Table of Contents

Preface; An Overview on Theories & Methods of Self-Organization; An Ant Colony Optimization Based Approach of Feature Selection for Efficient Classification of Very Small Datasets by Mining Patterns; Self-organization & Task Allocation: An Application to Ant Algorithms; The Generalized Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Application Examples; Weights & Structure Determination of Artificial Neuronets; Low-dimensional Structures Embedded in Human Locomotion: Data Analysis & Modeling; Self-organization in Motion of a Set of Living Individuals; A Cellular Automata Method for Species Migration Process In Heterogeneous Environment; Robust Self-adaptive Kalman Filter with the R & Q Adaptations against Sensor/Actuator Failures; Regular Approximation of the Stochastic Pushdown Calculus; Index.