The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems (ICAIECES 2017). The book discusses wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. Researchers from academia and industry have presented their original work and ideas, information, techniques and applications in the field of communication, computing and power technologies.

A fugitive from federal justice, Lieutenant Max Ewing returns home to the Gulf port city of Apalachicola determined to seek revenge. The War Between the States has ended, but Apalachicola remains occupied by federal troops and local opportunists emboldened and empowered by the war. Max's brother Randy has died, a victim of shipboard hostilities in the Bay of Cardenas. Soon, Ewing learns of other losses incurred in his absence: his mother's death from yellow fever, the confiscation of his family's property, and the fates and deaths of many friends.Revenge, loyalty, honor, passion and greed clash in this dramatic tale, set among the raw and rugged elements of Florida's Gulf coast at a turbulent time in its history.