IF7301 SOFT COMPUTING

IF7301 SOFT COMPUTING

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO SOFT COMPUTING

Evolution of Computing - Soft Computing Constituents – From Conventional AI to Computational Intelligence - Machine Learning Basics 

UNIT II         GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Introduction, Building block hypothesis, working principle, Basic operators and Terminologies like individual, gene, encoding, fitness function and reproduction, Genetic modeling: Significance of Genetic operators, Inheritance operator, cross over, inversion & deletion, mutation operator, Bitwise operator, GA optimization problems, JSPP (Job Shop Scheduling Problem), TSP (Travelling Salesman Problem),Differences & similarities between GA & other traditional methods, Applications of GA.

 UNIT III NEURAL NETWORKS

Machine Learning using Neural Network, Adaptive Networks – Feed Forward Networks – Supervised Learning Neural Networks – Radial Basis Function Networks - Reinforcement Learning – Unsupervised Learning Neural Networks – Adaptive Resonance Architectures – Advances in Neural Networks. 

UNIT IV FUZZY LOGIC

Fuzzy Sets – Operations on Fuzzy Sets – Fuzzy Relations – Membership Functions-Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Reasoning – Fuzzy Inference Systems – Fuzzy Expert Systems – Fuzzy Decision Making 

UNIT V NEURO-FUZZY MODELING

Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems – Coactive Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling – Classification and Regression Trees – Data Clustering Algorithms – Rule base Structure Identification – Neuro-Fuzzy Control – Case Studies.

REFERENCES: 

1. Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Eiji Mizutani, “Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing”, Prentice-Hall of India, 2003. 

2. Kwang H.Lee, “First course on Fuzzy Theory and Applications”, Springer–Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. 

3. George j. Klir and bo yuan, “fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic-theory and applications”, prentice hall, 1995. 

4. james a. freeman and david m. skapura, “neural networks algorithms, applications, and programming techniques”, pearson edn., 2003. 

5. david e. goldberg, “genetic algorithms in search, optimization and machine learning”, addison wesley, 2007. 

6. Mitsuo gen and runwei cheng,”genetic algorithms and engineering optimization”, wiley publishers 2000. 

7. mitchell melanie, “an introduction to genetic algorithm”, prentice hall, 1998. 

8. S.N.Sivanandam, S.N.Deepa, “Introduction To Genetic Algorithms”, Springer, 2007. 

9. Eiben And Smith “Introduction To Evolutionary Computing” Springer 

10.E. Sanchez, t. Shibata, and l. A. Zadeh, eds., "genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic systems: soft computing perspectives, advances in fuzzy systems - applications and theory", vol. 7, river edge, world scientific, 1997.