Advances in Soft Computing: Engineering Design and Manufacturing

TLDR: This work focuses on the development of systems for on-line Adaptive Decision Making and Control for Evolutionary Programming, as well as aspects of Evolutionary Design by Computers.

Abstract: 1: Keynote Papers.- The NIST Design Repository Project.- Evolving Connectionist and Fuzzy-Connectionist Systems for On-line Adaptive Decision Making and Control.- Recent New Development in Evolutionary Programming.- Emotional Image Retrieval with Interactive Evolutionary Computation.- 2: Design Support Systems.- Using Genetic Algorithms to Encourage Engineering Design Creativity.- Abduction Problem in Probabilistic Constraint Logic Programming.- Aspects of Evolutionary Design by Computers.- Surface Optimisation within the CAD/CAM Environment using Genetic Algorithms.- 3: Intelligent Control.- Adaptive Sugeno Fuzzy Control: A Case Study.- An Experimental and Comparative Study of Fuzzy PID Control Structures.- An Accurate COG Defuzzifier Design Using the Coadaptation of Learning and Evolution.- A Multiagent Intelligent Control System for Glass Industry.- Predictive Control Using Fuzzy Models.- Evolutionary Design of a Helicopter Autopilot.- Decomposition of a Fuzzy Controller Based on Inference Break-up Method.- 4: Identification and Modelling.- Experimental Evaluation of Intelligent Identification Algorithms Applied to a Wind Tunnel Process.- Improvement of Membership Function Identification Method in Usability and Precision.- General Parameter Radial Basis Function Neural Network Based Adaptive Fuzzy Systems.- Uneven Division of Input Spaces for Hierarchical Fuzzy Modeling.- Ensembles of Evolutionary created Artificial Neural Networks and Nearest Neighbour Classifiers.- 5: Data Mining.- Application of Multi-dimensional Fuzzy Analysis to Decision Making.- Information-Theoretic Fuzzy Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Databases.- Intelligent Electronic Catalogs for Sales Support - Introducing Case-Based Reasoning Techniques to on-line Product Selection Applications.- A Genetic Algorithm for Generalized Rule Induction.- 6: Optimisation.- Multiobjective Optimization by Nessy Algorithm.- The Scout Algorithm applied to the Maximum Clique Problem.- Unconstrained Optimization Using Genetic Box Search.- Improvement of Simple Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Uncapacitated Warehouse Location Problem.- Optimizing Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction.- 7: Optimisation for Industrial Applications.- Maximum Entropy Image Restoration by Evolutionary Algorithm.- The Finite Element Method and Soft Computing.- A Tabu Search Approach for the Tool Assignment and Machine Loading Problem in Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Investigating Evolutionary Optimisation of Constrained Functions to Capture Shape Descriptions from Range Data.- Optimal Selection of Pressure Vessels.- 8: New Topics in EA Basics.- Simulation of Baldwin Effect and Dawkins Memes by Genetic Algorithm.- Approach to Structure Synthesis by Genetic Algorithms.- A Study of Altruism by Genetic Algorithm.- The Bivariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm.- 9: New Frontier for Soft Computing.- Granular Computing using Neighborhood Systems.- Toward Fuzziness in Natural Language Processing.- A New Approach to Acquisition of Comprehensible Fuzzy Rules.- Zero-Point Probability for Linear Source Separation.- Code Optimization for DNA Computing of Maximal Cliques.- 10: Summary of Tutorials.- On Line Tutorials on Evolutionary Computing.- Fuzzy Control Tutorial.- 11: Summary of Discussion.- 11: Summary of Discussion.- Keyword Index.- List of Reviewers.