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The book is a collection of best papers presented in International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA 2016) organized by Department of Computer Engineering, D.Y. Patil College of Engineering, Pune, India during 20-22 December 2016. The book presents original work, information, techniques and applications in the field of computational intelligence, power and computing technology. This volume also talks about image language processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining and computational life sciences, management of data including Big Data and analytics, distributed and mobile systems including grid and cloud infrastructure.

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Dr. Subhransu Sekhar Dash is presently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM Engineering College, SRM University, Chennai, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India. He has more than 20 years of research and teaching experience. His research areas are power electronics and drives, modeling of FACTS controller, power quality, power system stability, and smart grid. He is a visiting professor at Francois Rabelais University, POLYTECH, France. He is the chief editor of International Journal of Advanced Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate editor of IJRER. He has published more than 220 research articles in peer reviewed international journals and conferences.

Dr. Swagatam Das received the B.E. Tel.E., M.E. Tel.E (control engineering specialization), and Ph.D. degrees, all from Jadavpur University, India, in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. He is currently serving as Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research interests include evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, and wireless communication. He has published one research monograph, one edited volume, and more than 200 research articles in peer reviewed journals and international conferences.

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