1Department of Computer Languages and Computer Science, University of Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain 2DIGITS, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK 3Leicester School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK 4Department of Computer and Network Systems Engineering, University of Extremadur...

This paper presents gives a consolidated view of digital media steganalysis from the perspective of computational intelligence (CI). The environment of digital media steganalysis can be divided into three (3) domains which are image steganalysis, audio steganalysis, and video steganalysis. Three (3) major methods have also been identified in the computational intelligence based on these stegana...

We define and explore in simulation several rules for the local evolution of generative rules for 1D and 2D cellular automata. Our implementation uses strategies from conceptual blending. We discuss potential applications to modelling social dynamics.

The overall performance of America’s fleet of 103 nuclear power plants has improved dramatically in the past decade through the use of increased and more effective training and a significant increase in the use of on-line maintenance. As a result, the availability of plants is asymptotically approaching the theoretical maximum in which the refueling activities define the length of the outage. Y...

Survival analysis, often called time-to-event analysis, is a set of methods focused on failure time prediction. Such methods are developed in a variety of research domains like medicine, sociology, economics or engineering, and are used to analyze different types of failures. For example, in business applications the failure may denote bankruptcy or loan default. One of the most important chara...

This special issue is dedicated to the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2007) held on October 15-16, 2007 in Chengdu, China. ISKE has become a major forum of contacts between research scientists, engineers and practitioners in the area of intelligent systems for knowledge engineering. ISKE2007 is the 2nd in a series of conferences on Intelligen...

 Managing scope is a critical process in information technology (IT) project management. Reporting the status of scope requires both an understanding of the status of individual activities and the aggregation into an overall status for the project. Unlike cost and schedule which have the objective measures of currency spent or days passed, scope is subjective. Understanding the status of scope...

This chapter discusses recent achievements and possible perspectives of Computational Intelligence (CI) applied to mind games. Several noticeable examples of unguided, autonomous learning systems based on CI are presented and their properties analyzed. Considering the advantages and limitations of existing approaches a list of challenging issues and open problems in the area of intelligent game...

In this preface we stress the relevance of the traditional collaboration between Engineering and any field of Mathematics in order to build intelligent decision-aid tools, as it is illustrated by the twelve papers contained in this Special Issue. These papers, selected by means of a standard peer review process after an open call, offer an interesting variety of models, approaches and technique...

This chapter describes a motivated learning (ML) method that advances model building and learning techniques required for intelligent systems. Motivated learning addresses critical limitations of reinforcement learning (RL), the more common approach to coordinating a machine’s interaction with an unknown environment. RL maximizes the external reward by approximating multidimensional value funct...