Intelligent Computing and Applications

The idea of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA 2014) is to bring the Research Engineers, Scientists, Industrialists, Scholars and Students together from in and around the globe to present the on-going research activities and hence to encourage research interactions between universities and industries. The conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas, applications and experiences, to establish research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. The proceedings covers latest progresses in the cutting-edge research on various research areas of Image, Language Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Computational Life Sciences, Management of Data including Big Data and Analytics, Distributed and Mobile Systems including Grid and Cloud infrastructure, Information Security and Privacy, VLSI, Electronic Circuits, Power Systems, Antenna, Computational fluid dynamics & Heat transfer, Intelligent Manufacturing, Signal Processing, Intelligent Computing, Soft Computing, Bio-informatics, Bio Computing, Web Security, Privacy and E-Commerce, E-governance, Service Orient Architecture, Data Engineering, Open Systems, Optimization, Communications, Smart wireless and sensor Networks, Smart Antennae, Networking and Information security, Machine Learning, Mobile Computing and Applications, Industrial Automation and MES, Cloud Computing, Green IT, IT for Rural Engineering, Business Computing, Business Intelligence, ICT for Education for solving hard problems, and finally to create awareness about these domains to a wider audience of practitioners.

Durbadal Mandal is assistant professor in the department of Electronics and Communication, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India. He completed his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, from Regional Engineering College, Durgapur in 1996. He received the M. Tech and Ph. D. degrees from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. His research interest areas are array antenna design and filter optimization via evolutionary computing techniques. He has over 240 research publications in Journals and Conferences of international repute.

Rajib Kar received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, from Regional Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India in the year 2001. He received the M. Tech and Ph. D. degrees from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India in the year 2008 and 2011, respectively. Presently, he is working as assistant professor of electronics and communication engineering at National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. His research interest area are VLSI signal Processing, Filter optimization via Evolutionary Computing Techniques. He has supervised 2 Ph. D students. He has published over 250 research papers in International Journals and Conferences.

Swagatam Das received the B. E. Tel. E., M. E. Tel. E (Control Engineering specialization) and Ph.D. degrees, all from Jadavpur University, India, in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests include evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, and wireless communication. Dr. Das has published one research monograph, one edited volume, and more than 150 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of 'Swarm and Evolutionary Computation', an international journal from Elsevier. He serves as associate editors of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems and Information Sciences (Elsevier). He is an editorial board member of Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Mathematical Problems in Engineering, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, and International Journal of Adaptive and Autonomous Communication Systems. He is the recipient of the 2012 Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi is Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Sambalpur University. He is serving as a chief editor to the International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion. His interests focus on Power Quality, FACTS Devices, Power System Protection, and AI Application to Power System.