General Principles and Purposes of Computational Intelligence in Systems Science and Cybernetics

This Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems article reviews the basic ideas and scientific perception of computational intelligence (CI) and its relationship to systems science and cybernetics, situating CI within the broader body of artificial and biological intelligence. Reznik frames CI as an integrity of theories that apply methods and models analogous to those of biological intelligent systems in problem solving and decision making, among them artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, fuzzy and adaptive systems, approximate reasoning and learning, and simulated annealing. The chapter gives particular attention to how these components combine, and to the goals of computational intelligence and the research accomplished toward them.