Intelligence for Embedded Systems: A Methodological Approach

✍ Scribed by Cesare Alippi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Addressing current issues of which any engineer or computer scientist should be aware, this monograph is a response to the need to adopt a new computational paradigm as the methodological basis for designing pervasive embedded systems with sensor capabilities. The requirements of this paradigm are to control complexity, to limit cost and energy consumption and to provide adaptation and cognition abilities allowing the embedded system to interact proactively with the real world. The quest for such intelligence requires the formalization of a new generation of intelligent systems able to exploit advances in digital architectures and in sensing technologies. The book sheds light on the theory behind intelligence for embedded systems with specific focus on:
· robustness (the robustness of a computational flow and its evaluation)
· intelligence (how to mimic the adaptation and cognition abilities of the human brain)

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-10
From Metrology to Digital Data....Pages 11-23
Uncertainty, Information, and Learning Mechanisms....Pages 25-52
Randomized Algorithms....Pages 53-93
Robustness Analysis....Pages 95-122
Emotional Cognitive Mechanisms for Embedded Systems....Pages 123-132
Performance Estimation and Probably Approximately Correct Computation....Pages 133-158
Intelligent Mechanisms in Embedded Systems....Pages 159-210
Learning in Nonstationary and Evolving Environments....Pages 211-247
Fault Diagnosis Systems....Pages 249-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-283

✦ Subjects

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Computational Intelligence; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems