Introduction to special issue on ‘Recent Computing Paradigms, Network Protocols, and Applications’

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This special issue of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal is devoted to selected contributions from the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics (ICACNI-2015), organized by School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Odisha, India, during 23–25 June, 2015. The conference commenced with a keynote by Prof. Nikhil R. Pal (Fellow IEEE, Vice President for Publications IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2015–2016), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) on ‘A Fuzzy Rule-Based Approach to Single Frame Super Resolution’. Apart from three regular tracks on advanced computing, networking, and informatics, the conference hosted three invited special sessions. While a total of 558 articles across different tracks of the conference were received, 132 articles are finally selected for presentation and publication by Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series of Springer as Volume 43 and 44. The conference showcased a technical talk by Prof. Nabendu Chaki (Senior Member IEEE, Calcutta University, India) on ‘Evolution from Web-based Applications to Cloud Services: A Case Study with Remote Healthcare’. The conference identified some wonderful works and has given away eight awards in different categories. …