This book presents the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2017), held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The event brought together researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners to exchange their new ideas and experiences in the domain of intelligent computing theories with prospective applications to various engineering disciplines. The book is divided into two volumes: Information and Decision Sciences, and Intelligent Engineering Informatics.

This volume covers broad areas of Information and Decision Sciences, with papers exploring both the theoretical and practical aspects of data-intensive computing, data mining, evolutionary computation, knowledge management & networks, sensor networks, signal processing, wireless networks, protocols & architectures etc. The book also offers a valuable resource for students at the post-graduate level in various engineering disciplines.

Suresh Chandra Satapathy, PhD, is currently working as Professor and Head of the Department of CSE, PVPSIT, Vijayawada, India. He was the National Chairman Div-V (Educational and Research) of the Computer Society of India from 2015 to 2017. A Senior Member of the IEEE, he has been instrumental in organizing more than 18 International conferences in India and has edited more than 30 books as a Corresponding Editor. He is highly active in research in the areas of Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. He has developed a new optimization algorithm known as Social Group Optimization (SGO) and authored more than 100 publications in reputed journals and conference proceedings. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of the journals IGI Global, Inderscience, and Growing Science.

João Manuel RS Tavares earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001 and his postdoctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is a senior researcher and project coordinator at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI), Portugal and an associate professor at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), Portugal. João Tavares is the co-editor of more than 35 books, co-author of more than 550 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and holder of 3 international and 2 national patents. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the book series "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics," founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization," and co-founder and co-chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS and BioDental.

Vikrant Bhateja is an Associate Professor at the Department of ECE, SRMGPC, Lucknow and also the Head of Academics & Quality Control at the same college. His areas of research include digital image and video processing, computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition. He has authored more than 120 publications in various international journals and conference proceedings. Prof Vikrant is an associate editor for the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) and International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI).

Jnyana Ranjan Mohanty is a Professor and Associate Dean School of Computer Applications at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. He holds a PhD (Computer Science) and has 20 years of experience teaching postgraduate students. His key strengths in research and academia include Database Management Systems, Operating Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms, Queueing Networks and Cloud Computing. Dr Mohanty has published a number of research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.