‘It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. “Here she is, your Lara. Take her.” The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.’A man sits before his wife lying comatose in a refrigerated chamber and tells her the thoughts he had never dared express when she was conscious; ‘When the Gods Left’ follows Rajula Dip, a carrion-picker, as he ...

This book presents rigorously peer-reviewed contributions that capture the latest advances in intelligent computing systems and scalable computational infrastructures, offering practical solutions to real-world challenges across domains such as healthcare, cybersecurity, smart systems, and data-driven decision-making. It provides readers with a consolidated view of how modern computing paradigms and intelligent technologies are converging to address complex, dynamic, and large-scale proble...