/9b1/a72

Phil McMinn is a lecturer in Department of Computer Science at University of Sheffield. His research interests include search-based software testing and agent-based modelling.

Email: p.mcminn at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Webpage: http://philmcminn.staff.shef.ac.uk/
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/phil-mcminn/28/a39/6ba

Massimiliano Di Penta is an assistant professor at RCOST(Research Centre on Software Technology) at University of Sannio, Benevento (Italy). He graduated in computer science engineering at the University of Sannio on December 1999. From May 2000 he joined the Software Engineering Research Group as Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Prof. Giuliano Antoniol, and he got the Ph.D. in computer science engineering in July 2003.

Email: dipenta at unisannio.it
Webpage: http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/rcost_www/mdipenta/
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/pub/massimiliano-di-penta/4/221/a36

Paolo Tonella is a senior researcher at FBK(Fondazione Bruno Kessler). His current research interests include reverse engineering, reengineering, object-oriented programming, web applications, code analysis and transformation, testing and aspect oriented programming.

Email: tonella at fbk.eu
Webpage: http://selab.fbk.eu/tonella/
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/pub/tonella-paolo/1/85/2b9

Spiros Mancoridis is an Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University. His research interests include reverse engineering and software maintenance among other things.

Email: spiros at drexel.edu
Webpage: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~spiros/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/spiros-mancoridis/13/719/410

Afshin Mansouri is a lecturer in Brunel Business School at Brunel University. One of his major research interests is metaheuristic and multi-objective search applied to combinatorial optimization problems.

Email: Afshin.Mansouri at brunel.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/bbs/people/academic-and-research-staff/afshin-mansouri
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/afshin-mansouri/14/287/3a6

Rami Bahsoon is a lecturer in software engineering at The University of Birmingham. He holds BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from the University College London. His research interests involve software architectures, software testing, maintenance and evolution, among others.

Email: r.bahsoon at cs.bham.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rzb/
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/rami-bahsoon/5/a6/532

Ricardo Landa is a research fellow at The University of Birmingham. He holds a PhD degree from the CINVESTAV (Mexico). Ricardo's current research interests are differential evolution, cultural algorithms, constrained and multiobjective optimisation.

Email: R.B.Landa at cs.bham.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.cs.cinvestav.mx/~EVOCINV/index.html

Pietro Oliveto is a PhD student at The University of Birmingham. His supervisor is Prof. Xin Yao. Pietro's main research interests are concerned with the time complexity analysis of randomised algorithms for combinatorial optimisation problems.

Email: P.S.Oliveto at cs.bham.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~olivetps/

Ke Tang is an associate professor at University of Science and Technology of China and executive assistant director of the Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL). His research interests comprise machine learning, data mining, evolutionary computation and real-world applications.

Email: ketang at ustc.edu.cn
Webpage: http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~ketang/