Currently the methods of Soft Computing are successfully used for risk analysis in: budgeting, e-commerce development, portfolio selection, Black-Scholes option pricing models, corporate acquisition s
Soft computing, intelligent robotics and control are in the core interest of contemporary engineering. Essential characteristics of soft computing methods are the ability to handle vague information,
"Advances in Bio-inspired Combinatorial Optimization Problems" illustrates several recent bio-inspired efficient algorithms for solving NP-hard problems.Theoretical bio-inspired concepts and models, i
The book focuses on a set of cutting-edge research techniques, highlighting the potential of soft computing tools in the analysis of economic and financial phenomena and in providing support for the d
This book presents a study in knowledge discovery in data with knowledge understood as a set of relations among objects and their properties. Relations in this case are implicative decision rules and
This book discusses emerging trends in the field of managing knowledge work due to technological innovations. The book is organized in 3 sections: the first section, entitled Managing Knowledge, Proje
Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed over a range of devices by a multiplicity of users, we need to develop computer software to interact with both the ever-increasing complexity of the te
This book highlights recent developments in the field, presented at the Social Simulation 2015 conference in Groningen, The Netherlands. It covers advances both in applications and methods of social s
Socially enhanced Services Computing deals with a novel and exciting new field at the intersection between Social Computing, Service-oriented Computing, Crowd Computing, and Cloud Computing. The prese
This book describes reversible computing from the standpoint of the theory of automata and computing. It investigates how reversibility can be effectively utilized in computing. A reversible computing
Cloud computing has proven to be a successful paradigm of service-oriented computing, and has revolutionized the way computing infrastructures are abstracted and used. By means of cloud computing tech
Parallel and Distributed Computing Applications examines various dimensions of parallel and distributed computing applications along with various computing algorithms required for programming designs.
The Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing comprehensively cover all aspects of cloud computing. It provides IT professionals, educators, researchers and students a compendium of cloud computing knowledge –
Part of the broader research field of natural computing, Membrane Computing is an area within computing science that aims to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and functioning of
Introduces the topic of cloud computing with an emphasis on the trustworthiness of cloud computing systems and servicesThis book describes the scientific basis of cloud computing, explaining the ideas
Many individuals and enterprises will soon be computing in the clouds. Cloud computing offers on-demand, utility-like availability of computing resources at a low cost. A critical understanding of clo
This book can be regarded as ‘Soft computing for physicists and chemists self-taught’. It prepares the readers with a solid background of soft computing and how to adapt soft computing techniques to p
Natural Computing is the field of research that investigates both human-designed computing inspired by nature and computing taking place in nature, i.e., it investigates models and computational techn
The Future of Numerical Computing Written by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson' Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to c
De describes recent developments in mobile cloud computing, which he says is essential for high-speed fifth-generation mobile networks. He covers mobile computing, cloud computing, mobile cloud comput
This book explore a new idea of computing—reversible computing—which is based on a combination of forward and reverse computing in contrast with forward, traditional computation. Illustrating the role
