**Preface to "Applications of Computational Intelligence"**

Computational Intelligence (CI) is the theory, design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms. CI mainly includes three parts: neural networks, fuzzy systems, and evolutionary computation. CI has been widely used to solve complex problems in various domains, such as image processing, point cloud processing, and classification. Due to the great advantages of CI in dealing with practical application problems, increasing numbers of researchers have focused on the theoretical research and application of CI in recent years. This book, consisting of 20 articles written by research experts on topics of interest, reports the latest research on the applications of computational intelligence. Many novel and interesting methods are introduced, which provide guiding significance for the further development of computational intelligence.

> **Yue Wu, Kai Qin, Maoguo Gong, and Qiguang Miao** *Editors*
