Applied Nature-Inspired Computing: Algorithms and Case Studies

Chapter 1. Particle Swarm Optimization of Morphological Filters for Electrocardiogram Baseline Drift Estimation.- Chapter 2. Detection of Breast Cancer using Fusion of MLO and CC View Features Through a Hybrid Technique Based on Binary Firefly algorithm and Optimum Path Forest Classification.- Chapter 3. Recommending Healthy Personalized Daily Menus - A Cuckoo Search based Hyper-Heuristic Approach.- Chapter 4. A Hybrid Bat-Inspired Algorithm for Power Transmission Expansion Planning on a Practical Brazilian Network.- Chapter 5. An Application of Binary Grey Wolf Optimizer (BGWO) variants for Unit Commitment Problem.- Chapter 6. Sensorineural hearing loss identification via discrete wavelet packet entropy and cat swarm optimization.- Chapter 7. Chaotic Variants of Grasshopper Optimisation Algorithm and their application to Protein Structure Prediction.- Chapter 8. Examination of Retinal Anatomical Structures - A Study with Spider Monkey Optimization Algorithm.- Chapter 9. Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics Search Algorithms for Solving the Economic Load Dispatch Problem of Power System: A Comparative Study.- Chapter 10. Parallel-series System Optimization by Weighting Sum Methods and Nature-inspired Computing.- Chapter 11. Development of Artificial Neural Networks trained by Heuristic Algorithms for Prediction of Exhaust Emissions and Performance of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Biodiesel Blends.

Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2015.

He has authored/edited more than 50 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, an Associated Editor of IEEE Access and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer Nature, the Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier and the Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal Processingand Data Analysis, CRC.

His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Data Mining, etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) - Young ICT Group. Recently, he has been awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India (2015-17). 

Amira S. Ashour is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Department-EEC, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt, since 2016. She has been the Vice Chair of Computer Engineering Department, Computers and Information Technology College, Taif University, KSA for one year from 2015. She has been the Vice Chair of CS Department, CIT College, Taif University, KSA for 5 years. Her research interests are Smart antenna, Direction of arrival estimation, Targets tracking, Image processing, Medical imaging, Machine learning, Signal/image/video processing, Image analysis, Computervision, and