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The book gathers papers addressing state-of-the-art research in all areas of Information and Communication Technologies and their applications in intelligent computing, cloud storage, data mining and software analysis. It presents the outcomes of the third International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems, which was held on April 6-7, 2018, in Ahmedabad, India. Divided into two volumes, the book discusses the fundamentals of various data analytics and algorithms, making it a valuable resource for researchers´ future studies.

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Smart Live Monitoring of Aquarium - An IoT Application.- Automation of process evaluation of Saccharification of wheat starch followed by fermentation of glucose to prepare Bioethanol using Digital Image Processing.- An Improved Intelligent Transportation System: An Approach for Bilingual License Plate Recognition.- A Low Cost Air Pollution Monitoring System Using Zigbee Based Wireless Sensor Networks.- Indians´ choice of payment mode(s): A study based on the impact of demonetisation.- Enhancing of data retrieval by means of Database Query Analyzer (DBQA).

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Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor , School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University Bhubaneswar, 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 27 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 scholars for Ph.D. Dr. Satapathy is also a Senior Member of IEEE.
Amit Joshi is a young entrepreneur and researcher who holds an M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering and is currently pursuing research in the areas of Cloud Computing and Cryptography. He has six years of academic and industrial experience at prestigious organizations in Udaipur and Ahmedabad. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology, Sabar Institute in Gujarat. He is an active member of the ACM, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. He also holds the post of Honorary Secretary of the CSI´s Udaipur Chapter and Secretary of the ACM´s Udaipur Chapter. He has presented and published more than 30 papers in national and international journals/conferences of the IEEE and ACM. He has edited three books, on Advances in Open Source Mobile Technologies, ICT for Integrated Rural Development and ICT for Competitive Strategies. He has also organized more than 15 national and international conference and workshops, including the international conference ICTCS 2014 at Udaipur through the ACM-ICPS. In recognition of his contributions, he received the Appreciation Award from the Institution of Engineers (India) in 2014, and an award from the SIG-WNs Computer Society of India in 2012.

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