About the Author: Dr. Sandeep Kumar is currently a professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. Before joining CHRIST, he worked with ACEIT Jaipur, Jagannath University, Jaipur, and Amity University, Rajasthan. He is an associate editor for Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) journal. He has published more than eighty research papers in various international journals/conferences and attended several national and international conferences and workshops. He has authored/edited six books in the area of computer science. Also, he has been serving as General Chair of the International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCCT 2021, 22, and 23) and the Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2022). His research interests include nature-inspired algorithms, swarm intelligence, soft computing, and computational intelligence.
Dr. Harish Sharma is an associate professor at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, in the Computer Science & Engineering Department. He has worked at Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, and Government Engineering College, Jhalawar. He received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Computer Engineering 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 a secretary and one of the founder members of the Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is a lifetime member of the Cryptology Research Society of India, ISI, Kolkata. He is an associate editor of "The 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 to more than 105 papers published in various international journals and conferences.
Dr. Balachandran K. is currently a professor and head of CSE at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India. He has 38 years of experience in research, academia, and industry. He served as a senior scientific officer in the Research and Development Unit of the 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. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 with the thesis "Optimal replacement/rehabilitation model for water distribution systems." His 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 6,700 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 Silchar, India, in December of 2014. He hosted the 1st, 2nd, and 6th Conference of International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA) in 2013, 2014, and 2022. He also hosted the 12th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2016). Also, he has been serving as an Honorary Chair of Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2020, 2021, and 2022).
Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is an associate professor at South Asian University, New Delhi, and visiting faculty at Maths and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU, New Delhi, he worked as an assistant professor at ABV--Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. 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 the engineering domain. He has published more than 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal MethodsX published by Elsevier. He is the series editor of the book series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS) and Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven, and Industrial Computing (SADIC), published by Springer. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI) published by Inderscience. He is also the associate editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and ARRAY, published by Elsevier. He is the general secretary of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received gold medals at UG and PG levels.
