Intelligent and Soft Computing in Infrastructure Systems Engineering: Recent Advances by Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Halil Ceylan, Nii O. Attoh-Okine
English | PDF(True) | 2009 | 330 Pages | ISBN : 3642045855 | 13.6 MB
The term “soft computing” applies to variants of and combinations under the four broad categories of evolutionary computing, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and Bayesian statistics. Although each one has its separate strengths, the complem- tary nature of these techniques when used in combination (hybrid) makes them a powerful alternative for solving complex problems where conventional mat- matical methods fail. The use of intelligent and soft computing techniques in the field of geo- chanical and pavement engineering has steadily increased over the past decade owing to their ability to admit approximate reasoning, imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth. Since real-life infrastructure engineering decisions are made in ambiguous environments that require human expertise, the application of soft computing techniques has been an attractive option in pavement and geomecha- cal modeling.