Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design: Theory, Tools and Applications

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This book covers the problem of control and intelligent systems design using soft-computing techniques in an integrated manner. It presents both theory and applications, including industrial applications, and contains numerous worked examples, problems and case studies. The book covers the state-of-the-art in soft-computing techniques, giving the reader sufficient knowledge to tackle a wide range of complex systems for which traditional techniques are inadequate. It integrates theory and practice through the use of numerous worked examples and includes extensive coverage of control applciations. Anyone interested in artificial intelligence and/or control engineering.

Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management

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Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management
Markus Schwaninger
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ASIN: 3540298762

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This book offers an innovative approach to overcome the crisis of management in the face of complexity. The systems approach to management will help to develop the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. This approach is a powerful tool, grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics. The approach will allow managers and advanced students of management cope with organizational complexity in an effective way. The book is a source for improvement of any kind of organizations, private or public, non-profit, large or small. The systems approach, on which this book is grounded, makes this book different from many conventional books on organizations.

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Important concepts for up-to-date management.......2007-04-11

This book is a very important book. Besides its solid theoretical foundations it is a very practical book. It will help managers to better understand their role in the complex world where companies and organizations in general have to operate. The role of managers in organizations is basically to design their organizations and to steer them so they are able to cope steadily with the complexity they have to face, in the outside environment as well as inside, in order to achieve their purposes. This means helping their organizations to be more "intelligent".

To show how to do this the author establishes an integrative Framework for the Design and Development of Intelligent Organizations containing five core components which are interrelated: Activities, Structure, Behavior, Basic Parameters (Identity, Ethos and Vision) and Time. Each of them is described in great detail and the implications of its adequate inclusion and design is thoroughly treated.

Three very important theories (The Model of Systemic Control-MSC), The Viable System Model-VSM and the Team Syntegrity model-TSM) are described and coherently incorporated into the framework.

Another very relevant aspect of this book is the great attention dedicated to the implications that three clearly identified necessary types of management (Operative, Strategic and particularly Normative) have on the companies and organizations' long term viability.

In summary I think that this book is a must for managers interested in knowing the very advanced concepts and tools which are today available and ready-to-use for helping them to steer their companies through the actual (and quite probably future) turbulent environments in which they operate.

For both academics and practitioners.......2006-08-21

It is hard to find in management literature books with the right mixture of theoretical rigor, empirical support, and practical advice. This book is one of such a kind. The book presents a novel integrative framework for management, using three well known academic models: The Model of Systemic Control - developed by the author -, the Viable System Model and the Team Sintegrity model. This schema allows to address the whole picture of several organizational issues that usually are treated separately: structure, behavior, functions, human/social conditions and time. What is known as the Systems Approach. As the author says in the first lines: "This is not a book about how to run a company. It is about how to look at the world differently". It is full with real-life examples and occasional exploration of other areas such as computer simulation and complexity theory which underpin the ideas in the book. And besides, the author's style guarantees a very pleasing reading.

Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems

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A treasure chest of ideas
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Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems
Thomas Bräunl
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ASIN: 3540343180

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This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. It is structured in three parts, dealing with embedded systems (hardware and software design, actuators, sensors, PID control, multitasking), mobile robot design (driving, balancing, walking, and flying robots), and mobile robot applications (mapping, robot soccer, genetic algorithms, neural networks, behavior-based systems, and simulation). The book is written as a text for courses in computer science, computer engineering, IT, electronic engineering, and mechatronics, as well as a guide for robot hobbyists and researchers.

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A treasure chest of ideas.......2006-08-27

This book is a real treasure chest of ideas for an amateur robot builder. It does not show solutions in enough detail to copy them, but it points you in the right direction.

For me some of the most interesting topics covered were:
- Motorola M68332 based general purpose robot controller board,
- Introduction to different robot competitions,
- Simplified image processing solutions,
- Walking robots and evolutionary programs to control the gait,
- Examples of real life robots.

Comments to Embedded Robotics.......2006-07-31

Hi, so far the book is a little dissapointeing, because is to much centered to a commercial hardware (EyeCon) that is somewhat hard to adquiere to a group that has a very low budget for that kind of projects... but is important to have a reference. That is why it deserve a 3. But also supply a very important source of information for sensors and actuators design. That is why i gave an average of 4 stars.

Best regards, and thanks for all the effort you made for me enjoying this book.

the best book for student.......2003-12-25

After I have read the book contents, I think it is a great book fo me. From this book, I can get many new knowledge, including many field. I want this book to guide my student to take part in
robot contest.

Intelligent Robotic Systems: Theory, Design and Applications (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

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Intelligent Robotic Systems: Theory, Design and Applications (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
Kimon P. Valavanis , and George N. Saridis
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Since the late 1960s, there has been a revolution in robots and industrial automation, from the design of robots with no computing or sensorycapabilities (first-generation), to the design of robots with limited computational power and feedback capabilities (second-generation), and the design of intelligent robots (third-generation), which possess diverse sensing and decision making capabilities. The development of the theory of intelligent machines has been developed in parallel to the advances in robot design. This theory is the natural outcome of research and development in classical control (1950s), adaptive and learning control (1960s), self-organizing control (1970s) and intelligent control systems (1980s). The theory of intelligent machines involves utilization and integration of concepts and ideas from the diverse disciplines of science, engineering and mathematics, and fields like artificial intelligence, system theory and operations research. The main focus and motivation is to bridge the gap between diverse disciplines involved and bring under a common cover several generic methodologies pertaining to what has been defined as machine intelligence. Intelligent robotic systems are a specific application of intelligent machines. They are complex computer controlled robotic systems equipped with a diverse set of visual and non visual sensors and possess decision making and problem solving capabilities within their domain of operation. Their modeling and control is accomplished via analytical and heuristic methodologies and techniques pertaining to generalized system theory and artificial intelligence. Intelligent Robotic Systems: Theory, Design and Applications, presents and justifies the fundamental concepts and ideas associated with the modeling and analysis of intelligent robotic systems. Appropriate for researchers and engineers in the general area of robotics and automation, Intelligent Robotic Systems is both a solid reference as well as a text for a graduate level course in intelligent robotics/machines.

Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies)

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Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies)

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ASIN: 3764373474

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This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent platforms and toolkits. They form the basis for the development of agent-based systems, thus, are a convenient starting point for everybody who wants to apply agent technology. Another focus lies on agent-based applications. These systems prove that agent technology is mature enough to permit the development of sophisticated applications, like electronic marketplaces, environments for computer-supported cooperative work, or transportation systems.

Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: International Conference, AH 2000, Trento, Italy, August 28-30, 2000 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2000, held in Trento, Italy, in August 2000.The 22 revised full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. Among the topics covered are hypertext, user modeling, machine learning, natural language generation, information retrieval, intelligent tutoring systems, cognitive science, web-based education, etc.

Advances in Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, V. 59)

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This book is dedicated to the theory and applications of Intelligent Systems. Research and development work in Intelligent Systems area is growing rapidly due to many successful applications of these new techniques in very diverse problems. "Intelligent Systems and Techniques" cover many fields such as neural networks, (adaptive) fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing and their hybrids and derivatives. This book is to provide highlights of the current research in Intelligent Systems area. It consists of research papers in the fields of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing, Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Agents, Image Processing, Robotics and Automation, Speech Recognition, Signal Processing and Control, Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Case-based Reasoning and Clustering.

Agent Systems, Mobile Agents, and Applications: Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and Fourth International Symposium on ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitues the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and the Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents, ASA/MA 2000 held in Zürich, Switzerland in September 2000. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on migration, security issues, systems and applications, mobile agent applications, applications of multi-agent systems, communication and mobility control, cooperation and interaction.

Agent Technology Handbook (McGraw-Hill Computer Communications Series)

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The Agent Domain clearly specified

Agent Technology Handbook (McGraw-Hill Computer Communications Series)
Dimitris N. Chorafas
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This high-level book is aimed at technically sophisticated network managers and designers who need to know what agents are and what they can do for their corporate networks and Internet capabilities. This reference gives an in-depth look at agents in networks and telecommunications systems as well as the applications that work with agents.

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I'm don't like this book at all.......2001-05-24

I don't like this book. It explains elementary things about agents, in totaly non-scientific way.

Very blah-blah style of writing.

The Agent Domain clearly specified.......1998-06-17

This book gives a good insight of the agent domain and also about the ongoing intresting project in MIT regarding Intelligent Agents. This book also gives a good overview of KQML. This book is very good if U want to know about the intelligent agent technology without going to any specific language implementation details.

Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Formalisms, Methodologies, and Applications: Based on the AI'97 Workshops on Commonsense Reasoning, Intelligent Agents, ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

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ASIN: 3540647694

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of three workshops held in conjunction with the 10th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Perth, Australia, in December 1997.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. The book is divided into sections on formal methods of agency, reasoning agents, communication and coordination, social interaction, and practical issues for distributed artificial intelligence systems.

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