Guest Editorial for Special Section on the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC)

The eight papers included in this special section were presented at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) held at Lanzhou, China, during August 2-5, 2016. ICIC was formed to provide an annual forum dedicated to the emerging and challenging topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, etc. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to share ideas, problems, and solutions related to the multifaceted aspects of intelligent computing.