Intelligent systems are now being used more commonly than in the past. These involve cognitive, evolving and artificial-life, robotic, and decision- making systems, to name a few. Due to the tremendous speed of development, on both fundamental and technological levels, it is virtually impossible to offer an up-to-date, yet comprehensive overview of this field. Nevertheless, the need for a volume presenting recent developments and trends in this domain is huge, and the demand for such a volume is continually increasing in industrial and academic engineering 1 communities. Although there are a...

Prostheses, assistive systems, and rehabilitation systems are essentia l to increasing the quality of life for people with disabilities. Rese arch and development over the last decade have resulted in enormous ad vances toward that goal-none more so than the development of intellige nt systems and technologies. In the first truly comprehensive book add ressing intelligent technologies for the disabled, top experts from ar ound the world provide an overview of this dynamic, rapidly evolving f ield. They present state-of-the-art information on the latest, innovat ive technologies and their...