Acknowledgements

We express our sincere gratitude to our Guru, Dr Achuthsankar S. Nair – who gave many sparks to this textbook in terms of case studies. He has spent a lot of his precious time for this work in long discussions, technology dissertation and improving the writing skills. We had visited various Universities and have indulged in discussions regarding their syllabi and questions. At this time, we thank all these Universities, Faculties and other Academicians who have spent time with us in preparing the same. Our research articles are our confidence. In this occasion, we are thankful to our research journal publishers and the anonymous reviewers who have taken pain in furnishing our articles. Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) group has been our primary critics; we thank each and every member of MIR group who have supported us in each phase of the compilation of the book. We extend our gratitude to our family and friends for the kind cooperation during the manuscript preparation time. Finally, I would like to thank the entire Pearson team for their contribution to this project, and carefully handling the manuscript in editorial and production stages.

S. S. Vinod Chandra
S. Anand Hareendran