Bücher der Reihe Studies in Computational Intelligence

Multimedia services involve processing, transmission and retrieval of multiple forms of information. With this view in mind, researchers are working on fusing intelligent paradigms such as arti?cial neural networks, swarm intelligence, arti?cial immune systems, evolutionary computing and multiagents with multimedia services.

Multimedia services involve processing, transmission and retrieval of multiple forms of information. With this view in mind, researchers are working on fusing intelligent paradigms such as arti?cial neural networks, swarm intelligence, arti?cial immune systems, evolutionary computing and multiagents with multimedia services.

Covering a plethora of aspects of this developing field, this book explores the latest applications of virtual reality to psychotherapy, rehabilitation and neurological assessment. It ranges from VR's use in conditions from PTSD to amblyopia in children.

The present book includes a set of selected extended papers from the first International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2009), held in Madeira, Portugal, from 5 to 7 October 2009.

The book provides strong evidence that research on the cognitive processes from arithmetic thought to algebraic thought should take into consideration the socio-cultural context.

The increasing complexity of our world demands new perspectives on the role of technology in decision making. The aim of the Interactive Collaborative Information Systems project is to develop techniques that support humans in complex information en- ronments and that facilitate distributed decision-making capabilities.

Reflecting recent advances in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery achieved by Francophone scientists in France and elsewhere, this collection of extended and reworked papers were originally presented at the EGC 2009 conference in Strasbourg.

Research in multi-agent systems offers a promising technology for problems with networks, online trading and negotiations but also social structures and communication.

This book addresses the major issues in the Web data management related to technologies and infrastructures, methodologies and techniques as well as applications and implementations. Emphasis is placed on Web engineering and technologies, Web graph managing, searching and querying and the importance of social Web.

The series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI) publishes new developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence ¿ quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the methodologies behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. Critical to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results. The purpose of the 1st ACIS International Conference on Computers, Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering (CNSI 2011) was held on May23-25, 2011 in Jeju, Jeju Island, South Korea is to bring together scientist, engineers, computer users, students to share their experiences and exchange new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered along the way and the solutions adopted to solve them The conference organizers selected the best 22 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 rigorousrounds of review.

The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems and hybrid intelligent systems.

Based on both the Fifth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, and the Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics, this volume explores the theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems.

This book highlights the influence of the agency perspective in Human-Computer Interaction through a careful selection of research contributions. It provides hands-on-experience by covering representative case studies and offering essential design guidelines.

Discussion includes representative methods for addressing major sources of uncertainties in evolutionary computation, including handle of noisy fitness functions, use of approximate fitness functions, search for robust solutions, and tracking moving optimums.

This research book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art subspace learning methods for pattern recognition in intelligent environment.

With contributions from leading experts in the field, this volume presents the most efficient statistical and deterministic methods for information processing and applications that allow the extraction of targeted data and the discovery of hidden patterns.

In a rapidly evolving world of knowledge and technology, do you ever wonder how hydrology is catching up? This book takes the angle of computational hydrology and envisions one of the future directions, namely, quantitative integration of high-quality hydrologic field data with geologic, hydrologic, chemical, atmospheric, and biological information to characterize and predict natural systems in hydrological sciences.Intelligent computation and information fusion are the key words. The aim is to provide both established scientists and graduate students with a summary of recent developments in this topic. The chapters of this edited volume cover some of the most important ingredients for quantitative hydrological information fusion, including data fusion techniques, interactive computational environments, and supporting mathematical and numerical methods. Real-life applications of hydrological information fusion are also addressed.

The main goal of this book is to provide a state of the art of hybrid metaheuristics. Readers learn to solve large scale problems quickly and efficiently combining metaheuristics with complementary metaheuristics, mathematical programming, constraint programming and machine learning.

Innovations in Defence Support Systems - 2 presents a sample of the state-of-art research on defence support systems.

Publishes developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence. This title selects 22 papers that were presented at the 1st ACIS International Conference on Computers, Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering (CNSI 2011) that was held on May23-25, 2011 in Jeju, Jeju Island, South Korea.

During the last decade, Knowledge Discovery and Management (KDM or, in French, EGC for Extraction et Gestion des connaissances) has been an intensive and fruitful research topic in the French-speaking scientific community.

This book aims to promote a sample of current theoretical and application oriented intelligent systems research specifically in the field of neural networks computing.

The aim of this book is to provide a strong theoretical support for understanding and analyzing the behavior of evolutionary algorithms, as well as for creating a bridge between probability, set-oriented numerics and evolutionary computation.

This volume focuses on uncovering the fundamental forces underlying dynamic decision making among multiple interacting, imperfect and sel¿sh decision makers.The chapters are written by leading experts from different disciplines, all considering the many sources of imperfection in decision making, and always with an eye to decreasing the myriad discrepancies between theory and real world human decision making.Topics addressed include uncertainty, deliberation cost and the complexity arising from the inherent large computational scale of decision making in these systems.In particular, analyses and experiments are presented which concern:¿ task allocation to maximize ¿the wisdom of the crowd¿;¿ design of a society of ¿edutainment¿ robots who account for one anothers¿ emotional states;¿ recognizing and counteracting seemingly non-rational human decision making;¿ coping with extreme scale when learning causality in networks;¿ ef¿ciently incorporating expert knowledge in personalized medicine;¿ the effects of personality on risky decision making.The volume is a valuable source for researchers, graduate students and practitioners in machine learning, stochastic control, robotics, and economics, among other ¿elds.

This book presents an introduction to new and important research in the images processing and analysis area. It is hoped that this book will be useful for scientists and students involved in many aspects of image analysis.

The present book includes a set of selected extended papers from the first International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2009), held in Madeira, Portugal, from 5 to 7 October 2009.

This book presents and applies emerging new methods and applied in the design optimization of different devices and systems. It features edited papers from the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Engineering ISEF'09.

This book features state-of-art research on defense support systems. Written by leading experts in the field, it focuses on intelligent paradigms in security and includes a sample of recent advances in intelligent monitoring.

Covering a plethora of aspects of this developing field, this book explores the latest applications of virtual reality to psychotherapy, rehabilitation and neurological assessment. It ranges from VR's use in conditions from PTSD to amblyopia in children.