Section I. Emerging intelligent technologies and applications -- Chapter I. Human-based models for ambient intelligence environments / Giovanni Acampora, Vincenzo Loia, Michele Nappi, Stefano Ricciardi -- Chapter II. Intelligent ant colony system for traveling salesman problem and clustering / Shu-Chuan Chu, Jeng-Shyang Pan -- Chapter III. Information networks as complex systems: a self-repair and regulation model / Yoshiteru Ishida -- Chapter IV. Soft statistical decision fusion for distributed medical data on grids / Yu Tang, Yan-Qing Zhang --

Section II. Hybrid intelligent systems and applications -- Chapter V. Designing layers in hierarchical fuzzy logic systems using genetic algorithms / Masoud Mohammadian, Russel Stonier -- Chapter VI. Intelligent text mining: putting evolutionary methods and language technologies together / John Atkinson -- Chapter VII. An evolutionary framework for nonlinear time-series prediction with adaptive gated mixtures of experts / André L. V. Coelho, Clodoaldo A. M. Lima, Fernando J. Von Zuben -- Chapter VIII. Applications of artificial intelligence in the process control of electro chemical discharge machining (ECDM) / T. K. K. R. Mediliyegedara, A. K. M. De Silva, D. K. Harrison, J. A. McGeough --

Section III. Innovative intelligent computing, information, and control -- Chapter IX. Neural networks and 3D edge genetic template matching for real-time face detection and recognition / Stephen Karungaru, Minoru Fukumi, Norio Akamatsu -- Chapter X. Colored local invariant features for distinct object description in vision-based intelligent systems / Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, Aly A. Farag -- Chapter XI. Automated object detection and tracking for intelligent visual surveillance based on sensor network / Ruth Aguilar-Ponce, Ashok Kumar, J. Luis Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, Magdy Bayoumi, Mark Radle -- Chapter XII. Fuzzy coach-player system for controlling a robot manipulator / Chandimal Jayawardena, Keigo Watanabe, Kiyotaka Izumi --

Section IV. Modeling and development of intelligent information systems -- Chapter XIII. Multi-level modeling of multi-mobile agent systems / Ernesto López-Mellado -- Chapter XIV. Development of an intelligent information system for object-oriented software design / Gary P. Moynihan, Bin Qiao, Matthew E. Elam, Joel Jones -- Chapter XV. An agent based formal approach for modeling and verifying integrated intelligent information systems / Leandro Dias da Silva, Elthon Allex da Silva Oliveira, Hyggo Almeida, Angelo Perkusich -- Chapter XVI. Intelligent remote monitoring and maintenance systems / Chengliang Liu, Xuan F. Zha --

Section V. Integrated intelligent product design and development -- Chapter XVII. An integrated intelligent system model and its applications in virtual product design and development / Xuan F. Zha -- Chapter XVIII. Document-driven design for distributed CAD services / Yan Wang -- Chapter XIX. Towards a design process for integrating product recommendation services in e-markets / Nikos Manouselis, Constantina Costopoulou -- Chapter XX. A stage model for NPD process maturity and IKMS implementation / Nassim Belbaly, Hind Benbya -- About the authors -- Index.