Author: Japan) International Conference on Soft Computing
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: soft, computing, institute, flsi, volume, series, systems, fuzzy, paradigm, knowledge, engineering, new, logic
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2001-05
List price: $128.00
ISBN-10: 9810245173
ISBN-13: 9789810245177

Tells how knowledge engineering, KE, has been influenced by soft computing, SC, and how SC will be helpful in pushing forward the frontier of KE. Discusses the integration of the multiple elements of SC with those in KE, to inject new life into the classical artificial intelligence world.

Authors:Leszek Rutkowski, Janusz Kacprzyk,
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: soft, computing, neural, poland, june, advances, zakopane, intelligent, international, networks, proceedings, sixth, conference, network
Number of Pages: 914
Published: 2003-04-10
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 3790800058
ISBN-13: 9783790800050

This volume presents new trends and developments in soft computing techniques. Topics include: neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, knowledge discovery, rough sets, and hybrid methods. It also covers various applications of soft computing techniques in economics, mechanics, medicine, automatics and image processing. The book contains contributions from internationally recognized scientists, such as Zadeh, Bubnicki, Pawlak, Amari, Batyrshin, Hirota, Koczy, Kosinski, Novák, S.-Y. Lee, Pedrycz, Raudys, Setiono, Sincak, Strumillo, Takagi, Usui, Wilamowski and Zurada. An excel

Author: Frank Hoffma
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: soft, computing, advances, intelligent, methodologies, applications
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540257268
ISBN-13: 9783540257264

This carefully edited book covers a wide range of application areas of soft computing such as optimization, data analysis and data mining, fault diagnosis, control as well as traffic and transportation systems. It contains 25 revised contributions from the 8th Online World Conferences on Soft Computing (WSC8). The collected papers show how the major soft computing techniques, fuzzy systems, neural networks and evolutionary algorithms and especially hybrid systems combining methods from these fields, lead to successful industrial applications. The reader will find an interesting, inspiring and

Author: Sylvester Nemes
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: soft, fisherman, guide, trout, hackles, hackled, tiny
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2006-06
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0811701514
ISBN-13: 9780811701518

Sylvester Nemes is singlehandedly responsible for the popularity of the soft-hackled fly in American fly fishing today. The Soft-Hackled Fly, Nemes’s first book, written in 1975, was the catalyst for the resurgence. Now revised with ten new chapters on tiny flies and full-color photos, Nemes shares colorful experiences at home and abroad, the history of the soft-hackled fly, and illustrated step-by-step instructions for tying the flies. He also describes his technique of fishing the flies.

Authors:Jonathan Lawry, Enrique Miranda, Alberto Bugarin, Sho
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: soft, intelligent, computing, advances, uncertainty, methods, integrated, modelling
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 2006-09-25
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 3540347763
ISBN-13: 9783540347767

This edited volume is the proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2006) hosted by the Artificial Intelligence Group at the University of Bristol, between 5-7 September 2006. This is the third of a series of biennial conferences organized in 2002 by the Systems Research Institute from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and in 2004 by the Department of Statistics and Operational Research at the University of Oviedo in Spain. These conferences provide a forum for discussion and research into the fusion of soft methods with probab

Authors:Miguel Concepcion Lopez-Diaz, Maria Angeles Gil, Prz
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: soft, intelligent, computing, advances, information, methodology, random, systems
Number of Pages: 759
Published: 2004-09-20
List price: $289.00
ISBN-10: 3540222642
ISBN-13: 9783540222644

The analysis of experimental data resulting from some underlying random process is a fundamental part of most scientific research. Probability Theory and Statistics have been developed as flexible tools for this analyis, and have been applied successfully in various fields such as Biology, Economics, Engineering, Medicine or Psychology. However, traditional techniques in Probability and Statistics were devised to model only a singe source of uncertainty, namely randomness. In many real-life problems randomness arises in conjunction with other sources, making the development of additional

Authors:Didier Dubois, Maria Asuncion Lubiano, Henri Prade, M
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: soft, intelligent, computing, advances, variability, methods, handling, imprecision
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2008-10-10
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 3540850260
ISBN-13: 9783540850267

Probability theory has been the only well-founded theory of uncertainty for a long time. It was viewed either as a powerful tool for modelling random phenomena, or as a rational approach to the notion of degree of belief. During the last thirty years, in areas centered around decision theory, artificial intelligence and information processing, numerous approaches extending or orthogonal to the existing theory of probability and mathematical statistics have come to the front. The common feature of those attempts is to allow for softer or wider frameworks for taking into account the incompletene