Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks

Fruit Fly Optimization Based Reliable Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks.- User Authentication of IoT Devices for Decentralized Architecture Using Blockchain.- Detection of Packet Dropping Nodes in Wireless Mesh Networks.- An Enhanced Bat Algorithm for Parallel Localization Based on a Mobile Beacon Sensor in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Desing of a Virtual Channel Router Architecture for Low Power on Mesh-of-Grid Topology for Network on Chip.- Agent-based Traffic Obstacles Information System.- Hybridization of Constriction Coefficient Based Particle Swarm Optimization and Chaotic Gravitational Search Algorithm for Solving Engineering Design Problems.- Parallel Association Rules Pruning Algorithm on Hadoop MapReduce.- A Statistical Analysis on KDD Cup'99 Dataset for Network Intrusion Detection System.- Efficient Certificateless Privacy Preserving Public Auditing for Cloud Based IIoT.- Classification of Virtual Machine Consolidation Techniques: A Survey.- Enhanced Honey Bee Load Balancing in Large Heterogeneous Cloud Environments.- Real Time Communication Alert System for Missing Vessels in Deep Sea.- A Study of CNN Architectures over Two Hands Indian Sign Language Dataset.- Periocular Recognition Under Unconstrained Conditions Using CNN Based Super-Resolution.- Performance Evaluation of RNNs for Short-Term Investment Decision in Stock Market.

Sabu M. Thampi is a Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala (IIITM-K), Technopark Campus, Trivandrum, Kerala State, India. He has completed Ph.D in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Sabu has several years of teaching and research experience in various institutions in India. His current research interests include sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT), cognitive computing, affective computing, social networks, nature inspired computing, image forensics and video surveillance. He has authored and edited few books published by reputed international publishers and published papers in academic journals and international and national proceedings. Sabu has served as Guest Editor for special issues in few international journals and program committee member for many international conferences and workshops. He has co-chaired several international workshops and conferences. He has initiated and is also involved in the organization of several annual conferences/symposiums. Sabu is currently serving as Editor for Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier and Journal of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier; and Associate Editor for IEEE Access and International Journal of Embedded Systems, Inderscience, UK; and reviewer for several reputed international journals. Sabu is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE SMCS, and Senior Member of ACM. He is the founding Chair of ACM Trivandrum Professional Chapter.

Elizabeth Sherly received her Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Kerala in 1995, currently working as Senior Professor (HAG) at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K). She served as the Director of the institute in 2009-2012. Having more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research in Computer Science, her major research work involves Cloud Computing and Machine Learning. She