MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Author: Alexander Gelbukh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-11-19

Total Pages: 1223

ISBN-13: 3540316531

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2005, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in November 2005. The 120 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 423 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation and management, logic and constraint programming, uncertainty reasoning, multiagent systems and distributed AI, computer vision and pattern recognition, machine learning and data mining, evolutionary computation and genetic algorithms, neural networks, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces and speech processing, bioinformatics and medical applications, robotics, modeling and intelligent control, and intelligent tutoring systems.

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

Author: Adam Grzech

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-07-07

Total Pages: 1066

ISBN-13: 3540728309

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007, held in Wroclaw, Poland in May/June 2007. Coverage includes agent-oriented Web applications, mobility aspects of agent systems, agents for network management, agent approaches to robotic systems, as well as intelligent and secure agents for digital content management.

Intelligent Systems: From Theory to Practice
Intelligent Systems: From Theory to Practice

Author: Vassil Sgurev

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-27

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 3642134270

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In the modern science and technology there are some research directions and ch- lenges which are at the forefront of world wide research activities because of their relevance. This relevance may be related to different aspects. First, from a point of view of researchers it can be implied by just an analytic or algorithmic difficulty in the solution of problems within an area. From a broader perspective, this re- vance can be related to how important problems and challenges in a particular area are to society, corporate or national competitiveness, etc. Needless to say that the latter, more global challenges are probably more decisive a driving force for s- ence seen from a global perspective. One of such “meta-challenges” in the present world is that of intelligent s- tems. For a long time it has been obvious that the complexity of our world and the speed of changes we face in virtually all processes that have impact on our life imply a need to automate many tasks and processes that have been so far limited to human beings because they require some sort of intelligence.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Author: Gilles Pesant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 765

ISBN-13: 3319232193

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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2015, held in Cork, Ireland, in August/September 2015. This edition of the conference was part of George Boole 200, a celebration of the life and work of George Boole who was born in 1815 and worked at the University College of Cork. It was also co-located with the 31st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2015). The 48 revised papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 16 abstract papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The scope of CP 2014 includes all aspects of computing with constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, schedulling, configuration, and planning.

Modeling and Applications in Operations Research
Modeling and Applications in Operations Research

Author: Jyotiranjan Nayak

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-11-29

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1003802796

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The text envisages novel optimization methods that significantly impact real-life problems, starting from inventory control to economic decision-making. It discusses topics such as inventory control, queueing models, timetable scheduling, fuzzy optimization, and the Knapsack problem. The book’s content encompass the following key aspects: Presents a new model based on an unreliable server, wherein the convergence analysis is done using nature-inspired algorithms. Discusses the optimization techniques used in transportation problems, timetable problems, and optimal/dynamic pricing in inventory control. Highlights single and multi-objective optimization problems using pentagonal fuzzy numbers. Illustrates profit maximization inventory model for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with imprecise costs. Showcases nature-inspired algorithms such as particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, bat algorithm, and cuckoo search algorithm. The text covers multi-disciplinary real-time problems such as fuzzy optimization of transportation problems, inventory control with dynamic pricing, timetable problem with ant colony optimization, knapsack problem, queueing modeling using the nature-inspired algorithm, and multi-objective fuzzy linear programming. It showcases a comparative analysis for studying various combinations of system design parameters and default cost elements. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, mechanical engineering, and mathematics.

Metaheuristics
Metaheuristics

Author: Karl F. Doerner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-08-13

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0387719210

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This book’s aim is to provide several different kinds of information: a delineation of general metaheuristics methods, a number of state-of-the-art articles from a variety of well-known classical application areas as well as an outlook to modern computational methods in promising new areas. Therefore, this book may equally serve as a textbook in graduate courses for students, as a reference book for people interested in engineering or social sciences, and as a collection of new and promising avenues for researchers working in this field.

Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization

Author: Peter I. Cowling

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-04-03

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 364212139X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2010, held in Instanbul, Turkey, in April 2010. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed an selected from 69 submissions. The papers present the latest research and discuss current developments and applications in metaheuristics - a paradigm to effectively solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial, economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of metaheuristics are evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, scatter search, memetic algorithms, variable neighborhood search, iterated local search, greedy radomized adaptive search procedures, estimation of distribution algorithms and ant colony opitmization.

Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems
Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems

Author: Emilio Corchado

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-06-22

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 3642023193

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The 4th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2009), as the name suggests, attracted researchers who are involved in developing and applying symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques aimed at the construction of highly robust and reliable problem-solving techniques, and bringing the most relevant achievements in this field. Hybrid intelligent systems have become increasingly po- lar given their capabilities to handle a broad spectrum of real-world complex problems which come with inherent imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness, hi- dimensionality, and nonstationarity. These systems provide us with the opportunity to exploit existing domain knowledge as well as raw data to come up with promising solutions in an effective manner. Being truly multidisciplinary, the series of HAIS conferences offers an interesting research forum to present and discuss the latest th- retical advances and real-world applications in this exciting research field. This volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) includes accepted papers presented at HAIS 2009 held at the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, June 2009. Since its inception, the main aim of the HAIS conferences has been to establish a broad and interdisciplinary forum for hybrid artificial intelligence systems and asso- ated learning paradigms, which are playing increasingly important roles in a large number of application areas.

Modeling Steel and Composite Structures
Modeling Steel and Composite Structures

Author: Pedro Vellasco

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0128135697

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Modeling Steel and Composite Structures explains the computational tools, methods and procedures used to design steel and composite structures. The reference begins with the main models used to determine structural behavior. This is followed by a detailed description of experimental models and their main requirements and care. Numerous simulations presenting non-linear response are illustrated as are their restrictions in terms of boundary conditions, main difficulties, solution strategies and methods adopted to surpass convergence difficulties. In addition, examples of the use of computational intelligence methods to simulate steel and composite structures response are presented. - Includes numerical models based in the finite element method - Provides numerous simulations, presenting a non-linear response - Contains examples of the use of computational intelligence methods to simulate steel and composite structures