If a technique represents a genuine advance in software engineering, then it has commercial advantage. This trend is more evident in the application of genetic algorithms (GAs). This book attempts to emphasise the diversity of the GA approach, by presenting descriptions of GAs used for real-world optimization and for complex modelling problems.

Telecommunications firms worldwide are actively involved in AI applications for resolving network management and telecommunications problems. This book adresses the folllowing major functional areas: planning, scheduling, monitoring, control, fault classification and diagnosis, training and help desks. Several AI techniques are applied, including neural networks, expert systems, integrating rule-based systems with case-based reasoning systems, genetic algorithms, distribited AI and intelligent tutoring systems. Readers: researchers and professionals in telecommunication, AI experts and...

This publication reflects on the discussion on using chaos theory for the study of society. It explores the interface between chaos theory and the social sciences. A broad variety of fields (including Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Management, Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences) is represented in the book. The leading themes are: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Social Connectionism and the Connectionist Mind, Social Institutions and Public Policy, and Social Simulations. The book includes the following topics: the relevance of the complexity-chaos paradigm for...

Current approaches to the development of legal knowledge-based systems (LKBS), such as the use of rule-based systems, case-based systems or logics, have obtained limited theoretical and practical results. This overview of the field describes present approaches and analyzes their problems.

Provides a detailed overview of Inductive Logic Programming, as well as a collection of technical contributions to it. This overview is based on the ESPRIT basic research project no 6020 on Inductive Logic Programming. It is useful for students, researchers and practitioners of artificial intelligence and computer science.

This work contains a selection of contributions regarding intelligent systems by experts in diverse fields. Topics discussed are: applications of intelligent systems in modelling and prediction of environmental changes; and neural networks for signal processing.

This volume presents research from the interdisciplanary field of norms, logic and information systems, a cross-pollinations between traditional deontic logic and computer science.