Nature-inspired cooperative strategies for optimization

particular problem). This task is far from trivial, time consuming, and requires a great amount of programming (design, implementation, and test) effort. In this situation, it would be of great help to have tools that allow us, easily, to get a feeling about the potential of the strategy proposed before approaching its full implementation, comparison, and assessment. The main aim of this contribution will be to show how to use a problem-independent framework to simulate