Bücher der Reihe Studies in Computational Intelligence

The applications explored include option model calibration, financial trend reversal detection, enhanced indexation, algorithmic trading, corporate payout determination and agent-based modeling of liquidity costs, and trade strategy adaptation.

Dynamic logic (DL) recently had a highest impact on the development in several areas of modeling and algorithm design. Emerging areas include cognitive, emotional, intelligent systems, data mining, modeling of the mind, higher cognitive functions, evolution of languages and other.

However, during these last two decades, the use of intelligent Computer Graphics techniques is growing up year after year and more and more interesting techniques are presented in this area. The purpose of this volume is to present current work of the Intelligent Computer Graphics community, a community growing up year after year.

This book contains the extended papers presented at the 3rd Workshop on Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and their Applications (SUEMA) that was held in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain).

Recognizing Variable Environments explores artificial intelligent systems' capacity to identify their surroundings. Readers will find a collection of interdisciplinary evidence from a computational perspective -- namely, the theory of cognitive prism.

Chaos-based cryptography, attracting many researchers in the past decade, is a research field across two fields, i.e., chaos (nonlinear dynamic system) and cryptography (computer and data security).

The Workshops on Autonomous Systems emanated from a gathering with the doctoral students of just three chairs at Fernuniversitat in Hagen, which we organise twice per year for a number of years now.

The majority of the chapters are extended versions of works presented at the special session on Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2010) held July 2010 in Barcelona, Spain.The book is devoted to Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security.

This Special Edited Volume is a unique approach towards Computational solution for the upcoming field of study called Vision Science.

During this period the main focus themes of researchers and professionals in BPM were: business process modeling, business process analysis, activity based costing, business process simulation, performance measurement, workflow management, the link between information technology and BPM for process automation etc.

This book presents control of time-delayed, unstable, multivariable processes and modelling approaches for several classes of complex systems. It places special emphasis on hybrid systems with distinct nonlinearities.

Chapter 1 introduces the basic differential evolution (DE) algorithm and presents a broad overview of the field. Chapter 2 presents a new, rotationally invariant DE algorithm. the former develops suitable stopping conditions for the DE run, and the latter presents an improved DE algorithm for problems with very small feasible regions.

Optimization problems are of great importance across a broad range of fields. This book is intended both to provide an overview of hybrid metaheuristics to novices of the field, and to provide researchers from the field with a collection of some of the most interesting recent developments.

This monograph presents the concept of agents and agent systems. In order to form the principles of construction of autonomous agents, a model of the agent is introduced. Descriptions of different examples of applications of agent systems in such fields as evolution systems, mobile robot systems, artificial intelligence systems are given.

The carefully edited chapters deal with fuzzy relation based image enhancement, image contrast control technique based on the application of Lukasiewicz algebra operators, low complexity situational models of image quality improvement, flexible representation of map images to quantum computers, and object recognition in images.

This book gathers contributions from scientists, researchers and industrialists on concepts, methods, frameworks and implementing issues addressing trends in the service orientation of control technology and management as applied to manufacturing enterprise.

In its revised, expanded 2nd edition, this book provides a foundation for the study of complex-valued neural networks. The author emphasizes basic ideas and ways of thinking, and offers meaningful hints on using neural networks in fully practical applications.

The development of new technologies still accelerates. The main idea behind this new approach is to take advantage of collaboration techniques used in industry to share the knowledge and build teams which work on the same subject at different locations.

Using computational intelligence in product design is a fast-growing and promising research area in computer sciences and industrial engineering. These assembled papers from the CIMA 2010 workshop cover the full spectrum of topics in this exciting field.

The present book includes a set of selected extended papers from the second International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2010), held in Valencia, Spain, from 24 to 26 October 2010.

This Special Edited Volume is a unique approach towards Computational solution for the upcoming field of study called Vision Science.

This book provides an introduction to the use of automated methods for gathering competitive strategic intelligence. It examines the gathering of knowledge that appears of paramount importance to organizations.

This book details recent research on semantic web services. It presents an ontology-based approach to improve service discovery.

In addition to reusing knowledge learned from previous teammates, PLASTIC also allows users to provide expert-knowledge and can use transfer learning (such as the new Two Stage Transfer algorithm) to quickly create models of new teammates when it has some information about its new teammates.

The development of computational intelligence (CI) systems was inspired by observable and imitable aspects of intelligent activity of human being and nature. The essence of the systems based on computational intelligence is to process and interpret data of various nature so that that CI is strictly connected with the increase of available data as well as capabilities of their processing, mutually supportive factors. Developed theories of computational intelligence were quickly applied in many fields of engineering, data analysis, forecasting, biomedicine and others. They are used in images and sounds processing and identifying, signals processing, multidimensional data visualization, steering of objects, analysis of lexicographic data, requesting systems in banking, diagnostic systems, expert systems and many other practical implementations.This book consists of 15 contributed chapters by subject experts who are specialized in the various topics addressed in this book. The special chapters have been brought out in the broad areas of Control Systems, Power Electronics, Computer Science, Information Technology, modeling and engineering applications. Special importance was given to chapters offering practical solutions and novel methods for the recent research problems in the main areas of this book, viz. Control Systems, Modeling, Computer Science, IT and engineering applications. This book will serve as a reference book for graduate students and researchers with a basic knowledge of control theory, computer science and soft-computing techniques. The resulting design procedures are emphasized using Matlab/Simulink software.

This book presents the historical context in which the debate on probability developed and illustrates key components of the technical criticisms therein. Referring to the original texts, the book analyzes the neglected epistemological element in the debate.

The outcome of the first ACIS international symposium on the topic, this collection of papers offers a concise and authoritative survey of the latest developments and advances in the various areas, from theory to applications, of computational intelligence.

This book provides a solution to the call admission control (CAC) problem, considering dynamic channel assignments (DCA) as an integral part of decision-making for call admission. It employs evolutionary techniques to solve the optimization problems.

This book presents models for users' experiences with interactive systems. It examines how to incorporate aesthetic, emotional, and social aspects of a product while designing interactive systems.

As fractional order calculus attracts interest in the control system community, this book explores the interface between CI techniques and fractional calculus, examining ways that fractional order control systems may be designed or enhanced using CI paradigms.