Bhubaneswar, Jan. 11: The two-day 2nd International Conference on Metaheuristics in Engineering and its Applications (Metasoft-2024) concluded at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here on Saturday with experts expressing the view that metaheuristic algorithms could be deployed to get quicker results in research within reasonable time with good accuracy.
Metaheuristic algorithms are computational intelligence paradigms often used for sophisticated solving optimization problems.
The conference, which was organised in hybrid mode by the Department of Computer Application of Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), faculty of engineering and technology of SOA, was attended by academics, researchers, research scholars and students from across the globe.
Prof. Aryabartta Sahu, Professor of IIT, Guwahati, graced the inaugural ceremony as the chief guest while Prof. Chandrasekhar Perumalla of IIT, Bhubaneswar, attended as the guest of honour. Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda, Vice-Chancellor of SOA, presided.
Prof. Sahu underlined the importance of the conference saying metaheuristic application helped researchers to get results quickly with good accuracy. The conference had received 157 high quality research papers, he said.
Prof. Perumalla focused on multi-disiciplinary engineering research saying organization of such conferences was the need of the hour.
Prof. Nanda said that SOA had been encouraging organization of more number of such international conferences. “SOA has developed a research eco-system,” he said.
The inaugural session was also addressed by Prof. P.K.Sahu, Dean of ITER, Prof. Kaberi Das, Head of Department, Department of Computer Application and Prof. Bichitrananda Patra, Program Chair. Prof. Debabrata Singh, Convenor of Metafest-2024, proposed the vote of thanks.
The keynote speakers in the conference, besides Prof. Sahu and Prof. Perumalla, included Prof. Bibhudatta Sahoo, Professor in the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Prof. Sujata Dash, Professor at Nagaland University, Dimapur and Prof. Debabrata Samanta, Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, Kosovo who spoke on the second day. Prof. P.K. Patra, Dean, Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), presided.
