Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Face Recognition Using 2DPCA and ANFIS Classifier

   • Hitesh Shah, Rahul Kher, Ketan Patel

   Pages 1-12

3. Optimisation of Mechanical Properties of Wood Dust-reinforced Epoxy Composite Using Grey Relational Analysis

   • Barnasree Chanda, Rahul Kumar, Kaushik Kumar, Sumit Bhowmik

   Pages 13-24

4. Weight Computation of Alternatives in a Decision-Making Problem by Preference Relation

   • Satyajit Das, Debashree Guha

   Pages 25-36

5. RBHR: Region-Based Hybrid Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using AI Technique

   • Sonam Maurya, A. K. Daniel

   Pages 37-52

6. Trajectory Control of a Ball in a Ball and Plate System Using Cascaded PD Controllers Tuned by PSO

   • Prasanta Roy, Biprajeet Kar, Injamul Hussain

   Pages 53-65

7. Image Encryption and Steganography Using Chaotic Maps with a Double Key Protection

   • Sanjukta Krishnagopal, Sakshi Pratap, Bijil Prakash

   Pages 67-78

8. Parameter Optimization of Winner-Take-All Circuit for Attention Shift Using Drosophila Food-Search Optimization Algorithm

   • Kedar Nath Das, Tapan Kumar Singh, Krishna Lal Baishnab

   Pages 79-90

9. Hybrid ACO Chaos-Assisted Support Vector Machines for Classification of Medical Datasets

   • Gunjan Mishra, Vivek Ananth, Kalpesh Shelke, Deepak Sehgal, Jayaraman Valadi

   Pages 91-101

10. Analysis of Hybrid Temperature Control for Nonlinear Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor

    • Om Prakash Verma, Sonu Kumar, Gaurav Manik

    Pages 103-121

11. A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Multistage Defects Density Analysis of Software

    • Harikesh Bahadur Yadav, Dilip Kumar Yadav

    Pages 123-136

12. Vehicle Classification Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS)

    • Akhilesh Kumar Maurya, Devesh Kumar Patel

    Pages 137-152

13. Real-time Hand Tracking for Dynamic Gesture Recognition

    • Varsha Dixit, Anupam Agrawal

    Pages 153-164

14. An Approach to Emotion Identification Using Human Gait

    • Deepjoy Das

    Pages 165-175

15. Enhanced Accident Detection System Using Safety Application for Emergency in Mobile Environment: SafeMe

    • Amit Hirawat, Deepshikha Bhargava

    Pages 177-183

16. Accelerated Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm

    • Shweta Sharma, Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant, Jitendra Rajpurohit, Bhagyashri Naruka

    Pages 185-193

17. A Study on Various Attacks of TCP/IP and Security Challenges in MANET Layer Architecture

    • Girish Paliwal, Ankur Prakash Mudgal, Swapnesh Taterh

    Pages 195-207

18. SVD Watermarking: Particle Swarm Optimization of Scaling Factors to Increase the Quality of Watermark

    • Irshad Ahmad Ansari, Millie Pant

    Pages 209-218

19. An Image Steganography Method Using Spread Spectrum Technique

    • M. P. S. Bhatia, Sunil Kumar Muttoo, Manjot Bhatia

    Pages 219-236

20. Digitization of Library: Engineering Colleges

    • Om Prakash Dubey, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Pramod Kumar Hota, Satya Narayan Singh, Kusum Deep

    Pages 237-248

The Proceedings of SocProS 2014 serves as an academic bonanza for scientists and researchers working in the field of Soft Computing. This book contains theoretical as well as practical aspects using fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence algorithms, etc., with many applications under the umbrella of ‘Soft Computing’. The book is beneficial for young as well as experienced researchers dealing across complex and intricate real world problems for which finding a solution by traditional methods is a difficult task. The different application areas covered in the Proceedings are: Image Processing, Cryptanalysis, Industrial Optimization, Supply Chain Management, Newly Proposed Nature Inspired Algorithms, Signal Processing, Problems related to Medical and Healthcare, Networking Optimization Problems, etc.

• Artificial Neural Network
• Evolutionary Algorithms
• Fuzzy Logic
• Nature/Bio-inspired Computing
• SocProS 2014
• Soft Computing

• Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India

  Kedar Nath Das

• Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

  Kusum Deep

• Department of Paper Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

  Millie Pant

• South Asian University, New Delhi, India

  Jagdish Chand Bansal

• Department of Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Atulya Nagar

Dr. Kedar Nath Das is now working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. Over the last 10 years, he has a good contribution towards research in ‘soft computing’. He has many papers to his credit in many journals in national and international level of repute. His area of interest is Evolutionary and Bio-inspired algorithms for optimization.
Prof. Kusum Deep is working as a full time professor in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India. Over the last 25 years, her research is increasingly well-cited making her a central International figure in the area of Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques, Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization.
Dr. Millie Pant is an Associate Professor with the Department of Paper Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India. She has to her credit several research papers in journals of national and international repute and is a well-known figure in the field of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms.
Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is an Assistant Professor with South Asian University, New Delhi, India. Holding an excellent academic record, he is an excellent researcher in the field of Swarm Intelligence at the national and international level, having several research papers in journals of national and international repute.
Prof. Atulya Nagar holds the Foundation Chair as Professor of Mathematical Sciences and is the Dean of Faculty of Science, at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK. Prof. Nagar is an internationally recognised scholar working at the cutting edge of theoretical computer science, applied mathematical analysis, operations research, and systems engineering and his work is underpinned by strong complexity-theoretic foundations.