This book presents extended versions of papers originally presented and discussed at the 3rd International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2016) held from August 12 to 14, 2016 in Kolkata, India. The symposium was jointly organized by the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland; Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy; and the University of Calcutta, India.

The book is divided into two volumes, Volumes 3 and 4, and presents dissertation works in the areas of Image Processing, Biometrics-based Authentication, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Next-Generation Networking and Network Security, Remote Healthcare, Communications, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering and Service Engineering. The first two volumes of the book published the works presented at the ACSS 2015, which was held from May 23 to 25, 2015 in Kolkata, India.

Discusses recent research trends in the areas of computational intelligence, communications, data mining, and computational models Presents applications to design, analysis, and modeling for key areas in computational intelligence Discusses efficient computational algorithms and robust tools for efficient implementation Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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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 in U.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.

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A heuristic framework for priority based nurse scheduling.- All Spanning Tree Generation Algorithm using Divide-and-Conquer and its Application in Network Capacity Planning Process.- Circuit Synthesis of Maximum Clique Problem by using Quantum Walk.- Abort-free STM: A Non-Blocking Concurrency Control Approach using Software Transactional Memory.- Graph problems performance comparison using Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon-Phi.- A Novel Image Steganographic Scheme using 8x8 Sudoku Puzzle.- A Novel Image Steganographic Scheme using 8x8 Sudoku Puzzle.- Association Based Multi-Attribute Analysis to Construct Materialized View.- A new Method for Key Author Analysis in Research Professionals' Collaboration Network.- Single-shot Person Re-Identification by Spectral Matching of Symmetry-Driven Local Features.- Analysis of eavesdropping in QKD with Qutrit photon states.- Evaluating The Performance of A Chaos Based Partial Image Encryption Scheme.- Use of fusion biometric system based on keystroke dynamics and face image as a way to improve recognition system reliability.