Zong Woo Geem (Gachon Univ., Korea)

 "QUO VADIS: Harmony Search?" 

 Xin-she Yang  (Middlesex Univ., UK)

 "Metaheuristic: A Critical Anlaysis"

 Swagatam Das  (Indian Statistical Institute, India)

 "Benchmarking the Metaheuristics for Continuous Optimization: A Statistical Perspective" 

 International Steering Commitee

• Joong Hoon Kim (Korea Univ., Korea)

• Zong Woo Geem (Gachon Univ., Korea)

• Ali Kaveh (IUST, Iran)

• Anupam Yadav (NIT. Uttarakhand, India)

• Ling Wang (Tsinghwa Univ., China)

• Mustafa Ayvaz (Pamukkale Univ., Turkey)

• Ioannis Kougias (European Commission, Italy)

• Nicholas Theodossiou (Aristotle Univ., Greece)

• Osama Moh’d Alia (Univ. of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia)

• P. N. Suganthan (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore)

• Do Guen Yoo (Korea Univ., Korea)

• Kusum Deep (IIT Roorkee, India)

• M. Fatih Tasgetiren, (Yasar Univ., Turkey)

• Reza Sirjani (Cyprus International Univ., Turkey)

• Chung-Li TSENG (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)

• Ali Sadollah (Nanyang Univ., Singapore)

• Ardeshir Bahreininejad (Inst. Tech. Brunei, Brunei)

• Rosni Abdullah (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)

• Miren Nekane Bilbao (EHU/UPV, Spain)

• Sergio Gil-Lopez (TECNALIA, Spain)

• Iyad Abu Doush (Yarmouk Univ., Jordan)

• David Camacho (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

• Sancho Salcedo-Sanz (Universidad de Alcala, Spain)