Nature-inspired collective intelligence in theory and practice

The past twenty years have witnessed an increasingly large emphasis in the computer science community on the study of bio-inspired computing. A wide spectrum of applications and services has been currently developed and designed which relies on various natural biological paradigms. The most known examples are swarm intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, and the artificial neural networks. Such paradigms find applications in the areas of network security, pervasive computing, mobile and embedded systems, pattern recognition, data classification and many others.