Soft Computing for Problem Solving (eBook)

Dr. Kedar Nath Das is currently serving as an associate professor and head in the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam. Dr. Das has received his Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee. As of now, he has around 15 years of teaching experience. Yet, he has successfully guided 08 Ph.D. scholars, 15 M.Sc. project thesis and 2 UG thesis. He has been awarded 'Slovak National Scholarship, Slovakia', in 2019 and in 2024 as well. Dr. Das has visited 14 foreign countries, delivered around 36 expert lectures, and having more than 100 research papers, 2 sponsored projects and 2 patents to his credit. He has organized three international conferences, seven workshops, one short-term training program, two DST-inspired science camps and one self-finance course, four residential teachers training programs. Dr. Pankaj Biswas is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, NIT Silchar. He received his Ph.D. degree from IIT Kanpur. Dr. Biswas is having a teaching experience of 15 years. He has successfully guided 2 Ph.D. students and now 3 are ongoing. To his credit, he has 25 international journal papers of repute and 16 conference papers. In addition, he has filed a German patent too. He has been teaching the courses like Computer Programming and Data Structure, Probability and Statistics, Complex Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Finite Element Methods to the UG and PG students. Dr. Biswas is having a good computational skill in Fortran, C, MPI parallel programming. He is a member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society. He has two sponsored projects funded by Government of India. Prof. Ivana Budinska is a senior researcher at the Department of Modelling and Simulation of Discrete Processes. Since 2021, she is a member of the Slovak Academy of Sciences presidency, responsible for ICT. She is a national delegate in the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (eIRG). She is a member of the board of directors of the AislovakIA-Centre for Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Commission for Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence at MIRRI SK-CERAI, a member of the Scientific Council of STU, FEI STU and PrF UCM in Trnava. She works as a supervisor and consultant for doctoral studies in the field of Applied Informatics and Cybernetics. Her research includes modelling and simulation of discrete processes, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence methods and knowledge modelling. Prof. Rammohan Mallipeddi (Senior Member, IEEE) received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Control and Automation from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He is currently a full professor with the Department of Artificial Intelligence, School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea. His research interests include evolutionary computing, artificial intelligence, image processing, digital signal processing, robotics and control engineering. He is a highly cited researcher with more than 8000 citations and h-index of 40 as per google scholar. He is also an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics: Systems, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Information Sciences, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Computers and Electrical Engineering. He served as a general chair for International Conference on Smart and Intelligent Systems (SIS) 2021, and World Congress on Smart Computing (WCSC), 2024.