Section 1: Machine Learning and Applications -- Chapter 1. AVENet:Attention based VGG 16 with ELM for obscene image classification -- Chapter 2. Analyzing Market Dynamics of Agricultural Commodities: A Case Study based on Cotton -- Chapter 3. Feature Selection for Nepali Part-Of-Speech Tagging in a Conditional Random Fields based System -- Chapter 4. Design and Development of a ML-based Safety-Critical Fire Detection System -- Chapter 5. Compressed Image Super-Resolution using Pre-trained Model Assistance -- Chapter 6. Optimization of Character Classes in Devanagari Ancient Manuscripts and Dataset Generation -- Chapter 7. Deep Learning based Classification of Rice Varieties from Seed Coat Images -- Chapter 8. Leaf Based Plant Disease Detection Using Intelligent Techniques - A Comprehensive Survey -- Chapter 9. Bengali Document Retrieval Using Model Combination -- Chapter 10. Deep Neural Networks Fused with Textures for Image Classification -- Chapter 11. Real Time Prediction of In-Hospital Outcomes using a Multilayer Perceptron deployed in a Web-based Application -- Chapter 12. Automated analysis of Connections in Model Diagrams -- Chapter 13. No-reference Image Quality Assessment using Meta-Learning -- Section 2: Security -- Chapter 14. Cryptanalysis of Markle Hellman Knapsack Cipher using Cuckoo Search Algorithm.-Chapter 15. Generating a Suitable Hash Function using Sudoku for Blockchain Network. etc.