Recent advances in machine intelligence

Excerpt

Welcome to the special issue (SI) on “Recent Advances in Machine Intelligence”. This SI contains a subset of the papers as presented & appeared in the proceedings of the \(1{\mathrm{st}}\) Intl. Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI14), held in New Delhi, India. The papers were shortlisted after a careful scrutiny of the ISCMI14 papers by a group of experts, and the corresponding authors were invited to extend (at least, by 30 %) their papers and submit for consideration for publication for this SI of SOCO. The submitted papers had undergone the same degree of reviewing, as is applicable for any regular SOCO paper. This rigorous reviewing procedure ultimately resulted in acceptance of only 12 papers. Initially, we planned to provide the SI with uniform representations of papers dealing with Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic & Genetic/Evolutionary Algorithms—the 3 basic components of Machine Intelligence. However, adhering to the strict reviewing protocols of SOCO had made us deviate from this goal. Let us now provide a brief snapshot of the articles included in the SI. …