This book is devoted to reporting innovative and significant progress in fuzzy system engineering. Given the maturation of fuzzy logic, this book is dedicated to exploring the recent breakthroughs in fuzziness and soft computing in favour of intelligent system engineering. This monograph presents novel developments of the fuzzy theory as well as interesting applications of the fuzzy logic explo…
Fuzzy Logic -- Knowledge and Fuzzy Control -- Control of the Service Activities -- Control of the Queue Discipline -- Control of the Admission of Customers -- Coordinating Multiple Control Policies -- Applications of Fuzzy Queuing Control to the Internet -- Closure.Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue. The phenomenon is becoming more prevalent in our increasingly congested a…
Preliminaries -- Perturbations of Linear Systems -- Linear Systems with Slowly Varying Coefficients -- Linear Dissipative and Piecewise Constant Systems -- Nonlinear Systems with Autonomous Linear Parts -- The Aizerman Problem -- Nonlinear Systems with Time-Variant Linear Parts -- Essentially Nonlinear Systems -- The Lur'e Type Systems -- The Aizerman Type Problem for Nonautonomous Systems -- I…
Evolvable Robots -- Learning for Cooperative Transportation by Autonomous Humanoid Robots -- Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot -- Evolution of Khepera Robotic Controllers with Hierarchical Genetic Programming Techniques -- Evolving Controllers for Miniature Robots -- Evolvable Hardware Synthesis -- Evolutionary Synthesis of Synchronous …
Dielectric Properties of Water and Moist Substances -- Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Water and Aqueous Solutions -- Water in Polymers and Biopolymers Studied by Dielectric Techniques -- Thermal and Geometrical Effects on Bulk Permittivity of Porous Mixtures Containing Bound Water -- Model Systems for Materials with High Dielectric Losses in Aquametry -- Moisture Measurement in Multi-La…
Bases of Petri Nets -- Properties of Petri Nets -- Non-Autonomous Petri Nets -- Autonomous Continuous and Hybrid Petri Nets -- Timed Continuous Petri Nets -- Timed Hybrid Petri Nets -- Hybrid Petri Nets with Speeds Depending on the C-Marking.This monograph presents a well written and clearly organized introduction in the standard methods of discrete, continuous and hybrid Petri Nets. Starting f…
Foundation -- Applications and Tools -- Image Representation -- Random Variables and Fields -- Neighborhood Operations -- Multiscale Representation -- Image Formation and Preprocessing -- Quantitative Visualization -- Image Formation -- 3-D Imaging -- Digitization, Sampling, Quantization -- Pixel Processing -- Feature Extraction -- Averaging -- Edges -- Simple Neighborhoods -- Motion -- Texture…
The drug discovery process -- Imaging modalities: principles and information content -- Magnetic resonance and fluorescence based molecular imaging technologies -- Studying molecular and cellular processes in the intact organism -- Disease phenotyping: structural and functional readouts -- Evaluation of drug candidates: Efficacy readouts during lead optimization -- Risk identification and manag…
General Information About Measurements -- Measuring Instruments and Their Properties -- Prerequisites for the Analysis of the Inaccuracy of Measurements and for Synthesis of Their Components -- Statistical Methods for Experimental Data Processing -- Direct Measurements -- Indirect Measurements -- Examples of Measurements and Measurement Data Processing -- Combined Measurements -- Combining the …
The Geometry of Sensor Information Utilization in Nonlinear Feedback Control of Vehicle Formations -- Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales -- Adaptive and Distributed Coordination Algorithms for Mobile Sensing Networks -- Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems -- Modeling and Analysis of Cooperative Control Systems for Uninhabited Aut…