IDAL members José D. Martín and Emilio Soria are involved in the organization of a special session at the 25th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN) that will take place, as traditionally, in Bruges (Belgium) from 26th to 28th April 2017. The topic of the special session is “Randomized Machine Learning approaches: analysis and developments”. More info can be found at https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=specsess#random The deadline for paper submission is November 19th. We are looking forward to receiving interesting contributions!