• Chief Patron:
• Prof. Manojranjan Nayak, President, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India


• Patron:
• Prof. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, Vice-chancellor, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India


• Honorary General Chair
• Prof. P. K. Dash, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India


• General Chairs:
• Prof. P. K. Nanda, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Prof. S. R. Samantray, IIT, Bhubaneswar
• Prof. Renu Sharma, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India


• General Co-Chairs:
• Prof. Sanjeeb Kumar Kar, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Prof. Badri Narayan Sahoo, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Dr. Manohar Mishra, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India


• Organizing Chair
• Dr. Manoj Kumar Debnath, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Dr. Binod Kumar Sahu, SOADU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India


• International Advisory Committee
• Prof. Damodar Acharya (Advisor), SOA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Prof. Sanjib Kumar Panda, NUS, Singapore
• Prof. Bayoumi, Ehab H.E., Abu Dhabi Men's College, UAE
• Prof. A. Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
• Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Dr. Mahajan Sagar Bhaskar,Prince Sultan University,Saudi Arabia
• Dr. Baharat Joyti Ranjan Sahu, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Prof. Akshay Kumar Rathore, Concordia University, Chicago
• Prof. Ramazan Bayindir, Gazi University, Turkey
• Dr. Danilo Pelusi, University of Teramo, Italy
• Prof. Akhtar Kalam, Melbourne Australia
• Prof. Prasanta Mohapatra, University of California
• Dr. Ahamed Zobaa, Brunel University, UK


• National Advisory Committee
• Prof. P. K. Sahoo, Dean, ITER, SOA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi, IIT GOA, India
• Prof. S. K. Kulkarni, AGU, Simla, India
• Prof. Pravat Kumar Rout, SOA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Dr. Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
• Prof. Trilochan Panigrahi, NIT Goa,India
• Prof. C. N. Bhende, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
• Prof. S. K. Bharadwaj, MNNIT, M.P, Inddia
• Prof. Srikanta Pattnaik, SOA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India


• Technical Committee
• Dr. Danilo Pelusi, University of Teramo, Italy
• Dr. Abhisek Rajan, NIT, Sikim
• Dr. Srinivas Bhaskar Karanki, IIT, Bhubaneswar
• Dr. Pradyut Kumar Biswal, IIIT, Bhubaneswar
• Dr. Shahed Mohammadi, Yandegan University, Tonekabon, Iran
• Dr. Soumya Ranjan Mishra, MVJ College of Engineering, Bengaluru
• Dr. Prakash Kumar Ray, CET Bhubaneswar, BPUT, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Malaya Kumar Nath, NIT, Puducherry
• Prof. Sumit Kushwaha, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, UP
• Prof. Jyotir Moy Chatterjee, Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Nepal
• Dr. Krishnanand K. R., NUS, Singapore
• Dr. Sidhartha Panda, VSSUT, Burla
• Dr. N. P. Padhy, IIT Roorkee
• Dr. Yogendra Arya, MSIT, New Delhi
• Dr. Ramesh Chandra Prusty, VSSUT, Burla
• Prof. M. Nageswara Rao, K. L. University, Vijayawada
• Prof. P. S. Kulkarni, VNIT, Nagpur
• Dr. Ahmed Faheem Zobaa, BU, UK
• Dr. Akhtar Kalam, VU, Australia
• Dr. Rajesh Kumar Patnaik, GMR, AP
• Dr. Krushna Keshab Mohapatra, SOA, Bhubaneswar
• Dr. Kolla Bhanu Prakash, K. L. University, Vijayawada


• Publicity Chair
• Prof. Amar Bijaya Nanda, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Basanta Kumar Panigrahi, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Tapas Kumar Mohapatra, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr.Tanmoy Parida, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India


• Website Chair
• Dr. Nakul Charan Sahu, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Shubhranshu Mohan Parida, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India


• Registration Chairs
• Prof. Pradeep Kumar Mohanty, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Satish Choudhury, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Amiya Kumar Naik, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Kumari Kasturi, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India


• Finance Chair
• Prof. Manas Kumar Mallick, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Priyabrata Pattanaik, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India


• Sponsorship Chairs
• Prof. Ranjan Kumar Mallick, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Sujit Kumar Dash, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Subhendu Pati, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India


• Local Organizing Committee
• Dr. Swagat Pati, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr. Ramachandra Agwaral, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Byomkesh Dash, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Bhanja Kishore Swain, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Abhijit Choudhury, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mrs. Smruti Rekha Patanaik, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Narendra Kumar Jena, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mrs. Benazeer Begum, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Jyoti Ranjan Padhi, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Tarakanta Jena, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mrs. Pravati Nayak, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mrs. Sabita Tripathy, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mrs. Gayatri Mohapatra, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mrs. Subhadra Sahoo, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Manjit Bahadur Singh, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Upendra kumar Jena, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Subhranshu Sekhar puhan, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Baladev Biswal, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India
• Mr. Debiprasanna Das, SOA, Bhubaneswar, India

Call for Contributions

Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Meta-Heuristic Algorithms, Applications in Software Testing are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials

The program includes time allocated for networking, peer-to-peer discussions, and exploring the host city. We invite the participation of leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world to submit original research contributions relating to all aspects of the following (But not limited to):

Algorithms:

• Renewable Energy.
• Swarm intelligence
• Ant colony optimization
• Particle swarm optimization
• Bees algorithm
• Evolutionary algorithms
• Genetic algorithm
• Genetic programming
• Evolutionary strategy
• Differential evolution
• Neural networks
• Fuzzy / neuro-fuzzy systems
• Harmonic search
• Simulated annealing
• Artificial immune systems
• Tabu search
• Memetic search

Multiobjective optimization in Software Testing:

• Regression Testing
• Continuous Integration
• Functional & GUI Testing
• Load Testing
• Unit Testing

Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA) is a Deemed to be University situated in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. SOA was reaccredited by NAAC with an 'A' grade (highest grade under the old system) in 2015 for a period of 5 years. It was ranked as the 38th best National Institution, the 24th Best in University Category of NIRF and the Best Institution in Odisha by the MHRD through its NIRF Rankings in 2018.

ITER is the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of Siksha 'O' Anusandhan. It is located in Campus 1 of the SOA. ITER is the oldest constituent institute of the SOA, having seen light in 1997. It has grown from a fledgling campus with a single three storied building (Academic Block) to one of the best engineering campuses in Eastern India.