This book comprises the select proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India. Divided into 10 topical volumes, the proceedings present papers on state-of-the-art research, surveys, and succinct reviews. The volumes cover diverse topics ranging from parallel processing to system buses, and from computer architecture to VLIW (very long instruction word). This book focuses on systems and architecture. It aims at informing the readers about those attributes of a system visible to a programmer. This book also deals with various innovations and improvements in computing technologies to improve the size, capacity and performance of modern-day computing systems. The contents of this book will be useful to professionals and researchers alike.

Prof. Sunil Kumar Muttoo is working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. He completed his M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. at the University of Delhi and his M.Tech. (Computer Science and Data Processing, CSDP) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP). He is involved in research in the field of steganography and digital watermarking. He has published more than sixty papers in international/national journals and conference/workshop proceedings. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience.