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The following topics are dealt with: pervasive applications; image analysis; ubiquitous computing; bioinformatics; intelligent data analysis; information management and processing; intelligent vehicular applications; intelligent user interface design; soft-computing technologies; image engineering; software agent technology; intelligent multimedia retrieval and watermarking; networking and multimedia communication; artificial intelligence; computational intelligence and security; intelligent database systems; digital home users; e-commerce; optimisation methods; binomial systems; machine learning; evolutionary computation; digital crime and forensics; intelligent video processing; image authentication; and visual cryptography.