Combined with the advances in computer hardware, many new mathematical methods and concepts have helped the quantum leap in practical applications of intelligent systems and controllers - resulting in the development of "soft computing" - a combination of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and distributed artificial intelligence. Individuals specializing in any one of these areas need to be aware of the cross-disciplinary fertilization of ideas, approaches, and possibilities in the other fields. This volume fills that gap by presenting a collection of articles on state-of-the-art soft computing and AI applications that cover broad domains and many disciplines.
1. The Evolution of Expert Systems, L.O. Hall and A. Kandel.
2.
Applications of Fuzzy Expert Systems in Integrated Oil Exploration, F.
Aminzadeh.
3. Hardware Applications of Fuzzy Logic Control, M. Jamshidi, R.
Marchbanks, E. Kristjansson, K. Kumbla, R. Kelsey, and D. Barak.
4. Fuzzy
Expert Systems, R. A. Aliev.
5. Preprocessing Fuzzy Production Rules, M.
Schneider, G. Chew, A. Kandel, and G. Langholz.
6. Computational Neural
Architectures for Control Applications, L. Jin, M. M. Gupta, and P.N.
Nikiforuk.
7. The Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Editing Noisy
Seismic Data, X. Zhang and Y. Li.
8. Foundations of Fuzzy Neural
Computations, M. Gupta and H. Ding.
9. A Control Algorithm for
Knowledge-Based Tecture Image Segmentation, Z. Zhang, Z. Lang, R. E.
Scarberry, and M. Simaan.
10. Knowledge-Based On-Line Scheduling for
Flexible Manufacturing, I. Hatono and H. Tamura.
11. Coordination of
Distributed Intelligent Systems, M. Kamel and H. Ghenniwa.
12. Collaborative
Work Based on Multiagent Architectures: A Methodological Perspective, B.
Moulin and L. Cloutier. Author Index. Subject Index.
