Companies from industrialised nations are faced with the threat of competition from low-cost countries. Wesuggest Industrial Product Service Systems (IPS²) as a possible answer. But as the development andproduction can be quite expensive for the supplier, the question arises how the net...

Soft Computing admits approximate reasoning, imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth in order to mimic aspects of the remarkable human capability of making decisions in real-life and ambiguous environments. "Soft Computing in Industrial Applications" contains a collection of papers that were...