An Introduction to Swarm Intelligence for Multi-objective Problems.- Multi-Criteria Ant Feature Selection Using Fuzzy Classifiers.- Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization in Classification-Rule Learning.- Using Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Designing Novel Classifiers.- Optimizing Decision Trees Using Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization.- A Discrete Particle Swarm for Multi-objective Problems in Polynomial Neural Networks used for Classification: A Data Mining Perspective.- Rigorous Runtime Analysis of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms - An Overview.- Mining Rules: A Parallel Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization Approach.- The Basic Principles of Metric Indexing.- Particle Evolutionary Swarm Multi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Combining Correlated Data from Multiple Classifiers.

The purpose of this book is to collect contributions that are at the intersection of multi-objective optimization, swarm intelligence (specifically, particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization) and data mining.