Engineering: general Books

Introductory Concepts and Models.- A Survey of Applications of the Extensions of Fuzzy Sets to Image Processing.- Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Cellular Model Applied to the Dynamics of a Uni-specific Population Induced by Environment Variations.- A Genetic...

Advances in Swarm Intelligence.- A Review of Particle Swarm Optimization Methods Used for Multimodal Optimization.- Bee Colony Optimization (BCO).- Glowworm Swarm Optimization for Searching Higher Dimensional Spaces.- Agent Specialization in Complex...

Review of Clustering Algorithms.- Review of Linear Projection Methods.- Non-standard Clustering Criteria.- Topographic Mappings and Kernel Clustering.- Online Clustering Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning.- Connectivity Graphs and Clustering with...

to Adaptive Collaboration Scripting.- Combining Streaming Media and Collaborative Elements to Support Lifelong Learning.- 'MULTIPLES': A Challenging Learning Framework for the Generation of Multiple Perspectives within e-Collaboration Settings.-...

1.- Innovations in Web Personalization.- 2.- A Semantic Content-Based Recommender System Integrating Folksonomies for Personalized Access.- 3.- Exploiting Ontologies for Web Search Personalization.- Chapter4.- How to Derive Fuzzy User Categories for Web...

and Background.- Digital Watermarking Techniques.- Intelligent Techniques.- Intelligent Watermarking.- Spatial-Based Watermarking Schemes and Pixel Selection.- Discrete Cosine Transform Based Watermarking Scheme and Band Selection.- Vector Quantisation...

Algebraically Approximate and Noisy Realization of Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems.- Input/Output Map and Additive Noises.- Algebraically Approximate and Noisy Realization of Linear Systems.- Algebraically Approximate and Noisy Realization of So-called...

Concepts.- Decision Making and Decision Support Systems.- Business Intelligence.- Managerial Cognition.- Cognition in Business Decision Support Systems.- Models.- Cognition-Driven Decision Processes.- Techniques.- Domain Knowledge Representation and...

Over the last forty years there has been a growing interest to extend probability theory and statistics and to allow for more flexible modelling of imprecision, uncertainty, vagueness and ignorance. The fact that in many...

KES International (KES) is a worldwide organisation that provides a professional community and association for researchers, originally in the discipline of Kno- edge Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, but now extending...

Computational Intelligence is comparatively a new field but it has made a tremendous progress in virtually every discipline right from engineering, science, business, m- agement, aviation to healthcare. Computational ...

The term Web Intelligence is de?ned as a new line of scienti?c research and development,whichisusedtoexplorethefundamentalrolesandpractical- pactofArti?cialIntelligence togetherwithadvancedInformationTechnology and its e?ect on...

This book collects the proceedings of the Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2008 conference held in Lyon, France. Contributed papers by over 40 researchers representing the state of the art in parallel CFD and architecture from Asia, Europe, and...

Thisbookistheproceedingsofthe5thAnnualConferenceonFuzzyInfor- tionandEngineering(ACFIE2010)fromSep. 23-27,2010in Huludao,China. The conference proceedings is published by Springer-Verlag (Advances in - telligent and Soft...

th This volume contains the papers presented at the 16 DGLR/STAB-Symposium held at the Eurogress Aachen and organized by RWTH Aachen University, Germany, November, 3 - 4, 2008. STAB is the German Aerospace Aerodynamics...

This book contains contributions by some of the leading researchers in the area of grey systems theory and applications. All the papers included in this volume are selected from the contributions physically presented at the...

Thin shells are three-dimensional structures with a dimension (the thickness) small with respect to the two others.Such thin structures are widely used in automobileandaviation industries,or in civil engineering, because they...

In this second edition a new chapter has been added covering the buffeting theory in a finite element format. The motivation for this has been that a finite element format is becoming more and more dominant in all areas of...

This book is an attempt to bring closer the greater vision of the development of Social Informatics. Social Informatics can be de?ned as a discipline of informatics that studies how information systems can realize social goals,...

Intelligent Information Access techniques attempt to overcome the limi- tions of current search devices by providing personalized information items and product/service recommendations. They normally utilize direct or in- rect...

This book presents the various design methods of a state-feedback control law and of an observer. The considered systems are of continuous-time and of discrete-time nature, monovariable or multivariable, the last ones being of main consideration. Three...

Mining social networks has now becoming a very popular research area not only for data mining and web mining but also social network analysis. Data mining is a technique that has the ability to process and analyze large amount...

The modern origin of fuzzy sets, fuzzy algebra, fuzzy decision making, and "computing with words" is conventionally traced to Lotfi Zadeh's publication in 1965 of his path-breaking refutation of binary set theory. In a...

Renewable energy sources such as wind power have attracted much attention because they are environmentally friendly, do not produce carbon dioxide and other emitants, and can enhance a nation's energy security. For example, recently more significant...

The fields of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology have been growing steadily over the last few years boosted by an increasing need for computational techniques that can efficiently handle the huge amounts of data produced...

This volume of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing contains accepted - pers presented at SOCO 2010 held in the beautiful and historic city of Guimarães, Portugal, June 2010. The global purpose of SOCO conferences has...

Optimization is an integral part to science and engineering. Most real-world applications involve complex optimization processes, which are di?cult to solve without advanced computational tools. With the increasing challenges...

Mathematical optimization encompasses both a rich and rapidly evolving body of fundamental theory, and a variety of exciting applications in science and engineering. The present book contains a careful selection of articles on recent advances in...

In this book, a generic model in as far as possible mathematical closed-formis developed that predicts the behavior of large self-organizing robot groups (robot swarms) based on their control algorithm. In addition, an...

Information Technology in Biomedicine is an interdisciplinary research area, that bridges the gap between tethodological achievements in engineering and clinical requirements in medical diagnosis and therapy. In this book,...

The microelectronics market, with special emphasis to the production of complex mixed-signal systems-on-chip (SoC), is driven by three main dynamics, time-- market, productivity and managing complexity. Pushed by the progress...

Intelligent information and database systems are two closely related and we- established subfields of modern computer science. They focus on the integration of artificial intelligence and classic database technologies in order...

Semantics in Adaptive and Personalised Services, initially strikes one as a specific and perhaps narrow domain. Yet, a closer examination of the term reveals much more. On one hand there is the issue of semantics. Nowadays,...

Humans and machines are very di?erent in their approaches to game pl- ing. Humans use intuition, perception mechanisms, selective search, creat- ity, abstraction, heuristic abilities and other cognitive skills to compensate...

The current volume "New Advances in Intelligent Signal Processing" contains extended works based on a careful selection of papers presented originally at the jubilee sixth IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP'2009), held in...

Observational calculi were introduced in the 1960's as a tool of logic of discovery. Formulas of observational calculi correspond to assertions on analysed data. Truthfulness of suitable assertions can lead to acceptance of new scientific hypotheses. The...

Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) are the physical embodiment of machine intelligence providing a core concept for integrating various advanced techno- gies with pattern recognition and learning. The basic philosophy of IAS research is to explore and...

Il est souvent nécessaire de réaliser des expériences afin de modéliser le comportement d'un phénomène complexe. La méthode des plans d'expérience a pour objectif d'obtenir un maximum d'information sur le phénomène étudié en un minimum d'expériences...

The volume includes a set of selected papers extended and revised from the International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (WTCS 2009) held on December 19- 20, 2009, Shenzhen, China. WTCS 2009 best papers Volume 1 is to provide a forum for...

The purpose of this book is to collect contributions that deal with the use of nature inspired metaheuristics for solving multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. Such a collection intends to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art...

Uncertainty exists almost everywhere, except in the most idealized situations; it is not only an inevitable and ubiquitous phenomenon, but also a fundamental sci- ti?c principle. Furthermore, uncertainty is an attribute of information and, usually,...