लेखक: B. Janakiramaiah

Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS), Andhra Pradesh, India. He received his Ph D in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad and his Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha. He has more than 27 years of teaching and research experience. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, swarm intelligence studies and their applications to engineering. He has more than 98 publications to his credit in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He has edited many volumes from Springer AISC and LNCS in the past. In addition to serving on the editorial board of several international journals, he is a senior member of the IEEE and a Life Member of the Computer Society of India, where he is the National Chairman of Division-V (Education and Research).  Dr. K. Srujan Raju is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), CMR Technical Campus. Professor Srujan earned his Ph D in the field of Network Security and his current research interests include computer networks, information security, data mining, image processing, intrusion detection and cognitive radio networks. He has published several papers in referred international conferences and peer-reviewed journals. He was also on the editorial board of CSI 2014 Springer AISC series 337 and 338 volumes. In addition, he served as a reviewer for many indexed journals. Professor Raju has been honored with the Significant Contributor and Active Member Awards by the Computer Society of India (CSI) and is currently the Hon. Secretary of the CSI’s Hyderabad Chapter.  Prof. Vikrant Bhateja is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow and also the Head of Academics & Quality Control at the same college. His research interests include digital image and video processing, computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, neural networks, soft computing and bio-inspired computing techniques. He has more than 90 quality publications in various international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. 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 on the core-technical/editorial teams for numerous international conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014 and INDIA 2015 under the Springer-ASIC Series and INDIACom-2015, ICACCI-2015 under the IEEE. He is an associate editor for the International Journal of Convergence Computing (IJConv C) and also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM) under Inderscience Publishers. At present, he is the guest editor for two special issues of the International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) and the International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) under IGI Global publications. Dr. Bonam Janakiramaiah is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Devineni Venkata Ramana & Dr. Hima Sekhar MIC College of Technology (DVR & Dr. HS MIC College of Technology), Kanchikacherla, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He received his Ph D in Computer Science and Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad and Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, (JNTU), Kakinada. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, studies and their applicationsto engineering. He has more than 25 publications to his credit in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He is a Life Member of the Computer society of India.