Computers : Artificial Intelligence

This state-of-the-art survey constitutes papers that were selected after an open call that followed the International Dagstuhl-Seminar on Algorithmic Methods for Railway Optimization, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in June 2004. The second part of the volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2004, held in Bergen, Norway, in September 2004 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2004. The volume covers algorithmic methods for analyzing and solving problems arising in railway optimization with special focus on the interplay between railway and other public transport systems. Beside algorithmics and mathematical optimization, the relevance of formal models and the influence of applicational aspects for problem modeling are considered as well. The papers also address experimental studies and or useful prototype implementations. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and are organized in topical sections on network and line planning, timetabling and timetable information, rolling stock and crew scheduling, and real-time operations. more...

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Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks have gained an incredible research momentum. Computer scientists and engineers of all flavors are embracing the area. Sensor networks have been adopted by researchers from many different fields, ranging from hardware technology to operating systems, from antenna design to databases, from information theory to networking, from graph theory to computational geometry. The purpose of this monograph - outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar held in Dagstuhl Castle in November 2005 - is to give a first overview of algorithmic results on wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Its focus is on algorithms and protocols that allow for an analysis of their efficiency and efficacy. Many chapters deal with distributed algorithms, in particular local and localized algorithms. Importance is attached to topics combining both interesting aspects of wireless networks and attractive algorithmic methods. Each chapter provides a survey of some part of the field, whilst selected results are described in more detail. The structure and content of the book would make it a suitable basis for an advanced course. more...

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This book comprises a selection of papers from IFSA 2007 on new methods for analysis and design of hybrid intelligent systems using soft computing techniques. Soft Computing (SC) consists of several computing paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, and genetic algorithms, which can be used to produce powerful hybrid intelligent systems for solving problems in pattern recognition, time series prediction, intelligent control, robotics and automation. Hybrid intelligent systems that combine several SC techniques are needed due to the complexity and high dimensionality of real-world problems. Hybrid intelligent systems can have different architectures, which have an impact on the efficiency and accuracy of these systems, for this reason it is very important to optimize architecture design. The architectures can combine, in different ways, neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, to achieve the ultimate goal of pattern recognition, time series prediction, intelligent control, or other application areas. more...

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A core technology for making the semantic web happen is the field of semantic annotation, which turns human-understandable content into a machine understandable form. This book reports on the range of technologies that are used to achieve this translation and nourish third millennium applications. more...

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The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2004.The papers present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on personalisation, e-commerce and resource management, hazard prediction, fault diagnosis and design, medical and social services and image recognition, knowledge bases and attribute selection.This is the twelfth volume in the Applications and Innovations series. The series serves as a key reference on the use of AI Technology to enable organizations to solve complex problems and gain significant business benefits.The Technical Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXI. more...

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