Preface ........................................................................................................................viii
Chapter I
Soft Computing Paradigms and Regression Trees in Decision Support Systems .......1
Cong Tran, University of South Australia, Australia
Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Chapter II
Application of Text Mining Methodologies to Health Insurance Schedules .............. 29
Ah Chung Tsoi, Monash University, Australia
Phuong Kim To, Tedis P/L, Australia
Markus Hagenbuchner, University of Wollongong, Australia
Chapter III
Coordinating Agent Interactions Under Open Environments .................................... 52
Quan Bai, University of Wollongong, Australia
Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia
Chapter IV
Literacy by Way of Automatic Speech Recognition ................................................... 68
Russell Gluck, University of Wollongong, Australia
John Fulcher, University of Wollongong, Australia
Chapter V
Smart Cars: The Next Frontier ................................................................................ 120
Lars Petersson, National ICT Australia, Australia
Luke Fletcher, Australian National University, Australia
Nick Barnes, National ICT Australia, Australia
Alexander Zelinsky, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Chapter VI
The Application of Swarm Intelligence to Collective Robots.................................... 157
Amanda J. C. Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK
Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK
Chapter VII
Self-Organising Impact Sensing Networks in Robust Aerospace Vehicles ........... 186
Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Geoff Poulton, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Don Price, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Peter Wang, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Philip Valencia, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Nigel Hoschke, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Tony Farmer, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Mark Hedley, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Chris Lewis, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Andrew Scott, CSIRO Information and Communication
Technology Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics, Australia
Chapter VIII
Knowledge Through Evolution .................................................................................. 234
Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK
Andy Pryke, University of Birmingham, UK
Chapter IX
Neural Networks for the Classification of Benign and Malignant Patterns in
Digital Mammograms ............................................................................................... 251
Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
Rinku Panchal, Central Queensland University, Australia
Chapter X
Swarm Intelligence and the Taguchi Method for Identification of Fuzzy Models .... 273
Arun Khosla, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India
Shakti Kumar, Haryana Engineering College, Jalandhar, India
K. K. Aggarwal, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, India
About the Authors ..................................................................................................... 296
Index ........................................................................................................................ 305