Computer Intelligence Against Pandemics : Tools and Methods to Face New Strains of COVID-19

This book introduces the most recent research and innovative developments regarding the new strains of COVID-19. While medical and natural sciences have been working instantly on deriving solutions and trying to protect humankind against such virus types, there is also a great focus on technological developments for improving the mechanism – momentum of science for effective and efficient solutions. At this point, computational intelligence is the most powerful tools for researchers to fight against COVID-19. Thanks to instant data-analyze and predictive techniques by computational intelligence, it is possible to get positive results and introduce revolutionary solutions against related medical diseases. By running capabilities – resources for rising the computational intelligence, technological fields like Artificial Intelligence (with Machine / Deep Learning), Data Mining, Applied Mathematics are essential components for processing data, recognizing patterns, modelling new techniques and improving the advantages of the computational intelligence more. Nowadays, there is a great interest in the application potentials of computational intelligence to be an effective approach for taking humankind more step away, after COVID-19 and before pandemics similar to the COVID-19 many appear.

Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya [FRSA (UK), FIET (UK), FIE (I), FIETE, LFOSI, SMIEEE, SMACM, SMAAIA, SMIETI] did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998, and 2000 respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of several coveted awards including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America, and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure of 2018-2020. He has been inducted into the People of ACM hall of fame by ACM, the USA in 2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure of 2021-2023. He has been elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the Russian Academy of Engineering. He has been elected a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK.

He is currently serving as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He served as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India during 2017-2019. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (2018-2019). Prior to this, he was the Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 6 books and the co-editor of 88 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs and 19 patents to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He is the founding Chair of ICCICN 2014, ICRCICN (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and ISSIP (2017, 2018) (Kolkata, India). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India) and (ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India), and ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic).

He is the Associate Editor of several reputed journals including Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Evolutionary Intelligence, and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest-edited several issues with several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI), CRC Press Book Series(s) Computational Intelligence and Applications & Quantum Machine Intelligence, Wiley Book Series Intelligent Signal and Data Processing, Elsevier Book Series Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding and Springer Tracts on Human Centered Computing.

His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks, and quantum computing.

He is a life fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), India, a life fellow of the International Society of Research and Development (ISRD), UK, a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, a fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India and a fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA.

He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong.

Dr. Jyoti Sekhar Banerjee, B. Tech., M.E, Ph.D. (Engg.), is currently serving as the Head of the Department in the Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) Department at the Bengal Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India, and visiting researcher (Post Doc) at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Additionally, He is also the Professor-in-Charge, of R & D and Consultancy Cell of BIT. He has teaching and research experience spanning 17 years and completed one IEI-funded project. He also served many other reputed educational Institutes in India in various positions. He is a member of the IEEE, CSI, ISTE, IEI, ISOC, and IAENG and a fellow of IETE. He is the present honorary Secretary-cum-Treasurer, of the ISTE WB Section. He is the present honorary Secretary of the Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter. He is also the Execom Member of the IETE, Kolkata Centre. He has published over fifty papers in various international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He worked as the Associate Editor in the Journal of Mechanics of Continua and Mathematical Sciences; now, he is an International Editorial Board member of JMCMS. He is the lead author of "A Text Book on Mastering Digital Electronics: Principle, Devices, and Applications". He also filed two Indian patents. He has also co-authored another book and is currently processing six edited books in reputed international publishers like Springer, CRC Press, De Gruyter, etc. Presently he is also processing two more textbooks; those are now in press. Currently, he is serving as the General Chair of International conferences like CRC Press published "Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications" (GCAIA 2021, 2022), Scopus Indexed Springer published 1st International Conference on Human-Centric Smart Computing (ICHCSC 2022). Dr. Banerjee served as a Guest Editor of ICAUC_ES 2021 and ICPAS-2021 issues in the IOP Journal of Earth and Environmental Science, Physics, Scopus indexed proceeding. Guest Editor in JESTEC journal (Scopus, WOS) Journal. His areas of research interests include Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Radio, Sensor Networks, AI/ML, Network Security, Different Computing Techniques, IoT, WBAN (e-healthcare), and Expert Systems.

Dr. Sergey Gorbachev received a Ph.D. degree in National Research Tomsk State University, Russia, in 2003. Íe worked as a Senior Researcher at the International Laboratory Systems of technical vision, National Research Tomsk State University. He is currently a Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Education, China. He is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering. He has published 8 monographs, 20 book chapters, 18 patents and certificates of computer programs, and more than 160 papers in reviewed journals, and proceedings of conferences. His research interests include neural-fuzzy networks, ensemble models, soft computing, deep learning, quantum-inspired computing, image processing, data mining, and neutrosophic cognitive maps.

Dr. Khan Muhammad received his PhD in Digital Contents from Sejong University, South Korea in February 2019. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software, Sejong University from March 2019 to February 2022. He is currently the director of Visual Analytics for Knowledge Laboratory (VIS2KNOW Lab) and an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in the Department of Applied AI, School of Convergence, College of Computing and Informatics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include intelligent video surveillance, medical image analysis, information security, video summarization, multimedia data analysis, computer vision, and smart cities. He has registered 10 patents and contributed more than 220 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings in his research areas. He is an Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for more than 15 journals. He was among the most highly cited researchers in 2021 and 2022, according to the Web of Science (Clarivate).

Dr. Mario Köppen received his Masters degree in solid-state physics at Humboldt-University of Berlin in 1991. Afterward, he worked as a scientific assistant at the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processing in Berlin. From 1992 to 2006, he worked with the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology and achieved a doctoral degree at the Technical University Berlin. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings, journals, and books and played an active role in various conferences, incl. the WSC online conference series on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, and the HIS conference series on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. He is a founding member of the World Federation of Soft Computing and since 2016 Editor-in-Chief of Applied Soft Computing journal. In 2006, he became a JSPS fellow at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, a Professor at the Network Design and Research Center (NDRC) in 2008, and Professor at the Graduate School of Creative Informatics of the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2013.