IDEAL 2008 was the ninth IDEAL conference to take place; earlier editions were held in Hong Kong, the UK, Australia and Spain. This was the first time, though hopefully not the last time, that it took place in Daejeon, South Korea, during November 2–5, 2008. As the name suggests, the conference attracts researchers who are involved in either data engineering or learning or, increasingly, both. The former topic involves such aspects as data mining (or intelligent knowledge discovery from databases), infor- tion retrieval systems, data warehousing, speech/image/video processing, and mul- media data analysis. There has been a traditional strand of data engineering at IDEAL conferences which has been based on financial data management such as fraud det- tion, portfolio analysis, prediction and so on. This has more recently been joined by a strand devoted to bioinformatics, particularly neuroinformatics and gene expression analysis. Learning is the other major topic for these conferences and this is addressed by - searchers in artificial neural networks, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, artificial immune systems, ant algorithms, probabilistic modelling, fuzzy systems and agent modelling. The core of all these algorithms is adaptation.

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.

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.

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 two-volume set of LNCS 12489 and 12490 constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2020, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in November 2020.* The 93 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. These papers provided a timely sample of the latest advances in data engineering and machine learning, from methodologies, frameworks, and algorithms to applications. The core themes of IDEAL 2020 include big data challenges, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval and management, bio-/neuro-informatics, bio-inspiredmodels, agents and hybrid intelligent systems, real-world applications of intelligent techniques and AI. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2012, held in Natal, Brazil, in August 2012. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 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 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.