Three-Dimensional Wireless Indoor Localization with Machine Learning Algorithms for Location-Based IoT Applications -- Illuminating the Roads: Night-To-Day Image Translation for Improved to Visibility at Night -- Predicting the Smear Conversion of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Using Machine Learning -- Investigation on Cost - Sensitivity in EEG Based Confusion Emotion Recognition Systems Via Ensemble Learning -- Terminal Voltage Prediction of Solar-Wind Hybrid Systems with Time Series Decomposition: An Analysis and Comparative Study -- Early Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Using Hybrid Machine Learning Models -- Design and Development of Real-Time IIoT for Multi-Cloud Factory Vehicle Monitoring System -- Towards True Decentralization: Development,Testing and Evaluation of a Novel Blockchain Consensus Protocol -- Control Plan Comparison of OpenDayLight and Open Network Operating System Controllers -- SRISC: Open Source Soft Processor Side Channel Analysis Attack Framework Using RISC-V -- From Opacity to Clarity: Leveraging XAI for Robust Network Traffic Classification. .

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 56th International Conference on Asia Pacific Advanced Network, APANConf 2023, held in, Colombo, Sri Lanka, during August 24-25, 2023. The 10 full papers and 1 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: artificial intelligence and machine learning, accelerated computing and distributed systems and communications and networking.