Novel swarm-based optimization algorithms and applications -- Particle swarm optimization -- Ant colony optimization -- Artificial bee colony algorithms -- Evolutionary and genetic algorithms -- Differential evolution -- Brain storm optimization algorithm -- Biogeography based optimization -- Cuckoo search -- Hybrid methods -- Multi-objective optimization -- Multi-agent systems and swarm robotics -- Neural networks and fuzzy methods -- Data mining approaches -- Information security -- Automation control -- Combinatorial optimization algorithms -- Scheduling and path planning -- Machine learning -- Blind sources separation -- Swarm interaction behavior -- Parameters and system optimization -- Neural networks -- Evolutionary and genetic algorithms -- Fuzzy systems -- Forecasting algorithms -- Classification -- Tracking analysis -- Simulation -- Image and texture analysis -- Dimension reduction -- System optimization -- Segmentation and detection system -- Machine translation -- Virtual management and disaster analysis.