International Conference On Data Science And Computer Security IDSCS-2020 – 13th and 14th March 2020

The Computer Science Department at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa recently conducted its first ever international conference-IDSCS 2020, which served as a technical gathering of Internet and Data security professionals to exchange the latest developments that are gaining momentum in the ever-growing global Infrastructure of Computer Science. All accepted, registered and presented high-quality papers shall be submitted to Springer “Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems” indexed in ISI Proceedings, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springer link for publication.

The inauguration of the event took place on 13th March 2020 in the Auditorium-Central Block where it began with showcase of an introductory video portraying the life at CHRIST, (Deemed to be University), Lavasa and the Computer Science department. This was followed by the lighting of the lamp by Dr Fr Jossy George, Dr Fr Arun Antony, Fr Antony, Mr Puroshotham Darshankar, Fr Joseph Varghese, Dr K Balachandran, Mr Kapil Tiwari, Dr Samiksha Shukla and student volunteer Ms Rishika. Next was an inaugural dance performance by the University Dance Team, Kalarpana. All this was followed by a welcome address by the Head of Department of Computer Science-Dr Samiksha Shukla, who heartily welcomed all the participants and guests for the event and emphasised on the need to focus on security and privacy while working on data science and analytics projects. Later, Dr Fr Jossy P George, Director & Dean addressed the crowd on the benefits of holding theme-specific conferences like IDSCS-2020. Then, the chief guest for the event, Mr Purushottam Darshankar was invited on stage to speak a few words regarding the topic of discussion, which turned out to be very insightful for the fellow students.

Following this, the crowd broke for a 15-minute tea break which was arranged in the Ivy Hall, which was followed by an illustrative session regarding the ’basis of random networks’ undertaken by Dr. Fr. Joseph Varghese, Professor in the Department of Mathematics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. He spoke on “Efficient Algorithms for Determining the Metric Dimension of Networks” and mentioned basic concepts and terminology of Graph Theory, such as paths and cycles, nodes and edges. He also talked about the definition of resolving number and metric dimension and gave examples of metric dimension and hands-on solving with the students. Post lunch, which was arranged in the banquet hall, all the attendees dispersed into different rooms for their respective paper and poster presentation tracks.

The first presentation was on the paper titled, ‘A deep learning approach in Early Prediction of Lung Cancer from the 2-D Image Scan with Gini Index’, by Denny Dominic and Krishnan Balachandran, focusing on prediction of lung cancer at an early stage using a statistical measure called Gini Index.

The second presentation was on the paper titled, `Phoneme and Phone Pre-Processing Using CLIR Techniques’, by Mallamma V Reddy and Manjunath Sajjan, focused on preprocessing the distinct units of sound to avoid miscommunication using Cross Language Information Retrieval Techniques on the basis of physical, psychological, physiological and semantic languages to search for the required or filtered text, image or audio.

The third presentation was on the paper titled, `Data Mining Models Applied in Prediction of IVF Success Rates: An Overview’, by Gowramma G S, Dr.Shantharam Nayak, Dr. Nagaraj Cholliwhich basically includes the analysis of various case studies of IVF projecting the women i.e. Egg Analysis.

The fourth presentation was on the paper titled `Efficient Handwritten Character Recognition of MODI Script using Wavelet Transform and SVD’ by Solley Joseph and IDSCS-2020 4 IDSCS - 2020 Report Jossy George, wherein deep learning based methods like OCR, HOCR, WVT, and SVD are used for word extraction in separate sentences incorporating feature extraction and dimensionality reduction to curb the calligraphic challenges. The fifth presentation was on the paper titled, `An Easy Way Of One Time Password Generation Using Time Based OTP and Randomization Technique’ by Siddharth Suresh Gosavi and Gopal Krishna Shyam, which basically focused upon generating time-based OTP using Fisher Yates Shuffle Technique to hit on the hackers will failure attempts.

The second track of the paper presentation on 13th March, 2020 was from 2:15 – 3:30 in BALLB-2. Dr K Balachandran was welcomed as the session chair. The first presentation was of paper id IDSCS-77 and was titled as, ‘`TreeXP-An instantition on Xpattern framework’’, by Thulasi Accottillam, Remya KTV and Raju G. The second presentation was of paper id IDSCS-9 titled as, `Aspect-level opinion Spam identification (ALOSI)’, by Pratik Patil, shraddha Phansalkar, swato Arohi and Ambik pawar. The third presentation was of paper id IDSCS-63 titled as, `Tag Indicator: A New Predictive Tool for Stock Trading’, by Antony Putussery, Tessy Tom and Dr Ginish Cheruparambil. The fourth presentation was of paper id IDSCS-31 titled as `A study of Text mining Algorithms for anomaly Detection in Online Social Networks’ by Sujatha A K and Balachandran K.

The moderators for the third track, which was held in room BA-LLB 3, were the session chair Dr K Balachandran and Dr Preethi Nanjundan. A total of four papers were presented on day one. First was paper id IDSCS-40, by Mrs Sheetal, titled ‘Analysis of various applications of blockchain-a survey’. Next was paper id IDSCS-60 by Mrs Diana on the topic ‘Robot path planning prediction’. Next was paper id IDSCS-73 ‘implementation of Pisano period in integer fraction algorithm’ presented by student Ankit Singh Garia. In the end was paper id IDSCS-72 titled ‘Insider threat detection based on anomalous behaviours of user for cyber security’ by Mrs Ujwala. Each presenter was given a maximum of 10 minutes to highlight the gist of their work, followed by around 10 minutes of interjection and feedback by the moderators.

Poster presentations were held in the Smart room, Central Block. The first presentation titled `A Study of Prevalence of Anemia in Uttar Pradesh’, was presented by Ms. Anushree, Mr. Siddharth and Ms. Rishika. The poster discussed about different factors related to anemic women of Uttar Pradesh. The second Poster entitled `Hybrid Approach for predicting Heart Disease using Optimization, clustering and Image processing’, was presented by Mr. Nibir Paul, Ms. Harsha K G, Mr Prateek Kumar wherein they discussed the increase in heart diseases at present and also the reasons which cause such diseases. The third presentation was done by Mr. Mallamma V. Reddy and Mr. Naveenkumar T. Rudrappa wherein they discussed their work titled `Acoustic Feature Extraction and enhancement: NLP using hybrid software engineering approach’.

After the tea break Ms. Tanvi Rath, Mr. Yash Purohit, Mr. Rishabh Rajput presented the poster entitled `Therapy Recommendation based on identification of Depression using social media Data’. The work suggested a method by which the words will be classified into two groups of bearish (pessimistic) and bullish (optimistic). The next presenters were Ms Sarmistha, Ms Supriya and Mr. Nihal Thapa presented their work entitled “District Level Analytical Study of Infant Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh”.

The next poster presentation was done by Ms Nithya V. on her work entitled `Cancer Genome Analysis using Machine Learning Techniques for Precision Medicines’. She explained how gene specific medicines could tackle cancer more effectively.

14th March 2020 - Day two consisted of two paper presentations, following the same scheme and lectures.

Dr. Balachandran Krishnan, Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Kengeri Campus and Professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore was the speaker and he spoke on discussion on various types of learning. He insisted upon finding appropriateness of learning in an environment. Learning involves logical development of pattern in the process of doing the same task.

It was followed by paper presentation. The first presentation was on the paper titled, `Design and Development of Efficient Cost Saving Technique for Guiding Customer Purchasing Patterns’, by Sujatha A K and Balachandran K, aiming at maintaining the economy through an app-based budget planning. The second presentation was on the paper titled, `Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony (AABC) Based Malignancy Pre-Diagnosis’, involved solution explanation by a given labeled numerical dataset to know if people have symptoms of lung cancer or no cancer. The third presentation was on the paper titled, `On Some Classes Of Equitable Irregular Graphs’, by Antony Puthussery and I. Sahul Hamid. The paper was more concept based than application. The fourth presentation was on the paper titled, `Classification of Financial News Articles Using Machine Learning Algorithms’, by Assistant Professor Anshul Saxena, Dr Vandana Bhagat, Aishika Banik, Chirag Saswat and Joan Jose. The paper focusses on sentiment analysis of news articles to classify the financial market as ‘Bearish’ or ‘Bullish’ using web scraping by python (the root word being ’detect’).

For the valedictory ceremony the welcome Address was given by Dr Fr Arun Antony, Academic Coordinator at CIM, Lavasa. He congratulated everyone who came for the paper presentation across the country. A short video made by Jortin, Shebin and Antonne was also shown. Certificates was handed over to the keynote speakers and session chairs by Dr Fr Arun Antony. Poster competition awards were given by Dr Fr. Arun Antony and Dr. Vivek Deshpande. The first prize went to Tanvi Rath, Yash Purohit and Rishabh Rajput and the second prize went to Nithya V. The two-day conference ended on a successful note with a vote of thanks. It was coordinated by the efforts of the entire Computer Science Department.