Adaptation and Hybridization in Nature-Inspired Algorithms -- Adaptation in the Differential Evolution -- On the Mutation Operators in Evolution Strategies -- Adaptation in Cooperative Coevolutionary Optimization -- Study of Lagrangian and Evolutionary Parameters in Krill Herd Algorithm -- Solutions of Non-Smooth Economic Dispatch Problems by Swarm Intelligence -- Hybrid Artifcial Neural Network for Fire Analysis of Steel Frames -- A Differential Evolution Algorithm with A Variable Neighborhood Search for Constrained Function Optimization -- A Memetic Differential Evolution Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands.