Advances in intelligent methodologies and techniques

This chapter introduces a number of intelligent methodologies and techniques stemmed from Artificial Intelligence (AI). An overview of various intelligent models arisen from expert systems, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, decision trees, and agent technologies is presented. Application examples of these intelligent models in various domains are also presented. Then, the contribution of each chapter included in this book is described. A summary of concluding remarks is presented at the end of the chapter. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.