Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX

The background to IDA 2010, the 9th International Symposium on Intelligent DataAnalysis(IDA),is ratherunusual. Previously,thesymposiawereheldbi- nially at European venues. Over this time, the IDA Symposium had established an identity, a dedicated group of Program Committee members, and a regular audience. However, this success had come at a cost to the original ambitions for the symposium concerned with interfacing AI, statistics and computer science for important and di?cult real-world data an ...