Soft Computing: Theories and Applications

This book focuses on soft computing and how it can be applied to solve real-world problems arising in various domains, ranging from medicine and health care, to supply chain management, image processing and cryptanalysis. It gathers high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2022), held at University Institute of Technology, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. The book offers valuable insights into soft computing for teachers and researchers alike; the book inspires further research in this dynamic field.

Dr. Rajesh Kumar received the Bachelor of Technology in Engineering degree with honours in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, in 1994, Master of Engineering with honours in Power Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in Intelligent Systems from Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MREC, University of Rajasthan), India, in 2005. He is currently Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering and Adjunct Professor at Centre of Energy and Environment at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. He has been Research Fellow (A) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore from 2009-2011. He has been Reader from 2005-2009, Senior Lecturer from 2000-2005 and Lecturer from 1995-2000 at Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology. He is Founder of ZINE student innovative group. His background is in the fields of computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, power and energy management, robotics, bioinformatics, smart grid and computer vision.  Ajit K. Verma is Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund, Norway (since March 2012) and has been Professor (since Feb 2001) with the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay with a research focus in Reliability and Safety Engineering. He was Director of the International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, on lien from IIT Bombay, from Aug 2009–Sep 2010. He is also Guest Professor at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. He has supervised/co-supervised 38 Ph.D.s and 95 Masters theses in the area of software reliability, reliable computing, power systems reliability (PSR), reliability centred maintenance (RCM) and probabilistic safety/risk assessment (PSA). He has executed various research projects to promote industry interface and has been course co-ordinator for industry CEPs like reliability engineering, six sigma, software inspections, competency tracking system and software reliability for IT industries. He is Springer Book Series Editor of Asset Analytics-Performance and Safety Management, Fire safety Engineering and Management and Reliable & Sustainable Electric Power and Energy Systems Management and has jointly edited books titled Reliability and Risk Evaluation of Wind Integrated Power Systems(Springer), Reliability Modelling Analysis of Smart Power Systems (Springer) & Current Trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety(Springer) and is Author of books titled Fuzzy Reliability Engineering-Concepts and Applications (Alpha science international - Narosa), Reliability and Safety Engineering (Springer) and Dependability of Networked C