After four successful editions, the 5th IEEE SOFA is moving to Szeged - Hungary, where it aims to gather as many Soft Computing (SC) researchers and professionals as possible. The main goal of the Workshop is to communicate and publish new theoretical and applicative research results, in the areas of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, and other methods belonging or connected to SC. A second and just as important goal is to encourage new reflections on SC issues and new links between interested researchers, R&D engineers, managers, etc.