Artificial intelligence Books

Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems by Pierre Bessiere, Christian Laugier and Roland Siegwart provides a unique collection of a sizable segment of the cognitive systems research community in...

Biological and natural processes have been a continuous source of inspiration for the sciences and engineering. For instance, the work of Wiener in cybernetics was influenced by feedback control processes observable in...

Soft computing techniques are widely used in most businesses. This book consists of several important papers on the applications of soft computing techniques for the business field. The soft computing techniques used in this...

Exact, Heuristic and Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Solving Shop Scheduling Problems.- Scatter Search Algorithms for Identical Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems.- On the Effectiveness of Particle Swarm Optimization and Variable Neighborhood Descent for...

BasicMethods for c-Means Clustering.- Variations and Generalizations - I.- Variations and Generalizations - II.- Miscellanea.- Application to Classifier Design.- Fuzzy Clustering and Probabilistic PCA Model.- Local Multivariate Analysis Based on Fuzzy...

Part I Thought, Communication, and Actions.- Sharing Representations and Creating Chances through Cognitive Niche Construction. The Role of Affordances and Abduction.- Discovering and Communicating through Multimodal Abduction.- Part II Creative...

At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments...

Risk Modeling for Policy Making.- Fuzzy Logic Approaches to Consensus Modelling in Group Decision Making.- Decision Making Based on Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis.- Cognitive Orientation in Business Intelligence Systems.- Personalized Pedestrian...

The main aim of this volume has been to gather together a selection of recent papers providing new ideas and solutions for a wide spectrum of Knowledge-Driven Computing approaches. More precisely, the ultimate goal has been to...

This volume is a compilation of the best papers presented at the First International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2006) held in Santa Clara, Cuba. They contain valuable contributions both in the theoretical field...

Background: Human Decision Making.- Understanding Human Decision Making - A Fundamental Step Towards Effective Intelligent Decision Support.- Cognitive Elements of Human Decision Making.- Methods: Computational Intelligence.- to Computational...

Softcomputing techniques play a vital role in the industry. This book presents several important papers presented by some of the well-known scientists from all over the globe. The main techniques of soft computing presented...

Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution Algorithms: Technical Analysis, Applications and Hybridization Perspectives.- Web Services, Policies, and Context: Concepts and Solutions.- Data Mining with Privacy Preserving in Industrial Systems.-...

Networked computers are ubiquitous, and are subject to attack, misuse, and abuse. One method to counteracting this cyber threat is to provide security analysts with better tools to discover patterns, detect anomalies, identify...

Dynamic Linking of Web Resources: Customisation and Personalisation.- A Multi-Purpose Ontology-Based Approach for Personalised Content Filtering and Retrieval.- Analysing the Behaviour of Students in Learning Management Systems with Respect to Learning...

to Document Analysis and Recognition.- Structure Extraction in Printed Documents Using Neural Approaches.- Machine Learning for Reading Order Detection in Document Image Understanding.- Decision-Based Specification and Comparison of Table Recognition...

Design Support.- The Design Process of Product and Process Development.- Decision Support in Design.- Case-based Design Support.- Case-Based Reasoning Approach.- Similarity and Adaptation Concepts.- Case-Based Reasoning Environment - Cabareen.-...

This book is loaded with examples in which computer scientists and engineers have used evolutionary computation - programs that mimic natural evolution - to solve many real-world problems. They aren't abstract, mathematically...

Information Theoretic Feature Selection and Projection.- Recognition of Tones in YorÙbÁ Speech: Experiments With Artificial Neural Networks.- Emotion Recognition from Speech Using Multi-Classifier Systems and RBF-Ensembles.- Modeling Supra-Segmental...

Engineering Evolutionary Intelligent Systems: Methodologies, Architectures and Reviews.- Genetically Optimized Hybrid Fuzzy Neural Networks: Analysis and Design of Rule-based Multi-layer Perceptron Architectures.- Genetically Optimized Self-organizing...

Invited Papers.- The world of autonomous distributed systems.- Time and Space Coordination of Mobile Agents.- The Difficulty of Search and an Interesting Solution.- Distributed Decision Making for Robot Teams.- Fully Coupled and Feedforward Neural...

This edited volume is targeted at presenting the latest state-of-the-art methodologies in "Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms". The chapters deal with the theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as various applications to...

The chapters of the book are evolved from presentations made by selected participants at the 2005 BISC International Special Event, held at the University of California at Berkely. The papers include reports from the different front of soft computing in...

Comparison of Simulated Annealing, Interval Partitioning and Hybrid Algorithms in Constrained Global Optimization.- Linkage Synthesis of a Four-Bar Mechanism for n Desired Path Points Using Simulated Annealing.- MOSS-II Tabu/Scatter Search for Nonlinear...

Self-Organizing Network Environments.- Bio-inspired Framework for Autonomic Communication Systems.- Towards a Biologically-inspired Architecture for Self-Regulatory and Evolvable Network Applications.- Biologically Inspired Synchronization for Wireless...

"Theoppositeofacorrectstatementisafalsestatement.Buttheopposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr This volume is motivated in part by the observation that opposites permeate everything around...

to Case-Based Reasoning for Signals and Images.- Similarity.- Distance Function Learning for Supervised Similarity Assessment.- Induction of Similarity Measures for Case Based Reasoning Through Separable Data Transformations.- Graph Matching.- Memory...

Fuzzy set approaches are suitable to use when the modeling of human knowledge is necessary and when human evaluations are needed. Fuzzy set theory is recognized as an important problem modeling and solution technique. It has...

This fascinating volume is based on a multidisciplinary workshop for linguists, sociologists and computational linguists. The authors discuss their favorite burning issues in discourse and display their own methodologies and...

The papers in this book show the tremendous potential of emerging computing paradigms such as genetic algorithms, evolutionary computing, and neural networks for solving problems of engineering design.

The objective of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Learning electricity and electronics with advanced educational technology" was to bring together researchers coming from different domains. Electricity education is a domain...

In the last decade there have been rapid developments in the field of computer-based learning environments. A whole new generation of computer-based learning environments has appeared, requiring new approaches...

Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary science concerned with understanding and utilizing models of cognition. It has spawned a great dealof research on applications such as expert systems and intelligent tutoring...

This book collects the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute From Identijication to Learning held in Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, from August 22 to September 2, 1994. The school was devoted to the themes of ...

This book is the result of a NATO sponsored workshop entitled "Student Modelling: The Key to Individualized Knowledge-Based Instruction" which was held May 4-8, 1991 at Ste. Adele, Quebec, Canada. The workshop was co-directed...

This volume contains revised papers based on contributions to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision, held in Grenoble, France, in June 1989. The 24 papers presented here cover a broad...

Using formal methods for the specification and verification of hardware and software systems is becoming increasingly important as systems increase in size and complexity. The aim of the book is to illustrate progress in formal...

Recent Advances in Optimal Reliability Allocation.- Multiobjective Metaheuristic Approaches to Reliability Optimization.- Genetic Algorithm Applications in Surveillance and Maintenance Optimization.- Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation for the...

E-Services and Intelligent Techniques.- E-Service Intelligence: An Introduction.- Rough Sets and Conflict Analysis.- Rough Ontology Mapping in E-Business Integration.- Concept-based Semantic Web Search and Q&A.- E-Service Composition Tools from a...

Data Mining.- Towards Human-Consistent Data-Driven Decision Support Systems via Fuzzy Linguistic Data Summaries.- Moving Approximation Transform and Local Trend Associations in Time Series Data Bases.- Perception Based Patterns in Time Series Data Mining...

First studied in social insects like ants, indirect self-organizing interactions - known as "stigmergy" - occur when one individual modifies the environment and another subsequently responds to the new environment. The...

Ontological Engineering: Principles, Methods, Tools and Languages.- Using Ontologies in Software Engineering and Technology.- Engineering the Ontology for the SWEBOK: Issues and Techniques.- An Ontology for Software Development Methodologies and...

Table of Contents (new sections and chapters w.r.t. the German version of this book are printed in bold face) Part I: Approaches to Long-Term Preservation (approx. 155 pages) 1 Long-term Preservation of Digital Documents (approx. 23 pages) 1.1 Blessing...

This book introduces the parallel and distributed approach to logic programming, examining existing models of distributed logic programming, and proposing an alternative framework for distributed logic programming using...

This book sheds light on the large-scale engineering systems that shape and guide our everyday lives. It does this by bringing together the latest research and practice defining the emerging field of Complex Engineered Systems...

Arti?cial Intelligence is a ?eld with a long history, which is still very much active and developing today. Developments of new and improved techniques, together with the ever-increasing levels of available computing resources,...

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the classical decision problem of mathematical logic and of the role of the classical decision problem in modern computer science. The text presents a revealing analysis of the...

This monograph-like anthology introduces the concepts and framework of Clifford algebra. It provides a rich source of examples of how to work with this formalism. Clifford or geometric algebra shows strong unifying aspects and...