Proceedings of Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: Icict 2024, London, Volume 9

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held in London, on February 19-22, 2024. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for managerial applications, e-governance, e-agriculture, e-education and computing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and e-mining. Written by respected experts and researchers working on ICT, the book offers an asset for young researchers involved in advanced studies. The work is presented in ten volumes.

Xin-She Yang obtained his DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He then worked at Cambridge University and then later at National Physical Laboratory (UK) as a Senior Research Scientist. Now he is Reader at Middlesex University London, and a co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), UK. He was the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) chair for the Task Force on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management (2015 to 2020). He has published more than 50 books and more than 400 peer-reviewed research papers with more than 90,000 citations, and he has been on the prestigious list of most influential researchers or highly-cited researchers (Web of Sciences) for eight consecutive years since 2016.

R. Simon Sherratt was born near Liverpool, England, in 1969. He is currently a professor of Biosensors at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Reading, UK. His main research areas are signal processing and personal communications in consumer devices, focusing on wearable devices and health care. Professor Sherratt received the 1st place IEEE Chester Sall Memorial Award in 2006, the 2nd place in 2016 and the 3rd place in 2017.

Nilanjan Dey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. Previously, he held an honorary position of Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his PhD from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, USA. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (Springer Nature), Data-Intensive Research(Springer Nature), Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (Elsevier). He was an associate editor of IET Image Processing and editorial board member of Complex & Intelligent Systems, Springer Nature. He is editorial board member of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier. Furthermore, he is having 45 authored books and over 300 publications in the area of medical imaging, machine learning, computer-aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Fellow of IETE and Senior member of IEEE.

Amit Joshi is currently the director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an entrepreneur and researcher who has completed his Masters’ and research in the areas of cloud computing and cryptography in medical imaging. Dr. Joshi has an experience of around ten years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. Dr. Joshi is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. Currently, Dr. Joshi is the international chair of InterYIT at the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria). He has presented and published more than 50 papers in national and international journals/conferences of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Joshi has also edited more than 40 books which are published by Springer, ACM and other reputed publishers.