This two-volume set (CCIS 915 and CCIS 916) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th
Workshop on Engineering Applications WEA 2018 held in Medellín 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.