----- Title: ----- Intelligent Computing in Mechanics ----------- Organizers: ----------- Tadeusz Burczynski, Silesian University of Technology Department for Strength of Materials and Computational Mechanics Konarskiego 18a 44-100 Gliwice, Poland Phone: +48322371204 Fax: +48322371282 E-mail: tb@polsl.pl Jacques Periaux International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) Edificio C1 Campus Norte UPC Gran Capitan s/n 08034 Barcelona, Spain E-mail: jperiaux@free.fr ------------------------- Minisymposium description: ------------------------- The Minisymposium is devoted to new computational techniques in applied science and engineering areas, where one tries to study, model, analyze and optimize very complex phenomena and systems, those for which more precise scientific tools of the past were incapable of giving low cost and complete solution. Intelligent (soft) computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that, unlike hard computing, it is tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation. In effect, the role model for soft computing is the human mind. Among the most important areas of intelligent computing the following techniques are included: * Artificial Neural Networks * Fuzzy Systems * Evolutionary Computation * Artificial Immune Systems * Swarm Intelligence * Bayesian Networks * Game Strategies Among the most important applications of intelligent computing to be considered in this minisymposium: * Mechanical Engineering * Bio-Mechanical Engineering * Multiphysics Engineering * Intelligent Control Systems for Aeronautics * Intelligent Multidisciplinary Design Systems Papers involving all aspects of computational intelligence of various types and their applications are welcome. Expected are papers presenting wide range of intelligent computing in mechanics, especially the use of a combination of soft and hard methodologies, demonstrating their maturity as well as current and potential power in analysis, optimization, and inverse problems.