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The book contains the extended version of the works that have been presented and discussed in the Second International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2015) held during May 23-25, 2015 in Kolkata, India. The symposium has been jointly organized by the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland; Ca´ Foscari University, Venice, Italy and University of Calcutta, India. The book is divided into volumes and presents dissertation works in the areas of Image Processing, Biometrics-based Authentication, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Next Generation Networking and Network Security, Remote Healthcare, Communications, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering and Service Engineering.

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Security: Chapter 1. Computer User Profiling Based on Keystroke Analysis.- Chapter 2. Heart Based Biometrics and Possible Use of Heart Rate Variability in Biometric Recognition Systems.- Chapter 3. Dynamic Ciphering-15 Based on Multiplicative Polynomial Inverses over Galois Field GF(73).- Chapter 4. On Preventing SQL Injection Attacks.- Chapter 5. Secure Data Retrieval Service in Remote Healthcare.- Systems Biology: Chapter 6. Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks with Neural-Cuckoo Hybrid.- Chapter 7. Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Using the Wavelet Transform and Feed Forward Neural Network.- Chapter 8. Liver Fibrosis Diagnosis Support System Using Machine Learning Methods.- Chapter 9. Light-Weighted DNA Based Cryptographic Mechanism against Chosen Cipher Text Attacks.- Chapter 10. Genetic Algorithm Using Guide Tree in Mutation Operator for Solving Multiple Sequence Alignment.- Chapter 11. A Comparative Analysis of Image Segmentation Techniques Towards Automatic Risk Prediction of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules.- Networking and Cloud Computing: Chapter 12. SAFE-CLOUD: Secure and Usable Authentication FramEwork for CLOUD Environment.- Chapter 13. KPS: A Fermat Point Based Energy Efficient Data Aggregating Routing Protocol for Multi-sink Wireless Sensor Networks.- Chapter 14. The Design of Hierarchical Routing Protocol for
Wireless Sensor Network.- Chapter 15. Network Selection Using AHP for Fast Moving Vehicles in Heterogeneous Networks.- Chapter 16. Context-Aware Graph Based Visualized Clustering Approach (CAVCA).- Chapter 17. Materialized View Construction Using Linearizable Non-Linear Regression.

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Rituparna Chaki is an Associate Professor in the A K Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta, India since June 2013. 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. Rituparna has done her PhD 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 Ad-hoc networking and its security. She is a professional member of IEEE and ACM.

Agostino Cortesi received his PhD degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from University of Padova, Italy, in 1992. After spending a post-doc at Brown University, in the US, he joined the Ca´ Foscari University of Venice. In 2002, he was promoted to full professor of Computer Science. In recent past, he served as Dean of the Computer Science programme, as Department Chair, and as Vice-Rector of Ca´ Foscari University for quality assessment and institutional affairs. His main research interests concern programming languages theory, software engineering, and static analysis techniques, with particular emphasis on security applications. He h
as published over 100 papers in high level international journals and proceedings of international conferences. His h-index is 15 according to Scopus, and 23 according to Google Scholar. Agostino served several times as a member (or chair) of program committees of international conferences (e.g., SAS, VMCAI, CSF, CISIM, ACM SAC) and he is in the editorial boards of the journals such as "Computer Languages, Systems and Structures" and "Journal of Universal Computer Science".

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