Vikas Kumar

Vikas Kumar received M Sc. in Electronics from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India. This was followed by M Sc in Computer Science and further Ph. D. from the same university. Along with the two books, He has more than 100 research papers to his credit in various national and international conferences and journals. His areas of interest include Cloud Computing, ICT for Development and Electronic Communication.

Publications

Social Media and Micro-Lessons: A New Paradigm of Online Learning
Vikas Kumar, Pooja Nanda. © 2024. 16 pages.
Micro-lessons can be an ideal learning solution that appeals to the millennial learner's desire for on-demand, customized, and casual learning that is also tailored to their...
An Efficient Method to Decide the Malicious Traffic: A Voting-Based Efficient Method
Ajay Kumar, Jitendra Singh, Vikas Kumar, Saurabh Shrivastava. © 2023. 16 pages.
To address the high rate of false alarms, this article proposed a voting-based method to efficiently predict intrusions in real time. To carry out this study, an intrusion...
Cases on Emerging Market Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Raj K. Kovid, Vikas Kumar. © 2022. 332 pages.
The COVID-19 pandemic was an extreme exogenous shock that had an adverse impact on every facet of human lives, including business. However, the pandemic has also provided an...
Social Media in Business Decisions of MSMEs: Practices and Challenges
Vikas Kumar, Pooja Nanda, Samira Tawangar. © 2022. 12 pages.
Social media has progressively grown in the last century and is now seen as a potential opportunity for various purposes, including the decision-making. The present work explores...
Information Processing and Data Analytics for Decision Making: A Journey From Traditional to Modern Approaches
Pooja Nanda, Vikas Kumar. © 2022. 14 pages.
Decision making is required by all organizations; however, the decision making styles may differ. ost commonly used decision styles include: (a) Autocratic (b) Democratic (c)...
Combating the Pandemic With ICT-Based Learning Tools and Applications: A Case of Indian Higher Education Platforms
Jitendra Singh, Vikas Kumar, Darvinder Kumar. © 2022. 21 pages.
With the limitations imposed by Covid-19 pandemic, educational regulatory bodies in India recommended a number of online education portals to support higher education. Present...
Privacy and Healthcare During COVID-19
Aashish Bhardwaj, Vikas Kumar. © 2022. 15 pages.
The ambiguity related to transmission of disease in humans and the lack of health infrastructure to tackle the needs and shortage of healthcare providers has resulted in adoption...
Electronic Healthcare Records: Indian vs. International Perspective on Standards and Privacy
Aashish Bhardwaj, Vikas Kumar. © 2022. 16 pages.
Patient data is very valuable and must be protected from misuse by the third parties. Also, the rights of patient like privacy, confidentiality of medical information...
Stakeholder Strategies for Reducing the Impact of Global Health Crises
Vikas Kumar, Geetika Malhotra. © 2021. 304 pages.
A global health crisis creates great uncertainty, high stress, and anxiety within society. During such a crisis, when information is unavailable or inconsistent, and when people...
Electronic Healthcare Records: Indian vs. International Perspective on Standards and Privacy
Aashish Bhardwaj, Vikas Kumar. © 2021. 15 pages.
Patient data is very valuable and must be protected from misuse by the third parties. Also, the rights of patient like privacy, confidentiality of medical information...
E-Learning Theories, Components, and Cloud Computing-Based Learning Platforms
Vikas Kumar, Deepika Sharma. © 2021. 16 pages.
The student habit of using the digital platforms can be used to compliment the traditional learning methods. Specifically, designed digital learning platform can support the...
Cloud Computing as a Catalyst in STEM Education
Vikas Kumar, Deepika Sharma. © 2021. 16 pages.
The under representation of students in STEM disciplines creates big worries for the coming demands of STEM occupations. This requires new strategies to make curriculum...
A Framework for Collaborative and Convenient Learning on Cloud Computing Platforms
Deepika Sharma, Vikas Kumar. © 2021. 22 pages.
The depth of learning resides in collaborative work with more engagement and fun. Technology can enhance collaboration with a higher level of convenience and cloud computing can...
Web Analytics and Online Retail: Ethical Perspective
Gabriel Ayodeji Ogunmola, Vikas Kumar. © 2021. 18 pages.
Currently, all major e-retailers and even the start-ups have incorporated web analytics services on their websites to monitor customer behaviour while extracting personal data....
End-User-Driven Approach for Regulatory Compliance in the Public Cloud
Jitendra Singh, Vikas Kumar. © 2021. 19 pages.
Regulatory compliance is equally binding on small and medium business groups. Owing to the small scale and limited budget, such SMBs are unable to seek expert advice. To...
Standards and Regulatory Compliances for IoT Security
Manju Lata, Vikas Kumar. © 2021. 15 pages.
The widespread deployments of IoT technologies and their applications present a number of significant challenges due to integration of a number of different categories of devices...
Role of Cloud Computing in School Education
Vikas Kumar, Aashish Bhardwaj. © 2020. 11 pages.
Government and non-government organizations throughout the world are investing a lot in education because it is a primary tool to reduce poverty and crime in society. Still, the...
Social Media as a Tool in Higher Education: A Pedagogical Perspective
Vikas Kumar, Pooja Nanda. © 2020. 15 pages.
Development of information technology has very much affected the way teachers teach and students learn. Digital devices have become a routine not only for playing games and...
Examining the Roles of IT and Social Media in Democratic Development and Social Change
Vikas Kumar, Geetika Malhotra. © 2020. 384 pages.
Social media has emerged as a powerful tool that reaches a wide audience with minimum time and effort. It has a diverse role in society and human life and can boost the...
Web Analytics for Knowledge Creation: A Systematic Review of Tools, Techniques, and Practices
Vikas Kumar, Gabriel Ayodeji Ogunmola. © 2020. 14 pages.
Digitization efforts across the world have resulted in the need for businesses to own a website. All Fortune 500 companies run websites for either information dissemination or...
A Framework for Ethical Mobile Marketing
Saurabh Mittal, Vikas Kumar. © 2020. 15 pages.
High user involvement with mobile phones presents a lot of opportunities for marketers for sending their promotional campaigns. Campaign relevance, product fit, security, content...
Web Analytics and Online Retail: Ethical Perspective
Gabriel Ayodeji Ogunmola, Vikas Kumar. © 2020. 16 pages.
Currently, all major e-retailers and even the start-ups have incorporated web analytics services on their websites to monitor customer behaviour while extracting personal data....
Trust Management: Social vs. Digital Identity
Vikas Kumar, Prasann Pradhan. © 2020. 19 pages.
Trust and identity are the fundamental issues to both the social as well as digital environments. An individual or a group require both of these identities to recognize...
Deploying Cloud-Based Healthcare Services: A Holistic Approach
Vikas Kumar, Aashish Bhardwaj. © 2020. 14 pages.
Healthcare of individuals is very important; hence, the healthcare data needs to be managed very professionally. These requirements have become more stringent with the population...
Social Media in Higher Education: A Framework for Continuous Engagement
Vikas Kumar, Pooja Nanda. © 2019. 12 pages.
Distance education or learning has been around for a long time and with the advent of mobile devices like the smart phone, it is inevitable that mobility impacts the distance...
Attenuation Measurement of Lossy Coatings of Carbon for Ka-Band Helix TWT Applications
Vikas Kumar. © 2019. 7 pages.
In a high efficiency traveling wave tube (TWT) amplifier, any reflections present in the device may cause oscillations and hence instability. A coating of lossy material on...
Social Media to Social Media Analytics: Ethical Challenges
Vikas Kumar, Pooja Nanda. © 2019. 14 pages.
With the amplification of social media platforms, the importance of social media analytics has exponentially increased for many brands and organizations across the world....
Identity Management Systems: A Comparative Analysis
Vikas Kumar, Aashish Bhardwaj. © 2018. 16 pages.
This article describes how in today's digital world, customers have made it a common practice to maintain user accounts with different service providers to access a range of...
Cloud Computing as a Catalyst in STEM Education
Vikas Kumar, Deepika Sharma. © 2017. 14 pages.
The under representation of students in STEM disciplines creates big worries for the coming demands of STEM occupations. This requires new strategies to make curriculum...
A Framework for Collaborative and Convenient Learning on Cloud Computing Platforms
Deepika Sharma, Vikas Kumar. © 2017. 20 pages.
The depth of learning resides in collaborative work with more engagement and fun. Technology can enhance collaboration with a higher level of convenience and cloud computing can...
A Novel Approach of Restoration of Digital Images Degraded by Impulse Noise
Rashmi Kumari, Anupriya Asthana, Vikas Kumar. © 2017. 17 pages.
Restoration of digital images degraded by impulse noise is still a challenge for researchers. Various methods proposed in the literature suffer from common drawbacks: such as...
Multi-Disciplinary Research Issues in Cloud Computing
Jitendra Singh, Vikas Kumar. © 2016. 24 pages.
Cloud computing, characterized by on demand availability of resources is gaining a lot of popularity in the present day business scenario. This new computing paradigm is...
Creating Collaborative and Convenient Learning Environment Using Cloud-Based Moodle LMS: An Instructor and Administrator Perspective
Vikas Kumar, Deepika Sharma. © 2016. 16 pages.
Students in the digital era are habitual of using digital devices not only for playing and interacting with their friends and peers, but also as a tool for education and...
Trust Management Models for Digital Identities
Prasann Pradhan, Vikas Kumar. © 2016. 24 pages.
Trust is an essential requirement to transact in the digital environment. Digital identity proves a user's presence, whereas the trust proves the standing and worthiness....
Promoting Social Change and Democracy through Information Technology
Vikas Kumar, Jakob Svensson. © 2015. 326 pages.
Life in the digital era offers an array of new and invigorating opportunities, as well as a new set of challenges when facing the dissemination of fresh innovations. While once...
Trust Management Issues in Social-Media Marketing
Vikas Kumar, Prasann Pradhan. © 2015. 18 pages.
Social Media provides a new channel to marketers and businesses to communicate with their customers and business partners and integrate this media in their business strategy. The...
A Novel Approach of Restoration of Digital Images Degraded by Impulse Noise
Rashmi Kumari, Anupriya Asthana, Vikas Kumar. © 2014. 17 pages.
Restoration of digital images degraded by impulse noise is still a challenge for researchers. Various methods proposed in the literature suffer from common drawbacks: such as...
Multi-Disciplinary Research Issues in Cloud Computing
Jitendra Singh, Vikas Kumar. © 2014. 22 pages.
Cloud computing, characterized by on demand availability of resources is gaining a lot of popularity in the present day business scenario. This new computing paradigm is...
Compliance and Regulatory Standards for Cloud Computing
Jitendra Singh, Vikas Kumar. © 2013. 11 pages.
Cloud computing is expanding in reach, with its utility-based features and enhanced agility. Still, there is a big concern about the privacy and security of the data. Because of...