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The book gathers papers addressing state-of-the-art research in all areas of Information and Communication Technologies and their applications in intelligent computing, cloud storage, data mining and software analysis. It presents the outcomes of the third International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems, which was held on April 6-7, 2018, in Ahmedabad, India. Divided into two volumes, the book discusses the fundamentals of various data analytics and algorithms, making it a valuable resource for researchers´ future studies.

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Semantic Segmentation using Deep learning for Brain Tumor MRI via Fully Convolution Neural Networks.- An Efficient Cryptographic Mechanism to Defend Collaborative Attack against DSR Protocol in Mobile Adhoc Networks.- Materialized Queries with Incremental Updates.- Traffic Signal Automation through IoT by Sensing and Detecting Traffic Intensity through IR sensors.- Performance Evaluation of Various Data Mining Algorithms on Road Traffic Accident Dataset.- Classification of Blood Cancer and form associated Gene networks using Gene Expression Profiles.- Stock Market Decision Making Model based on spline approximation using minimax criterion.

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Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor , School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University Bhubaneswar, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and M.Tech. in CSE from NIT, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has 27 years of teaching experience. His research interests are data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as program chair of many international conferences and edited 6 volumes of proceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding 8 scholars for Ph.D. Dr. Satapathy is also a Senior Member of IEEE.

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