This volume contains 69 papers presented at ICICT 2015: International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. The conference was held during 9th and 10th October, 2015, Udaipur, India and organized by CSI Udaipur Chapter, Division IV, SIG-WNS, SIG-e-Agriculture in association with ACM Udaipur Professional Chapter, The Institution of Engineers (India), Udaipur Local Centre and Mining Engineers Association of India, Rajasthan Udaipur Chapter. This volume contains papers mainly focused on ICT for Managerial Applications, E-governance, IOT and E-Mining.
Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor and Head, Dept. of CSE at Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS), Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and M. Tech in CSE from NIT, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has 26 years of teaching experience. His research interests are data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as program chair of many international conferences and edited 6 volumes of proceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding 8 Ph.D. scholars. Dr. Satapathy is also a Sr. Member, IEEE.
Dr. Yogesh Chandra Bhatt - Graduated from CTAE, Udaipur (1978) and M.Tech (1980) & Ph.D. (1989) from IIT Kharagpur. Currently, working as Dean (Student Welfare) & Chairman (University Sports Board), Professor & Project In-charge (FIM, FMTC) Dept. of FMP, CTAE, MPUAT, Udaipur with 36 years of service experience. Professional Agricultural Engineer worked in all divisions of Teaching, Research and Extension wing of the University. Head of Dept. for 7 years. Published more than 50 research papers in International and National Journals, Seminar & Conferences, edited 6 books, 5 Proceedings and guided 15 PG students for M.Tech and Ph.D. degree. Completed 10 Adhoc research projects. Developed 10 prototype technologies on farm mechanization. As an active member served as Honorary Secretary ( 2009-11) and Chairman (2011-13) of The Institution of Engineers India, Udaipur Local Centre. Organized 3 International Conferences and 18 National Conventions & All India Seminar of IEI and ISAE. Published Members Directory of IEI, ULC. Started Er.MP Baya and Mrs Sheela Baya National Award Rs. 50000/- and Rs. 25000/- and Scholarship for Engineering Students Rs. 60000/- per year from IEI Udaipur. Vice Chairman ISAE, Rajasthan Chapter for 8 years and Director of Farm Power and Machinery Group in ISAE for the year 2012-15. National Convener of SIG on e-Agriculture in the banner of CSI working on application of ICT techniques in farm machinery. Received awards of Appreciation Certificate for outstanding services in MPUAT, Udaipur (2009) and Scroll of Honour from with Recognition of Eminent Contribution in the field of Agri Engineering (2013) IEI Kolkata. Fellow and Chartered Engineers of IEI, and Life member of ISAE, SESI, CSI and Member ACM. Patron of Rajasthan Agricultural Machinery Association, Jaipur. Working as Chairman of Computer Society of India (CSI) Udaipur Chapter 2015-16 and Vice Chairman of Association of Computing Machinery(ACM) Udaipur Chapter.
Mr. Amit Joshi has an experience of around 6 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Sabar Institute in Gujarat. He is an active member of ACM, CSI, AMIE, IEEE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. He is Honorary Secretary of CSI Udaipur Chapter and Honorary Secretary for ACM Udaipur Chapter. He has presented and published more than 40 papers in National and International Journals/Conferences of IEEE, Springer, and ACM. He has also edited three books on diversified subjects including Advances in Open Source Mobile Technologies, ICT for Integrated Rural Development and ICT for Competitive Strategies. He has also organized more than 25 National and International Conferences and Workshops including International Conference ETNCC 2011 at Udaipur through IEEE, International Conference ICTCS - 2014 at Udaipur through ACM, International Conference ICT4SD 2015 - by Springer recently. He has also served on Organising and Program Committee of more than 50 Conferences/Seminars/Workshops throughout the World and presented 6 invited talks in various conferences. For his contribution towards the society, The Institution of Engineers (India), ULC, has given him Appreciation award on the celebration of Engineers, 2014 and by SIG-WNs Computer Society of India on ACCE, 2012.
Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra has received M.Tech degree in Computer Science from DAVV, Indore in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2008. Presently, he is working as a Professor (CSE) and Director, Microsoft Innovation Centre at Shri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore, MP, India. He is also a visiting faculty at IIT-Indore, MP, India. He has 24 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience. He completed his Ph.D. under the guidance of late Dr. M. Chandwani on Secure Multi-Party Computation for Preserving Privacy. He has published more than 90 papers in refereed international/national journals and conferences including IEEE, ACM conferences. He has organized many such conference like WOCN, CONSEG and CSIBIG in the capacity of conference General Chair and editor of conference proceeding. His publications are listed in DBLP, Citeseer-x, Elsevier and Scopus. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and held many positions like Chairman, IEEE MP-Subsection (2011-2012), and Chairman IEEE Computer Society Bombay Chapter (2009-2010). Dr. Mishra has also served the largest technical and profession association of India, the Computer Society of India (CSI) by holding positions as Chairman, CSI Indore Chapter, State Student Coordinator- Region III MP, Member-Student Research Board, Core Member-CSI IT Excellence Award Committee. At present he is Chairman CSI Division IV Communication at National Level (2014-2016). Dr. Mishra has delivered his tutorials in IEEE International conferences in India as well as abroad. He is also the programme committee member, and reviewer of several international conferences. He visited and delivered his invited talk in Taiwan, Bangladesh, Singapore, Nepal, USA, UK and France. He has authored a book on "Database Management Systems". He had been Chief Editor of Journal of Technology and Engineering Sciences. He has been also serving as member of Editorial Board of many national and international refereed journals. He has been a consultant to industries and government organizations like sales tax and labour department of government of Madhya Pradesh, India. He has been awarded with "Paper Presenter award at International Level" by Computer Society of India. Recently in month of June, he visited MIT Boston and presented his presentation on Security and Privacy. He has also Chaired a panel on "Digital Monozukuri" at "Norbert Winner in 21st century" at Boston. Recently, he became the Member of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt. of India for Information Security domain.
