Theory and methods -- A Simple Difference Based Inter Frame Video Forgery Detection And Localization -- Pixel-Level Segmentation for Multiobject Tracking Using Mask RCNN-FPN -- Novel Integrated Conv Siamese Model for Land Cover Change Detection -- X-DeepID: An Explainable Hybrid Deep Learning Method for Enhancing IoT Security with Intrusion Detection -- Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Combating Cyberbullying -- On Finding Non Coding Elements in Genome : A Machine Intelligence Approach -- Investigating Natural Inhibitors of Permeability-glycoprotein (p-gp) Liver Transporter via Molecular Docking Simulation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Therapy -- Temporal Contrast Sets Mining -- Visualization Techniques in VR for Vocational Education: Comparison of Realism and Diegesis on Performance, Memory, Perception and Perceived Usability -- Multi-Tenant Servitization Platform-as-a-Service Model -- A Load-balanced Task Scheduling in Fog-Cloud Architecture: A Machine Learning Approach -- Using Machine Learning Techniques and Algorithms for predicting the Time Length of Publishing a Law (TLOPL) in the domain of e-Parliament -- Deep Metric Learning with Music Data -- Online Health Information Seeking in Social Media -- Blockchain Segmentation: An Industrial Solution for Large Scale Data -- Non-linear Finite Element Restorative Analysis of Low Shear Resistant RC Beams Strengthened with Bio-sisal and GFRP -- Estimation of Mass Balance of Baspa Basin, Western Himalayas using Remote Sensing Data -- Systems and Applications -- OntoOpinionMiner: An Opinion Mining Algorithm for Drug Reviews -- MTL-rtFND: Multimodal Transfer Learning for Real-time Fake News Detection on Social Media -- Classification of Exaggerated News Headlines -- Inappropriate Text Detection and Rephrasing using NLP -- Predicting Suicide Ideation from Social Media Text Using CNN BiLSTM -- Enhanced Multi-Step Breast Cancer Prediction through IntegratedbDimensionality Reduction and Support Vector Classification -- Designing AI-Based Non-invasive Method for Automatic Detection of Bovine Mastitis. .

The two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2023, held in Changa, Anand, India, in December 2023. The 42 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 351 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Volume number 2020: Theory and Methods; Systems and Applications Volume number 2031: Systems and Applications; Hybrid Techniques.