Recent Developments and New Directions in Soft Computing

The book reports on the latest advances and challenges of soft computing. It  gathers original scientific contributions written by top scientists in the field and covering theories, methods and applications in a number of research areas related

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Lotfi A. Zadeh Ali M. Abbasov Ronald R. Yager Shahnaz N. Shahbazova Marek Z. Reformat Editors

Recent Developments and New Directions in Soft Computing

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Volume 317

Series editor Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected]

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/2941

About this Series The series ‘‘Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing’’ contains publications on various topics in the area of soft computing, which include fuzzy sets, rough sets, neural networks, evolutionary computation, probabilistic and evidential reasoning, multi-valued logic, and related fields. The publications within ‘‘Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing’’ are primarily monographs and edited volumes. They cover significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character. An important feature of the series is its short publication time and world-wide distribution. This permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.

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Editors Lotfi A. Zadeh Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California Berkeley, CA USA Ali M. Abbasov Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijan

Shahnaz N. Shahbazova Department of Information Technology and Programming Azerbaijan Technical University Baku Azerbaijan Marek Z. Reformat Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada

Ronald R. Yager Machine Intelligence Institute Iona College New Rochelle, NY USA

ISSN 1434-9922 ISSN 1860-0808 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-06322-5 ISBN 978-3-319-06323-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06323-2 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014940923  Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Ce