We are proud to introduce the proceedings of the Third International Sym- sium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2008) held at the China UniversityofGeosciences(Wuhan), China, during December 19-21,2008. ISICA 2008 successfully attracted nearly 700 submissions. Through rigorous - views, 93 high-quality papers were included in the proceedings of ISICA 2008. ISICA conferences are one of the ?rst series of internationalconferences on c- putational intelligence that combine elements of learning, adaptation, evolution and fuzzy logic to create programs as alternative solutions to...