Topics to be discussed in this conference include (but are not limited to) the following:

Intelligent Computing and Applications: Artificial intelligence, Quantum computing, Artificial Neural Networks, Self –Organizing, Fuzzy logic, Membrane computing, Evolutionary computation, Learning theory, Probabilistic methods, Image processing Computer vision, Speech recognition, Big data, Evolutionary algorithm, Randomness Monte Carlo methods, Algorithmic probability, Chaos theory, Cryptography, Game theory, Information theory, Pattern recognition, Natural computing, Evolutionary robotics Knowledge-based system, Machine learning, Unsupervised learning, Computational finance, Computational economics, DNA computing.

Optimization and Applications: Ant colony optimization, Artificial bee colony, Artificial immune systems, Artificial neural networks, Automatic computing, Bacterial foraging, Biological computing, Chaos optimization, Cloud Computing, Combinatorial Optimization, Computational intelligence, Continuous optimization, Cultural algorithms. Differential evolution, Direct search, Evolutionary computing, Fuzzy optimization, Genetic algorithms, Granular computing, Hybrid algorithms, Local and global search, Memetic algorithms, Meta-heuristic methods, Particle swarm optimization, Pattern search, Simulated annealing, Simulation and modeling, Soft computing techniques Support vector machines, Swarm intelligence, Tabu search, Variable neighborhood search.