Soft Computing in Industrial Applications

I. Soft Computing for Modeling, Control, and Optimization

1. Optimization of Co-rotating Twin-Screw Extruders Using Pareto Local Search
Cristina Teixeira, José Covas, Thomas Stützle, António Gaspar-Cunha

2. Efficient Predictive Control Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Hammerstein Models: A Case Study
Piotr Marek Marusak

3. Selection of Points Inside Cutoff Radius by Scanning All Points Sorted in Memory
Jan Zidek

4. Supervised Fuzzy Clustering Based Initialization of Fuzzy Partitions for Decision Tree Induction
János Abonyi

5. Fault Detection of the Tennessee Eastman Process Using Improved PCA and Neural Classifier
Mostafa Noruzi Nashalji, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli, Mohammad Teshnehlab

II. New Evolutionary Methodologies

6. Bare Bones Particle Swarm Applied to Parameter Estimation of Mixed Weibull Distribution
Renato A. Krohling, Mauro Campos, Patrick Borges

7. Structural Optimization Using Harmony Search Algorithm
D. Srikanth, S. V. Barai

8. Nash Dominance with Applications to Equilibrium Problems with Equilibrium Constraints
Andrew Koh

9. A New Evolutionary Based Approach for Solving the Uncapacitated Multiple Allocation p-Hub Median Problem
Marija Milanović

III. Soft Computing for Bioinformatics, Knowledge Management, and Data Mining

10. Prediction of the hERG Potassium Channel Inhibition Potential with Use of the Artificial Neural Networks
Sebastian Polak, Barbara Wiśniowska, Malidi Ahamadi, Aleksander Mendyk

11. Michigan Style Fuzzy Classification for Gene Expression Analysis
Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima

12. Feature Selection for Bankruptcy Prediction: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach
Fernando Mendes, João Duarte, Armando Vieira, António Gaspar-Cunha

13. Dynamic Time Warping of Segmented Time Series
Zoltán Bankó, János Abonyi

14. Feature Selection Using Combine of Genetic Algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization
Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Mohammad Teshnehlab, Kambiz Badie

IV. Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing, and Pattern Recognition

15. Fully Automatic Boundary Extraction of Coronary Plaque in IVUS Image by Anisotropic Diffusion and T-S Type Fuzzy Inference
Takanori Koga, Shohei Ichiyama, Eiji Uchino, Noriaki Suetake, Takafumi Hiro, Masunori Matsuzaki

16. Cost Effective 3D Localization for Low-Power WSN Based on Modified Sammon’s Stress Function with Incomplete Distance Information
Lakshmesha Rao, Kuncup Iswandy, Andreas König

17. Classification of Pressure Drop Devices of Proto Type Fast Breeder Reactor through Seven Layered Feed Forward Neural Network
Ramadevi Rathinasabapathy, Sheela Rani Balasubramaniam, Manoharan Narayanasamy, Prakash Vasudevan, Kalyasundaram Perumal, Baldev Raj

18. Music Visualization by Means of Comb Filter and Relaxation Time According to Human Perception
Mahdieh Poostchi, Iman Kamkar, Javad Mohebbi

19. GA/SVM for Diagnosis Sleep Stages Using Non-linear and Spectral Features
Maryam Vatankhah, Mohammad Reza Akbarzadeh Totonchi, Ali Moghimi, Vahid Asadpour

V. Special Session Soft Computing in Computer Graphics, Imaging, and Vision

20. Prostate Boundary Detection in Ultrasound Images Based on Type-II Fuzzy Sets and Modified Fuzzy C-Means
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Gerald Schaefer, Hameed AlQaheri

21. Distributed Multimedia Computing Using Intelligent Agents
Gerald Schaefer, Roger Tait

22. Object Recognition Using Simulated Evolution on Fourier Descriptors
Muhammad Sarfraz, Jawad Usman Arshed, Sajjad Ahmad Madani, Muhammad Iqbal

VI. Special Session Soft Computing for Intelligent Control

23. Embedding a KM Type Reducer for High Speed Fuzzy Controller into an FPGA
Roberto Sepúlveda, Oscar Montiel-Ross, Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin

24. An Application of Fuzzy Lyapunov Synthesis in the Design of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controllers
Nohe R. Cazarez-Castro, Luis T. Aguilar, and Oscar Castillo

25. Access Control and Resource Allocation for Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming Based on Fuzzy Logic
Zhengping Wu, Hao Wu

26. Bio-inspired Optimization Methods of Fuzzy Logic Controllers Applied to Linear Plants
Ricardo Martinez, Oscar Castillo, Luis T. Aguilar, Antonio Rodriguez

VII. Special Session Traffic and Transportation Systems

27. An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System for Simulation of Pedestrians Behaviour at Unsignalized Roadway Crossings
Michele Ottomanelli, Leonardo Caggiani, Giuseppe Iannucci, Domenico Sassanelli

28. A Cellular Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Iman Kamkar, Mahdieh Poostchi, Mohammad Reza Akbarzadeh Totonchi

29. Fuzzy C-Means Based Stop Line and Crosswalk Placement at Right Turn Vehicle Exclusive Lane
Fengxiang Qiao, Qing Zhu, Po-Hsien Kuo, Ying Li, Lei Yu

VIII. Surveys and Tutorials

30. New Trends of Soft Computing Methods for Industrial and Biological Processes
Bernardo Penna Resende Carvalho, Leonardo Carneiro Araújo

31. Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation of Business Processes
Ashutosh Tiwari, Kostas Vergidis, Chris Turner

32. Computational Intelligence in Speech and Audio Processing: Recent Advances
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Gerald Schaefer, Ashraf Darwish

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Applications of Mathematics, Industrial and Production Engineering