Coordinator and main point of contact: Edmund K. Burke, University of Nottingham
Nottingham:
- Jason Atkin: heuristics, meta-heuristics
- Yuri Bykov: meta-heuristics
- Matthew Hyde: genetic programming, hyper-heuristics
- Graham Kendall: Hyper-heuristics, meta-heuristics, heuristics, scheduling (particularly sports), timetabling
- Gabriela Ochoa: automated heuristic design, machine learning, hyper-heuristics
- Ender Özcan: heuristics, hyper-heuristics, meta-heuristics
- José Antonio Vázquez Rodríguez: hyper-heuristics, multiobjective optimisation
