Contents:

Preface Chapter 1: Philosophy - Welcome to IPPM'03-Nanotechnology: Do Good Things Really Come in Small Packages? - On the Mechanics of Morals - Emergence and Complex Systems: Towards New Practices for Industrial Automation PART 1: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOFT COMPUTING Chapter 2: Fuzzy Systems - On Kernel-Based Fuzzy Cluster Loading - Fuzzy Evolutionary Approach to Determination of Dietary Composition for Diabetics - Intelligent Information Technology: From Autonomic to Autonomous Systems - Design of a Fuzzy Controller for a Microwave Monomode Cavity for Soot Trap Filter Regeneration - Optimal Operating Parameters in Fuzzy-Assisted Microwave Removal of Carbon Particulate from Ceramic Filters - Fuzzy Probability for Modelling Particle Preparation Processes - Prediction of Charpy Impact Properties Using Fuzzy Modelling on Ship Structural Steels Chapter 3: Artificial Neural Networks - Artificial Intelligence in Large-Scale Simulations of Materials - Application of an Artificial Neural Network to the Control of an Oxygen Converter Process - Improving the Prediction of the Roll Separating Force in a Hot Steel Finishing Mill - A Solution to the N-Body Problem for Particles of Non-Spherical Geometry Using Artificial Intelligence - Distributed Backpropagation Neural Network System for Pattern Recognition Using JavaSpaces - Eccentricity and Hardness Control in Cold Rolling Mills with a Dynamically Constructed Neural Controller Chapter 4: Process Control and Simulation for Optimization - Level Control Model by Numerical Fluid Dynamics Method - H-infinity Control of Micromolecular State Transition of a Sodium Ion Channel Gating System - Defeasible Deontic Traffic Light Control Based on a Paraconsistent Logic Program EVALPSN - Development of an Electrorheological Bypass Damper for Railway Vehicles-Estimation of Damper Capacity from the Prototype - A Concept for Simulation-Based Optimization of Sheet Metal Forming Processes - Multiple Layer Control Method Chapter 5: Intelligence in Environmental Applications - Morphological and Morphometrical Characteristics of Ornamental Stone Airborne Dusts: Capture and Filtration - Advanced Sampling and Characterization Techniques of Nanoparticle Products Resulting from Thermal Decomposition Processes - Development of a Magnetically Levitated Hoisting System for Use in Underground Mines - Bio-Nanotechnology and Phytomining: The Living Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles by Plants - Developing a Plug to Seal Mine Openings for a Thousand Years: The Millennium Plug Project Chapter 6: Intelligence in Energy Systems - Multiple Sensor Surface Vibrations Analysis for Monitoring Tumbling Mill Performance - Fracture Toughness and Surface Energies of Covalent Materials: Theoretical Estimates and Application to Comminution - Usable Heat from Mine Waters: Coproduction of Energy and Minerals from ""Mother Earth"" - Al Clusters as a Tool for Hydrogen Storage - Theoretical Study of Clathrate Hydrates with Multiple Occupation Chapter 7: Intelligent Instrumentation and Metrology - Image Mining of Evanescent Microwave Data for Nondestructive Material Inspection - Magnetohydrodynamic Stability in Pulse EMC - Ductile Machining Phenomena of Nominally Brittle Materials at the Nanoscale - Fractal Dimension: A New Machining Decision-Making Parameter - EB-Reinforcement by Formation of Atomic Scale Defects in Inorganic Glasses - Texture Observations of Ferromagnetic Shape Memory of Nanostructured Fe-Pd Alloy by Laser and Electronic Microscope - New Advanced Diffusion Simulators for Boron Ultra-Shallow Junction - Nano-Sensors for Gas Determination Based on Heterostructure SnO2-Si - Electrochemical Detection of Urea Using Self-Assembled Monolayers on a Porous Silicon Substrate Chapter 8: Intelligence in Materials Science - Atomic Scale Simulations for Compositional Optimization - Effects of Different Initial Conditions of Liquid Metals on Solidification Microstructures - Combined Approach of Statistical Moment and Cluster Variation Methods for Calculation of Alloy Phase Diagrams - Fabrication and Mechanical Properties of TiNi/Al Smart Composites - Mechanochemical Doping to Prepare a Visible-Light Active Titania Photocatalyst - Influence of Mean Interatomic Distance on Magnetostriction of Fe-Pd Alloy Films Chapter 9: Intelligent Materials Processing - Sub-Nanoscale Structure-Controlled Alloys Produced by Stabilization of Supercooled Liquid - A Novel Method-Hot Quasi-Isostatic Pressing to Fabricate a Metallic Cellular Material Containing Polymer using an SPS System - Consideration of AC-Component Force of Electromagnetic Stirring in the MHD Calculation - Fabrication of Ceramic Hip Joint by Bingham Semi-Solid/Fluid Isostatic Pressing Method - Control of Surface Layer Formed in Fe-Si-0.4mass%Mn Alloys by Annealing under Low Partial Pressure of Oxygen - Development of a Method to Fabricate Metallic Closed Cellular Materials Containing Organics - Bulk AxiSymmetric Forging of Magnesium Alloys Chapter 10: Manufacturing Systems - A Knowledge Management System for Manufacturing Design - Promising Information Technology in the Near Future and Current Obstacles: UWB/PLC and Cyber-Security in the Broadband Age - 3D Interactive Input System PART 2: NANOTECHNOLOGY Chapter 11: Fullerene Materials Science - Novel Self-Assembled Material: Fullerenes Self-Intermixed with Phthalocyanines - Electronic Structure of Self-Localized Excitons in a One Dimensional C60 Crystal - A Simple Route to New 1D Nanostructures - Structures and Intermolecular Interactions of Cocrystallites Consisting of Metal Octaethylporphyrins with Fullerene C70 - Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Foreign Atom Insertion into C60 - Formation of Radioactive Fullerenes by Using Nuclear Recoil Chapter 12: Nano-Machines and Biological Nanotechnology - Engineering with the Engines of Creation - Calculation of the Characteristics of a Molecular Single-Electron Transistor with Discrete Energy Spectrum - Electronic Transport through Benzene Molecule and DNA Base Pairs - Realization of ""Molecular Enamel Wire"" Concept for Molecular Electronics - Mechanical Properties of a Thermoelectric SMA Manipulator - Single-Electron Tunneling in Planar Molecular Nanosystems - Integration of Smart Materials in Si to Create Opto- and Micro-Electronic Hybrid Devices - High Performance Thermo-Elastic Metallic Materials by Rapid Solidification and their Applications in ""Smart"" Medical Systems - Systemic Evaluation for Replication Processing of DNA Double Strand as a Zippering Micro-Machine - High Resolution Detection and Coating Method for the Functionalisation of Nanometre Separated Gold Electrodes with DNA Chapter 13: Nanotubes - Magnetic Properties of Doped Silicon Nanotube - Computer Simulation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Crystals - A Study of the Pressure Dependence of the Raman Spectrum of C60 and Single-Walled Nanotubes in Methanol-Water Mixtures Chapter 14: Nano-Scale Surface Phenomena - Fundamental Studies of Large Organic Molecules on Metallic Substrates by High Resolution STM - Dielectrophoretic Manipulation of Surface-Bound DNA - Comparative Study on Interactions of Polypeptides of Bacteriorhodopsin in the Langmuir-Blodgett Film Based on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Film - Nano-Granular Co-Zr-O Magnetic Films Studied by Lorentz Microscopy and Electron Holography - Electrochemomechanical Deformation of Polypyrrole Film in Complex Buffer Media - Nano-Metallization on Surface Nano-Sized Granules of Polytetrafluoroethylene Matrix Chapter 15: Nano-Clusters - Cluster Expansion Method for Chemisorption Geometries - All-Electron GW Calculations for Small Clusters - Theoretical Study of Unimolecular Rectifying Function of a Donor-Spacer-Acceptor Structure Molecule - Fully-Coordinated Silica Nanoclusters: Building Blocks for Novel Materials - Reductive Selective Deposition of Ni-Zn Nanoparticles onto TiO2 Fine Particles in the Liquid Phase Author Index About the Editors