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Advances in Computation and Intelligence: 4th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2009, Huangshi, China, October 23-25, 2009, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #5821)

Advances in Computation and Intelligence: Third International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2008 Wuhan, China, December 19-21, 2008 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #5370)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2008, held in Wuhan, China, in December 2008. The 93 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from about 700 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization, evolutionary learning systems, neural networks, classification and recognition, bioinformatics and bioengineering, evolutionary data mining and knowledge discovery, intelligent GIS and control, theory of intelligent computation, combinational and numerical optimization, as well as real-world applications.

Advances in Computation and Intelligence: Second International Symposium, ISICA 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #4683)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2007, held in Wuhan, China, in September 2007. The 71 revised full papers cover such topics as evolutionary computation, evolutionary learning, neural networks, swarms, pattern recognition, and data mining.

Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #14)

Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis offers state of the art tremendous advances in computational algorithms and data analysis. The selected articles are representative in these subjects sitting on the top-end-high technologies. The volume serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working on computational algorithms and data analysis.

Advances in Computational and Stochastic Optimization, Logic Programming, and Heuristic Search: Interfaces in Computer Science and Operations Research (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series #9)

Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic relationship and this book - as a part of the Operations Research and Computer Science Interface Series - sits squarely in the center of the confluence of these two technical research communities. The research presented in the volume is evidence of the expanding frontiers of these two intersecting disciplines and provides researchers and practitioners with new work in the areas of logic programming, stochastic optimization, heuristic search and post-solution analysis for integer programs. The chapter topics span the spectrum of application level. Some of the chapters are highly applied and others represent work in which the application potential is only beginning. In addition, each chapter contains expository material and reviews of the literature designed to enhance the participation of the reader in this expanding interface.

Advances in Computational Biology: Proceedings of the 2nd Colombian Congress on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBCOL) (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #232)

This volume compiles accepted contributions for the 2nd Edition of the Colombian Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Congress CCBCOL, after a rigorous review process in which 54 papers were accepted for publication from 119 submitted contributions. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are areas of knowledge that have emerged due to advances that have taken place in the Biological Sciences and its integration with Information Sciences. The expansion of projects involving the study of genomes has led the way in the production of vast amounts of sequence data which needs to be organized, analyzed and stored to understand phenomena associated with living organisms related to their evolution, behavior in different ecosystems, and the development of applications that can be derived from this analysis.

Advances in Computational Biology (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #680)

Proceedings of The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Las Vegas, NV, July 13-16, 2009. Recent advances in Computational Biology are covered through a variety of topics. Both inward research (core areas of computational biology and computer science) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences. These include: Gene regulation, Gene expression databases, Gene pattern discovery and identification, Genetic network modeling and inference, Gene expression analysis, RNA and DNA structure and sequencing, Biomedical engineering, Microarrays, Molecular sequence and structure databases, Molecular dynamics and simulation, Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly, Image processing In medicine and biological sciences, Sequence analysis and alignment, Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, Software tools for computational biology and bioinformatics, Comparative genomics; and more.

Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence: 14th International Conference, ICCCI 2022, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 28–30, 2022, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1653)

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2022, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in September 2022. The 43 full papers and 15 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 421 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical ​sections on ​collective intelligence and collective decision-making; natural language processing; deep learning; computational intelligence for multimedia understanding; computational intelligence in medical applications; applications for industry 4.0; experience enhanced intelligence to IoT and sensors; cooperative strategies for decision making and optimization; machine learning methods.

Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence: 12th International Conference, ICCCI 2020, Da Nang, Vietnam, November 30 – December 3, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1287)

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2020, held in Da Nang, Vietnam, in November – December 2020. Due to the the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 68 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 314 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: ​data mining and machine learning; deep learning and applications for industry 4.0; recommender systems; computer vision techniques; decision support and control systems; intelligent management information systems; innovations in intelligent systems; intelligent modeling and simulation approaches for games and real world systems; experience enhanced intelligence to IoT; data driven IoT for smart society; applications of collective intelligence; natural language processing; low resource languages processing; computational collective intelligence and natural language processing.

Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence: 15th International Conference, ICCCI 2023, Budapest, Hungary, September 27–29, 2023, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1864)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2023, held in Budapest, Hungary, during September 27–29, 2023.The 59 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 218 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Collective Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making, Deep Learning Techniques, Natural Language Processing, Data Minning and Machine learning, Social Networks and Speek Communication, Cybersecurity and Internet of Things, Cooperative Strategies for Decision Making and Optimization, Digital Content Understanding and Apllication for Industry 4.0 and Computational Intelligence in Medical Applications.

Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence: 13th International Conference, ICCCI 2021, Kallithea, Rhodes, Greece, September 29 – October 1, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1463)

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2021, held in Kallithea, Rhodes, Greece, in October - November 2021. Due to the the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 44 full papers and 14 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 231 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: ​​social networks and recommender systems; collective decision-making; computer vision techniques; innovations in intelligent systems; cybersecurity intelligent methods; data mining and machine learning; machine learning in real-world data; Internet of Things and computational technologies for collective intelligence; smart industry and management systems; low resource languages processing; computational intelligence for multimedia understanding.

Advances in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation: New Methods and Challenging Computations (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)

This contributed volume celebrates the work of Tayfun E. Tezduyar on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The articles it contains were born out of the Advances in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation (AFSI 2014) conference, also dedicated to Prof. Tezduyar and held at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan on March 19-21, 2014. The contributing authors represent a group of international experts in the field who discuss recent trends and new directions in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Organized into seven distinct parts arranged by thematic topics, the papers included cover basic methods and applications of CFD, flows with moving boundaries and interfaces, phase-field modeling, computer science and high-performance computing (HPC) aspects of flow simulation, mathematical methods, biomedical applications, and FSI. Researchers, practitioners, and advanced graduate students working on CFD, FSI, and related topics will find this collection to be a definitive and valuable resource.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 20th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2021, Mexico City, Mexico, October 25–30, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13067)

The two-volume set LNAI 13067 and 13068 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2021, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 2021.The total of 58 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 30 papers structured into three sections: – Machine and Deep Learning – Image Processing and Pattern Recognition – Evolutionary and Metaheuristic Algorithms The second volume, Advances in Soft Computing, contains 28 papers structured into two sections: – Natural Language Processing – Intelligent Applications and Robotics

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2018, Guadalajara, Mexico, October 22–27, 2018, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11289)

The two-volume set LNAI 11288 and 11289 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2018, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in October 2018. The total of 62 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical as follows: Part I: evolutionary and nature-inspired intelligence; machine learning; fuzzy logic and uncertainty management. Part II: knowledge representation, reasoning, and optimization; natural language processing; and robotics and computer vision.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 11th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2012, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, October 27 - November 4, 2012. Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7630)

The two-volume set LNAI 7629 and LNAI 7630 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2012, held in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, in October/November 2012. The 80 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The second volume includes 40 papers focusing on soft computing. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: natural language processing; evolutionary and nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms; neural networks and hybrid intelligent systems; fuzzy systems and probabilistic models in decision making.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 11th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2011, Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain, June 8-10, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6692)

This two-volume set LNCS 6691 and 6692 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2011, held in Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain, in June 2011. The 154 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions for presentation in two volumes. The second volume includes 76 papers organized in topical sections on video and image processing; hybrid artificial neural networks: models, algorithms and data; advances in machine learning for bioinformatics and computational biomedicine; biometric systems for human-machine interaction; data mining in biomedicine; bio-inspired combinatorial optimization; applying evolutionary computation and nature-inspired algorithms to formal methods; recent advances on fuzzy logic and soft computing applications; new advances in theory and applications of ICA-based algorithms; biological and bio-inspired dynamical systems; and interactive and cognitive environments. The last section contains 9 papers from the International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Context-Based Information Fusion, ISCIF 2011, held at IWANN 2011.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 11th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2011, Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain, June 8-10, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6691)

This two-volume set LNCS 6691 and 6692 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2011, held in Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain, in June 2011. The 154 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions for presentation in two volumes. The first volume includes 69 papers organized in topical sections on mathematical and theoretical methods in computational intelligence; learning and adaptation; bio-inspired systems and neuro-engineering; hybrid intelligent systems; applications of computational intelligence; new applications of brain-computer interfaces; optimization algorithms in graphic processing units; computing languages with bio-inspired devices and multi-agent systems; computational intelligence in multimedia processing; and biologically plausible spiking neural processing.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 22nd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2023, Yucatán, Mexico, November 13–18, 2023, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14391)

The two-volume set LNAI 14391 and 14392 constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2023, held in Yucatán, Mexico, in November 2023.The total of 49 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions.The proceedings of MICAI 2023 are published in two volumes. The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 24 papers structured into three sections:– Machine Learning– Computer Vision and Image Processing– Intelligent SystemsThe second volume, Advances in Soft Computing, contains 25 papers structured into three sections:– Natural Language Processing– Bioinformatics and Medical Applications– Robotics and Applications

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2017, Enseneda, Mexico, October 23-28, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10633)

The two-volume set LNAI 10632 and 10633 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2017, held in Enseneda, Mexico, in October 2017. The total of 60 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions. The contributions were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: neural networks; evolutionary algorithms and optimization; hybrid intelligent systems and fuzzy logic; and machine learning and data mining. Part II: natural language processing and social networks; intelligent tutoring systems and educational applications; and image processing and pattern recognition.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2022, Monterrey, Mexico, October 24–29, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13613)

The two-volume set LNAI 13612 and 13613 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2022, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in October 2022.The total of 63 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions.The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 34 papers structured into three sections:Machine and Deep LearningImage Processing and Pattern RecognitionEvolutionary and Metaheuristic AlgorithmsThe second volume contains 29 papers structured into two sections:Natural Language ProcessingIntelligent Applications and Robotics

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2022, Monterrey, Mexico, October 24–29, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13612)

The two-volume set LNAI 13612 and 13613 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2022, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in October 2022.The total of 63 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions.The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 34 papers structured into three sections:Machine and Deep LearningImage Processing and Pattern RecognitionEvolutionary and Metaheuristic AlgorithmsThe second volume contains 29 papers structured into two sections:Natural Language ProcessingIntelligent Applications and Robotics

Advances in Computational Intelligence: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012. Plenary/Invited Lectures (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7311)

This state-of-the-art survey offers a renewed and refreshing focus on the progress in evolutionary computation, in neural networks, and in fuzzy systems. The book presents the expertise and experiences of leading researchers spanning a diverse spectrum of computational intelligence in these areas. The result is a balanced contribution to the research area of computational intelligence that should serve the community not only as a survey and a reference, but also as an inspiration for the future advancement of the state of the art of the field. The 13 selected chapters originate from lectures and presentations given at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012, held in Brisbane, Australia, in June 2012.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 19th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2020, Mexico City, Mexico, October 12–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12469)

The two-volume set LNAI 12468 and 12469 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2020, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 2020. The total of 77 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 186 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical as follows: Part I: machine and deep learning, evolutionary and metaheuristic algorithms, and soft computing. Part II: natural language processing, image processing and pattern recognition, and intelligent applications and robotics.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 12th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2013, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, June 12-14, 2013, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7903)

This two-volume set LNCS 7902 and 7903 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2013, held in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, in June 2013. The 116 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for presentation in two volumes. The papers explore sections on mathematical and theoretical methods in computational intelligence, neurocomputational formulations, learning and adaptation emulation of cognitive functions, bio-inspired systems and neuro-engineering, advanced topics in computational intelligence and applications.

Advances in Computational Intelligence: 12th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2013, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, June 12-14, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7902)

This two-volume set LNCS 7902 and 7903 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2013, held in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, in June 2013. The 116 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for presentation in two volumes. The papers explore sections on mathematical and theoretical methods in computational intelligence, neurocomputational formulations, learning and adaptation emulation of cognitive functions, bio-inspired systems and neuro-engineering, advanced topics in computational intelligence and applications