Intelligent data engineering and automated learning--IDEAL 2004: 5th international conference, Exeter, UK, August 25-27, 2004: proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2004, held in Exeter, UK, in August 2004.

The 124 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 272 submissions. The paper are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, data mining and knowledge engineering, learning algorithms and systems, financial engineering, and agent technologies.