Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications

Chapter 1: A Computational Segmentation Tool for Processing Patient Brain MRI Image Data to Automatically Extract Gray and White Matter Regions.- Chapter 2: Developing Ontology for Smart Irrigation of Vineyards.- Chapter 3: An Intensive Review of Data Replication Algorithms for Cloud Systems.- Chapter 4: integrated cryptography for internet of things using tbf approach.- Chapter 5: Data Governance on Local Storage in Offsite.- Chapter 6: Extraction of Character Personas from Novels using Dependency Trees and Pos Tags.- Chapter 7: A Multifactor Authentication Model to mitigate the Phishing Attack of e-Service Systems from Bangladesh Perspective.- Chapter 8: Study on Energy Efficient and Lifetime Enhanced Clustering Algorithm based Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network.- Chapter 9: DigiPen: An Intelligent Pen using Accelerometer for Character Recognition.- Chapter 10: Multi-language Handwritten Recognition in DWT Accuracy Anlaysis.- Chapter 11: A survey on Intelligent Transportation System using Internet of Things.- Chapter 12: Organizational digital footprint for traceability, provenance approach .- Chapter 13: Organizational digital footprint for traceability, provenance approach.- Chapter 14: Movie Recommendation System.- Chapter 15: A Semi-Automated Question Paper Builder using Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks.

Prof. N.R. Shetty is the Chancellor of Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, and Chairman of the Review Commission for the State Private University Karnataka. He is currently serving as an advisor to the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT), Bangalore. He is also founder Vice-President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Washington DC, USA. He served as Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University for two terms and President of the ISTE, New Delhi for three terms. He was also a member of the AICTE's Executive Committee and Chairman of its South West Region Committee.

Prof. L.M. Patnaik obtained his PhD in Real-Time Systems in 1978, and his DSc in Computer Systems and Architectures in 1989, both from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. From 2008 to 2011, he was Vice Chancellor of the Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Deemed University, Pune. Currently he is an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and INSA Senior Scientist and Adjunct Professor with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

Dr. H. C. Nagaraj, completed his B.E in Electronics & Communication from the University of Mysore in 1981, his M.E in Communication Systems from P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore in 1984. He was awarded Ph.D (Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai in 2000. Dr Nagaraj has teaching experience spanning more than 35 years.He was the Chairman, BOS of IT/BM/ML of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi for 2010-13 and Member, Academic Senate of VTU for 06 years w.e. f. April 2010.Further extended for a period of three years w.e.f 02-06-2016.He has the credit of publishing more than 40 technical papers and has also published a book- "VLSI Circuits", Star- Tech Education, Bangalore in 2006. He has won the Best Student Paper Award at the 5th National Conference of Biomechanics held at I.I.T. Madras, Chennai in 1996 and Best Paper Award at the Karnataka State Level Seminar on "Introduction of Flexible System in Technical Education" under Visveswaraiah Technological University in 1999 at P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Presently, he is the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum, for three years from 2016 to 2019 and Member of the Court, Pondicherry University. He is the Member of Karnataka State Innovation Council, Government of Karnataka and Member of NAAC (UGC) Peer Team to assess the institutions for Accreditation. He has also visited as an Expert Member of the UGC, New Delhi for inspecting the colleges seeking Autonomous Status.

Dr. Prasad N. Hamsavath is a Professor and Head of the Department of Master of Computer Applications at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He completed his PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Prasad N H has more than 12 years of experience in different roles in both public and private sector enterprises, including the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, New Delhi, Government of India. He received the prestigious "Dr. Abdul Kalam Life Time Achievement Award" and also received a "Young Faculty" award at the 2nd Academic Brilliance Awards.

Dr. N. Nalini is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore. She received her MS from BITS, Pilani in 1999 and her PhD from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2007. She has more than 21 years of teaching and 14 years of research experience. She has written numerous international publications, and Received "Bharath Jyoti Award" by India International Friendship Society, New Delhi on 2012, from Dr. Bhishma Narain Singh, former Governor of Tamilnadu and Assam.She received the "Dr.Abdul kalam Life time achievement National Award "for excellence in Teaching, Research Publications, and Administration by International Institute for Social and Economic Reforms, IISER, Bangalore on 29^th Dec 2014. She is also the recipient of "Distinguished Professor" award by TechNext India 2017 in association with Computer Society of India-CSI, Mumbai Chapter and "Best Professor in Computer Science & Engineering " award by 26^th Business School Affaire & Dewang Mehta National Education Awards ( Regional Round) on 5^th September 2018, at Bangalore. She is a lifetime member of the ISTE, CSI, ACEEE and IIFS.