Soft Computing and Human-Centered Machines
By: edited by Zhi-Qiang Liu, Sadaaki Miyamoto
Contributors: Miyamoto, Sadaaki
Series: Computer Science Workbench, 1431-1488; Computer science workbench
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9784431679073
Description: Today's networked world and the decentralization that the Web enables and symbolizes have created new phenomena: information explosion and saturation. To deal with information overload, our computers should have human-centered functionality and enhanced intelligence, but instead they simply become faster. Soft computing is a unifying framework that combines techniques in neural networks, fuzzy theory, genetic algorithms, and artificial intelligence to develop intelligent systems able to learn in dynamic, imprecise, and uncertain environments. This book explains the theory, methodology, and application aspects of human-centered systems, showing how it is possible to extend to machines such techniques as dynamic cognitive learning, neural-fuzzy-based learning, and genetic-evolutionary type learning paradigms.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Multisets and Fuzzy Multisets; title: Model Logic, Rough Sets, and Fuzzy Sets; title: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: Analysis and Extensions; title: Methods in Hard and Fuzzy Clustering; title: Soft-Competitive Learning Paradigms; title: Aggregation Operations for Fusing Fuzzy Information; title: Fuzzy Gated Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition; title: Soft Computing Technique in Kansei (Emotional) Information Processing; title: Vagueness in Human Judgment and Decision Making; title: Chaos and Time Series Analysis; title: A Short Course for Fuzzy Set Theory.