The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and
Automated Learning (IDEAL 2012) will be held in the beautiful costal
city Natal, Brazil, 29-31 Aug 2012.

IDEAL is an established, annual international conference dedicated to
emerging and challenging topics in intelligent data analysis, data
mining and their associated learning paradigms and systems. The
conference has enjoyed great successes in recent years such as IDEAL
2011 in Norwich, IDEAL 2010 (Paisley), IDEAL 2009 (Burgos), IDEAL 2008
(Daejeon) and IDEAL 2007 (Birmingham).

Natal is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, a city with
around 800 thousand inhabitants. It receives visitors from all over
the world who come to breathe “the purest air of the Americas”, visit
the largest cashew tree in the world and get to know the more than 20
natural beaches with heavenly views of dunes and a clean calm sea.
Natal is among the most sought after destinations in the Northeast
region of Brazil, favored by its location, its natural beauties and
infrastructure for leisure. Natal has excellent and convenient
worldwide flight connections. The conference venue is the Imirá Plaza
Hotel and Convention Center, a beach hotel with 166 apartments,
located at Via Costeira (imiraplaza.com.br).

Amongst other institutions, IDEAL 2012 will be technically sponsored
by SBIC – Brazilian Computational Intelligence Society (former SBRN),
IEEE CIS Brazilian Chapters and Federal University of Rio Grande do
Norte (UFRN).

IDEAL 2012 will provide an exciting opportunity and stimulating forum
for presenting, discussing and exploring the latest theoretical
advances and real-world applications in computational intelligence and
intelligent data analysis. The conference proceedings will be
published by Springer as its prestige Lecture Notes in Computer
Science Series. Authors are invited to submit their latest findings
and research work. Further information can be found from the
conference website:

http://www.ideal2012.org/
http://sbic.ct.ufrn.br/ideal2012/

A selection of invited speakers will highlight important and developing areas.

The submission will be open soon and carried out through the EasyChair
system, accessible from the conference website.

Important dates:

30th April 2012: Deadline for paper submission
18th May 2012: Acceptance notification
1st June 2012: Final paper uploading and registration
29th-31th August 2012: Conference