Quotient Space Based Problem Solving

Professor Ling Zhang is currently with the Department of Computer Science at Anhui University in Hefei, China. His main interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms and computational intelligence. Professor Bo Zhang is currently with the Computer Science and Technology Department at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, He is a Fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research interests include artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligent control and pattern recognition. He has published over 150 papers and 3 monographs in these fields.

• Chapter 1 Problem RepresentationChapter 2 Hierarchy and Multi-granular ComputingChapter 3 Information Synthesis in Multi-granular ComputingChapter 4 Reasoning in Multi-granular ComputingChapter 5 Automatic Spatial PlanningChapter 6 Statistical Heuristic SearchChapter 7 the Expansion of Quotient Space TheoryAddenda A: Some Concepts and Properties of Point Set TopologyAddenda B: Some Concepts and Properties of Integral and Statistical Inference

"The entire book is devoted to formalize and automate...a theory of granular computing, which is essentially based on quotient spaces." --Zentralblatt MATH"... aimed primarily at graduate students (and academicians) with strong mathematical maturity and an interest in mathematical modeling in the fields around artificial intelligence (AI)." --Computing Reviews, November 2014