SCOPE Papers on these and related subjects are particularly encouraged: Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), Search Engines (SE), Computational Linguistics (CL), Knowledge Discovery (KD). The Conference's focus will also be on the following topics: new computing paradigms, including, but not restricted to biologically motivated methods, quantum computing, DNA computing, advanced data analysis, new machine learning paradigms, reasoning technologies, natural language processing, novelty detection, new optimization technologies, applied data mining using statistical and non-standard approaches, technologies for very large text bases, uncertainty management.