Introduction to special issue on ‘Advances in Information Systems and Network Systems Security’

Abstract

2nd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics (ICACNI-2014), held on 24–26 June 2014, was organized by St. Thomas’ College of Engineering and Technology. The conference was technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer and IEEE Computational Intelligence Societies, Kolkata Chapter. It was inaugurated on 24th June, 2014 in the famous Parish Hall, located inside the holy place of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Kolkata. The conference received 646 technical submissions, of which only 148 papers were accepted based on at least two single-blind reviews. Along with presentations in three main tracks: Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics, ICACNI hosted three special sessions for discussion of specific interest areas. ICACNI included 20 technical sessions spread over 3 days during 24–26 June, 2014. There were four parallel sessions with a total of 148 paper presentation slots. The Proceedings of the Conference has been published in two volumes in the prestigious Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies Series, Springer. The conference, in its second edition, not only explored and recorded cutting-