Springer Intelligent Systems, Technologies and Applications: Proceedings of ISTA 2018: 910 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 910)

This book explores and discusses various aspects of intelligent systems technologies and their applications. It constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’18), September 19-22, 2018, Bangalore, India. All submissions were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality. This book contains 20 papers selected for presentation at the Symposium. The book is chiefly intended for, and offers a valuable resource for, researchers and scientists engaged in various fields involving intelligent systems.    From the Back Cover This book explores and discusses various aspects of intelligent systems technologies and their applications. It constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’18), September 19-22, 2018, Bangalore, India. All submissions were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality. This book contains 20 papers selected for presentation at the Symposium. The book is chiefly intended for, and offers a valuable resource for, researchers and scientists engaged in various fields involving intelligent systems.    About the Author Sabu M. Thampi is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), Trivandrum, India. His main research areas are sensor networks, IoT, social networks, and video surveillance. He has authored and edited few books and published papers in academic journals and international proceedings. He has served as a guest editor for special issues in journals and as a program committee member for many conferences. He has co-chaired several workshops and conferences. He has initiated and is also involved in the organisation of several annual conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of IEEE CS and ACM. Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, in 1974, the M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, in 1986. She is currently a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She served as 2007 President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She is General Co-Chair of SMC 2016 and HPSR 2014, Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2005, and Technical Program Chair and Vice General Co-Chair of ISCAS 2004. She served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. She was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She is a Professional Member of IEEE-HKN and a Life Fellow of the IEEE. Sushmita Mitra is a full Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She is the author of many books published by reputed publishers. Dr. Mitra has guest edited special issues of several journals, is an Associate Editor of “IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics”, “Information Sciences”, “Neurocomputing”, and is a Founding Associate Editor of “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery”. She has more than 75 research publications in referred international journals. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and The National Academy of Sciences. She has served in the capacity of Program Chair, Tutorial Chair, Plenary Speaker, and as member of programme committees of many international conferences. Her current research interests include data mining, pattern recognition, soft computing, image processing, and Bioinformatics. P. Nagabhushan, Director, India