Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of AITA 2024, Volume 2

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications (AITA 2024), held during 9–10 August 2024 in Bengaluru, India. The book is divided into two volumes and presents original research and review papers related to artificial intelligence and its applications in various domains including health care, finance, transportation, education, and many more.

Harish Sharma is an Associate professor at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota in Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He has worked at Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University Kota, and Government Engineering College Jhalawar. He received his B.Tech and M.Tech degree in Computer Engg. from Govt. Engineering College, Kota and Rajasthan Technical University, Kota in 2003 and 2009 respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from ABV - Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He is secretary and one of the founder member of Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is a life time member of Cryptology Research Society of India, ISI, Kolkata. He is an Associate Editor of "International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI)" published by Inderscience. He has also edited special issues of the many reputed journals like "Memetic Computing", "Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence", "Evolutionary Intelligence" etc. His primary area of interest is nature inspired optimization techniques. He has contributed in more than 105 papers published in various international journals and conferences.

Dr. Antorweep Chakravorty is an Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger. His current research and development work is in the field of applied Blockchains, Big Data, Large Scale Machine Learning, and Data Privacy. He has an interest in real-world problems, especially development of privacy enabled data-driven services in smart energy, healthcare, and smart city domains. Antorweep completed his PhD. in 2015 with a thesis on Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Along with having a background in applied research in data-driven solutions, he is also involved in mentoring, teaching and supervision.

Dr. Shahid Hussain is working at University of Canberra as Associate Professor of Biomedical Robotics. Prior to that he has worked as lecturer at University of Wollongong, Australia. Dr. Hussain has obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2013. His research interests include assistive and rehabilitation robotics, compliant actuation of robots, robot mechanism design and optimization, non-linear dynamics and control of robotic systems, human-robot interaction, biomechanical modelling, engineering education and micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). Dr. Hussain has published more than 65 papers in the prestigious journals of the field.

Dr. Rajani Kumari is currently an Assistant Professor at IBS, Bangalore, Off-Campus Centre of ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) University, India. Previously she was an assistant professor at IIIM, Jaipur and St. Xavier's College Jaipur, CHRIST University. She received the PhD degree in computer science in 2015, the MCA and BCA from University of Rajasthan in 2010 and 2006 respectively. She has published more than forty research papers in various international journals/conferences and participated in many national and international conferences and workshops. She edited some special issue in Taylor & Francis and Inderscience journals including Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences (JIOS) and Int. J. of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS). Her research interests include Nature Inspired Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Soft Computing, and Computational Intelligence.