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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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Signal Processing: Chapter 1. Design and Development of Marathi Speech Interface System.- Chapter 2. Fusion-based noisy image segmentation method.- Chapter 3. An Approach for Automatic Indic Script Identification from Handwritten Document Images.- Chapter 4. Writer Verification on Bangla Handwritten Characters.- Chapter 5. Face Recognition in Video using Deformable Parts Model with Scale Invariant Feature Transform (DPSIFT).- Chapter 6. Registration of Range Images using a novel technique of Centroid Alignment.- Software Engineering: Chapter 7. An investigation into effective test coverage.- Chapter 8. Resource Management in Native Languages using Dynamic Binary Instrumentation (PIN).- Chapter 9. A Study on Software Risk Management Strategies and Mapping with SDLC.- Chapter 10. A New Service Discovery Approach for Community based Web.- Chapter 11. Data-flow Analysis-based Approach of Database Watermarking.- Networking and Cloud Computing: Chapter 12. A New Framework for Configuration Management and Compliance Checking towards Component Based Software Development.- Chapter 13. CAD Based Analysis of Power Distribution Network for SOC Design.- Algorithms: Chapter 14. A New Hybrid Mutual Exclusion Algorithm in Absence of Majority Consensus.- Chapter 15. A Comprehensive Sudoku Instance Generator.- Chapter 16. Impleme
nting Software Transactional Memory using STM Haskell.- Chapter 17. Comparative Analysis of Genetic Algorithm and Classical Algorithms in Fractional Programming.- Chapter 18. An Algorithm to Solve 3D Guard Zone Computation Problem.- Chapter 19. Multi-step ahead Groundwater Level Time Series Forecasting using Gaussian Process Regression and ANFIS.- Chapter 20. Anomaly Detection and Three Anomalous Coins Problem.

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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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