Recent Trends in Intelligent and Emerging Systems

Dr. Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, currently Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, has over seventeen years of professional experience. He has taught all areas of UG/PG level electronics courses including soft computing, mobile communication, pattern recognition, digital signal and image processing. He obtained M.Tech in Signal Processing in 2005 and subsequently completed PhD in the area of Mobile Communication both from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India. He has authored seven books, several book chapters, several peer-reviewed research papers in international conference proceedings and journals. His areas of interest are soft-computation and its applications, knowledge aided system design, MIMO, mobile communication, antenna design, speech processing, document image analysis and signal processing applications in high energy physics, neuro-computing and computational models for social-science applications. He is senior member IEEE (USA), Fellow IETE (India), Member International Neural Network Society (INNS, USA), Life Member ISTE (India) and Life Member CSI (India). He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent System Design and Computing (IJISDC, UK), guest editor of several international journals, reviewer of over thirty international journals and reviewer/TPC member of over hundred international conferences. Mr. Manash Pratim Sarma is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Gauhati University, Assam, India. He earned M.Sc. in Electronics Science from Gauhati University, Assam, India in 2008. He also completed M.Tech. in Electronics Design and Technology from Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India, in 2010. He has authored several peer-reviewed publications in international journals, international and national conference proceedings. He has alsoserved as reviewer in many international conferences and journals. His areas of interests include wireless communication and VLSI design for high data rate communications. Ms. Mousmita Sarma is currently working as Research Consultant at M/s. SpeecHWareNet Pvt. (I) Ltd., Technology Incubation Center, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India. She completed M.Sc. in Electronics and Communication Technology from Gauhati University, India in 2010. She also completed M.Tech. from the same institution in 2012 with specialization in Speech Processing and Recognition. She has co-authored two books and published several peer-reviewed research papers in international conference proceedings and journals. She serves as reviewer to several journals and IEEE international and national conferences. Her areas of interest include speech recognition, soft-computation and HCI applications.

• Part I – Intelligent Applications in Communication.- Part II – Selected Issues in Biomedical and Social Science.- Part III – HCI and Bio-inspired System Design.- Part IV – Soft Computing and Hybrid System based Speech Processing Applications.- Part V – Review Chapters on Selected Areas.