Special Session on Soft Computing Applications in Production, Manufacturing and Design

Session Chairs:
Dr. Ashutosh Tiwari and Christopher Turner
Cranfield University, UK

Abstract:
Soft computing is a collection of methodologies, which employ tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness, and low solution cost. The core subjects of soft computing are fuzzy computing, neuro-computing, genetic computing and probabilistic computing. The topics in this session are focused on the applications of soft computing in the areas of production, manufacturing and design. Submissions of research papers, with applications in the following areas, are invited:

• Industrial applications of soft computing in production, manufacturing and design
  
• Design support systems
• Intelligent control
• Design optimisation
• Data mining
• Knowledge management applications of soft computing
• Intelligent information retrieval
• Process optimisation
• Autonomous reasoning
• Simulation environments
• Identification & modelling
• Robotics
• Fault diagnosis
• Scheduling

For more information on this Special Session, please contact the Session Chair, Ashutosh Tiwari, Email: A.Tiwari@Cranfield.ac.uk , or: Christopher Turner, Email: c.j.turner@cranfield.ac.uk.