Advances in Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing

World Congress on Nature and Biologically InspiredComputing (NaBIC) is organized to discuss the state-of-the-art as well as toaddress various issues with respect to Nurturing Intelligent Computing TowardsAdvancement of Machine Intelligence. This Volume contains the papers presentedin the Seventh World Congress (NaBIC'15) held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africaduring December 01-03, 2015. The 39 papers presented in this Volume werecarefully reviewed and selected. The Volume would be a valuable reference toresearchers, students and practitioners in the computational intelligencefield.

ArtificialNeural Networks.- BiodegradabilityPrediction.-CellularAutomata.- EvolutionaryAlgorithms.- SwarmIntelligence.- EmergentSystems.- ArtificialLife.- LindenmayerSystems.- DigitalOrganisms.- ArtificialImmune Systems.- MembraneComputing.- SimulatedAnnealing.- CommunicationNetworks and Protocols.- Computingwith Words.- CommonSense Computing.- CognitiveModeling and Architecture.- Connectionism.- Metaheuristics.-HybridApproaches.- QuantumComputing.