The book includes extended versions of selected papers discussed and presented at the 5th International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2018) held in Kolkata, India on February 9–11, 2018. The symposium was organized by the University of Calcutta’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering and A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, and the International partners were Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy and Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. Reflect the symposium’s sessions, the book discusses topics such as biometrics, image processing, pattern recognition, algorithms, cloud computing, wireless sensor networks and security systems. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Enhancing Security in ROS (Gianluca Caiazza, Ruffin White, Agostino Cortesi)....Pages 3-15 Byte Label Malware Classification Using Image Entropy (Ayan Dey, Sukriti Bhattacharya, Nabendu Chaki)....Pages 17-29 Big Data Security and Privacy: New Proposed Model of Big Data with Secured MR Layer (Priyank Jain, Manasi Gyanchandani, Nilay Khare)....Pages 31-53 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 Ambient Monitoring in Smart Home for Independent Living (R. Kavitha, Sumitra Binu)....Pages 57-74 The Conceptual Approach of System for Automatic Vehicle Accident Detection and Searching for Life Signs of Casualties (Anna Lupinska-Dubicka, Marek Tabedzki, Marcin Adamski, Mariusz Rybnik, Miroslaw Omieljanowicz, Andrzej Omieljanowicz et al.)....Pages 75-91 Disaster Management System Using Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (Suparna Das Gupta, Sankhayan Choudhury, Rituparna Chaki)....Pages 93-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 A Computer-Aided Hybrid Framework for Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer (Sourav Pramanik, Debapriya Banik, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Mita Nasipuri)....Pages 111-124 VQ/GMM-Based Speaker Identification with Emphasis on Language Dependency (Bidhan Barai, Debayan Das, Nibaran Das, Subhadip Basu, Mita Nasipuri)....Pages 125-141 Natural Language Processing: Speaker, Language, and Gender Identification with LSTM (Mohammad K. Nammous, Khalid Saeed)....Pages 143-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 Heterogeneous Face Matching Using Robust Binary Pattern of Local Quotient: RBPLQ (Hiranmoy Roy, Debotosh Bhattacharjee)....Pages 159-173 3D Face Recognition Based on Volumetric Representation of Range Image (Koushik Dutta, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Mita Nasipuri, Anik Poddar)....Pages 175-189 Back Matter ....Pages 191-191 These volumes contain the extended version of the works that have been presented and discussed in the second through the sixth International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems held in 2015-2019 in Kolkata or Patna, India. The symposium has been jointly organized by the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland; Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy and University of Calcutta, India. The book is divided into volumes and presents dissertation works in the areas of Image Processing, Biometrics-based Authentication, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Next Generation Networking and Network Security, Remote Healthcare, Communications, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering and Service Engineering. Volumes 1-2 were part of the second symposium in 2015; volumes 3-4 were part of the third symposium in 2016; volumes 5-6 were part of the fourth symposium in 2017; volumes 7-8 were part of the fifth symposium in 2018; volumes 9-10 were part of the sixth symposium in 2019 This book contains extended version of selected works that have been discussed and presented in the fourth International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2017) held in Patna, India during March 17-19, 2017. The symposium was organized by the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering and A.K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, both from University of Calcutta in collaboration with NIT, Patna. The International partners for ACSS 2016 had been Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy and Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. This bi-volume book has a total of 21 papers divided in 7 chapters. The chapters reflect the sessions in which the works have been discussed during the symposium. The different chapters in the book include works on biometrics, image processing, pattern recognition, algorithms, cloud computing, wireless sensor networks and security systems