WHY THIS BOOK?A rapidly warming climate is stretching forests beyond historical envelopes: longer fire seasons, flashier floods, synchronized pest outbreaks, and compound extremes that make yesterday's rules unsafe. At the same time, data and computation have leapt ahead: anyone with a laptop can access daily satellite imagery, fuse it with tower cameras and stream gauges, run open-source models, and coordinate crews using offline apps. Yet there is a gap between p...

This book features high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Smart Technologies in Data Science and Communication (SMARTDSC 2022), held Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, on 16 – 17 June 2022. It includes innovative and novel contributions in the areas of data analytics, communication and soft computing.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICMISC 2021), organized by Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India during 22 – 24 September 2021. The topics covered in the book include the artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic, cloud computing, evolutionary algorithms and computation, machine learning, metaheuristics and swarm intelligence, neuro-fuzzy system, soft computing and decis...