Advanced Intelligent Computational Technologies and Decision Support Systems

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Barna Iantovics Roumen Kountchev (Eds.)

Advanced Intelligent Computational Technologies and Decision Support Systems

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Studies in Computational Intelligence Volume 486

Series Editor J. Kacprzyk, Warsaw, Poland

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7092

Barna Iantovics Roumen Kountchev •

Editors

Advanced Intelligent Computational Technologies and Decision Support Systems

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Editors Barna Iantovics Petru Maior University Targu Mures Romania

ISSN 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-319-00466-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-00467-9

Roumen Kountchev Technical University of Sofia Sofia Bulgaria

ISSN 1860-9503 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-00467-9 (eBook)

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Preface

The topic of this book is important. Many real-life problems/tasks are difficult to be solved by humans due to their: complexity/difficulty, large number, and/or the required physical human effort. Many situations in which such problems appear are characteristic to field like healthcare that represented the principal target of our book. Difficult problems solving by humans may involve vagueness, impreci