MARCO DORIGO is research director of IRIDA lab at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the inventor of the ant colony optimization metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems. He has received the Marie Curie Excellence Award for his research work on ant colony optimization and ant algorithms. He is the coauthor of Robot Shaping (MIT Press, 1998) and Swarm Intelligence.
THOMAS STÜTZLE is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Darmstadt University of Technology.