Computational Intelligence

Computational Intelligence (CI ) is an area of artificial intelligence. It summarizes three biologically motivated specialist areas of information processing together. It is based on algorithms of the fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks as well as on the evolutionary algorithms.

All three disciplines have in common that they make mechanisms of biological problem-solving strategies for mathematical or engineering - technical issues available, without trying to model the origin systems themselves correctly. These serve more as a source of inspiration, according to the motto: " Do as you work."

Between the fields, there are often synergies: for example, Evolutionary algorithms are often used for the design of artificial neural networks and fuzzy systems. Another example is so-called neuro-fuzzy systems that can be represented without loss of information either as a fuzzy system or artificial neural network. Thus, they can be represented as a fuzzy system in an intelligible form on the one hand, on the other hand use the powerful learning methods of artificial neural networks.

In Germany computational intelligence is now at many universities (eg, University of Bonn, Dortmund, Erlangen, Karlsruhe, Magdeburg, Marburg, Siegen, Osnabrück) and colleges ( Mittweida, South Westphalia, Cologne Dept. Gummersbach, Bochum) taught in master courses. In addition, there is a variety of lectures on the various sub-regions. Several scientific organizations set up regular events on this topic (for example, the annual workshops Computational Intelligence in the house Bommerholz in Dortmund).

International, for example, founded in Computational Intelligence Society 2004 active. It is a part of the IEEE.