The 69 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:
Volume I:
Neural networks and their applications; fuzzy systems and their applications; evolutionary algorithms and their applications; pattern classification; artificial intelligence in modeling and simulation.
Volume II:
Computer vision, image and speech analysis; data mining; various problems of artificial intelligence; bioinformatics, biometrics and medical applications.