This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2013, held in Nanning, China, in July 2013. The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and are organized in topical sections on neural networks, nature inspired computing and optimization, cognitive science and computational neuroscience, knowledge discovery and data mining, evolutionary learning and genetic algorithms machine learning theory and methods, natural language processing and computational linguistics, fuzzy theory and models, soft computing, unsupervised and reinforced learning, intelligent computing in finance, intelligent computing in petri nets, intelligent data fusion and information security, virtual reality and computer interaction, intelligent computing in pattern recognition, intelligent computing in image processing, intelligent computing in robotics, complex systems theory and methods.
