The seventh biennial BIOMA conference will be held in Bled, Slovenia. It is organized by the Jožef Stefan Institute. The purpose of the BIOMA conference is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the latest theoretical and applied results in bioinspired optimization methodology and its applications. Authors will also have the opportunity to present their software tools and case-studies.

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.

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.

Revised and extended versions of selected papers from the conference will be invited for submission to the Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier).