Engineering Evolutionary Intelligent Systems by Ajith Abraham

Engineering Evolutionary Intelligent Systems by Ajith Abraham

Evolutionary design of intelligent systems is gaining much popularity due to its capabilities in handling several real world problems involving optimization, complexity, noisy and non-stationary environment, imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. This edited volume 'Engineering Evolutionary Intelligent Systems' deals with the theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as various evolutionary algorithm applications to many real world problems originating from science, technology, business or commerce. This volume comprises of 15 chapters including an introductory chapter which covers the fundamental definitions and outlines some important research challenges. Chapters were selected on the basis of fundamental ideas/concepts rather than the thoroughness of techniques deployed.

From the reviews:

"The purpose of this book … is to describe the variety of architectures and applications currently being used in evolutionary computationEvolutionary computation has become an important and frequently used technique for problems in science, engineering, economics, medicine, business, commerce, and the like. … This book could be a useful exposé of how worldwide researchers (outside of the US) are developing new combinations of algorithms … . Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals." (S. E. Haupt, CHOICE, Vol. 46 (01), September, 2008)

Witold Pedrycz, Ph.D., is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. In 2009, Dr. Pedrycz was elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), International Society of Management Engineers, Engineers Canada, and The Engineering Institute of Canada. He is editor-in-chief of Information Sciences and editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A. He currently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and a number of other international journals. In 2007, he received the prestigious Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Dr. Pedrycz is a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal. In 2009, he received a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing for pioneering and multifaceted contributions to granular computing. In 2013 he received a prestigious Killam Prize.