Introduction.- Part I: Neural Networks.- Introduction.- Threshold Logic Units.- General Neural Networks.- Multi-Layer Perceptrons.- Radial Basis Function Networks.- Self-Organizing Maps.- Hopfield Networks.- Recurrent Networks.- Mathematical Remarks.- Part II: Evolutionary Algorithms.- Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms.- Elements of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Fundamental Evolutionary Algorithms.- Special Applications and Techniques.- Part III: Fuzzy Systems.- Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic.- The Extension Principle.- Fuzzy Relations.- Similarity Relations.- Fuzzy Control.- Fuzzy Clustering.- Part IV: Bayes Networks.- Introduction to Bayes Networks.- Elements of Probability and Graph Theory.- Decompositions.- Evidence Propagation.- Learning Graphical Models.

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