Springer Advanced Computing and Systems for Security: Volume 2: 396 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 396)

The book contains the extended version of the works that have been presented and discussed in the Second International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2015) held during May 23-25, 2015 in Kolkata, India. The symposium has been jointly organized by the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland; Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy and University of Calcutta, India. The book is divided into volumes and presents dissertation works in the areas of Image Processing, Biometrics-based Authentication, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Next Generation Networking and Network Security, Remote Healthcare, Communications, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering and Service Engineering. From the Back Cover The book contains the extended version of the works that have been presented and discussed in the Second International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2015) held during May 23-25, 2015 in Kolkata, India. The symposium has been jointly organized by the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland; Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy and University of Calcutta, India. The book is divided into volumes and presents dissertation works in the areas of Image Processing, Biometrics-based Authentication, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Next Generation Networking and Network Security, Remote Healthcare, Communications, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering and Service Engineering. About the Author Rituparna Chaki is an Associate Professor in the A K Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta, India since June 2013. She joined academia as faculty member in the West Bengal University of Technology in 2005. Before that she has served under Government of India in maintaining industrial production database. Rituparna has done her PhD from Jadavpur University in 2002. She has been associated in organizing many conferences in India and abroad as Program Chair, OC Chair or as member of Technical Program Committee. She has published more than 60 research papers in reputed journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Her research interest is primarily in Ad-hoc networking and its security. She is a professional member of IEEE and ACM. Agostino Cortesi received his PhD degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from University of Padova, Italy, in 1992. After spending a post-doc at Brown University, in the US, he joined the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. In 2002, he was promoted to full professor of Computer Science. In recent past, he served as Dean of the Computer Science programme, as Department Chair, and as Vice-Rector of Ca' Foscari University for quality assessment and institutional affairs. His main research interests concern programming languages theory, software engineering, and static analysis techniques, with particular emphasis on security applications. He has published over 100 papers in high level international journals and proceedings of international conferences. His h-index is 15 according to Scopus, and 23 according to Google Scholar. Agostino served several times as a member (or chair) of program committees of international conferences (e.g., SAS, VMCAI, CSF, CISIM, ACM SAC) and he is in the editorial boards of the journals such as "Computer Languages, Systems and Structures" and "Journal of Universal Computer Science". Khalid Saeed received the BSc Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Baghdad University in 1976, the MSc and PhD Degrees from Wroclaw University of Technology, in Poland in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He received his DSc Degree (Habilitation) in Computer Science from Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2007. He is a Professor of Computer Science with AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. He has published more than 200 publications - edited 23 books, Journals and Conference Proceedings, 8 text and reference books.