Applied Computation and Security Systems, 2015 Volume Two Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, Vol. 305

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 1 is on Pattern Recognition and it presents four chapters. Part 2 is on Imaging and Healthcare Applications contains four more book chapters. The Part 3 of this volume is on Wireless Sensor Networking and it includes as many as six chapters.

Volume II of the book has three Parts presenting a total of eleven chapters in it. Part 4 consists of five excellent chapters on Software Engineering ranging from cloud service design to transactional memory. Part 5 in Volume II is on Cryptography with two book chapters in it. Part 6 of this volume is on Computer Aided Design with 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.

Software Engineering: Non-functional Property Aware Brokerage Approach for Cloud Service Discovery.- A DWT based Digital Watermarking Scheme for Image Tamper Detection, Localization and Restoration.- Service Insurance: A New Approach in Cloud Brokerage.- Using Semi-formal and Formal Methods in Software Design: An Integrated Approach for Intelligent Learning Management System.- A Lightweight Implementation of Obstruction Free Software Transactional Memory.- Cryptography: Multiplicative Polynomial Inverse over GF(7^3): Crisis of EEA and Its Solution.- A Novel Biometric Template Encryption Scheme using Sudoku Puzzle.- Computer Aided Design: An ESOP based Reversible Circuit Synthesis Flow using Simulated Annealing.- An Efficient Algorithm for Reducing Wire Length in Three-Layer Channel Routing.- A New Move towards Parallel Assay Operations in a Restricted Sized Chip in Digital Microfluidics.- A 2D Guard Zone Computation Algorithm for Reassignment of Subcircuits to Minimize the Overall Chip Area.

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.

Khalid Saeed received the BSc Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Baghdad University in 1976, the MSc and PhD Degrees from Wroclaw University of Technology, in Poland in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He received his DSc Degree (Habilitation) in Computer Science from Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2007. He is a Professor of Computer Science with AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. He has published more than 200 publications - edited 23 books, Journals and Conference Proceedings, 8 text and reference books. He supervised more than 110 MSc and 12 PhD theses. His areas of interest are Biometrics, Image Analysis and Processing and Computer Information Systems. He gave 39 invited lectures and keynotes in different universities in Europe, China, India, South Korea and Japan. The talks were on Biometric Image Processing and Analysis. He received about 18 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.