Soft computing embraces methodologies for the development of intelligent systems that have been successfully applied to a large number of real-word problems. This collection of keynote papers, presented at the 7th On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in fuzzy, neural and evolutionary computing techniques and applications in engineering design and manufacturing. Features: - New and highly advanced research results at the forefront of soft computing in engineering design and manufacturing. - Keynote papers by world-renowned researchers in the field. - A good overview of current soft computing research around the world. A collection of methodologies aimed at researchers and professional design and manufacturing engineers who develop and apply intelligent systems in computer engineering. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Fault Diagnosis of Air-conditioning System Using CMAC Neural Network Approach....Pages 1-11 Prototypes Stability Analysis in the Design of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks....Pages 13-20 Canadian Weather Analysis Using Connectionist Learning Paradigms....Pages 21-32 Application of Neural Networks and Expert Systems in a hierarchical approach to the intelligent greenhouse control....Pages 33-41 Artificial Neural Networks Design using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 43-52 TACDSS: Adaptation Using a Hybrid Neuro-Fuzzy System....Pages 53-64 Visual Inspection of Fuzzy Clustering Results....Pages 65-76 Benchmark Between Three Controllers in IFOC: PI, IP and New Fuzzy-PI Regulator....Pages 77-88 Determining the Model Order of Nonlinear Input-Output Systems by Fuzzy Clustering....Pages 89-98 Fuzzy Self-Organizing Map based on Regularized Fuzzy c-means Clustering....Pages 99-108 Outline Representation of Fonts Using Genetic Approach....Pages 109-118 Process-Oriented Plant Layout Design using a Fuzzy Set Decomposition Algorithm....Pages 119-127 A Fuzzy Colour Image Segmentation Applied to Robot Vision....Pages 129-138 Applying Rule Weight Derivation to Obtain Cooperative Rules....Pages 139-147 XML based Modelling of Soft Computing Methods....Pages 149-158 Intelligent information retrieval: some research trends....Pages 159-171 Representation of Concept Specialization Distance through Resemblance Relations....Pages 173-181 Kernel-based Face Recognition by a Reformulation of Kernel Machines....Pages 183-195 Face Recognition Using Multi Log-Polar Images and Gabor Filters....Pages 197-204 Performance Analysis of Statistical Classifier SMO with other Data Mining Classifiers....Pages 205-211 Two term-layers: an alternative topology for representing term relationships in the Bayesian Network Retrieval Model....Pages 213-223 C-FOCUS: A continuous extension of FOCUS....Pages 225-232 2D Image registration with iterated local search....Pages 233-242 Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Current and Future Challenges....Pages 243-256 Function Finding and the Creation of Numerical Constants in Gene Expression Programming....Pages 257-265 A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Hypothesis Tracking....Pages 267-275 Differential Evolution Algorithm With Adaptive Control Parameters....Pages 277-286 A Distributed-Population GA for Discovering Interesting Prediction Rules....Pages 287-296 Confidence interval based crossover using a L 1 norm localization estimator for real-coded genetic algorithms....Pages 297-306 Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization for Robust Control System Design....Pages 307-316 1-D Parabolic Search Mutation....Pages 317-329 Global optimization of climate control problems using evolutionary and stochastic algorithms....Pages 331-342 A Hybrid CHC Genetic Algorithm for Macro Cell Global Routing....Pages 343-350 Genetic Models for the Rational Exploitation of Resources....Pages 351-360 Discrete Variable Structure Control Design based on Lamarckian Evolution....Pages 361-370 GA-P Based Search of Structures and Parameters of Dynamical Process Models....Pages 371-380 Back Matter....Pages 381-385 This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2019, held in Xalapa, Mexico, in October/November 2019. The 59 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. fuzzy systems, reasoning and intelligent applications;
