Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Applications in C/C++/Book and Disk (Wiley Professional Computing)

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Don't bother with this book.......2004-04-24

Rather than describing the generalized structures and algorithms involved in neural networking etc, the author presents very specialized code examples. Most of the code deals with the graphical interface, which is unfortunate.
I was looking for a book that described C++ classes of neurons and networks, but did not find such things here. I can't recommend this book any less.

Misleading title, obsolete code.......2004-03-11

With an impressive title as that, you'd expect some solid code interspersed with good explanatory notes. Instead this admittedly older book utilizes C++ solely to employ a hopelessly obsolete DOS-based Borland Turbo Vision interface. C (no C++) is used to somewhat clumsily implement all the actual neural networking code. If you are well-versed in C -> C++ porting, and are willing to ignore all the references to Borland & set up your own UI using e.g. Visual Studio, you will be able to extract some useful knowledge from this book. But my advice is to pass it up in favor of other choices.

Some thoughts.......2000-03-03

This book is semi-OK. It was my the first book on neural networks. Programs descriptions helped me significantly to get feeling of the field. The book was useful source of C code to implement homework assignments in AI class, although I was forced to scan the source code and use OCR program (running neural networks as well!) to get the electronic version of the code. Applications are badly commented. Obsolete Borland interface is such a pain to get rid of. Math is inconsistent, so I read other books on ANNs before I started to understand something. Not the best choice for the first reading...

michael@bimamail.com (NO SUPPLEMENT DISK).......1999-06-30

I'm a student majoring in Information Tech. I'm studying in ANN, FA, and GA subjects. I've read this book, but I've not the SUPPLEMENT DISK. So, if you have it, please send it to my email above.

Meaty, but could be a bit more organized........1999-05-09

Except for the hiccup at the beginning of using Turbo C++ DOS GUI, develops into an average to better than average book. Worth buying, but don't expect too much C++ or object oriented code. Has a good mix between theory and applied code. Could be improved in a second edition.

Fuzzy Logic and NeuroFuzzy Applications in Business and Finance

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OK Book Marred by Crippleware
Good book to explore Fuzzy Logic solutions
If you plan on learning the Fuzzytech program, you need this
Finally something for practitioners
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Fuzzy Logic and NeuroFuzzy Applications in Business and Finance
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OK Book Marred by Crippleware.......2002-04-19

I recently used the book in an introductory AI class. I found it short on good descriptions of the basics, and long on 'user manual' information on FuzzyTech. This was not bad in itself, but FuzzyTech is a VERY complex program and the 'trial version' on the CD will not let you save ANY files or projects. This means you have to do all your learning in one session, or start over the next day. It would have been far more useful if the company had limited the size of the project you could save. I won't use this book again.

Good book to explore Fuzzy Logic solutions.......2001-09-18

I found this book to be a worthwhile read. I agree with the other reviewers that it covers Fuzzytech quite extensively, but a completely working version of fuzzytech ships with the book, so it is possible to follow all the examples in the book. The book triggered some good ideas for me as to how to implement fuzzy logic in the business environment. It does not try to be a very academical book, although various discussions are given to explain Fuzzy Logic. If you are prepared to use Fuzzytech as tool to play around with examples, then this is a good book.

If you plan on learning the Fuzzytech program, you need this.......2001-03-04

As a user of the fuzzy logic program that von Altrock's company makes, I have found that this book is absolutely necessary. The truly weird thing is that Inform, the software publisher, doesn't tell you about this book, when it should be included with every Fuzzy program that they sell. The manual that is included with the program is wretchedly bad; dull, confusing, and pointless. Only worse. Once you discover this book, much of the operational confusion surrounding Fuzzytech will be cleared up. However, von Altrock cannot resist a certain measure of obscurity. NeuroFuzzy applications is direct and clear, but leaves plenty of understanding gaps between one implementation and another. Von Altrock needs to expand this text and provide a wider range of specifics and details. For instance, until very recently, Fuzzytech suffered from a limited ability to read data files. This placed the program far behind the curve of contemporary usage. This is badly needed information; how does the progam really work ? Since this is the ONLY readable volume on the subject, von Altrock and Inform would be well advised to do a more thorough job of linking theory to practice.

Finally something for practitioners.......2000-12-09

I was looking for a good technology to implement risk assessment systems and a colleague pointed me to fuzzy logic. Browsing the various books, I was flooded with mathematical theory and application notes that just claimed, fuzzy is good because it is fuzzy, and gave no hints of what was really done. Altrock's book is different. It goes right to the point and shows you all the works with examples. While the first examples are rather simplistic and only serve a didactic use, the more complicated case studies are quite useful. What is really helpful is the attached software. However, the attached CD is a bit outdated. but I was able to download an updated version of the software examples.

Fuzzy logic and neurofuzzy applications in business and fina.......2000-05-01

This book has a promising blurb which lead to me buy it. I was greatly disappointed. The blurbs suggested that the book would have plenty of detailed examples for the use of fuzzy logic in business and finance. The examples were there, but few and far in between, without the detail that would have made them useful case studies. Instead the author spends almost the entire book on one *single* fuzzy logic software called fuzzytech. The book is more like a manual for fuzzytech applications than it is an exposition on the use of fuzzy logic for business and finance.

Computational Intelligence in Time Series Forecasting: Theory and Engineering Applications (Advances in Industrial Control)

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Computational Intelligence in Time Series Forecasting: Theory and Engineering Applications (Advances in Industrial Control)
Ajoy K. Palit , and Dobrivoje Popovic
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Foresight can be crucial in process and production control, production-and-resources planning and in management decision making generally. Although forecasting the future from accumulated historical data has become a standard and reliable method in production and financial engineering, as well as in business and management, the use of time series analysis in the on-line milieu of most industrial plants has been more problematic because of the time and computational effort required.

The advent of intelligent computational technologies such as the neural network and the genetic algorithm promotes the efficient solution of on-line forecasting problems. Their most outstanding successes include:

prediction of nonlinear time series and the nonlinear combination of forecasts using neural networks;
prediction of chaotic time series and of output data for second-order nonlinear plant using fuzzy logic.

The power of intelligent technologies applied individually and in combination, has created advanced forecasting methodologies, exemplified in Computational Intellingence in Time Series Forecasting by particular systems and processes. The authors give a comprehensive exposition of the improvements on offer in quality, model building and predictive control, and the selection of appropriate tools from the plethora available using such examples as:

forecasting of electrical load and of output data for nonlinear plant with neuro-fuzzy networks;
temperature prediction and correction in pyrometer reading, tool-wear monitoring and materials property prediction using hybrid intelligent technologies;
evolutionary training of neuro-fuzzy networks by the use of genetic algorithms and prediction of chaotic time series;
isolated use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in the nonlinear combination of traditional forecasts of temperature series obtained from a pilot-scale chemical reactor with temporarily disconnected controller.

Application-oriented engineers in process control, manufacturing, the production industries and research centres will find much to interest them in Computational Intelligence in Time Series Forecasting and the book is suitable for industrial training purposes. It will also serve as valuable reference material for experimental researchers.

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Research based book.......2006-02-19

For the novice reader in this field of expertise this book is well suited. It does not mean that this book is not extensively explained, but the book is easy to understand since it is going step by step through many research result examples conducted in clear way. The author intended the book to be finished within approximately few weeks of intensively reading,and some prior knowledges. The presentation is awesome and includes up-to-date notions, namely Neural Network approach, Fuzzy Logic perspective and Evolutionary Computing as well. The Evolutionary Computing contains Genetic Algorithm, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Strategy, Evolutionary Programming and Differential Evolution. The four last notions are left in concise for some reasons. Furthermore, the Hybrid method,i.e. Neuro-Fuzzy, is explained completely by many research results exploiting the robustness of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy inference system applied with Mackey-Glass Chaotic time series and Wang data nonlinear inputs. The most recent developments are presented in some pages including Wavelet Networks, Fractal Based Network and Fuzzy Clustering.

However, this book is intended for postgraduate student, scientist and industrial workers in area of control, pattern recognition, robotic and many more.

Advanced Fuzzy Systems Design and Applications

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This book presents a variety of recently developed methods for generating fuzzy rules from data with the help of neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. Special efforts have been put on dealing with knowledge incorporation into neural and evolutionary systems and knowledge extraction from data with the help of fuzzy logic. On the one hand, knowledge that is understandable to human beings can be extracted from data using evolutionary and learning methods by maintaining the interpretability of the generated fuzzy rules. On the other hand, a priori knowledge like expert knowledge and human preferences can be incorporated into evolution and learning, taking advantage of the knowledge representation capability of fuzzy rule systems and fuzzy preference models. Several engineering application examples in the fields of intelligent vehicle systems, process modeling and control and robotics are presented.

Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications - With Aspects of Theoretical and Methodological Issues: Third International Conference on Intelligent ... Science) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book - in conjunction with the two volumes CICS 0002 and LNAI 4682 - constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007, held in Qingdao, China in August 2007.

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The 139 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2875 submissions. The papers address all current issues in the field of intelligent computing technology, including theories, methodologies, and applications, such as artificial intelligence, perceptual and pattern recognition, evolutionary and adaptive computing, informatics theories and applications, computational neuroscience and bioscience, soft computing, case based and constrained reasoning, agents, networking and computer supported co-operative working, human computer interface issues, etc.

Applications and Science of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Evolutionary Computation (SPIE Conference Proceedings)

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Automatic Generation of Neural Network Architecture Using Evolutionary Computation (Advances in Fuzzy Systems - Applications and Theory , Vol 14)

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Automatic Generation of Neural Network Architecture Using Evolutionary Computation (Advances in Fuzzy Systems - Applications and Theory , Vol 14)
E. Vonk , L. C. Jain , and R. P. Johnson
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This book describes the application of evolutionary computation in the automatic generation of a neural network architecture. The architecture has a significant influence on the performance of the neural network. It is the usual practice to use trial and error to find a suitable neural network architecture for a given problem. The process of trial and error is not only time-consuming but may not generate an optimal network. The use of evolutionary computation is a step towards automation in neural network architecture generation.

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Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism
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Outlines of Scepticism, by the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus, is a work of major importance. It is the fullest extant account of ancient Scepticism, and also one of our most copious sources of information about the other Hellenistic philosophies. Moreover, the rediscovery of Sextus in the sixteenth century brought about a revolution in philosophy. Anyone interested in the history of philosophy must have at least an acquaintance with Sextus, and for students of Hellenistic philosophy his writings are indispensable. Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes provide an accurate and readable English translation of the Outlines, with a short introduction and brief annotation.

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The Best In-Print Translation.......2000-09-24

This is a classic and priceless work. Along with the other extant works of S.E. it remains virtually the only surviving record of teachings attributed to the very influential 4th c. B.C.E. philosopher Pyrrho of Elis. As such, the book preserves a now largely forgotten body of thought that rivals anything produced in the same vein since. I think there is nothing -- except a lot of multisyllabic obfuscation -- in the works of the phenomenologists, the existentialists, or the usually uneducated and thoughtless so-called "postmodernists" that can't be found in ancient skepticism.

I think this particular translation is also the best for most readers. (If you are a serious scholar and can read the Greek yourself, then you are a better judge than I of whether it's a good translation. What I mean is that it is the most accessible for modern readers.) Numerous other translations are available and several are in print. Annas & Barnes, however, both noted classics scholars and both persons who deeply understand and seem sympathetic to the ancient skeptics, have set out a translation very accessible to modern English readers. They have also set out copious notes and cross references that are very useful to more serious readers.

The previous reviewer from Colorado, incidentally, is off the mark on a few things. First, I doubt that S.E. was really interested that much in "truth." Though he may sometimes say or imply that that is his aim, I think he does so in a catty or coy way. I think he never thought he was going to find the truth; rather, he knew before he started writing that the skeptic simply cannot be answered -- there is no argument the skeptic cannot pick apart. As S.E. -- a professional doctor -- repeatedly says, skeptical arguments are like a doctor's medicine. They go in and dissolve the patient's illness, and then flow out with it to be disposed of. In other words, the skeptic argues not to discover truth, but only to dissect illusions.

Moreover, in the spirit of full disclosure, S.E. is not as timely as the Colorado review implies. S.E. nowhere mentions God, contrary to what the previous review suggests, and is not in this book concerned with scientists as such. Rather, he attacks the prevailing *philosophical* schools of his day, namely the Stoics, the still-lingering corpse of the Academy, and a group he calls the Peripatetics (meaning Aristotelians). This book is largely a technical manual of arguments to be made in response to the arguments of those other groups, which in turn are technical themselves.

That is not to say that this is not a fascinating book. For example, how interesting it is that S.E. solves riddles that would so traumatized Sartre and Camus 2000 years later!

A masterpiece on the study of knowledge........1997-11-18

Many books have been written on skepticism. But this one is the best. The author not only outlines what skepticism is,but spares nothing from skepticism. This is a refreshing outlook from the skeptical books published recently that link skepticism and anti-god,psychic powers, and so forth. A skeptic is really a wise man who calls all claims into question including those of scientists and other skeptics. His only goal is truth. Something that the majority of so called "skeptics" today know very little about. This book is not biased, and clearly shows how a true skeptic thinks. Rather than being the kill joy of so many people, the book shows that the true skeptic is not a cynic, but rather a sincere individual who loves truth. This is why so many views on God, dogmatism, and so forth are attacked in the book. The skeptic is intrested in seeing how the claims to truth stand up to his attacks. This book focuses on dogmatism in many subjects. This is the center of the skeptics attacks. We see that many views do not hold up to the skeptics critiques, this includes ironically the views of scientists and other philosophers. This is a classic book and deserves every bit of praise. I loved it .

Sextus Empiricus. Outlines of Scepticism. (book review): An article from: The Review of Metaphysics

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Sextus Empiricus. Outlines of Scepticism. (book review): An article from: The Review of Metaphysics
Mann Wolfgang-Rainer
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Title: Sextus Empiricus. Outlines of Scepticism. (book review)
Author: Mann Wolfgang-Rainer
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
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