This book provides a general overview and original analysis of new developments and applications in several areas of Computational Intelligence and Information Systems. Computational Intelligence has become an important tool for engineers to develop and analyze novel techniques to solve problems in basic sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, environment and social sciences.

The material contained in this book addresses the foundations and applications of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems, Complex and Biological Inspired Systems, Simulation and Evolution of Real and Artificial Life Forms, Intelligent Models and Control Systems, Knowledge and Learning Technologies, Web Semantics and Ontologies, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Intelligent Power Systems, Self-Organized and Distributed Systems, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and Affective Computing. The contributions have all been written by international experts, who provide current views on the topics discussed and present recent, original insights from their own experience in these fields.

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Preface.- The Process of Industrial Bioethanol Production Explained by Self-organised Maps.- Towards a Further Understanding of the Robotic Darwinian PSO.- A Comparison study between two Hyperspectral clustering methods: KFCM and PSO-FCM.- Comparison of Classification Methods for Golf Putting Performance Analysis.- Switched Unfalsified Multicontroller Nonparametric model based design.- Evolving Fuzzy Uncalibrated Visual Servoing for Mobile Robots.- Evaluating the Potential of Particle Swarm Optimization for Hyperspectral Image Clustering in Minimum Noise Fraction Feature Space.- On a Ball's Trajectory Model for Putting's Evaluation.- Efficient Discriminative Models for Proteomics with Simple and Optimized Features.- Meta-heuristics Self-Parameterization in a Multi-Agent Scheduling System using Case-based Reasoning.- Haptic-Based Robot Teleoperation: Interacting with Real Environments.- Multi-Agent Predictive Control with application in Intelligent.- Infrastructures.- Single-Objective Spreading Algorithm.- Fault Tolerant Control Based on Adaptive LQG and Fuzzy Controllers.- P2P Web Service based System for Supporting Decision-making in Cellular Manufacturing Schedulin.- Web-based Decision Support System for Orders Planning.- Product Documentation Management through REST-based Web Service.-Fuzzy Web Platform for Electrical Energy Losses Management.- Web System for Supporting Project Management.- Generation Capacity Expansion Planning In Restructured Electricity Markets Using Genetic Algorithms.-Decision Making in Maintainability of High Risk Industrial Equipment.- The Classification Platform applied to Mammographic Images.- On an optimization model for Approximate Nonnegative Matrix Factorization.- Random Walks in Electric Networks.- Business Intelligence Tools.- Food Service Management Web Platform based on XML Specification and Web Services.- Differential Evolution on the Minimization of Thermal Residual Stresses in Functionally Graded Structures.-Magnetic Wheeled Climbing Robot: Design and Implementation.-Development of an AGV Controlled by Fuzzy Logic.- Affect Recognition.- Web 2.0: Tagging usefulness.- Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Electricity Market Prices.- PCMAT Metadata Authoring Tool.- Collaborative Broker for Distributed Energy Resources.- A Multidimensional Scaling Classification of Robotic Sensors.- Rough Set Theory: Data Mining Technique Applied to the Electrical Power System.- Tuning a fractional order controller from a heat diffusion system using a PSO algorithm.- A Tool for Biomedical Documents Classification using Support Vector Machines.- Conflicts Management in Retail Systems with Self-Regulation.- Adaptive e-learning Systems Foundational Issues of the ADAPT Project.- Recognizing Music Styles - An Approach based on the Zipf-Mandelbrot Law; A Platform for Peptidase Detection based on Text Mining Techniques and Support Vector Machines.- Optimal configuration of uniplanar-unilateral external fixators in tibia fractures.- Identification of the forces in the suspension system of a race car using artificial neural network.- Combinational Logic Circuits Design Tool for a Learning Management System.- Labeling methods for the general case of the multi-objective shortest path problem - a computational study.