Camelia ChiraCamelia Chira was born in Romania in 1976. She received the B.S. degree in computer science from Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1998. From 2000 to 2005 she was engaged in full-time research at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMT), Galway, Ireland focusing in the area of agent-based systems and ontologies for distributed collaborative design environments. She received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from GMIT Ireland in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since 2006, Camelia is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Complexity, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. Her main research interests include evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence, complex systems and networks, multi-agent systems, and bioinformatics. Read More Read Less