Data Communication and Networks: Proceedings of GUCON 2019 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1049)

Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 300 research papers in refereed journals and International Conferences. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation.
She is the Editor-in Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to  International  Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), member in Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is evaluator expert for national, international projects and PhD Thesis. Dr. Balas is the director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu Universityof Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university.
She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in eight editions 2005-2018 held in Romania and Hungary.
Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair and member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Committees.
She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM and a Senior Member IEEE, member in TC – Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), member in TC - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in TC – Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). Dr. Balas was past Vice-president (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015) and is a Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), - A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India.
She is also director of the Department ofInternational Relations, Programs and Projects and head of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. Dr. Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, ME, BE(Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia) is with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, University of Canberra, Australia and Liverpool Hope University, UK.Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES. www.kesinternational.org His interests focus on the artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, security, e-education, e-healthcare, unmanned air vehicles and intelligent agents. George A. Tsihrintzis is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Informatics in the University of Piraeus, Greece. He received the Diploma of Electrical Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (with honors) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. His current research interests include Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Decision Theory, and Statistical Signal Processing and their applications in Multimedia Interactive Services, User Modeling, Knowledge-based Software Systems, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. He has authored or co-authored over 300 research publications in these areas, which include 5 monographs and 14 edited volumes. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Editor (along with Profs. Maria Virvou and Lakhmi C. Jain) of the Springer Series onLearning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, the Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Decision Technologies (IOS Press) and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (Inderscience) and a member of the editorial boards of 8 additional journals. Prof. Dilip Kumar Sharma is a Associate Dean (Academic Collaboration) and Professor at Department of Computer Engineering and Applications in Institute of Engineering and Technology, GLA University, Mathura, India. He is also Vice Chairman of IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section  and IEEE Computer Society Chapter of IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section for the 2019.  He has delivered/chaired more than 70 invited talks/guest lectures and chaired the technical sessions at various institutes/conferences. He has attended 32 short term courses/workshops/seminars organized by various esteemed origination and edited two books and worked as Guest Editor of International Journals of repute. He has organized more than 12IEEE/CSI International/National Conferences and Workshops with the capacity of General Chair, Co-General Chair, Convener and co-convener etc.   He has published more than 85 research papers in International Journals /Conferences of repute indexed in SCI, Scopus and DBLP databases and participated in 50 International/National conferences. He is Conferred 2018 Outstanding Section Volunteer Award by IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section and also Significant Contribution Award by Computer Society of India in 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2017. His research interests are Web Information Retrieval, Data Analytics and Software Engineering. He has guided 2 PhD and 20 MTech Thesis, projects and various seminars undertaken by the students of undergraduate/postgraduate and he is currently guiding 5 PhDs and numbers of MTech /Thesis, Seminars and BTech Projects.