'Soft Computing' is a course offered in B. C. A. (Bachelor of Computer Applications) program at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Basic Concepts - Single Layer Perception - Multilayer Perception - Supervised and Unsupervised Learning - Back Propagation networks - Kohnen’s self-organizing networks - Hop field networks - Distance measures.
Unit 2
FUZZY sets, properties, Membership functions Fuzzy operations, Applications.
Unit 3
Classification and Regression Trees - Data Clustering Algorithms - Rule based Structure identification.
Unit 4
Neuro-Fuzzy Systems.
Unit 5
Evolutionary Computation - Survival of the Fittest - Fitness Computation – Crossover – Mutation – Reproduction - Rank space Method. Case Studies: Applications of soft computing.
- Laurence Fausett,”Fundamentals of Neural Networks”, Seventh Edition, Dorling Kindersley (India) P. Ltd 2006.
- Satish Kumar - “Neural Networks – A Classroom Approach”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Timothy J.Rose, ”Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications”, Third Edition, John Wiley, 2010.
- J.S.R Jang,C.T Sun and E.Mizutani, ”Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing”, Second Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2002.
- D.E.Goldberg ”Genetic Algorithms in search, optimization and Machine learning”, Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2007.
