This book presents key computational intelligence approaches applied across diverse areas of computer science, demonstrating their effectiveness in solving real-world problems. It highlights how nature-inspired methods are shaping the future of intelligent systems and offering powerful, efficient, and elegant solutions to complex challenges.Computational intelligence (CI) extends far beyond the optimization of complex computations. It provides robust, generic, and adaptable mechani...

Invasive species are one of the major threats to natural ecosystems and the services they provide. This book focuses on invasives (particularly insect species) currently implicated in impacting ecosystems and native communities in the tropics. Biological invasions require a multidisciplinary approach across taxa and habitats. This book updates recent advances in biological invasion research and highlights the impacts of invasives, identifies and explains mechanisms of invasion, and identif...

This book discusses trends in animal behavior focusing specifically on vertebrates from the tropical region. It includes topics on a wide range of disciplines such as electrophysiology, molecular biology, reproductive physiology, foraging and feeding behavior, chemical ethology and ecology, in-situ and ex-situ conservation, circadian rhythms, climate change and several other related topics that are of high interest and utility. Tropical countries have a unique and diversified fauna across ...

The text covers both basic and advanced techniques based on state performance systems and binary systems. The chapters will highlight reliability prediction, series-parallel, and complex modeling. It presents a dynamic reliability analysis of safety-critical systems using Petri nets, and dynamic resource allocation modeling of software with patching. The text illustrates a semi-Markov analysis of systems with a Weibull interface.This book:discusses in a comprehensive ...

This book is an excellent collection of various topics of mathematics which include numerical methods, integral equations, and differential equations. The book is recommended to readers to refresh their understanding of applied mathematics with theory and applications. It will be useful to students, researchers, and practitioners working in applied and computational mathematics.

This book highlights the practical benefits of advanced mathematics through real-world applications in various engineering fields, such as sustainable engineering, innovative algorithms, reliability engineering, systems engineering, and soft computing. It covers essential mathematical models for environmental and economic sustainability, cutting-edge algorithms with practical examples, and models in reliability engineering to improve system performance under uncertainty. The systems engine...

Reliability Assessment and Optimization of Complex Systems delves into a range of tools and techniques for designing optimized complex systems. Each chapter explores system modeling and the implementation of various metaheuristics for optimization purposes. This book provides readers in the domain of applied mathematics with a comprehensive understanding of system reliability analysis and improvement, thereby offering substantial value to their knowledge and expertise. System reliability h...

This book explains the basic and advanced technology behind the Power Electronics Converters for EV charging, and their significant developments, and introduces the Grid Impact issues that underpin the grid integration of electric vehicles. Advanced Concepts and Technologies for Electric Vehicles reviews state-of-the-art and new configurations and concepts of more electric vehicles and EV charging, mitigating the impact of EV charging on the power grid, and technical considerations of EV c...

This book &quote;Advanced Applications of Computational Mathematics&quote; covers multidisciplinary studies containing advanced research in the field of computational and applied mathematics. The book includes research methodology, techniques, applications, and algorithms. The book will be very useful to advanced students, researchers and practitioners who are involved in the areas of computational and applied mathematics and engineering.

Advanced Ceramics possess various unique properties and are able to withstand harsh environments. The aim of this book is to cover various aspects of the advanced ceramics like carbides, nitrides and oxides for energy and environment related applications. Advanced ceramics with additional functionality propose significant potential for greater impact in the field of energy and environmental technologies. This book focuses on the nanostructured ceramics synthesis, properties, structure-prop...

This book “Advanced Applications of Computational Mathematics” covers multidisciplinary studies containing advanced research in the field of computational and applied mathematics. The book includes research methodology, techniques, applications, and algorithms. The book will be very useful to advanced students, researchers and practitioners who are involved in the areas of computational and applied mathematics and engineering.

The earliest land-plants evolved around 450 million years ago from aquatic plants devoid of vascular systems. The diversification of flowering plants (angiosperms) during the Cretaceous period is associated with speciation in insects. Early insect herbivores were mandibulate, but the evolution of vascular plants led to the co-evolution of other forms of herbivory, such as leaf feeding, sap-sucking, leaf mining, tissue borer, gall forming and nectar-feeding. Plant defense against biotic str...