Biological Inspiration: Just a dream? (Invited papers).- An Immune System Paradigm for the Assurance of Dependability of Collaborative Self-organizing Systems.- 99% (Biological) Inspiration ....- Biologically-Inspired Design: Getting It Wrong and Getting It Right.- Web Organization.- On Building Maps of Web Pages with a Cellular Automaton.- Biological Inspiration 1.- Completing and Adapting Models of Biological Processes.- The Utility of Pollination for Autonomic Computing.- Towards Distributed Reasoning for Behavioral Optimization.- Biological Inspiration 2.- Ant Based Heuristic for OS Service Distribution on Ad Hoc Networks.- An Artificial Hormone System for Self-organization of Networked Nodes.- A Biologically Motivated Computational Architecture Inspired in the Human Immunological System to Quantify Abnormal Behaviors to Detect Presence of Intruders.- Chip-Design.- Error Detection Techniques Applicable in an Architecture Framework and Design Methodology for Autonomic SoCs.- Communication.- A Reconfigurable Ethernet Switch for Self-Optimizing Communication Systems.- Learning Useful Communication Structures for Groups of Agents.- Maintaining Communication Between an Explorer and a Base Station.- Mechatronics and Computer Clusters.- Active Patterns for Self-Optimization.- Acute Stress Response for Self-optimizing Mechatronic Systems.- The Self Distributing Virtual Machine (SDVM): Making Computer Clusters Adaptive.- Robotics and Sensor Networks.- Teleworkbench: An Analysis Tool for Multi-Robotic Experiments.- Trading off Impact and Mutation of Knowledge by Cooperatively Learning Robots.- Emergent Distribution of Operating System Services in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.