Mukesh Saraswat & Harish Sharma 
Congress on Intelligent Systems [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of CIS 2021, Volume 1

The Extraction of Automated Vehicles Traffic Accident Factors and Scenarios using Real-World data.- Leaf Disease Identification in Rice Plants Using CNN Model.- Twitter Sentiment Analysis Based on Neural Network Techniques.- Enhanced Stock Market Prediction using Hybrid LSTM Ensemble.- Classifying Microarray Gene Expression Cancer Data using Statistical Feature Selection and Machine Learning Methods.- Pythagorean Fuzzy Information Measure with Application to Multicriteria Decision Making.- Developing an Improved Software Architecture Framework for Smart Manufacturing.- Intelligent Water Drops Algorithm Implementation using Mathematical Function.- A Study of Decision Tree Classifier to Predict Learner’s Progression.- An Overview of Blockchain and Io T in e-Healthcare System.

Dr. Mukesh Saraswat is an associate professor at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India. Dr. Saraswat has obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from ABV-IIITM Gwalior, India. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided 02 Ph.D. students, more than 50 M. Tech. and B.Tech. dissertations, and presently guiding 04 Ph.D. students. He has published more than 50 journal and conference papers in the area of image processing, pattern recognition, data mining, and soft computing. He was the part of successfully completed DRDE funded project on image analysis and SERB-DST (New Delhi) funded project on Histopathological Image Analysis. He is currently running a projects funded by and Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS), Under TEQIP III (RTU-ATU) on Smile. He has been an active member of many organizing committees of various conferences and workshops. He is also a guest editor of the Array, Journal of Swarm Intelligence, and Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics. He is an active member of IEEE, ACM, and CSI Professional Bodies. His research areas include image processing, pattern recognition, mining, and soft computing.

Harish Sharma is an associate professor at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, in the Department of Computer Science and 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. Balachandran is currently a professor and the head CSE at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India. He has total 38 years’ experience in Research, Academia, and Industry. He served as a senior scientific officer in the Research and Development unit of Department of Atomic Energy for 20 years. His research interest includes data mining, artificial neural networks, soft computing, and artificial intelligence. He has published more than fifty articles in well-known SCI/SCOPUS indexed international journals and conferences and attended several national and international conferences and workshops. He has authored/edited four books in the area of computer science.

Professor Kim, a faculty of Korea University in the School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 with the thesis title “Optimal replacement/rehabilitation model for water distribution systems.”  Prof. Kim’s major areas of interest include: optimal design and management of water distribution systems, application of optimization techniques to various engineering problems, and development and application of evolutionary algorithms. His publication includes “A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search, ” Simulation, February 2001, Vol. 76, pp 60-68, which has been cited over 2, 300 times by other journals of diverse research areas.  His keynote speeches include ‘Optimization Algorithms as Tools for Hydrological Science’ in the Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society held in Brisbane, Australia, in June of 2013, “Recent Advances in Harmony Search Algorithm” in the 4th Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2013) held in Hong Kong, China, in December of 2013, and “Improving the convergence of Harmony Search Algorithm and its variants” in the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing For Problem Solving (SOCPROS 2014) held in Silcha, India in December of 2014.  He hosted the 6th Conference of the Asia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources (APHW 2013) and the 2nd International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA 2015). And, he is hosting another one, the 12th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2016) in August of 2016.

Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is an associate professor at  South Asian University, New Delhi, and a visiting faculty at Maths and Computer Science,   Liverpool Hope University, UK. Dr. Bansal has obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU, New Delhi, he has worked as an assistant professor at ABV—Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. He is the series editor of the book series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS) published by Springer. He is the editor in chief of  International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI) published by Inderscience. He is also the associate editor of  IEEE ACESSS published by IEEE. He is the steering committee member and the general chair of the annual conference series  Soc Pro S. He is the general secretary of Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). His primary area of interest is swarm intelligence and nature-inspired optimization techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission–fusion social structure-based optimization algorithm,   Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems from engineering domain. He has published more than 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He has supervised Ph.D. theses from ABV-IIITM Gwalior and SAU, New Delhi. He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG levels.