This book at hand explores emerging scientific and technological areas in which Intelligent
Computing Systems provide efficient solutions and thus may play a role in the years to come.
It demonstrates how Intelligent Computing Systems make use of computational methodologies that
mimic nature-inspired processes to address real world problems of high complexity for which
exact mathematical solutions based on physical and statistical modelling are intractable.
Common intelligent computational methodologies are presented including artificial neural
networks evolutionary computation genetic algorithms artificial immune systems fuzzy logic
swarm intelligence artificial life virtual worlds and hybrid methodologies based on
combinations of the previous.The book will be useful to researchers practitioners and graduate
students dealing with mathematically-intractable problems. It is intended for both the expert
researcher in the field of Intelligent Computing Systems as well as for the general reader in
the fields of Artificial and Computational Intelligence who wishes to learn more about the
field of Intelligent Computing Systems and its applications. An extensive list of bibliographic
references at the end of each chapter guides the reader to probe further into application area
of interest to him her.
