Engineering: general Books

When Huge Is Routine: Scaling Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms via Data-Intensive Computing.- Evolvable Agents: A Framework for Peer-to-Peer Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Platforms:...

This book is devoted to a domain of highest industrial and scienti?c interest, the complexity. The complexity understanding and management will be a main source of e?ciency and prosperity for the next decades. Complex systems...

Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on "Human Centered...

It is widely anticipated that autonomous vehicles will have a transformational impact on military forces and will play a key role in many future force structures. As a result, many tasks have already been identified that...

This book originated out of a desire to provide students with an instrument which might lead them from knowledge of elementary classical and quantum physics to moderntheoreticaltechniques for the analysisof electrontransport in...

Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is a high-fidelity approach to the numerical simulation of turbulent flows. Recent developments have shown LES to be able to predict aerodynamic noise generation and propagation as well as the...

Intelligent Scene Modelling Information Systems: The Case of Declarative Design Support.- Declarative Modeling in Computer Graphics.- Understanding Scenes.- Intelligent Personalization in a Scene Modeling Environment.- Web-Based Collaborative System for...

Reinforcement Learning Background.- Related Work.- Empirical Domains.- Value Function Transfer via Inter-Task Mappings.- Extending Transfer via Inter-Task Mappings.- Transfer between Different Reinforcement Learning Methods.- Learning Inter-Task Mappings...

Mathematical Programming.- Genetic Algorithms.- Neural Networks.- Stochastic Programming.- Fuzzy Programming.- Hybrid Programming.- Uncertain Programming.- System Reliability Design.- Project Scheduling Problem.- Vehicle Routing Problem.- Facility...

Online Mining of Web Usage Data: An Overview.- Semantically Enhanced Web Personalization.- Semantics-Based Analysis and Navigation of Heterogeneous Text Corpora: The Porpoise News and Blogs Engine.- Semantic Analysis of Web Site Audience by Integrating...

This volume contains the articles presented at the 17th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by Sandia National Laboratories and held October 12-15, 2008.  The volume presents recent results of mesh...

Maximal Consistent Extensions of Information Systems.- Minimal Inhibitory Association Rules for Almost All k-Valued Information Systems.- Partial Covers and Inhibitory Decision Rules.- Partial Covers and Inhibitory Decision Rules with Weights.-...

1 Intelligent Techniques for Computer Graphics.- Synthesizing Human Motion from Intuitive Constraints.- 3 Motion Synthesis with Adaptation and Path Fitting.- 3D Object Retrieval: Inter-Class vs. Intra-Class.- Improving Light Position in a Growth Chamber...

to the Art and Science of Interaction and Interface Design.- Interactivity - A Word in Process.- Strategies of Interactivity.- Interfaces in Public and Semi-public Space.- Interactivity as Media Reflection between Art and Science.- Media Facades as...

Background.- A Learning Classifier Systems Model.- A Probabilistic Model for LCS.- Training the Classifiers.- Mixing Independently Trained Classifiers.- The Optimal Set of Classifiers.- An Algorithmic Description.- Towards Reinforcement Learning with LCS...

Reviews of the Field.- Hyperheuristics: Recent Developments.- Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation.- New Techniques and Applications.- An Efficient Hyperheuristic for Strip-Packing Problems.- Probability-Driven...

Stormy development of electronic computation techniques (computer systems and software), observed during the last decades, has made possible automation of data processing in many important human activity areas, such as science,...

An Introduction to Computational Intelligence Paradigms.- A Quest for Adaptable and Interpretable Architectures of Computational Intelligence.- MembershipMap: A Data Transformation for Knowledge Discovery Based on Granulation and Fuzzy Membership...

Shells and plates are critical structures in numerous engineering applications. Analysis and design of these structures is of continuing interest to the scienti c and engineering communities. Accurate and conservative ...

Ensembles of Clustering Methods and Their Applications.- Cluster Ensemble Methods: from Single Clusterings to Combined Solutions.- Random Subspace Ensembles for Clustering Categorical Data.- Ensemble Clustering with a Fuzzy Approach.- Collaborative...

An Introduction to the Evolution of the Web in an Artificial Intelligence Environment.- Innovations in Web Applications by Using the Artificial Intelligence Paradigm.- Modeling Interests of Web Users for Recommendation: A User Profiling Approach and...

Learning Classifier Systems in Data Mining: An Introduction.- Data Mining in Proteomics with Learning Classifier Systems.- Improving Evolutionary Computation Based Data-Mining for the Process Industry: The Importance of Abstraction.- Distributed Learning...

Generally speaking, Biosignals refer to signals recorded from the human body. They can be either electrical (e. g. Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electromyogram (EMG), etc. ) or non-electrical (e. g...

General Epistemics on Science and Rationality.- Information and Knowledge in Decision-Choice Rationality.- Decision, Choice and Rationality.- Ideology and Decision-Choice Rationalities.- Ideology and Decision-Choice Rationalities.- Decision, Choice and...

The FARB.- The FARB-ANN Equivalence.- Rule Simplification.- Knowledge Extraction Using the FARB.- Knowledge-Based Design of ANNs.- Conclusions and Future Research.

An Introduction to Complex Systems in the Knowledge-Based Environment.- Uncertainty Representation and Reasoning in Complex Systems.- A Layered Approach to Composition and Interoperation in Complex Systems.- Ontology Driven Data Integration in...

Application of Data Mining Techniques to Storage Management and Online Distribution of Satellite Images.- A GUI Tool for Plausible Reasoning in the Semantic Web Using MEBN.- Multiobjective Optimization and Rule Learning: Subselection Algorithm or...

Gene Selection from Microarray Data.- Preprocessing Techniques for Online Handwriting Recognition.- A Simple and Fast Term Selection Procedure for Text Clustering.- Bilingual Search Engine and Tutoring System Augmented with Query Expansion.- Comparing...

Invited Speakers.- Construction of a Chaotic Computer Chip.- Activated Switching in a Parametrically Driven Micromechanical Torsional Oscillator.- Quantum Nanomechanics.- Coupled-Core Fluxgate Magnetometer.- Data Assimilation in the Detection of Vortices...

A Review of Bio-inspired Algorithms for Vehicle Routing.- A GRASP × Evolutionary Local Search Hybrid for the Vehicle Routing Problem.- An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Open Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Using Genetic Algorithms for...

Motivating the Behavioral Approach.- Behavioral framework.- Full Interconnection Issues.- Partial Interconnection Issues.- Embedding Algorithms.- Numerical Implementation.- A new algorithm for embedding problems.

Preliminaries.- Basics of Fuzzy Sets.- Fuzzy Relations.- Extension Principle and Fuzzy Numbers.- A Brief Introduction to Some Pure Mathematical Topics.- Fuzzy Inference and Fuzzy Control.

Mathematical Preliminaries.- Discrete-Time Adaptive Neural Backstepping.- Discrete-Time Block Control.- Discrete-Time Neural Observers.- Discrete-Time Output Trajectory Tracking.- Real Time Implementation.- Conclusions and Future Work.

Minmax Regret Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Interval Data.- Problem Formulation.- Evaluation of Optimality of Solutions and Elements.- Exact Algorithms.- Approximation Algorithms.- Minmax Regret Minimum Selecting Items.- Minmax Regret Minimum...

Basic Notation and Terminology.- Open Problems on Partial Words.- Alignments and Approximate String Matching.- An Introductory Course on Communication Complexity.- Formal Languages and Concurrent Behaviours.- Cellular Automata - A Computational Point of...

An Introduction to Computational Intelligence in Healthcare: New Directions.- AI in Clinical Decision Support: Applications in Optical Spectroscopy for Cancer Detection and Diagnosis.- Decision-making Techniques in Ranking of Medicine Effectiveness.-...

Fundamentals of Multimedia Metadata Standards.- Dynamic and Distributed Multimedia Content Adaptation based on the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework*.- From MPEG-4 Scene Representation to MPEG-7 Description.- Overview of Open Standards for Interactive TV...

Applying Fuzzy Set Theory to Comparative Politics.- Fuzzy Set Theory.- Fuzzy Geometry.- Fuzzy One-Dimensional Models.- Fuzzy Spatial Models.- Estimating Fuzzy Policy Preferences.- Cycling in Fuzzy Spatial Models.

Intelligent Interactive Systems in Knowledge-Based Environments: An Introduction.- Requirements Analysis and Design of an Affective Bi-Modal Intelligent Tutoring System: The Case of Keyboard and Microphone.- Estimating the Development Cost for...

Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Multiple Objectives in Knowledge Discovery from Large Databases.- Knowledge Incorporation in Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolutionary Multi-objective Rule Selection for Classification Rule Mining.- Rule...

Holonic Manufacturing Systems.- Rational Agency.- A Conceptual Model for Holonic Manufacturing Execution.- The Meter Box Cell.- Future Work.- Conclusion.

Gaussian Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to Fuzzy PID Controller Design.- Quantum-inspired genetic algorithms for flow shop scheduling.- Quantum Simulataneous Recurrent Networks for Content Addressable Memory.- Quantum Intelligent...

The Evolution of Self-Organization.- Embodied Cognitive Science.- Multi-Robot Systems, Swarm Robotics and Self-Organisation.- Evolutionary Robotics for Self-Organising Behaviours.- Experiments with Simulated and Real Robots.- A Self-Organising Artefact:...

Face Recognition Applications.- Skin-based Face Detection-Extraction and Recognition of Facial Expressions.- Facial Image Processing.- Face Recognition and Pose Estimation with Parametric Linear Subspaces.- Spatio-Temporal Patterns.- 4D Segmentation of...

Natural Computing Paradigms and Emergent Computation.- Cellular Nonlinear Networks: State of the Art and Applications.- Cellular and Natural Computing Models and Software Simulation.- Emergence, Locating and Measuring It.- Exponents of Growth.- Sieves...

Part I: Introduction 1 Introduction 3 2 Fuzzy Sets 3 Crisp Random Numbers and Vectors 4 Random Fuzzy Numbers and Vectors 5 Tests for Randomness Part II: Applications 6 Fuzzy Monte Carlo Method 7 Fully Fuzzi¯ed Linear Programming I 8 Fully Fuzzi¯ed Linear...

This book describes new methods for building intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy logic and soft computing (SC) techniques. The authors extend the use of fuzzy logic to a higher order, which is called type-2 fuzzy logic. Combining type-2 fuzzy logic...