%0 Generic %A Colla, Valentina %A Vannucci, Marco %A Matarese, Nicola %A Stephens, Gerard %A Pianezzola, Marco %A Alonso, Izaskun %A Lamp, Torsten %A Palacios, Juan %A Schiewe, Siegfried %T Detection of transients in steel casting through standard and AI-based techniques %J Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) %D 2011 %@ 0302-9743 %U https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2164 %X The detection of transients in the practice of continuous casting within a steel-making industry is a key task for the prediction of final product properties but currently a direct observation of this phenomenon is not available. For this reason in this paper several standard and soft-computing based methods for the detection of transients from plant data will be tested and compared. From the obtained results it emerges that the use of a fuzzy inference system based on experts knowledge achieves very satisfactory results correctly identifying most of the transient events present in the databases provided by different companies. %~