Modern computing and collaborative optimization in engineering, business, economics, and finance explores the emerging study of meta-heuristics optimization algorithms and methods and their role in innovated real world practical applications. International Journal of Computing and Optimization is a collection of research on the areas of meta-heuristics optimization technique in engineering, business, economics, and finance and aims to be a fruitful new knowledge development and global connection for decision makers, managers, engineers, researchers, scientists, financiers, and economists as well as industrialists. The areas covered include mathematical programming, classical optimization, meta-heuristics optimization and modern optimization, artificial intelligence, soft computing and computational intelligence, algorithms and theory, distributed and parallel computing, scientific computing, simulation, software engineering, real world applications, etc.