Bücher der Reihe Studies in Computational Intelligence

This edited book presents the scientific outcomes of the 4th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (BCD 2019) which was held on May 29-31, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers, computer users and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science and to share their experiences and exchange new ideas and information in a meaningful way. Presenting 15 of the conference's most promising papers, the book discusses all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, the practical challenges encountered along the way, and the solutions adopted to solve them.

This book highlights the latest advances in the application of artificial intelligence to healthcare and medicine. It gathers selected papers presented at the 2019 Health Intelligence workshop, which was jointly held with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) annual conference, and presents an overview of the central issues, challenges, and potential opportunities in the field, along with new research results.By addressing a wide range of practical applications, the book makes the emerging topics of digital health and precision medicine accessible to a broad readership. Further, it offers an essential source of information for scientists, researchers, students, industry professionals, national and international public health agencies, and NGOs interested in the theory and practice of digital and precision medicine and health, with an emphasis on risk factors in connection with disease prevention, diagnosis, and intervention.

This unique book discusses a selection of highly relevant topics in the Social Internet of Things (SIoT), including blockchain, fog computing and data fusion.

This book shows how to develop algorithms for these problems, based on new intelligent methods like evolutionary computations, ant colony optimization and constraint programming, and demonstrates how real-world problems arising in engineering, economics and other domains can be formulated as optimization problems.

The book discusses the impact of machine learning and computational intelligent algorithms on medical image data processing, and introduces the latest trends in machine learning technologies and computational intelligence for intelligent medical image analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of computational intelligence methods for semantic knowledge management. Contrary to popular belief, the methods for semantic management of information were created several decades ago, long before the birth of the Internet. In fact, it was back in 1945 when Vannevar Bush introduced the idea for the first protohypertext: the MEMEX (MEMory + indEX) machine. In the years that followed, Bush's idea influenced the development of early hypertext systems until, in the 1980s, Tim Berners Lee developed the idea of the World Wide Web (WWW) as it is known today. From then on, there was an exponential growth in research and industrial activities related to the semantic management of the information and its exploitation in different application domains, such as healthcare, e-learning and energy management. However, semantics methods are not yet able to address some of the problems that naturally characterize knowledge management, such as the vagueness and uncertainty of information. This book reveals how computational intelligence methodologies, due to their natural inclination to deal with imprecision and partial truth, are opening new positive scenarios for designing innovative semantic knowledge management architectures.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Bulgarian Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, BGSIAM'17, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in December 2017.

This book gathers revised and extended versions of the best papers presented at the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2016), which was held in Porto, Portugal from 9 to 11 November 2016.

This book covers theoretical aspects as well as recent innovativeapplications of Artificial Neural networks (ANNs) in natural, environmental,biological, social, industrial and automated systems.It presents recent results of ANNs in modelling small, largeand complex systems under three categories, namely, 1) Networks, Structure Optimisation, Robustness and Stochasticity 2) Advances in Modelling Biological andEnvironmental Systems and 3) Advancesin Modelling Social and Economic Systems. The book aims at serving undergraduates, postgraduates and researchersin ANN computational modelling.

This book offers a state of the art collection covering themes related to Advanced Intelligent Computational Technologies and Decision Support Systems which can be applied to fields like healthcare assisting the humans in solving problems. intelligent analyzing of medical images;

The rapidly growing volume of available digital documents of various formats and the possibility to access these through Internet-based technologies, have led to the necessity to develop solid methods to properly organize and structure documents in large digital libraries and repositories.

Application case studies include aerodynamic shape optimization, microwave engineering, black-box optimization, classification, economics, inventory optimization and structural optimization.

This volume contains revised and extended versions of papers presented at the 4th edition of the international workshop on Distributed and Agent-based Retrieval Tools (DART'10) held in June 2010, in conjunction with the Symposium on Human Language Technology for the Information Society, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The papers collected in this volume are selected as a sample of the progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP) performed within the Italian NLP community and especially attested by the PARLI project.

In a down-to-the earth manner, the volume lucidly presents how the fundamental concepts, methodology, and algorithms of Computational Intelligence are efficiently exploited in Software Engineering and opens up a novel and promising avenue of a comprehensive analysis and advanced design of software artifacts.

This volume is an initiative undertaken by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Task Force on Security, Surveillance and Defense to consolidate and disseminate the role of CI techniques in the design, development and deployment of security and defense solutions.

This bookpresents a broad variety of different contemporary IT methods and applications inIntelligent Systems is displayed.

This bookis devoted to the analysis of causal inference which is one of the most difficult tasks in dataanalysis: when two phenomena are observed to be related, it is often difficultto decide whether one of them causally influences the other one, or whetherthese two phenomena have a common cause.

This book brings together the current stateof-the-art research in Self Organizing Migrating Algorithm (SOMA) as a novelpopulation-based evolutionary algorithm, modeled on the predator-preyrelationship, by its leading practitioners.

This book at hand explores emerging scientific and technological areas in which Intelligent Computing Systems provide efficient solutions and, thus, may play a role in the years to come.

This book discusses various aspects of Industry 4.0 from the perspective of information system evolution. The interdisciplinary book addresses a number of topics related to modern information technologies, and presents innovative concepts, methods, models and tools for the development of information systems to support Industry 4.0.

In this carefully edited book some selected results of theoretical and applied research in the field of broadly perceived intelligent systems are presented. The problems vary from industrial to web and problem independent applications. All this is united under the slogan: "Intelligent systems conquer the world".The book brings together innovation projects with analytical research, invention, retrieval and processing of knowledge and logical applications in technology.This book is aiming to a wide circle of readers and particularly to the young generation of IT/ICT experts who will build the next generations of intelligent systems.

This bookprovides readers with a selection of high-quality chapters that cover boththeoretical concepts and practical applications of image feature detectors anddescriptors. It serves as reference for researchers and practitioners byfeaturing survey chapters and research contributions on image feature detectorsand descriptors.

This volume presents recent research, challenging problems and solutionsin Intelligent Systems- covering the following disciplines: artificial andcomputational intelligence, fuzzy logic and other non-classic logics,intelligent database systems, information retrieval, information fusion,intelligent search (engines), data mining, cluster analysis, unsupervisedlearning, machine learning, intelligent data analysis, (group) decision supportsystems, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, knowledge-based systems,imprecision and uncertainty handling, electronic commerce, distributed systems,etc. The book defines a common ground for sometimes seemingly disparateproblems and addresses them by using the paradigm of broadly perceived intelligentsystems. It presents a broad panorama of a multitude of theoretical andpractical problems which have been successfully dealt with using the paradigmof intelligent computing.

The book reports on the latest advances and applications of nonlinearcontrol systems. It consists of 30contributed chapters by subject experts who are specialized in the varioustopics addressed in this book. The special chapters have been brought out inthe broad areas of nonlinear control systems such as robotics, nonlinear circuits, powersystems, memristors, underwater vehicles, chemical processes, observer design,output regulation, backstepping control, sliding mode control, time-delayedcontrol, variables structure control, robust adaptive control, fuzzy logiccontrol, chaos, hyperchaos, jerk systems, hyperjerk systems, chaos control,chaos synchronization, etc. Special importance was given to chapters offeringpractical solutions, modeling and novel control methods for the recent researchproblems in nonlinear control systems.This book will serve as a reference book for graduate studentsand researchers with a basic knowledge of electrical and control systemsengineering. The resulting design procedures on the nonlinear control systemsare emphasized using MATLAB software.

This book demonstratesthe success of Ambient Intelligence in providing possible solutions for the dailyneeds of humans.

Algorithms and topics include the overviewand history of nature-inspired algorithms, discrete firefly algorithm, discretecuckoo search, plant propagation algorithm, parameter-free bat algorithm,gravitational search, biogeography-based algorithm, differential evolution,particle swarm optimization and others.

This book reports on the latest advances andapplications of chaotic systems. Itconsists of 25 contributed chapters by experts who are specialized in thevarious topics addressed in this book. The chapters cover a broad range oftopics of chaotic systems such as chaos, hyperchaos, jerk systems, hyperjerksystems, conservative and dissipative systems, circulant chaotic systems,multi-scroll chaotic systems, finance chaotic system, highly chaotic systems,chaos control, chaos synchronization, circuit realization and applications ofchaos theory in secure communications, mobile robot, memristors, cellularneural networks, etc. Special importance was given to chapters offeringpractical solutions, modeling and novel control methods for the recent researchproblems in chaos theory.This book will serve as a reference book for graduatestudents and researchers with a basic knowledge of chaos theory and controlsystems. The resulting design procedures on the chaotic systems are emphasizedusing MATLAB software.