Tarun K. Sharma is Ph.D in the field of Soft Computing from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India. His current research interest encompasses evolutionary algorithms, software engineering, and image processing. During the Ph.D. program (since 2009), he has published 90+ papers in peer reviewed Journals and Conferences of repute. He did the MCA degree from SGRRITS, Dehradun, affiliated to H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, UK, India, MBA in Marketing Management from Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, Rajasthan and M.Tech degree in Information Technology from the KSO University, Karnataka, India.  He is a certified Internal Auditor 9001:2000, Benchmark Jas-Anz. 

Referred International Journals

1.      Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Enhancing the Food Locations in an Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, Soft Computing, Springer (Accepted 06/03/2013). Impact Factor: 1.880, ©2011 Thomson Reuters

2.      Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant and Mohar Singh, “Nature Inspired Metaheuristic Techniques as Powerful Optimizers in Paper Industry”, Materials and Manufacturing, Taylor and Francis.(Accepted), 2012, Impact Factor: 1.058, ©2012 Thomson Reuters

3.      Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant “Differential Operators Embedded Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), IGI Publication (USA), vol. 2(3), pp. 1-14, 2011.

4.      Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Halton Based Initial Distribution in Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and its Application in Software Effort Estimation”, International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR), IGI Publication, USA, vol. 3(2), pp. 86 - 106, 2012. (DOI: 10.4018/jncr.2012040105).

5.      Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Improved Swarm Bee Algorithm for Global Optimization Problems”, IJCA - International Journal of Computer Applications - IJCA, Number 6, pp. 1 - 6, 2012. (Impact Factor::0.867)

6.  Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Updated Food Positions in Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Supply Chain Management”, Journal Computer Methods in Materials Science, Poland.( Special Issue KomPlasTech  2013) (accepted)

 7.      Pravesh Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant Bi-level Thresholding Using PSO, Artificial Bee Colony and MRLDE embedded with Otsu Method”, Memetic Computing (Accepted).

Referred International Conferences

1.      Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Enhancing the Food Locations in an Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, In Proceedings of IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Paris, France, pp. 1-5, April 2011.

2.      Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Halton Based Initial Distribution in Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, In Proceedings of IEEE Sixth Bio Inspired Computing - Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2011), Penag, Malaysia. pp.80-84  (IEEE), 27 - 29^th Sep.2011.

3.      Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant and Ajith Abraham, “Dichotomous search in ABC and its application in parameter estimation of software reliability growth models”, 20 - 22^nd Oct. 2011, IEEE NaBIC 2011, pp. 207-212, Salamica, Spain.

4.      Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “ Self Adaptive mutation step size in Differential Evolution Algorithm”, 11 - 14^th Dec. 2011, IEEE WICT 2011, Mumbai, India. pp.171 - 175.

5.      Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant and V.P. Singh, “Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Self Adaptive Colony Size”, 20 - 22^nd Dec. 2011, In Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer SEMCCO 2011 Vizag, India. (Springer) Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing 2011,  pp. 593-600.

6.  Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Enhancing Scout Bee Movements in Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, 20 - 22^nd Dec. 2011, SocProS 2011, Roorkee, India. (Springer)

7.  Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Enhancing Different Phases of Artificial Bee Colony for Continuous Global Optimization Problems”, 20 - 22^nd Dec. 2011, SocProS 2011, Roorkee, India. (Springer)

8.  T.K. Sharma, M. Pant, J.C. Bansal, Artificial Bee Colony with Mean Mutation Operator for Better Exploitation, in: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (CEC), Brisbane, Australia, 2012, pp. 3050 - 3056.

9.  T.K. Sharma, M. Pant, J.C. Bansal, Some Modifications to Enhance the Performance of Artificial Bee Colony, in: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (CEC), Brisbane, Australia, 2012, pp. 3454 - 3461.

10.  Tarun Kumar Sharma and Millie Pant, “Modified Onlooker Phase in Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, SEMCCO-2012, LNCS Springer, Bhuvneshwer, India. (accepted)

11.  Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant and Aakash Deep, “Modified Foraging Process of Onlooker Bees in Artificial Bee Colony”, BIC-TA 2012, Gwalior, India. (accepted)

1.      Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant and Chang Wook Ahn, “Improved Food Sources in Artificial Bee Colony”, IEEE SSCI 2013, Singapore. (Accepted)

Organized an International Conference - Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA)

Volunteered and actively participated in:

 International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS-2011), held at Roorkee, India

MIR International Symposium on Machine Intelligence Research Day (MIR Day)  held at Institution of Engineers, Roorkee Local Chapter, Roorkee on June 13, 2011.

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