ICT: Innovation and Computing

This book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2023: Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference will be held in Jaipur, India during 8 - 9 December 2023. The book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorithms and data analytics and IT security. The work is presented in five volumes.

Auteur

Dr. Amit Joshi is currently the Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an Entrepreneur & Researcher who has completed his Masters and research in the areas of cloud computing and cryptography in medical imaging. Dr. Joshi has an experience of around 10 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. Dr. Joshi is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. Currently, Dr. Joshi is the International Chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria), He has presented and published more than 50 papers in national and international journals/conferences of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Joshi has also edited more than 40 books which are published by Springer, ACM and other reputed publishers. Dr. Joshi has also organized more than 50national and international conferences and programs in association with ACM, Springer, IEEE to name a few across different countries including India, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Thailand, Egypt and many more.

Dr Mufti Mahmud received his PhD degree in Information Engineering (specialized in neuroengineering) from the University of Padova - Italy in 2011. A recipient of the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship, Dr Mahmud has served at various positions in the industry and academia in India, Bangladesh, Italy, Belgium, and the UK during the last 17 years. Dr Mahmud aims to leave behind a healthy, secure, and smart world to live in. As an expert of neuroengineering, computational intelligence and data science, his research income is about £4.0 million and he works to build predictive, secure and adaptive systems for personalised services to improve quality of life through advancement of healthcare access in low-resource settings. Dr Mahmud is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and Professional Member of BCS, Dr Mahmud holds leadership roles at many ibternational technical committees, such as Chair of the Intelligent System Application Technical Committee of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Member of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Intelligence Systems for Health, the IEEE P2733 Standard on Intelligent systems design, with AI/ML, the IEEE R8 Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee, and Project Liaison Officer of the IEEE UK and Ireland Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology. Dr Mahmud serves as an Section Editor of the Cognitive Computation, Regional Editor of Brain Informatics, and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience journals. He also serves at many technical, programme and organisation committees of high-rank conferences including local organising chair of IEEE WCCI2020; general chair of BI2020, BI2021, BI2022; chair of IEEE-CICARE symposium series; general chair of ICONIP2024; and founding chair of the AII conference series.

Dr. Roshan Ragel is a full professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is a skilled universitylecturer and researcher with a doctorate in computerscience and engineering and a passion for teaching, research and administration. His research interest is in the areas of fault-tolerant and dependable computing, accelerated and high-performance computing, wearable computing and synthesis of secure and reliable embedded processors. Prof. Ragel received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2007 and his BSc in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2001. He was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya December 2007 and a full professor since October 2017. Prof. Ragel has co-authored about 150 peer-reviewed articles in topics including Micro- Architectural Support for Reliability and Security in Embedded Processors (SoC), Internet of Things (IoT), Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures, Application Specific Processor Design, High-Performance Computing such as Hardware/Software Acceleration of Bioinformatics Algorithms, Wearable Computing, Format-Preserving Digitisation and OCR of Local Language Text, and Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) in the Context of Mobile Applications. He has won several best paper awards in conference papers, the most prolific Sri Lankan author award from Elsevier Research in 2017 and the Presidential award for scientific publication in Sri Lanka in 2018. He was a visiting research scholar at the UNSW, Sydney a few times and UIUC, Illinois once. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

Dr. S.Karthik is presently Professor & Dean in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, SNS College of Technology, affiliated to Anna University- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He received the M.E and PhD degree from Anna University, Chennai. His research interests include network security, big data, cloud computing, web services and wireless systems. In particular, he is currently working in a research group developing new Internet security architectures and active defence systems against DDoS attacks. Dr. S.Karthik published more than 200 papers in refereed international journals and 125 papers in conferences and has been involved in many international conferences as Technical Chair and tutorial presenter. He is an active member of IEEE, ISTE, IAENG, IACSIT and Indian Computer Society.