Notion of Soft Computing 21
Following the same order previously considered we start with a denition based
on the component technologies and their essential properties, and in that sense we can
directly consider the one applied by the Computational Intelligence Society of IEEE,
a society using the slogan ‘Mimicking nature for problem solving’. A slogan that is
clearly reected in the following statement (from http://ieee-cis.org/about_cis/scope/):
“The Field of Interest of the Society shall be the theory, design, application and
development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms.”
From this statement, we can deduce that CI could be dened as the area of research
that studies biologically and linguistically motivated ...