Computational Intelligence

Rudolf Kruse is a full professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany, where he leads the working group on computational intelligence. Christian Moewes and Pascal Held are research assistants at the same institution. Christian Borgelt is a principal researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain. Frank Klawonn is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Matthias Steinbrecher is a member of the SAP Innovation Center, Potsdam, Germany.

Introduction.- Part I: Neural Networks.- Introduction.- Threshold Logic Units.- General Neural Networks.- Multi-Layer Perceptrons.- Radial Basis Function Networks.- Self-Organizing Maps.- Hopfield Networks.- Recurrent Networks.- Mathematical Remarks.- Part II: Evolutionary Algorithms.- Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms.- Elements of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Fundamental Evolutionary Algorithms.- Special Applications and Techniques.- Part III: Fuzzy Systems.- Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic.- The Extension Principle.- Fuzzy Relations.- Similarity Relations.- Fuzzy Control.- Fuzzy Clustering.- Part IV: Bayes Networks.- Introduction to Bayes Networks.- Elements of Probability and Graph Theory.- Decompositions.- Evidence Propagation.- Learning Graphical Models.