Advanced Computing and Systems for Security

Part 1: Security Systems.- Chapter 1. A Lightweight Security Protocol for IoT using Merkle Hash Tree and Chaotic Cryptography.- Chapter 2. A Quantitative Methodology for Business Process-based Data Privacy Risk Computation.- Chapter 3. Architectural Design Based Compliance Verification for IoT Enabled Secure Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid.- Chapter 4. A Novel Approach to Human Recognition Based on Finger Geometry.- Chapter 5. Biometric Fusion System Using Face and Voice Recognition.- Part 2: Pattern Recognition and Imaging.- Chapter 6. A Multi-Class Image Classifier for Assisting in Tumor Detection of Brain Using Deep Convolution Neural Network.- Chapter 7. Determining Perceptual Similarity Among Readers Based on Eyegaze Dynamics.- Part 3: High Performance Computing.- Chapter 8. 2D Qubit Placement of Quantum Circuits Using LONGPATH.- Chapter 9. Debugging Errors in Microfluidic Executions.- Chapter 10. Effect of Volumetric Split-Errors on Reactant-Concentration During Sample Preparation with Microfluidic Biochips.

Rituparna Chaki is Professor of Information Technology in the University of Calcutta, India. She received her Ph.D. Degree from Jadavpur University in India in 2003. Before this she completed B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Calcutta in 1995 and 1997 respectively. She has served as a System Executive in the Ministry of Steel, Government of India for nine years, before joining the academics in 2005 as a Reader of Computer Science & Engineering in the West Bengal University of Technology, India. She is with the University of Calcutta since 2013. Her area of research includes Optical networks, Sensor networks, Mobile ad hoc networks, Internet of Things, Data Mining, etc. She has nearly 100 publications to her credit. Dr. Chaki has also served in the program committees of different international conferences. She has been a regular Visiting Professor in the AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland for the last few years. Dr. Chaki has co-authored a couple of books published by CRC Press, USA.

Agostino Cortesi, 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 is in the editorial boards of the journals "Computer Languages, Systems and Structures" and "Journal of Universal Computer Science". Currently, he holds the chairs of