Section A_Soft Computing Techniques for Advanced Computing: Chapter 1 Fuzzy Logic Based UPFC Controller for Voltage Stability and Reactive Control of a Stand-alone Hybrid System.- Chapter 2. APSO Based Weighting Matrices Selection of LQR Applied to Tracking Control of SIMO System.- Chapter 3. Application of Fuzzy Soft Multi Sets in Decision-Making Problems.- Chapter 4. Fuzzy kNN Adaptation to Learning by Example in Activity Recognition Modeling.- Chapter 5. Plant Leaf Recognition using Ridge Filter and Curvelet Transform with Neuro Fuzzy Classifier.- Chapter 6. An Effective Prediction of Position Analysis of Industrial Robot Using Fuzzy Logic Approach.- Chapter 7. Pitch Angle Controlling of Wind Turbine System Using Proportional-integral/fuzzy Logic Controller.- Chapter 8. Recognition of Repetition and Prolongation in Stuttered Speech Using ANN.- Section B_Computational Intelligence: Algorithms, Applications and Future Directions: Chapter 9. Primary Health Centre ATM: PHCATM.- Chapter 10. Hybrid Model with Fusion Approach to Enhance the Efficiency of Keystroke Dynamics Authentication.- Chapter 11. Multi-class Twin Support Vector Machine for Pattern Classification.- Chapter 12. Multi-label Classifier for Emotion Recognition from Music.- Chapter 13. Visibility Enhancement in a Foggy Road along with Road Boundary Detection.- Chapter 14. Artificial Neural Network Based Prediction Techniques for Torch Current Deviation to Produce Defect-free Welds in GTAW Using IR Thermography.- Chapter 15. A Study on Cloud Based SOA Suite for Electronic Healthcare Records Integration.- Chapter 16. Hap: Protecting the Apache Hadoop Clusters with Hadoop Authentication Process Using Kerberos.- Chapter 17. Image Analysis for Efficient Surface Defect Detection of Orange Fruit.- Chapter 18. Segregation of Rare Items Association.- Chapter 19. Local Gabor Wavelet-based Feature Extraction and Evaluation.- Chapter 20. Human Interaction Recognition Using Improved Spatio-temporal Features.- Chapter 21. Common Coupled Fixed Point Results in Fuzzy Metric Spaces Using JCLR Property.- Chapter 22. Speech based Arithmetic Calculator using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients and Gaussian Mixture Models.- Chapter 23. Comparative Analysis on Optic Cup and Disc Segmentation for Glaucoma Diagnosis.- Section C_ Advanced Image Processing methodologies: Chapter 24. A Secure Image Encryption Algorithm Using LFSR and RC4 Key Stream Generator.- Chapter 25. An Improved Reversible Data Hiding Technique Based on Histogram Bin Shifting.- Chapter 26. A Novel Approach towards Detection and Identification of Stages of Breast Cancer.- Chapter 27. Analysis of Local Descriptors for Human Face Recognition.- Chapter 28. Implementation and Comparative Study of Image Fusion Methods in Frequency Domain.- Chapter 29. Iris Recognition Using Textural Edgeness Features.- Chapter 30. Z-Transform Based Digital Image Watermarking Scheme with DWT and Chaos.- Chapter 31. Panoramic Image Mosaicing: An Optimized Graph-Cut Approach.- Chapter 32. Spatial Resolution Assessment In Low Dose Imaging.- Chapter 33. A Probabilistic Patch Based Hybrid Framework for CT/PET Image Reconstruction.- Chapter 34. Low Cost Eyelid Occlusion Removal to Enhance Iris Recognition.- Section D_ Next Generation Optical Systems: Chapter 35. On Improving Static Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM All-Optical Mesh Networks.- Chapter 36. A Randomized N-policy Queueing Method to Prolong Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks.- Chapter 37. Overview on Location Management in PCS Network: A Survey.- Chapter 38. Self-Organized Node Placement for Area Coverage in Pervasive Computing Networks.- Chapter 39. SNR Enhancement of Brillouin D
Prof. Atulya Nagar holds the Foundation Chair as Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Liverpool Hope University where he is the Dean of Faculty of Science. He has been the Head of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science since December 2007. A mathematician by training he is an internationally recognised scholar working at the cutting edge of applied non-linear mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, operations research and systems engineering and his work is underpinned by strong complexity-theoretic foundations. He has an extensive background and experience of working in Universities in the UK and India. He has edited volumes on Intelligent Systems and Applied Mathematics; he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC) and serve on editorial boards for a number of prestigious journals such as the Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS). Prof Nagar received a prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship for pursuing his Doctorate (DPhil) in Applied Non-Linear Mathematics, which he earned from the University of York in 1996. He hold BSc (Hons.), MSc, and MPhil (with Distinction) from the MDS University of Ajmer, India.
Dr. Durga Prasad Mohapatra received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India in 1996, where he is presently serving as Associate Professor. 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 is going to receive the Bharat Sikshya Ratan Award for significant contribution in academics awarded by the Global Society for Health and Educational Growth, Delhi.
Prof. Nabendu Chaki is a Professor in the Department Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Chaki did his first graduation in Physics the legendary Presidency College in Kolkata and then in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta. He has completed Ph.D. in 2000 from Jadavpur University, India. He is sharing two US patents and one patent in Japan with his students. Prof. Chaki is quite active in developing international standards for Software Engineering. He represents the country in the Global Directory (GD) for ISO-IEC. Besides editing more than 20 books in different Springer series including LNCS, Dr. Chaki has authored 5 text and research books and about 130 peer-reviewed research papers in Journals and International conferences. His areas of research interests include distributed computing, image processing and software engineering. Dr. Chaki has served as a Research Assistant Professor in the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering in U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. He is having strong and active collaborations in US, Europe, Australia and other institutes and industries in India. He is a visiting faculty member for many Universities in India and abroad. Dr. Chaki has been the Knowledge Area Editor in Mathematical Foundation for the SWEBOK project of the IEEE Computer Society. Besides being in the editorial board for several International Journals, he has also served in the committees of more than 50 international conferences. Prof. Chaki is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata.
