Computational Intelligence is a broad and active research area that is growing rapidly due to the many successful applications of these new techniques in very diverse problems. Many industries have benefited from adopting this technology. The increased number of patents and diverse range of products developed using computational intelligence methods is evidence of this fact. The goal of this book is to provide highlights of the current research in computational intelligence area. The book consists of research papers in the fields of neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, hybrid evolutionary computing-fuzzy logic systems, hybrid neural networks-evolutionary computing and fuzzy logic systems, image processing and vision, advances in robotics, control and manufacturing, and rough sets.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2008, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in June 2008. The 75 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 302 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer vision, fuzzy system applications, robot and manufacturing, data mining and KDS, neural networks, machine learning, natural language processing, internet application and education, heuristic search, application systems, agent-based system, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, knowledge management, and other applications. The book concludes with 15 contributions from the following special sessions: knowledge driven manufacturing systems, joint session on adaptive networked systems and fuzzy knowledge bases, and software agents and multi-agent systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of the 17th and 18th annual conferences of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004, and co-located international workshops, held in Niigata, Japan in June 2003 and in Kanazawa, Japan in May/June 2004 respectively. It features a number of award winning papers as well as revised full workshop papers from these conferences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the JSAI-isAI 2015 Workshops LENLS 12, JURISIN 9, AAA 2015, HAT-MASH 2015, TSDAA 2015, ASD-HR 2015, and SKL 2015, held in Kanagawa, Japan, in November 2015. The 39 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. LENLS 12 (Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics) is an annual international workshop on formal semantics and pragmatics and focused on discourse particles; disjunction; truth; copredication; expressive content; categorial grammar; dependent type semantics; sequent calculus; and various aspects of formal pragmatics. JURISIN 9 (Juris-Informatics) is the 9th event in the series. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss fundamental and practical issues such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional “AI and law” area. AAA 2015 (Argument for Agreement and Assurance) has the goal of deepening a mutual understanding and exploring a new research field involving researchers/practitioners in formal and informal logic, artificial intelligence, and safety engineering working on agreement and assurance through argument. HAT-MASH 2015 (Healthy Aging Tech Mashup Service, Data and People) provides a forum to discuss important research questions and practical challenges in healthy aging and elderly care support to promote transdisciplinary approaches. TSDAA 2015 (Workshop on Time Series Data Analysis and its Applications) aimes at providing an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of different approaches and techniques of time series data analysis and their implementation in various real life applications. ASD-HR 2015 (Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Humanoid Robot) presents the studies in the interdisciplinary field of research including both engineering and medical sides. SKL 2015 (Skill Science) discusses the theoretical foundations of skill science as well as practical and engineering issues.

Logic (both Classical and Non-Classical) is being increasingly related with other fields in almost every scientific discipline and human activity. In this volume we have emphasized its role in the following fields of science: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Informatics in general, Technology, and correlated themes. The papers are written by some of the most prominent scientists of today.

This book constitutes extended, revised and selected papers from the 9th International Symposium of Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2017. It was held in November 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The 22 papers were carefully selected from 109 submissions and are organized in sections on juris-informatics, skill science, artificial intelligence of and for business, logic and engineering of natural language semantics, argument for agreement and assurance, scientific document analysis, knowledge explication for industry.

The 30 coherently written chapters by leading researchers presented in this anthology are devoted to basic results achieved in computational intelligence since 1997. The book provides complete coverage of the core issues in the field, especially in fuzzy logic and control as well as for evolutionary optimization algorithms including genetic programming, in a comprehensive and systematic way. Theoretical and methodological investigations are complemented by prototypic applications for design and management tasks in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering. This book will become a valuable source of reference for researchers active in computational intelligence. Advanced students and professionals interested in learning about and applying advanced techniques of computational intelligence will appreciate the book as a useful guide enhanced by numerous examples and applications in a variety of fields.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the JSAI-isAI 2013 Workshops LENLS, JURISIN, MiMI, AAA, and DDS which tool place on October 2013, in Japan. The 28 contributions in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. LENLS (Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics) is an annual international workshop on formal semantics and pragmatics. LENLS10 was the tenth event in the series, and it focused on the formal and theoretical aspects of natural language. JURISIN (Juris-Informatics) 2013 was the seventh event in the series. The purpose of this workshop was to discuss fundamental and practical issues for jurisinformatics, bringing together experts from a variety of relevant backgrounds, including law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic,and philosophy (including the area of AI and law). MiMI (Multimodality in Multiparty Interaction) 2013 covers topics as follows interaction studies, communication studies, conversation analysis, and workplace studies, as well as their applications in other research fields. AAA (Argument for Agreement and Assurance) 2013 focused on the theoretical foundations of argumentation in AI, and the application of argumentation to various fields such as agreement formation and assurance. DDS (Data Discretization and Segmentation for Knowledge Discovery) 2013 discussed segmentation methods for various types of data, such as graphs, trees, strings, and continuous data, and their applications in the areas of Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery.

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the 10th International Symposium of Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2018. It was held in November 2018 in Yokohama, Japan. The 28 paper full papers and 5 short papers were carefully selected from 97 submissions. The papers selected cover topics in Artificial Intelligence, such as AI and law, business intelligence, human intelligence, logic and engineering, and data analytics and applications.

Annotation Intelligent Technologies including neural network, evolutionary computations, fuzzy approach and mainly hybrid approaches are very promising tools to build intelligent technologies in general. The progress of each theory or application is provided by a number of various theoretical as well as applicational experiments. Machine intelligence is the only alternative how to increase the level of technology to make technology more human-centred and more effective for society. This book includes theoretical as well as applicational papers in the field of neural networks, fuzzy systems and mainly evolutionary computations which application potential was increased by enormous progress in computer power. Hybrid technologies are still progressing and are trying to make some more applications with their ability to learn and process fuzzy information. Neurogenetic systems are very interesting approach to make systems re-configurable and on-line systems for real-world applications. The book is presenting papers from Japan, USA, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Finland, France, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and some other countries. This publication provides the latest state of the art in the field and could be contributed to theory and applications in the machine intelligence tools and their wide application potential in current and future technologies within the Information Society.