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Soft computing
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Reyes-Garcia, Carlos Alberto Laboratorio de Investigación de Tecnologias Inteligentes, Instituto Tecnologico de Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Last reviewed:2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.YB020810
The family of emergent methods that imitate human intelligence have formed a new subject area called soft computing. Since the development of artificial intelligence, there have been many attempts to create devices that mimic intelligent behavior. The goal is to make tools provided with some humanlike capabilities (such as learning, reasoning, and decision making) to solve complex problems, not to build machines with the capacity to compete with humans. Soft computing replaces the traditional time-consuming and complex techniques of programming with more intelligent processing techniques. Soft computing uses the human mind as a model and aims to formalize the cognitive processes used to accomplish daily tasks.
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