Operating Rule Classification System of Water Supply Reservoir Based on Learning Classifier System

An operating rule classification system based on learning classifier system （LCS）, which learns through credit assignment （bucket brigade algorithm, BBA） and rule discovery （genetic algorithm, GA）, is established to extract water-supply reservoir operating rules. The proposed system acquires an online identification rate of 95% for training samples and an offline rate of 85% for testing samples in a case study. The performances of the rule classification system are discussed from the rationality of the obtained rules, the impact of training samples on rule extraction, and a comparison between the rule classification system and the artificial neural network （ANN）. The results indicate that the LCS is feasible and effective for the system to obtain the reservoir supply operating rules.

An Improved Ensemble Learning Approach for Heart Disease Prediction Using Boosting Algorithms

Cardiovascular disease is among the top five fatal diseases that affect lives worldwide.Therefore,its early prediction and detection are crucial,allowing one to take proper and necessary measures at earlier stages.Machine learning(ML)techniques are used to assist healthcare providers in better diagnosing heart disease.This study employed three boosting algorithms,namely,gradient boost,XGBoost,and AdaBoost,to predict heart disease.The dataset contained heart disease-related clinical features and was sourced from the publicly available UCI ML repository.Exploratory data analysis is performed to find the characteristics of data samples about descriptive and inferential statistics.Specifically,it was carried out to identify and replace outliers using the interquartile range and detect and replace the missing values using the imputation method.Results were recorded before and after the data preprocessing techniques were applied.Out of all the algorithms,gradient boosting achieved the highest accuracy rate of 92.20%for the proposed model.The proposed model yielded better results with gradient boosting in terms of precision,recall,and f1-score.It attained better prediction performance than the existing works and can be used for other diseases that share common features using transfer learning.

Performance Evaluation of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques for Efficient Detection of Emotions from Online Content

Emotion detection from the text is a challenging problem in the text analytics.The opinion mining experts are focusing on the development of emotion detection applications as they have received considerable attention of online community including users and business organization for collecting and interpreting public emotions.However,most of the existing works on emotion detection used less efficient machine learning classifiers with limited datasets,resulting in performance degradation.To overcome this issue,this work aims at the evaluation of the performance of different machine learning classifiers on a benchmark emotion dataset.The experimental results show the performance of different machine learning classifiers in terms of different evaluation metrics like precision,recall ad f-measure.Finally,a classifier with the best performance is recommended for the emotion classification.

A Learning Model to Detect Android C&C Applications Using Hybrid Analysis

Smartphone devices particularly Android devices are in use by billions of people everywhere in the world.Similarly,this increasing rate attracts mobile botnet attacks which is a network of interconnected nodes operated through the command and control(C&C)method to expand malicious activities.At present,mobile botnet attacks launched the Distributed denial of services(DDoS)that causes to steal of sensitive data,remote access,and spam generation,etc.Consequently,various approaches are defined in the literature to detect mobile botnet attacks using static or dynamic analysis.In this paper,a novel hybrid model,the combination of static and dynamic methods that relies on machine learning to detect android botnet applications is proposed.Furthermore,results are evaluated using machine learning classifiers.The Random Forest(RF)classifier outperform as compared to other ML techniques i.e.,Naïve Bayes(NB),Support Vector Machine(SVM),and Simple Logistic(SL).Our proposed framework achieved 97.48%accuracy in the detection of botnet applications.Finally,some future research directions are highlighted regarding botnet attacks detection for the entire community.

HDLIDP: A Hybrid Deep Learning Intrusion Detection and Prevention Framework

Distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks are designed to interrupt network services such as email servers and webpages in traditional computer networks.Furthermore,the enormous number of connected devices makes it difficult to operate such a network effectively.Software defined networks(SDN)are networks that are managed through a centralized control system,according to researchers.This controller is the brain of any SDN,composing the forwarding table of all data plane network switches.Despite the advantages of SDN controllers,DDoS attacks are easier to perpetrate than on traditional networks.Because the controller is a single point of failure,if it fails,the entire network will fail.This paper offers a Hybrid Deep Learning Intrusion Detection and Prevention(HDLIDP)framework,which blends signature-based and deep learning neural networks to detect and prevent intrusions.This framework improves detection accuracy while addressing all of the aforementioned problems.To validate the framework,experiments are done on both traditional and SDN datasets;the findings demonstrate a significant improvement in classification accuracy.

Exploring best‑matched embedding model and classifier for charging‑pile fault diagnosis

The continuous increase of electric vehicles is being facilitating the large-scale distributed charging-pile deployment.It is crucial to guarantee normal operation of charging piles,resulting in the importance of diagnosing charging-pile faults.The existing fault-diagnosis approaches were based on physical fault data like mechanical log data and sensor data streams.However,there are other types of fault data,which cannot be used for diagnosis by these existing approaches.This paper aims to fill this gap and consider 8 types of fault data for diagnosing,at least including physical installation error fault,charging-pile mechanical fault,charging-pile program fault,user personal fault,signal fault(offline),pile compatibility fault,charging platform fault,and other faults.We aim to find out how to combine existing feature-extraction and machine learning techniques to make the better diagnosis by conducting experiments on realistic dataset.4 word embedding models are investigated for feature extraction of fault data,including N-gram,GloVe,Word2vec,and BERT.Moreover,we classify the word embedding results using 10 machine learning classifiers,including Random Forest(RF),Support Vector Machine,K-Nearest Neighbor,Multilayer Perceptron,Recurrent Neural Network,AdaBoost,Gradient Boosted Decision Tree,Decision Tree,Extra Tree,and VOTE.Compared with original fault record dataset,we utilize paraphrasing-based data augmentation method to improve the classification accuracy up to 10.40%.Our extensive experiment results reveal that RF classifier combining the GloVe embedding model achieves the best accuracy with acceptable training time.In addition,we discuss the interpretability of RF and GloVe.

Local Binary Patterns and Its Variants for Finger Knuckle Print Recognition in Multi-Resolution Domain

Finger Knuckle Print biometric plays a vital role in establishing security for real-time environments. The success of human authentication depends on high speed and accuracy. This paper proposed an integrated approach of personal authentication using texture based Finger Knuckle Print (FKP) recognition in multiresolution domain. FKP images are rich in texture patterns. Recently, many texture patterns are proposed for biometric feature extraction. Hence, it is essential to review whether Local Binary Patterns or its variants perform well for FKP recognition. In this paper, Local Directional Pattern (LDP), Local Derivative Ternary Pattern (LDTP) and Local Texture Description Framework based Modified Local Directional Pattern (LTDF_MLDN) based feature extraction in multiresolution domain are experimented with Nearest Neighbor and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) Classifier for FKP recognition. Experiments were conducted on PolYU database. The result shows that LDTP in Contourlet domain achieves a promising performance. It also proves that Soft classifier performs better than the hard classifier.

Deep learning and machine learning neural network approaches for multi class leather texture defect classification and segmentation

Modern leather industries are focused on producing high quality leather products for sustaining the market com-petitiveness. However, various leather defects are introduced during various stages of manufacturing process such as material handling, tanning and dyeing. Manual inspection of leather surfaces is subjective and inconsistent in nature;hence machine vision systems have been widely adopted for the automated inspection of leather defects. It is neces-sary develop suitable image processing algorithms for localize leather defects such as folding marks, growth marks, grain off, loose grain, and pinhole due to the ambiguous texture pattern and tiny nature in the localized regions of the leather. This paper presents deep learning neural network-based approach for automatic localization and classifica-tion of leather defects using a machine vision system. In this work, popular convolutional neural networks are trained using leather images of different leather defects and a class activation mapping technique is followed to locate the region of interest for the class of leather defect. Convolution neural networks such as Google net, Squeeze-net, RestNet are found to provide better accuracy of classification as compared with the state-of-the-art neural network architectures and the results are presented.

Automatic greenhouse pest recognition based on multiple color space features

Recognition and counting of greenhouse pests are important for monitoring and forecasting pest population dynamics.This study used image processing techniques to recognize and count whiteflies and thrips on a sticky trap located in a greenhouse environment.The digital images of sticky traps were collected using an image-acquisition system under different greenhouse conditions.If a single color space is used,it is difficult to segment the small pests correctly because of the detrimental effects of non-uniform illumination in complex scenarios.Therefore,a method that first segments object pests in two color spaces using the Prewitt operator in I component of the hue-saturation-intensity(HSI)color space and the Canny operator in the B component of the Lab color space was proposed.Then,the segmented results for the two-color spaces were summed and achieved 91.57%segmentation accuracy.Next,because different features of pests contribute differently to the classification of pest species,the study extracted multiple features(e.g.,color and shape features)in different color spaces for each segmented pest region to improve the recognition performance.Twenty decision trees were used to form a strong ensemble learning classifier that used a majority voting mechanism and obtains 95.73%recognition accuracy.The proposed method is a feasible and effective way to process greenhouse pest images.The system accurately recognized and counted pests in sticky trap images captured under real greenhouse conditions.