Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to Combinatorial Library Design -- Clustering of Large Data Sets in the Life Sciences -- Application of a Genetic Algorithm to the Refinement of Complex Mössbauer Spectra -- Soft Computing, Molecular Orbital, and Functional Theory in the Design of Safe Chemicals -- Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Classification Techniques -- Application of Artificial Neural Networks, and Genetic Algorithms to Biochemical Engineering -- Genetic Algorithms for the Geometry Optimization of Clusters and Nanoparticles -- Real-Time Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants in the Workplace Using Neural Networks and FTIR Spectroscopy -- Genetic Algorithm Evolution of Fuzzy Production Rules for the On-line Control of Phenol-Formaldehyde Resin Plants -- A Novel Approach to QSPR/QSAR Based on Neural Networks for Structures -- Hybrid Modeling of Kinetics for Methanol Synthesis.
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This book brings together original work from a number of authors who have made significant contributions to the evolution and use of nonstandard computing methods in chemistry and pharmaceutical industry. The contributions to this book cover a wide range of applications of Soft Computing to the chemical domain. Soft Computing applications are able to approximate many different kinds of real-world systems; to tolerate imprecision, partial truth, and uncertainty; and to learn from their environment and generate solutions of low cost, high robustness, and tractability. Presented applications are the optimization of the structure of atom clusters, the design of safe textile materials, real-time monitoring of pollutants in the workplace, quantitative structure-activity relationships, the analysis of Mössbauer spectra, the synthesis of methanol or the use of bioinformatics in the clustering of data within large biochemical databases. With this diverse range of applications, the book appeals to professionals, researchers and developers of software tools for the design of Soft Computing-based systems in chemistry and pharmaceutical industry, and to many others within the computational intelligence community.