Design of Efficient Algorithms for Mobile Charging in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Registration of Point Clouds for Human Face Recognition -- Classifying the Social Media Author Profile through a Multimodal Representation -- An Investigation into Effective Fault Localization -- Dependability Analysis for Transaction Processing in On-Demand Computing System -- Investigating and Devising Privacy Preserving Approaches for Location based Services -- Design of Intelligent Scheduling Algorithms for Cloud Computing -- Studies in Algorithms and Architectures for Sample Preparation with Digital Microfluidics -- Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Database Intrusion Detection -- Design and Applications of Improved Meta Heuristic Algorithms for Neural Network Training.

This book discusses automated computing systems which are mostly powered by intelligent technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition, speech processing, cloud computing, etc., to perform complex automated tasks which are not possible by traditional computing systems. The chapters are extended version of research works presented at first Ph.D. Research Symposium in various advanced technologies used in the field of computer science. This book provides an opportunity for the researchers to get ideas regarding the ongoing works that help them in formulating problems of their interest. The academicians can also be benefited to know about the current research trends that smooth the way to guide their students to carry out research work in the proper direction. The industry people will be also facilitated to know about the current advances in research work and materialize the research work into industrial applications.