The Computation Intelligence Society specialises in the theory, design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms emphasizing neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.

As a part of its mission, the Society is also promoting activities in emerging fields such as data mining, bio-informatics, computational finance, computational neuroscience, autonomous mental development, intelligent systems applications and other related areas. Activities in all technical areas are coordinated by one of the Society's eight Technical Committees (TC): Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computation, Emergent Technologies, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Intelligent Systems Applications, and Autonomous Mental Development.