Professor Russell C. Eberhart from Purdue University and Professor Yao Xin, Chair of SUSTech’s Department of Computer Computer Science and Engineering, served as honorary chairmen of the event. Professor Shi Yuhui from SUSTech and Professor Kay Chen Tan from City University of Hong Kong presided over the conference while Professor Mengjie Zhang from Wellington University in New Zealand and Professor Tong Tang Ke served as chairmen of the program committee.

The conference invited seven internationally renowned experts in computational intelligence: Professor Kenneth De Jong of George Mason University; Professor Sanaz Mostaghim of Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg; Professor Yew Soon Ong of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore; Professor Li Xiaodong of RMIT University; Professor Wang Jun from City University, Professor Hisao Ishibuchi from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Professor Yiuming Cheung from Hong Kong Baptist University. Each special guest presented a keynote report.

On the first day of the conference, the first Symposium on Evolutionary Optimization and Learning took place. Prof. Kenneth De Jong of George Mason University and Prof. Mitsuo Gen of Tokyo University of Science made six excellent presentations on this field which sparked extensive discussions.

The conference was organized into 10 oral session reports, and presented a total of 40 papers. The authors of the papers had the chance to present and then exchange on their own research, and a total of 45 excellent papers were selected to be showcased.