The present book includes extended and revised versions of papers presented during the 2018 International Computer Symposium (ICS 2018), held in Yunlin, Republic of China (Taiwan), on December 20-22, 2018.

The 86 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 263 submissions from 11 countries. The variety of the topics include machine learning, sensor devices and platforms, sensor networks, robotics, embedded systems, networks, operating systems, software system structures, database design and models, multimedia and multimodal retrieval, object detection, image processing, image compression, mobile and wireless security.