Soft Computing 2014/2015

Suggested material
Books
Here is the list of reference books for this course. You are advised to work on them, and not only on the
slides.

Vojislav Kecman, Learning and Soft Computing: Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, and
Fuzzy Logic Models (Complex Adaptive Systems). MIT Press - Reference book containing most of
what is presented in the slides and at lesson.

Books on the single topics:

T. Ross, Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications, Third Edition, Wiley, 2010 (in alternative, only
for Italian Students: A. G. Pizzaleo. Fuzzy Logic: come insegneremo alle macchine a ragionare da
uomini. Castelvecchi, Roma)
C. Bishop, Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition, Oxford University Press, 1995
R.G. Cowell A.P. Dawid, S.L. Lauritzen and D.J. Spiegelhalter, Probabilistic Networks and Expert
Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
F. Karray, C. De Silva, Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design: Theory, Tools, and
Applications, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2004
R. Sutton, A. G. Barto. Reinforcement Learning: an introduction (available, free from
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html)

Here is a list of books suggested for further readings:

T. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill

M. Mitchell. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. MIT Press.
B. Kosko. Il Fuzzy pensiero. Baldini e Castoldi. (In English: Fuzzy Thinking. Hyperion Press)
A. Sangalli, The Importance of Being Fuzzy, Princeton University Press

Useful Links

AI Resources and Repository at Carnegie-Mellon University

Resources on Soft Computing
Robert Fuller's page on Fuzzy Systems
Tutorial on Fuzzy Logic (by J. Brule)
A tutorial on fuzzy systems
Neural Network resources
Sutton and Barto's Book on Reinforcement Learning The same in pdf file (thanks to R. Forlani)
Course and material on Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning Resources at RL.AI
Rich Sutton's home page (Reinforcement Learning Resources)
Reinforcement Learning resources at University of Massachussets at Amherst
Tutorial on bayesian networks

Software
The following are sites for a number of general purpose software tools (freeware) that could be used for
simulation and problem solving of a large number of soft computing based applications

Free Fuzzy Logic Library (freeware)

XFuzzy (freeware)
Neural Networks Simulators in Java (freeware)
Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (freeware)
PDP ++ Home Page (freeware)

Bibliographic resources
Google Scholar e CiteSeer: Search engins for papers and documents (free)
Bibliographic Databases and papers (available when connected to the
Politecnico network)
don't forget wikipedia ...