Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications [electronic resource] : 8th International Conference, ICIC 2012, Huangshan, China, July 25-29, 2012. Proceedings / edited by De-Shuang Huang, Jianhua Ma, Kang-Hyun Jo, M. Michael Gromiha.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2012, held in Huangshan, China, in July 2012. The 85 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 753 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks, evolutionar learning and genetic algorithms, granular computing and rough sets, biology inspired computing and optimization, nature inspired computing and optimization, cognitive science and computational neuroscience, knowledge discovery and data mining, quantum computing, machine learning theory and methods, healthcare informatics theory and methods, biomedical informatics theory and methods, complex systems theory and methods, intelligent computing in signal processing, intelligent computing in image processing, intelligent computing in robotics, intelligent computing in computer vision, intelligent agent and web applications, special session on advances in information security 2012.