Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity [electronic resource] / edited by Ajith Abraham, Bernard de Baets, Mario Köppen, Bertram Nickolay.

Part I Plenary Presentations -- Part II Classification and Clustering -- Part III Optimization -- Part IV Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance -- Part V Tracking and Surveillance -- Part VI Scheduling and Layout -- Part VII Complexity Management -- Part VIII Manufacturing and Production -- Part IX Signal Processing -- Part X Computer Security -- Part XI Bioinformatics -- Part XII Text Processing -- Part XIII Algorithm Design -- Part XIV Control -- Part XV Hybrid Intelligent Systems using Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms -- Part XVI Recent Developments in Support Vector and Kernel Machines -- Part XVII Robotics -- Part XVIII Soft Computing and Hybrid Intelligent Systems in Product Design and Development.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC9), September 20th - October 08th, 2004, held on the World Wide Web. It contains plenary lectures, original papers and tutorials presented during the conference. The book brings together outstanding research and developments in the field of soft computing (evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and their fusion) and its applications in science and technology.