Ganesh Chandra Deka is currently Principal at the Regional Vocational Training Institute for Women, Tura, Meghalaya, India under DGE&T, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India. His previous assignments include the Assistant Director of Training in DGE&T, Ministry of Labor & Employment, Government of India, New Delhi [2006-2014], Consultant Computer Science, National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD & PR-NERC, formerly NIRD), North Eastern Regional Centre, Guwahati, under the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India [2003-2006] & Programmer(Under World Bank Project), Nowgong Polytechnic, under the Directorate of Technical Education Assam, Government of Assam, India[1995-2003]. His research interests include ICT in Rural Development, e-Governance, Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Speech Processing, NoSQL Databases and Vocational Education and Training. He is editor-in-chief of theInternational Journal of Computing, Communications, and Networking, and is the co-editor with Pethuru Raj of the Handbook of Research on Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics (IGI Global, 2014). He is the chief editor of theHandbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications (2014). So far, he has served as Technical Session Chair in seven IEEE international conferences held in India and Technical Chair for three IEEE international conferences. He has published more than 40 research papers as of now. Deka has a PhD in computer science from Ballsbridge University, Roseau Dominica. He is a Member of IEEE; the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (India) and he is an Associate Member of Institution of Engineers (India).Siddesh G. M received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderbad in 2014. Currently he is working as Associate professor in Department of Information Science & Engineering, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Visvesvaraya Technologi¬cal University in the years 2003 and 2005 respectively. He is a member of IEEE, ISTE, and IETE. He is the recipient of Seed Money to Young Scientist for Research (SMYSR) for FY 2014-15, from Government of Karnataka, Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST). He has published a good number of research papers in International Conferences and Journals. His research interests are Distributed Computing, Grid/Cloud Computing, and IoT.Srinivasa K G received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University in 2007. He is the recipient of the All India Council for Technical Education – Career Award for Young Teachers, Indian Society of Technical Education – ISGITS National Award for Best Research Work Done by Young Teachers, Institution of Engineers (India) – IEI Young Engineer Award in Computer Engineering, Rajarambapu Patil National Award for Promising Engineering Teacher Award from ISTE – 2012, IMS Singapore – Visiting Scientist Fellowship Award. He has published more than one hundred research papers in International Conferences and Journals. He has visited many Universities abroad as a visiting researcher – University of Oklahoma, USA, Iowa State University, USA, Hong Kong University, Korean University, and National University of Singapore are a few prominent visits. He has authored two books, namely File Structures using C++ by TMH and Soft Computer for Data Mining Applications LNAI Series – Springer. He has been awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship by DST, for conducting collaborative Research with Clouds Laboratory in University of Melbourne in the area of Cloud Computing. He is the principal Investigator for many funded projects from UGC, DRDO, and DST. His research areas include Data Mining, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing.L. M. Patnaik obtained his Ph.D in 1978 in the area of Real-Time Systems, D.Sc. in 1989 in the areas of Computer Systems and Architectures, both from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During March 2008 –August 2011, he was the Vice Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Deemed University, Pune. Currently he is an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and INSA Senior Scientist and Adjunct Faculty with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. Prior to this he was a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During the last 40 years of his long service at the Indian Institute of Science, his teaching, research, and development interests have been in the areas of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer Architecture, CAD of VLSI Systems, Theoretical Computer Science, Real-Time Systems, Soft Computing, and Computational Neuroscience. In these areas, he has published over 1000 papers in refereed International Journals and refereed International Conference Proceedings and has authored 29technical reports. He is a co-editor/co-author of twenty one books and has authored 12 chapters in other books in the areas of VLSI System Design and Parallel Computing. He is Fellow of the IEEE, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS),Trieste, Italy, The Computer Society of India, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a Life Member of the VLSI Society of India, and Instrument Society of India, a founder Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Fault-Tolerant and Autonomous Systems; a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers, and the Institution of Engineers.