Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence

James Keller holds the University of Missouri Curators' Professorship in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments on the Columbia Campus, and is the R.L. Tatum Professor in the College of Engineering. Dr. Keller is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association, and a former president of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society. Derong Liu is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and a Professor of Automation and Electrical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the International Neural Network Society. He has published 17 books, including Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control (2012, Wiley-IEEE Press). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Review, and he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2010-2015). David Fogel is the President of Natural Selection, Inc., CEO of Natural Selection Financial, Inc., a Fellow of the IEEE, and the series editor for the Wiley-IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence. Dr. Fogel has 30 years of experience pioneering contributions in the field of computational intelligence, and is co-inventor of the EffectCheck® sentiment analysis system. He has written several books including Evolutionary Computation: The Fossil Record (1998) and Evolutionary Computation Toward a New Philosophy of Machine Intelligence, 3rd Edition (2005), both published by the Wiley-IEEE Press.