Applied Informatics for Industry 4.0 combines the technologies of computer science and information science to assist in the management and processing of data to provide different types of services. Due to the adaptation of 4.0 IR-related technologies, applied informatics is playing a vital role in different sectors such as healthcare, complex system design and privacy-related issues. This book focuses on cutting edge research from the fields of informatics and complex industrial systems, and will cover topics including health informatics, bioinformatics, brain informatics, genomics and proteomics, data and network security and more. The text will appeal to beginners and advanced researchers in the fields of computer science, information sciences, electrical and electronic engineering and robotics.
Nazmul Siddique is with the School of Computing Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University. He obtained Dipl.-Ing. degree in Cybernetics from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany, MSc in Computer Science from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and PhD in Intelligent Control from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, England. His research interests include: cybernetics, computational intelligence, nature-inspired computing, stochastic systems, and vehicular communication. He has published over 170 research papers including five books published by John Wiley, Springer, and Taylor Francis. He guest-edited eight special issues of reputed journals on Cybernetic Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks and Robotics. He is on the editorial board of seven international journals including Nature Scientific Research. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a senior member of IEEE and member of different committees of IEEE SMC Society and UK-RI Chapter. He was involved in organizing many national and international conferences and co-edited seven conference proceedings.
Mohammad Shamsul Arefin is on leave from Chittagong University of Engineering
and Technology (CUET) and currently affiliated with the Department
of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Daffodil International University,
Bangladesh. Earlier he was the Head of the Department of CSE, CUET. Prof. Arefin
received his Doctor of Engineering Degree in Information Engineering from Hiroshima
University, Japan with support of the scholarship of MEXT, Japan. As a part of his
doctoral research, Dr. Arefin worked with IBM Yamato Software Laboratory, Japan.
His research includes privacy preserving data publishing and mining, distributed and
cloud computing, big data management, multilingual data management, semantic
web, object oriented system development and IT for agriculture and environment. Dr.
Arefin has more than 120 referred publications in international journals, book series
and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of IEEE, Member of ACM, Fellow
of IEB and BCS. Dr. Arefin is the Organizing Chair of BIM 2021; TPC Chair, ECCE
2017; Organizing Co-Chair, ECCE 2019; and Organizing Chair, BDML 2020. Dr.
Arefin visited Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bhutan, Singapore, South Korea, Egypt,
India, Saudi Arabia and China for different professional and social activities.
Dr Julie Wall is a Reader in Computer Science, leads the Intelligent Systems Research Group and is the Director of Impact and Innovation for the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering at the University of East London. Her research focuses on machine/deep learning and biologically-inspired neural network architectures, algorithms and applications for audio, speech, and natural language understanding; privacy-preserving intelligent systems for audio processing; developing industrial applications of automated decision-making machine and natural language understanding; and applications of intelligent systems to immersive virtual, augmented and mixed environments. Julie maintains close collaborative research and development links with industry.
Dr. M Shamim Kaiser is currently working as Professor at the Institute of Information Technology of Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Applied Physics Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph. D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in 2010. His current research interests include data analytics, machine learning, wireless network, and signal processing, cognitive radio network, big data and cyber security, renewable energy. He has authored more than 100 papers in different peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Access Journal, Guest Editor of Brain Informatics Journal and Cognitive Computation Journal. He is Life Member of Bangladesh Electronic Society; Bangladesh Physical Society. He is also a senior member of IEEE, USA, and IEICE, Japan, and active volunteer of the IEEE Bangladesh Section. He is the founding Chapter Chair of the IEEE Bangladesh Section Computer Society Chapter. He organized various international conferences such as ICEEICT 2015-2018, IEEE HTC 2017, IEEE ICREST 2018 and BI2020.
