Research in Computer Science in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

This book is a collection of papers devoted to the emergence and development in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences of some of the areas of informatics, including artificial intelligence. The papers are prepared by specialists from the Academy, some of whom are among the founders of these scientific and application areas in Bulgaria and in some cases - in the world. The book is interesting for specialists in informatics and computer science and researchers in history of sciences.

Inhalt

In short about Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.- Computer Science Research - Unity in Variety.- The Achievements of the Technical Sciences in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in Automation, Robotics and Computers during the Past Century.- Brief History of the Bulgarian Computing.- Soft computing: Three Decades Fuzzy Models and Applications.- The Contribution of the Academic Institute for Technical Cybernetics and Robotics (ITCR) to the Initiation, the Development and the Serial Production of Personal Computers in Bulgaria.- Pattern Recognition Development in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.- On the History of Artificial Intelligence in Bulgaria.- Computer Algebra Applications in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.- Generalized Nets. An Overview of the Main Results and Applications.- On Intuitionistic Fuzziness.- Acoustic analysis of voices.- The Mathematical Aspects of Some Problems from Coding Theory.- Research on Artificial Neural Networks in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.- An Overview of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Models and Software Systems.- Methods for Modelling of Overall Telecommunication Systems.- Results connected to time series analysis and machine learning.- Metaheuristic Algorithms: Theory and Applications.- In silico studies of bi logically active molecules.- Survey on Theory and Applications of InterCriteria Analysis Approach.- Academic ICT Research for Defence and Security.- Informatics approaches for forest fire spread prediction.