The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM 2015) held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during 5 - 6 December 2015. The two-volume Proceedings address the difficulties and challenges for the seamless integration of two core disciplines of computer science, i.e., computational intelligence and data mining. The book addresses different methods and techniques of integration for enhancing the overall goal of data mining. The book helps to disseminate the knowledge about some innovative, active research directions in the field of data mining, machine and computational intelligence, along with some current issues and applications of related topics.
Prof. Himansu Sekhar Behera is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering & Information Technology, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) - An Unitary Technical University, Established by Govt. of Odisha, Burla, Odisha. He has received M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from N.I.T, Rourkela (formerly R.E.C, Rourkela) and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Ph.D.) from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela, Govt. of Odisha, respectively. He has published more than 80 research papers in various international Journals and Conferences, edited 11 books and is acting as a Member of the Editorial / Reviewer Board of various international journals. He is proficient in the field of Computer Science Engineering and served in the capacity of program chair, tutorial chair and acted as advisory member of committees of many national and international conferences. His research interests include Data Mining, Soft Computing, Evolutionary Computation, Machine Intelligence and Distributed System. He is associated with various educational and research societies like OITS,ISTE, IE, ISTD,CSI,OMS,AIAER, SMIAENG,SMCSTA, etc.
Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and is presently serving as Associate Professor in NIT Rourkela, Odisha. His research interests include software engineering, real-time systems, discrete mathematics, and distributed computing. He has published more than 30 research papers in these fields in various international Journals and Conferences. He has received several project grants from DST and UGC, Govt. of India. He has received the Young Scientist Award for the year 2006 by Orissa Bigyan Academy. He has also received the Prof. K. Arumugam National Award and the Maharashtra State National Award for outstanding research work in Software Engineering for the years 2009 and 2010, respectively from the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi. He is going to receive the Bharat Sikshya Ratan Award for significant contribution in academics awarded by the Global Society for Health and Educational Growth, Delhi.
