This book collects papers presented at the Virtual International Conference on Soft Computing, Optimization Theory and Applications (SCOTA 2021), held at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, from 26–27 March 2021. Topics discussed in the book are on fuzzy logic, neural networks and optimization algorithms, as well as their hybrid combinations, and their application in areas such as intelligent control and robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, time series prediction and optimization of complex problems.The book highlights research on: (a) hybrid intelligent...

This book facilitates both the theoretical background and applications of fuzzy, intuitionistic fuzzy and rough, fuzzy rough sets in the area of data science. This book provides various individual, soft computing, optimization and hybridization techniques of fuzzy and intuitionistic fuzzy sets with rough sets and their applications including data handling and that of type-2 fuzzy systems. Machine learning techniques are effectively implemented to solve a diversity of problems in pattern recognition, data mining and bioinformatics. To handle different nature of problems, including uncertainty,...

This book explains the basic concepts, theory and applications of neural networks in a simple unified approach with clear examples and simulations in the MATLAB programming language. The scripts herein are coded for general purposes to be easily extended to a variety of problems in different areas of application. They are vectorized and optimized to run faster and be applicable to high-dimensional engineering problems. This book will serve as a main reference for graduate and undergraduate courses in neural networks and applications. This book will also serve as a main basis for researchers...

This book contains select papers presented at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Intelligence (ICAMCI-2020), held at the National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India, from 19–20 March 2020. It discusses the most recent breakthroughs in intelligent techniques such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, optimization algorithms, and their application in the development of intelligent information systems by using applied mathematics. The book also explains how these systems will be used in domains such as intelligent control and robotics, pattern...

This book covers the introduction, theory, development and applications of type-2 fuzzy logic systems, which represent the current state-of-the-art in various domains such as control applications, power plants, health care, image processing, mathematical applications etc. The book is also rich in discussing different applications in order to give the researchers a flavor of how type-2 fuzzy logic is designed for different types of problems. Type-2 fuzzy logic systems are now used extensively in engineering applications for many purposes. In simple language, this book covers the practical use...

In this book, recent theoretical developments on fuzzy logic, neural networks, and optimization algorithms, as well as their hybrid combinations, are presented. In addition, the above-mentioned methods are considered in application areas such as intelligent control and robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, decision-making, time series prediction, and optimization of complex problems. Nowadays, the main topics of the book are highly relevant, as most current intelligent systems and hardware implementations in use utilize some form of intelligent feature to enhance their...

This book contains select contributions presented at the International Conference on Nonlinear Applied Analysis and Optimization (ICNAAO-2021), held at the Department of Mathematics Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India, from 21–23 December 2021. The book discusses topics in the areas of nonlinear analysis, fixed point theory, dynamical systems, optimization, fractals, applications to differential/integral equations, signal and image processing, and soft computing, and exposes the young talents with the newer dimensions in these areas with their practical approaches...

This book briefly reviews the basic concepts of type-2 fuzzy systems and then describes the proposed definitions for interval type-3 fuzzy sets and relations, also interval type-3 inference and systems. The use of type-2 fuzzy systems has become widespread in the leading economy sectors, especially in industrial and application areas, such as services, health, defense, and so on. However, recently the use of interval type-3 fuzzy systems has been receiving increasing attention and some successful applications have been developed in the last year. These issues were taken into consideration for...