Quotient Space Based Problem Solving provides an in-depth treatment of hierarchical problem solving, computational complexity, and the principles and applications of multi-granular computing, including inference, information fusing, planning, and heuristic search.

Chapter 1 Problem Representation

Chapter 2 Hierarchy and Multi-granular Computing

Chapter 3 Information Synthesis in Multi-granular Computing

Chapter 4 Reasoning in Multi-granular Computing

Chapter 5 Automatic Spatial Planning

Chapter 6 Statistical Heuristic Search

Chapter 7 the Expansion of Quotient Space Theory

Addenda A: Some Concepts and Properties of Point Set Topology

Addenda B: Some Concepts and Properties of Integral and Statistical Inference

Professor Ling Zhang is currently with the Department of Computer Science at Anhui University in Hefei, China. His main interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms and computational intelligence.