Download or read book Soft Computing and Industry written by Rajkumar Roy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft computing embraces various methodologies for the development of intelligent systems that have been successfully applied to a large number of real-world problems. This text 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.