Nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems.- Evolutionary algorithms and complex systems.- Evolutionary computation in energy applications.- Evolutionary and natural computation in finance and economics.- Bio-inspired algorithms in games.- Evolutionary computation in image analysis, signal processing, and pattern recognition.- Nature-inspired techniques in industrial settings.- Bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimization.- Parallel implementation of evolutionary algorithms.- Computational intelligence for risk management, security and defence applications.- Evolutionary computation in robotics.- Evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments.- EC and related techniques in bioinformatics and computational biology.