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The Instituto Tecnológico de Informáticais proud to present this Second Workshop on Computational Intelligence Applied to Business, JICAN2009. Its purpose is twofold: on the one hand, to introduce this technology among companies in any area; on the other, to show actual fields of application to researchers in academia. The conference is privileged to count on the participation of world leading experts in Computational Intelligence, who will present the latest developments in CI with a special focus on how it is used in real world business and industry applications. In this series of talks we hope the audience will gain an overview of some of the latest techniques and applications of CI and that this will inspire the use of CI in their own lines of business. With the support of the Spanish Chapter of  |
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What is Computational Intelligence |
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Computational Intelligence (CI), sometimes also called SoftComputing, is a branch of Artificial Intelligence consisting of the development of adaptive mechanisms to allow or facilitate intelligent behaviour in complex and dynamic systems. Computational Intelligence is based on the use of heuristics and computation to sove problems. While conventional Artificial Intelligence (whose key areas are case based reasoning, Bayesian networks and expert systems) has a "top down" approach, in which the structure of solutions is imposed from above, in CI the approach is "bottom up", where the solutions emerge from an initial unstructured state. The main five paradigms in CI are artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, fuzzy systems and artificial immune systems. |
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The workshop is aimed at : Companies: Project managers or directors (technical and non technical) who, as part of their work, face complex problems related to optimisation, prediction and decision making. Academia: Researchers and students interested in the practical application of Computational Intelligence. |
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Currently CI is being employed successfully in these areas: - Finance: risk prediction, portfolio management...
- Logistics and transport: efficient route planning, allocation of space in warehouses...
- Production: demand forecast, optimised production planning
- Telecomms: design of antennas, channel equalisations, network design...
- Industry: electronic circuit design, industrial process control, unmanned vehicles...
- Biology and medicine: protein folding, sequence analysis, disease diagnosis, patient monitoring...
- Sustainable development: waste management, control of green house gases, efficient energy use...
- Art and entertainment: videogames, computer animation, music...
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