Aims & Scope
Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern Artificial Intelligence concerned with the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that combined and integrated approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial intelligence are to be solved. Recently, hybrid intelligent systems are becoming popular due to their capabilities in handling many real world complex problems, involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness, high-dimensionality.
The International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS) is a peer refereed journal on the theory and applications of hybrid and integrated intelligent systems. The key objective of IJHIS is to provide the academic community with a medium for presenting original research and applications related to the simultaneous use of two or more intelligent techniques. Rather than publishing papers in one particular area of expertise, the journal aims to be the main forum for publishing papers that involve the use of two or more intelligent techniques and approaches, such as neural networks, traditional knowledge-based methods, fuzzy techniques, genetic algorithms, agent-based techniques, case based reasoning, etc. The combination or integration of more distinct methodologies can be done in any form, either by a modular integration of two or more intelligent methodologies, which maintains the identity of each methodology, or by fusing one methodology into another, or by transforming the knowledge representation in one methodology into another form of representation, characteristic to another methodology.
The IJHIS invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that communicates current research on hybrid and integrated intelligent systems, regarding both the theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as various applications of hybrid and integrated intelligent approaches to many real-world problems from science, technology, business or commerce.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Ajith Abraham
Pro Vice Chancellor - Academics, Research,
Incubation, and International Relations Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Bennett University
Greater Noida 201310, Uttar Pradesh, India
Founding Editors
Ajith Abraham
Lakhmi C. Jain
Vasile Palade
Associate Editors
North America
Gail A. Carpenter
Boston University, Boston, USA
Walter D. Potter
University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Ishwar K. Sethi
Oakland University, Rochester, USA
Ron Sun
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
Asia
Toshio Fukuda
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Mario Koeppen
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kyushu, Japan
Australia/Oceania
Tamas Gedeon
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
Lakhmi C. Jain
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Nikola Kasabov
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Kate Smith
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Europe
Robert J. Howlett
University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Janusz Kacprzyk
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warschau, Poland
Vasile Palade
Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Stefan Wermter
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Xin Yao
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Industrial Theme/Track Editor
Antony Satyadas IBM Corporation, Armonk, USA
Book Review Editor
Clarence W. De Silva
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Editorial Board
Bruno Apolloni
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
José Manuel Benitez Sanchez
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Sung-Bae Cho
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Ian Cloete
International University in Germany, Bruchsal, Germany
David Corne
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Arthur D'Avila Garcez
City University London, London, United Kingdom
André De Carvalho
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Stan Franklin
University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
Bogdan Gabrys
University of Bournemouth, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
John Q. Gan
University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom
Claude Ghaoui
Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
Robert F. Harrison
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Francisco Herrera
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan
Yukiaki Ishida
Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan
Miroslav Karny
Academy of Sciences of Czech Repuplic, Prague, Czech Republic
Arpad Kelemen
University of Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Andreas Koenig
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Vincenzo Loia
University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Teresa Bernarda Ludermir
Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Victor Maojo
Polytechnical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Daniel Neagu
University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
Madalina Negoita
Wellington Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand
Nikhil R. Pal
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Günther Palm
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Jeng-Shyang Pan
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Witold Pedrycz
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Nicolai Petkov
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Vincenzo Piuri
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Germano Resconi
Catholic University, Brescia, Italy
Rajkumar Roy
Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
Günther Ruhe
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Ben Kwang-Mong Sim
Institute of Information Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Martin R. Stytz
Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Hideyuki Takagi
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Gheorghe Tecuci
George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
Brijesh Verma
Central Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia
Abraham Wani
Central Queensland University at Bakersfield, USA
Richard Weber
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Bogdan M. Wilamowski
Auburn University, Auburn, USA
Ning Xiong
Malardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
Ronald R. Yager
Iona College, New Rochelle, USA
Kitakyushu Yoshida
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kazuya, Japan
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[2] D.F. Pilkey, Happy conservation laws, in: Neural Stresses, J. Frost, ed., Controlled Press, Georgia, 1995, pp. 332-391.
[3] E. Wilson, Active vibration analysis of thin-walled beams, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1991.
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