文档介绍:Nature-Inspired
Informatics for Intelligent
Applications and
Knowledge Discovery:
Implications in Business,
Science, and Engineering
Raymond Chiong
Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nature-inspired informatics for intelligent applications and knowledge
discovery : implications in business, science, and engineering / Raymond
Chiong, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: "This book provides the latest findings in nature-inspired
algorithms and their applications for breakthroughs in a wide range of
disciplinary fields"--Provided by publisher.