Program Chair
Yuhui Shi, email: Yuhui.shi at eds.com
Electronic Data Systems, Inc. USA
Payman Arabshahi, email: payman at ee.washington.edu
University of Washtington, USA

Special Sessions Chair
A. P. Engelbrecht, email: engel at cs.up.ac.za
University of Pretoria, South Africa
L.M. Gambardella, email: luca at idsia.ch
IDSIA, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland

Tutorial Chair
Robert Reynolds, email: Reynolds at cs.wayne.edu
Wayne State University, USA
Marco Dorigo, email: mdorigo at ulb.ac.be
Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Belgium

Finance Chair
Xiaohui Hu, email: xhu2 at iupui.edu
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

Program Committee

Jafar Adibi, USC Information Science Inst., USA
F. van den Bergh, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Maurice Clerc, France Telecom, France
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV Mexico
Arindam Das, University of Washington, USA
Prithviraj Dasgupta, University of Nebraska, USA
Marco Dorigo, ULB, Belgium
Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Catholic University of Parana, Brazil
M. A. El-Sharkawi, University of Washington, USA
A. P. Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Muddassar Farooq, University of Dortmund, Germany
Paul Flikkema, Northern Arizona University, USA
Yoshikazu Fukuyama, Fuji Electric, Japan
Luca Gambardella, IDSIA, Switzerland
Debasish Ghose, IIS Bangalore, India
Walter Gutjahr, University of Vienna, Austria
Xiaohui Hu, IUPUI, USA
DS Huang, Inst. of Intelligent Machines, China
Mohamed Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jim Kennedy, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA
Marc Kirschenbaum, John Carroll University, USA
Renato Krohling, University of Dortmund, Germany
Kristina Lerman, USC ISI, USA
Xiaodong Li, RMIT, Australia
Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland
Swarup Medasani, HRL Laboratories, LLC, USA
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Inst. of Tech., USA
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Chilukuri Mohan, Syracuse University USA
Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Switzerland
M. G. H. Omran, Arab Open University, Kuwait
Dan Palmer, John Carroll University, USA
K. E. Parsopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
James A. Reggia, University of Maryland, USA
Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA
Erol Sahin, Middle East Technical University Turkey
Maria Margarita Reyes Sierra, Mexico
Ponnuthurai N Suganthan, NTU, Singapore
GK Venayagamoorthy,U.of Missouri-Rolla,USA
Michael N. Vrahatis, University Of Patras, Greece
Alan Winfield, University of West England, UK
Xiaofeng Xie, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
F. Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy