The conference topics address different theoretical and practicalaspects, and implementing solutions for intelligent systems and informaticsdisciplines including bioinformatics, computer science, medical informatics,biology, social studies, as well as robotics research. The conference alsodiscuss and present solutions to the cloud computing and big data miningwhich are considered hot research topics. The conference papers discusseddifferent topics – techniques, models, methods, architectures, as well as multiaspect, domain-specific, and new solutions for the above disciplines. Theaccepted papers have been grouped into five parts:Part I—Intelligent Systems and Informatics, addressing topics including,but not limited to, medical application, predicting student performance, actionclassification, and detection of dead stained microscopic cells, opticalcharacter recognition, plant identification, rehabilitation of disabled people.Part II—Hybrid Intelligent Systems, addressing topics including, but notlimited to, EMG signals, text classification, geomagnetic inverse problem,email filtering.Part III—Multimedia Computing and Social Networks, addressing topics including,but not limited to, augmented reality, telepresence robot, video flash matting,community detection, quality images, face thermal image extraction, MRI tumorsegmentation.Part V—Cloud Computing and Big Data Mining, discussing topics including,but not limited to,mining on microblogs, query optimization, big dataclassification, access control, friendsourcing, and assistive technology.Part VI—Swarm Optimization and Its Applications, addressing topicsincluding, but not limited to, solving set covering problem, adaptive PSO forCT liver segmentation, water quality assessment, attribute reduction, fish detection,solving manufacturing cell design problem.
