Handbook of Research on Advanced Hybrid Intelligent Techniques and Applications

Conventional computational methods, and even the latest soft computing paradigms, often fall short in their ability to offer solutions to many real-world problems due to uncertainty, imprecision, and circumstantial data. Hybrid intelligent computing is a paradigm that addresses these issues to a considerable extent. The Handbook of Research on Advanced Hybrid Intelligent Techniques and Applications highlights the latest research on various issues relating to the hybridization of artificial intelligence, practical applications, and best methods for implementation. Focusing on key interdisciplinary computational intelligence research dealing with soft computing techniques, pattern mining, data analysis, and computer vision, this book is relevant to the research needs of academics, IT specialists, and graduate-level students.

Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medalfrom the University of Calcutta for his Masters.

He is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is serving as the Dean of Research and Development of the institute from November 2013. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology of Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of a book for undergraduate engineering students of West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India and about 130 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He has got a patent titled Low Cost Intelligent Colorimeter Using Color LEDs filed; Patent No. 886/KOL/2015. He was the convener of the AICTE-IEEE National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (CoCoSys-09) in 2009. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Computational Intelligence for Engineering, Science and Business; Publisher: IGI Global, Hershey, USA. He is the co-author of the book titled Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing; Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Germany. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Swarm Intelligence in Engineering; Publisher: IGI Global, Hershey, USA. He is the co-author of the book titled Hybrid Soft Computing Approaches: Research and Applications; Publisher: Springer India Ltd. He is the co-author of the book titled Multimedia Programming: A Practical Approach; Publisher: Vikas Publishers Pvt. Ltd. He was the member of the Young Researchers' Committee of the WSC 2008 Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He served as the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) published by IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA from 17th July 2014 to 06th November 2014. He was the General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICCICN 2014) organized by the Department of Information Technology, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata in association with Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Gwalior and IEEE Young Professionals, Kolkata Section and held at Kolkata, India in 2014. He is the Associate Editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research. He is the member of the editorial board of International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology and ACCENTS Transactions on Information Security (ATIS).