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.
Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Improved Explorations for Numerical Function Optimization.-Extensions of Ant-Miner Algorithm to Deal with Class Imbalance Problem.-Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Using Information-Preserving EMD.-Population Resizing Using Nonlinear Dynamics in an Ecology-Based Approach.-Multi-class Contour Preserving Classification.-Automated Bone Age Assessment Using Feature Extraction.-A Hybrid Approach Based on DCT-Genetic-Fuzzy Inference System for Speech Recognition.-An Approach to Reshaping Clusters for Nearest Neighbor Search.-Interestingness Measures for Fixed Consequent Rules.-Abnormal Event Detection via Multi-Instance Dictionary Learning .-Static Packet Routing in NoC Platform Using ACO-Based Algorithms.-Segmentation of Mammography by Applying Extreme LearningMachine in Tumor Detection.-An ANN Speed Observer Applied to Three-Phase Induction Motor.-Opportunistic Sensor Interpretation in a Virtual Smart Environment.-Comparison of PCA and ANOVA for Inform
ation Selection of CC and MLO Views in Classification of Mammograms.-A Multiobjective Analysis of Adaptive Clustering Algorithms for the Definition of RBF Neural Network Centers in Regression Problems.-Mean Multiclass Type I and II Errors for Training MultilayerPerceptron with Particle Swarm in Image.