Soft Computing: Methodologies and Applications

This carefully edited book covers a wide range of application areas of soft computing like optimization, data analysis and data mining, fault diagnosis, control as well as traffic and transportation systems. It contains 25 revised contributions from the 8

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Advances in Soft Computing Editor-in-chief Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Newelska 6 01-447 Warsaw Poland E-mail: [email protected] Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springeronline.com Henrik Larsen, Janusz Kacprzyk, Sławomir Zadrozny, Troels Andreasen, Henning Christiansen (Eds.) Flexible Query Answering Systems, 2000 ISBN 3-7908-1347-8 Bernd Reusch, Karl-Heinz Temme (Eds.) Computational Intelligence in Theory and Practice, 2001 ISBN 3-7908-1357-5 Robert John, Ralph Birkenhead (Eds.) Developments in Soft Computing, 2001 ISBN 3-7908-1361-3 Mieczysław Kłopotek, Maciej Michalewicz and Sławomir T. Wierzcho´n (Eds.) Intelligent Information Systems, 2001 ISBN 3-7908-1407-5

Frank Hoffmann Mario Köppen Frank Klawonn Rajkumar Roy (Eds.)

Soft Computing: Methodologies and Applications

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Frank Hoffmann

Frank Klawonn

Universität Dortmund Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik Lehrstuhl für Elektrische Steuerung und Regelung Otto-Hahn-Str. 4 44227 Dortmund Germany

FH Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel Salzdahlumer Str. 46/48 38302 Wolfenbüttel Germany

Rajkumar Roy Enterprise Integration Cranfield University Cranfield MK43 0AL Bedford United Kingdom

Mario K¨ppen Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin Institut für Sicherheits-/Prüftechnik Pascalstr. 8-9 10587 Berlin Germany

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ISSN print edition: 1615-3871 ISSN electronic edition: 1860-0794 ISBN-10 3-540-25726-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-25726-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005  Printed in The Netherlands The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: by the authors and TechBooks using a Springer LATEX macro package Printed on acid-free paper

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Preface

The series of Online World Conferences on Soft Computing (WSC) is organized by the World Federation of Soft Computing (WFSC) and has become an established annual event in the academic calendar and was already held for the 8th time in 2003. Starting as a small workshop held at Nagoya University, Japan in 1994 it has matured to