This section contains the papers presented at the International Workshop on Nature In-spired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'06) which is held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), April, 2006, Rhodes, Greece. NIDISC aims to provide an opportunity for researchers to explore the connection between biology, nature-inspired techniques, meta...

Chemosensing in nature relies on biomolecular switches, biomolecules that undergo binding-induced changes in conformation or oligomerization to transduce chemical information into specific biochemical outputs. Motivated by the impressive performance of these natural 'biosensors,' which support continuous, real-time detection in highly complex environments, significant efforts have gone into the...

There are large numbers of the optimization technique that have been used to optimize the thing in the field of computer science, transportation engineering, mechanical engineering, management and so on. But the traditional optimization techniques are replaced by nature inspired techniques. These technique involve directly or indirectly the participation of nature such as GA, ACO, BCO SA, SS. S...

This paper introduces collaborating robots which provide the possibility of enhanced task performance, high reliability and decreased. Collaborating-bots are a collection of mobile robots able to self-assemble and to self-organize in order to solve problems that cannot be solved by a single robot. These robots combine the power of swarm intelligence with the flexibility of self-reconfiguration ...

This paper presents an autonomous intelligent agent with a human thinking reasoning model, based on past experiences. The agent is developed to assist medical staff in geriatric residences. The health care process is a vital function, requiring nature-inspired solutions imitating the residence staff behaviours. An autonomous deliberative Case-Based Planner agent, AGALZ (Autonomous aGent for mon...

A great variety of complex real-life problems can be sufficiently solved by intelligent nature-inspired methods which can be considered part of artificial or computational intelligence. These newly introduced techniques have proven their important role on many successful implementations, mostly related to optimization problems. The basic reason for their success is that they imitate the way tha...

In 1989 Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang first proposed the name ―Swarm Intelligence‖ in their paper ―Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems‖. Some remarkable observations of different researchers are studied in this paper, like the proximity principle, the quality principle, the principle of diverse response, the principle of stability, the principle of adaptability. To enhance the capabilit...