Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2008)

The inspiration from Biology and the Natural Evolution process has become a research area within computer science. For instance, the description of the artificial neuron given by McCulloch and Pitts was inspired from biological observations of neural mechanisms; the power of evolution in nature in the diverse species that make up our world has been related to a particular form of problem solving based on the idea of survival of the—ttest; similarly, - artificial immune systems, ant colony o...