Parametric optimization in wire electric discharge machining of DC53 steel using gamma phase coated wire

DC53 is considered as superior steel grade by die and mold making industries as compared to D2 and D3 steel due to its excellent mechanical characteristics     

Artificial Intelligence Based Data Offloading Technique for Secure MEC Systems

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides effective cloud services and functionality at the edge device, to improve the quality of service (QoS) of end users by offloading the high computation tasks. Currently, the introduction of deep learning (DL) and hardware technologies paves a method in detecting the current traffic status, data offloading, and cyberattacks in MEC. This study introduces an artificial intelligence with metaheuristic based data offloading technique for Secure MEC (AIMDO-SMEC) systems. The proposed AIMDO-SMEC technique incorporates an effective traffic prediction module using Siamese Neural Networks (SNN) to determine the traffic status in the MEC system. Also, an adaptive sampling cross entropy (ASCE) technique is utilized for data offloading in MEC systems. Moreover, the modified salp swarm algorithm (MSSA) with extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) technique was implemented to identification and classification of cyberattack that exist in the MEC systems. For examining the enhanced outcomes of the AIMDO-SMEC technique, a comprehensive experimental analysis is carried out and the results demonstrated the enhanced outcomes of the AIMDO-SMEC technique with the minimal completion time of tasks (CTT) of 0.680.     

Multiprocessing ocean circulation: Modeling, implementation, and performance on the Intel Paragon

In this paper we present the modeling and implementation of a grand challenge problem in the field of scientific computation: the primitive-equation numerical ocean circulation model. We present the mathematical formulation of the model and propose a scheme for its parallel implementation. Optimizations are made through collective communications and various partitioning schemes. In our experiments, which use up to 100 processors on the Intel Paragon parallel computer, the proposed strategy yields an encouraging speedup and exhibits a sustained scalability with increasing problem and machine sizes. We consider barotropic continental shelf waves in a periodic channel as a test problem. The model has numerous applications in environmental studies and ocean sciences.     

An overview of rate control techniques in HEVC and SHVC video encoding

Video standards are crucial for exchanging video content, enabling a myriad of services and supporting a wide variety of devices ranging from personal devices to clouds and IoT. One of the core requirements in video standards is the rate control that regulates the bit allocation and picture quality. This paper presents an overview of rate control techniques in the HEVC video coding standard. While providing an insight into the rate control mechanism specific to HEVC, it describes the basic operating principle of rate control algorithms, including their essential parameter, outputs, and performance measures. We review rate control in past coding standards and bring out the basic features of HEVC that drive the need for new rate control algorithms. Alongside, we delineate the Rate-Distortion model-based taxonomy of various algorithms, including their classification criteria. The paper gives out another classification of the rate control algorithms based on their basic principle and mechanisms. The article also explains the scalable extension of HEVC, namely SHVC, while highlighting some of the possible SHVC rate control design challenges. Finally, we present some of the unresolved research issues in HEVC rate control and outline possible future research directions.

     

Improved Ant Lion Optimizer with Deep Learning Driven Arabic Hate Speech Detection

Arabic is the world’s first language, categorized by its rich and complicated grammatical formats. Furthermore, the Arabic morphology can be perplexing because nearly 10,000 roots and 900 patterns were the basis for verbs and nouns. The Arabic language consists of distinct variations utilized in a community and particular situations. Social media sites are a medium for expressing opinions and social phenomena like racism, hatred, offensive language, and all kinds of verbal violence. Such conduct does not impact particular nations, communities, or groups only, extending beyond such areas into people’s everyday lives. This study introduces an Improved Ant Lion Optimizer with Deep Learning Dirven Offensive and Hate Speech Detection (IALODL-OHSD) on Arabic Cross-Corpora. The presented IALODL-OHSD model mainly aims to detect and classify offensive/hate speech expressed on social media. In the IALODL-OHSD model, a three-stage process is performed, namely pre-processing, word embedding, and classification. Primarily, data pre-processing is performed to transform the Arabic social media text into a useful format. In addition, the word2vec word embedding process is utilized to produce word embeddings. The attention-based cascaded long short-term memory (ACLSTM) model is utilized for the classification process. Finally, the IALO algorithm is exploited as a hyperparameter optimizer to boost classifier results. To illustrate a brief result analysis of the IALODL-OHSD model, a detailed set of simulations were performed. The extensive comparison study portrayed the enhanced performance of the IALODL-OHSD model over other approaches.     

A Pure Nash Equilibrium-Based Game Theoretical Method for Data Replication across Multiple Servers

This paper proposes a non-cooperative game based technique to replicate data objects across a distributed system of multiple servers in order to reduce user perceived Web access delays. In the proposed technique computational agents represent servers and compete with each other to optimize the performance of their servers. The optimality of a non-cooperative game is typically described by Nash equilibrium, which is based on spontaneous and non-deterministic strategies. However, Nash equilibrium may or may not guarantee system-wide performance. Furthermore, there can be multiple Nash equilibria, making it difficult to decide which one is the best. In contrast, the proposed technique uses the notion of pure Nash equilibrium, which if achieved, guarantees stable optimal performance. In the proposed technique, agents use deterministic strategies that work in conjunction with their self-interested nature but ensure system-wide performance enhancement. In general, the existence of a pure Nash equilibrium is hard to achieve, but we prove the existence of such equilibrium in the proposed technique. The proposed technique is also experimentally compared against some well-known conventional replica allocation methods, such as branch and bound, greedy, and genetic algorithms.     

Adaptive output-feedback control for a class of nonlinear systems with actuator failures and input quantisation

In this paper, an adaptive output feedback control technique is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown parameters, unknown nonlinear functions, quantised input and possible actuator failures up to infinity. A modified backstepping approach is proposed by the use of high-gain K-filters, hyperbolic tangent function property and bound-estimation approach to compensate for the effect of possible number of actuator failures up to infinity, input quantisation and unknown nonlinear functions. It is proved both mathematically and by simulation that with the proposed controller, all the signals of the closed-loop system are globally bounded despite of input quantisation, unknown nonlinear functions and possible number of actuator failures up to infinity.     

Feature Subset Selection with Artificial Intelligence-Based Classification Model for Biomedical Data

Recently, medical data classification becomes a hot research topic among healthcare professionals and research communities, which assist in the disease diagnosis and decision making process. The latest developments of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches paves a way for the design of effective medical data classification models. At the same time, the existence of numerous features in the medical dataset poses a curse of dimensionality problem. For resolving the issues, this article introduces a novel feature subset selection with artificial intelligence based classification model for biomedical data (FSS-AICBD) technique. The FSS-AICBD technique intends to derive a useful set of features and thereby improve the classifier results. Primarily, the FSS-AICBD technique undergoes min-max normalization technique to prevent data complexity. In addition, the information gain (IG) approach is applied for the optimal selection of feature subsets. Also, group search optimizer (GSO) with deep belief network (DBN) model is utilized for biomedical data classification where the hyperparameters of the DBN model can be optimally tuned by the GSO algorithm. The choice of IG and GSO approaches results in promising medical data classification results. The experimental result analysis of the FSS-AICBD technique takes place using different benchmark healthcare datasets. The simulation results reported the enhanced outcomes of the FSS-AICBD technique interms of several measures.     

Performance modeling of load-balancing algorithms using neural networks

The paper presents a new approach that uses neural networks to predict the performance of a number of dynamic decentralized load-balancing strategies. A distributed multicomputer system using distributed load-balancing strategies is represented by a unified analytical queuing model. A large simulation data set is used to train a neural network using the back-propagation learning algorithm based on gradient descent The performance model using the predicted data from the neural network produces the average response time of various load balancing algorithms under various system parameters. The validation and comparison with simulation data show that the neural network is very effective in predicting the performance of dynamic load-balancing algorithms. Our work leads to interesting techniques for designing load balancing schemes (for large distributed systems) that are computationally very expensive to simulate. One of the important findings is that performance is affected least by the number of nodes, and most by the number of links at each node in a large distributed system.