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It is a compilation of research works related to intelligent and emerging system design using a range of tools including soft-computation. The book includes reviews, actual designs, research works, discussion and experimental results related to works in the areas of communication, computation, vision sciences, bio-inspired system design, social dynamic, related process design, etc. The audience of this book is expected to be researchers who deal with intelligent and emerging system design through mathematical and computational modeling and experimental designs. Specifically, audiences that are broadly involved in the domains of electronics and communication, electrical engineering, mathematics, computer science, other applied informatics domains and related areas will find the book interesting. The works included in the book broadly covers all areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Technology, Soft-computational Applications, Human Computer Interactive Designs and Social and Economic Dynamics. The works included in the volume have been grouped into Communication, Biomedical and Social Science, HCI and Bio-inspired System Design, Speech Processing and Review totaling sixteen contributions.

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Part I - Intelligent Applications in Communication: Paper 1. ANFIS based Symbol Recovery in Multi-Antenna Stochastic Channels.- Paper 2. STBC Decoding with ANN in Wireless Communication.- Paper 3. Carrier Phase Detection of Faded Signals using Digital Phase Locked Loop.- Paper 4. Adaptive MRC for Stochastic Wireless Channels.- Paper 5. ZF and MMSE based Equalizer Design in IEEE 802.15.4a UWB Channel.- Part II - Selected Issues in Biomedical and Social Science: Paper 6. Role of Baby´s Birth Symptoms and Mother´s Pregnancy Conditions on Children´s Disability Determined using Multiple Regression and ANN.- Paper 7. A Soft Computational Framework to Predict Alzheimer´s Disease (AD) from Protein Structure.- Paper 8. Identification of Stages of Industrial Sickness of Large and Medium Scale Units using Certain Soft-Computational Approach.- Part III - HCI and Bio-inspired System Design: Paper 9. Adaptive Hand Segmentation and Tracking for Application in Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition.- Paper 10. Multi-core Parallel Computing and DSP Processor for the Design of Bio-Inspired Soft Computing Framework for Speech and Image Processing Applications.- Part IV - Soft Computing and Hybrid System based Speech Processing Applications: Paper 11. Comparative Analysis of Neuro-Fuzzy based Approaches for Speech Data Clustering.- Paper 12. Effective Speech Signal Reconstruction Technique using Empirical Mode Decomposition under Various Conditions.- Paper 13. Assamese Vowel Speech Recognition using GMM and ANN Approaches.- Part V - Review Chapters on Selected Areas: Paper 14. Speech Recognition in Indian Languages - A Survey.- Paper 15. Recent Trends in Power Conscious VLSI Design - A Review.- Paper 16. Application of Soft computing Tools in Wireless Communication - A Review.

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