"This book focuses on new developments and contributions in the areas of soft computing which are related to optimization, control and automation. It covers how the global soft-computing based techniques are used for global optimization problems of decision-making, supply chain management, power...

This textbook is about three key aspects of system design: decision making under uncertainty, trade-off studies and formal risk analyses. Recognizing that the mathematical treatment of these topics is similar, the authors generalize existing mathematical techniques to cover all three areas....