This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST '05), May 25-27, 2005, Muroran, Japan. It brings together the original work of international soft computing/computational intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners, and users. This proceedings provide contributions to all areas of soft computing including intelligent hybrid systems, agent-based systems, intelligent data mining, decision support systems, cognitive and reactive distributed artificial intelligence (AI), internet modelling, human interface, and applications in science and technology.

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WSTST'05 Plenary Abstracts.- Neural Networks.- Fuzzy Systems.- Image Processing.- Computer Security.- Agent Based Systems.- Soft Computing and Hard Computing.- Chance Discovery.- Medicine and Biology.- Humanized Computational Intelligence.- Civil and Environmental Engineering.- Web Intelligence.- Intelligent Hybrid Systems.- Swarm Intelligence and Patterns.- Data Mining and Knowledge Management.- Financial Modeling.- Information Processing Systems.- Evolutionary Algorithms, Search and Optimization.- Collaborative Learning Systems.