Adaptive Stochastic Optimization Techniques with Applications

5  Intelligent Systems

5.1  Introduction

Intelligent systems are a class of computational methods utilized to categorize a slew of techniques, which are used to address problems with an inadequate model of the real world. Intelligent systems are used to handle complexity and size of the problems, which prohibit timely computation. The solution method employed by the human expert and hence, some form of approximation and ambiguity, is not capable of being expressed in an algorithm form. It usually involves many rules of thumb. The operator decision-making is based on techniques including expert systems (ESs), artificial neural networks (ANNs), fuzzy logic systems, and genetic algorithms (GAs).

In this chapter, these topics will be discussed ...