‘Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization’
Manuscript submission: February 29, 2012
Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2012
Submission of camera ready version: July 29, 2012

The aim of this special issue is to reflect the most recent advances in the field of cooperative problem solving strategies where nature plays a key role as source of inspiration. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

Adaptive Behavior
Ant Colonies
Amorphous Computing
Artificial Life
Artificial Immune Systems
Bioinformatics
Bio-inspired Architectures
Complex Systems
Distributed Computing
Evolutionary Robotics
Evolutionary Algorithms
Evolvable Systems
Games and Game Theory
Genetic Programming
Hyperheuristics
Membrane Computing
Memetic Algorithms/Memetic Computing
Quantum Computing
Software Self-Assembly
Systems Coevolution
Swarm Intelligence

All submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the journal. Authors of accepted papers to NICSO 2011 are also invited to submit their contribution for publication in this special issue. Manuscripts based on already published NICSO 2011 papers must be extended substantially.

Instructions for Authors
Manuscripts should have approximately 20 pages and must comply with the author guidelines of the Memetic Computing journal (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12293). An online submission system is available at https://www.editorialmanager.com/meme. Please specify on the first page of your manuscript that the submission is intended for this thematic issue.

Guest Editors
Dr. Rodica Ioana Lung, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania (rodica.lung@econ.ubbcluj.ro)
Dr. Camelia Chira, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania (cchira@cs.ubbcluj.ro)
Dr. D. Dumitrescu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania (ddumitr@cs.ubbcluj.ro)

Memetic Computing
Managing Editor: M.-H. Lim
ISSN: 1865-9284 (print version)
ISSN: 1865-9292 (electronic version)
Journal no. 12293
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12293