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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS COMMUNICATIONS & CONTROL
Special Issue on Fuzzy Sets and Applications (Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Fuzzy Sets)

ISSN 1841-9836, 10(6):952-953, December, 2015.

Book Review:
"Biometric and Intelligent Decision Making Support"

F.G. Filip

Florin Gheorghe Filip

Romanian Academy,
Calea Victoriei 125, Sector 1,
Bucharest, Romania
ffilip@acad.ro

Biometric and Intelligent Decision Making Support

By Artüras Kaklauskas
Intelligent Systems Reference Library (Janusz Kacprzyk, Lakhmi C. Jain, Series Editors)

Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-13659-2, 236 pages
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319136585

This book is meant to familiarize the reader with the state-of-art of research and application
results obtained in the domain of Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS), biometric tech-
nologies and their integration. The author of the book is prof. A. Kaklauskas, the head of the
Department of Construction Economics and Real Estate Management of the Vilnius Gediminas
Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Vilnius, Lithuania, a reputed author in the domain
of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods and
their applications in the construction, property management and the related fields. In the book,
the author makes an exhaustive review of results reported in the domain literature and presents
a detailed account of his practical achievements as well as his colleagues’.

The book is composed of seven chapters as follows.

Chapter 1, entitled "Introduction to Intelligent Decision Support Systems", sets the stage
for the following chapters. It introduces the main concepts of the domain and pays a special
attention to Artificial Intelligence (IA)- based advanced methods and their integration with Data
Base Management Systems (DBMS) and Human- Computer Interface (HCI).

Chapter 2, entitled "Intelligent Decision Support Systems", reviews basic concepts of several
new subclasses of IDSS, such as recommender, advisory and expert systems, data and text
mining. The integration of Artificial Neural Networks is addressed too. A big part of the
chapter provides abundant information about specific aspects of biometrics-based DSS, such as
voice and speech recognition, expression analysis and so on. Two very modern concepts and
associated technologies, namely Ambient Intelligence and Internet of Things, are described in
details. Several other subclasses of solutions based on various technologies, such as Genetic
algorithms, Fuzzy and Rough sets, Computer vision, robotic systems and so on, are surveyed in
the final part of the text of the chapter.

The remaining part of the text contains the presentation of various conceptual and application
results obtained by professor Kaklauskas and his colleagues. Chapter 3 introduces the model of
passive house to be used in a qualitative analysis and design of the corresponding intelligent
system.

Chapter 4 contains the results obtained in biometric and self-assessment of the student
progress system and describes two relevant case studies.

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Chapter 5 addresses the subject of analysis of user’s emotions and work productivity by
using the state of blood circulatory system and describes a web- based biometric computer
mouse advisory system.

The content of chapter 4 is complemented by the interesting solutions presented in chapter 6,
which addresses student progress assessment by using an intelligent pupil analysis and presents
two case studies.

Chapter 7 addresses also the education domain and presents recommender-system-based so-
lutions meant to increase student productivity.

One book addresses two modern research domains: intelligent and integrated decision sup-
port systems and biometrics-based human-computer interface. It can be explained, in my view,
by the huge effort made by the author and his colleagues to find solutions to problems of the real
world. The presentation of the research and application results obtained by the author and his
colleagues over the years is a special merit of the book, beside the variety of the topics addressed.
Consequently, I warmly recommend the book to PhD and MSc students and instructors, as an
up-to-date source of knowledge. I think the book can also be a valuable tool for those consultants
who are willing to master new concepts and technologies in order to get a competitive advantage
on the market of computer applications.

F. G. Filip
Romanian Academy
Bucharest, Romania