This book presents refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2020, held in July, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.  The 36 full papers and 7 short papers were thorougly reviewed and selected from a total of 113 qualified submissions. The papers present resent research on such topics as neural network theory, and cognitive sciences, machine learning, data mining, data security & privacy protection, and data-driven applications, computational intelligence, nature-inspired optimizers, and their engineering applications, cloud/edge/fog computing, the Internet of Things/Vehicles (IoT/IoV), and their system optimization, control systems, network synchronization, system integration, and industrial artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neuro-fuzzy systems, decision making, and their applications in management sciences, computer vision, image processing, and their industrial applications, and natural language processing, machine translation, knowledge graphs, and their applications.

Table of Contents:
Adaptive Multiple-view Label Propagation for Semi-Supervised Classication.- Container Damage Identication based on Fmask-RCNN.- Multiagent Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization.- Extended Kalman Filter-Based Adaptively Sliding Mode Control with Dead-Zone Compensator for An Anchor-Hole Driller.- Exploring Multi-scale Deep Encoder-decoder and PatchGAN for Perceptual Ultrasound Image Super-resolution.- Reliable neighbors-based Collaborative Filtering for Recommendation Systems.- Downhole condition identication for geological drilling processes based on qualitative trend analysis and expert rules.- Adaptive Neural Network Control for Double-Pendulum Tower Crane Systems.- Mengh Generalized Locally-linear embedding: A Neural Network Implementation.- Semi-supervised Feature Selection Using Sparse Laplacian Support Vector Machine.- Tailored Pruning via Rollback Learning.- Coordinative Hyper-Heuristic Resource Scheduling in Mobile Cellular Networks.- Latent Sparse Discriminative Learning for Face Image Set Classication.- Sparse multi-task least-squares support vector machine.- Discriminative Subspace Learning for Cross-view Classication with Simultaneous Local and Global Alignment.- A Recognition Method of Hand Gesture based on Dual-SDAE.- Image Generation from Layout via Pair-wise RaGAN.- Learning Unsupervised Video Summarization with Semantic-consistent Network.- Sustainable Competitiveness Evaluation for Container Liners Using a Novel Hybrid Method with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Linguistic Variables.- 2-Dimensional Interval Neutrosophic Linguistic Numbers and Their Utilization in Group Decision Making.- Cross-Modal N-Pair Network for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning.- A Bi-Directional Relation Aware Network for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graph.- Deep K-Means: A Simple and Eective Method for Data Clustering.- Brain Storm Optimization Algorithms: A Brief Review.- A Binary Superior Tracking Articial Bee Colony for Feature Selection.- A Hybrid Neural Network RBERT-C based on Pre-trained RoBERTa and CNN for User Intent Classication.- Image Registration Algorithm Based on Manifold Regularization with Thin-plate Spline Model.- Optimal Control of Nonlinear Time-delay Systems with Input Constraints Using Reinforcement Learning.- Disaggregated Power System Signal Recognition using Capsule Network.- Design of echo state network with coordinate descent method and l1 regularization.- An advanced actor-critic algorithm for training video game AI.- Neural Network-Based Adaptive Control for EMS Type Maglev Vehicle Systems with Time-Varying Mass.- A Novel Collision-Avoidance TDMA MAC Protocol for Fog-assisted VCNs.- Design optimization of plate-n heat exchanger using sine cosine algorithm.- Mr-ResNeXt:A Multi-resolution Network Architecture for Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.- Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Semi-MDP Real-Time Strategy Games.- Stacked Deep Learning Structure with Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memoryfor Stock Market Prediction.- Multi-period Distributed Delay-sensitive Tasks Ooading in a Two-layer Vehicular Fog Computing Architecture.- Template-Enhanced Aspect Term Extraction with Bi-contextual Convolutional Neural Networks.- Privacy Sensitive Large-Margin Model for Face De-identication.- Balancing of Bike-sharing networks via constrained model predictive control.- RLV Reentry Trajectory Optimization Design Based on Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm.- A Tree-structure Convolutional Neural Network for Temporal Features Exaction on Sensor-based Multi-resident Activity Recognition.