H S BeheraDr. Himansu Sekhar Behera is currently working as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Ph.D.) fromBiju Pattnaik University of Technology (BPUT), India. His research and development experience includes over 19 years in academia spanning different technical Institutes in India. His research interests include Data Mining, Soft Computing, Evolutionary Computation, Machine Intelligence and Distributed Systems. He has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers various international conferences and journals, as well as contributing several book chapters. He has edited 11 books and serves as an associate editor / member of the editorial board of various international journals and also guest edited 8 special issues on various topics of Inderscience and IGI Global Journals. Read More Read Less