About the Editors
Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor and Head ,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at PVP Siddhartha Institute of
Technology, Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science
and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and M.Tech. in CSE from NIT, Rourkela,
Odisha, India. He has 26 years of teaching experience. His research interest s are
data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as pro-
gramme chair of many international conferences and edited six volumes of pro-
ceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding eight
scholars for Ph.D. Dr. Satapathy is also a Senior Member of IEEE.
Vikrant Bhateja is a Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication
Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges
(SRMGPC), Lucknow, and also the Head (Academics & Quality Control) in the
same college. His area of research includes digital image and video processing,
computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recog-
nition, neural networks, soft computing and bio-inspired compu ting techniques. He
has more than 90 quality publications in various international journals and con-
ference proceedings. Prof. Bhateja 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 in the core-technical/editorial teams for international
conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014 and INDIA 2015 under Springer-ASIC Series
and INDIACom-2015, ICACCI-2015 under IEEE. He is associate editor in
International Journal of Convergence Computing (IJConvC) and also serving in the
editorial board of International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM) under Inderscience
Publishers. At present, he is guest editors for two special issues floated in
International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) and International
Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) under IGI Global publications.
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,
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