Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications

The Best Genetic Algorithm I: A Comparative Study of Structurally Different Genetic Algorithms.- The Best Genetic Algorithm II: A Comparative Study of Structurally Different Genetic Algorithms.- The Concept of Confidence for Inheritance-Based Genetic Algorithms.- WIGA: Wolbachia Infection Genetic Algorithm for Solving Multi-Objective Optimization Problems.- B-spline Surface Approximation Using Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm.- A Study of Genetic Algorithms to Solve the School Timetabling Problem.- Explicit Exploration in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- An Ant Colony Algorithm for Improving Ship Stability in the Containership Stowage Problem.- Including Modal Improvisation and Music-Inspired Components to Improve Harmony Search.- A Massive Parallel Cellular GPU Implementation of Neural Network to Large Scale Euclidean TSP.- Determination of Cardiac Ejection Fraction by Electrical Impedance Tomography Using an Artificial Neural Network.- Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks for Biological Sequences Prediction.- Complete Diagnosis of Electrical Power Systems Using MDS and ANFIS.- Intelligent Rotor Time Constant Identification Approach in Indirect Field Oriented Induction Motor Drive.- Flame Classification through the Use of an Artificial Neural Network Trained with a Genetic Algorithm.- Traffic Sign Recognition Based on Linear Discriminant Analysis.- Association Measures and Aggregation Functions.- JT2FIS: A Java Type-2 Fuzzy Inference Systems Class Library for Building Object-Oriented Intelligent Applications.- Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Electrical Networks Using a Fuzzy System and Euclidian Distance.- An Embedded Fuzzy Agent for Online Tuning of a PID Controller for Position Control of a DC Motor.- A Note on Parameter Selection for Support Vector Machines.- Reinforcement Learning Method for Portfolio Optimal Frontier Search.- Weighed Aging Ensemble of Heterogenous Classifiers for Incremental Drift Classification.- Similarity Based on Data Compression.- Pattern Recognition with Spiking Neural Networks.- Subjective Evaluation of Labeling Methods for Association Rule Clustering.- An Algorithm of Classification for Nonstationary Case.- Using NIAR k-d Trees to Improve the Case-Based Reasoning Retrieval Step.- Weighting Query Terms towards Multi-faceted Information Fusion of Market Data.- An Agents and Artifacts Approach to Distributed Data Mining.- Evaluating Business Intelligence Gathering Techniques for Horizon Scanning Applications.- Identification of Relations in Region Connection Calculus: 9-Intersection Reduced to3+-Intersection Predicates.- Fast and Robust Object Recognition Based on Reduced Shock-Graphs and Pruned-SIFT.- Matching Qualitative Spatial Scene Descriptions a la Tabu.- Classification of Mexican Paper Currency Denomination by Extracting Their Discriminative Colors.- Towards Reduced EEG Based Brain-Computer Interfacing for Mobile Robot Navigation.- Practical Speech Recognition for Contextualized Service Robots.- Using Monte Carlo Tree Search to Solve Planning Problems in Transportation Domains.- An Approach Based on an Interactive Procedure for Multiple Objective Optimisation Problems.- On Modeling Planning Problems: Experience from the Petrobras Challenge.- An Introduction to Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis.- Common Sense Knowledge Based Personality Recognition from Text.- Implementing Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering to Build a Personality Fuzzy Model Based on Big Five Patterns for Engineers.- Finding Opinion Strength Using Rule-Based Parsing for Arabic Sentiment Analysis.- Emotion Based Features of Bird Singing for Turdus Migratorius Identification.