This book is dedicated to the theory and applications of Intelligent Systems. Research and development in the Intelligent Systems area is growing rapidly due to many successful applications of these new techniques in very diverse problems. Intelligent Systems and Techniques covers many fields such as neural networks, (adaptive) fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing and their hybrids and derivatives. This book aims to provide highlights of the current research in the Intelligent Systems area. It consists of research papers in the fields of neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computing, knowledge acquisition and knowledge discovery, intelligent agents, image processing, robotics and automation, speech recognition, signal processing and control, data mining and information retrieval, case-based reasoning and clustering.