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Swarm and Evolutionary Intelligence for sensor and IoT-based large scale healthcare applications

IoT and Sensor Networks that includes bio sensors, chemical sensors, physical sensors have emerged as a very efficient and effective tool in the healthcare service sector as the integration of IoT devices with medical applications is expected to improve the quality of service. In the last two decades, IoT and Sensor Networks have been applied for various e-Health applications and thus improve the diagnostic tools.

Evolutionary and swarm intelligence has grown extensively and are quite effective for solving complex problems. In recent times with the emergence of sensor technology, cloud computing, and IoT platform there is a substantial change in the healthcare domain from many perspectives that includes monitoring, testing, diagnosis, prognosis. suggests treatment and follow up. The system has become quite complex in nature, and most of the solutions suffer from the drawbacks of inaccuracy, lack of convergence and exponential time complexity making it difficult for providing real-time solutions. Hence, these systems are generally replaced by intelligence based systems which are much superior to the conventional systems. Intelligent techniques are mostly hybrid in nature and include Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), fuzzy theory, evolutionary algorithms, swarm and memetic computing. Though most of the techniques have been proved to be quite sound both theoretically and empirically, the potential of these algorithms are not fully explored for practical applications like healthcare. IoT based healthcare system are now evolving and the present day research is slowly moving towards deployment and testing in large scale. Large scale deployment and testing leads to complex issues. Most of the algorithms are proved to be NP-Hard or complete problems and there do not exist any know polynomial time complexity algorithm for this. When the system becomes large the complexity increases exponentially. Swarm and Evolutionary algorithms have been proved to be quite effective in these type of scenarios. Researchers need to address the problem in totality instead of addressing the issues in isolation.

Editors

  • Suresh Chandra Satapathy

    Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy (Handling Editor) Professor School of Computer Science and Engineering KIIT University, Orissa. suresh.satapathyfcs@kiit.ac.in, sureshsatapathy@ieee.org

  • Siba Kumar Udgata

    Prof. Siba Kumar Udgata Professor School of Computer and Information Sciences University of Hyderabad, India Email: udgata@uohyd.ac.in

  • Yu-Dong Zhang

    Prof. Yu-Dong Zhang Professor School of Informatics University of Leicester, UK Email: yudongzhang@ieee.org

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