Intelligent Systems for Engineers and Scientists, 3rd Edition

Preface

Intelligent systems is a broad term, covering a range of computing techniques that have emerged from research into artificial intelligence. It includes symbolic approaches—in which knowledge is explicitly expressed in words and symbols—and numerical approaches such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, and fuzzy logic. In fact, many practical intelligent systems are a hybrid of different approaches. Whether any of these systems is really capable of displaying human-like intelligent behavior is a moot point. Nevertheless, they are extremely useful and they have enabled elegant solutions to a wide variety of difficult problems.

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