About the Author
Akash Kumar Bhoi [B.Tech, M.Tech, Ph.D.] is working as Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), India, since 2012. He is also working (Period: 20th Jan 2021 - 19th Jan 2022) as Research Associate at Wireless Networks (WN) Research Laboratory, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (ISTI-CRN) Pisa, Italy. He is a University Ph.D. Course Coordinator for “Research & Publication Ethics (RPE).” He is a member of IEEE, ISEIS, and IAENG, an associate member of IEI, UACEE, and an editorial board member reviewer of Indian and international journals. He is also a regular reviewer of repute journals, namely IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Inderscience, etc. His research areas are Biomedical Technologies, the Internet of Things, Computational Intelligence, Antenna, Renewable Energy. He has published several papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has 100+ documents registered in the Scopus database by the year 2020. He has also served on numerous organizing panels for international conferences and workshops. He is currently editing several books with Springer Nature, Elsevier and Routledge & CRC Press. He is also serving as Guest editor for special issues of the journal like Springer Nature and Inderscience.
Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque [M’17, SM’19] is a collaborator Professor and senior researcher at the Graduate Program on Teleinformatics Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, and at the Graduate Program on Telecommunication Engineering, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará, Fortaleza/CE, Brazil.
He has a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB, 2010), an MSc in Teleinformatics Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC, 2007), and he graduated in Mechatronics Engineering at the Federal Center of Technological Education of Ceará (CEFETCE, 2006). He is a specialist, mainly, in Image Data Science, IoT, Machine/Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Robotic.
Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu has procured his bachelor degree in computer science engineering from SSIET, JNTU Kakinada in the year 2011 and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science Technology in 2013 from Gitam University, Visakhapatnam. He has earned his Ph.D. degree after successfully defending his thesis, entitled "An Investigative Analysis of Automated Segmentation Approaches for Volumetric Estimation of damaged Regions in Astrocytoma cases Identified from the 2D Brain MR Image" at GITAM (Deemed to be University) and his areas of research include Biomedical Imaging, Image Enhancement, Image Segmentation, Object Recognition, Image Encryption, Optimization Algorithms, Soft computing, and Natural Language Processing. He is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GIT, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Visakhapatnam. He is a member of CSI, IAENG, IARA and a regular reviewer for Scopus indexed journals like JCS and IJAIP, Inderscience. He is a guest editor for the special issues and books that are published by reputed publishers like Bentham Science, Springer, and Elsevier. He is a passionate researcher and his articles have been published in national and international journals alongside conferences.
Gonçalo Marques holds a PhD in Computer Science Engineering and is member of the Portuguese Engineering Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros). He is currently working as Assistant Professor lecturing courses on programming, multimedia and database systems. His current research interests include Internet of Things, Enhanced Living Environments, machine learning, e-health, telemedicine, medical and healthcare systems, indoor air quality monitoring and assessment, and wireless sensor networks. He has more than 80 publications in international journals and conferences, is a frequent reviewer of journals and international conferences and is also involved in several edited books projects. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
