Eric Monfroy Editor

Dr. Youssef Hamadi is the head of the Constraint Reasoning Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and his research interests include combinatorial optimization in alternative frameworks (parallel and distributed architectures); the application of machine learning to search; autonomous search; and parallel propositional satisfiability. Prof. Eric Monfroy is affiliated with both the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile and LINA, Université de Nantes, France; his research areas include heuristics, optimization, constraints, and search. Prof. Frédéric Saubion coheads the Metaheuristics, Optimization and Applications team at the Université d'Angers; his research topics include hybrid and adaptive evolutionary algorithms and applications of metaheuristics to various domains such as information retrieval, nonmonotonic reasoning and biology.