A broad spectrum of modern Information Technology (IT) tools techniques main developments and
still open challenges is presented. Emphasis is on new research directions in various fields of
science and technology that are related to data analysis data mining knowledge discovery
information retrieval clustering and classification decision making and decision support
control computational mathematics and physics to name a few. Applications in many relevant
fields are presented notably in telecommunication social networks recommender systems fault
detection robotics image analysis and recognition electronics etc. The methods used by the
authors range from high level formal mathematical tools and techniques through algorithmic and
computational tools to modern metaheuristics.
