The Internet of Things(IoT)is a heterogeneous information sharing and access platform that provides services in a pervasive manner.Task and computation offloading in the IoT helps to improve the response rate and the ...The Internet of Things(IoT)is a heterogeneous information sharing and access platform that provides services in a pervasive manner.Task and computation offloading in the IoT helps to improve the response rate and the availability of resources.Task offloading in a service-centric IoT environment mitigates the complexity in response delivery and request processing.In this paper,the state-based task offloading method(STOM)is introduced with a view to maximize the service response rate and reduce the response time of the varying request densities.The proposed method is designed using the Markov decision-making model to improve the rate of requests processed.By defining optimal states and filtering the actions based on the probability of response and request analysis,this method achieves less response time.Based on the defined states,request processing and resource allocations are performed to reduce the backlogs in handling multiple requests.The proposed method is verified for the response rate and time for the varying requests and processing servers through an experimental analysis.From the experimental analysis,the proposed method is found to improve response rate and reduce backlogs,response time,and offloading factor by 11.5%,20.19%,20.31%,and 8.85%,respectively.展开更多
Credit risk prediction models seek to predict quality factors such as whether an individual will default （bad applicant） on a loan or not （good applicant）. This can be treated as a kind of machine learning （ML） ...Credit risk prediction models seek to predict quality factors such as whether an individual will default （bad applicant） on a loan or not （good applicant）. This can be treated as a kind of machine learning （ML） problem. Recently, the use of ML algorithms has proven to be of great practical value in solving a variety of risk problems including credit risk prediction. One of the most active areas of recent research in ML has been the use of ensemble （combining） classifiers. Research indicates that ensemble individual classifiers lead to a significant improvement in classification performance by having them vote for the most popular class. This paper explores the predicted behaviour of five classifiers for different types of noise in terms of credit risk prediction accuracy, and how could such accuracy be improved by using pairs of classifier ensembles. Benchmarking results on five credit datasets and comparison with the performance of each individual classifier on predictive accuracy at various attribute noise levels are presented. The experimental evaluation shows that the ensemble of classifiers technique has the potential to improve prediction accuracy.展开更多
基金The partial APC is will be paid Durban University of Technology(DUT)University,South Africa.
文摘The Internet of Things(IoT)is a heterogeneous information sharing and access platform that provides services in a pervasive manner.Task and computation offloading in the IoT helps to improve the response rate and the availability of resources.Task offloading in a service-centric IoT environment mitigates the complexity in response delivery and request processing.In this paper,the state-based task offloading method(STOM)is introduced with a view to maximize the service response rate and reduce the response time of the varying request densities.The proposed method is designed using the Markov decision-making model to improve the rate of requests processed.By defining optimal states and filtering the actions based on the probability of response and request analysis,this method achieves less response time.Based on the defined states,request processing and resource allocations are performed to reduce the backlogs in handling multiple requests.The proposed method is verified for the response rate and time for the varying requests and processing servers through an experimental analysis.From the experimental analysis,the proposed method is found to improve response rate and reduce backlogs,response time,and offloading factor by 11.5%,20.19%,20.31%,and 8.85%,respectively.
文摘Credit risk prediction models seek to predict quality factors such as whether an individual will default （bad applicant） on a loan or not （good applicant）. This can be treated as a kind of machine learning （ML） problem. Recently, the use of ML algorithms has proven to be of great practical value in solving a variety of risk problems including credit risk prediction. One of the most active areas of recent research in ML has been the use of ensemble （combining） classifiers. Research indicates that ensemble individual classifiers lead to a significant improvement in classification performance by having them vote for the most popular class. This paper explores the predicted behaviour of five classifiers for different types of noise in terms of credit risk prediction accuracy, and how could such accuracy be improved by using pairs of classifier ensembles. Benchmarking results on five credit datasets and comparison with the performance of each individual classifier on predictive accuracy at various attribute noise levels are presented. The experimental evaluation shows that the ensemble of classifiers technique has the potential to improve prediction accuracy.
