Nature-inspired informatics for intelligent applications and knowledge discovery: implications in business, science, and engineering

✍ Scribed by Raymond Chiong, Raymond Chiong

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 450
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recently, nature has stimulated many successful techniques, algorithms, and computational applications allowing conventionally difficult problems to be solved through novel computing systems.

Nature-Inspired Informatics for Intelligent Applications and Knowledge Discovery: Implications in Business, Science, and Engineering provides the latest findings in nature-inspired algorithms and their applications for breakthroughs in a wide range of disciplinary fields. This defining reference collection contains chapters written by leading researchers and well-known academicians within the field, offering readers a valuable and enriched accumulation of knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgment......Page 22
Nature that Breeds Solutions......Page 24
An Application of Genetic Programming to Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates......Page 49
Intelligent Business Process Execution using Particle Swarm Optimization......Page 72
An Artificial Life-Based Vegetation Modelling Approach for Biodiversity Research......Page 91
Multimodal Genetic Algorithms for Craniofacial Superimposition......Page 142
Neural Networks in Medicine: Improving Difficult Automated Detection of Cancer in the Bile Ducts......Page 167
Solving Complex Problems in Human Genetics Using Nature-Inspired Algorithms Requires Strategies which Exploit Domain-Specific Knowledge......Page 189
AGE-P: An Evolutionary Platform for the Self-Organization of Smart-Appliance Ensembles......Page 205
Modelling Biological Processes Naturally using Systemic Computation: Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Artificial Immune Systems......Page 227
Noble Ape’s Cognitive Simulation: From Agar to Dreaming and Beyond......Page 265
Genetic Programming for Robust Text Independent Speaker Verification......Page 282
Combinational Circuit Design with Estimation of Distribution Algorithms......Page 304
From the Real Ant to the Artificial Ant: Applications in Combinatorial Optimization, Data Clustering, Collective Robotics and Image Processing......Page 321
Nature-Inspired Informatics for Telecommunication Network Design......Page 346
Compilation of References......Page 395
About the Contributors......Page 435
Index......Page 443