Advanced Computing and Systems for Security: Volume 13

​Rituparna Chaki is a Full Professor in the A K Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta, India since June 2015. She joined academia as faculty member in the West Bengal University of Technology in 2005. Before that she has served under Government of India in maintaining industrial production database. Besides, she has served as a Visiting Professor in the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland since 2013 for consecutive years. Rituparna did her Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2002. She has been associated in organizing many conferences in India and abroad as Program Chair, OC Chair or as member of Technical Program Committee. She has published more than 60 research papers in reputed journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Her research interest is primarily in Adhoc networking and its security. She is a professional member of IEEE and ACM. Currently, Rituparna is the Secretary for ACMW-India. Nabendu Chaki is a Professor in the Department Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He is the Editor in Chief of the Springer Nature book series on Services and Business Process Reengineering. Besides editing about 40 conference proceedings with Springer, Dr. Chaki has authored 8 text and research books with CRC Press, Springer Nature, etc. He has published more than 200 Scopus Indexed research articles in Journals and International conferences. Prof. Chaki has served as a Visiting Professor in different places including US Naval Postgraduate School, California, and in different Universities in Italy and Poland. He is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata and served in that capacity for 3 years since January 2014. He has been active during 2009-2015 towards developing several international standards in Software Engineering and Service Science as a Global (GD) member for ISO-IEC. Agostino Cortesi, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, and Dean of the PhD programme in Computer Science. He has previously served as Department head, and as Vice-Rector for quality assessment and institutional affairs. His research interests include programming languages theory, software engineering, and static analysis techniques, with particular emphasis on security applications. He serves as coordinator of the H2020 European project “Families_Share” and of the ITALY-INDIA project "Formal Specification for Secured Software System". He published more than 150 papers in international journals and proceedings of international conferences. According to Scopus, his h-index is 19 and his i-10 index is 39. He serves as co-Editor in Chief of the book series "Services and Business Process Reengineering" edited by Springer-Nature. Khalid Saeed is a full Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science at Bialystok University of Technology. He was with Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Warsaw University of Technology in 2014-2019. He was with AGH Krakow in 2008-2014. He received the BSc Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Baghdad University in 1976, the MSc and PhD (distinguished) Degrees from Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He received his DSc Degree (Habilitation) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2007. He was nominated by the President of Poland for the title of Professor in 2014. He has published more than 245 publications including 98 journal papers and book chapters, 87 peer reviewed conference papers, edited 48 books, journals and Conference Proceedings, written 12 text and reference books (h-index 15 in WoS base and 12 in SCOPUS base). He supervised more than 15 PhD and 130 MSctheses from and outside Poland. He gave 50 invited lectures and keynotes in different universities in Canada, China, Colombia, Czech, Germany, India, Japan, Serbia, Slovakia and South Korea on Biometrics, Image Processing and Analysis. He received more than 30 academic awards. Khalid Saeed is a member of more than 15 editorial boards of international journals and conferences. He is an IEEE Senior Member and has been selected as IEEE Distinguished Speaker for 2011-2016. Khalid Saeed is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Biometrics with Inderscience Publishers.

• An Event-B based Device description model in IoT with the support of Multimodal system.- Image Data Handling in a Multinode Environment Using MPI.- A TSV constrained Algorithm for Designing Balanced Wrapper Chains in 3D SoC.- An efficient algorithm for boundary detection of noisy or distorted eye pupil.- An Intelligent Scheme for Human Ear Recognition Based on Shape, Amplitude Features.- Iris-based Approach to Human Identity Recognition by Discrete Fast Fourier Transform components.