Emotional Intelligence is a new discipline of knowledge, dealing with
modeling, recognition and control of human emotions. The book Emotional
Intelligence: A Cybernetic Approach, to the best of the authors'
knowledge is a first compreh- sive text of its kind that provides a
clear introduction to the subject in a precise and insightful writing
style. It begins with a philosophical introduction to E- tional
Intelligence, and gradually explores the mathematical models for
emotional dynamics to study the artificial control of emotion using
music and videos, and also to determine the interactions between emotion
and logic from the points of view of reasoning. The later part of the
book covers the chaotic behavior of - existing emotions under certain
conditions of emotional dynamics. Finally, the book attempts to cluster
emotions using electroencephalogram signals, and d- onstrates the scope
of application of emotional intelligence in several engineering systems,
such as human-machine interfaces, psychotherapy, user assistance s-
tems, and many others. The book includes ten chapters. Chapter 1
provides an introduction to the s- ject from a philosophical and
psychological standpoint. It outlines the fundamental causes of emotion
arousal, and typical characteristics of the phenomenon of an emotive
experience. The relation between emotion and rationality of thoughts is
also introduced here. Principles of natural regulation of emotions are
discussed in brief, and the biological basis of emotion arousal using an
affective neu- scientific model is introduced next.
