Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2007: 8th International Conference, Birmingham, UK, December 16-19, 2007. Proceedings

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 170 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 270 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and information processing, data mining and information management, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics, agents and distributed systems, financial engineering and modeling, agent-based approach to service sciences, as well as neural-evolutionary fusion algorithms and their applications.