Applied Decision Support with Soft Computing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yu, Xinghuo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 124
• Subjects: Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Economic theory.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Mathematical and Computational Engineering.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.

Soft computing has provided sophisticated methodologies for the development of intelligent decision support systems. Fast advances in soft computing technologies, such as fuzzy logic and systems, artificial neural networks and evolutionary computation, have made available powerful problem representa...

Table of Contents:

• I: General Issues
• Modeling Knowledge: Model-based Decision Support and Soft Computations
• Benefits of Decision Support Using Soft Computing
• Evolving Connectionist-based Decision Support Systems
• An Agent-based Soft Computing Society with Application Applications in Financial Investment Planning
• A Rough Sets/Neoral Networks Approach to Knowledge Discovery for the Development of Decision Support Systems
• II: Applications and Implementations
• Decision Support Systems in Healthcare: Emerging Trends and Success Factors
• A View of Public and Private Sectors for Taiwan's BOT Project Financing Using Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Methods
• Relational Structures for the Analysis of Decision Information in an Electronic Market
• A Fuzzy Evaluation Model: A Case for Intermodal Terminals in Europe
• Application of Kemeny's Median for Group Decision Support
• An Internet-based Group Decision and Consensus Reaching Support System
• Limpio: A DSS for the Urban Waste Collection Problem
• A Decision Support System for Air Quality Control Based on Soft Computing Methods
• Multicriteria Genetic Tuning for the Optimization and Control of HVAC Systems
• Intelligent Information Systems for Crime Analysis
• Application of Fuzzy Decision Trees to Reservoir Recognition
• Introducing SACRA: A Decision Support System for the Construction of Cattle Diets
• Prediction of Parthenium Weed Dispersal Using Fuzzy Logic on GIS Spatial Image.