Computational intelligence: a compendium
Choice Reviews Online · 2009
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.comDedicated to the creative spark within us all PrefaceAt this point in time, Computational Intelligence (CI) has yet to mature as a discipline in its own right.Accordingly, there is little consensus as to a precise definition of this emerging field.Nevertheless, most practitioners would include Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Fuzzy and evolutionary techniques (and perhaps others), and more especially hybrids of these (this will be expanded upon in Chap.1.) Our emphasis in this Compendium is very much on applied methods -ones which have been tired-and-proven effective on real-world problems.The 25 chapters have been grouped into the following ten themes (Parts): I. Overview, Background II.