From the Back Cover
The book covers a wide range of topics in Computer Science and Information Technology including swarm intelligence, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, and bio-inspired algorithms. It is a collection of papers presented at the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICIC2) 2016. The prime areas of the conference are Intelligent Computing, Intelligent Communication, Bio-informatics, Geo-informatics, Algorithm, Graphics and Image Processing, Graph Labeling, Web Security, Privacy and e-Commerce, Computational Geometry, Service Orient Architecture, and Data Engineering.
Prof. J.K. Mandal received his M.Sc. in Physics from Jadavpur University in 1986 and M. Tech. in Computer Science from University of Calcutta. Prof. Mandal was awarded Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering by the Jadavpur University in 2000. Presently, he is working as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management, Kalyani University, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal for two consecutive terms. He started his career as Lecturer at NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh in September 1988. He has teaching and research experience of 28 years. His areas of research include coding theory, data and network security, remote sensing and GIS based applications, data compression, error correction, visual cryptography, steganography, security in MANET, wireless networks and unify computing. He has produced 15 Ph.D. degrees, 2 submitted (2015-16) and 8 ongoing. He has supervised 3 M.Phils. and more than 50 M.Tech dissertations. He is alife member of the Computer Society of India since 1992, CRSI since 2009, ACM since 2012, IEEE since 2013 and Fellow member of IETE since 2012, Honorary Chairman of CSI Kolkata Chapter. He has chaired more than 30 sessions in various international conferences and delivered more than 50 expert/invited lectures during last 5 years. He has acted as program chair of many international conferences and edited more than 15 volumes of proceedings from Springer Series, Science Direct etc. He is reviewer of various international journals and conferences. He has over 360 articles and 6 books published to his credit. He is one of the editors for Springer AISC Series, FICTA 2014, CSI 2013, IC3T 2015, INDIA 2015, and INDIA 2016. He is also the corresponding editors of CIMTA 2013 (Procedia Technology, Elsevier), INDIA 2015 (AISC Springer) and ICIC2 2016 (AISC Springer).
Dr. Manas Kumar Sanyal obtained his M.Tech. in Computer Science from Calcutta University in 1989. He worked inindustries for about 4 years and joined as Lecturer at BCKV in the year 1994 and obtained his Ph.D. in 2003. Presently, he is working as Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management in the University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal. His current research interests include big data, e-governance, e-procurement, data warehousing and data mining. In addition to presenting his work at numerous international conferences, Dr. Sanyal has also organized and chaired several international and national conferences. He has contributed over 100 research papers in various international journals and proceedings of international conferences.
Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor and Head, Department of CSE at Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS), Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and M.Tech. in CSE from NIT, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has 26 years of teaching experience. His research interests include data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as program chair of many international conferences and edited 6 volumes of proceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding 8 scholars for Ph.Ds. Dr. Satapathy is also a Sr. Member of IEEE, Life Member of CSI, Chairman - Division -V (Education and Research) 2015-17, Computer Society of India. He is Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) - indexed in SCOPUS; International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) - indexed in SCOPUS; International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) - indexed in DBLP, ACM Digital Lib; International Journal of Statistics, Optimization and Information Computing (IJSOAC) - indexed in SCOPUS; International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) - indexed in DBLP, ACM Digital Lib., corresponding editor for Springer AISC Series: FICTA 2013, FICTA 2014, CSI 2013, CSI 2014, IC3T 2015, INDIA 2016, IC3T 2015, ICT4SD 2015.
Dr. Vikrant Bhateja is Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow, India. Presently, he is also the Head (Academics & Quality Control) in the same college. He has a total academic teaching experience of 12 years with more than 100 publications in reputed international conferences, journals and online book chapter contributions. His areas of research include digital image processing, computer vision and medical imaging. His core work in medical imaging includes development of techniques for computer aided analysis and diagnosis of life threatening diseases which are published in IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions in Instrumentation and Measurements and Elsevier - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. Prof. Vikrant has been on TPC and chaired various sessions from the above domain in international conferences of IEEE and Springer. He has been the track chair and served in the core technical/editorial teams for international conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014, INDIA 2015 and ICICT 2015 under Springer ASIC Series and INDIA Com 2015, ICACCI 2015 under IEEE. He has been publication chair of Springer INDIA 2016 conference, Vishakhapatnam (India); Proceeding editor for Springer AISC Series for conferences, ICIC2 2016, West Bengal (India) and ICDECT 2016, Pune (India). He has published 3 books under Springer AISC Series and Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence Series as an editor. He is associate editor in International Journals of Convergence Computing (IJConvC), Image Mining (IJIM) and Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) under Inderscience Publishers and IGI Global publications.
