Teaching material

Lesson Slides

Lesson slides are usually published before the corresponding lesson.

NB: The documents on this site are in PDF. To read them, you can use Acrobat Reader

We kindly invite anyone finding errors or imprecisions, or whishing to share any comment and suggestion, to contact the teachers by e-mail or at the lesson.

Books
Here is the list of reference books for this course. You are advised to work on them, and not only on the slides .
  • T. Ross, Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications, Third Edition, Wiley, 2010 (in alternative, only for Italian Students: A. G. Pizzaleo. Fuzzy Logic: come insegneremo alle macchine a ragionare da uomini. Castelvecchi, Roma)
  • C. Bishop, Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition, Oxford University Press, 1995
  • R.G. Cowell A.P. Dawid, S.L. Lauritzen and D.J. Spiegelhalter, Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
  • F. Karray, C. De Silva, Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design: Theory, Tools, and Applications, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2004
  • R. Sutton, A. G. Barto. Reinforcement Learning: an introduction (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html)
Here is a list of books suggested for further readings:
  • T. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill
  • M. Mitchell. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. MIT Press.
  • B. Kosko. Il Fuzzy pensiero. Baldini e Castoldi. (In English: Fuzzy Thinking. Hyperion Press)
  • A. Sangalli, The Importance of Being Fuzzy, Princeton University Press
Useful Links

 

Software

The following are sites for a number of general purpose software tools (freeware) that could be used for simulation and problem solving of a large number of soft computing based applications

Links to sites of other Soft Computing courses
Bibliographic resources
 

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