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The following topics are dealt with: waveform design methods; advances in bioimaging and analysis; relaying and cooperation; stochastic control and decision theory for cognitive radio networks; multiuser MIMO networks; programmable and reconfigurable architectures; MIMO radar and sensor fusion; adaptive filtering; array processing and source localization; beamforming; topics in communications; radar signal processing; multi-rate and digital signal processing; retinal image analysis; information theory; feedback in MIMO systems; computer arithmetic; blind system identification; multi-channel system inversion; speech dereverberation; distributed detection and estimation; wireless network management; OFDM/UWB; MIMO OFDM and cooperative relaying; compressive sensing;functional imaging and analysis; secrecy capacity; interference channels;MIMO broadcast; wireless sensor networks; adaptive methods in Monte Carlo signal; quantization; image/video processing, quantization and coding; speech analysis and recognition; quantization, coding and encryption; limited feedback and precoding; distributed statistical inference; statistical signal processing; forensics and security.