This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2002, held in Manchester, UK in August 2002. The 89 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 150 submissions. The book offers topical sections on data mining, knowledge engineering, text and document processing, internet applications, agent technology, autonomous mining, financial engineering, bioinformatics, learning systems, and pattern recognition.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2005, held in Brisbane, Australia, in July 2005. The 76 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining and knowledge engineering, learning algorithms and systems, bioinformatics, agent technologies, and financial engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2004, held in Exeter, UK, in August 2004. The 124 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 272 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, data mining and knowledge engineering, learning algorithms and systems, financial engineering, and agent technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2009, held in Burgos, Sapin, in September 2009. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 200 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and information processing; data mining and information management; neuro-informatics, bio-informatics, and bio-inspired models; agents and hybrid systems; soft computing techniques in data mining; recent advances on swarm-based computing; intelligent computational techniques in medical image processing; advances on ensemble learning and information fursion; financial and business engineering (modeling and applications); MIR day 2009 - Burgos; and nature inspired models for industrial applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2007, held in Birmingham, UK, in December 2007. The papers include topical sections on learning and information processing, data mining and information management, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics, agents and distributed systems, financial engineering and modeling, and agent-based approach to service sciences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2006. The 170 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 557 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and information processing, data mining, retrieval and management, bioinformatics and bio-inspired models, agents and hybrid systems, financial engineering, as well as a special session on nature-inspired date technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2015, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in October 2015. The 64 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. These papers provided a valuable collection of recent research outcomes in data engineering and automated learning, from methodologies, frameworks, and techniques to applications. In addition to various topics such as evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, probabilistic modeling, swarm intelligent, multi-objective optimization, and practical applications in regression, classification, clustering, biological data processing, text processing, video analysis, IDEAL 2015 also featured a number of special sessions on several emerging topics such as computational intelligence for optimization of communication networks, discovering knowledge from data, simulation-driven DES-like modeling and performance evaluation, and intelligent applications in real-world problems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2013, held in Hefei, China, in October 2013. The 76 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 130 submissions. These papers provided a valuable collection of latest research outcomes in data engineering and automated learning, from methodologies, frameworks and techniques to applications. In addition to various topics such as evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, probabilistic modelling, swarm intelligent, multi-objective optimisation, and practical applications in regression, classification, clustering, biological data processing, text processing, video analysis, including a number of special sessions on emerging topics such as adaptation and learning multi-agent systems, big data, swarm intelligence and data mining, and combining learning and optimisation in intelligent data engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2010, held in Paisley, Scotland, in September 2010. The 47 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from many submissions for inclusion in the book and present the latest theoretical advances and real-world applications in computational intelligence.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2008, held in Daejeon, Korea, in November 2008. The 56 revised full papers presented together with 10 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and information processing, data mining and information management, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics, agents and distributed systems, as well as financial engineering and modeling.