Requirements Engineering is considered as one of the most critical phases of a software development project. Low-quality requirements are a major reason for the failure of a project. Consequently, techniques are needed that help to improve the support of stakeholders in the development of requirements models as well as in the process of deciding about the corresponding release plans. In this pa...

The problem of maneuvering target tracking has been studied in the field of the state estimation over decades. The Kalman filter has been widely used to estimate the state of the target, but in the presence of a maneuver, its performance may be seriously degraded. In this paper, to solve this problem and track a maneuvering target effectively, an intelligent Kalman filter (IKF) and an intellige...

one of the most important aspects of software project management is the estimation of cost and time required for running information system. therefore, software managers try to carry estimation based on behavior, properties, and project restrictions. software cost estimation refers to the process of development requirement prediction of software system. various kinds of effort estimation patter...

Techniques and models for mitigating risk in software development projects classified into three categories–namely, qualitative, quantitative, and intelligent approaches. This paper is to review the quantitative and intelligent risk models in software risk management for software development projects. Indeed, this area needs more effort from scholars and researchers in quantitative and intellig...

Intelligent environment research has resulted in many useful tools such as activity recognition, prediction, and automation. However, most of these techniques have been applied in the context of a single resident. A current looming issue for intelligent environment systems is performing these same techniques when multiple residents are present in the environment. In this paper we investigate th...

Over the past decades, computerized intelligent paradigms have attracted much attention from researchers. Advances in intelligent techniques and approaches, which include neural networks, knowledgebased systems, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, agent-based techniques, case based reasoning etc, have resulted in many successful applications of these innovative systems. Indeed, applicability ...

In this paper we propose a novel intelligent control scheme that involves a cluster of Agents embedded in an Intelligent Co-ordinator. The resultant Intelligent Co-ordinator can be added to any existing wastewater treatment plant supervisory control and data acquisition system. In the proposed approach use is made of Computational Intelligence techniques and Qualitative Control. The work report...

The momentum of real industrial applications has accelerated the development of fuzzy control, neural-network based control, evolutionary control etc. During the last decade, several computational intelligence techniques haven been also incorporated into the intelligent robotics research domain. The Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2006) gather...

In this chapter, an introduction to intelligent machine is presented. An explanation on intelligent behavior, and the difference between intelligent and repetitive natural or programmed behavior is provided. Some learning techniques in the field of Artificial Intelligence in constructing intelligent machines are then discussed. In addition, applications of intelligent machines to a number of ar...