About the Authors

Dr S. S. Vinod Chandra is working as the Director, Computer Centre, University of Kerala. Since 1999, he has taught in various Engineering Colleges in Kerala. Dr S. S. Vinod Chandra holds a Ph.D. from University of Kerala and M.Tech. from CUSAT with first rank. He has discovered four microRNAs in the human cell. He has five IPRs in algorithms. He authored five books and a modest number of research publications. He is a reviewer of many international journals and conferences. His research areas include machine intelligence algorithms, nature inspired algorithms and computational biology. He is heading Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) group, a pinpoint research group in machine intelligence and nature inspired techniques. He is leading many e-Governance projects associated with Universities and Government. He holds many consultancy activities for Government organizations.

Dr S. Anand Hareendran is currently working as an Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Kerala. His current areas of research include machine learning algorithms, association rule mining and bioinspired methodologies. He has a modest number of research journal publications and has two IPRs in algorithm formulation. He has designed and implemented various rule-mining algorithms, which find applications in medical field, route mapping and frequent item search. He is also an active member of Machine Intelligence Research Group.