The first notable feature of this book is its innovation:
Computational intelligence (CI), a fast evolving area, is currently
attracting lots of researchers' attention in dealing with many complex
problems. At present, there are quite a lot competing books existing in
the market. Nevertheless, the present book is markedly different from
the existing books in that it presents new paradigms of CI that have
rarely mentioned before, as opposed to the traditional CI techniques or
methodologies employed in other books. During the past decade, a number
of new CI algorithms are proposed. Unfortunately, they spread in a
number of unrelated publishing directions which may hamper the use of
such published resources. These provide us with motivation to analyze
the existing research for categorizing and synthesizing it in a
meaningful manner. The mission of this book is really important since
those algorithms are going to be a new revolution in computer science.
We hope it will stimulate the readers to make novel contributions or
even start a new paradigm based on nature phenomena. Although structured
as a textbook, the book's straightforward, self-contained style will
also appeal to a wide audience of professionals, researchers and
independent learners. We believe that the book will be instrumental in
initiating an integrated approach to complex problems by allowing
cross-fertilization of design principles from different design
philosophies.
The second feature of this book is its comprehensiveness: Through an
extensive literature research, there are 134 innovative CI algorithms
covered in this book.
