Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems

The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the first International Conference on International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems (ICAIECES -2015) held at Velammal Engineering College (VEC), Chennai, India during 22 - 23 April 2015. The book discusses wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. Researchers from academic and industry present their original work and exchange ideas, information, techniques and applications in the field of Communication, Computing and Power Technologies.

Dr. Subhransu Sekhar Dash is presently working as a 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. He has more than seventeen 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.

Dr. M. Arun Bhaskar is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai. He has received his Ph.D. degree from SRM University, Chennai. He is having more than nine years of research and teaching experience. He has published  more than 30 papers in National conferences, 36 Papers in International conferences, 8  papers in IEEE CPS, 9 International Journals. His research areas are modeling of FACTS Controller, Voltage stability improvement, Design of non-linear controllers for FACTS devices. He is a life member of Indian Society of Technical Education and member of Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Dr. Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi is

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. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests include evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, and wireless communication. Dr. Das has published one research monograph, one edited volume, and more than 150 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of 'Swarm and Evolutionary Computation', an international journal from Elsevier. He serves as associate editors of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems and Information Sciences (Elsevier). He is an editorial board member of Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Mathematical Problems in Engineering, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, and International Journal of A