Oscar Castillo - Recent Advances in Intelligent Information Systems and Applied Mathematics

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The 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Applied Mathematics (ICITAM 2019) was held at the Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, from March 07 to March 09, 2019. Haldia is a city and a municipality in Purba Medinipur in the Indian state of West Bengal, and Haldia Institute of Technology is a premier institution training engineers and computer scientists for the past several years. It has gained its reputation through its institutional dedication to teaching and research.

In response to the call for papers for ICITAM 2019, 157 papers were submitted for presentation and inclusion in the proceedings of the conference. The papers were evaluated and ranked on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality by at least two reviewers per paper. After a careful blind peer review, 70 papers were selected for inclusion in the conference proceedings. The papers cover current research in intelligent systems, soft computing, machine learning, natural language processing, image and video processing, computer network and security, cryptography, data hiding, rough set, fuzzy logic, operations research, optimization, uncertain theory, applications, etc. At ICITAM 2019, eminent personalities both from India and from all over the world (China, Mexico, USA, South Korea, Singapore, to just mention a few) participated, who deliver invited talks.

The speakers from India were recognized leaders in government, industry, and academic institutions like the Indian Statistical Institute (ISA) Kolkata, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Vidyasagar University, etc. All of them are involved in research dealing with the current issues of interest related to the theme of the conference. The conference program included two keynote talks by Professor Oscar Castillo (Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico) and Professor Baoding Liu (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) and ten invited talks.

A conference of this kind would not be possible to organize without the full support from different people across different committees. All logistics and general organizational aspects were looked after by the Organizing Committee members who spent their time and energy in making the conference a reality. We also thank all the Technical Program Committee members and external reviewers for thoroughly reviewing the papers submitted for the conference and sending their constructive suggestions within the deadlines. Our hearty thanks go to Springer for agreeing to publish the proceedings in its Advances in Intelligent System and Computing series.

We are indebted to Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India, for sponsoring the event. Their support has significantly helped in raising the profile of the conference.

Last but not least, our sincere thanks go to all authors who submitted papers to ICITAM 2019 and to all speakers and participants. We sincerely hope that the readers will find the proceedings stimulating and inspiring.

As we all are aware, mathematics has always been a discipline of interest not only to theoreticians but also to all practitioners irrespective of their specific profession. Be it science, technology, economics, commerce, or even sociology, new mathematical principles and models have been emerging and helping in new research and in drawing inferences from practical data as well as through logic. Past few decades have seen enormous growth in applications of mathematics in different areas which are multidisciplinary in nature. Artificial intelligence, fuzzy, and machine learning applications are such areas which have got more focus recently due to need of various emerging fields of applications. With emerging computing facilities and speeds, a phenomenal growth has happened in problem-solving area. Earlier, some observations were made and conjectures were drawn which remained conjectures till somebody either could prove it theoretically or found counter-examples. But today, we can write algorithms and use computers for long calculations, verifications, or generation of huge amount of data. With available computing capabilities, we can find factors of very large integers of the size of hundreds of digits; we can find inverses of very large-size matrices, solve a large set of linear equations, and so on. Thus, mathematics and computations have become more integrated areas of research these days, and it was thought to organize an event where thoughts may be shared by researchers and new challenging problems could be deliberated for solving these.