Synopses & Reviews
This book offers a tutorial view of recent trends in the science of modelling, adaptation, and learning. The most important modern approaches to identification, namely the stochastic, behavioral, subspace, and frequency domain approaches, are discussed thoroughly. On adaptation, tuning the parameters of a linear model is presented as a cure for uncertainty, and the asymptotics of recursive least squares and self-tuning systems are explained simply after a fully deterministic analysis. For constructing nonlinear models from data, neural networks and wavelets are considered as useful nonlinear tools, and fuzzy logic is presented as a way of coping with qualitative information. A final chapter deals with optimization methods. The book will become an important reference for researchers in the field.
Synopsis
This book collects the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute From Identijication to Learning held in Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, from August 22 to September 2, 1994. The school was devoted to the themes of Identijication, Adaptation and Learning, as they are currently understood in the Information and Contral engineering community, their development in the last few decades, their inter- connections and their applications. These titles describe challenging, exciting and rapidly growing research areas which are of interest both to contral and communication engineers and to statisticians and computer scientists. In accordance with the general goals of the Institute, and notwithstanding the rat her advanced level of the topics discussed, the presentations have been generally kept at a fairly tutorial level. For this reason this book should be valuable to a variety of rearchers and to graduate students interested in the general area of Control, Signals and Information Pracessing. As the goal of the school was to explore a common methodologicalline of reading the issues, the flavor is quite interdisciplinary. We regard this as an original and valuable feature of this book.
Synopsis
This book offers a tutorial view of the science of learning models from data. It covers the most important approaches to linear modelling, nonlinear model construction from data, fuzzy logic based modelling, and optimization methods.