Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery

Introducing Cartesian Granule Features
2000. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7923-7918-8
Verlag: Springer Us

Buch, Englisch, Band 570, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1480 g

Reihe: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

Knowledge discovery is an area of computer science that attempts to uncover interesting and useful patterns in data that permit a computer to perform a task autonomously or assist a human in performing a task more efficiently.
provides a self-contained and systematic exposition of the key theory and algorithms that form the core of knowledge discovery from a soft computing perspective. It focuses on knowledge representation, machine learning, and the key methodologies that make up the fabric of soft computing - fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, and various theories of probability (e.g. naïve Bayes and Bayesian networks, Dempster-Shafer theory, mass assignment theory, and others). In addition to describing many state-of-the-art soft computing approaches to knowledge discovery, the author introduces and their corresponding learning algorithms as an intuitive approach to knowledge discovery. This new approach embraces the synergistic spirit of soft computing and exploits uncertainty in order to achieve tractability, transparency and generalization. Parallels are drawn between this approach and other well known approaches (such as naive Bayes and decision trees) leading to equivalences under certain conditions.
The approaches presented are further illustrated in a battery of both artificial and real-world problems. Knowledge discovery in real-world problems, such as object recognition in outdoor scenes, medical diagnosis and control, is described in detail. These case studies provide further examples of how to apply the presented concepts and algorithms to practical problems.
The author provides web page access to an online bibliography, datasets, source codes for several algorithms described in the book, and other information.
is for advanced undergraduates,professionals and researchers in computer science, engineering and business information systems who work or have an interest in the dynamic fields of knowledge discovery and soft computing.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shanahan, James G

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Systemverwaltung & Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Grundlagen der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Wartung & Reparatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I.- 1 Knowledge Discovery.- II.- 2 Knowledge Representation.- 3 Fuzzy Set Theory.- 4 Fuzzy Logic.- 5 Probability Theory.- 6 Fril - a Support Logic Programming Environment.- III.- 7 Machine Learning.- IV.- 8 Cartesian Granule Features.- 9 Learning Cartesian Granule Feature Models.- V.- 10 Analysis of Cartesian Granule Feature Models.- 11 Applications.- Appendix: Evolutionary Computation.- Glossary of Main Symbols.