Part 1: Special Session: Advances in Nature Inspired Algorithms for Engineering Optimization Problems_An Efficient Dynamic Scheduling Algorithm for Soft Real-Time Task in Multiprocessor System Using Hybrid Quantum-Inspired Genetic Algorithm -- Equitable Machine Learning Algorithms to Probe over P2P Botnets -- Directed Search Based PSO Algorithm and Its Application to Scheduling Independent Task in Multiprocessor Environment -- Part 2: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology_JUPred_MLP: Prediction of Phosphorylation Sites Using a Consensus of MLP Classifiers -- Molecular Computing and Structural Biology for Interactions in ERα and bZIP Proteins from Homo Sapiens: An Insight into the Signal Transduction in Breast Cancer Metastasis -- SVM Based Pre-microRNA Classifier Using Sequence, Structural and Thermodynamic Parameters -- DCoSpect: A Novel Differentially Co-expressed Gene Module Detection Algorithm Using Spectral Clustering -- Intelligent Topological Differential Gene Networks -- Part 3: Signal Processing_Impact of Threshold to Identify Vocal Tract -- Application of Compressed Sensing in Cognitive Radio -- Compressed Sensing Based NBI Mitigation in Ultra Wide Band Energy Detector -- Part 4: Data Mining_A Novel Data Mining Scheme for Smartphone Activity Recognition by Accelerometer Sensor -- Mining and Ranking Association Rules in Support, Confidence, Correlation and Dissociation Framework -- Mining Closed Interesting Sub spaces to Discover Conducive Living Environment of Migratory Animals -- Frequent Patterns Mining from Data Cube Using Aggregation and Directed Graph -- Part 5: Document Image Analysis_A Modified Parallel Thinning Method for Handwritten Oriya Character Images -- Offline Signature Verification Using Artificial Neural Network -- A Simple and Effective Technique for Online Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition -- Visual Analytic Based Technique for Handwritten Indic Script Identification – A Greedy Heuristic Feature Fusion Framework -- Offline Writer Identification from Isolated Characters Using Textural Features -- PWDB_13: A Corpus of Word-level Printed Document Images from Thirteen Official Indic Scripts -- Part 6: Applications of Metaheuristic Optimization_Application of Krill Herd Algorithm for Optimum Design of Load Frequency Controller for Multi-Area Power System Network with Generation Rate Constraint -- Optimal allocation of Distributed Generator using Chemical Reaction Optimization -- A Novel Combined Approach of k-means and Genetic Algorithm to Cluster Cultural Goods in Household Budget -- A PSO with improved initialization operator for solving Multiple Sequence Alignment Problems -- Profit Maximization of TSP with uncertain Parameters through a Hybrid Algorithm -- Part 7: Wireless Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks_Mitigating Packet Dropping Problem and Malicious Node Detection Mechanism in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks -- Service Provisioning middleware for Wireless Sensor Network -- A Novel MTC-RB Heuristic for Addressing Target Coverage Problem in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network -- Part 8: Quantum dot Cellular Automata_2 Dimensional 2 Dot 1 Electron Quantum Cellular Automata Based Dynamic Memory Design -- Optimized Approach for Reversible Code Converters Using Quantum Dot Cellular Automata -- Design of a Logically Reversible Half Adder using 2D 2-Dot 1-Electron QCA -- Part 9: Fuzzy Sets and Systems_Intuitionistic Fuzzy Multivalued Dependency and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Fourth Normal Form -- Parameter Reduction of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Sets and Its Related Algorithms -- Correlation Measure of Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Soft Set and Its Application in Decision Making -- Constrained Solid Travelling Salesman Problem Solving by Rough GA Under Bi-fuzzy Coefficients -- Part 10: Routing and Traffic Grooming_A Novel Multi-criteria Multi-agent Based Routing Strategy Based on Tarantula Mating Behaviour -- A Mesh Based Multicast Routing Protocol using Reliable Neighbor Node for Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- Traffic Grooming in Hybrid Optical-WiMAX Mesh Networks -- Part 11: Authentication and Network Security_Host Based Intrusion Detection Using Statistical Approaches -- Secure Remote Login Scheme with Password and Smart Card Update Facilities -- Generation and Risk Analysis of Network Attack Graph -- Unsupervised Spam Detection in Hyves Using SALSA -- Cryptanalysis of a Chaotic Map Based Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems -- Improving the Accuracy of Intrusion Detection Using GAR-Forest with Feature Selection --  Part 12: Text Processing_Sentiment Analysis with Modality Processing -- Query-Based Extractive Text Summarization for Sanskrit -- Code Obfuscation by Using Floating Points and Conditional Statements -- Privacy Preserving Spam Email Filtering Based on Somewhat Homomorphic Using Functional Encryption -- Part 13: Image Processing_Digital Image Watermarking Scheme based on Visual Cryptography and SVD -- Compression of Hyper-Spectral Images and Its Performance Evaluation -- Hand Gesture Recognition for Sign Language: A Skeleton Approach -- Modified Cuckoo Search based Image Enhancement -- A Novel Iterative Salt-and-Pepper Noise Removal Algorithm -- Part 14: Intelligent System Planning_Queuing Model for Improving QoS in Cloud Service Discovery -- Adaptive Multi-Layer Routing for Incremental Design of an SoC -- Analyzing and Modelling Spatial Factors for Pre-decided Route Selection Behaviour -- Fault Tolerant Scheduling with Enhanced Performance for Onboard Computers-Evaluation -- A Multi-Agent Planning Algorithm with Joint Actions -- 4-Directional Combinatorial Motion Planning via Labeled Isotonic Array P System -- Intelligent Control of DFIG Using Sensorless Speed Estimation and Lookup Table based MPPT Algorithm to overcome Wind and Grid disturbances.