This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, SOFA 2018, held on 13-15 September 2018 in Arad, Romania. The workshop was organized by Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, in conjunction with the Institute of Computer Science, Iasi Branch of the Romanian Academy, IEEE Romanian Section, Romanian Society of Control Engineering and Technical Informatics - Arad Section, General Association of Engineers in Romania - Arad Section and BTM Resources Arad. The papers included in these proceedings, published post-conference, cover the research including Knowledge-Based Technologies for Web Applications, Cloud Computing, Security Algorithms and Computer Networks, Business Process Management, Computational Intelligence in Education and Modelling and Applications in Textiles and many other areas related to the Soft Computing. The book is directed to professors, researchers, and graduate students in area of soft computing techniques and applications.

This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, SOFA 2018, held on 13-15 September 2018 in Arad, Romania. The workshop was organized by Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, in conjunction with the Institute of Computer Science, Iasi Branch of the Romanian Academy, IEEE Romanian Section, Romanian Society of Control Engineering and Technical Informatics - Arad Section, General Association of Engineers in Romania - Arad Section and BTM Resources Arad. The papers included in these proceedings, published post-conference, cover the research including Knowledge-Based Technologies for Web Applications, Cloud Computing, Security Algorithms and Computer Networks, Business Process Management, Computational Intelligence in Education and Modelling and Applications in Textiles and many other areas related to the Soft Computing. The book is directed to professors, researchers, and graduate students in area of soft computing techniques and applications.

Soft computing techniques open significant opportunities in several areas, such as industry, medicine, energy, security, transportation, and education. This book provides theory and applications development using soft computing techniques by organizing intelligent systems for many applications to the benefit of humanity.  The book comes from a multidisciplinary subject whose audience can come from different academic departments, e.g., department of computer science and engineering, department of medical imaging, department of biomedical informatics, department of education sciences, and so on where artificial intelligence and soft computing are of routine courses.  The book covers a range of audience from academicians, practitioners, researchers, and students to stakeholders. It can support graduate students and interns to develop a deep understanding of the latest paradigms in the soft computing techniques.