I. Jeena Jacob - Expert Clouds and Applications: Proceedings of ICOECA 2021

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It is a great privilege for us to present the proceedings of the First International Conference on Expert Clouds and Applications (ICOECA 2021) to the readers, delegates, and authors of the conference event. We greatly hope that all the readers will find it more useful and resourceful for their future research endeavors.

The First International Conference on Expert Clouds and Applications (ICOECA 2021) was held at GITAM School of Technology, GITAM University, Bengaluru, India, from February 18 to 19, 2021, with an aim to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, and industrialists to discuss the state-of-the-art research opportunities, challenges, and issues in intelligent computing applications. The revolutionizing scope and rapid development of computing technologies will also create new research questions and challenges, which in turn results in the need to create and share new research ideas and encourage significant awareness in this futuristic research domain. The proceedings of ICOECA 2021 provides limelight on creating a new research landscape for intelligent computing applications with the support received and the research enthusiasm that has truly exceeded our expectations. This made us to be more satisfied and delighted to present the proceedings with a high level of satisfaction.

The responses from the researchers to the conference had been overwhelming from India and overseas countries. We have received 221 manuscripts from the prestigious universities/institutions across the globe. Furthermore, 55 manuscripts are shortlisted based on the reviewing outcomes and conference capacity constraints. Nevertheless, we would like to express our deep gratitude and commendation for the entire conference review team, who helped us to select the high-quality research works that are included in the ICOECA 2021 proceedings published by Springer. Also, we would like to extend our appreciation to organizing committee members for their continual support.