This book provides comprehensive introduction to a consortium of technologies underlying soft computing, an evolving branch of computational intelligence. The c

The second edition of this book provides a comprehensive introduction to a consortium of technologies underlying soft computing, an evolving branch of computati

Artificial neural networks can mimic the biological information-processing mechanism in - a very limited sense. Fuzzy logic provides a basis for representing un

Ever since fuzzy logic was introduced by Lotfi Zadeh in the mid-sixties and genetic algorithms by John Holland in the early seventies, these two fields widely b

The papers collected in this book are concerned with the application of the so-called "soft-computing" techniques to the aim of defining flexible systems. The t