Experiences and Obstacles in Industrial Applications of Intelligent Systems

Neural networks and fuzzy systems are well known soft computing techniques, which date back several decades since the preliminary work of McCulloch and Pitts, Grossberg, Zadeh, and dozens of other precursors. At first, the neural network was believed to be "simple and workable solution" for all the difficult problems can be dealt with, and then gave rise to a broad interest in research around the world and garnered a lot of funding. During this preliminary period, many theories have been developed, analyzed and applied.