Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis

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ThesearetheproceedingsofthefourthbiennialconferenceintheIntelligentData Analysisseries. TheconferencetookplaceinCascais, Portugal, 13-15September 2001. Thethemeofthisconferenceseriesistheuseofcomputersinintelligent waysindataanalysis, includingtheexplorationofintelligentprogramsfordata analysis. Dataanalytictoolscontinuetodevelop, drivenbythecomputerrevo- tion. Methodswhichwouldhaverequiredunimaginableamountsofcomputing power, andwhichwouldhavetakenyearstoreachaconclusion, cannowbe appliedwitheaseandvirtuallyinstantly. Suchmethodsarebeingdevelopedby avarietyofintellectualcommunities, includingstatistics, arti?cialintelligence, neuralnetworks, machinelearning, datamining, andinteractivedynamicdata visualization. Thisconferenceseriesseekstobringtogetherresearchersstudying theuseofintelligentdataanalysisinthesevariousdisciplines, tostimulate- teractionsothateachdisciplinemaylearnfromtheothers. Soastoencourage suchinteraction, wedeliberatelykepttheconferencetoasingletrackmeeting. Thismeantthat, ofthealmost150submissionswereceived, wewereableto selectonly23fororalpresentationand16forposterpresentation. Inaddition tothesecontributedpapers, therewasakeynoteaddressfromDarylPregibon, invitedpresentationsfromKatharinaMorik, RolfBackhofen, andSunilRao, and aspecial'datachallenge'session, whereresearchersdescribedtheirattemptsto analyseachallengingdatasetprovidedbyPaulCohen. Thisacceptancerate enabledustoensureahighqualityconference, whilealsopermittingustop- videgoodcoverageofthevarioustopicssubsumedwithinthegeneralheading ofintelligentdataanalysis. Wewouldliketoexpressourthanksandappreciationtoeveryoneinvolved intheorganizationofthemeetingandtheselectionofthepapers. Itisthe behind-the-scenese?ortswhichensurethesmoothrunningandsuccessofany conference. Wewouldalsoliketoexpressourgratitudetothesponsors:Fundac~ ¿ao paraaCi^enciaeaTecnologia, Minist¿eriodaCi^enciaedaTecnologia, Faculdade deCi^enciaseTecnologia, UniversidadeNovadeLisboa, Funda¿c~aoCalousteG- benkianandIPEInvestimentoseParticipac~ ¿oe