President's message

The current development of computational intelligence reminds the author of late 1980s and early 1990s when there were tremendous excitements and opportunities for computational intelligence research and applications. We are entering the second golden period for computational intelligence development, because effective and efficient solutions to many of today's grand challenges in e-healthcare, smart cities, internet-of-things, Big Data, etc., require better, faster and cheaper computational intelligence algorithms, methods and techniques. These new challenges pose new research questions that can stimulate the rapid growth of our research field. There are huge opportunities for all of us to contribute to developing novel computational intelligence solutions to these challenges. Why not share your ideas and experiences in tackling difficult real-world problems with the wider communities and submit your work to one of the CIS journals? Authors who had a paper recently presented at WCCI'14 might be interested in taking the feedback they got at the Congress, extending the work further and submitting an extended paper to a CIS journal. They are here encouraged to let the world know of any novel ideas and contributions.