Laxman D. Netak

• PhD
• Professor at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere

The Internet has become a fundamental necessity for individuals in today’s society. Due to the emergence and growth of Internet users, the information flow is increasing rapidly. People openly express their opinions and views on products, services, and political situations on several social media platforms. Finding the emotion behind their opinions...

Analysis of the effects of increasing degrees of complexity on students’ brains is the primary topic of this research. Therefore, this study aims to use Electroencephalography (EEG) to determine the task’s difficulty level. This research examined assertions of broad mathematical and logical difficulty that can be addressed with the “C programming l...

Landslides are one of the most dangerous natural hazards, which not only lead to deaths and economic losses but also affect the ecosystem. This study proposes a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) model to identify landslides using data collected from Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. To predict a landslide, the dataset includes information from 1213 different site...

Generation of quizzes or examination papers by using a question bank is an important activity supported by many e-learning platforms. This chapter presents an ontology to represent the knowledge associated with question items. The ontology is described through UML notations. The ontology presented in this chapter is practical and sufficient in expr...

This chapter describes the technologies that are enabling the design of smart ships. To achieve a well-functioning of smart ships, highly automated vessels must be both generally and operationally reliable. The components of smart ships such as propulsion machines, auxiliary machines, generators, separators, pumps, and cooling systems are complex a...

In the educational system, assessments are essential for evaluating students’ performance. An evaluation using manual grading is a laborious and time-consuming task and is vulnerable to inconsistencies and inaccuracies. Even though there has been significant research to automate the evaluation of student work, researchers still need to consider Pow...

In democratic countries such as India, voting is a fundamental right given to citizens of their countries. Citizens need to physically present and cast their vote in ballot paper-based voting systems. Most of the citizens fail to fulfill this constraint and have stayed away from their fundamental duty. Electronic voting systems are often considered...

Approval processes are intra-organizational business processes designed to sanction the execution of specific administrative tasks. Purchasing essential stationery products, filing bills for acquired items, approving attendance at conferences, processing insurance claims, approving loans, and similar tasks are examples for which employees require a...

In democratic countries such as India, voting is a fundamental right given to citizens of their countries. Citizens need to physically present and cast their vote in ballot-paper-based voting systems. Most of the citizens fail to fulfill this constraint and have stayed away from their fundamental duty. Electronic-voting systems are often considered...

Manual grading of students’ work takes a long time and it is stressful. Evaluator may be holistic or analytic, lenient or non-lenient, experienced or inexperienced; which leads to non-uniformity in the assessment. Therefore, it is essential to do the automated grading of students' work to overcome human inadequacies through uniform assessment and a...

Creating and delivering a presentation for Project, Seminar, and Course work is an important academic activity included in the curricula of undergraduate engineering studies. The presentation should be graded based on the presentation skills, accuracy, and authenticity of the contents covered in the presentation. Educational institutes use rubrics...

Black spots are accident spots where more than five accidents or more than ten fatalities have occurred in the past three years. The manual classification of accident spots into black spots by analyzing past data is a tedious task for traffic police. This paper proposes a dataset of accidents during 2019, 2020, and 2021 in the Raigad District of Ma...

In this digitization phase, several new applications are developed by developers and used by end-users to complete their needs. But very few applications remain popular among users depending on the functional working of an application, such as the mobility of the application, its user-friendliness, pop-up advertisements. The Non-functional requirem...

During examinations, students are unable to solve the problems requiring complex skills because they forget the primary or prerequisite skills or infrequent use of these skills. Also, students have problems with advanced courses due to weakness with prerequisite skills. One of the challenges for an instructor is to find the reason why students are...

This paper describes the design and implementation of automated techniques for grading students’ PowerPoint slides. Preparing PowerPoint slides for seminars, workshops, and conferences is one of the crucial activity of graduate and undergraduate students. Educational institutes use rubrics to assess the PowerPoint slides’ quality on different groun...

The significant disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic prohibits the face-to-face teaching-learning process. This pandemic forced the students to utilize online i.e. non-face-to-face mode of education via different platforms available on the internet. The use of the internet allows students to use e-learning resources to learn things from anywh...

The global spread of COVID-19 has disrupted education in recent times. Imparting social skills necessary to survive in professional life is becoming increasingly challenging in the post-COVID-19 new normal. The existing online learning platforms which have been primarily developed as a technology for content delivery need to be augmented with addit...

Activities of identifying kinds of physical objects on lands from the images captured through satellite and labeling them according to their usages are referred to as Land Use and Land Cover Classification (LULC). Researchers have developed various machine learning techniques for this purpose. The effectiveness of these techniques has been individu...

Tracking and tracing systems have become basic services for most logistics companies and are particularly essential for the shipping and logistics industry. Dynamic logistics management today need constant supervision and management of continuously-changing supply chains that motivate the necessity of goods-centric logistics monitoring and tracking...

Although most logistics and freight forwarding organizations, in one way or another, claim to have core values. The engagement of employees is a vast structure that affects almost every part of the company's core environmental values. There is little theoretical knowledge about the relationship between firms and the engagement of employees. Based o...

Education is the basic step of understanding the truth and the preparation of the intelligence to reflect. Focused on the rational capacity of the human being the Cognitive process and knowledge dimensions of Revised Blooms Taxonomy helps to differentiate the procedure of studying into six types of various cognitive processes and four types of know...

Although most logistics and freight forwarding organizations, in one way or another, claim to have core values. The engagement of employees is a vast structure that affects almost every part of the company’s core environmental values. There is little theoretical knowledge about the relationship between firms and the engagement of employees. Based o...

Artificial Intelligence-driven applications have already stepped in to streamline logistics on a global scale. News impact and relevancy helps in taking the right decision at the right time in the logistics industry. This paper attempts to provide a state of art in finding relevancy in news headlines. We present the research done on logistics data...

All industries like Healthcare and Medicine, Education, Marketing, e-commerce are using AI and providing a technical advantage to these industries. Logistics is such an industry where AI has started showing its effect by making SCM a more seamless process. Processing natural language has always been a computer science and AI subfield, which covers...

Education is the basic step of understanding the truth and the preparation of the intelligence to reflect. Focused on the rational capacity of the human being, the Cognitive process and knowledge dimensions of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy helps to differentiate the procedure of studying into six types of various cognitive processes and four types of kn...

Administering standardized examinations is a challenging task, especially for those universities for which colleges affiliated to it are geographically distributed over a wide area. Some of the challenges include maintaining integrity and confidentiality of examination records, preventing mal-practices, issuing unique identification numbers to a la...

Administering standardized examinations is a challenging task, especially for those universities for which colleges affiliated to it are geographically distributed over a wide area. Some of the challenges include maintaining integrity and confidentiality of examination records, preventing malpractices, issuing unique identification numbers to a lar...

Fog computing is a paradigm for distributed computing that enables sharing of resources such as computing, storage and network services. Unlike cloud computing, fog computing platforms primarily support {\em non-functional properties} such as location awareness, mobility and reduced latency. This emerging paradigm has many potential applications in...

Grading essay type of examinations is a kind of assessment where teachers have to evaluate descriptive answers written by students. Evaluating explanatory answers is a challenging task. Evaluating essay type questions are often laborious, requiring more time compared to multiple-choice questions. Also, the evaluation process is a subjective one lea...

Concentration level plays a significant role while performing cognitive actions. There are many ways to predict the concentration level, such as with the help of physical reflection, facial expressions, and body language. Self- evaluation on the scale of 0 to 1 can also be used to measure the concentration level. In this paper, a publicly available...

In this competitive world, students are required to acquire hard power skills to sustain in the competition. It is also the responsibility of the university education system to develop students’ hard power skills. The hard power skills include both technical abilities as well as professional skills. The necessary hard power skills are highly based...

Fog computing is a paradigm for distributed computing that enables sharing of resources such as computing, storage and network services. Unlike cloud computing, fog computing platforms primarily support non-functional properties such as location awareness, mobility and reduced latency. This emerging paradigm has many potential applications in domai...

Humanitarian Engineers need innovative methods to make technological interventions for solving societal problems. The emerging blockchain technology has the enormous potential to provide effective interventions in various developmental sectors, including Agriculture, Education, Health, and Transportation. In these sectors, mediators have been consi...

Consumer electronic devices such as mobile handsets, goods tagged with RFID labels, location and position sensors are continuously generating a vast amount of location enriched data called geospatial data. Conventionally such geospatial data is used for military applications. In recent times, many useful civilian applications have been designed and...

Consumer electronic devices such as mobile handsets, goods tagged with RFID labels, location and position sensors are continuously generating a vast amount of location enriched data called geospatial data. Conventionally such geospatial data is used for military applications. In recent times, many useful civilian applications have been designed and...

Tools for learning analytics are becoming essential features of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and various course delivery platforms. These tools collect data from online learning platforms, analyze the collected data, and present the extracted information in a visually appealing manner. Representing the design-level concerns of such tools is on...

In the recent past, the bandwidth demand in the Internet is increasing phenomenally, due to rising of multimedia and Internet related applications such as video conferencing, IPTV and audio and video streaming. In order to meet these growing demands Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is the promising switching technology from Wavelength Division Multipl...

In optical burst switched (OBS) networks burst scheduling is one of the key issue, which affects the burst loss in the optical networks. Scheduling algorithms utilizes wavelength channels by scheduling burst efficiently and reduces burst losses. Several types of scheduling algorithms such as horizon and void filling are used to schedule bursts. Hor...

With an explosive growth of the Internet, optical network seems to be the candidate solution for future high-speed backbone networks. Optical burst switching (OBS) has been proposed as promising switching technology for the next generation wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) based network. The main issue in OBS based network is to reduce burst d...

In optical burst switched (OBS) networks, burst scheduling is one of the key issue, which affects the performance of networks. Several, scheduling algorithms have been used, such as horizon and void filling based algorithms. Void filling algorithms reduces burst loss, but it has more execution time as compared to horizon algorithms. On the other ha...