Preface

Welcome to the 2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2012) organized and hosted by the Computer Society of India Kolkata Chapter. The first of this series (EAIT 2006) was held in February 2006, where we received 220 papers from India and abroad. Out of them 91 (approx. 41%) were accepted for the conference. The EAIT 2006 proceedings was published by Elsevier (ISBN 81-312-0445-6). The second in the series, EAIT 2011 was held in February 2011, where we had received 322 papers from India and abroad. Out of them 86 were accepted (approx. 27%) for the conference. The EAIT 2011 proceedings were published by IEEE Computer Society (ISBN 978-0-7695-4329-1, Library of Congress Number 2010942909). The paper submission process was online through Microsoft´s Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) system. We received overwhelming support, both from India and abroad. EAIT 2012 received 403 papers from 793 authors. Authors spanned twelve different countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arab, Singapore, Sri Lanka and USA. For each paper, at least two reviewers were allocated. Reviewing was double-blinded. Where the reviews were at a great variance, the reviewers were consulted to clarify their stance. The final decision to Accept or Reject was taken after an elaborate discussion of the program chairs and core committee of EAIT 2012. Several papers were discussed at length and at depth before the final decisions were arrived at. The review process was rigorous and thorough without any limitations on the numbers of papers. In the final count 97 papers (24% acceptance ratio) were selected for oral presentation. As per our record, total number of coauthors of these 97 papers is 256. The authors of accepted papers are from seven different countries: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Poland, Singapore, Sri Lanka and USA. The areas of these accepted papers include several frontier research ar- as: Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing; Bio-Informatics and Bio Inspired Computing; Biomedical Applications; Cloud, Grid and Distributed Computing; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Data Mining; e-Governance, GIS and Disaster Management; Enterprise Applications; Image Processing; Machine Learning; Mobile Computing; Networking Technologies; Security and Privacy; VLSI and Embedded Systems. The papers are organized in 11 oral presentation sessions each containing 6 papers and 1 session with 5 papers, 2 sessions with 4 papers and 6 sessions with 3 papers, with four presentation sessions running in parallel. We are happy that we could arrange for oral presentation of all the papers in spite of the time limitations of a two-day conference.