Soft Computing: Methodologies and Applications

✍ Scribed by Thomas Sudkamp (auth.), Frank Hoffmann, Mario Köppen, Frank Klawonn, Rajkumar Roy (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This carefully edited book covers a wide range of application areas of soft computing like 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 wide variety of soft computing techniques and applications in this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Discovery of Fuzzy Temporal Associations in Multiple Data Streams....Pages 3-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Soft Computing Applications in Traffic and Transport Systems: A Review....Pages 17-25
Estimation of Public Transport Trips By Feed Forward Back Propagation Artificial Neural Networks; A Case Study For Istanbul....Pages 27-36
Clustering of Activity Patterns Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 37-52
A Mathematical Model for Evaluation of Information Effects in ATIS (Advanced Traveler Information Systems) Environment....Pages 53-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Interactive Evolutionary Computation in Identification of Dynamical Systems....Pages 73-84
Replacement Strategies to Maintain Useful Diversity in Steady-State Genetic Algorithms....Pages 85-96
Hierarchical Modelling of Evolutionary Computation....Pages 97-111
An ALife-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization Problems....Pages 113-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Optimum Tests Selection for Analog Circuits with the Use of Genetic Algorithm....Pages 129-135
Unsupervised Pixel Clustering in Multispectral Images by Genetic Programming....Pages 137-149
A Genetic Programming System for Time Series Prediction and Its Application to El Niño Forecast....Pages 151-162
Evolutionary Optimization of Parametric Models: the Test Case of Combustion in a Diesel Engine....Pages 163-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Rule Learning and Extraction Using a Hybrid Neural Network: A Case Study on Fault Detection and Diagnosis....Pages 179-191
Applying the Potentiality of Using Fuzzy Logic in PID Control Design....Pages 193-204
Wavelet Neural Networks and Its Applications in Chaotic Systems Identification....Pages 205-217
Fuzzy Specializations and Aggregation Operator Design in Competence — Based Human Resource Selection....Pages 219-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Personalizing Information Services for Mobile Users....Pages 233-246
Detecting and Verifying Dissimilar Patterns in Unlabelled Data....Pages 247-258
UPoet: A 3D Agent Able to Compose Short Poems....Pages 259-270
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
A Study on the Combination of Evolutionary Algorithms and Stratified Strategies for Training Set Selection in Data Mining....Pages 271-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Predictive Controller Tuning Using Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Cauchy and Gaussian Distributions....Pages 287-298
A Realistic Information Retrieval Environment to Validate a Multiobjective GA-P Algorithm for Learning Fuzzy Queries....Pages 299-309
Evolutionary Learning of a Fuzzy Controller for Mobile Robotics....Pages 311-321
Genetic Algorithm in Process Optimisation Problems....Pages 323-333

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)