Adaptive and natural computing algorithms : 11th international conference ICANNGA 2013 Lausanne Switzerland April 4 6 2013 ; proceedings The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms ICANNGA 2013 held in Lausanne Switzerland in April 2013. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks evolutionary computation soft computing bioinformatics and computational biology advanced computing and applications