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Editors and Contributors

Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He served as the Principal of RCC

Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India during 2017-2019. He is a co-

author of 6 books and the co-editor of 77 books and has more than 300 research

publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. His

research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data

processing, social networks and quantum computing.

Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues [Fellow, IEEE & AAIA] is a Professor of Senac Faculty of

Ceará, Brazil, head of research, development, and innovation; China National Talent

at the China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, and senior researcher

at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. Prof. Rodrigues is an Highly Cited

Researcher, the leader of the Next Generation Networks and Applications (NetGNA)

research group (CNPq), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Member Representative of

the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council, and the Presi-

dent of the scientific council at ParkUrbis – Covilhã Science and Technology Park.

He was Director for Conference Development - IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors,

Technical Activities Committee Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Latin America Region

Board, a Past-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee (TC) on eHealth and

theTConCommunicationsSoftware,aSteeringCommitteememberoftheIEEELife

Sciences Technical Community and Publications co-Chair. He is the editor-in-chief

of the International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications and editorial

board member of several high-reputed journals (mainly, from IEEE). He has been

general chair and TPC Chair of many international conferences, including IEEE ICC,

IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE HEALTHCOM, and IEEE LatinCom. He has authored

or coauthored about 1000 papers in refereed international journals and conferences,

3 books, 2 patents, and 1 ITU-T Recommendation. He had been awarded several

Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Service Awards by IEEE Communications

Society and several best papers awards. Prof. Rodrigues is a member of the Internet

Society, a senior member ACM, and Fellow of AAIA and IEEE.

Contributors

Chellasamy Aarthy School of Business and Management, CHRIST University,

Bangalore, India

Elmustafa Sayed Ali Department of Electronics Engineering, Sudan University of

Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan;

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Red Sea University, Port

Sudan, Sudan

Reham Abdelrazek Ali Department of Electronics Engineering, Sudan University

of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan