Computational Intelligence

FLINS is an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, an organization launched in 1994 in connection with the Belgian Nuclear Research Center. FLINS '10 (held in 2010, in Chengdu, China) is (slightly confusingly) the ninth international conference. A total of 177 papers--invited lectures and individual presentations--begin with foundations of computer intelligence (e.g. medium logic and the crises of mathematics and physics, an axiomatizable lattice-ordered linguistic truth-valued logic). Subsequent broad themes include fuzzy modeling and decision making, knowledge presentation and learning, data analysis and data mining, and intelligence information processing. A sampling of topics: supply chain performance measurement using logical aggregation, a Bayesian belief network modeling of customer behavior on apparel coordination for fashion retailing business, consensus measures for symbolic data, cigarette sensory evaluation classifier predictive control algorithm, uncertainty aversion under distorted probability, and an agent-based approach to modeling small satellite constellations. Indexing is by author, but not by subject. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)