Design and Applications of Nature Inspired Optimization

AN OVERVIEW OF SWARM INTELLIGENCE BASED ALGORITHMS.- Particle Swarm Optimization and its Applications in the Manufacturing Industry.- Role of Machine Learning in Bioprocess Engineering: Current Perspectives and Future Directions.- Advanced Selection Operation for Differential Evolution Algorithm.- Profit Optimization of Two-Unit Briquetting System using grey wolf Optimization algorithm.- Solving Portfolio optimization using Sine-cosine Algorithm embedded mutation operations.- Detecting Group Shilling Profiles in Recommender Systems: A Hybrid Clustering and Grey Wolf Optimizer Technique.- SINGLE IMAGE REFLECTION REMOVAL USING DEEP LEARNING.- Social media analysis: A tool for popularity prediction using machine learning classifiers.

Dr. Dipti Singh, received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee studying Optimization Techniques. She currently works at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Gautam Buddha University. She does research in Applied Mathematics. Her area of interest is applications of soft computing techniques in various disciplines of engineering. Her current project is 'forecasting and Analysis of Solid Waste and its Management in India.



Dr. Vanita Garg, received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, studying Applied Mathematics. She teaches at Galgotia University, specializing in Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Her research areas include Operational Research, Unconstrained Optimization Problems, Constrained Optimization Problems, and Biogeography Based Optimization Algorithm.

Dr. Kusum Deep, is a full Professor, with the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India and Visiting Professor, Liverpool Hope University, UK and University of Technology Sydney, Australia. With B.Sc Hons & M.Sc Hons. School from Centre for Advanced Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, she is an M.Phil Gold Medalist. She earned her PhD from UOR (now IIT Roorkee) in 1988. She has been a national scholarship holder and a Post Doctoral from Loughborough University, UK assisted by International Bursary funded by Commission of European Communities, Brussels. She has won numerous awards like Khosla Research Award, UGC Career Award, Starred Performer of IITR Faculty, best paper awards by Railway Bulletin of Indian Railways, special facilitation in memory of late Prof. M. C. Puri, AIAP Excellence Award. She has authored two books, supervised 20 PhDs, and published 125 research papers. She is a Senior Member of ORSI, CSI, IMS and ISIM. She is the Executive Editor of International Journal of Swarm Intelligence, Inderscience. She is Associate Editor of Swarm and Evolutionary Algorithms,