The impact of soft computing for the progress of artificial intelligence

Abstract

This special issue encompasses five papers devoted to the different existing relationships between soft computing branches and classical artificial intelligence. The issue originated from the ?50 years of artificial intelligence: campus in multidisciplinary perception and intelligence, CMPI-2006? multi-conference (http://www.info-ab.uclm.es/cmpi/1024x768/overview.htm), that was held in Albacete, Spain, during 10?14 July 2006, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of artificial intelligence at the Dartmouth Conference (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html).