A Preliminary Study on Impact of Dying of Solution on Performance of Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm -- A Closed Loop Supply Chain Inventory Model for the Deteriorating Items with JIT Implementation -- Transient Stability Enhancement of a Multi Machine System using BFOA -- Common Fixed Points by using E.A. Property in Fuzzy Metric Spaces -- Use of Evolutionary Algorithms to play the game of Checkers: Historical Developments, Challenges and Future Prospects -- Development of Computer Aided Process Planning System for Rotational Components Having Form Features -- Comparative Analysis of Energy Efficient Protocols for Prolonged Life of Wireless Sensor Network -- Condition Monitoring in Induction Motor by Parameter Estimation Technique -- Word Recognition using Barthannwin Wave Filter and Neural Network -- Graph Colouring Problem Solution using Modified Flocking Algorithm -- Augmented Human Interaction with Remote Devices using Low Cost DTMF Technology -- Multi-objective Ant Colony Optimization for Task Scheduling in Grid Computing -- An Evaluation of Reliability of a Two-Unit Degradable Computing System using Parametric Non-Linear Programming Approach with Fuzzy Parameters -- An Inventory Model with Time Dependent Demand under Inflation and Trade Credits -- Digital Image Processing Method for the Analysis of Cholelithiasis -- Theoretical Study on Vibration of Skew Plate under Thermal Condition -- Efficient Approach for Reconstruction of Convex Binary Images Branch and Bound Method -- Construction of Enhanced Sentiment Sensitive Thesaurus for Cross Domain Sentiment Classification using Wiktionary -- Comparative Analysis of Energy Aware Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network using Fuzzy Logic -- Domain Specific Search Engine based on Semantic Web -- 1-Error Linear Complexity Test for Binary Sequences -- Neural Method for Site-Specific Yield Prediction -- Computational Intelligence Methods for Military Target Recognition in IR Images -- Flash Webpage Segmentation based on Image Perception using DWT and Morphological Operations -- Model Order Reduction of Time Interval System: A Survey -- Design & Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Rule based System for Multimodal Travelling Network -- An Integrated Production Model in Fuzzy Environment under Inflation -- R&D AND Performance Analysis of Indian Pharmaceutical Firms: An Application of DEA -- An Imperfect Production Model with Preservation Technology and Inflation under the Fuzzy Environment -- Assessing the Soft Computing Approach for Problem Solving in the Multi-criteria Decision Making for Performance Assessment in Indian Institutions through Case Study Approach -- Implementing Breath to Improve Response of Gas Sensors for Leak Detection in Plume Tracker Robots -- Use of Simulation and Intelligence Based Optimization Approach in Bioprocess -- Land Use Change Prediction and its Impact on Surface Run-off using Fuzzy C-Mean, Markov Chain and Curve Number Methods -- A LabVIEW Based Data Acquisition System for Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) -- Crop Identification by Fuzzy C-Mean in Ravi Season using Multi-Spectral Temporal Images -- Small World Particle Swarm Optimizer for Data Clustering -- Fast Marching Method to Study Travel Time Responses of Three Dimensional Numerical Models of Subsurface -- A Heuristic for Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling to Minimize Makespan -- A Survey on Web Information Retrieval inside Fuzzy Framework -- Squaring Back off Based Media Access Control for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks -- A Study on Expressiveness of a Class of Array Token Petri Nets -- Non-dominated Sorting Particle Swarm Optimization based Fault Section Estimation in Radial Distribution systems -- Approximate Solution of Integral Equation using Bernstein Polynomial Multi-wavelets -- A Novel Search Technique for Global Optimization -- Cryptanalysis of Geffe Generator using Genetic Algorithm -- Genetic Algorithm Approach for Non-self OS Process Identification -- Gbest-Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm to Solve Load Flow Problem -- Neural Network Based Dynamic Performance of Induction Motor Drives -- A bio-Inspired Trusted Clustering for Mobile Pervasive Environment -- Comparison of Adaptive Social Evolution and Genetic Algorithm for Multi-objective DTLZ Toolkit -- A Reference Watermarking Scheme for Color Images using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Singular Value Decomposition -- Local Search Methods for the Winner Determination Problem in Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions -- Strongly Biased Crossover Operator for Subgraph Selection in Edge-set based Graph Representation -- "Color to Gray and Back" using DST-DCT, Haar-DCT, Walsh-DCT, Hartley-DCT, Slant-DCT, Kekre-DCT Hybrid Wavelet Transforms -- Music Genre Classification using Music Information Retrieval and Self Organizing Maps -- Implementation of a Private Cloud: A Case Study -- Modified Activity of Scout Bee in ABC for Global Optimization -- A Multistage Model for Defect Prediction of Software Development Life Cycle using Fuzzy Logic -- Generalized Second-Order Duality for a Class of Non-differentiable Continuous Programming Problems -- A Low Cost Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) Instrumentation for Impedance Imaging of Practical Phantoms: A Laboratory Study -- A Broyden's Method based High Speed Jacobean Matrix Calculator (JMC) for Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) -- Framework for Reliability Prediction from Software Engineering Measures -- Predicting Total Number of Failures in a Software using NHPP Software Reliability Growth Models -- Design Optimization of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger using Differential Evolution Algorithm -- Compression of Printed English Characters using Back Propagation Neural Network -- Conceptual Design of EPICS based Implementation for ICRH DAC System -- An Efficient Network Management and Power Saving Wake-ON-LAN -- Authentication in Cloud Computing Environment using Two Factor Authentication -- Expedited Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm -- Indian E-health Services: A Study -- Cluster based Term Weighting Model for Web Document Clustering -- Performance of Poled Organic Polymeric Films by ANOVA in Terms of SHG Conversion Efficiency -- Performance Analysis of Bio-Inspired Techniques -- On a Class of Non-differentiable Multi-objective Continuous Programming Problems -- Three Echelon Supply Chain Design with Supplier Evaluation -- A Carbon Sensitive Multi Echelon Reverse Logistics Network Design for Product Value Recovery -- Multi Period Advertising Media Selection in a Segmented Market -- Fuzzy Multi-criteria Approach for Component based Software System under Build-or-Buy Scheme -- A Novel Lossless ECG Compression Technique for Transmission in GSM Networks.

The present book is based on the research papers presented in the 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2013), held as a part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Saharanpur Campus of IIT Roorkee, at the Noida Campus of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. This book is divided into two volumes and covers a variety of topics including mathematical modelling, image processing, optimization, swarm intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic, neural networks, forecasting, medical and health care, data mining etc. Particular emphasis is laid on soft computing and its application to diverse fields. The prime objective of the book is to familiarize the reader with the latest scientific developments that are taking place in various fields and the latest sophisticated problem solving tools that are being developed to deal with the complex and intricate problems, which are otherwise difficult to solve by the usual and traditional methods. The book is directed to the researchers and scientists engaged in various fields of Science and Technology.