This three-volume set, LNAI 11670, LNAI 11671, and LNAI 11672 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2019, held in Cuvu, Yanuca Island, Fiji, in August 2019. The 111 full papers and 13 short papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 265 submissions. PRICAI covers a wide range of topics such as AI theories, technologies and their applications in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim.

This three-volume set LNAI 11670, LNAI 11671, and LNAI 11672 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2019, held in Cuvu, Yanuca Island, Fiji, in August 2019. The 111 full papers and 13 short papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 265 submissions. PRICAI covers a wide range of topics such as AI theories, technologies and their applications in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim.

This three-volume set, LNAI 11670, LNAI 11671, and LNAI 11672 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2019, held in Cuvu, Yanuca Island, Fiji, in August 2019. The 111 full papers and 13 short papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 265 submissions. PRICAI covers a wide range of topics such as AI theories, technologies and their applications in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim.

Genetics is a challenging topic for dental students to understand. This book has been written in clear and easy language to help students built a clear concept about Genetics. It will also help the Post graduate students to understand the link between genetics and Periodontal Disease. The book begins with a brief introduction about genetics and the various basic terminologies associated with it. Various basic genetic study designs used to assess the relationship between genetics and oral diseases have been explained.The authors have thrown light on the newer diagnostic and treatment modalities for various oral and periodontal diseases which are based on genetics and gene therapy. The book will definitely benefit all the under graduate and graduate students to understand and upgrade their existing knowledge about genetics and periodontal disease.

In this book a number of novel algorithms for dimension reduction and statistical pattern recognition for both supervised and unsupervised learning tasks have been presented. Several existing pattern classifiers and dimension reduction algorithms are studied. Their limitations and/or weaknesses are considered and accordingly improved techniques are given which overcome several of their shortcomings. Highlights are: i) Survey of basic dimensional reduction tools viz. principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis are conducted. ii) Development of Fast PCA technique which finds the desired number of leading eigenvectors with much less computational cost. iii) Development of gradient LDA technique for SSS problem. iv) The rotational LDA technique is developed to reduce the overlapping of samples between the classes. v) A combined classifier using MDC, class-dependent PCA and LDA is presented. vi) The splitting technique initialization is introduced in the local PCA technique. vii) A new perspective of subspace ICA (generalized ICA, where all the components need not be independent) is introduced by developing vector kurtosis (an extension of kurtosis) function.