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Soft Computing has come of age. In particular, Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Computing now play an important role in many domains where traditional techniques have been found wanting. As this volume confirms, hybrid solutions that combine more than one of the Soft Computing approaches are particularly successful in many problem areas. This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing 2000 at De Montfort University in Leicester. The contributions cover both theoretical developments and practical applications in the various areas of Soft Computing.
The story of Birkenhead is vividly retold in this lively new history of the town, illustrated by over 200 maps, engravings and photographs from the superb archive at Birkenhead library.Ralph T. Brocklebank recalls Birkenhead's origins as a tiny fishing community in a sheltered cove on the Cheshire coast, its medieval importance as a Benedictine priory and crossing point on the Mersey, and its swift, troubled development as a commercial and industrial rival to Liverpool during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Larger-than-life characters like industrial entrepreneur William Laird, architect Joseph Paxton, and philanthropist Charles Thompson all feature in the story, as do famous residents like the poet Wilfred Owen.