This book constitutes the first of 3 volumes of refereed conference proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Intelligent Computing ICIC 2012 held in Huangshan China in July
2012. The 242 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 753
submissions. The 84 papers included in this volume are organized in topical sections on
evolutionary learning and genetic algorithms fuzzy theory and models swarm intelligence and
optimization kernel methods and supporting vector machines nature inspired computing and
optimization systems biology and computational biology knowledge discovery and data mining
graph theory and algorithms machine learning theory and methods biomedical informatics theory
and methods complex systems theory and methods pervasive ubiquitous computing theory and
methods intelligent computing in bioinformatics intelligent computing in pattern recognition
intelligent computing in image processing intelligent computing in robotics intelligent
computing in computer vision intelligent computing in Petri nets transportation systems
intelligent data fusion and information security intelligent sensor networks knowledge
representation reasoning and expert systems hybrid optimization and bio-inspired computing
and application.