The field of natural computing has been the focus of a substantial research effort in recent decades. One particular strand of this research concerns the develo

Natural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in c

Bioinspired computation methods such as evolutionary algorithms and ant colony optimization are being applied successfully to complex engineering problems and t

Despite decades of work in evolutionary algorithms, there remains an uncertainty as to the relative benefits and detriments of using recombination or mutation.

Natural Computing is the field of research that investigates both human-designed computing inspired by nature and computing taking place in nature, i.e., it inv