| Andrew Adamatzky | University of the West of England, UK |
| Wolfgang Banzhaf | Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA |
| Mauro Birattari | Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE |
| Christian Blum | Spanish Higher Scientific Research Council, ES |
| Shyi-Ming Chen | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TW |
| Sung-Bae Cho | Yonsei University, KR |
| Claude Crépeau | McGill University, CA |
| Jean-Louis Deneubourg | Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE |
| Marco Dorigo | Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE |
| Matthias Ehrgott | Lancaster University, UK |
| Carlos M. Fonseca | University of Coimbra, PT |
| Amir H. Gandomi | Stevens Institute of Technology, US |
| Michel Gendreau | Polytechnique Montréal, CA |
| Deborah M. Gordon | Stanford University, US |
| Jin-Kao Hao | University of Angers, FR |
| Zeng-Guang Hou | Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN |
| Licheng Jiao | Xidian University, CN |
| Janusz Kacprzyk | Polish Academy of Sciences, PL |
| Hamid Reza Karimi | Polytechnic University of Milan, IT |
| Vladik Kreinovich | University of Texas El Paso, US |
| Rudolf Kruse | University of Magdeburg, DE |
| José Ignacio Latorre | University of Barcelone, ES |
| Jing Liang | Zhengzhou University, CN |
| Gui Lu Long | Tsinghua University, CN |
| Jianquan Lu | Southeast University, CN |
| Carlos Martín-Vide | Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair |
| Luis Martínez | University of Jaén, ES |
| Ujjwal Maulik | Jadavpur University, IN |
| José M. Merigó | University of Chile, CL |
| Nenad Mladenovic | Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, RS |
| Michael O'Neill | University College Dublin, IE |
| Celso C. Ribeiro | Fluminense Federal University, BR |
| Frank Schweitzer | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, CH |
| Patrick Siarry | Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne University, FR |
| Andrzej Skowron | University of Warsaw, PL |
| John A. Smolin | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, US |
| Attila Szolnoki | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU |
| José Luis Verdegay | University of Granada, ES |
| Fernando J. Von Zuben | State University of Campinas, BR |
| David Wolpert | Santa Fe Institute, US |
| Hao Ying | Wayne State University, US |
| Jacek M. Żurada | University of Louisville, US |