This book presents original, peer-reviewed papers selected from the International Conference on Cognitive and Intelligent Computing (ICCIC-2025), held on 12–13 December 2025 in Hyderabad, India. The contributions cover recent advances in soft computing, pattern recognition, decision support systems, text analytics and natural language processing, statistical and neural network learning, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, reinforcement learning, Bayesian networks, support vector machines, multi-agent systems, human–computer interaction, and data mining and knowledge discovery. Selected for their application orientation, the papers demonstrate these methods in control systems, healthcare and bioinformatics, industrial and engineering systems, security, smart cities, and business forecasting.The book will be of particular value to professionals, researchers, and research students working in cognitive and intelligent computing.