The prognostic system plays a crucial role in estimating the remaining useful life of machine components and forecasting of the future states of machines. The techniques related to prognostics consist of statistical-based, model-based, and data driven or intelligence-based. Among these, artificial intelligence is commonly used due to its flexibility in generating appropriate models for the fore...

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the sensor nodes transmit critical information over the network. Therefore security services such as authentication and pair wise key establishment between sensor nodes and mobile sinks are important. However, the problem of authentication and pair wise key establishment in sensor networks with mobile sinks is still a critical problem in the face of mobile si...

Intelligent instruction of fault diagnosis, or troubleshooting, tasks requires the capability to automatically infer the significance of particular test outcomes observed by the learner in a practice environment. This single process is central to virtually every aspect of intelligent instruction in this domain, ranging from evaluating learner proficiency to recommending an effective testing str...

With ever increasing complexity of products and customer demands, companies are adopting new strategies to meet the changing technological requirements, shorter product life cycles, and globalization of manufacturing operations. Product design and development are getting more sophisticated procedures/processes involved and require designers and engineers possessing different expertise, knowledg...

In the last few years the applications of artificial intelligence techniques have been used to convert human experience into a form understandable by computers. Advanced control based on artificial intelligence techniques is called intelligent control. Intelligent systems are usually described by analogies with biological systems by, for example, looking at how human beings perform control task...