Soft Computing and Industry

Soft computing embraces various methodologies for the development of intelligent systems that have been successfully applied to a large number of real-world problems. Soft Computing in Industry contains a collection of papers that were presented at the 6th On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications that was held in September 2001. It provides a comprehensive overview of recent theoretical developments in soft computing as well as of successful industrial applications. It is divided into seven parts covering material on: keynote papers on various subjects ranging from computing with autopoietic systems to the effects of the Internet on education; intelligent control; classification, clustering and optimization; image and signal processing; agents, multimedia and Internet; theoretical advances; prediction, design and diagnosis. The book is aimed at researchers and professional engineers who develop and apply intelligent systems in computer engineering. TOC:Part I: Keynote Papers.Part II: Intelligent Control.Part III: Classification, Clustering and Optimization.Part IV: Image and Signal Processing.Part V: Agents, Multimedia and Internet.Part VI: Theoretical Advances and New Paradigms.Part VII: Prediction, Design and Diagnosis.