Preface.- Organising Committee.- Table of Contents.- 94 papers.- Author Index.
About the Author: Dr. Jaume Anguera is a Professor in the department of Electronics and Telecommunication at Universitat Ramon LLull. He is also an R&D Manager at Fractus, Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Anguera is directing projects in the area of multi-frequency and miniature monopoles; dual-frequency dual-polarized microcell antennas; monoband dual-polarized microstrip patch array; dual-band dual-polarized microstrip patch arrays; network feeding architectures for GSM-UMTS arrays; broadband matching networks; high cross-polarization techniques, array pattern synthesis with genetic algorithms, handset antennas, automotion antennas and antennas for military applications among others. He got the degrees of Technical Engineer (Electronic Systems) and Electronic Engineer from Ramon Llull University, Barcelona and degree of Telecommunication Engineer and Ph.D. (Doctor Ing.) from Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona. His research interests are Miniature, wideband, multiband, and high directivity printed antennas and arrays; Fractal-shaped antennas Genetic Algorithms; Handset antennas: internal and external multiband antennas; Base station antennas: multi-band cross-polarized antennas; Low cross-polarization and high-isolation techniques for BTS antennas; automotive antennas: integration of antennas; Short Range Wireless and UWB antennas; and Educational methods for electromagnetics. He has got over 50 publications in journals and 100 papers in conference proceedings.
Dr. 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 interests are data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as program chair of many international conferences and edited 6 volumes of proceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding 8 Ph.D. scholars. Dr. Satapathy is also a Senior Member of IEEE.
Prof. Vikrant Bhateja is Associate 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 areas of research 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 over 90 quality publications in various international journals and conference 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 a guest editor 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.
Dr. K.V.N. Sunitha completed her B.Tech ECE from Nagarjuna University, M.Tech Computer Science from REC Warangal. She is awarded Ph.D. from JNTU, Hyderabad in 2006. She has 24 years of teaching experience. She has been working as Founder Principal, BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women, Nizampet, Hyderabad since August 2012. She received "Academic Excellence Award" by G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Science on 18th September 2005, "Best computer Science engineering Teacher award for the year 2007" by Indian Society for Technical Education ISTE on 23rd Feb 2008, "Best Faculty" award in Academic Brilliance Awards-2013 by Indian Education Expo on April 2013 @ New Delhi, "Distinguished Scientist Award in NLP" by Venus International on 3rd December 2016, "Distinguished Principal Award" by CSI Mumbai on 15th January 2017 @ IIT Bombay. She has been recognized & invited by AICTE as NBA Expert Evaluator. Her autobiography was included in "Marquis Who's Who in the World", 28th edition 2011. She has authored four textbooks published by NOVA publishers, USA. Her areas of research include Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Network & Web Security. She has guided six Ph.D. students and currently guiding 8 research scholars. She received a research grant from CSI for her R&D project in March 2011 for one year & also received 38.5 lakhs of funding for DST TIDE project. She has published over 125 papers in International & National Journals and conferences. She is a reviewer for many national and International Journals. She is a fellow of Institute of Engineers, Sr. member for IEEE & International association CSIT, and life member of many technical associations like CSI and ACM.
