The contributed volume aims to explicate and address the difficulties and challenges that of seamless integration of the two core disciplines of computer science, i.e., computational intelligence and data mining. Data Mining aims at the automatic discovery of underlying non-trivial knowledge from datasets by applying intelligent analysis techniques. The interest in this research area has experienced a considerable growth in the last years due to two key factors: (a) knowledge hidden in organizations’ databases can be exploited to improve strategic and managerial decision-making; (b) the large volume of data managed by organizations makes it impossible to carry out a manual analysis. The book addresses different methods and techniques of integration for enhancing the overall goal of data mining. The book helps to disseminate the knowledge about some innovative, active research directions in the field of data mining, machine and computational intelligence, along with some current issues and applications of related topics.
Prof. Lakhmi Jain is with the Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics at the University of Canberra, Australia and University of South Australia, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. Prof Jain founded the Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering System (KES) International, a professional community for providing opportunities for publication, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies worldwide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generates synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for the professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of the KES. His interest focus on artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, security, e-education, e-healthcare, unmanned air vehicles and intelligent agents.
Prof. Himansu Sekhar Behera is working as a Reader in the Department of Computer Sc. Engineering & Information Technology, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) (A Unitary Technical University, Established by Govt. of Odisha), Burla, Odisha. He has received M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from N.I.T, Rourkela (formerly R.E.C, Rourkela) and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Ph.D.) from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela, Govt. of Odisha respectively. He has published more than 80 research papers in various international Journals and Conferences, Edited 11 books and is acting as a Member of the Editorial / Reviewer Board of various international journals. He is a proficient in the field of Computer Science Engineering and served the capacity of program chair, tutorial chair and act as advisory member of committees of many national and international conferences. His research interest includes Data Mining and Intelligent Computing. He is associated with various educational and research societies like OITS, ISTE, IE, ISTD, CSI, OMS, AIAER, SMIAENG, SMCSTA etc. He is currently guiding seven Ph.D. scholars.
Prof. Jyotsna Kumar Mandal is working as Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Kalyani, India. Ex-Dean Faculty of Engineering, Technology & Management (two consecutive terms since 2008). He has 26 years of teaching and research experiences. He was Life Member of Computer Society of India since 1992 and life member of Cryptology Research Society of India, member of AIRCC, associate member of IEEE and ACM. His research interest includes Network Security, Steganography, Remote Sensing & GIS Application, Image Processing, Wireless and Sensor Networks. Domain Expert of Uttarbanga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya for planning and integration of Public domain networks. He has been associated with both national, international Journals and Conferences. His total number of publications is more than 320 including 110 publications in various International Journals. Currently, he is working as Director, IQAC, Kalyani University.
Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and is presently serving as an Associate Professor in NIT Rourkela, Odisha. His research interests include software engineering, real-time systems, discrete mathematics, and distributed computing. He has published more than thirty research papers in these fields in various international Journals and conferences. He has received several project grants from DST and UGC, Govt. of India. He has received the Young Scientist Award for the year 2006 by Orissa Bigyan Academy. He has also received the Prof. K. Arumugam National Award and the Maharashtra State National Award for outstanding research work in Software Engineering for the years 2009 and 2010, respectively from the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi. He isgoing to receive the Bharat Sikshya Ratan Award for significant contribution in academics awarded by the Global Society for Health and Educational Growth, Delhi.
