Conference Topics  Papers addressing real-world applications are especially welcome. Areas of interest include:- Evolutionary Computation,- Swarm Intelligence,- Neural Computation,- Artificial Life, and - related bioinspired methods, as well as their applications in science, engineering and business.Paper submissionFull papers in English not exceeding 12 pages are invited. Papers have to be formatted according to the BIOMA template, and submitted in PDF format through the conference submission webpage. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by three members of the international Program Committee. Each accepted paper has to be accompanied with the registration fee and presented at the conference by one of the authors.Proceedings All accepted papers with paid registration fee will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. The Proceedings will be submitted for indexation to several major databases.Journal Publications Revised and extended versions of selected papers from the conference will be invited for submission to theApplied Soft Computing(Elsevier).