Intelligent Systems and Applications

Anand J Kulkarni holds a Ph.D. in Distributed Optimization from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, an MS in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Regina, Canada, and a Bachelor of Engineering from Shivaji University, India, and a Diploma from the MSBTE, Mumbai. He worked as a Post Doctorate Research Fellow at Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Kulkarni has worked with Symbiosis International University, Pune, India for over six years. Currently, he is a Professor & Associate Director at the Institute of AI at MITWPU. His research interests include optimization algorithms, multi-agent systems, complex systems, swarm optimization, and self-organizing systems. Anand pioneered socio-inspired optimization methodologies such as Cohort Intelligence, Ideology Algorithm, Expectation Algorithm, and Socio Evolution & Learning Optimization Algorithm. He is the founder and chairman of Optimization and Agent Technology Research Lab and hasover 70 research papers in journals and conferences, 04 authored and 08 edited books to his credit. Dr. Kulkarni is the lead editor for the Springer and Taylor and Francis book series. He regularly writes on Artificial Intelligence in several newspapers and magazines. Dr. Kulkarni has delivered expert research talks in many countries such as the USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and France. Seyedali Mirjalili is a Professor at Torrens University Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimization and is internationally recognized for his advances in nature-inspired Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. He is the author of more than 350 publications. With over 50,000 citations and an H-index of 80, he is one of the most influential AI researchers in the world. From Google Scholar metrics, he is globally the most cited researcher in Optimization using AI techniques, which is his main area of expertise. Since 2019, he has been on the list of 1% highly-cited researchers and named as one of the most influential researchers in the world by Web of Science. He is a senior member of IEEE and is serving as an editor of leading AI journals. Siba K. Udgata is currently a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Hyderabad, India, where he directs a research group focusing on sensor networks, IoT, wireless communications, and intelligent algorithms. He worked as a Research Fellow at the United Nations University/International Institute of Software Technology (UNU/IIST), Macau. He has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and at international conferences. He has edited ten international conference proceedings for Springer LNAI, AISC, and SIST. He is a recipient of the IBM SUR (Shared University Research) award for the project “Mobile Sensor network based rescue management system”. He has completed seven Government of India-sponsored research projects in sensor networks, IoT, and cognitive radio networks.

• Intelligent Systems in Agriculture.- Intelligent Systems in Internet of Things and Cloud Computing.- Intelligent Systems in Image Processing and Deep Learning.- Cyber Security and Data Security.- Intelligent Systems for Social Welfare I.- Intelligent Systems for Social Media.