This book is dedicated to the theory and applications of Intelligent Systems. Research and development in the Intelligent Systems area is growing rapidly due to many successful applications of these new techniques in very diverse problems. Intelligent Systems and Techniques covers many fields such as neural networks, (adaptive) fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing and their hybrids and derivatives. This book aims to provide highlights of the current research in the Intelligent Systems area. It consists of research papers in the fields of neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and...

Evolutionary computation techniques have attracted increasing att- tions in recent years for solving complex optimization problems. They are more robust than traditional methods based on formal logics or mathematical programming for many real world OR/MS problems. E- lutionary computation techniques can deal with complex optimization problems better than traditional optimization techniques. However, most papers on the application of evolutionary computation techniques to Operations Research /Management Science (OR/MS) problems have scattered around in different journals and conference...