This clearly-structured, classroom-tested textbook/reference presents a methodical introduction to the field of CI. Providing an authoritative insight into all that is necessary for the successful application of CI methods, the book describes fundamental concepts and their practical implementations, and explains the theoretical background underpinning proposed solutions to common problems. Only a basic knowledge of mathematics is required. Features: provides electronic supplementary material at an associated website, including module descriptions, lecture slides, exercises with solutions, and software tools; contains numerous examples and definitions throughout the text; presents self-contained discussions on artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems and Bayesian networks; covers the latest approaches, including ant colony optimization and probabilistic graphical models; written by a team of highly-regarded experts in CI, with extensive experience in both academia and industry.

Rudolf Kruse is a full professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany, where he leads the working group on computational intelligence. Christian Moewes and Pascal Held are research assistants at the same institution. Christian Borgelt is a principal researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain. Frank Klawonn is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Matthias Steinbrecher is a member of the SAP Innovation Center, Potsdam, Germany.

Introduction.- Part I: Neural Networks.- Introduction.- Threshold Logic Units.- General Neural Networks.- Multi-Layer Perceptrons.- Radial Basis Function Networks.- Self-Organizing Maps.- Hopfield Networks.- Recurrent Networks.- Mathematical Remarks.- Part II: Evolutionary Algorithms.-Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms.- Elements of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Fundamental Evolutionary Algorithms.- Special Applications and Techniques.- Part III: Fuzzy Systems.-Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic.- The Extension Principle.- Fuzzy Relations.- Similarity Relations.- Fuzzy Control.- Fuzzy Clustering.- Part IV: Bayes Networks.-Introduction to Bayes Networks.- Elements of Probability and Graph Theory.- Decompositions.- Evidence Propagation.- Learning Graphical Models.