Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications

Chapter 1: Optimal Sensor Deployment and Battery Life Enhancement Strategies to Employ Smart Irrigation Solutions for Indian Agricultural Sector.- Chapter 2: Travelling Salesman Problem: An empirical comparison between ACO, PSO, ABC, FA and GA.- Chapter 3: An IoT Based Smart Water Mircogrid and Smart Water Tank Management system.- Chapter 4: Intrusion Detection System using Random Forest on the NSL-KDD Dataset.- Chapter 5: Comparison Between The DDFS Implementation Using The Look-Up Table Method And The CORDIC Method.- Chapter 6: Facial expression recognition by considering nonuniform local binary patterns.- Chapter 7: Thermal Care and Saline Level Monitoring System for Neonatal using IoT.- Chapter 8: Optimal Thresholding in Direct Binary Search Visual Cryptography For Enhanced Bank Locker System.

Prof. N.R. Shetty is the 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), Bangalore. 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 for three terms. He was also a member of the AICTE's Executive Committee and Chairman of its South West Region Committee.

Prof. L.M. Patnaik obtained his PhD in Real-Time Systems in 1978, and his DSc in Computer Systems and Architectures in 1989, both from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. From 2008 to 2011, he was Vice Chancellor of the Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Deemed University, Pune. Currently he is an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and INSA Senior Scientist and Adjunct Professor with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

Dr. H. C. Nagaraj, completed his B.E in Electronics & Communication from the University of Mysore in 1981, his M.E in Communication Systems from P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore in 1984. He was awarded Ph.D (Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai in 2000. Dr Nagaraj has teaching experience spanning more than 35 years.He was the Chairman, BOS of IT/BM/ML of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi for 2010-13 and Member, Academic Senate of VTU for 06 years w.e. f. April 2010.Further extended for a period of three years w.e.f 02-06-2016.He has the credit of publishing more than 40 technical papers and has also published a book- "VLSI Circuits", Star- Tech Education, Bangalore in 2006. He has won the Best