bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Software aging prediction – a new approach
Authors: Parashivamurthy Shruthi , Cholli Nagaraj Girish
Published: December 2022

To meet the users’ requirements which are very diverse in recent days, computing infrastructure has become complex. An example of one such infrastructure is a cloud-based system. These systems suffer from resource exhaustion in the long run which leads to performance degradation. This phenomenon is called software aging. There is a need to predict software aging to carry out pre-emptive rejuvenation that enhances service availability. Software rejuvenation is the technique that refreshes the system and brings it back to a healthy state. Hence, software aging should be predicted in advance to trigger the rejuvenation process to improve service availability. In this work, the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) algorithm-based new approach has been used to identify the virtual machine's status, and a prediction of resource exhaustion time has been made. The proposed prediction model uses static thresholding and adaptive thresholding methods. The performance of the algorithms is compared, and it is found that for classification, the k-NN performs comparatively better, i.e., k-NN showed an accuracy of 97.6. In contrast, its counterparts performed with an accuracy of 96.0 (naïve Bayes) and 92.8 (decision tree). The comparison of the proposed work with previous similar works has also been discussed.
A lightweight and secure multilayer authentication scheme for wireless body area networks in healthcare system
Authors: Fareed Mohammad , Yassin Ali A.
Published: December 2022

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have lately been combined with different healthcare equipment to monitor patients' health status and communicate information with their healthcare practitioners. Since healthcare data often contain personal and sensitive information, it is important that healthcare systems have a secure way for users to log in and access resources and services. The lack of security and presence of anonymous communication in WBANs can cause their operational failure. There are other systems in this area, but they are vulnerable to offline identity guessing attacks, impersonation attacks in sensor nodes, and spoofing attacks in hub node. Therefore, this study provides a secure approach that overcomes these issues while maintaining comparable efficiency in wireless sensor nodes and mobile phones. To conduct the proof of security, the proposed scheme uses the Scyther tool for formal analysis and the Canetti–Krawczyk (CK) model for informal analysis. Furthermore, the suggested technique outperforms the existing symmetric and asymmetric encryption-based schemes.
Performance evaluation of dynamic source routing protocol with variation in transmission power and speed
Authors: Saad Saad Elsayed , Youssef Mohammed Ibrahim
Published: December 2022

Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a set of mobile wireless nodes (devices) which is not rely on a fixed infrastructure. In MANETs, each device is responsible for routing its data according to a specific routing protocol. The three most common MANET routing protocols are: dynamic source routing protocol (DSR), optimized link state routing protocol (OLSR), and ad-hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV). This paper proposes an efficient evaluation of DSR protocol by testing the MANETs routing protocol with variation in transmission power at different speeds. The performance analysis has been given using optimized network engineering tools (OPNET) modeler simulations and evaluated using metrics of average end to end delay and throughput. The results show that the throughput increases as the transmission power increases up to a certain value after which the throughput decreases, also the network work optimally at a certain transmission power which varied at different speed.
A review paper: optimal test cases for regression testing using artificial intelligent techniques
Authors: Khaleel Shahbaa I. , Anan Raghda
Published: December 2022

The goal of the testing process is to find errors and defects in the software being developed so that they can be fixed and corrected before they are delivered to the customer. Regression testing is an essential quality testing technique during the maintenance phase of the program as it is performed to ensure the integrity of the program after modifications have been made. With the development of the software, the test suite becomes too large to be fully implemented within the given test cost in terms of budget and time. Therefore, the cost of regression testing using different techniques should be reduced, here we dealt many methods such as retest all technique, regression test selection technique (RTS) and test case prioritization technique (TCP). The efficiency of these techniques is evaluated through the use of many metrics such as average percentage of fault detected (APFD), average percentage block coverage (APBC) and average percentage decision coverage (APDC). In this paper we dealt with these different techniques used in test case selection and test case prioritization and the metrics used to evaluate their efficiency by using different techniques of artificial intelligent and describe the best of all.
Performance assessment and analysis of development and operations based automation tools for source code management
Authors: Mittal Pooja , Narang Poonam
Published: December 2022

Development and operations (DevOps), an accretion of automation tools, efficiently reaches the goals of software development, test, release, and delivery in terms of optimization, speed and quality. Diverse set of alternative automation tools exist for different phases of software development, for which DevOps adopts several selection criteria to choose the best tool. This research paper represents the performance evaluation and analysis of automation tools employed in the coding phase of DevOps culture. We have taken most commonly followed source code management tools-BitBucket, GitHub actions, and GitLab into consideration. Current work assesses and analyzes their performance based on DevOps evaluation criteria that too are categorized into different dimensions. For the purpose of performance evaluation, weightage and overall score is assigned to these criteria based on existing renowned literature and industrial case study of TekMentors Pvt Ltd. On the ground of performance outcome, the tool with the highest overall score is realized as the best source code automation tool. This performance analysis or measure will be a great benefit to our young researchers/students to gain an understanding of the modus operandi of DevOps culture, particularly source code automation tools. As a part of future research, other dimensions of selection criteria can also be considered for evaluation purposes.
Enhanced sentiment analysis based on improved word embeddings and XGboost
Authors: Samih Amina , Ghadi Abderrahim , Fennan Abdelhadi
Published: December 2022

Sentiment analysis is a well-known and rapidly expanding study topic in natural language processing (NLP) and text classification. This approach has evolved into a critical component of many applications, including politics, business, advertising, and marketing. Most current research focuses on obtaining sentiment features through lexical and syntactic analysis. Word embeddings explicitly express these characteristics. This article proposes a novel method, improved words vector for sentiments analysis (IWVS), using XGboost to improve the F1-score of sentiment classification. The proposed method constructed sentiment vectors by averaging the word embeddings (Sentiment2Vec). We also investigated the Polarized lexicon for classifying positive and negative sentiments. The sentiment vectors formed a feature space to which the examined sentiment text was mapped to. Those features were input into the chosen classifier (XGboost). We compared the F1-score of sentiment classification using our method via different machine learning models and sentiment datasets. We compare the quality of our proposition to that of baseline models, term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) and Doc2vec, and the results show that IWVS performs better on the F1-measure for sentiment classification. At the same time, XGBoost with IWVS features was the best model in our evaluation.
Supervised and unsupervised data mining approaches in loan default prediction
Authors: Alejandrino Jovanne C. , P. Bolacoy Jovito Jr. , Murcia John Vianne Bauya
Published: December 2022

Given the paramount importance of data mining in organizations and the possible contribution of a data-driven customer classification recommender systems for loan-extending financial institutions, the study applied supervised and supervised data mining approaches to derive the best classifier of loan default. A total of 900 instances with determined attributes and class labels were used for the training and cross-validation processes while prediction used 100 new instances without class labels. In the training phase, J48 with confidence factor of 50% attained the highest classification accuracy (76.85%), k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) 3 the highest (78.38%) in IBk variants, naïve Bayes has a classification accuracy of 76.65%, and logistic has 77.31% classification accuracy. k-NN 3 and logistic have the highest classification accuracy, F-measures, and kappa statistics. Implementation of these algorithms to the test set yielded 48 non-defaulters and 52 defaulters for k -NN 3 while 44 non-defaulters and 56 defaulters under logistic. Implications were discussed in the paper.
Security and privacy in smart city: a secure e-voting system based on blockchain
Authors: Chentouf Fatima zahrae , Bouchkaren Said
Published: December 2022

In recent years, the internet of things (IoT) growth has brought about many technological changes, including the emergence of the notion of the smart city. The development of a smart city requires the integration of IoT devices and information and communication technologies to improve the quality of lives of citizens in many areas such as health, economy, business, agriculture, and transport. However, with this evolution, many cybersecurity risks and challenges have been raised, so it is necessary to develop these technologies in a protected way to avoid being compromised by attackers. Blockchain, being a new technology based on cryptographic principles, can play an important role in securing smart cities. In this survey, we discussed different applications of blockchain technology in smart cities and also studied how blockchain features (transparency, democracy, decentralization, and security) can help in the improvement of smart city services. This analysis will help us to implement an electronic voting model using a smart contract based on the Ethereum blockchain to highlight how blockchain technology can be implemented in smart cities to promote security.
An optimized 128-bit cellular automata-based hash function for authentication of data at rest and in transit
Authors: Nanda Surendra Kumar , Mohanty Suneeta , Pattnaik Prasant Kumar
Published: December 2022

The cryptographic hash functions are the most fundamental cryptographic concept. These functions are used as basic building blocks for digital signatures and message authentication. Boolean functions are the core of hash functions. These functions are expected to provide pseudo-randomness as well as input sensitivity. Cellular automata are a form of Boolean function that exhibits strong cryptography properties as well as chaotic behavior. This paper proposes a hash function, designed on the principle of cellular automata. The proposed algorithm is secure and meets the requirements for a successful hashing scheme. The hash function has strong statistical and cryptographic characteristics, according to the findings of the avalanche test and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Statistical Test Suite. The modularity of different operations of this algorithm makes it suitable for a high-capacity processing environment to produce efficient performance.
Cloud data security and various cryptographic algorithms
Authors: Alemami Yahia , Al-Ghonmein Ali M. , Al-Moghrabi Khaldun G. , Mohamed Mohamad Afendee
Published: December 2022

Cloud computing has spread widely among different organizations due to its advantages, such as cost reduction, resource pooling, broad network access, and ease of administration. It increases the abilities of physical resources by optimizing shared use. Clients’ valuable items (data and applications) are moved outside of regulatory supervision in a shared environment where many clients are grouped together. However, this process poses security concerns, such as sensitive information theft and personally identifiable data leakage. Many researchers have contributed to reducing the problem of data security in cloud computing by developing a variety of technologies to secure cloud data, including encryption. In this study, a set of encryption algorithms (advance encryption standard (AES), data encryption standard (DES), Blowfish, Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) encryption, and international data encryption algorithm (IDEA) was compared in terms of security, data encipherment capacity, memory usage, and encipherment time to determine the optimal algorithm for securing cloud information from hackers. Results show that RSA and IDEA are less secure than AES, Blowfish, and DES). The AES algorithm encrypts a huge amount of data, takes the least encipherment time, and is faster than other algorithms, and the Blowfish algorithm requires the least amount of memory space.
Efficiency of two decoders based on hash techniques and syndrome calculation over a Rayleigh channel
Authors: Kasmi Alaoui Seddiq El , Chiba Zouhair , Faham Hamza , El Assad Mohammed , Nouh Said
Published: December 2022

The explosive growth of connected devices demands high quality and reliability in data transmission and storage. Error correction codes (ECCs) contribute to this in ways that are not very apparent to the end user, yet indispensable and effective at the most basic level of transmission. This paper presents an investigation of the performance and analysis of two decoders that are based on hash techniques and syndrome calculation over a Rayleigh channel. These decoders under study consist of two main features: a reduced complexity compared to other competitors and good error correction performance over an additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. When applied to decode some linear block codes such as Bose, Ray-Chaudhuri, and Hocquenghem (BCH) and quadratic residue (QR) codes over a Rayleigh channel, the experiment and comparison results of these decoders have shown their efficiency in terms of guaranteed performance measured in bit error rate (BER). For example, the coding gain obtained by syndrome decoding and hash techniques (SDHT) when it is applied to decode BCH (31, 11, 11) equals 34.5 dB, i.e., a reduction rate of 75% compared to the case where the exchange is carried out without coding and decoding process.
A comprehensive study of machine learning for predicting cardiovascular disease using Weka and Statistical Package for Social Sciences tools
Authors: Abuhaija Belal , Alloubani Aladeen , Almatari Mohammad , Jaradat Ghaith , Abdallah Hemn , Abualkishik Abdallah M. , Alsmadi Mutasem K.
Published: December 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is simulating human intelligence processes by machines and software simulators to help humans in making accurate, informed, and fast decisions based on data analysis. The medical field can make use of such AI simulators because medical data records are enormous with many overlapping parameters. Using in-depth classification techniques and data analysis can be the first step in identifying and reducing the risk factors. In this research, we are evaluating a dataset of cardiovascular abnormalities affecting a group of potential patients. We aim to employ the help of AI simulators such as Weka to understand the effect of each parameter on the risk of suffering from cardiovascular disease (CVD). We are utilizing seven classes, such as baseline accuracy, naïve Bayes, k-nearest neighbor, decision tree, support vector machine, linear regression, and artificial neural network multilayer perceptron. The classifiers are assisted by a correlation-based filter to select the most influential attributes that may have an impact on obtaining a higher classification accuracy. Analysis of the results based on sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and precision results from Weka and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) is illustrated. A decision tree method (J48) demonstrated its ability to classify CVD cases with high accuracy 95.76%.
Image encryption algorithm based on the density and 6D logistic map
Authors: A. Rashid Abdullah , Hussein Khalid A.
Published: December 2022

One of the most difficult issues in the history of communication technology is the transmission of secure images. On the internet, photos are used and shared by millions of individuals for both private and business reasons. Utilizing encryption methods to change the original image into an unintelligible or scrambled version is one way to achieve safe image transfer over the network. Cryptographic approaches based on chaotic logistic theory provide several new and promising options for developing secure Image encryption methods. The main aim of this paper is to build a secure system for encrypting gray and color images. The proposed system consists of two stages, the first stage is the encryption process, in which the keys are generated depending on the chaotic logistic with the image density to encrypt the gray and color images, and the second stage is the decryption, which is the opposite of the encryption process to obtain the original image. The proposed method has been tested on two standard gray and color images publicly available. The test results indicate to the highest value of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), unified average changing intensity (UACI), number of pixel change rate (NPCR) are 7.7268, 50.2011 and 100, respectively. While the encryption and decryption speed up to 0.6319 and 0.5305 second respectively.
Classification of arecanut using machine learning techniques
Authors: Shedthi B Shabari , Siddappa Madappa , Shetty Surendra , Shetty Vidyasagar
Published: December 2022

In agricultural domain research, image processing and machine learning techniques play an important role. This paper provides a unique solution for classifying the good and defective arecanuts based on their color, texture, and density value. In the market different varieties of arecanut are available. Usually, qualitative sorting is done manually, and this can be replaced by applying machine vision techniques to grade the arecanut. Classification of arecanut based on quality is done using various machine learning techniques and it is observed that artificial neural networks give good results compared to other classifiers like logistic regression, k-nearest neighbor, naive Bayes classifiers, and support vector machine. A unique density feature is considered here for better classification. The result of classifiers without considering the density feature is compared with respect to the density feature and it is observed that artificial neural networks work better than the others. The proposed method works effectively for classifying arecanut with an accuracy of 98.8%.
Assessing contributor features to phishing susceptibility amongst students of petroleum resources varsity in Nigeria
Authors: Yoro Rume Elizabeth , Aghware Fidelis Obukohwo , Malasowe Bridget Ogheneovo , Nwankwo Obinna , Ojugo Arnold Adimabua
Published: December 2022

In this observational quasi-experimental study, we recruited 200 participants during the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun’s (FUPRE) orientation, who were exposed to socially engineered (phishing) attacks over nine months. Attacks sought to extract participants’ data and/or entice them to click (compromised) links. The study aims to determine phishing exposure and risks among undergraduates in FUPRE (Nigeria) by observing their responses to socially-engineered attacks and exploring their attitudes to cybercrime risks before and after phishing attacks. The study primed all students in place of cybercrime awareness to remain vigilant to scams and explored the various scam types with their influence on gender, age, status, and their perceived safety on susceptibility to scams. Results show that contrary to public beliefs, these factors have all been found to be associated with scam susceptibility and vulnerability of the participants.
Efficient and linear static approach for finding the memory leak in C
Authors: Desai Vishruti , Jariwala Vivaksha
Published: December 2022

Code analysis has discovered that memory leaks are common in the C programming language. In the literature, there exist various approaches for statically analyzing and detecting memory leaks. The complexity and diversity of memory leaks make it difficult to find an approach that is both effective and simple. In embedded systems, costly resources like memory become limited as the system’s size diminishes. As a result, memory must be handled effectively and efficiently too. To obtain precise analysis, we propose a novel approach that works in a phase-wise manner. Instead of examining all possible paths for finding memory leaks, we use a program slicing to check for a potential memory leak. We introduce a source-sink flow graph (SSFG) based on source-sink properties of memory allocation-deallocation within the C code. To achieve simplicity in analysis, we also reduce the complexity of analysis in linear time. In addition, we utilize a constraint solver to improve the effectiveness of our approach. To evaluate the approach, we perform manual scanning on various test cases: link list applications, Juliet test cases, and common vulnerabilities and exposures found in 2021. The results show the efficiency of the proposed approach by preparing the SSFG with linear complexity.
Evidence of personality traits on phishing attack menace among selected university undergraduates in Nigerian
Authors: Yoro Rume Elizabeth , ObukohwoAghware Fidelis , Akazue Maureen Ifeanyi , Ibor Ayei Egu , Ojugo Arnold Adimabua
Published: December 2022

Access ease, mobility, portability, and improved speed have continued to ease the adoption of computing devices; while, consequently proliferating phishing attacks. These, in turn, have created mixed feelings in increased adoption and nosedived users’ trust level of devices. The study recruited 480-students, who were exposed to socially-engineered attack directives. Attacks were designed to retrieve personal data and entice participants to access compromised links. We sought to determine the risks of cybercrimes among the undergraduates in selected Nigerian universities, observe students’ responses and explore their attitudes before/after each attack. Participants were primed to remain vigilant to all forms of scams as we sought to investigate attacks’ influence on gender, students’ status, and age to perceived safety on susceptibility to phishing. Results show that contrary to public beliefs, age, status, and gender were not among the factors associated with scam susceptibility and vulnerability rates of the participants. However, the study reports decreased user trust levels in the adoption of these new, mobile computing devices.
Multi-modal palm-print and hand-vein biometric recognition at sensor level fusion
Authors: Al-Mahafzah Harbi , AbuKhalil Tamer , Alksasbeh Malek , Alqaralleh Bassam
Published: December 2022

When it is important to authenticate a person based on his or her biometric qualities, most systems use a single modality (e.g. fingerprint or palm print) for further analysis at higher levels. Rather than using higher levels, this research recommends using two biometric features at the sensor level. The Log-Gabor filter is used to extract features and, as a result, recognize the pattern, because the data acquired from images is sampled at various spacing. Using the two fused modalities, the suggested system attained greater accuracy. Principal component analysis was performed to reduce the dimensionality of the data. To get the optimum performance between the two classifiers, fusion was performed at the sensor level utilizing different classifiers, including k-nearest neighbors and support vector machines. The technology collects palm prints and veins from sensors and combines them into consolidated images that take up less disk space. The amount of memory needed to store such photos has been lowered. The amount of memory is determined by the number of modalities fused.
Integration of evolutionary algorithm in an agent-oriented approach for an adaptive e-learning
Authors: Zohra Lhafra Fatima , Abdoun Otman
Published: December 2022

This paper describes an agent-oriented approach that aims to create learning situations by solving problems. The proposed system is designed as a multi-agent that organizes interfaces, coordinators, sources of information, and mobiles. The objective of this approach is to get learners to solve a problem that leads them to get engaged in several learning activities, chosen according to their level of knowledge and preferences in order to ensure adaptive learning and reduce the rate of learner abundance in an e-learning system. The search for learning activities procedure is based on evolutionary algorithms typically a genetic algorithm, to offer learners the optimal solution adapted to their profiles and ensure a resolution of the proposed learning problem. In terms of results, we have adopted “immigration strategies” to improve the performance of the genetic algorithm. To show the effectiveness of the proposed approach we have made a comparative study with other artificial intelligence optimization methods. We conducted a real experiment with primary school learners in order to test the effectiveness of the proposed approach and to set up its functioning. The experiment results showed a high rate of success and engagement among the learners who followed the proposed adaptive learning scenario.
A hybrid approach based on personality traits for hate speech detection in Arabic social media
Authors: EL-Zayady Hossam , S. Mohamed Mohamed , Badran Khaled , Salama Gouda
Published: December 2022

In recent years, as social media has grown in popularity, people have gained the ability to freely share their views. However, this may lead to users' conflict and hostility, resulting in unattractive online environments. Hate speech relates to using expressions or phrases that are violent, offensive, or insulting to a minority of people. The number of Arab social media users is quickly rising, and this is being followed by an increase in the frequency of cyber hate speech in the area. Therefore, the automated detection of Arabic hate speech has become a major concern for many stakeholders. The intersection of personality learning and hate speech detection is a relatively less studied niche. We suggest a novel approach that is focused on extracting personality trait features and using these features to detect Arabic hate speech. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is superior in terms of the macro-F1 score by achieving 82.3% compared to previous work reported in the literature.
A novel hybrid deep learning approachfor tourism demand forecasting
Authors: Laaroussi Houria , Guerouate Fatima , Sbihi Mohamed
Published: December 2022

This paper proposes a new hybrid deep learning framework that combines search query data, autoencoders (AE) and stacked long-short term memory (staked LSTM) to enhance the accuracy of tourism demand prediction. We use data from Google Trends as an additional variable with the monthly tourist arrivals to Marrakech, Morocco. The AE is applied as a feature extraction procedure to dimension reduction, to extract valuable information and to mine the nonlinear information incorporated in data. The extracted features are fed into stacked LSTM to predict tourist arrivals. Experiments carried out to analyze performance in forecast results of proposed method compared to individual models, and different principal component analysis (PCA) based and AE based hybrid models. The experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms other models.
Characterization of Arabic sibilant consonants
Authors: Elfahm Youssef , Abajaddi Nesrine , Mounir Badia , Elmaazouzi Laila , Mounir Ilham , Farchi Abdelmajid
Published: December 2022

The aim of this study is to develop an automatic speech recognition system in order to classify sibilant Arabic consonants into two groups: alveolar consonants and post-alveolar consonants. The proposed method is based on the use of the energy distribution, in a consonant-vowel type syllable, as an acoustic cue. The application of this method on our own corpus reveals that the amount of energy included in a vocal signal is a very important parameter in the characterization of Arabic sibilant consonants. For consonants classifications, the accuracy achieved to identify consonants as alveolar or post-alveolar is 100%. For post-alveolar consonants, the rate is 96% and for alveolar consonants, the rate is over 94%. Our classification technique outperformed existing algorithms based on support vector machines and neural networks in terms of classification rate.
Human activity recognition with self-attention
Authors: Tan Yi-Fei , Poh Soon-Chang , Ooi Chee-Pun , Tan Wooi-Haw
Published: December 2022

In this paper, a self-attention based neural network architecture to address human activity recognition is proposed. The dataset used was collected using smartphone. The contribution of this paper is using a multi-layer multi-head self-attention neural network architecture for human activity recognition and compared to two strong baseline architectures, which are convolutional neural network (CNN) and long-short term network (LSTM). The dropout rate, positional encoding and scaling factor are also been investigated to find the best model. The results show that proposed model achieves a test accuracy of 91.75%, which is a comparable result when compared to both the baseline models.
An assessment of stingless beehive climate impact using multivariate recurrent neural networks
Authors: Khairul Anuar Noor Hafizah , Md Yunus Mohd Amri , Baharudin Muhammad Ariff , Ibrahim Sallehuddin , Sahlan Shafishuhaza , Faramarzi Mahdi
Published: December 2022

A healthy bee colony depends on various elements, including a stable habitat, a sufficient source of food, and favorable weather. This paper aims to assess the stingless beehive climate data and examine the precise short-term forecast model for hive weight output. The dataset was extracted from a single hive, for approximately 36-hours, at every seven seconds time stamp. The result represents the correlation analysis between all variables. The evaluation of root-mean-square error (RMSE), as well as the RMSE performance from various types of topologies, are tested on four different forecasting window sizes. The proposed forecast model considers seven of input vectors such as hive weight, an inside temperature, inside humidity, outside temperature, outside humidity, the dewpoint, and bee count. The various network architecture examined for minimal RMSE are long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent units (GRU). The LSTM1X50 topology was found to be the best fit while analyzing several forecasting windows sizes for the beehive weight forecast. The results obtained indicate a significant unusual symptom occurring in the stingless bee colonies, which allow beekeepers to make decisions with the main objective of improving the colony’s health and propagation.
The cross-association relation based on intervals ratio in fuzzy time series
Authors: Vianita Etna , Sam'an Muhammad , Haikal A. Nafis , Mufaricha Ina Salamatul , Tjahjana Redemtus Heru , Udjiani Titi
Published: December 2022

The fuzzy time series (FTS) is a forecasting model based on linguistic values. This forecasting method was developed in recent years after the existing ones were insufficiently accurate. Furthermore, this research modified the accuracy of existing methods for determining and the partitioning universe of discourse, fuzzy logic relationship (FLR), and variation historical data using intervals ratio, cross association relationship, and rubber production Indonesia data, respectively. The modified steps start with the intervals ratio to partition the determined universe discourse. Then the triangular fuzzy sets were built, allowing fuzzification. After this, the FLR are built based on the cross-association relationship, leading to defuzzification. The average forecasting error rate (AFER) was used to compare the modified results and the existing methods. Additionally, the simulations were conducted using rubber production Indonesia data from 2000-2020. With an AFER result of 4.77%<10%, the modification accuracy has a smaller error than previous methods, indicating very good forecasting criteria. In addition, the coefficient values of D1 and D2 were automatically obtained from the intervals ratio algorithm. The future works modified the partitioning of the universe of discourse using frequency density to eliminate unused partition intervals.
Optimizing Alzheimer's disease prediction using the nomadic people algorithm
Authors: Ahmed Shaymaa Taha , Kadhem Suhad Malallah
Published: December 2022

The problem with using microarray technology to detect diseases is that not each is analytically necessary. The presence of non-essential gene data adds a computing load to the detection method. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to reduce the high-dimensional data size by determining the most critical genes involved in Alzheimer's disease progression. A study also aims to predict patients with a subset of genes that cause Alzheimer's disease. This paper uses feature selection techniques like information gain (IG) and a novel metaheuristic optimization technique based on a swarm’s algorithm derived from nomadic people’s behavior (NPO). This suggested method matches the structure of these individuals' lives movements and the search for new food sources. The method is mostly based on a multi-swarm method; there are several clans, each seeking the best foraging opportunities. Prediction is carried out after selecting the informative genes of the support vector machine (SVM), frequently used in a variety of prediction tasks. The accuracy of the prediction was used to evaluate the suggested system's performance. Its results indicate that the NPO algorithm with the SVM model returns high accuracy based on the gene subset from IG and NPO methods.
Bone age assessment based on deep learning architecture
Authors: Jabbar Alaa Jamal , Abdulmunem Ashwan A.
Published: December 2022

The fast advancement of technology has prompted the creation of automated systems in a variety of sectors, including medicine. One application is an automated bone age evaluation from left-hand X-ray pictures, which assists radiologists and pediatricians in making decisions about the growth status of youngsters. However, one of the most difficult aspects of establishing an automated system is selecting the best approach for producing effective and dependable predictions, especially when working with large amounts of data. As part of this work, we investigate the use of the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) model to classify the age of the bone. The work’s dataset is based on the radiological society of North America (RSNA) dataset. To address this issue, we developed and tested deep learning architecture for autonomous bone assessment, we design a new deep convolution network (DCNN) model. The assessment measures that use in this work are accuracy, recall, precision, and F-score. The proposed model achieves 97% test accuracy for bone age classification.
Person identification based on facial biometrics in different lighting conditions
Authors: AbdulAbaus Marem H. , Al-Shakarchy Noor D.
Published: December 2022

Technological development is an inherent feature of this time, that reliance on electronic applications in all daily transactions (business management, banking, financial transfers, health, and other important aspects of life). Identifying and confirming identity is one of the complex challenges. Therefore, relying on biological properties gives reliable results. People can be identified in pictures, films, or real-time using facial recognition technology. A face individual is a unique identifying biological characteristic to authenticate them and prevents permits another person to assume that individual’s identity without their knowledge or consent. This article proposes the identification model by facial individual characteristics, based on the deep neural network (DNN). The proposed method extracts the spatial information available in an image, analysis this information to extract the salient features, and makes the identifying decision based on these features. This model presents successful and promising results, the accuracy achieves by the proposed system reaches 99.5% (+/- 0.16%) and the values of the loss function reach 0.0308 over the Pins Face Recognition dataset to identify 105 subjects.
Two-stages of segmentation to improve accuracy of deep learning models based on dairy cow morphology
Authors: Siregar Amril Mutoi , Purwanto Yohanes Aris , Wijaya Sony Hartono , Nahrowi Nahrowi
Published: December 2022

Computer vision deals with image-based problems, such as deep learning, classification, and object detection. This study classifies the quality of dairy parents into three, namely high, medium, and low based on morphology by focusing on Bogor Indonesia farms. The morphological images used are the side and back of dairy cows and the challenge is to determine the optimal accuracy of the model for it to be implemented into an automated system. The 2-step mask region-based convolutional neural network (mask R-CNN) and Canny segmentation algorithm were continuously used to classify the convolutional neural network (CNN) in order to obtain optimal accuracy. When testing the model using training and testing ratios of 90:10 and 80:20, it was evaluated in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. The results showed that the highest model produced an accuracy of 85.44%, 87.12% precision, 83.79% recall, and 84.94% F1-score. Therefore, it was concluded that the test result with 2-stages of segmentation was the best.
On the performance analysis of rainfall prediction using mutual information with artificial neural network
Authors: Hudnurkar Shilpa , Rayavarapu Neela
Published: December 2022

Monsoon rainfall prediction over a small geographic region is indeed a challenging task. This paper uses monthly means of climate variables, namely air temperature (AT), sea surface temperature (SST), and sea level pressure (SLP) over the globe, to predict monthly and seasonal summer monsoon rainfall over the state of Maharashtra, India. Mutual information correlates the temperature and pressure from a grid of 10° longitude X 10° latitude with Maharashtra’s monthly rainfall time series. Based on the correlations, selected features over the respective latitude and longitudes are given as inputs to an artificial neural network. It was observed that AT and SLP could predict monthly monsoon rainfall with excellent accuracy. The performance of the test dataset was evaluated through mean absolute error; root mean square error, correlation coefficient, Nash Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient, and maximum rainfall prediction capability of the network. The individual climate variable model for AT performed better in all evaluation parameters except maximum rainfall capability, where the combined model 2 with AT, SLP and SST as predictors outperformed. The SLP-only model’s performance was comparable to the AT-only model. The combined model 1 with AT and SLP as predictors was found better than the combined model 2.
Node classification with graph neural network based centrality measures and feature selection
Authors: M. Mahmoud Asmaa , Desuky Abeer S. , F. Eid Heba , A. Ali Hoda
Published: December 2022

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a new topic of research in data science where data structure graphs are used as important components for developing and training neural networks. GNN always learns the weight importance of the neighbor for perform message aggregation in which the feature vectors of all neighbors are aggregated without considering whether the features are useful or not. Using such more informative features positively affect the performance of the GNN model. So, in this paper i) after selecting a subset of features to define important node features, we present new graph features’ explanation methods based on graph centrality measures to capture rich information and determine the most important node in a network. Through our experiments, we find that selecting certain subsets of these features and adding other features based on centrality measure can lead to better performance across a variety of datasets and ii) we introduce a major design strategy for graph neural networks. Specifically, we suggest using batch renormalization as normalization over GNN layers. Combining these techniques, representing features based on centrality measures that passed to multilayer perceptron (MLP) layer which is then passed to adjusted GNN layer, the proposed model achieves greater accuracy than modern GNN models.
Enhancing the stability of the deep neural network using a non-constant learning rate for data stream
Authors: Abbas Al-Khamees Hussein Abdul Ameer , Al-A'araji Nabeel , Al-Shamery Eman Salih
Published: December 2022

The data stream is considered the backbone of many real-world applications. These applications are most effective when using modern techniques of machine learning like deep neural networks (DNNs). DNNs are very sensitive to set parameters, the most prominent one is the learning rate. Choosing an appropriate learning rate value is critical because it is able to control the overall network performance. This paper presents a new developing DNN model using a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) structure that includes network training based on the optimal learning rate. Thereupon, this model consists of three hidden layers and does not adopt the stability of the learning rate but has a non-constant value (varying over time) to obtain the optimal learning rate which is able to reduce the error in each iteration and increase the model accuracy. This is done by deriving a new parameter that is added to and subtracted from the learning rate. The proposed model is evaluated by three streaming datasets: electricity, network security layer-knowledge discovery in database (NSL-KDD), and human gait database (HuGaDB) datasets. The results proved that the proposed model achieves better results than the constant model and outperforms previous models in terms of accuracy, where it achieved 88.16%, 98.67%, and 97.63% respectively.
Implementation of variational iteration method for various types of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations
Authors: Shihab Muhammad A. , Taha Wafaa M. , Hameed Raad A. , Jameel Ali , Sulaiman Ibrahim Mohammed
Published: December 2022

There are various linear and nonlinear one-dimensional partial differential equations that are the focus of this research. There are a large number of these equations that cannot be solved analytically or precisely. The evaluation of nonlinear partial differential equations, even if analytical solutions exist, may be problematic. Therefore, it may be necessary to use approximate analytical methodologies to solve these issues. As a result, a more effective and accurate approach must be investigated and analyzed. It is shown in this study that the Lagrange multiplier may be used to get an ideal value for parameters in a functional form and then used to construct an iterative series solution. Linear and nonlinear partial differential equations may both be solved using the variational iteration method (VIM) method, thanks to its high computing power and high efficiency. Decoding and analyzing possible Korteweg-De-Vries, Benjamin, and Airy equations demonstrates the method’s ability. With just a few iterations, the produced findings are very effective, precise, and convergent to the exact answer. As a result, solving nonlinear equations using VIM is regarded as a viable option.
Self-admitted technical debt classification using natural language processing word embeddings
Authors: Sabbah Ahmed F. , Hanani Abualsoud A.
Published: December 2022

Recent studies show that it is possible to detect technical dept automatically from source code comments intentionally created by developers, a phenomenon known as self-admitted technical debt. This study proposes a system by which a comment or commit is classified as one of five dept types, namely, requirement, design, defect, test, and documentation. In addition to the traditional term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), several word embeddings methods produced by different pre-trained language models were used for feature extraction, such as Word2Vec, GolVe, bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), and FastText. The generated features were used to train a set of classifiers including naive Bayes (NB), random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), and two configurations of convolutional neural network (CNN). Two datasets were used to train and test the proposed systems. Our collected dataset (A-dataset) includes a total of 1,513 comments and commits manually labeled. Additionally, a dataset, consisting of 4,071 labeled comments, used in previous studies (M-dataset) was also used in this study. The RF classifier achieved an accuracy of 0.822 with A-dataset and 0.820 with the M-dataset. CNN with A-dataset achieved an accuracy of 0.838 using BERT features. With M-dataset, the CNN achieves an accuracy of 0.809 and 0.812 with BERT and Word2Vec, respectively.
Automated-tuned hyper-parameter deep neural network by using arithmetic optimization algorithm for Lorenz chaotic system
Authors: Qasrina Ann Nurnajmin , Pebrianti Dwi , Abas Mohd Fadhil , Bayuaji Luhur
Published: December 2022

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are very dependent on their parameterization and require experts to determine which method to implement and modify the hyper-parameters value. This study proposes an automated-tuned hyper-parameter for DNN using a metaheuristic optimization algorithm, arithmetic optimization algorithm (AOA). AOA makes use of the distribution properties of mathematics’ primary arithmetic operators, including multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. AOA is mathematically modeled and implemented to optimize processes across a broad range of search spaces. The performance of AOA is evaluated against 29 benchmark functions, and several real-world engineering design problems are to demonstrate AOA’s applicability. The hyper-parameter tuning framework consists of a set of Lorenz chaotic system datasets, hybrid DNN architecture, and AOA that works automatically. As a result, AOA produced the highest accuracy in the test dataset with a combination of optimized hyper-parameters for DNN architecture. The boxplot analysis also produced the ten AOA particles that are the most accurately chosen. Hence, AOA with ten particles had the smallest size of boxplot for all hyper-parameters, which concluded the best solution. In particular, the result for the proposed system is outperformed compared to the architecture tested with particle swarm optimization.