Bücher der Reihe Studies in Computational Intelligence

Those objects combined with innovative algorithms become autonomous objects capable of patrolling chosen borderland areas by themselves and automatically inform the operator of the system about potential place of detection of a specific incident.

Contains, every year, selected extended papers from the corresponding 3IA Conference of the year. This volume is made from directly reviewed and selected papers.

This book describes the advances and applications in Sliding mode control (SMC) which is widely used as a powerful method to tackle uncertain nonlinear systems. As such it is appropriate for graduate students with a basic knowledge of classical control theory and some knowledge of state-space methods and nonlinear systems.

This book details how hybridization can help improve the quality of computer classification systems. It introduces the different levels of hybridization and illuminates common problems faced when dealing with such projects.

This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the ninth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC'2015, of the Workshop on Cyber Security and Resilience of Large-Scale Systems - WSRL'2015, and of the International Workshop on Future Internet and Smart Networks - FI&SN'2015.

Complex systems and their phenomena are ubiquitous as they can befound in biology, finance, the humanities, management sciences,medicine, physics and similar fields. For many problems in these fields, there are no conventional ways tomathematically or analytically solve them completely at low cost.

This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing -- IDC~2012, of the International Workshop on Agents for Cloud -- A4C~2012 and of the Fourth International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics -- MASTS~2012. All the events were held in Calabria, Italy during September 24-26, 2012.The 37 contributions published in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems, including: adaptive and autonomousdistributed systems, agent programming, ambient assistedliving systems, business process modeling and verification, cloudcomputing, coalition formation, decision support systems, distributed optimization and constraint satisfaction, gesture recognition, intelligent energy management in WSNs, intelligent logistics, machine learning, mobile agents, parallel and distributed computational intelligence, parallel evolutionary computing, trust metrics and security, scheduling in distributed heterogenous computing environments, semantic Web service composition, social simulation, and software agents for WSNs.

This book presents recent advances on hybrid intelligent systems using soft computing techniques for intelligent control and robotics, pattern recognition, time series prediction and optimization of complex problems.

The Semantic web has greatly motivated the development of ontologies and multi-agent systems separately. This book is the first to provide an integrated treatment of the modeling, design and implementation of combined ontology/multi-agent systems.

How do we model uncertainty? How do we use uncertainty theory? In order to answer these questions, this stimulating and useful book provides a self-contained, comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of uncertainty theory.

This book presents the main features of observational calculi. It introduces association rules as formula of special observational calculi.

More specifically, the book provides solutions for the digital economy, e-sourcing clusters in network economy, and knowledge exchange between agents applicable to online trading agents, and security solutions to both digital economy and e-commerce.

This volume, aimed at graduate students, computer experts and researchers in urban planning, presents the contributions to a workshop held in Geneva in 2006, that was convened to address emerging issues in the field of urban development.

In this insightful work, Dogaru proposes a systematic framework for measuring emergence and a systematic design method to locate computationally meaningful genes in a reasonable computing time. The book's approachability recommends it to a large audience including specialists from various interdisciplinary fields.

This volume presents new directions and solutions in broadly perceived intelligent systems. An urgent need this volume has occurred as a result of vivid discussions and presentations at the "IEEE-IS' 2006 - The 2006 Third International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems" held in London, UK, September, 2006.

Power system reliability is the focus of intensive study due to its critical role in providing energy supply to modern society.

This presentation of the latest developments in computational linguistics covers the fast-moving field of information extraction, with papers from the CLA '11 conference held in Poland including recent successes in developing intelligent personal assistants.

This volume presents a collection of original research works by leading specialists focusing on novel and promising approaches in which the multi-agent system paradigm is used to support, enhance or replace traditional approaches to solving difficult optimization problems.

Important features include the detailed overview of the various novel metaheuristic scheduling approaches, excellent coverage of timely, advanced scheduling topics, state-of-the-art theoretical research and application developments and chapters authored by pioneers in the field.

This book presents a collection of invited works that consider constructive methods for neural networks, taken primarily from papers presented at a special th session held during the 18 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2008) in September 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic.

The 2009 SERA Conference covered theory and practice in many areas of software engineering including formal methods and tools, requirements engineering, computer security, database retrieval and more. This book offers 17 papers voted as best of the conference.

This volume presents new directions and solutions in broadly perceived intelligent systems. An urgent need this volume has occurred as a result of vivid discussions and presentations at the "IEEE-IS' 2006 - The 2006 Third International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems" held in London, UK, September, 2006.

This volume details the latest state-of-the-art research on computational intelligence paradigms in healthcare in the intelligent agent environment. The book presents seven chapters selected from the rapidly growing application areas of computational intelligence to healthcare systems.

This book is divided into six parts, including Applied Intelligence, Cognitive Computing and Affective Computing, Data Mining and Intelligent Systems, Decision Support Systems, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing.

The conference was composed of three co-located conferences: The International Conference on Fuzzy Computation (ICFC), the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC), and the International Conference on Neural Computation (ICNC).

This book introduces the novel data mining concept of action rules mining, and offering a comprehensive account of its contribution to the process of extracting interesting information or patterns from large databases.

The purpose of the 13th  International Conference on Computer and Information Science (SNPD 2012) held on August 8-10, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way.  Our conference officers selected the best 17 papers from those papers accepted for presentation at the conference in order to publish them in this volume.  The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee, and underwent further rounds of rigorous review. The  conference organizers selected 17 outstanding papers from SNPD 2012, all of which you will find in this volume of Springer¿s Studies in Computational Intelligence.

This book discusses the theories, practices and concepts of utilising inter-operable and inter-cooperative next generation computational technologies. Coverage includes mobile and the emerging e-infrastructures of Web 2.0, SOA, P2P, Grids and Clouds.

To help the readers to easily access this volume, each chapter starts with a chapter summary introduced by one of the editors: Chapter 1 by Sukhan Lee, Chapter 2 by Kwang Joon Yoon and Chapter 3 by Jangmyung Lee.

This book contains papers presented at the 2nd International Workshop SOHOMA'12 held in Bucharest, Romania, May 2012. It features recent research on service orientation in holonic and multi agent manufacturing and robotics.