Computational intelligence (CI) refers to recreating human-like intelligence in a computing machine. It consists of a set of computing systems with the ability to learn and deal with new situations such that the systems are perceived to have some attributes of intelligence. It is efficient in solving realworld problems which require reasoning and decision-making. It produces more robust, simpler, and tractable solutions than the traditional techniques. This paper provides a brief introduction to computational intelligence.
Keywords: Computational, artificial, intelligence, soft computing
IntroductionComputational intelligence (CI) is the study of the design of intelligent systems. A system is regarded as "intelligent" only if it satisfies learning and decision-making requirements. It is familiar that the best-known manifestation of intelligence is human intelligence. The characteristic of "intelligence" is usually attributed to humans so that CI is a way of performing like human beings and using human-like reasoning, i.e. it uses inexact and fuzzy knowledge. Thus, the goal of CI is to recreate human-like intelligence in a human-made machine.The term "computational intelligence" was coined by John McCarthy in 1956. The ongoing worldwide computerization has created new opportunities for researchers. All branches of science and art have become computational: computational biology, computational physics, computational chemistry, computational ecology, computational linguistics, computational electromagnetics, computational finance, computational mechanics, computational social science, computational epistemology, computational intelligence, and so on.CI uses a combination of five main complementary techniques: (1)fuzzy logic which enables the computer to understand natural language, (2)