Proceedings of the First International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

This book contains the summaries of the contributed papers presented at the First International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1-4 September 2009.

The full length papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM.

The topics covered include: Hybrid Optimization Algorithms; Soft Computing Methodologies for Water-related Technologies; Genetic Algorithms; Evolutionary Algorithms; Ant Colony Optimization; Particle Swarm Techniques; Neural Networks; Cellular Automata; Fuzzy Methods; Fuzzy Clustering; Optimization under Uncertainty; Data Mining; Machine Learning; Risk Analysis; Decision Processes; and, Methods for Generating Response Surfaces.