Prediction of software vulnerability based deep symbiotic genetic algorithms: Phenotyping of dominant-features

The detection of software vulnerabilities is considered a vital problem in the software security area for a long time. Nowadays, it is challenging to manage software security due to its increased complexity and diversity. So, vulnerability detection applications play a significant part in software development and maintenance. The ability of the forecasting techniques in vulnerability detection is still weak. Thus, one of the efficient defining features methods that have been used to determine the software vulnerabilities is the metaheuristic optimization methods. This paper proposes a novel software vulnerability prediction model based on using a deep learning method and SYMbiotic Genetic algorithm. We are first to apply Diploid Genetic algorithms with deep learning networks on software vulnerability prediction to the best of our knowledge. In this proposed method, a deep SYMbiotic-based genetic algorithm model (DNN-SYMbiotic GAs) is used by learning the phenotyping of dominant-features for software vulnerability prediction problems. The proposed method aimed at increasing the detection abilities of vulnerability patterns with vulnerable components in the software. Comprehensive experiments are conducted on several benchmark datasets; these datasets are taken from Drupal, Moodle, and PHPMyAdmin projects. The obtained results revealed that the proposed method (DNN-SYMbiotic GAs) enhanced vulnerability prediction, which reflects improving software quality prediction.

     

Augmented grasshopper optimization algorithm by differential evolution: a power scheduling application in smart homes

With the increasing number of electricity consumers, production, distribution, and consumption problems of produced energy have appeared. This paper proposed an optimization method to reduce the peak demand using smart grid capabilities. In the proposed method, a hybrid Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA) with the self-adaptive Differential Evolution (DE) is used, called HGOA. The proposed method takes advantage of the global and local search strategies from Differential Evolution and Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm. Experimental results are applied in two scenarios; the first scenario has universal inputs and several appliances. The second scenario has an expanded number of appliances. The results showed that the proposed method (HGOA) got better power scheduling arrangements and better performance than other comparative algorithms using the classical benchmark functions. Moreover, according to the computational time, it runs in constant execution time as the population is increased. The proposed method got 0.26?% enhancement compared to the other methods. Finally, we found that the proposed HGOA always got better results than the original method in the worst cases and the best cases.

     

Amended hybrid multi-verse optimizer with genetic algorithm for solving task scheduling problem in cloud computing

The Journal of Supercomputing - The central cloud facilities based on virtual machines offer many benefits to reduce the scheduling costs and improve service availability and accessibility. The...     

Hybrid clustering analysis using improved krill herd algorithm

In this paper, a novel text clustering method, improved krill herd algorithm with a hybrid function, called MMKHA, is proposed as an efficient clustering way to obtain promising and precise results in this domain. Krill herd is a new swarm-based optimization algorithm that imitates the behavior of a group of live krill. The potential of this algorithm is high because it performs better than other optimization methods; it balances the process of exploration and exploitation by complementing the strength of local nearby searching and global wide-range searching. Text clustering is the process of grouping significant amounts of text documents into coherent clusters in which documents in the same cluster are relevant. For the purpose of the experiments, six versions are thoroughly investigated to determine the best version for solving the text clustering. Eight benchmark text datasets are used for the evaluation process available at the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence (LABIC). Seven evaluation measures are utilized to validate the proposed algorithms, namely, ASDC, accuracy, precision, recall, F-measure, purity, and entropy. The proposed algorithms are compared with the other successful algorithms published in the literature. The results proved that the proposed improved krill herd algorithm with hybrid function achieved almost all the best results for all datasets in comparison with the other comparative algorithms.     

Unsupervised text feature selection technique based on hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm with genetic operators for the text clustering

The text clustering technique is an appropriate method used to partition a huge amount of text documents into groups. The documents size affects the text clustering by decreasing its performance. Subsequently, text documents contain sparse and uninformative features, which reduce the performance of the underlying text clustering algorithm and increase the computational time. Feature selection is a fundamental unsupervised learning technique used to select a new subset of informative text features to improve the performance of the text clustering and reduce the computational time. This paper proposes a hybrid of particle swarm optimization algorithm with genetic operators for the feature selection problem. The k-means clustering is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the obtained features subsets. The experiments were conducted using eight common text datasets with variant characteristics. The results show that the proposed algorithm hybrid algorithm (H-FSPSOTC) improved the performance of the clustering algorithm by generating a new subset of more informative features. The proposed algorithm is compared with the other comparative algorithms published in the literature. Finally, the feature selection technique encourages the clustering algorithm to obtain accurate clusters.     

Harris hawks optimization: a comprehensive review of recent variants and applications

Neural Computing and Applications - Harris hawks optimizer (HHO) has received widespread attention among researchers in terms of the performance, quality of results, and its acceptable convergence...     

Development of a Real-Time Dynamic Weighting Method in Routing for Congestion Control: Application and Analysis

Congestion control issues have received consistent attention from several telecommunication researchers and practitioners for many years because network congestion often causes significant packet loss and delay problems. Although many suggested methods for these issues and problems can be available in telecommunication literature, there is room for improvement. This paper's primary objective is to propose a dynamic weighting method in routing to reduce congestion during peak hours by predicting incoming traffics and optimizing weights in the adjacency matrix of the routing table online. While changing weight values in the routing table, this method implicitly changes the routing path of many nodes through the congested node. As a result, the packet losses and delays can be decreased in used nodes. The main steps of this proposed framework are fourfold. First, the candidate weighing list is calculated based on the routing table of the congested node. Second, a proposed auto-adaptive framework (AAF) is used to predict congestion levels and apply the weighing list in the network node. Third, the evaluation of network congestion is then performed by the probability of packet losses due to overflowing buffers. Finally, the case study results demonstrate that the proposed AAF framework can significantly reduce network congestion.

     

Hybrid arithmetic optimization algorithm with hunger games search for global optimization

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Recently, many population-dependent methods have been proposed. Despite their acceptance in many applications, we are still exploring suggested methods to solve...     

Improved Slime Mould Algorithm based on Firefly Algorithm for feature selection: A case study on QSAR model

Feature selection (FS) methods are necessary to develop intelligent analysis tools that require data preprocessing and enhancing the performance of the machine learning algorithms. FS aims to maximize the classification accuracy by minimizing the number of selected features. This paper presents a new FS method using a modified Slime mould algorithm (SMA) based on the firefly algorithm (FA). In the developed SMAFA, FA is adopted to improve the exploration of SMA, since it has high ability to discover the feasible regions which have optima solution. This will lead to enhance the convergence by increasing the quality of the final output. SMAFA is evaluated using twenty UCI datasets and also with comprehensive comparisons to a number of the existing MH algorithms. To further assess the applicability of SMAFA, two high-dimensional datasets related to the QSAR modeling are used. Experimental results verified the promising performance of SMAFA using different performance measures.

     

Enhanced a hybrid moth-flame optimization algorithm using new selection schemes

This paper presents two levels of enhancing the basic Moth flame optimization (MFO) algorithm. The first step is hybridizing MFO and the local-based algorithm, hill climbing (HC), called MFOHC. The proposed algorithm takes the advantages of HC to speed up the searching, as well as enhancing the learning technique for finding the generation of candidate solutions of basic MFO. The second step is the addition of six popular selection schemes to improve the quality of the selected solution by giving a chance to solve with high fitness value to be chosen and increase the diversity. In both steps of enhancing, thirty benchmark functions and five IEEE CEC 2011 real-world problems are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed versions. In addition, well-known and recent meta-heuristic algorithms are applied to compare with the proposed versions. The experiment results illustrate that the proportional selection scheme with MFOHC, namely (PMFOHC) is outperforming the other proposed versions and algorithms in the literature.