Section I. Biological Modelization -- Chapter I. Neuroglial Behaviour in Computer Science / Ana B. Porto, Alejandro Pazos -- Chapter II. Astrocytes and the Biological Neural Networks / Eduardo D. Martín, Alfonso Araque --

Section II. Time Series Forecasting -- Chapter III. Time Series Forecasting by Evolutionary Neural Networks / Paulo Cortez, Miguel Rocha, José Neves -- Chapter IV. Development of ANN with Adaptive Connections by CE / Julián Dorado, Nieves Pedreira, Mónica Miguélez --

Section III. Data Mining -- Chapter V. Self-Adapting Intelligent Neural Systems Using Evolutionary Techniques / Manrique, Juan Ríos, Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón -- Chapter VI. Using Genetic Programming to Extract Knowledge from Artificial Neural Networks / Daniel Rivero, Miguel Varela, Javier Pereira -- Chapter VII. Several Approaches to Variable Selection by Means of Genetic Algorithms / Marcos Gestal Pose, Alberto Cancela Carollo, José Manuel Andrade Garda, Mari Paz Gómez-Carracedo --

Section IV. Civil Engineering -- Chapter VIII. Hybrid System with Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation in Civil Engineering / Juan R. Rabuñal, Jerónimo Puertas -- Chapter IX. Prediction of the Consistency of Concrete by Means of the Use of Artificial Neural Networks / Belén González, Ma Isabel Martínez, Diego Carro --

Section V. Financial Analysis -- Chapter X. Soft Computing Approach for Bond Rating Prediction / J. Sethuraman -- Chapter XI. Predicting Credit Ratings with a GA-MLP Hybrid / Robert Perkins, Anthony Brabazon --

Section VI. Other Applications -- Chapter XII. Music and Neural Networks / Giuseppe Buzzanca -- Chapter XIII. Connectionist Systems for Fishing Prediction / Alfonso Iglesias, Bernardino Arcay, José Manuel Cotos -- Chapter XIV. A Neural Network Approach to Cost Minimization in a Production Scheduling Setting / Kun-Chang Lee, Tae-Young Paik -- Chapter XV. Intrusion Detection Using Modern Techniques: Integration of Genetic Algorithms and Rough Sets with Neural Nets / Tarun Bhaskar, Narasimha Kamath B. -- Chapter XVI. Cooperative AI Techniques for Stellar Spectra Classification: A Hybrid Strategy / Alejandra Rodríguez, Carlos Dafonte, Bernardino Arcay, Iciar Carricajo, Minia Manteiga -- Glossary -- About the Authors -- Index.