Regular Session 1: Bio-inspired Security -- Cooperation in Hunting and Food-Sharing: A Two-Player Bio-inspired Trust Model -- Executable Specification of Cryptofraglets in Maude for Security Verification -- Regular Session 2: Bio-inspired Networking -- Ensuring Fast Adaptation in an Ant-Based Path Management System -- iNet-EGT: An Evolutionarily Stable Adaptation Framework for Network Applications -- Situated Service Oriented Messaging for Opportunistic Networks -- Simulation and Implementation of the Autonomic Service Mobility Framework -- Work in Progress Session 1 -- BIONETS Economics and Business Simulation: An Alternative Approach to Quantifying the Added Value for Distributed Mobile Communications and Exchanges -- BIONETS: Self Evolving Services in Opportunistic Networking Environments -- Activation–Inhibition–Based Data Highways for Wireless Sensor Networks -- Regular Session 3: Epidemic-Style Forwarding in DTNs -- Minimum Expected *-Cast Time in DTNs -- Applying Branching Processes to Delay-Tolerant Networks -- Routing in Quasi-deterministic Intermittently Connected Networks -- Characteristics of the Dynamic of Mobile Networks -- Regular Session 4: Bio-inspired Algorithms and Software Systems -- ONTO-RUP: A RUP Based Approach for Developing Ontogenetic Software Systems -- Embryonic Models for Self–healing Distributed Services -- Bio-inspired Speed Detection and Discrimination -- Work in Progress Session 2 -- Analytical Framework for Contact Time Evaluation in Delay-Tolerant Networks -- A Formal Approach for a Self Organizing Protocol Inspired by Bacteria Colonies: Production System Application -- Delay Tolerant Networks in Partially Overlapped Networks: A Non-cooperative Game Approach.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (Bionetics). The event took place in the city of Avignon in December 2009. Bionetics main objective is to bring bio-inspired paradigms into computer engineereing and networking, and to enhance the fruitful interactions between these fields and biology. The program of the conference includes applications of various paradigms that have their origin in biology: population dynamics, branching processes, ant colony optimization. The 19 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected and cover a broad range of important issues in areas related to bio-inspired technologies.