- Advances in databases
- Information systems
- Information and data management
- Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction
- Recommender systems
- Digital rights management
- Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions
- Biological and artificial neural networks
- Biological and artificial immune systems
- Cognitive science
- Neuroscience
- Computational biology
- DNA computing
- Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms
- Bayesian networks
- Expert systems & intelligent agents
- Swarm intelligence
- Fuzzy logic systems
- Kernel methods – support vector machines
- Ensemble classifiers
- Emerging machine learning paradigms
- Decision making techniques
- Knowledge-based systems
- Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence
- Robotics and automation
- Affective computing