Bio-inspired systems: Computational and ambient intelligence

In the present issue of Neurocomputing, it is apleasure to present you a collection of 12 extended versions of selected papers from the 10 the dition of the International Work Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN2009). This is a conference held every two year in Spain, and focus in gon the foundations, theory, models and applications of systems, which are inspired by nature (e.g.neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary systems).