ICT Analysis and Applications: Proceedings of ICT4SD 2023, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 782)

This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 8th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2023), held in Goa, India, on August 3-4, 2023. The book covers the topics such as big data and data mining, data fusion, IoT programming toolkits and frameworks, green communication systems and network, use of ICT in smart cities, sensor networks and embedded system, network and information security, wireless and optical networks, security, trust, and privacy, routing and control protocols, cognitive radio and networks, and natural language processing. Bringing together experts from different countries, the book explores a range of central issues from an international perspective.

Simon Fong graduated from La Trobe University, Australia, with a 1st Class Honours BEng. Computer Systems degree and a PhD. 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. Prior to his academic career, Simon took up various IT posts in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore. Dr. Fong has published over 396 international conference and journal papers, mostly in the areas of Data-mining and metaheuristics.He is also one of the founding members of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Nilanjan Dey is an Associate Professor in, Techno India College of Engineering, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Reading, UK and Visiting Professor of Duy Tan University, Vietnam. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He is a Research Scientist of the Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Modeling in Human Physiology, Territorial Organization of- Scientific and Engineering Unions, Bulgaria. Associate Researcher of Laboratoire RIADI, University of Manouba, Tunisia. He is a Scientific Member of - Politécnica of Porto. He is an affiliated member of Signal Processing and Computational Intelligence Applied to Power Systems ( PSCOPE ) research group, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. He was awarded his PhD. from Jadavpur University in 2015. In addition, recently he was awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India (2015-17) during 'Faculty Research Awards' organized by Careers 360 at New Delhi, India. Before he joined JIS University, he was Assistant Professor of JIS College of Engineering and Bengal College of Engineering and Technology and Techno International New Town. He has authored/edited more than 85 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer, and published more than 300 papers. His h-index is 51 with more than 10000 citations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI, IGI Global, UK, Scopus), Co- Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Synthetic Emotions (IGI Global, US, DBLP, ACM dl) and International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IGI Global, US, DBLP, ACM dl). He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (STNIC), Springer, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (AUSAH), Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC Press (FOCUS/Brief Series) and Advances in Geospatial Technologies (AGT) Book Series, (IGI Global), US, serves as an editorial board member of several international journals, including International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), Inderscience, Associated Editor of IEEE Access (SCI-Indexed), and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis as well as Data Mining. He has been on program committees of over 100 international conferences, a workshop organizer of 15 workshops, and acted as a program co-chair and/or advisory chair of more than 15 international conferences. He has given more than 60 invited lectures in 10 countries, including many invited plenary/keynote talks at the international conferences such as ITITS2017 (China), TIMEC2017 (Egypt) and BioCom2018 (UK) etc.

Dr. Amit Joshi is currently the Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an entrepreneur & researcher who has completed his graduation (B.Tech ) in Information Technology and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering and completed his research in the areas of Cloud Computing and Cryptography in Medical imaging with a focus on analysis of the current Government Strategies and World forums needs in different sectors on security purposes. He has an experience of around 12 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. He is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. Currently he is a Chairman of Computer Society of India (CSI) Udaipur Chapter and Secretary for Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Udaipur Professional Chapter. Further currently he is also 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. He has also edited more than 20 books which are published by Springer, ACM and other reputed publishers. He has also organized more than 40 National and International Conferences and Workshops through ACM, Springer, IEEE across 5 countries including India, UK, Thailand, Europe. Apart from this academic involvement he is also associated with the Business and Industry Community across the globe. He is currently the Director of Emanant TechMedia (P) Limited which focuses on ICT and web based services. With Global Knowledge Research Foundation his major work area is focussed on building & making effective linkages among bureaucrats, industry associations, Academic Leaders and regulatory authorities for effective connectivity for taking up common issues related to research in different sectors and has organized more than 20 Industry forum Events and recognised and felicitated Awards Ceremonies through his organizations in last 5 years. Liaisoning / communications with State as well as Central establishments along with corporate and Academics to take Industry and Government Sector together. He is majorly focusing on Academic Tie-ups for Medical, Engineering and management sectors, for the same he is representing the organization in many delegations to countries including USA, UK, Canada, Israel and visited more than 15 countries. He always looks forward and strives for Networking in various sectors with a focus on Education and Industry Sector.