Introduction to the Special Issue on Soft Computing Techniques in Materials Science and Engineering

Special issue on hardware implementations of soft computing techniques

Soft computing (SC) techniques, which include methods from fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computing, and other similar areas, have proven in the last few years how tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, or approximation can be exploited to achieve tractable, robust, and low cost solutions. Most of SC methods and algorithms have been implemented in software on common computer system...

Introduction to the special issue on android science

Android science is a new interdisciplinary framework for studying human cognition and interaction based on the premise that a very humanlike robot can elicit the sort of responses people typically direct toward each other (Ishiguro 2006,MacDorman and Ishiguro 2006b). If correct, this would allow for an android to be used as a stand-in for a human being in social, psychological, cognitive and ne...

Introduction to the special issue on reverse engineering (WCRE 2008)

Introduction to the special issue on crystal engineering.

Special Issue on Soft Computing in the Semantic Web