Evolving Intelligent Systems : Methodology and Applications

From theory to techniques, the first all-in-one resource for EIS

There is a clear demand in advanced process industries, defense, and Internet and communication (VoIP) applications for intelligent yet adaptive/evolving systems. Evolving Intelligent Systems is the first self- contained volume that covers this newly established concept in its entirety, from a systematic methodology to case studies to industrial applications. Featuring chapters written by leading world experts, it addresses the progress, trends, and major achievements in this emerging research field, with a strong emphasis on the balance between novel theoretical results and solutions and practical real-life applications.

• Explains the following fundamental approaches for developing evolving intelligent systems (EIS):

• • the Hierarchical Prioritized Structure

  • the Participatory Learning Paradigm

  • the Evolving Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems (eTS+)

  • the evolving clustering algorithm that stems from the well-known Gustafson-Kessel offline clustering algorithm

• Emphasizes the importance and increased interest in online processing of data streams

• Outlines the general strategy of using the fuzzy dynamic clustering as a foundation for evolvable information granulation

• Presents a methodology for developing robust and interpretable evolving fuzzy rule-based systems

• Introduces an integrated approach to incremental (real-time) feature extraction and classification

• Proposes a study on the stability of evolving neuro-fuzzy recurrent networks

• Details methodologies for evolving clustering and classification

• Reveals different applications of EIS to address real problems in areas of:

• • evolving inferential sensors in chemical and petrochemical industry

  • learning and recognition in robotics

• Features downloadable software resources

Evolving Intelligent Systems is the one-stop reference guide for both theoretical and practical issues for computer scientists, engineers, researchers, applied mathematicians, machine learning and data mining experts, graduate students, and professionals.

PLAMEN ANGELOV, PhD, is with the Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University. He is a member of the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, the founding Chair of the Adaptive Fuzzy Systems Task Force to the Computational Intelligence Society, and a Senior Member of IEEE.

DIMITAR P. FILEV, PhD, is a Senior Technical Leader, Intelligent Control & Information Systems, with Ford Research & Advanced Engineering and a Fellow of IEEE. He is a Vice President for Cybernetics of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and?past president of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS).

Nikola Kasabov is the Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI). He holds a Chair of Knowledge Engineering at the School of Computer and Information Sciences at Auckland University of Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the New Zealand Computer Society, and the President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS).