Knowledge Mining Using Intelligent Agents explores the concept of knowledge discovery processes and enhances decision-making capability through the use of intelligent agents like ants, termites and honey bees. In order to provide readers with an integrated set of concepts and techniques for understanding knowledge discovery and its practical utility, this book blends two distinct disciplines — data mining and knowledge discovery process, and intelligent agents-based computing (swarm intelligence and computational intelligence). For the more advanced reader, researchers, and decision/policy-makers are given an insight into emerging technologies and their possible hybridization, which can be used for activities like dredging, capturing, distributions and the utilization of knowledge in their domain of interest (i.e. business, policy-making, etc.). By studying the behavior of swarm intelligence, this book aims to integrate the computational intelligence paradigm and intelligent distributed agents architecture to optimize various engineering problems and efficiently represent knowledge from the large gamut of data. Contents: Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Mining and Intelligent Agent (S Dehuri & S-B Cho)The Use of Evolutionary Computation in Knowledge Discovery: The Example of Intrusion Detection Systems (S X Wu & W Banzhaf)Evolution of Neural Network and Polynomial Network (B B Misra et al.)Design of Alloy Steels Using Multi-Objective Optimization (M Chen et a.)An Extended Bayesian/HAPSO Intelligent Method in Intrusion Detection System (S Dehuri & S Tripathy)Mining Knowledge from Network Intrusion Data Using Data Mining Techniques (M Panda & M R Patra)Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-Objective Optimal Operational Planning of Energy Plants (Y Fukuyama et al.)Soft Computing for Feature Selection (A K Jagadev et al.)Optimized Polynomial Fuzzy Swarm Net for Classification (B B Misra et al.)Software Testing Using Genetic Algorithms (M Ray & D P Mohapatra) Readership: Researchers and professionals in the knowledge discovery industry. Keywords:Intelligent Agent;Knowledge Mining;Data Mining;Knowledge Discovery;Computational Intelligence;Swarm Intelligence;Evolutionary ComputationKey Features:Addresses the various issues/problems of knowledge discovery, data mining tasks and the various design challenges by the use of different intelligent agents technologiesCovers new and unique intelligent agents techniques (computational intelligence + swarm intelligence) for knowledge discovery in databases and data mining to solve the tasks of different phases of knowledge discoveryHighlights data pre-processing for knowledge mining and post-processing of knowledge that is ignored by most of the authorsConsists of a collection of well-organized chapters written by prospective authors who are actively engaged in this active area of research