Introduction to Soft Computing[RareAbyss]

This book gives an introduction to Soft Computing, which aims to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, approximate reasoning, and partial truth in order to achieve close resemblance with human like decision making. Soft Computing is a new multidisciplinary field, to construct new generation of Artificial Intelligence, known as Computational Intelligence.

Content

Abstract

1-What does Soft Computing mean?
Definition of Soft Computing
Conception of Soft Computing
Importance of Soft Computing
The Soft Computing – development history
2-Fuzzy Computing
Fuzzy sets
Fuzzy control
3-Evolutionary Computing
Evolutionary algorithms
Genetic algorithms
Genetic programming
Differential evolution
4-Neural Computing
The brain as an information processing system
Introduction to neural networks
The perceptron
Multilayer networks
Kohonen self-organizing maps
Hopfield networks
5-Probabilistic Computation
6-Conclusion
7-References
8-List of Figures
9-List of Tables
10-Endnotes

About the Author

EVA VOLNA is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Her interests include artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and cognitive science. She is an author of more than 50 papers in technical journals and proceedings of conferences.

doc. RNDr. PaedDr. Eva Volná, PhD.

Dept. of Computer Science

University of Ostrava

30th dubna st. 22

701 03 Ostrava

CZECH REPUBLIC

Phone: +420 597 092 184

E-mail: eva.volna@osu.cz