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This book gathers the papers presented at the 18th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC18), which was held on 1-12 December 2014 on the World Wide Web. The conference is open to all academics, students and industrial/commercial parties, and is hosted online between authors and participants over the Internet.

The 2014 installment of the Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Application consisted of a selected keynote speech, invited talks, tutorials, special sessions, and general track papers. The program committee received a total of 51 submissions from 12 countries, reflecting the international nature of the event. Each paper was peer-reviewed (typically by 3 reviewers), culminating in the acceptance of 20 papers for publication.

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Three Research Directions of Interactive Evolutionary Computation.- Adaptive Information Processing in Computer-aided Product Development.- An Experimental Fuzzy Weighted Average Aggregated Location Selection Model For Power Plants.- Fuzzy Based approach for Strategic Planning of Crops Plantation Dates.- A Fuzzy Set-based Approach for Matching Hand-Drawing Shapes of Touch-based Gestures for Graphical Passwords.- Human like Query Tool: Non-Stationary Fuzzy Set Approach.- Experimental Case Study on Fuzzy Logic Modeling for Selection Classification of Private Mini Hydropower Plant Investments.- Proposal for Financial Suitability Evaluation of Commercial and Participation Banks in Power Plant Projects.- Fuzzy Demand Forecast Classification and Fuzzy Pattern Recognition for Distributed Production.- Modeling Excess Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Traffic Congestion.- Co-Evolution Theory Based Collaborative Conceptual Embodiment CAD System.- Genetic Algorithms for the Non-Emergency Patients Transport Service.- Sharing without Losing and Donation.- A Novel Operator for Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm in Solving Course Timetabling Problems.- Optimizing Quantitative and Qualitative Objectives by User-System Cooperative Evolutionary Computation.- Soft LMI-based H8 Control with Time Delay.- A Modified Hopfield Neural Network for Abnormality Identification in Fundus Retinal Images.- Intelligent Land cover detection in Multi-sensor Satellite images.- A Knowledge Extraction Framework for Call Center Analytics.- Modeling flow shop scheduling using backpropagation neural networks.- Applying Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- Tabu Search Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem.- Some Modifications in Binary Particle Swarm Optimization - Please Stand Up.- Selected Issues on Drifted Data Stream Classification.- A Novel Dynamic TOPSIS-based Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- Adaptive Memetic Particle Swarm Optimization.- Collaborative Project Management Framework for Partner Network Initiation.- Some thoughts about Measurements and Uncertainty in Measurement.

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