This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium, ISICA 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, during November 19–21, 2021. The 48 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: new frontier of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms; intelligent multi-media; data modeling and application of artificial intelligence; exploration of novel intelligent optimization algorithm; and intelligent application of industrial production.
