Special Session 1: Immunological Computation – a nature and biologically inspired computing paradigm
Organizers
E. M. Ehlers, Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Johannesburg emehlers@uj.ac.za
D. A. Coulter, Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Johannesburg dcoulter@uj.ac.za

Special Session 2: Computational Intelligence in Robotics
Organizers
M.C. du Plessis, Department of Computing Sciences, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University mc.duplessis@nmmu.ac.za
C.J. Pretorius, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University cpretorius@nmmu.ac.za

Special Session 3: Nature Inspired Methodologies for Feature Reduction and Function Approximation
Organizers
Varun Kumar Ojha, IT4Innovations, VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. <varun.kumar.ojha@vsb.cz>
Ajith Abraham, IT4Innovations, VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. <ajith.abraham@ieee.org>
Vaclav Snasel, IT4Innovations, VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. <vaclav.snasel@vsb.cz>

Special Session 4: Hybrid Nature Inspired Approaches
Organizers
Tarun K. Sharma, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India (tarun1iitr1@gmail.com)
Kanad Ray, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India (kray@jpr.amity.edu)
Chitresh Banerjee, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India (chitreshh@gmail.com)

Special Session 5: Socio Inspired Optimization Algorithms
Organizers
Anand J Kulkarni
Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India
Email: kulk0003@ntu.edu.sg; anand.kulkarni@sitpune.edu.in
Ajith Abraham
IT4Innovations, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org
Jeevan Kanesan
University Malaya, Lembah Pantai, 50603 Kuala Lumpur
E-mail: jievan@um.edu.my

Special Session 6: Computational Swarm Intelligence
Organizers
Mardé Helbig
Computer Science Department University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa
Email: mhelbig@cs.up.ac.za
Anna Rakitianskaia
Computer Science Department University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa
Email: annar@cs.up.ac.za