- P. Siarry (Univ. of Creteil, France, siarry@univ-paris12.fr), "Adaptation of Metaheuristics to Continuous Optimization"

- W. Klibi (Univ of Laval, Canada, Walid.Klibi@cirrelt.ca), "Supply Chain Network Design Heuristics"

- P. Bouvry and G. Danoy (Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, pascal.bouvry@uni.lu, gregoire.danoy@uni.lu), "Meta-Heuristics for Security, Reliability and Trust" [call]

- N. Melab (Univ. of Lille, France, nouredine.melab@lifl.fr), "Metaheuristics and Grid computing" [call]

- J. Figueira (Portugal), " Multi-criteria decision making, interactive optimization"

- F. Guinand (Univ. of Le Havre, France, Frederic.Guinand@univ-lehavre.fr),  "Distributed Processing of Dynamic Networks"

- N. Monmarché (Univ. of Tours, France, nicolas.monmarche@univ-tours.fr) "artificial ants and collective intelligence based metaheuristics"

- C. Baldauf, PICB Shanghai (China), D. Merkle, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) (carsten@picb.ac.cn, daniel@imada.sdu.dk)  "Metaheuristics and Structural Biology" [call]

- E. Alba and F. Luna  (Univ. of Malaga, Spain) "Metaheuristics and Real-World Problems"  [call]

- F. Clautiaux (Univ. of Lille, France)  "Transport and Logistic"

- L. Jourdan, C. Dhaenens (INRIA, Univ. of Lille, France) "Multi-objective metaheuristics" [call]

- O. Hammami (ENSTA, France) "Electronic Design Automation, Embedded Systems and Microelectronics Theoretical Aspects and Applications"   [call]

-  P. Delisle,  M. Krajecki  (Univ. of Reims, France, pierre.delisle@univ-reims.fr, michael.krajecki@univ-reims.fr) "Parallel Implementation of Metaheuristics"   [call]

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