Paramartha Dutta - Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics: Third International Conference, CICBA 2021, Santiniketan, India, January 7–8, ... in Computer and Information Science, 1406)

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It is a matter of great pleasure for us, as the editors, to share some of our experience in the form of a preface in relation to the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics (CICBA 2021), held during January 79, 2021. What indeed is an instance of pride, is that the papers appearing in this proceedings meet all the stringent technical filter mechanisms befitting an edited volume published in Springers prestigious Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. Needless to say, compliance with all the requirements as laid down in the publication policy is a highly challenging task, which the authors of these papers fulfilled. No doubt it is an admirable achievement on their part. As the editors of this volume, we wish to avail ourselves of this opportunity to express our heartfelt congratulations to them all.

When the conference was planned about one and half years back, we primarily took it as a challenge because the CCIS approval was not easy to garner. From the beginning, the approval was conditional, and there was every possibility that the publication might never come to fruition. Only after thorough scrutiny, until the last phase of camera-ready submission of all accepted papers, was Springer, as our publishing partner, in a position to unconditionally approve this CCIS series publication. Throughout this time we were apprehensive as to whether we, as editors, would be able to see our initiative through successfully. What further complicated the situation was the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted researchers and practitioners across the globe and, perhaps, made it more challenging to produce contributions of good technical merit. We sincerely appreciate that our Call for Papers was able to attract no less than 84 submissions, out of which 20 stood up to our rigorous review process for inclusion in the proceedings. We feel particularly moved by the submissions from the prospective authors because unfortunately we could not guarantee publication, and yet they still made the effort to share their work.

Coming to the composition of the papers appearing in the proceedings, we categorized them broadly into four domains: (i) Computational Intelligence (six contributions), (ii) Intelligent Data Mining and Data Warehousing (six contributions), (iii) Computational Forensic (Privacy and Security) (four contributions) and (iv) Data Science and Advanced Data Analytics (four contributions). It is goes without saying that all of these papers are highly commendable in a technical sense.

We were particularly impressed by the way that Springer, as our publishing partner, took a principled stand to ensure the high quality of this proceedings, knowing full well that a delayed CCIS approval would, in all likelihood, hinder the interest of prospective authors. We feel gratified that they put quality over and above commercial considerations. We are proud to have them as our publishing partner. We also hope that in the months and years to come, our collaboration will be further enhanced.

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