Developments in Engineering are characterized by a growing complexity, which is balanced by an extensive utilization of computational resources. This complexity is not only a feature of engineering systems, processes and products, it is primarily a key attribute of the respective algorithms for analysis, control and decision-making to develop those engineering solutions. To cope with complexity in this broad spectrum of demands, Computational Intelligence is implemented increasingly in virtually all engineering disciplines. This emerging approach provides a basis for developments of a new quality.
This Symposium is focused on the utilization of Computational Intelligence in this context in the entire field of engineering. Examples concern the control of processes of various kinds and for various purposes, monitoring with sensors, smart sensing, system identification, decision-support and assistance systems, visualization methods, prediction schemes, the solution of classification problems, response surface approximations, the formulation of surrogate models, etc. The engineering application fields may comprise, for example, bioengineering with prostheses design and control, civil and mechanical engineering processes, systems and structures concerned with vehicles, aircraft or bridges, industrial and systems engineering with design and control of power systems, electrical and computer engineering with developments in robotics, etc. All kinds of approaches from the field of Computational Intelligence are welcome.
As a part of the Symposium special attention is paid to sustainable engineering solutions to address current and future challenges of environmental changes and uncertainty. This includes developments dealing with climate change, environmental processes, disaster warning and management, infrastructure security, lifecycle analysis and design, etc. Events, disasters and issues under consideration may be natural such as earthquakes or tsunamis, man-made such as human failure or terrorist attacks, or a combination thereof including secondary effects such as failures in nuclear power plants, which may be critical for systems, the environment and the society. Developments which include a comprehensive consideration of uncertainty and techniques of reliable computing are explicitly invited. These may involve probabilistic including Bayesian approaches, interval methods, fuzzy methods, imprecise probabilities and further concepts. In this context robust design is of particular interest with all its facets as a basic concept to develop sustainable engineering solutions.
Topics
- Complex engineering systems, structures and processes
- Intelligent analysis, control and decision-making
- Management and processing of uncertainties
- Problem solution in uncertain and noisy environments
- Reliable computing
- Sustainable solutions
- Infrastructure security
- Climate change
- Environmental processes
- Disaster warning and management
- Lifecycle analysis and design
- Automotive systems
- Monitoring
- Smart sensing
- System identification
- Decision-support and assistance systems
- Visualization methods
- Prediction schemes
- Classification methods, cluster analysis
- Response surface approximations and surrogate models
- Sensitivity analysis
- Robust design, reliability-based design, performance-based design
- Risk analysis, hazard analysis, risk and hazard mitigation
- Optimization methods, evolutionary concepts
- Probabilistic and statistical methods
- Simulation methods, Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo
- Bayesian approaches / networks
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Imprecise probabilities
- Evidence theory
- p-box approach
- Fuzzy probability theory
- Interval methods
- Fuzzy methods
- Convex modeling
- Information gap theory
Symposium Chairs
beer@irz.uni-hannover.de
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
vladik@utep.edu
University of Texas at El Paso, USA
rudolf.kruse@ovgu.de
Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
Programme Committee
Christian Borgelt, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Jianbing Chen, Tongji University, China
Hitoshi Furuta, Kansai University, Japan
Wolfgang Graf, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Valentin Ivanov, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Lambros S. Katafygiotis, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China
Kevin S.C. Kuang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jie Li, Tongji University, China
Tenreiro Machado, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Ralf Mikut, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Sanaz Mostaghim, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Detlef Nauck, British Telecom, UK
Thomas Runkler, Siemens AG, Germany
Tai Kang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marcos Valdebenito, Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile
Edoardo Patelli, University of Strathclyde, UK
Pengfei Wei, Northewestern Polytechnical University, China
Enrico Zio, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Konstantin Zuev, California Institute of Technology, USA