The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics Agent-based Systems AI and Evolutionary Algorithms Ant Colony Optimization Approximate Reasoning Artificial Immune Systems Artificial Intelligence in Modeling and Simulation Artificial Intelligence in Scheduling and Optimization Artificial Life Automated Problem Solving Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Biometric Authentication Brain-machine Interfaces Camera Networks and Vision Case Studies Cognitive Systems and Applications Collective Intelligence Computer Vision Data Mining Decision Support Systems Differential Evolution Distributed AI Systems and Architectures Emerging Technologies Evolutionary Data Mining Evolutionary Design Evolutionary Scheduling Expert Systems Fuzzy Computing with Words Fuzzy Control and Intelligent Systems Fuzzy Decision Making and Decision Support Systems Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Set Theory Fuzzy Optimization and design Fuzzy Pattern Recognition Fuzzy Systems for Robotics Game Theory Hardware Implementations Heuristic Searching Methods Integration of AI With Other Technologies Intelligent Agents Intelligent Data Mining and Farming Intelligent Databases Intelligent Information Systems Intelligent Networks Intelligent Tutoring Systems Intelligent User Interface Intelligent Web-based Business Knowledge Engineering Knowledge Networks and Management Knowledge-based Recognition Knowledge-intensive Problem Solving Techniques Machine Learning Modeling and Identification Molecular and Quantum Computing Motion and Tracking Algorithms and Orientation Estimation Multi-agent Systems Multimedia Systems and Applications Natural Language Processing Neural Network Theory, Architectures and Applications Novel Noise Reduction Algorithms Particle Swarm Optimization Printing Technologies Robotics and Related Fields Rough Sets and Rough Data Analysis Segmentation Techniques Signal and Speech Processing Social Impact of AI Software Tools for AI Speech Understanding Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Various Applications Watermarking Methods and Protection Web Intelligence