I - Artificial Neural Networks -- A Recurrent Self-Organizing Map for Temporal Sequence Processing -- Optimisation of Neural Network Topology and Input Parameters for Prosody Modelling of Synthetic Speech -- Using ART1 Neural Networks to Determine Clustering Tendency -- High Performance Associative Memories and Structured Weight Dilution -- Neural Network Analysis of Estimation of Data -- A Compiler and Simulator for Partial Recursive Functions over Neural Networks -- Multistage Neural Networks: Adaptive Combination of Ensemble Results -- On the Fuzzy Spatio-temporal Specification of Multimedia Synchronisation Scenarios -- II - Evolutionary Computing -- An Approach to On-line Design of Fuzzy Controllers with Evolving Structure -- Can a Parallel Agent Approach to Genetic Algorithms Reduce Search Times -- Comparison of Domination Approaches for Diploid Binary Genetic Algorithms -- New Heuristics for Flowshop Scheduling -- Temporal Rule Discovery using Genetic Programming and Specialized Hardware -- Genetic Programming with Guaranteed Constraints -- III - Fuzzy Systems -- Precisiated Natural Language and Protoforms for Human Consistent Data Mining -- Design and Synthesis of Piecewise-Linear Fuzzy Systems -- A New Ranking Method For Fuzzy FMEA -- Representing Reliability and Hesitation in Possibility Theory: A General Framework -- Noise Clustering with a Fixed Fraction of Noise -- Selective Sampling for Combined Learning from Labelled and Unlabelled Data -- IV - Hybrid and Intelligent Systems -- New Results for a Hybrid Decision Tree/Genetic Algorithm for Data Mining -- Embedding Support Vector Machines into Localised Mixtures of Experts -- Gaussian Function Approximation in Neuro-Fuzzy Systems -- Automated Configuration of Multi-Spindle Drilling Gear Machines by Sub-Domain Knowledge Processing and Adaptive Algorithms -- Construction of Shape-preserving First-order Takagi-Sugeno Systems via Linear-rational Spline Fuzzy Partitions -- Identification of Dynamic Cause-Effect Relations for Systems Performance Evaluation -- A Multi-layered Immune Inspired Machine Learning Algorithm -- Using Plausible Reasoning for Developing Intelligent Systems -- Towards Model-Independent Mode Detection and Characterisation of Very Long Biomedical Time Series -- Analysis of Rules Discovered by the Data Mining Process -- A Study of Query Generation Strategies for Interactive Constraint Acquisition -- A Multi-agent System as Framework for Learning Algorithms Benchmarking -- Soft Learning: A Conceptual Bridge between Data Mining and Machine Learning -- Heuristics for Kernels Adaptation in Support Vector Machines -- A Study of the Effectiveness of Detailed Balance in Avoiding Premature Convergence in PBIL -- V - Soft Computing Applications -- Application of Computational Intelligence Methods for Intelligent Modelling of Buildings -- An Adaptive Multi Embedded-Agent Architecture for Intelligent Inhabited Environments -- Constraint Neuro-Model based Predictive Control -- An Efficient Hybrid Method of Regression Tree and Fuzzy Inference for Short-term Load Forecasting in Electric Power Systems -- An Iterative Learning Control Method for a Level Control Problem -- Face Verification Using SVM: Influence of Illumination -- A Neuro-Fuzzy Technique for Scene Cut Detection from MPEG-1 Video -- Fuzzy Audio-Visual Feature Maps for Speaker Identification -- Adaptive User Agents for Intelligent Biometric Applications -- Gait Recognition by Moment Based Descriptors -- On a Large Sequence-Based Human Gait Database.