Applied Computation and Security Systems

This book contains the extended version of the works that have been presented and discussed in the First International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2014) held during April 18-20, 2014 in Kolkata, India. The symposium has been jointly organized by the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland and University of Calcutta, India. The Volume I of this double-volume book contains fourteen high quality book chapters in three different parts.Part 1is onPattern Recognitionand it presents four chapters.Part 2is onImaging and Healthcare Applicationscontains four more book chapters. ThePart 3of this volume is onWireless Sensor Networkingand it includes as many as six chapters. Volume II of the book has threeParts presenting a total of eleven chapters in it.Part 4 consists of five excellent chapters onSoftware Engineeringranging from cloud service design to transactional memory.Part 5in Volume II is onCryptographywith two book chapters in it.Part 6of this volume is onComputer Aided Designwith four chapters in it. We strongly believe that the twenty five chapters in these two volumes of Applied Computation and Security Systems will be appreciated by all its readers.