Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications

Design of a Secure Blockchain Based Privacy Preserving Electronic Voting System.- A Nature Inspired Algorithm for Enhancement of Fused MRI and CT Brain Images.- Recent Advances and Future Directions of Assistive Technologies for Alzheimer's Patients.- Research on Security awareness to protect data through Ontology and Cloud Computing.- Driver Activity Monitoring using MobileNets.- Prediction of Crop Production using Analysis Algorithms.- A Deep Learning Approach for Speedbumpand Pothole Detection using sensordata.- Decision Tree based Crop Yield Prediction using Agro-Climatic parameters.- Regression based Data pre-processing technique for predicting missing values.- An Improved Stacked Sparse Auto-encoder Method for Network Intrusion Detection.

Prof. N. R. Shetty is Chancellor of Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, and Chairman of the Review Commission for the State Private University Karnataka. He is currently serving as an advisor to the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT), Bengaluru. He is also Founder Vice-President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Washington DC, USA. He served as Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University for two terms and President of the ISTE, New Delhi three terms. He was also Member of the Executive Committee of the AICTE and Chairman of its South West Region Committee.

Prof. L. M. Patnaik obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 in the area of Real-Time Systems and D.Sc. in 1989 in the areas of Computer Systems and Architectures, both from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. During March 2008 to August 2011, he was Vice Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Deemed University, Pune. Currently, he is Honorary Professor with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and INSA Senior Scientist and Adjunct Professor with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. During the last 50 years of his long service, his teaching, research, and development interests have been in the areas of parallel and distributed computing, computer architecture, CAD of VLSI systems, high-performance computing, mobile computing, theoretical computer science, real-time systems, soft computing and computational neuroscience including machine cognition. In these areas, he has 1286 publications in refereed international journals and refereed international conference proceedings including 30 technical reports, 43 books and 26 chapters in books.
Dr. H. C. Nagaraj was born on 4th April, 1959 in Bengaluru. He obtained his B.E. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering securing first class with distinction from the University of Mysore in 1981. He obtained his