Intelligent Sensory Evaluation
Subtitle: Methodologies and Applications
By: edited by Da Ruan, Xianyi Zeng
Contributors: Zeng, Xianyi
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9783642057915; 9783662079508
Subjects: Engineering economy; Engineering; System safety; Chemical engineering
Description: In today's industrial companies, sensory evaluation is widely used in quality inspection of products, in marketing study and in many other fields such as risk evaluation, investment evaluation and safety evaluation.This book collects a number of representative methods on sensory evaluation. The book reports recent research results and provides a state of the art on intelligent techniques-based sensory evaluation in industrial applications. The focus is especially on theoretical/analytical solutions to the problems of real interest in intelligent techniques with applications to engineers and managers of different industrial departments such as production, quality inspection, product design and development and marketing.
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Table of contents: title: Part I: Methodologies (general methods of sensory evaluation and related theoretical aspects); title: Data fusion, information fusion, and knowledge fusion; title: Multi-criteria decision-making and analysis of agreement in group of experts; title: Modeling relationship between sensory panels and measured physical features; title: Formalization of sensory data; title: Part II: Applications (corresponding applications to engineers and managers of different industrial sectors such as production, quality inspection, product design, development, and marketing, as well as to risk, safety, and reliability study etc.); title: Taste and odors evaluation; title: Electronic noise and signal evaluation; title: Fabric hand evaluation; title: Image and color evaluation; title: Medical diagnosis; title: Risk and safety evaluation; title: Car comfort evaluation; title: Food analysis and evaluation.