SEMCCO 2010, the International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing, will be held on December 16-18 at SRM University in Chennai, India. This conference aims at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to report and review the latest progress in cutting-edge research with Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing, to explore new application areas, to design new bio-inspired algorithms for solving specific hard optimization problems, and finally to create awareness of these domains in a wider audience of practitioners.