Innovative Computing Methods and Their Applications to Engineering Problems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nedjah, Nadia (Editor), Santos Coelho, Leandro dos (Editor), Mariani, Viviana Cocco (Editor), Macedo Mourelle, Luiza de (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 357
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

The design of most modern engineering systems entails the consideration of a good trade-off between the several targets requirements to be satisfied along the system life such as high reliability, low redundancy and low operational costs. These aspects are often in conflict with one another, hence a...