In this volume we publish some papers presented at the Exploratory Workshop on Natural Language Computation (EWNLC 2008), entitled "From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence", during May 15-17, 2008, Baile Felix, Oradea, Romania. This workshop was financed by the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth/ National Authority for Scientific Research, based a project directed by Prof. dr. Dan Tufis, corresponding

Call for papers The International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control (ICCCC) (founded in 2006 by I. Dzitac, F.G. Filip and M.-J. Manolescu and organized every even year) provides a forum for international scientists in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research findings on a broad array of topics in computer networking and control. The 84 papers selected from the ICCCC 2006 (event dedicated to the centenary

The World Wide Web has evolved in less than two decades as the major source of data and information for all domains. Web has become today not only an accessible and searchable information source but also one of the most important communication channels, almost a virtual society. Web mining is a challenging activity that aims to discover new, relevant and reliable information and knowledge by investigating the web structure, its content and its usage.

The article presents the development of a reliability simulation program for electrical power stations, using Monte Carlo method. Based on the electrical power station scheme, the system's characteristic equation is generated which can be specified as program input data, increasing the program's flexibility. The simulation yields the values of reliability indicators and the reliability function diagram. The article also presents a case study for

The connection with Wirth's book goes beyond the title, albeit confining the area to modern Artificial Intelligence (AI). Whereas thirty years ago, to devise effective programs, it became necessary to enhance the classical algorithmic framework with approaches applied to limited and focused subdomains, in the context of broad-band technology and semantic web, applications - running in open, heterogeneous, dynamic and uncertain environments-current

In this paper the authors describe the results of experiments for surface roughness image acquisition and processing in order to develop an automated roughness control system. This implies the finding of a characteristic roughness parameter (for example Ra) on the bases of information contained in the image of the surface. To achieve this goal we use quasi-fractal characteristics and fuzzy clustering methods.

“To whom it may concern ... Dr. Filip has shown himself to be a very innovative and productive researcher whose papers are equivalent in quality and cutting-edge findings to those from the best research organizations of the world. Witness his publications in Automatica, Computers in Industry and other leading journals in the field. The establishment of Dr. Filip’s stature as an internationally recognized researcher in his field and the acceptance

This edition of International Conference on Computers, Communications and Control, ICCCC 2008 [1], together with the satellite-event ExploratoryWorkshop on Natural Language Computation, EWNLC 2008 [2]: "From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence", celebrates the Centenary of John Bardeen (1908- 1991) [3-24], the co-inventor of the transistor, a very important element in the development of the computers and the

We propose an object-oriented design of an information integrated system for a SME. Our design is based on a kernel which implements CRM functions. This kernel is conceived as an independent subsystem and it is the first to be implemented. The others added subsystems are designed in a way that they will gravitate around the kernel. This type of integrated information system is developed in the iterative and incremental steps. CRM kernel implements

In this paper we will present the utilization of neuro - fuzzy models as prediction of some events, more exactly, realizing of some applications viewing the time intervals prediction in which incidents can appear in an electrical energy distribution system. It was realized the duration analyzes between two incidents, with the aim to estimate the frequency of the incidences in the future. The time intervals prediction where may appear incidences was