2013 6th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Design (ISCID 2013) will take place in Hangzhou, China, between 28-29 October, 2013. This symposium provides an idea-exchange and discussion platform for the world’s engineers and academia to share cutting-edge information, address the hottest issue in computational intelligence and design, explore new technologies, exchange and build upon ideas. We’re certain you will find the city of Hangzhou and the surrounding area to be most pleasant and it will be our distinct pleasure to welcome each of you to the ISCID in October 2013. The proceedings of ISCID 2013 will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Service Publishing (CPS), and indexed by EI. All proceedings of ISCID 2008-2012 have been indexed by EI, and included in the digital libraries (CSDL, IEEE Xplore, IEEE IEL).