Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies : Proceedings of Third International Conference on Ictcs, 2017

This book contains 74 papers presented at ICTCS 2017: Third International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference was held during 16–17 December 2017, Udaipur, India and organized by Association of Computing Machinery, Udaipur Professional Chapter in association with The Institution of Engineers (India), Udaipur Local Center and Global Knowledge Research Foundation. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for Computation, Algorithms and Data Analytics and IT Security etc.

Simon Fong graduated from La Trobe University, Australia, with a 1st Class Honours B.Eng. Computer Systems degree and a Ph.D. Computer Science degree in 1993 and 1998, respectively. Simon is now working as an associate professor at the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Macau, China. He is also one of the founding members of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology. Prior to his academic career, Simon held various managerial and technical positions, such as systems engineer, IT consultant and e-commerce director in Australia and Asia. Dr. Fong has published over 300 international conference and peer-reviewed journal papers, mostly in the areas of data mining and optimization algorithms.

Shyam Akashe is a professor at ITM University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He completed his Ph.D. at Thapar University, Punjab, India and M.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Institute of Technology & Management, Gwalior. His more than 190 publications include over 50 papers in SCI-indexed journals. The main focus of his research is low power system on chip (SoC) applications in which static random access memories (SRAMs) are omnipresent. He has authored two books entitled ‘Moore’s Law Alive: Gate-All-Around (GAA) Next Generation Transistor’ published by LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany and ‘Low Power High Speed CMOS Multiplexer Design’ published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, USA. He has also published over 120 papers in refereed journals of national and international repute. Dr. Akashe has participated in numerous national and international conferences and presented over 100 papers.

Parikshit N. Mahalle obtained his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, India and M.E. degree in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. He completed his Ph.D.in Computer Science and Engineering with specialization in Wireless Communication at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He has more than 16 years of teaching and research experience, and has authored 8 books: Identity Management for Internet of Things, River Publishers, Identity Management Framework for Internet of Things, Aalborg University Press, Data Structures and Algorithms – Cengage Publications, Theory of Computations, Gigatech Publications, Fundamentals of Programming Languages – I, Gigatech Publications, Fundamentals of Programming Languages – II, Gigatech Publications, Design and Analysis of Algorithms: A Problem Solving Approach (In Process) – Cambridge University Press. He is the recipient of “Best Faculty Award” from Sinhgad Technical Education Society (STES) and Cognizant Technologies Solutions. He has also delivered an invited talk on “Identity Management in IoT” to Symantec Research Lab, Mountain View, California. Currently he is working as a professor and head of the Department of Computer Engineering at STES’s Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune, India. His recent research interests include algorithms, Internet of Things, identity management and security.