This volume presents new trends and developments in soft computing techniques. Topics include: neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, knowledge discovery, rough sets, and hybrid methods. It also covers various applications of soft computing techniques in economics, mechanics, medicine, automatics and image processing. The book contains contributions from internationally recognized scientists, such as Zadeh, Bubnicki, Pawlak, Amari, Batyrshin, Hirota, Koczy, Kosinski, Novák, S.-Y. Lee, Pedrycz, Raudys, Setiono, Sincak, Strumillo, Takagi, Usui, Wilamowski and Zurada. An excellent overview of soft computing methods and their applications.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Invited Papers.- Neural Networks.- Fuzzy Systems.- Evolutionary Algorithms.- Soft Computing in Classification and Pattern Recognition.- Medical Applications of Soft Computing.- Neuro-Fuzzy Systems.- Various Methods of Soft Computing.- Image Processing.- Soft Computing in Automatics.- Neural Networks for Signal Processing.- Economic Applications.- Mechanical Applications.- Various Applications.