Advances in Soft Computing: Engineering Design and Manufacturing

✍ Scribed by Chin-Pao Hung, Mang-Hui Wang (auth.), Jose Manuel Benítez, Oscar Cordón, Frank Hoffmann, Rajkumar Roy (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Fault Diagnosis of Air-conditioning System Using CMAC Neural Network Approach....Pages 1-11
Prototypes Stability Analysis in the Design of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks....Pages 13-20
Canadian Weather Analysis Using Connectionist Learning Paradigms....Pages 21-32
Application of Neural Networks and Expert Systems in a hierarchical approach to the intelligent greenhouse control....Pages 33-41
Artificial Neural Networks Design using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 43-52
TACDSS: Adaptation Using a Hybrid Neuro-Fuzzy System....Pages 53-64
Visual Inspection of Fuzzy Clustering Results....Pages 65-76
Benchmark Between Three Controllers in IFOC: PI, IP and New Fuzzy-PI Regulator....Pages 77-88
Determining the Model Order of Nonlinear Input-Output Systems by Fuzzy Clustering....Pages 89-98
Fuzzy Self-Organizing Map based on Regularized Fuzzy c-means Clustering....Pages 99-108
Outline Representation of Fonts Using Genetic Approach....Pages 109-118
Process-Oriented Plant Layout Design using a Fuzzy Set Decomposition Algorithm....Pages 119-127
A Fuzzy Colour Image Segmentation Applied to Robot Vision....Pages 129-138
Applying Rule Weight Derivation to Obtain Cooperative Rules....Pages 139-147
XML based Modelling of Soft Computing Methods....Pages 149-158
Intelligent information retrieval: some research trends....Pages 159-171
Representation of Concept Specialization Distance through Resemblance Relations....Pages 173-181
Kernel-based Face Recognition by a Reformulation of Kernel Machines....Pages 183-195
Face Recognition Using Multi Log-Polar Images and Gabor Filters....Pages 197-204
Performance Analysis of Statistical Classifier SMO with other Data Mining Classifiers....Pages 205-211
Two term-layers: an alternative topology for representing term relationships in the Bayesian Network Retrieval Model....Pages 213-223
C-FOCUS: A continuous extension of FOCUS....Pages 225-232
2D Image registration with iterated local search....Pages 233-242
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Current and Future Challenges....Pages 243-256
Function Finding and the Creation of Numerical Constants in Gene Expression Programming....Pages 257-265
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Hypothesis Tracking....Pages 267-275
Differential Evolution Algorithm With Adaptive Control Parameters....Pages 277-286
A Distributed-Population GA for Discovering Interesting Prediction Rules....Pages 287-296
Confidence interval based crossover using a L 1 norm localization estimator for real-coded genetic algorithms....Pages 297-306
Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization for Robust Control System Design....Pages 307-316
1-D Parabolic Search Mutation....Pages 317-329
Global optimization of climate control problems using evolutionary and stochastic algorithms....Pages 331-342
A Hybrid CHC Genetic Algorithm for Macro Cell Global Routing....Pages 343-350
Genetic Models for the Rational Exploitation of Resources....Pages 351-360
Discrete Variable Structure Control Design based on Lamarckian Evolution....Pages 361-370
GA-P Based Search of Structures and Parameters of Dynamical Process Models....Pages 371-380
Back Matter....Pages 381-385

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Theory of Computation; Communications Engineering, Networks; Programming Techniques; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design