The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in International Conference on Soft Computing Systems (ICSCS 2015) held at Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Chennai, India. These research papers provide the latest developments in the emerging areas of Soft Computing in Engineering and Technology. The book is organized in two volumes and discusses a wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. It presents invited papers from the inventors/originators of new applications and advanced technologies.

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Dr. L. Padma Suresh obtained his doctorate from M S University and Dr. M.G.R University, respectively. He is presently working as a Professor and Head in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Noorul Islam University, Kumaracoil, India. Dr. Suresh is well known for his contributions to the field in both research and education contributing over 50 research articles in journal and conferences. He is the editorial member of International Journal of Advanced Electrical and Computer Engineering and also served as reviewer for various reputed journals. He has been a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education. He also served in many committees as Convener, Chair, and Advisory member for various external agencies. His research is currently focused on Artificial Intelligence, Power Electronics, Evolutionary Algorithms, Image Processing, and Control Systems.

Dr. Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Sambalpur University. He is serving as a chief editor to the International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion. His interests focus on Power Quality, FACTS Devices, Power System Protection, and AI Application to Power System.

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Chapter 1. Design and Implementation of an Energy Harvester for Low Power Devices from Vibration of Automobile Engine.- Chapter 2. Modern Optimization Based Controller Design for Speed Control in Flyback Converter Driven DC Servo Motor Drive.- Chapter 3. EA Based Optimization of Hybrid T-Slot Patch Antenna.- Chapter 4. AADHAR License Management (ALM) System in India Using AADHAR IDs.- Chapter 5. Selection of Anchor Nodes in Time of Arrival (TOA) for localization in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Chapter 6. Predicting the Risk of Diabetes Mellitus to Subpopulations Using Association Rule Mining.- Chapter 7. Enhancement of Endoscopic Image Using TV-Image Decomposition.- Chapter 8. Design of FIS Based Model for Emotional Speech Recognition.- Chapter 9. Discrimination and Detection of Face and Non Face using Multi-Layer Feed Forward Perceptron.- Chapter 10. A Conjectural Study on Machine Learning Algorithms.- Chapter 11. Statistical Analysis of Low Back Pain; a Real Global Burden.- Chapter 12. Robust Text Detection and Recognition in Blurred Images.- Chapter 13. Video Analysis for Malpractice Detection in Classroom Examination.- Chapter 14. Block Based Forgery Detection Using Global and Local Features.- Chapter 15. 3D Modelling of a Jewellery and its Virtual Try-on.- Chapter 16. Fuzzy Based Multiloop Interleaved PFC Converter with High Voltage Conversion System.- ****Chapter 17. A Voice Recognizing Elevator System.- Chapter 18. Application of DSTATCOM for Loss Minimisation in Radial Distribution System.- Chapter 19. Automated Health Monitoring through Emotion Identification.- Chapter 20. A Network Model of GUI-Based Implementation of Sensor Node for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring.- Chapter 21. Automated Segmentation of Skin Lesions Using Seed Points and scale Invariant Semantic Mathematic Model.- Chapter 22. Prospective Bio-Inspired Algorithm Based Self Organization Approaches for Genetic Algorithms.- Chapter 23. Dual Converter Multi Motor Drive for Hybrid Permanent Magnet Synchronous in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.- Chapter 24. Performance Enhancement of Minimum Volume Based Hyperspectral Unmixing Algorithms by Empirical Wavelet Transform.- Chapter 25. Empirical Wavelet Transform for Multi-focus Image Fusion.- Chapter 26. Extraction of Photovoltaic (PV) Module's Parameters Using only the Cell Characteristics for Accurate PV Modeling.- Chapter 27. Effect of Nano-particles on the Dielectric Strength and PD Resistance in an Epoxy Nanocomposite.- Chapter 28. Performance Analysis of Artificial Neural Network and NEURO-FUZZY Controlled Shunt Hybrid Active Power Filter for Power Conditioning.- Chapter 29. Design of Reversible Logic Based ALU.- Chapter 30. Design of Basic Building Blocks of ALU.- Chapter 31. Implementation of Low Power and Area Efficient Floating-Point Fused Multiply-Add Unit.- Chapter 32. Implementation of MAC Unit Using Reversible Logic.- Chapter 33. 3D Modelling Using Depth Sensors Present in Kinect.-Chapter 34. Closed Loop Control of Facts Devices in Power System.- Chapter 35. A Study on Face Recognition under Facial Expression Variation and Occlusion.- Chapter 36. A Novel Technique to Recognize Human Faces Across Age Progressions.- Chapter 37. Control of a Time Delayed System Using Smith Predictive PID Controller.- Chapter 38. Optimal Tuning of Fractional Order PID Controller.- Chapter 39. Automatic Steering Using Ultracapacitor.- Chapter 40. 3D Multimodal Medical Image Fusion and Evaluation of Diseases.- Chapter 41. Automatic Generation of Multi Modal Learning Objects from Electronic Textbooks.- Chapter 42. Detection of Macular Degeneration in Retinal Images Based on Texture Segmentation.- Chapter 43. Power Angle Control of a Single Phase Grid Connected Photovoltaic Inverter for Controlled Power Transfer.- Chapter 44. Secure Electro Cardio Graph communication through Discrete Wavelet Transform.- Chapter 45. Bandwidth Enhancement By Using Spiral Back Reflector for Wireless Communication.-Chapter 46. Comparative Assessment of the performances of LQR and SMC Methodologies in the Control of Longitudinal Axis of Aircraft.- Chapter 47. ...