The AMDO2008 conference took place at the Hotel Mon Port, Port d'Andratx (Mallorca), July 9-11, 2008, institutionally sponsored by the International - sociation for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the MEC (Ministerio de Educaci on y Ciencia, Spanish Government), the Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovaci o (Balearic Islands Government), the Consell de Mallorca, the AERFAI (Spanish Association in Pattern Recognition and Arti?cial Intelligence), the...