Advances in Soft Computing: Engineering Design and Manufacturing

Front Cover
Jose M. Benitez
Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 22, 2003 - Computers - 385 pages

Soft computing embraces methodologies for the development of intelligent systems that have been successfully applied to a large number of real-word problems. This collection of keynote papers, presented at the 7th On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in fuzzy, neural and evolutionary computing techniques and applications in engineering design and manufacturing.

Features:
- New and highly advanced research results at the forefront of soft computing in engineering design and manufacturing.
- Keynote papers by world-renowned researchers in the field.
- A good overview of current soft computing research around the world.

A collection of methodologies aimed at researchers and professional design and manufacturing engineers who develop and apply intelligent systems in computer engineering.

From inside the book

Contents

Fault Diagnosis of Airconditioning System Using CM AC Neural Network Approach
1
Prototypes Stability Analysis in the Design of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
13
Canadian Weather Analysis Using Connectionist Learning Paradigms
21
Application of Neural Networks and Expert Systems in a hierarchical approach to the intelligent greenhouse control
33
Artificial Neural Networks Design using Evolutionary Algorithms
43
Adaptation Using a Hybrid NeuroFuzzy System
53
Visual Inspection of Fuzzy Clustering Results
65
PI IP and New FuzzyPI Regulator
77
an alternative topology for representing term relationships in the Bayesian Network Retrieval Model
211
A continuous extension of FOCUS
223
2D Image registration with iterated local search
231
Current and Future Challenges
241
Function Finding and the Creation of Numerical Constants in Gene Expression Programming
255
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for MultiHypothesis Tracking
265
Differential Evolution Algorithm With Adaptive Control Parameters
275
A DistributedPopulation GA for Discovering Interesting Prediction Rules
285

Determining the Model Order of Nonlinear InputOutput Systems by Fuzzy Clustering
87
Fuzzy SelfOrganizing Map based on Regularized Fuzzy cmeans Clustering
97
Outline Representation of Fonts Using Genetic Approach
107
ProcessOriented Plant Layout Design using a Fuzzy Set Decomposition Algorithm
117
A Fuzzy Colour Image Segmentation Applied to Robot Vision
127
Applying Rule Weight Derivation to Obtain Cooperative Rules
137
XML based Modelling of Soft Computing Methods
147
some research trends
157
Representation of Concept Specialization Distance through Resemblance Relations
171
Kernelbased Face Recognition by a Reformulation of Kernel Machines
181
Face Recognition Using Multi LogPolar Images and Gabor Filters
195
Performance Analysis of Statistical Classifier SMO with other Data Mining Classifiers
203
Confidence interval based crossover using a L1 norm localization estimator for realcoded genetic algorithms
295
Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization for Robust Control System Design
305
1D Parabolic Search Mutation
315
Global optimization of climate control problems using evolutionary and stochastic algorithms
329
A Hybrid CHC Genetic Algorithm for Macro Cell Global Routing
341
Genetic Models for the Rational Exploitation of Resources
349
Discrete Variable Structure Control Design based on Lamarckian Evolution
359
GAP Based Search of Structures and Parameters of Dynamical Process Models
369
Author Index
379
Index
381
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases