Preface Section 1: Computational Intelligence

Software Science is a discipline that studies the theoretical framework of software as instructive and behavioral information, which can be embodied and executed by generic computers in order to create expected system behaviors and machine intelligence. Intelligence Science is a discipline that studies the mechanisms and theories of abstract intelligence and its paradigms such as natural, artificial, machinable, and computational intelligence. The convergence of software and intelligent sciences forms the transdisciplinary field of computational intelligence, which provides a coherent set of fundamental theories, contemporary denotational mathematics, and engineering applications. This book entitled Breakthroughs in Software Science and Computational Intelligence is the second volume in the IGI Series of Advances in Software Science and Computational Intelligence. The book encompasses 25 chapters of expert contributions selected from the International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence during 2010. The book is organized in four sections on: (1) Computational intelligence; (2) Cognitive computing; (3) Software science; and (4) Applications in computational intelligence and cognitive computing.