The Journal of Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing (DECODING), covers all topics of artificial intelligence and soft computing and their applications, including but not limited to: • Neural networks • Reasoning and evolution • Intelligent search • Intelligent planning • Intelligence applications • Computer vision and speech understanding • Multimedia and cognitive informatics • Data mining and machine learning tools, heuristic and AI planning strategies and tools, computational theories of learning • Technology and computing (like particle swarm optimization); intelligent system architectures • Knowledge representation • Bioinformatics • Natural language processing • Automated reasoning • Logic programming • Machine learning • Visual/linguistic perception • Evolutionary and swarm algorithms • Derivative-free optimisation algorithms • Fuzzy sets and logic • Rough sets • Simulated biological evolution algorithms (like genetic algorithm, ant colony optimization, etc) • Multi-agent systems • Data and web mining • Emotional intelligence • Hybridisation of intelligent models/algorithms • Parallel and distributed realisation ofintelligent algorithms/systems • Application in pattern recognition, image understanding, control, robotics and bioinformatics • Application in system design, system identification, prediction, scheduling and game playing • Application in VLSI algorithms and mobile communication/computing systems