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Email the working group leader Carlos Fonseca <cmfonsec at dei uc pt>.
Working Group 4 is tasked with support for software development in the field of nature-inspired search and optimisation heuristics. Instead of developing yet another software framework for nature-inspired search and optimisation heuristics it concentrates on the development of useful rules for the development of software and the adaptation of nature-inspired search and optimisation heuristics that are based on and guided by theoretical insights in their functioning.
It provides and maintains a repository of case studies and good practice examples, software components and frameworks, important hints and rules structured along the lines of problem properties.