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JACIII Vol.13 No.5 Sep. 2009

Special Issue on Soft Computing for Modeling and Simulation

Guest Editors : Mokhtar Beldjehem (Sainte-Anne University, Canada)
and  Madan Gupta (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Editors : Lotfi A. Zadeh (University of California, USA)
and  Ronald Yager (Iona College, USA)

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Editorial:

Special Issue on Special Issue on Soft Computing for Modeling and Simulation

Mokhtar Beldjehem, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Ronald Yager and Madan Gupta, pp. 511

Welcome to this special issue on Soft Computing for Modeling and Simulation of the Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII).We are pleased to introduce 5 selected papers and 4 regular papers presented at NASTEC (North-American Simulation Technology Conference), which is a series of conferences initiated by Eurosis after in-depth discussions with Prof. Mokhtar Beldjehem and North- American Simulationists, Soft Computing Scientists, addressing issues regarding the interplays and synergies between Modeling, Simulation and Soft Computing. The first NASTEC 2008 was organized at Mc Gill University, Montr´eal, Canada, which is its birth place. It has attracted Simulationists, researchers and practitioners of Soft Computing, attendees from academic, industry and government agencies in an exchange of ideas and shared experiences.

The intent of the NASTEC’2008 event is to nurture the spirit of cooperation and strive to improve the quality of life in this global village through excellence in hybrid Soft Computing research and education by engineering of next-generation intelligent hybrid Soft Computing systems for Modeling, Simulation, Simulation-based and Datadriven Software Engineering, Web-centric Computing, E-learning and Virtual Reality Systems at the service and for the benefits of the humankind.

Computer Simulation is being acknowledged as the “third leg” of scientific discovery and analysis, along with theory and experimentation. Simulation Technology aims at building the “software digital factory.” The fields of Modeling,Simulation, and Soft Computing in general have made significant progress; parts of them were reflected in the present Special issue. This issue was able to attract top-level and forefront research. The themes center on novel issues in connection with Modeling, Simulation, Soft Computing, Simulation-based Software Engineering, Web-centric Computing, Virtual Reality Systems, their interplays and synergies.

We are grateful to a number of people without whom we would not have been able to put this special issue together. They include our NASTEC’08 IPC and JACIII reviewers for making this special issue possible; they have done an excellent job: We got 4.5 reviews per paper on the average. We are grateful to authors of selected papers who have considered JACIII as the target for their work, and even though we could not accommodate every submission in this issue, we hope that the reviews will be helpful to many people.

We are also grateful to Prof. Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, and Prof. Kaoru Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the editors-in-chief, and the NASTEC 2008 conference staff for inviting us to guest-edit this Journal.

Last, but not least, we are indebted to the staff of JACIII and Fuji Technology Press for making this a reality.

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Paper:

A Granular Framework for Recognition of Arabic Handwriting

Mokhtar Beldjehem, pp. 512-519

Abstract | Preview | Full Text (PDF1291KB)

Paper:

A Granular Unified Min-Max Fuzzy-Neuro Framework for Learning Fuzzy Systems

Mokhtar Beldjehem, pp. 520-528

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Paper:

Modelling Numerical and Spatial Uncertainty in Grayscale Image Capture Using Fuzzy Set Theory

Mike Nachtegael, Peter Sussner, Tom Mélange, and Etienne E. Kerre, pp. 529-536

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Paper:

Bias of Standard Errors in Latent Class Model Applications Using Newton-Raphson and EM Algorithms

Liberato Camilleri, pp. 537-541

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Paper:

Comparison of Traditional 2D and Virtual Patterns Design in 3D

Agnieszka Cichocka and Pascal Bruniaux, pp. 542-549

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Regular Papers

Paper:

Genetic Network Programming with Rule Accumulation and its Application to Tile-World Problem

Lutao Wang, Shingo Mabu, Fengming Ye, Shinji Eto, Xuefeng Fan, and Kotaro Hirasawa, pp. 551-560

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Combination of Two Evolutionary Methods for Mining Association Rules in Large and Dense Databases

Eloy Gonzales, Karla Taboada, Shingo Mabu, Kaoru Shimada, and Kotaro Hirasawa, pp. 561-572

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Paper:

Object Categorization Using Biologically Inspired Nodemaps and the HITEC Categorization System

Adam Csapo, Barna Resko, Domonkos Tikk, and Peter Baranyi, pp. 573-580

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Paper:

Q Value-Based Dynamic Programming with Boltzmann Distribution for Global Optimal Traffic Routing Strategy

Shanqing Yu, Shingo Mabu, Fengming Ye, Hongqiang Wang, Kaoru Shimada, and Kotaro Hirasawa, pp. 581-591

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