Computational and Ambient Intelligence: 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2007, San SebastiÃ¡n, Spain, June 20-22, ... Science) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2007, held in San Sebastián, Spain in June 2007.

The 145 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from over 260 submissions. The papers are organized in thematic sections on theoretical concepts and neurocomputational formulations, inmproving models and learning procedures, self-organizing networks, kernel methods, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, evolutionary learning, fuzzy systems, neuroengineering and hardware implementations, data analysis, signal processing, speech processing, images processing, time series and prediction, robotics and planning motor control, power system applications, internet and web applications, biomedical applications, neural networks and other machine learning methods in cancer research, assistive technologies and e-health, as well as other applications.

Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications (Series in Machine Perception & Artifical Intelligence)

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This review volume introduces the novel intelligent Web theory called computational Web intelligence (CWI) based on computational intelligence (CI) and Web technology (WT). It takes an in-depth look at hybrid Web intelligence (HWI), which is based on artificial biological and computational intelligence with Web technology and is used to build hybrid intelligent Web systems that serve wired and wireless users more efficiently. The basic principles of CWI and various e-applications of CWI and HWI are discussed. For completeness, six major CWI techniques — fuzzy Web intelligence, neural Web intelligence, evolutionary Web intelligence, granular Web intelligence, rough Web Intelligence and probabilistic Web intelligence — are described. With the huge potential for intelligent e-business applications of CWI and HWI, these techniques represent the future of intelligent Web applications.

Design and Development of Fuzzy-Logic Controllers

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Design and Development of Fuzzy-Logic Controllers
Byron Miller
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eureka!.......2000-07-07

got the right book for the right purpose.Exciteting,informative,best for readers like me

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got the right book for the right purpose.Exciteting,informative,best for readers like me

Enhancing the Power of the Internet (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

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Enhancing the Power of the Internet (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

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During the last decade significant progress has been made in Internet technology by using computational intelligence methods. This book presents reports from the front of soft computing in the Internet industry and covers important topics in the field such as search engines, fuzzy query, decision analysis and support systems as well as e-business and e-commerce. The articles are selected results from a recent workshop (Fuzzy Logic and the Internet - FLINT 2001) related to the Internet Fuzzy Logic hosted by the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) program. The main purpose of the Workshop was to draw the attention of the fuzzy logic community as well as the Internet community to the fundamental importance of specific Internet-related problems including search engines, user modeling and personal information provision, e-commerce, e-business, e-health, semantic web/net, web-assistant and agents, knowledge representation for e-learning, content-based information retrieval, information organization, intrusion detection and network management. The book presents a collection of challenging problems and new directions toward the next generation of search engines and the Internet.

Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

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The unrestrainable explosion of the world wide web is not bereft of troubles and drawbacks, especially for inexpert users. Therefore there is a strong need of new research approaches in term of theories and systems. The main objective of this book is to provide new tools and ideas to enhance the power of the internet and search engines. Among these new research trends an important role is played by technologies that enable to process imprecise information, and to perform approximate reasoning capability. This book written by leading experts in their field demonstrates the ability of Fuzzy Technology to exploit the tolerance for imprecision to achieve tractability, robustness, and low solution costs and it shows that soft computing methods are a good choice to face complex Web problems.

Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web (Capturing Intelligence)

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Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web (Capturing Intelligence)

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These are exciting times in the fields of Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web, and this book will add to the excitement, as it is the first volume to focus on the growing connections between these two fields. This book is expected to be a valuable aid to anyone considering the application of Fuzzy Logic to the Semantic Web, because it contains a number of detailed accounts of these combined fields, written by leading authors in several countries. The Fuzzy Logic field has been maturing for forty years. These years have witnessed a tremendous growth in the number and variety of applications, with a real-world impact across a wide variety of domains with humanlike behavior and reasoning. And we believe that in the coming years, the Semantic Web will be major field of applications of Fuzzy Logic.

This book, the first in the new series Capturing Intelligence, shows the positive role Fuzzy Logic, and more generally Soft Computing, can play in the development of the Semantic Web, filling a gap and facing a new challenge. It covers concepts, tools, techniques and applications exhibiting the usefulness, and the necessity, for using Fuzzy Logic in the Semantic Web. It finally opens the road to new systems with a high Web IQ.

Most of today's Web content is suitable for human consumption. The Semantic Web is presented as an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. For example, within the Semantic Web, computers will understand the meaning of semantic data on a web page by following links to specified ontologies. But while the Semantic Web vision and research attracts attention, as long as it will be used two-valued-based logical methods no progress will be expected in handling ill-structured, uncertain or imprecise information encountered in real world knowledge. Fuzzy Logic and associated concepts and techniques (more generally, Soft Computing), has certainly a positive role to play in the development of the Semantic Web. Fuzzy Logic will not supposed to be the basis for the Semantic Web but its related concepts and techniques will certainly reinforce the systems classically developed within W3C.

In fact, Fuzzy Logic cannot be ignored in order to bridge the gap between human-understandable soft logic and machine-readable hard logic. None of the usual logical requirements can be guaranteed: there is no centrally defined format for data, no guarantee of truth for assertions made, no guarantee of consistency. To support these arguments, this book shows how components of the Semantic Web (like XML, RDF, Description Logics, Conceptual Graphs, Ontologies) can be covered, with in each case a Fuzzy Logic focus.

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- First volume to focus on the growing connections between Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web.

- Keynote chapter by Lotfi Zadeh.

- The Semantic Web is presently expected to be a major field of applications of Fuzzy Logic.

- It fills a gap and faces a new challenge in the development of the Semantic Web.

- It opens the road to new systems with a high Web IQ.

- Contributed chapters by Fuzzy Logic leading experts.

- First volume to focus on the growing connections between Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web.

- Keynote chapter by Lotfi Zadeh.

- The Semantic Web is presently expected to be a major field of applications of Fuzzy Logic.

- It fills a gap and faces a new challenge in the development of the Semantic Web.

- It opens the road to new systems with a high Web IQ.

- Contributed chapters by Fuzzy Logic leading experts.

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automation to build the Semantic Web?.......2006-12-24

Sanchez suggests that in order to build out the Semantic Web, the use of fuzzy logic will be inevitable. The Semantic Web is an attempt to use primarily automated methods, that mostly still have to be devised, to "understand" web pages. The problem is that these pages are geared towards human wetware comprehension. And pages are often badly cast, with typos and just different uses of the same terminology. Due to the impreciseness of any human written language.

To analyse these, the papers in the book offer fuzzy approaches. Instead of using binary valued logic. A very promising direction that may prove fruitful.

The book also contains a keynote paper by Lotfi Zadeh, the founder of fuzzy logic. This paper looks at the search problem. One which has already made Google into one of the great computer companies. Zadeh considers how searching can be improved, beyond the now standard link analysis pioneered by Google.

Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution

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I loved this book
Great book!

Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution
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The world is changing. We are in the midst of a profound transformation of our society. Matthew Friedman looks at what has happened so far and sends us reports from the trenches. With these insightful (and sometimes quirky) essays Friedman provides us with a passport to the new technologies that brought data processing power once restricted to governments and corporations to the desktops of the general public. According to Friedman the down side of the information revolution is corporate control and the concentration of information-the trend towards the commodification of information rather than having it as an open public resource. Some of the topics in Fuzzy Logic... hate propaganda on the Net the machine as fetish cyber warfare-Zapatistas on the Net sex and censorship the death of television news the future of the newspaper the globalization of the information revolution and its impact on culture the regulation debate (or metapolitics of the net) virtual space and virtual society the information economy the development of information industries intellectual property and piracy the new workplace identity and privacy networking Canada's Far North

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A warning to FUZZY LOGIC researchers.......2001-04-08

This book is not a textbook of fuzzy logic which is a logic based on Zadeh's fuzzy sets. You should not look forward to readily learning fuzzy logics by reading this book. (Unfortunately, it means me.) For the contents of this book, please read the other reviews deeply. However, the subtile of this book and the fact that customers who bought this book also bought "Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic: Theory and Applications" on Amazon.com, are very misleading to customers.

I loved this book.......1998-12-14

Fuzzy Logic is the best book of its kind that I've read. Friedman gets straight to the heart of things, and doesn't get caught up in the techno-gobbledegook that mars so many other books like this.

It's a significant acheivement and an IMPORTANT book. A must read for anyone who really wants to know what's going on with new media and new technologies.

Great book!.......1998-12-13

Definitely worth reading. Cuts through the Internet hype

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Fuzzy Probabilites for Web Planning
James J. Buckley
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This book presents important applications of soft computing and fuzziness to the growing field of web planning. A new method of using fuzzy numbers to model uncertain probabilities and how these can be used to model a fuzzy queuing system is demonstrated, as well as a method of modeling fuzzy queuing systems employing fuzzy arrival rates and fuzzy service rates. All the computations needed to get to the fuzzy numbers for system performance are described starting for the one server case to more than three servers. A variety of optimization models are discussed with applications to the average response times, server utilization, server and queue costs, as well as to phenomena identified with web sites such as "burstiness" and "long tailed distributions".

Multi-objective Group Decision Making: Methods, Software and Applications With Fuzzy Set Techniques (Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) (Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

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Jie Lu , Guangquan Zhang , and Da Ruan
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This book proposes a set of models to describe fuzzy multi-objective decision making (MODM), fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), fuzzy group decision making (GDM) and fuzzy multi-objective group decision-making problems, respectively. It also gives a set of related methods (including algorithms) to solve these problems. One distinguishing feature of this book is that it provides two decision support systems software for readers to apply these proposed methods. A set of real-world applications and some new directions in this area are then described to further instruct readers how to use these methods and software in their practice.

FLINT 2001, new directions in enhancing the power of the internet: Proceedings of the 2001 BISC International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (Memorandum)

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Well crafted rather than brilliant

Best left Unsaid.

Hansen's Looking For Clues

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A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction
Ron Hansen
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Ron Hansen's novels have explored spiritual themes. Atticus was inspired by the story of the prodigal son; Mariette in Ecstasy imagines an American nun who received the stigmata. In A Stay Against Confusion, his first essay collection, Hansen mines the connections between faith and fiction even more explicitly and offers fans of his novels the rare opportunity to learn how he has integrated his artistic and religious passions. Hansen, who is Catholic, writes that his love of stories has been inseparable from his love of liturgy since boyhood. And his broadminded reading of the Bible finds there "a kind of myth, a history full of facts and truths but also a fiction formed with harmony, proportion, and beauty, and fully at ease with uncertainties, metaphor, and poetic fancy." With the Bible as his touchstone, in essays such as "Writing As Sacrament" and "What Stories Are and Why We Read Them," Hansen offers clear, direct, and nuanced articulations of the common ground between literary and religious life. "Our need for stories is our need ... to have confirmed for us the theology we hold secret in our heart, that even the least of us are necessary to the great universal plot in ways we hadn't imagined." The book also contains essays of a more specialized nature, including "Eucharist" and "Stigmata," and a number of evocative autobiographical reflections, including a tribute to Hansen's mentor John Gardner. --Michael Joseph Gross

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In this vivid and deeply felt collection of essays, Ron Hansen talks about his novels, childhood, family, and mentors such as John Gardner. He explores prayer, stigmata, twentieth-century martyrs, and the Eucharist. A profile of his grandfather, a "tough-as-nails, brook-no-guff Colorado rancher," finds a place alongside a wonderfully informative portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. A brilliant reading of a story by Leo Tolstoy follows an appreciation of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Surprisingly intimate, A Stay Against Confusion brings together the literary and religious impulses that inform the life of one of our most gifted fiction writers.

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Lovely essays.......2006-05-02

I have always enjoyed Hansen's books, his unique style. This collection of essays was a treat. As I read each one, I thought it was so remarkable, and then I would read the next essay and like it even more. I especially liked the one about his mentor, John Gardner, the one about Hopkins (does any Margaret not like Hopkins?), the one about Cain, the one about Anima Christi, the one about Tolstoy, the one about Ignatius of Loyola, the one about...oh wait, I am listing the whole book, accidentally. That means I loved every one of these essays. Mr. Hansen not only has the gift of writing, but he also discusses his faith very well. I recommend this book highly to anyone interested in writing, or interested in living the examined life.

Well crafted rather than brilliant.......2004-08-11

This collection of essays shares no "common thread" although the promise of the subtitle "Essays on Faith and Fiction" is present in a few of the essay while the more accurate "Essays on Faith OR Fiction" applies to the entire collection.

On the "faith" side his meditation on "Anima Christi" is a solid sample of devotional literature. While is is comfortably safe, it encourages creative thinking regarding the meaning of the prayer. It encourages engagement rather than mere repetition.

Also on the "faith" side is his meditation on the Eucharist. While this essay provides amusing, interesting autobiographical information and evokes an earlier (pre-Vatican II) age of American Catholicism, it fails to establish any separate identity - one can read several similar essays by other authors and the essay will simple dissolve into the familiar.

Similarly, historical pieces such as "Hearing the Cry of the Poor: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador" and "The Pilgrim: Saint Ignatius of Loyola" are competent but non-distictive historical essays.

On the "fiction" side "The Wizard: Remembering John Gardner," "Babette's Feast" and "Affliction and Grace: Religious Experience in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins" are solid, thought-provoking analyses. But again there is no scream demanding a rereading.

In "The Story of Cain" where Hansen explores the story in Genesis and his relationship with his twin brother, Hansen finally achieves the promise of the subtitle. Life, Holy Scripture and faith are merged into a cohesive whole and the cohesion attracts the reader's attention.

Finally, the three initial essays, "Writing as Sacrament", "Faith and Fiction" and "What Stories Are and Why We Read Them" are solid though undistinctive mediations on faith and fiction. For fans of Hansen, they provide insight into authorial intent/world-view while acknowledging that art, including literature, takes on a life of its own.

Best left Unsaid........2003-07-17

A radio interview with an up and coming singer was broadcast recently and I was listening carefully as the DJ formulated an idea as to the subject matter of a particular song on the debutantes album. After rambling on for a minute or so the DJ asked if his synopsis of the song was correct and turned for approval to the singer who must have smiled while replying "yeah, sure, sounds good to me." The singer resisted the urge, despite the fact that he wrote the song, to impose his meaning on the listeners and thereby rob them of their own interpretation.

Unfortunately Ron Hansen in his latest book didn't have the self control of the young singer and so we have "A Stay Against Confusion", his attempt to reveal the motivation and the meaning behind his books. Doing so has led to an inevitable anti-climax, as though in drawing back the curtain Hansen has revealed, not the source of mystery or imagination, but a bald little man with a projector.

Explaining his own books robs them of their impact, robs the reader of the joy of allowing their imagination to fill in the dots, form their own opinions and be allowed to experience the books through their own frame of reference. Hansen intrudes into our enjoyment with his own intentions and hammers a stake into to the ground as if to say thus far and no further in the meaning of this book. And now in reading them we are like a dog tethered to the stake, snapped back to reality, whenever we are tempted to stray into our own imagination. The stories, like the ones he talks about in the bible ironically enough, lived. They didnt need elucidation, ennunciation or explanantion. Like his novels, they still dont.

Hansen's Looking For Clues.......2003-03-14

Ron Hansen shows his cards in "A Stay Against Confusion." He reveals himself to be a passionately spiritual writer; this world is not the only one that exists in his fiction. I greatly enjoyed his westerns, "Desperadoes" and "Jesse James", without really getting the underlying archetypal structure in them (Hansen says his treatment of "the dirty little coward" Robert Ford is a consideration of the Judas story.) But in "Marriette in Ecstasy" and the unforgettable historical novel "Hitler's Niece", Hansen wrote about the extremes of good and evil in an unmistakably religious way. But his novels aren't heavy-handed, "faith-promoting" tracts; they are alive and as necessarily ambiguous and multifaceted as the best fiction is.

This collection of essays explores Hansen's thinking about faith and fiction. He is a Catholic of the Vatican II variety, but this isn't an obstacle for people of other traditions to get him. He's a terrific writer. His prose is as sharp and clear as a diamond and he's a gifted storyteller. Indeed, in "What Stories Are And Why We Read Them" he insists that fiction musn't be didactic (as a lot of religious-based fiction is.) You can't beat readers over the head; they have to be carefully led into caring *what happens next.* (This concern over reader accessibility also sets him apart from many contemporary writers.) In "Faith and Fiction" he describes how we use stories in order to figure out the world, to deduce principles that we can live by. A story can be the vehicle for the Holy Spirit to touch our lives; an occasion for grace. In "The Wizard" he remembers the late, rambunctious novelist and critic John Gardner, who was a mentor, and tries to put him into perspective (warts and all.) In "Stigmata", perhaps the most fascinating essay in the book, he looks at what made him write his novel about a stigmatic ("Mariette") and if there are really such holy people in this fallen world. He masterfully explicates Leo Tolstoy's "Master and Man", Gerard Manley Hopkins poetry, and the film based on Isak Dinesen's story "Babette's Feast."

In his book "Hitler's Niece" (about the dictator who was an apostate Catholic who hated Christianity) and his other novels and short stories Hansen creates a fictional world that is quiveringly alive with the possibilities of good and evil. Where eternal destinies and the fate of the world hang on the decisions of individuals. Where free will *matters*. "A Stay Against Confusion" is an excellent introduction to this world.

Almost Great.......2001-06-25

I bought this book based on its subtitle (Essays on Faith and Fiction) and on my appreciation for Ron Hansen as a faith-filled writer. I expected it to be more about the integration of faith and fiction, and I loved the sections dedicated to that topic. As an author myself, I feel a kinship with Hansen in that I too write fiction from a faith perspective. I felt a little bit cheated by the chapters on Hansen's family members, but moved deeply by the story of the murdered Jesuits in El Salvador. That's why I rate this book "almost great." I don't fault the author but rather my own expectation that it would be something more than it was. All in all, I'm happy to have the book in my library, and much of it is highlighted in yellow.

A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction.

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A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction.(Book Review): An article from: Christianity and Literature

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