"This book presents the emerging fields of service intelligence and service science, positioning them as the most promising directions for the evolution of service computing, demonstrating the critical role such areas play in supporting service computing processes"--Provided by publisher.

"This book discusses the application of complex theories in information and communication technology, with a focus on the interaction between living systems and information technologies, providing researchers, scholars, and IT professionals with a fundamental resource on such topics as virtual...

"As both intelligence and software science revolutionizes the modern world, the contributions that each make to the other combine into a new transdisciplinary field. Breakthroughs in Software Science and Computational Intelligence charts the new ground broken by researchers exploring these two...

"This book provides analysis, characterization and refinement of software engineering data in terms of machine learning methods. It depicts applications of several machine learning approaches in software systems development and deployment, and the use of machine learning methods to establish...

"This book examines innovative research in the emerging, multidisciplinary field of cognitive informatics, portraying the connections between natural science and informatics that are investigated in this fundamental collection of cognitive informatics research"--Provided by publisher.

As interest in computer, cognitive, and social sciences grow, the need for alternative approaches to models in related-disciplines thrives. An Imitation-Based Approach to Modeling Homogeneous Agents Societies offers a framework for modeling societies of autonomous agents that is heavily based on...

This book provides models of various economic and financial issues while using computational intelligence as a foundation. The scope of this volume comprises finance, economics, management, organizational theory and public policies. It explains the ongoing and novel research in this field, and...

"This book explores the process of knowledge formation and how humans generate complex constructs from their sensorial inputs. It also describes how we store and utilize this complex knowledge in organizational and technological systems that allow us to communicate, generate and manage social...

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Multi-objective optimization (MO) is a fast-developing field in computational intelligence research. Giving decision makers more options to choose from using some post-analysis preference information, there are a number of competitive MO techniques with an increasingly large number of MO...