This book features extended versions of selected papers that were presented and discussed at the 6th International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2019) held in Kolkata, India on 12–13 March, 2019. Organized by the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering and A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, both from the University of Calcutta, the symposium’s international partners were Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy and Bialystok University of Technology, Poland.

Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing provides a unique combination of business-driven application scenarios and advanced research in the area of service-level agreements for Clouds and service-oriented infrastructures. Current state-of-the-art research findings are presented in this book, as well as business-ready solutions applicable to Cloud infrastructures or ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) environments. Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing contributes to the various levels of service-level management from the infrastructure over the software to the business layer, including horizontal aspects like service monitoring.

Demystify architecting complex blockchain applications in enterprise environments

This edited book presents the scientific outcomes of the 4th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (BCD 2019) which was held on May 29–31, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers, computer users and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science and to share their experiences and exchange new ideas and information in a meaningful way. Presenting 15 of the conference’s most promising papers, the book discusses all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, the practical challenges encountered along the way, and the solutions adopted to solve them.

This book comprises select papers from the international conference on Research in Intelligent and Computing in Engineering (RICE 2019) held at Hanoi University of Industry, Hanoi, Vietnam. The volume focuses on current research on various computing models such as centralized, distributed, cluster, grid and cloud. The contents cover recent advances in wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, internet of things, machine learning, grid and cloud computing, and their various applications. The book will help researchers as well as professionals to gain insight into the rapidly evolving fields of internet computing and data mining.