Neural Networks and Applications -- A Full Explanation Facility for a MLP Network that Classifies Low-Back-Pain Patients and for Predicting its Reliability -- Use of Multi-category Proximal SVM for Data Set Reduction -- Neural Techniques in Logo Recognition -- Motion Detection Using Cellular Neural Network -- Speech Separation Based on Higher Order Statistics Using Recurrent Neural Networks -- Speaker Recognition Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks -- A Multifaceted Investigation into Speech Reading -- Global Optimisation of Neural Networks Using a Deterministic Hybrid Approach -- AppART: An ART Hybrid Stable Learning Neural Network for Universal Function Approximation -- Monitoring System Security Using Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines -- A Hybrid Detection and Classification System for Human Motion Analysis -- Integrated Technique with Neurocomputing for Temporal Video Segmentation -- Matching Data Mining Algorithm Suitability to Data Characteristics Using a Self-Organizing Map -- Perceptual Grouping of Contours via Gated Diffusion of Boundary Signals -- Fuzzy Logic and Applications -- Fusion of Fuzzy System and Conventional Technique to Evaluate Weather and Terrain Effects on the Vehicle Operations -- Soft Computing for Developing Short Term Load Forecasting Models in Czech Republic -- An Induction Algorithm with Selection Significance Based on a Fuzzy Derivative -- Adaptive Database Learning in Decision Support Systems Using Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems: A Generic Framework -- Histogram-Based Fuzzy Clustering and its Comparison to Fuzzy C-Means Clustering in One-Dimensional Data -- Optimizing Linear Programming Technique Using Fuzzy Logic -- Semantics for Fuzzy Disjunctive Programs with Weak Similarity -- An Integration of Fuzzy and Two-Valued Logics on Natural Language Semantics -- Fuzzy Hyperplanes in the Hypothesis Space -- Evolutionary Computation and Other Heuristics -- A Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing Throughput in Non-broadcast WDM Optical Networks -- Solving Trigonometric Identities with Tree Adjunct Grammar Guided Genetic Programming -- Integrated Evolutionary Algorithms -- Evolving Natural Language Parser with Genetic Programming -- A Linear Genetic Programming Approach for Modeling Electricity Demand Prediction in Victoria -- Flexible Generator Maintenance Scheduling in a Practical System Using Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithm -- Information Space Optimization with Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm for Inductive Learning -- A Comparison of GRASP and an Exact Method for Solving a Production and Delivery Scheduling Problem -- Intelligent Agents and Applications -- MEBRL: Memory Evolution Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm of MAS -- Agent Representation and Communication in CBR-Tutor -- Agent-based Software Engineering and Agent Mediations -- Virtual AI Classroom: A Proposal -- An Argumentation-Based Multi-Agent System for eTourism Dialogue -- Modeling a Distributed Knowledge Management for Cooperative Agents -- Bayesian Methods / Rough Sets and Applications -- Linear Discriminant Text Classification in High Dimension -- A Bayesian Track-before-Detect Algorithm for IR Point Target Detection -- Application of Bayesian Controllers to Dynamic Systems -- An Algorithm for Automatic Generation of a Case Base from a Database Using Similarity-Based Rough Approximation -- A Family of Algorithms for Implementing the Main Concepts of the Rough Set Theory -- Intelligent Data Mining and Information Analysis -- Value of Information Analysis in Dynamic Influence Diagrams -- An Automated Report Generation Tool for the Data Understanding Phase -- Determining the Validity of Clustering for Data Fusion -- The Performance of Small Support Spatial and Temporal Filters for Dim Point Target Detection in Infrared Image Sequences -- Using Petri Nets for Modeling Branch Control of Pipeline Processors -- Extended Vector Annotated Logic Program and its Applications to Robot Action Control and Automated Safety Verification -- Hybrid Intelligent Systems Applications: Reviews and Frameworks -- Overview of Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Statistical Inference and its Application -- Insurance Applications of Soft Computing Technologies -- Teaming Human and Machine: A Conceptual Framework -- Dynamics and Thinking of Social Systems -- Author Index.