Nabendu Chaki is a Professor in the Department Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Chaki did his first graduation in Physics from the legendary Presidency College in Kolkata and then in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Calcutta. He has completed Ph.D. in 2000 from Jadavpur University, India. He is sharing 6 international patents including 4 U.S. patents with his students. Prof. Chaki has been quite active in developing international standards for Software Engineering and Cloud Computing as a member of Global Directory (GD) member for ISO-IEC. Besides editing more than 25 book volumes, Nabendu has authored 6 text and research books and has more than 150 Scopus Indexed research papers in Journals and International conferences. His areas of research interests include distributed systems, image processing and software engineering. Dr. Chaki has served as a Research Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering inU.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. He is a visiting faculty member for many Universities in India and abroad. Besides being in the editorial board for several international journals, he has also served in the committees of over 50 international conferences. Prof. Chaki is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata.Agostino Cortesitial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">, Ph.D., is a full professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. He served as Dean of the Computer Science Studies, as Department Chair, and as Vice-Rector 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 published more than 110 papers in high level international journals and proceedings of international conferences. His h-index is 16 according to Scopus, and 24 according to Google Scholar. Agostino served several times as member (or chair) of program committees of international conferences (e.g., SAS, VMCAI, CSF, CISIM, ACM SAC) and he's in the editorial boards of the journals "Computer Languages, Systems and Structures" and "Journal of Universal Computer Science". Currently, he holds the chairs of "Software Engineering", "Program Analysis and Verification", "Computer Networks and Information Systems" and "Data Programming". Nagaraju Devarakonda received B.Tech from Sri Venkateswara University, M.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad. He had published 30 research papers in International Conferences and Journals. He is presently working as Professor and HOD of IT Department at Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering. His research areas are data mining, soft computing, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He has supervised 25 M.Tech. students and is currently guiding 8 Ph.Ds.

• Preface.- List of Reviewers.- Program Committee.- About the Editors.- Table of Contents.- 30 Chapters.- Author Index.

Nabendu Chaki is a Professor in the Department Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Chaki did his first graduation in Physics from the legendary Presidency College in Kolkata and then in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Calcutta. He has completed Ph.D. in 2000 from Jadavpur University, India. He is sharing 6 international patents including 4 U.S. patents with his students. Prof. Chaki has been quite active in developing international standards for Software Engineering and Cloud Computing as a member of Global Directory (GD) member for ISO-IEC. Besides editing more than 25 book volumes, Nabendu has authored 6 text and research books and has more than 150 Scopus Indexed research papers in Journals and International conferences. His areas of research interests include distributed systems, image processing and software engineering. Dr. Chaki has served as a Research Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering inU.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. He is a visiting faculty member for many Universities in India and abroad. Besides being in the editorial board for several international journals, he has also served in the committees of over 50 international conferences. Prof. Chaki is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata.Agostino Cortesitial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">, Ph.D., is a full professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. He served as Dean of the Computer Science Studies, as Department Chair, and as Vice-Rector 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 published more than 110 papers in high level international journals and proceedings of international conferences. His h-index is 16 according to Scopus, and 24 according to Google Scholar. Agostino served several times as member (or chair) of program committees of international conferences (e.g., SAS, VMCAI, CSF, CISIM, ACM SAC) and he's in the editorial boards of the journals "Computer Languages, Systems and Structures" and "Journal of Universal Computer Science". Currently, he holds the chairs of "Software Engineering", "Program Analysis and Verification", "Computer Networks and Information Systems" and "Data Programming". Nagaraju Devarakonda received B.Tech from Sri Venkateswara University, M.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad. He had published 30 research papers in International Conferences and Journals. He is presently working as Professor and HOD of IT Department at Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering. His research areas are data mining, soft computing, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He has supervised 25 M.Tech. students and is currently guiding 8 Ph.Ds.

• Preface.- List of Reviewers.- Program Committee.- About the Editors.- Table of Contents.- 30 Chapters.- Author Index.

Nabendu Chaki is a Professor in the Department Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Chaki did his first graduation in Physics from the legendary Presidency College in Kolkata and then in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Calcutta. He has completed Ph.D. in 2000 from Jadavpur University, India. He is sharing 6 international patents including 4 U.S. patents with his students. Prof. Chaki has been quite active in developing international standards for Software Engineering and Cloud Computing as a member of Global Directory (GD) member for ISO-IEC. Besides editing more than 25 book volumes, Nabendu has authored 6 text and research books and has more than 150 Scopus Indexed research papers in Journals and International conferences. His areas of research interests include distributed systems, image processing and software engineering. Dr. Chaki has served as a Research Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering inU.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. He is a visiting faculty member for many Universities in India and abroad. Besides being in the editorial board for several international journals, he has also served in the committees of over 50 international conferences. Prof. Chaki is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata.Agostino Cortesitial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">, Ph.D., is a full professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. He served as Dean of the Computer Science Studies, as Department Chair, and as Vice-Rector 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 published more than 110 papers in high level international journals and proceedings of international conferences. His h-index is 16 according to Scopus, and 24 according to Google Scholar. Agostino served several times as member (or chair) of program committees of international conferences (e.g., SAS, VMCAI, CSF, CISIM, ACM SAC) and he's in the editorial boards of the journals "Computer Languages, Systems and Structures" and "Journal of Universal Computer Science". Currently, he holds the chairs of "Software Engineering", "Program Analysis and Verification", "Computer Networks and Information Systems" and "Data Programming". Nagaraju Devarakonda received B.Tech from Sri Venkateswara University, M.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad. He had published 30 research papers in International Conferences and Journals. He is presently working as Professor and HOD of IT Department at Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering. His research areas are data mining, soft computing, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He has supervised 25 M.Tech. students and is currently guiding 8 Ph.Ds.

• Preface.- List of Reviewers.- Program Committee.- About the Editors.- Table of Contents.- 30 Chapters.- Author Index.