ANTS 2008 Conference Committee

General Chair:

Marco DORIGO, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Technical Programme Chairs:

Christian BLUM, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Maurice CLERC, University of Essex, UK

Alan WINFIELD, University of the West of England, UK

Publication Chair:

Mauro BIRATTARI, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Publicity Chair:

Thomas STÜTZLE, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Local Arrangements:

Marco A. MONTES DE OCA, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Carlotta PISCOPO, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Programme Committee:

Ashraf ABDELBAR, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Carl ANDERSON, Archimedes, Inc., USA

Payman ARABSHAHI, University of Washington, USA

Bart BAESENS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Thomas BARTZ-BEIELSTEIN, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Leonora BIANCHI, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

Tim BLACKWELL, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Jürgen BRANKE, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

Marco CHIARANDINI, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Carlos COELLO COELLO, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico

Oscar CORDON, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain

Carlos COTTA, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Xiaohui CUI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Gianni DI CARO, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

Karl DOERNER, Universität Wien & Salzburg Research, Austria

Hai-Bin DUAN, Beihang University, China

Andries P. ENGELBRECHT, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Mudassar FAROOQ, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Pakistan

Dario FLOREANO, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Alex FREITAS, University of Kent, UK

Luca GAMBARDELLA, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

Deborah GORDON, Stanford University, USA

Roderich GROß, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Walter GUTJAHR, Universität Wien, Austria

Julia HANDL, University of Manchester, UK

Richard HARTL, Universität Wien, Austria

Beat HIRSBRUNNER, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Colin JOHNSON, University of Kent, UK

James KENNEDY, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA

Franziska KLÜGL, Universität Würzburg, Germany

Joshua KNOWLES, University of Manchester, UK

William B. LANGDON, University College London, UK

Kristina LERMAN, University of Southern California, USA

Vittorio MANIEZZO, Università di Bologna, Italy

David MARTENS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Alcherio MARTINOLI, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Monaldo MASTROLILLI, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

Ronaldo MENEZES, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Daniel MERKLE, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Bernd MEYER, Monash University, Australia

Martin MIDDENDORF, Universität Leipzig,Germany

Francesco MONDADA, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Nicolas MONMARCHÉ, Université de Tours, France

Frank NEUMANN, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany

Ann NOWÉ, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Luis PAQUETE, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Rafael Stubs PARPINELLI, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Konstantinos PARSOPOULOS, University of Patras, Greece

Riccardo POLI, University of Essex, UK

Marc REIMANN, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK

Andrea ROLI, Università di Bologna, Italy

Martin ROTH, Google, UK

Ruben RUIZ, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Erol SAHIN, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Michael SAMPELS, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Giovanni SEBASTIANI, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone", Italy

Yuhui SHI, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Christine SOLNON, Université Claude Bernard, France

William M. SPEARS, University of Wyoming, USA

Kasper STØY, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Ponnuthurai SUGANTHAN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

David SUMPTER, Uppsala University, Sweden

Fatih TASGETIREN, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Guy THERAULAZ, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Vito TRIANNI, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Italy

Richard T. VAUGHAN, SImon Fraser University, Canada

Michael N. VRAHATIS, University of Patras, Greece

Carsten WITT, Universität Dortmund, Germany

Jun ZHANG, Sun Yat-sen University, China