Includes author index.

Learning sequential data with the help of linear systems -- A spiking neural network for personalised modelling of Electrogastogrophy (EGG) -- Improving generalization abilities of maximal average margin classifiers -- Finding small sets of random Fourier features for shift-invariant kernel approximation -- Incremental construction of low-dimensional data representations -- Soft-constrained nonparametric density estimation with artificial neural networks -- Density based clustering via dominant sets -- Co-

training with credal models -- Interpretable classifiers in precision medicine: feature selection and multi-class categorization -- On the evaluation of tensor-based representations for optimum-pathforest classification -- On the harmony search using quaternions -- Learning parameters in deep belief networks through firefly algorithm -- Towards effective classification of imbalanced data with convolutional neural networks --