Nicolas Monmarché is Assistant Professor in computer science. His main research interests are collective intelligence and swarm behaviors based on ants for solving computer science problems.

Frédéric Guinand is Professor in informatics. His main research interests are mobile ad hoc networks, dynamic graphs and complex systems, bio-inspired methods and scheduling for distributed and parallel systems.

Patrick Siarry is Professor in automatics. His main research interests are stochastic hard optimization heuristics and their use for solving continuous optimization problems.