This book examines the fundamentals and technologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and describes their tools, challenges, and issues. It also explains relevant theory as well as industrial applications in various domains, such as healthcare, economics, education, product development, agriculture, human resource management, environmental management, and marketing. The book is a boon to students, software developers, teachers, members of boards of studies, and researchers who need a reference resource on artificial intelligence and its applications and is primarily intended for use in courses offered by higher education institutions that strive to equip their graduates with Industry 4.0 skills. FEATURES: Gender disparity in the enterprises involved in the development of AI-based software development as well as solutions to eradicate such gender bias in the AI world A general framework for AI in environmental management, smart farming, e-waste management, and smart energy optimization The potential and application of AI in medical imaging as well as the challenges of AI in precision medicine AI’s role in the diagnosis of various diseases, such as cancer and diabetes The role of machine learning models in product development and statistically monitoring product quality Machine learning to make robust and effective economic policy decisions Machine learning and data mining approaches to provide better video indexing mechanisms resulting in better searchable results ABOUT THE EDITORS: Prof. Dr. P. Kaliraj is Vice Chancellor at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India. Prof. Dr. T. Devi is Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Applications, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a dynamic field that is constantly expanding into new application areas, discovering new research challenges and facilitating the devel- ment of innovative products. Today’s information overload and rapid technological advancement raise needs for effective management of the complexity and heteroge- ity of knowledge, for intelligent and adaptable man–machine interfaces and for pr- ucts and applications that can learn and take decisions by themselves. Although the mystery of human-level intelligence has just started to be uncovered in various int- disciplinary fields, AI is inspired by the respective scientific areas to explore certain theories and models that will provide the methods and techniques to design and - velop human-centered applications that address the above-mentioned needs. This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2008), the official meeting of the Hellenic Society for Artificial Intelligence (EETN). Previous conferences were held at the University of Piraeus (1996), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002), at the University of the Aegean (2004) and at the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas) and the University of Crete (2006).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SETN 2008, held at Syros, Greece in October 2008. The 27 revised full papers together with 17 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The papers address any area of artificial intelligence; particular fields of interest include: Adaptive Systems, AI and Creativity, AI rchitectures, Artificial Life,Autonomous Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Hybrid Intelligent Systems & Methods, Intelligent Agents, Multi-agent Systems, Intelligent Distributed Systems, Intelligent Information Retrieval, Intelligent/Natural Interactivity, Intelligent Virtual Environments, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Logic Programming, Knowledge-Based Systems, Machine Learning, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, Natural Language Processing, Planning and Scheduling, Problem Solving, Constraint Satisfaction, Robotics, Machine Vision, Machine Sensing.

One of the goals of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating autonomous agents that must make decisions based on uncertain and incomplete information. The goal is to design rational agents that must take the best action given the information available and their goals. Decision Theory Models for Applications in Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Solutions provides an introduction to different types of decision theory techniques, including MDPs, POMDPs, Influence Diagrams, and Reinforcement Learning, and illustrates their application in artificial intelligence. This book provides insights into the advantages and challenges of using decision theory models for developing intelligent systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SETN 2012, held in Lamia, Greece, in May 2012. The 47 contributions included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. They deal with emergent topics of artificial intelligence and come from the SETN main conference as well as from the following special sessions on advancing translational biological research through the incorporation of artificial intelligence methodologies; artificial intelligence in bioinformatics; intelligent annotation of digital content; intelligent, affective, and natural interfaces; and unified multimedia knowledge representation and processing.

Artificial Intelligence: Models, Algorithms and Applications presents focused information about applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in different areas to solve complex problems. The book presents 8 chapters that demonstrate AI based systems for vessel tracking, mental health assessment, radiology, instrumentation, business intelligence, education and criminology. The book concludes with a chapter on mathematical models of neural networks. The book serves as an introductory book about AI applications at undergraduate and graduate levels and as a reference for industry professionals working with AI based systems.