The 36 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of three invited talks and two tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on industrial engineering applications of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), bioinformatics, intelligent medical modeling, life/earth sciences intelligent modeling, learning algorithms, intelligent telecommunications modeling, fuzzy modeling, robotics and control, smart cameras, pattern recognition and facial mapping, classification, financial intelligent modeling, and echo state networks.