Applied Decision Support with Soft Computing

Soft computing has provided sophisticated methodologies for the development of intelligent decision support systems. Fast advances in soft computing technologies, such as fuzzy logic and systems, artificial neural networks and evolutionary computation, have made available powerful problem representation and modelling paradigms, and learning and optimisation mechanisms for addressing modern decision making issues. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of up-to-date conceptual frameworks in broadly perceived decision support systems and successful applications. Different from other existing books, this volume predominately focuses on applied decision support with soft computing. Areas covered include planning, management finance and administration in both the private and public sectors. Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Modeling Knowledge: Model-based Decision Support and Soft Computations....Pages 3-60 Benefits of Decision Support Using Soft Computing....Pages 61-85 Evolving Connectionist-based Decision Support Systems....Pages 86-98 An Agent-based Soft Computing Society with Applications in Financial Investment Planning....Pages 99-126 A Rough Sets/Neural Networks Approach to Knowledge Discovery for the Development of Decision Support Systems....Pages 127-148 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Decision Support Systems in Healthcare: Emerging Trends and Success Factors....Pages 151-179 A View of Public and Private Sectors for Taiwan’s BOT Project Financing Using Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Methods....Pages 180-195 Relational Structures for the Analysis of Decision Information in an Electronic Market....Pages 196-217 A Fuzzy Evaluation Model: A Case for Intermodal Terminals in Europe....Pages 218-234 Application of Kemeny’s Median for Group Decision Support....Pages 235-262 An Internet-based Group Decision and Consensus Reaching Support System....Pages 263-276 Limpio: A DSS for the Urban Waste Collection Problem....Pages 277-289 A Decision Support System for Air Quality Control Based on Soft Computing Methods....Pages 290-307 Multicriteria Genetic Tuning for the Optimization and Control of HVAC Systems....Pages 308-345 Intelligent Information Systems for Crime Analysis....Pages 346-363 Application of Fuzzy Decision Trees to Reservoir Recognition....Pages 364-390 Introducing SACRA : A Decision Support System for the Construction of Cattle Diets....Pages 391-401 Prediction of Parthenium Weed Dispersal Using Fuzzy Logic on GIS Spatial Image....Pages 402-418