• Leader: Tobias Friedrich, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
• Vice Leader: Fernando Lobo, University of Algarve, Portugal
• Vice Leader: Svetlana Stevovic, University Adriatik, Montenegro

Email the working group leader Tobias Friedrich, friedrich(at)hpi.de.

Working Group 1 is tasked with the development of novel theory-driven practical paradigms. The starting point for WG1 are existing theoretical results and insights and the task is to use those to create practical guidelines, tangible advice and help for the application of nature-inspired search and optimisation heuristics. WG1 is at the heart of the COST Action, implementing one aspect of the main objective of bridging the gap between theory and practice; it concentrates on the direction pushing from theory to practice.

• Zikrija Avdagic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Mosab Bazargani, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Tudor Cioara, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Benjamin Doerr, Max Planck Instituts for Informatics, Germany
• Carlora Doerr, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• Steffen Finck, Research Center PPE Vorarlberg, Austria
• Carlos Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Tobias Friedrich, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
• Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK
• Luigi Malagò, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, Romania
• Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy
• James McDermott, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
• Fernando Lobo, University of Algarve, Portugal
• Samir Omanovic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
• Günther Raidl, TU Wien, Austria
• Günter Rudolph, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
• Michail Salampasis, Alexander Technology Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Roman Šenkeřík, Tomas Bata University, Czech Republic
• Ivan Stevovic University Adriatik, Montenegro,
• Svetlana Stevovic, University Adriatik, Montenegro
• Dirk Sudholt, University of Sheffield, UK
• Shuai Wang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
• Carsten Witt, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Borys Wróbel, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
• Christine Zarges, Aberystwyth University, UK