This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2021, held in Medellin, Colombia, in October 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a hybrid mode. The 33 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computational intelligence; bioengineering; Internet of Things (IoT); optimization and operations research; engineering applications.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2020, held in Bogota, Colombia, in October 2020.The 32 revised full papers and 12 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computational intelligence; computer science; optimization; bioengineering; military applications; simulation, IoT and networks; power applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2018, held in Medellin, Colombia, in May 2018. The 17 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial neural networks; computational intelligence; computer science.

This two-volume set (CCIS 915 and CCIS 916) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2018, held in Medellin, Colombia, in October 2018. The 50 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from126 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as computer science; computational intelligence; simulation systems; software engineering; power and energy applications.

This two-volume set (CCIS 915 and CCIS 916) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2018, held in Medellin, Colombia, in October 2018. The 41 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as green logistics and optimization, Internet of Things (IoT), digital signal processing (DSP), network applications, miscellaneous applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Forth Workshop onEngineering Applications, WEA 2017, held in Cartagena, Colombia, inSeptember 2017. The 59 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom156 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as computerscience; computational intelligence; simulation systems; internet of things; fuzzy sets and systems; power systems; logistics and operations management; miscellaneous applications.

This three-volume set LNCS 10361, LNCS 10362, and LNAI 10363 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2017, held in Liverpool, UK, in August 2017. The 221 full papers and 15 short papers of the three proceedings volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 639 submissions. This second volume of the set comprises 74 papers. The papers are organized in topical sections such as Pattern Recognition; Image Processing; Virtual Reality and Human-Computer Interaction; Healthcare Informatics Theory and Methods; Genetic Algorithms; Blind Source Separation; Intelligent Fault Diagnosis; Machine Learning; Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Gene Expression Array Analysis; Systems Biology; Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Biological Systems; Intelligent Computing in Computational Biology; Computational Genomics; Computational Proteomics; Gene Regulation Modeling and Analysis; SNPs and Haplotype Analysis; Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction; Protein Structure and Function Prediction; Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics; Structure Prediction and Folding; Biomarker Discovery; Applications of Machine Learning Techniques to Computational Proteomics, Genomics, and Biological Sequence Analysis; Biomedical Image Analysis; Human-Machine Interaction: Shaping Tools Which Will Shape Us; Protein and Gene Bioinformatics: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications; Special Session on Computer Vision based Navigation; Neural Networks: Theory and Application.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2016, held in Bogota, Colombia, in September 2016. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer science; computational intelligence; simulation systems; fuzzy sets and systems; power systems; miscellaneous applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Engineering Applications on Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering, WEA 2022, which took place in Bogota, Colombia, in November/December 2022. The 39 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Artificial Intelligence; Optimization; Simulation; and Applications.

This book constitutes revised and extended selected papers of the 4th IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2021, which was held virtually in Colombia at the end of May 2021. The 7 full papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical applications and alternative proposals and its applications.

This book constitutes revised and extended selected papers of the Third IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2020, held in Cali, Colombia, August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on earth sciences applications; biomedical and power applications; alternative proposals and its applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2019, held in Barranquilla, Colombia, in June 2019. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers cover such topics as video processing; biomedical systems; image processing, etc.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2019, held in Santa Marta, Colombia, in October 2019. The 62 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 178 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computer science; computational intelligence; bioengineering; Internet of things; power applications; simulation systems; optimization.