Introduction:
To tackle complex real world problems, scientists have been looking into natural processes and creatures - both as model and metaphor - for years. Optimization is at the heart of many natural processes including Darwinian evolution, social group behavior and foraging strategies. Over the last few decades, there has been remarkable growth in the field of nature-inspired search and optimization algorithms. Currently these techniques are applied to a variety of problems, ranging from scientific research to industry and commerce. The two main families of algorithms that primarily constitute this field today are the evolutionary computing methods and the swarm intelligence algorithms. Although both families of algorithms are generally dedicated towards solving search and optimization problems, they are certainly not equivalent, and each has its own distinguishing features. Reinforcing each other's performance makes powerful hybrid algorithms capable of solving many intractable search and optimization problems.

About the journal:
Swarm and Evolutionary Computation is the first peer-reviewed publication of its kind that aims at reporting the most recent research and developments in the area of nature-inspired intelligent computation based on the principles of swarm and evolutionary algorithms. It publishes advanced, innovative and interdisciplinary research involving the theoretical, experimental and practical aspects of the two paradigms and their hybridizations. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation is committed to timely publication of very high-quality, peer-reviewed, original articles that advance the state-of-the art of all aspects of evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence. Survey papers reviewing the state-of-the-art of timely topics will also be welcomed as well as novel and interesting applications.

Topics of Interest:
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Genetic Algorithms, and Genetic Programming, Evolution Strategies, and Evolutionary Programming, Differential Evolution, Artificial Immune Systems, Particle Swarms, Ant Colony, Bacterial Foraging, Artificial Bees, Fireflies Algorithm, Harmony Search, Artificial Life, Digital Organisms, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, Stochastic Diffusion Search, Quantum Computing, Nano Computing, Membrane Computing, Human-centric Computing, Hybridization of Algorithms, Memetic Computing, Autonomic Computing, Self-organizing systems, Combinatorial, Discrete, Binary, Constrained, Multi-objective, Multi-modal, Dynamic, and Large-scale Optimization.

Applications:
Furthermore, the journal fosters industrial uptake by publishing interesting and novel applications in fields and industries dealing with challenging search and optimization problems from domains such as (but not limited to): Aerospace, Systems and Control, Robotics, Power Systems, Communication Engineering, Operations Research and Decision Sciences, Financial Services and Engineering, (Management) Information Systems, Business Intelligence, internet computing, Sensors, Image Processing, Computational Chemistry, Manufacturing, Structural and Mechanical Designs, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Mathematical and Computational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-computer Interfacing, Future Computing Devices, Nonlinear statistical and Applied Physics, and Environmental Modeling and Software.

Software publication
We invite you to convert your open source software into an additional journal publication in Software Impacts, a multi-disciplinary open access journal. Software Impacts provides a scholarly reference to software that has been used to address a research challenge. The journal disseminates impactful and re-usable scientific software through Original Software Publications which describe the application of the software to research and the published outputs.

For more information contact us at: software.impacts@elsevier.com

Editors in Chief
S. Das
Indian Statistical Institute Computer and Communication Sciences Division, Kolkata, IndiaEmail S. Das
P.N. Suganthan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Email P.N. Suganthan
Editorial Advisory Board
H.-G. Beyer
University of Applied Science Vorarlberg, Dornbirn, Austria
C.A. Coello
Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Computer Department, Ciudad de México, Mexico
D. Dasgupta
University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
K. Deb
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
D.B. Fogel
Natural Selection Inc, San Diego, California, United States
F. Herrera
University of Granada Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Granada, Spain
H. Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University College of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Information Science Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Sakai, Japan
S.M. Lucas
University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
Z. Michalewicz
The University of Adelaide, Balhannah, South Australia, Australia
M. Pelikan
University of Missouri-St Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Y. Shi
Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Electrical Engineering, Suzhou, China
A.V. Vasilakos
Lulea University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
G.G. Yen
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
Associate Editors
M. Ali
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
P. Bouvry
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
J. Brest
University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
X. Cai
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
Y.-P. Chen
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
D.D. Davendra
Central Washington University Department of Computer Science, Ellensburg, Washington, United States
K. Deep
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
W. Ding
Nantong University, Nantong, China
M. El-Abd
American University of Kuwait College of Arts and Sciences, Safat, Kuwait
S. Finck
University of Applied Science Vorarlberg, Dornbirn, Austria
A.H. Gandomi
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
K. Gao
Macau Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau, Macao
L. Gao
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
S. Garcia
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
N.V. George
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, India
M. Hu
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
H. Khodr
Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
R. Kumar
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India
A. LaTorre
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
C. Li
China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
J. Liang
Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
S. Ludwig
North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States
W. Luo
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
R. Mallipeddi
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
E. Mezura-Montes
Veracruzana University, Xalapa, Mexico
Q-K Pan
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
B. K. Panigrahi
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
M. Pant
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
A. Piotrowski
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
K. Qin
RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
B. Qu
Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
V. Ravi
Institute for Development and Research in Banking, Hyderabad, India
J. Rueda Torres
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
H. Sato
The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan
D. Saxena
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
R. Šenkeřík
Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Zlin, Czech Republic
A. Singh
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
A. Sinha
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
K. Tang
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
A. Thakkar
Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India
L. Wang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Y. Wang
Central South University, Changsha, China
G. Wu
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
D. Zaharie
West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
A.. Zamuda
University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
A. Zhou
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China