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In this paper, we continue describing the project and the experimentation of "Ricerca Operativa Applicazioni Reali" (ROAR; in English, Real Applications of Operations Research), a three-year project for higher secondary schools, introduced. ROAR is composed of three teaching units, addressed to Grades 10, 11, and 12, respectively, having the main aim to improve students' interest, motivation, and skills related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines by integrating mathematics and computer science through operations research. In a previous paper, we reported on the design and implementation of the first unit, started in Spring 2021 at the scientific high school IIS Antonietti in Iseo (Brescia, Italy), in a Grade-10 class. Here, we focus on the second unit, carried out in Winter/Spring 2022 with the same students, now in a Grade-11 class. In particular, we describe objectives, prerequisites, topics and methods, the organization of the lectures, digital technologies used, and a challenging final project. Moreover, we analyze the feedback from students and teachers involved in the experimentation.

We introduce "Ricerca Operativa Applicazioni Reali" (ROAR; in English, "Real Applications of Operations Research"), a three-year project for higher secondary schools. Its main aim is to improve students' interest, motivation, and skills related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines by integrating mathematics and computer science through operations research. ROAR offers examples and problems closely connected with students' everyday life or with the industrial reality, balancing mathematical modeling and algorithmics. The project is composed of three teaching units, addressed to grades 10, 11, and 12. The implementation of the first teaching unit took place in Spring 2021 at the scientific high school IIS Antonietti in Iseo (Brescia, Italy). In particular, in this paper, we provide a full description of this first teaching unit in terms of objectives, prerequisites, topics and methods, organization of the lectures, and digital technologies used. Moreover, we analyze the feedback received from students and teachers involved in the experimentation, and we discuss advantages and disadvantages related to distance learning that we had to adopt because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The main objective of this paper is the conceptual design of a computational AI system that emulates human creativity. To do this, extensive research has been done on recent discoveries about the neural bases of human creativity. As a result, eleven neurocognitive factors have been identified on which the tremendous creative capacity of the human brain is based. The integration of these factors has made it possible to create a neurocognitive model of human creativity. The analysis of each of creative neurocognitive structures separately suggests certain characteristics that must be present in the structure of a creative computational system to emulate brain creativity. Properly integrating these characteristics, a general architecture for a creative multi-agent system has been proposed, as well as the guidelines for the correct representation of knowledge. Based on this general architecture a creative computational system can be implemented for a specific field of knowledge, or general purpose.

Fractional-order derivative is attracting more and more attention of researchers in image processing because of its better property in restoring more texture than the total variation. To improve the performance of fractional-order variation model in image restoration, a truncated fractional-order variation model was proposed in Chan and Liang [Truncated fractional-order variation model for image restoration, J. Oper. Res. Soc. China]. In this paper, we propose a dual approach to solve this truncated fractional-order variation model on noise removal. The proposed algorithm is based on the dual approach proposed by Chambolle [An algorithm for total variation minimisation and applications, J. Math Imaging Vis. 20 (2004), pp. 89–97]. Conversely, the Chambolle's dual approach can be treated as a special case of the proposed algorithm with fractional order α = 1. The work of this paper modifies the result in Zhang et al. [Adaptive fractional-order multi-scale method for image denoising, J. Math. Imaging Vis. 43(1) (2012), pp. 39–49. Springer Netherlands 0924–9907, Computer Science, pp. 1–11, 2011], where the convergence is not analysed. Based on the truncation, the convergence of the proposed dual method can be analysed and the convergence criteria can be provided. In addition, the accuracy of the reconstruction is improved after the truncation is taken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Driving research questions from the prevailing issues and interests and developing from them new theories, formulas, algorithms, methods, and designs, and linking them to the interests of the larger audience is a vital component of scientific research papers. The present article discusses outlining purposes or stating the nature of the present research, and listing research questions or hypotheses in the introduction of academic papers. This corpus-based genre study focuses particularly on Move 3 of the model "occupying the niche." The results indicating disciplinary variation show that the writers of Computer Science (CS) research articles, over the years have developed an increased use of outlining purpose/stating the nature of the present research, having the characteristics of purposive, descriptive, extension of the previous work, contrast to the existing work, brevity, complexity, and a description of methodology. It also shows that listing research questions or hypothesis may have distinctively different functions in developing genres as compared to the established ones such as physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published scientific articles are linked together into a graph, the citation graph, through their citations. This paper explores the notion of similarity based on connectivity alone, and proposes several algorithms to quantify it. Our metrics take advantage of the local neighborhoods of the nodes in the citation graph. Two variants of link-based similarity estimation between two nodes are described, one based on the separate local neighborhoods of the nodes, and another based on the joint local neighborhood expanded from both nodes at the same time. The algorithms are implemented and evaluated on a subgraph of the citation graph of computer science in a retrieval context. The results are compared with text-based similarity, and demonstrate the complementarity of link-based and text-based retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the importance of clinical informatics in neonatal care, highlighting its potential to provide critical resources for clinicians. Topics include the specialized data needed for neonatal care, the challenges in transitioning from paper to electronic health records, and the impact of informatics on real-time patient management and research.

While working with usual software tools users have to change their many valued logical thinking (approximate reasoning) into the two-valued computer logic. Although the Structured Query Language (SQL) is a very powerful tool, it is unable to satisfy needs for data selection based on linguistic expressions and degrees of truth. In this paper, we are interested in flexible querying that is based on fuzzy set theory. Medina et al. have developed a server named fuzzy SQL, supporting flexible queries and based on a theoretic model called GEFRED. To model the flexible queries and the concept of fuzzy attributes, an extension of the SQL language named fuzzy SQL has been defined. The FRDB supposed has already been defined by the user. In this paper, we extend the work of medina et al. to implement a new architecture of fuzzy DBMS based on the GEFRED model. This architecture is based on the concept of weak coupling with the DBMS SQL Server. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Security aspects play an important role in almost all of the application scenarios given the vulnerabilities inherent in wireless ad hoc networking from the very fact that radio communication takes place (e.g. in tactical applications) to routing, man-in-the-middle and elaborate data injection attacks. Security has become a primary concern in order to provide protected communication between mobile nodes in a hostile environment. It is vital to protect the network from different kinds of security threats. This paper proposes a security solution for manets using a pre-existing routing protocol, ad hoc ondemand vector routing (aodv). Here the improvement is done by the inclusion of fuzzy logic approach. The fuzzy logic will analyse the network and perform the rerouting based on fuzzy decision. It will perform the routing over intrusion safe path. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computer science education for the liberal arts student has both a practical value (creating an intelligent consumer) and an appreciative value (teaching algorithmic thinking). A computer literacy course can be structured to harmonize with the aims of liberal education. (SK)

The problem of finding a maximum size matching in a graph (known as the maximum matching problem) is one of the most classical problems in computer science. Despite a significant body of work dedicated to the study of this problem in the data stream model, the state-of-the-art single-pass semi-streaming algorithm for it is still a simple greedy algorithm that computes a maximal matching, and this way obtains 1 / 2 -approximation. Some previous works described two/three-pass algorithms that improve over this approximation ratio by using their second and third passes to improve the above mentioned maximal matching. One contribution of this paper continues this line of work by presenting new three-pass semi-streaming algorithms that work along these lines and obtain improved approximation ratios of 0.6111 and 0.5694 for triangle-free and general graphs, respectively. Unfortunately, a recent work Konrad and Naidu (Approximation, randomization, and combinatorial optimization. Algorithms and techniques, APPROX/RANDOM 2021, August 16–18, 2021. LIPIcs, vol 207, pp 19:1–19:18, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.19) shows that the strategy of constructing a maximal matching in the first pass and then improving it in further passes has limitations. Additionally, this technique is unlikely to get us closer to single-pass semi-streaming algorithms obtaining a better than 1 / 2 -approximation. Therefore, it is interesting to come up with algorithms that do something else with their first pass (we term such algorithms non-maximal-matching-first algorithms). No such algorithms were previously known, and the main contribution of this paper is describing such algorithms that obtain approximation ratios of 0.5384 and 0.5555 in two and three passes, respectively, for general graphs. The main significance of our results is not in the numerical improvements, but in demonstrating the potential of non-maximal-matching-first algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most user authentication mechanisms of cloud systems depend on the credentials approach in which a user submits his/her identity through a username and password. Unfortunately, this approach has many security problems because personal data can be stolen or recognized by hackers. This paper aims to present a cloud-based biometric authentication model (CBioAM) for improving and securing cloud services. The research study presents the verification and identification processes of the proposed cloud-based biometric authentication system (CBioAS), where the biometric samples of users are saved in database servers and the authentication process is implemented without loss of the users' information. The paper presents the performance evaluation of the proposed model in terms of three main characteristics including accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. The research study introduces a novel algorithm called "Bio_Authen_as_a_Service" for implementing and evaluating the proposed model. The proposed system performs the biometric authentication process securely and preserves the privacy of user information. The experimental result was highly promising for securing cloud services using the proposed model. The experiments showed encouraging results with a performance average of 93.94%, an accuracy average of 96.15%, a sensitivity average of 87.69%, and a specificity average of 97.99%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Energy is very important parameter during the creation of a WSN infrastructure, and to support long lifetimes, energy-efficient operation is a key technique. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are known to be highly energy-constrained and each network's lifetime has a strong dependence on the node's battery capacity. As such, the network lifetime has been a critical concern in WSN research. While numerous energy-efficient protocols have been proposed to prolong the network lifetime. Energy-efficient sensor state planning consists i finding an optimal assignment of states to sensors in order to maximize network lifetime. Network lifetime and energy consumption analysis for cluster-based wireless sensor networks based upon LEACH protocol for periodic monitoring applications induce unbalanced energy consumption among sensor nodes and hence affect the network lifetime when compared with the results obtained from the analytical model of this protocol. This highlights the need for an adaptive clustering protocol that can increase the network lifetime by further balancing the energy consumption among sensor nodes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ubiquity of digital technologies in citizen's lives marks a major qualitative shift where automated decisions taken by algorithms deeply affect the lived experience of ordinary people. But this is not just an action-oriented change as computational systems can also introduce epistemological transformations in the constitution of concepts and ideas. However, a lack of public understanding of how algorithms work also makes them a source of distrust, especially concerning the way in which they can be used to create frames or channels for social and individual behaviour. This public concern has been magnified by election hacking, social media disinformation, data extractivism, and a sense that Silicon Valley companies are out of control. The wide adoption of algorithms into so many aspects of peoples' lives, often without public debate, has meant that increasingly algorithms are seen as mysterious and opaque, when they are not seen as inequitable or biased. Up until recently it has been difficult to challenge algorithms or to question their functioning, especially with wide acceptance that software's inner workings were incomprehensible, proprietary or secret (cf. open source). Asking why an algorithm did what it did often was not thought particularly interesting outside of a strictly programming context. This meant that there has been a widening explanatory gap in relation to understanding algorithms and their effect on peoples' lived experiences. This paper argues that Critical Code Studies offers a novel field for developing theoretical and code-epistemological practices to reflect on the explanatory deficit in modern societies from a reliance on information technologies. The challenge of new forms of social obscurity from the implementation of technical systems is heightened by the example of machine learning systems that have emerged in the past decade. A key methodological contribution of this paper is to show how concept formation, in this case of the notion of toxicity, can be traced through key categories and classifications deployed in code structures (e.g. modularity and layering software) but also how these classifications can appear more stable than they actually are by the tendency of software layers to obscure even as they reveal. How a concept such as toxicity can be constituted through code and discourse and then used unproblematically is revealing in relation to both its technical deployment but also for a possible computational sociology of knowledge. By developing a broadened notion of explainability, this paper argues that critical code studies can make important theoretical, code-epistemological and methodological contributions to digital humanities, computer science and related disciplines. The software explanability deficit in modern societies can be addressed in part by tracing concept formation through code structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of computer science has undergone rapid expansion due to the increasing interest in improving system performance. This has resulted in the emergence of advanced techniques, such as neural networks, intelligent systems, optimization algorithms, and optimization strategies. These innovations have created novel opportunities and challenges in various domains. This paper presents a thorough examination of three intelligent methods: neural networks, intelligent systems, and optimization algorithms and strategies. It discusses the fundamental principles and techniques employed in these fields, as well as the recent advancements and future prospects. Additionally, this paper analyzes the advantages and limitations of these intelligent approaches. Ultimately, it serves as a comprehensive summary and overview of these critical and rapidly evolving fields, offering an informative guide for novices and researchers interested in these areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cluster analysis is one of the most fundamental methods in data mining, and it has been widely used in economics, social sciences and computer science. However, with the rapid development of Internet technology, the volume of data required for various web applications has grown rapidly, making the traditional clustering analysis methods face technical challenges. How to obtain useful information in a large amount of data quickly and efficiently is an urgent problem in many industrial fields. With the continuous development of cloud computing technology, large amounts of data can be performed quickly and efficiently. Hadoop is an open source distributed cloud computing platform with HDFS (Digital File System) and MapReduce as its core. HDFS provides massive data storage, while MapReduce uses the MapReduce programming model to achieve parallel processing. Compared with the traditional parallel programming model, it contains basic functions such as data partitioning, task scheduling, and parallel processing, making it possible for users to develop distributed applications on their own without understanding the basics of distributed basics, thus facilitating the design of parallel programs. K-means algorithm is a typical clustering analysis method, which is widely used in industry, but the number of iterations will increase significantly due to the growth of data volume, thus reducing the efficiency of computation. In order to better apply to the cluster analysis of large-scale data, this paper firstly implements a parallelization algorithm based on MapReduce on Hadoop platform using the basic idea of MapReduce and improves the K-means algorithm for the problems of blindness and easy to fall into local optimum when selecting randomly in clusters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become an important discipline in the field of computer science. Students, in the absence of basic prior knowledge, may have difficulty tracking materials when they first encounter complex and abstract artificial intelligence algorithms. Numerous researchers and educators point out that the use of simulation systems and software tools to illustrate the dynamic behavior of the algorithm can prove to be an effective solution. The introduction and adoption of new technologies in learning and teaching has evolved rapidly. This conceptual review paper aims to explore the emergence of innovative educational technologies in the teaching and learning of artificial intelligence. The aim of this paper is to analyze the existing representative educational tools for learning topics in the field of artificial intelligence to highlight their characteristics and areas they cover, so that readers can more easily draw conclusions about the possible use of some of the analyzed systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the development of computer science, especially the application of 3D scanning technology in garment design, intelligent modeling is realized, which is impossible to achieve in traditional design methods. In this paper, we propose the 3D model construction of human garments based on the motion recovery structure method. The eigenmatrix is obtained from the camera parameters, and the transformation matrix is calculated by matching the image feature points with the help of scale-invariant feature conversion algorithm to realize the 3D reconstruction technology of human garments based on multiview image sequences. The effectiveness of this method is verified through experiments, and it has good robustness and accuracy. Through the form of style modeling, the design thinking and method can be extended to form a more reasonable garment structure and guide the innovation of garment production mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature search is one of the most important steps of academic research. With more than 100,000 papers published each year just in computer science, performing a complete literature search becomes a Herculean task. Some of the existing approaches and tools for literature search cannot compete with the characteristics of today’s literature, and they suffer from ambiguity and homonymy. Techniques based on citation information are more robust to the mentioned issues. Thus, we recently built a Web service called the advisor, which provides personalized recommendations to researchers based on their papers of interest. Since most recommendation methods may return redundant results, diversifying the results of the search process is necessary to increase the amount of information that one can reach via an automated search. This article targets the problem of result diversification in citation-based bibliographic search, assuming that the citation graph itself is the only information available and no categories or intents are known. The contribution of this work is threefold. We survey various random walk--based diversification methods and enhance them with the direction awareness property to allow users to reach either old, foundational (possibly well-cited and well-known) research papers or recent (most likely less-known) ones. Next, we propose a set of novel algorithms based on vertex selection and query refinement. A set of experiments with various evaluation criteria shows that the proposed γ-RLM algorithm performs better than the existing approaches and is suitable for real-time bibliographic search in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

: In computational science literature including, e.g., bioinformatics, computational statistics or machine learning, most published articles are devoted to the development of “new methods”, while comparison studies are generally appreciated by readers but surprisingly given poor consideration by many journals. This paper stresses the importance of neutral comparison studies for the objective evaluation of existing methods and the establishment of standards by drawing parallels with clinical research. The goal of the paper is twofold. Firstly, we present a survey of recent computational papers on supervised classification published in seven high-ranking computational science journals. The aim is to provide an up-to-date picture of current scientific practice with respect to the comparison of methods in both articles presenting new methods and articles focusing on the comparison study itself. Secondly, based on the results of our survey we critically discuss the necessity, impact and limitations of neutral comparison studies in computational sciences. We define three reasonable criteria a comparison study has to fulfill in order to be considered as neutral, and explicate general considerations on the individual components of a “tidy neutral comparison study”. R codes for completely replicating our statistical analyses and figures are available from the companion website http://www.ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de/organisation/mitarbeiter/020_professuren/boulesteix/plea2013. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Horn functions form a subclass of Boolean functions possessing interesting structural and computational properties. These functions play a fundamental role in algebra, artificial intelligence, combinatorics, computer science, database theory, and logic. In the present paper, we introduce the subclass of hypergraph Horn functions that generalizes matroids and equivalence relations. We provide multiple characterizations of hypergraph Horn functions in terms of implicate-duality and the closure operator, which are, respectively, regarded as generalizations of matroid duality and the Mac Lane-Steinitz exchange property of matroid closure. We also study algorithmic issues on hypergraph Horn functions and show that the recognition problem (i.e., deciding if a given definite Horn CNF represents a hypergraph Horn function) and key realization (i.e., deciding if a given hypergraph is realized as a key set by a hypergraph Horn function) can be done in polynomial time, while implicate sets can be generated with polynomial delay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Community detection has been a subject of extensive research due to its broad applications across social media, computer science, biology, and complex systems. Modularity stands out as a predominant metric guiding community detection, with numerous algorithms aimed at maximizing modularity. However, modularity encounters a resolution limit problem when identifying small community structures. To tackle this challenge, this paper presents a novel approach by defining community structure information from the perspective of encoding edge information. This pioneering definition lays the foundation for the proposed fast community detection algorithm CSIM, boasting an average time complexity of only O (n log n) . Experimental results showcase that communities identified via the CSIM algorithm across various graph data types closely resemble ground truth community structures compared to those revealed via modularity-based algorithms. Furthermore, CSIM not only boasts lower time complexity than greedy algorithms optimizing community structure information but also achieves superior optimization results. Notably, in cyclic network graphs, CSIM surpasses modularity-based algorithms in effectively addressing the resolution limit problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theory of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) finds diverse applications in fields like knowledge extraction, cognitive concept learning and data mining. The construction of a concept lattice significantly influences the effectiveness of formal concept analysis; hence, the development of high-performance algorithms for concept construction is crucial. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm called "Bit-Close" for formal concept construction. Bit-Close leverages bit representation and operations, fundamental to computer science, to enhance the In-Close algorithm. Furthermore, we explore the parallel method of Bit-Close. Our experimental results, obtained from multiple public and random datasets, demonstrate that Bit-Close outperforms In-Close by approximately 20% and is significantly better than other competing algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Natural language processing is an important direction in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. It can realize various theories and methods of effective communication between humans and computers using natural language. Machine learning is a branch of natural language processing research, which is based on a large-scale English-Chinese database. Due to the relatively poor alignment corpus of English and Chinese bilingual sentences containing unknown words, machine translation is unprofessional and unbalanced, which is the problem studied in this paper. The purpose of this paper is to design and implement a length-based system for sentence alignment between English and Chinese bilingual texts. The research content of this paper is mainly divided into the following parts. First, the evaluation function of bilingual sentence alignment is designed, and on this basis, the bilingual sentence alignment algorithm based on the length and the optimal sentence pair sequence search algorithm is designed. In this paper, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) is selected as an English-Chinese bilingual candidate website and English-Chinese bilingual web pages are downloaded. After analyzing the downloaded pages, nontext content such as page tags is removed, and bilingual text information is stored so as to establish an English-Chinese bilingual corpus based on segment alignment and retain English-Chinese bilingual keywords in the web pages. Second, extract the dictionary from the software StarDict, analyze the original dictionary format, and turn it into a custom dictionary format, which is convenient and better to use the double-sentence sentence alignment system, which is conducive to expanding the number of dictionaries and increasing the professionalism of vocabulary. Finally, we extract the stems of English words from the established corpus to simplify the complexity of English word processing, reduce the noise caused by the conversion of word parts of speech, and improve the operation efficiency. A bilingual sentence alignment system based on length is implemented. Finally, the system parameters are adjusted for comparative experiments to test the system performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent advancements in computer science include some optimization models that have been developed and used in real applications. Some metaheuristic search/optimization algorithms have been tested to obtain optimal solutions to speed controller applications in self-driving cars. Some metaheuristic algorithms are based on social behaviour, resulting in several search models, functions, and parameters, and thus algorithm-specific strengths and weaknesses. The present paper proposes a fitness function on the basis of the mathematical description of proportional integrative derivate controllers showing that mean square error is not always the best measure when looking for a solution to the problem. The fitness developed in this paper contains features and equations from the mathematical background of proportional integrative derivative controllers to calculate the best performance of the system. Such results are applied to quantitatively evaluate the performance of twenty-one optimization algorithms. Furthermore, improved versions of the fitness function are considered, in order to investigate which aspects are enhanced by applying the optimization algorithms. Results show that the right fitness function is a key point to get a good performance, regardless of the chosen algorithm. The aim of this paper is to present a novel objective function to carry out optimizations of the gains of a PID controller, using several computational intelligence techniques to perform the optimizations. The result of these optimizations will demonstrate the improved efficiency of the selected control schema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evaluation of scientific journals poses challenges owing to the existence of various impact measures. This is because journal ranking is a multidimensional construct that may not be assessed effectively using a single metric such as an impact factor. A few studies have proposed an ensemble of metrics to prevent the bias induced by an individual metric. In this study, a multi-metric journal ranking method based on the standardized average index (SA index) was adopted to develop an extended standardized average index (ESA index). The ESA index utilizes six metrics: the CiteScore, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), Hirsh index (H-index), Eigenfactor Score, and Journal Impact Factor from three well-known databases (Scopus, SCImago Journal & Country Rank, and Web of Science). Experiments were conducted in two computer science subject areas: (1) artificial intelligence and (2) computer vision and pattern recognition. Comparing the results of the multi-metric-based journal ranking system with the SA index, it was demonstrated that the multi-metric ESA index exhibited high correlation with all other indicators and significantly outperformed the SA index. To further evaluate the performance of the model and determine the aggregate impact of bibliometric indices with the ESA index, we employed unsupervised machine learning techniques such as clustering coupled with principal component analysis (PCA) and t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE). These techniques were utilized to measure the clustering impact of various bibliometric indicators on both the complete set of bibliometric features and the reduced set of features. Furthermore, the results of the ESA index were compared with those of other ranking systems, including the internationally recognized Scopus, SJR, and HEC Journal Recognition System (HJRS) used in Pakistan. These comparisons demonstrated that the multi-metric-based ESA index can serve as a valuable reference for publishers, journal editors, researchers, policymakers, librarians, and practitioners in journal selection, decision making, and professional assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Team Formation (TF) is considered one of the most significant problems in computer science and optimization. TF is defined as forming the best team of experts in a social network to complete a task with least cost. Many real-world problems, such as task assignment, vehicle routing, nurse scheduling, resource allocation, and airline crew scheduling, are based on the TF problem. TF has been shown to be a Nondeterministic Polynomial time (NP) problem, and high-dimensional problem with several local optima that can be solved using efficient approximation algorithms. This paper proposes two improved swarm-based algorithms for solving team formation problem. The first algorithm, entitled Hybrid Heap-Based Optimizer with Simulated Annealing Algorithm (HBOSA), uses a single crossover operator to improve the performance of a standard heap-based optimizer (HBO) algorithm. It also employs the simulated annealing (SA) approach to improve model convergence and avoid local minima trapping. The second algorithm is the Chaotic Heap-based Optimizer Algorithm (CHBO). CHBO aids in the discovery of new solutions in the search space by directing particles to different regions of the search space. During HBO's optimization process, a logistic chaotic map is used. The performance of the two proposed algorithms (HBOSA) and (CHBO) is evaluated using thirteen benchmark functions and tested in solving the TF problem with varying number of experts and skills. Furthermore, the proposed algorithms were compared to well-known optimization algorithms such as the Heap-Based Optimizer (HBO), Developed Simulated Annealing (DSA), Particle SwarmOptimization (PSO), GreyWolfOptimization (GWO), and Genetic Algorithm (GA). Finally, the proposed algorithms were applied to a real-world benchmark dataset known as the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). The simulation results revealed that the proposed algorithms outperformed the compared algorithms in terms of efficiency and performance, with fast convergence to the global minimum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our paper, we consider the following general problems: check feasibility, count the number of feasible solutions, find an optimal solution, and count the number of optimal solutions in P ∩ Z n , assuming that P is a polyhedron, defined by systems A x ≤ b or A x = b , x ≥ 0 with a sparse matrix A. We develop algorithms for these problems that outperform state-of-the-art ILP and counting algorithms on sparse instances with bounded elements in terms of the computational complexity. Assuming that the matrix A has bounded elements, our complexity bounds have the form s O (n) , where s is the minimum between numbers of non-zeroes in columns and rows of A, respectively. For s = o (log n) , this bound outperforms the state-of-the-art ILP feasibility complexity bound (log n) O (n) , due to Reis & Rothvoss (in: 2023 IEEE 64th Annual symposium on foundations of computer science (FOCS), IEEE, pp. 974–988). For s = ϕ o (log n) , where ϕ denotes the input bit-encoding length, it outperforms the state-of-the-art ILP counting complexity bound ϕ O (n log n) , due to Barvinok et al. (in: Proceedings of 1993 IEEE 34th annual foundations of computer science, pp. 566–572, https://doi.org/10.1109/SFCS.1993.366830, 1993), Dyer, Kannan (Math Oper Res 22(3):545–549, https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.22.3.545, 1997), Barvinok, Pommersheim (Algebr Combin 38:91–147, 1999), Barvinok (in: European Mathematical Society, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, 2008). We use known and new methods to develop new exponential algorithms for Edge/Vertex Multi-Packing/Multi-Cover Problems on graphs and hypergraphs. This framework consists of many different problems, such as the Stable Multi-set, Vertex Multi-cover, Dominating Multi-set, Set Multi-cover, Multi-set Multi-cover, and Hypergraph Multi-matching problems, which are natural generalizations of the standard Stable Set, Vertex Cover, Dominating Set, Set Cover, and Maximum Matching problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The longest common subsequence (LCS) problem is a classic computer science problem. For the essential problem of computing LCS between two arbitrary sequences s1 and s2, this paper proposes an algorithm taking O(n+r) space and O(r+n2) time, where r is the total number of elements in the set (i,j)|s1[i]=s2[j]. The algorithm can be more efficient than relevant classical algorithms in specific ranges of r. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the growth of the discipline of digital communication, the topic has acquiredmore attention in the cybersecuritymedium. The Intrusion Detection (ID) system monitors network traffic to detect malicious activities. The paper introduces a novel Feature Selection (FS) approach for ID. Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA)--is a new optimization algorithm; in this method, each agent searches a new region according to the position of the host, which makes the algorithm suffers from getting stuck in local optima and a slow convergence rate. To overcome these problems, this study introduces an improved RSA approach by integrating Cauchy Mutation (CM) into the RSA's structure. Thus, the CM can effectively expand search space and enhance the performance of the RSA. The developed RSA-CM is assessed on five publicly available ID datasets: KDD-CUP99, NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, CIC-IDS2017, and CIC-IDS2018 and two engineering problems. The RSA-CM is compared with the original RSA, and three other state-of-the-art FS methods, namely particle swarm optimization, grey wolf optimization, and multi-verse optimizer, and quantitatively is evaluated using fitness value, the number of selected optimum features, accuracy, precision, recall, and F1- score evaluationmeasures. The results reveal that the developed RSA-CMgot better results than the other competitive methods applied for FS on the ID datasets and the examined engineering problems. Moreover, the Friedman test results confirm that RSA-CMhas a significant superiority compared to other methods as an FS method for ID. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Architecture is closely related to human development. Different architectural shapes and texture structures reflect the changes of society and the level of social development. They are not only important materials for studying history but also carry the profound significance of human history. However, due to chemical effects, the acid, alkali, salt, and corrosive solvents are applied and produced in the process of industrial production, as well as the corrosive media contained in the atmosphere, groundwater, surface water, and soil will corrode the ancient buildings. The whole picture of many ancient buildings cannot be completely preserved, let alone used as research materials to deeply explore history and humanities. With the development of computer science and technology, we hope to protect and repair traditional ancient buildings through modern technology, which not only respects the long history of the Chinese nation but also helps us better study history through ancient buildings. This paper takes the ancient buildings of traditional villages in Guanzhong, Shanxi Province as an example, optimizes them on the basis of predecessors, and explores the protection and restoration of ancient buildings based on the improved priority algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm performs better in the protection and restoration model of ancient buildings than the traditional algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Networks can be used to model various aspects of our lives as well as relations among many real-world entities and objects. To detect a community structure in a network can enhance our understanding of the characteristics, properties, and inner workings of the network. Therefore, there has been significant research on detecting and evaluating community structures in networks. Many fields, including social sciences, biology, engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics, have developed various methods for analyzing and detecting community structures in networks. In this paper, a new community detection algorithm, which repeats the process of dividing a community into two smaller communities by finding a minimum cut, is proposed. The proposed algorithm is applied to some example network data and shows fairly good community detection results with comparable modularity Q values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an absolute quantification of the author’s scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-making process. In this paper, a new metric system, Absolute index (Ab-index), has been proposed that allows a more objective comparison of the contributions of a researcher. The Ab-index takes into account the impact of research findings while keeping in mind the physical and intellectual contributions of the author(s) in accomplishing the task. The Ab-index and h-index were calculated for 10 highly cited geneticists and molecular biologist and 10 young researchers of biological sciences and compared for their relationship to the researchers input as a primary author. This is the first report of a measuring method clarifying the contributions of the first author, corresponding author, and other co-authors and the sharing of credit in a logical ratio. A java application has been developed for the easy calculation of the Ab-index. It can be used as a yardstick for comparing the credibility of different scientists competing for the same resources while the Productivity index (Pr-index), which is the rate of change in the Ab-index per year, can be used for comparing scientists of different age groups. The Ab-index has clear advantage over other popular metric systems in comparing scientific credibility of young scientists. The sum of the Ab-indices earned by individual researchers of an institute per year can be referred to as Pr-index of the institute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graph query autocompletion (gQAC) generates a small list of ranked query suggestions during the graph query formulation process in a visual environment. The current state-of-the-art of gQAC provides suggestions that are formed by adding subgraph increments to arbitrary places of an existing (partial) user query. However, according to the research results on human-computer interaction (HCI), humans can only interact with a small number of recent software artifacts in hand. Hence, many of such suggestions could be irrelevant. In this paper, we present the GFocus framework that exploits a novel notion of user focus of graph query formulation (or simply focus). Intuitively, the focus is the subgraph that a user is working on. We formulate locality principles inspired by the HCI research to automatically identify and maintain the focus. We propose novel monotone submodular ranking functions for generating popular and comprehensive query suggestions only at the focus. In particular, the query suggestions of GFocus have high result counts (when they are used as queries) and maximally cover the possible suggestions at the focus. We propose efficient algorithms and an index for ranking the suggestions. Our results show that GFocus saves 12-32 percent more mouse clicks and is 35× more efficient than the state-of-the-art competitor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider the weighted k-set packing problem, where, given a collection S of sets, each of cardinality at most k, and a positive weight function w : S → Q > 0 , the task is to find a sub-collection of S consisting of pairwise disjoint sets of maximum total weight. As this problem does not permit a polynomial-time o (k log k) -approximation unless P = N P (Hazan et al. in Comput Complex 15:20–39, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00037-006-0205-6), most previous approaches rely on local search. For twenty years, Berman's algorithm SquareImp (Berman, in: Scandinavian workshop on algorithm theory, Springer, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44985-X%5f19), which yields a polynomial-time k + 1 2 + ϵ -approximation for any fixed ϵ > 0 , has remained unchallenged. Only recently, it could be improved to k + 1 2 - 1 63 , 700 , 993 by Neuwohner (38th International symposium on theoretical aspects of computer science (STACS 2021), Leibniz international proceedings in informatics (LIPIcs), 2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.53). In her paper, she showed that instances for which the analysis of SquareImp is almost tight are "close to unweighted" in a certain sense. But for the unit weight variant, the best known approximation guarantee is k + 1 3 + ϵ (Fürer and Yu in International symposium on combinatorial optimization, Springer, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09174-7%5f35). Using this observation as a starting point, we conduct a more in-depth analysis of close-to-tight instances of SquareImp. This finally allows us to generalize techniques used in the unweighted case to the weighted setting. In doing so, we obtain approximation guarantees of k + ϵ k 2 , where lim k → ∞ ϵ k = 0 . On the other hand, we prove that this is asymptotically best possible in that local improvements of logarithmically bounded size cannot produce an approximation ratio below k 2 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, fueled by the breakthroughs in the technology in quantum computation, there has been a rising interest in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. In addition to a large number of qubits, the study of error correction and quantum algorithms has made great progress. However, as a primary goal of quantum computation, making practicable quantum computers in the NISQ era still needs further study, mainly focusing on quantum computer organization, architecture, and circuit synthesis. This paper studies the quantum circuit synthesis in a small-scale universal quantum computing device called a "quantum system-on-chip" (QSoC). We analyze the quantum compilation of the hybrid architecture for a small-scaled universal quantum computational device with a specific size (quantum chip). Two kinds of on-chip circuit synthesis algorithms are proposed and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally, the process of plagiarism detection can be divided into two main stages: source retrieval and text alignment. The paper evaluates and compares effectiveness of five fingerprint selection algorithms used during the source retrieval stage: Every p-th, 0 mod p, Winnowing, Frequency-biased Winnowing (FBW) and Modified FBW (MFBW). The algorithms are evaluated on a dataset containing plagiarism cases in Bachelor and Master Theses written in English in the field of computer science. The best performance is reached by 0 mod p, Winnowing and MFBW. For these algorithms, reduction of fingerprint size from 100 % to about 20 % kept the effectiveness at approximately the same level. Moreover, MFBW sends overall fewer document pairs to the text alignment stage, thus also reducing the computational cost of the process. The software developed for this study is freely available at the author's website http://www.cs.rtu.lv/jekabsons/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many researchers have recently considered patients' health and provided an optimal and appropriate solution. With the advent of technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things and 5G, information can be exchanged faster and more securely. The Internet of things (IoT) offers many opportunities in the field of e-health. This technology can improve health services and lead to various innovations in this regard. Using cloud computing and IoT in this process can significantly improve the monitoring of patients. Therefore, it is important to provide a useful method in the medical industry and computer science to monitor the status of patients using connected sensors. Thus, due to its optimal efficiency, speed, and accuracy of data processing and classification, the use of cloud computing to process the data collected from remote patient sensors and IoT platform has been suggested. In this paper, a prioritization system is used to prioritize sensitive information in IoT, and in cloud computing, LSTM deep neural network is applied to classify and monitor patients' condition remotely, which can be considered as an important innovative aspect of this paper. Sensor data in the IoT platform is sent to the cloud with the help of the 5th generation Internet. The core of cloud computing uses the LSTM (long short-term memory) deep neural network algorithm. By simulating the proposed method and comparing the obtained results with other methods, it is observed that the accuracy of the proposed method is 97.13%, which has been improved by 10.41% in average over the other methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graph mining is one of the significant tasks in the field of computer science. Most of the applications generate a vast amount of data which is represented with the help of a graph. Due to this graph representation, these applications have become complex and increased in size. Finding relevant information from that graph becomes a complicated task. For this community detection algorithms play a vital role in graph partitioning to retrieve relevant information. Finding communities in a graph reduces the complexity of the graph due to related data comes closer to forming a community. Many algorithms have been introduced in the last decade; the Clique percolation method (CPM) is the benchmark algorithm for finding an overlapping community. But in this method, some nodes remain unclassified, nodes that are not part of the clique. Paper proposed the clique-based Louvain algorithm(CBLA), which can classify the non-classified node (NCN) obtained after finding cliques in one of the communities by applying the Louvain algorithm. Louvain algorithm is used to classify the non-overlapped community, but with the help of cliques, it will also detect the overlapped nodes. This paper compared the proposed algorithm with four other benchmark algorithms. The proposed algorithm gives equal or enhanced performance among all compared algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rapid development of electronic information and computer science, the fast Fourier transform (FFT) has played an increasingly important role in digital signal processing (DSP). This paper presented a spectrum processing chiplet design method to solve slow speed, low precision, and low resource utilization in spectrum processing of general-purpose spectrum chips and field programmable gate array (FPGA). To realize signal processing, the Radix-2 4096-point FFT algorithm with pipeline structure is used to process spectral signals extracted from the time domain. To reduce the harm caused by spectrum leakage, a windowing module is added to optimize the input data, and the clock gating unit (CGU) is used to perform low-power management on the entire clock reset. The result shows the chiplet takes 0.368 ms to complete a 4096-point frequency sweep under a clock frequency of 61.44 MHz. The chiplet significantly improves speed and accuracy in spectrum processing, which has great application potential in wireless communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We focus on the automatic detection of communities in large networks, a challenging problem in many disciplines (such as sociology, biology, and computer science). Humans tend to associate to form families, villages, and nations. Similarly, the elements of real-world networks naturally tend to form highly connected groups. A popular model to represent such structures is the clique, that is, a set of fully interconnected nodes. However, it has been observed that cliques are too strict to represent communities in practice. The k-plex relaxes the notion of clique, by allowing each node to miss up to k connections. Although k-plexes are more flexible than cliques, finding them is more challenging as their number is greater. In addition, most of them are small and not significant. In this paper we tackle the problem of finding only large k-plexes (i.e., comparable in size to the largest clique) and design a meta-algorithm that can be used on top of known enumeration algorithms to return only significant k-plexes in a fraction of the time. Our approach relies on: (1) methods for strongly reducing the search space and (2) decomposition techniques based on the efficient computation of maximal cliques. We demonstrate experimentally that known enumeration algorithms equipped with our approach can run orders of magnitude faster than full enumeration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reed-Muller (RM) codes are among the oldest, simplest and perhaps most ubiquitous family of codes. They are used in many areas of coding theory in both electrical engineering and computer science. Yet, many of their important properties are still under investigation. This paper covers some of the recent developments regarding the weight enumerator and the capacity-achieving properties of RM codes, as well as some of the algorithmic developments. In particular, the paper discusses the recent connections established between RM codes, thresholds of Boolean functions, polarization theory, hypercontractivity, and the techniques of approximating low weight codewords using lower degree polynomials (when codewords are viewed as evaluation vectors of degree r polynomials in m variables). It then overviews some of the algorithms for decoding RM codes. It covers both algorithms with provable performance guarantees for every block length, as well as algorithms with state-of-the-art performances in practical regimes, which do not perform as well for large block length. Finally, the paper concludes with a few open problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cryptography is a subject which is widely discussed and researched upon in the field of computer science in domain of network security. In data communication it is essential to ensure that no unauthorized entity is able to access the messages that are being communicated between a group of authorized persons, which may be possibly working for an organisation. Security of the data, messages or transactions is of the utmost importance when there is requirement of exchanging confidential information. Cryptography is a process to develop algorithms using mathematical or logical formulas and hypothesis that can convert the readable messages into non-readable textual format(encryption), these cryptographic algorithms also make use of keys for encrypting and decrypting the messages, and with the use of the keys there comes an issue of key management apart from the process of encryption and decryption of the messages. Various techniques are discovered and practiced to enforce this type of security to the messages, and are categorized into two broad fields i.e. symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms. This paper analyses and discuss the various asymmetric cryptographic algorithms and their applications in the domain of security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electrical utilities and system operators (SOs) are constantly looking for solutions to problems in the management and control of the power network. For this purpose, SOs are exploring new research fields, which might bring contributions to the power system environment. A clear example is the field of computer science, within which artificial intelligence (AI) has been developed and is being applied to many fields. In power systems, AI could support the fault prediction of cable joints. Despite the availability of many legacy methods described in the literature, fault prediction is still critical, and it needs new solutions. For this purpose, in this paper, the authors made a further step in the evaluation of machine learning methods (ML) for cable joint health assessment. Six ML algorithms have been compared and assessed on a consolidated test scenario. It simulates a distributed measurement system which collects measurements from medium-voltage (MV) cable joints. Typical metrics have been applied to compare the performance of the algorithms. The analysis is then completed considering the actual in-field conditions and the SOs' requirements. The results demonstrate: (i) the pros and cons of each algorithm; (ii) the best-performing algorithm; (iii) the possible benefits from the implementation of ML algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge graph has wide applications in the field of computer science. In the knowledge service environment, the information is large and explosive, and it is difficult to find knowledge of common phenomena. The urban traffic knowledge graph is a knowledge system that formally describes urban traffic concepts, entities and their interrelationships. It has great application potential in application scenarios such as user travel, route planning, and urban planning. This paper first defines the urban traffic knowledge graph and the star subgraph query of the urban traffic knowledge graph. Then, the road network data and trajectory data are collected to extract the urban traffic knowledge, and the urban traffic knowledge graph is constructed with this knowledge. Finally, a star subgraph query algorithm on the urban traffic knowledge graph is proposed. The discussion of the star subgraph query mode gives the corresponding application scenarios of our method in the urban traffic knowledge graph. Experimental results verify the performance advantages of this method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In modern SoCs embedded memories should be protected by ECC against field failures to achieve acceptable reliability. They should also be repaired after fabrication to achieve acceptable fabrication yield. In technologies affected by high defect densities, conventional repair induces very high costs. To reduce it, we can use ECC-based repair, consisting in using the ECC for fixing words comprising a single faulty cell and self-repair to fix all other faulty words. However, as we show in this paper, for high defect densities the diagnosis circuitry required for ECC-based repair may induce very large hardware cost. To fix this issue, we introduce a new family of memory test algorithms that exhibit a property we termed as “single-read double-fault detection”. This approach gains interest in ultimate CMOS and post-CMOS technologies, where the defect densities are expected to increase significantly, and/or in very-low power design, as very-low voltage sharply increases defect densities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper describes and evaluates several global optimization issues of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and their applications. In this paper, the authors examine the properties of the feed-forward neural networks and the process of determining the appropriate network inputs and architecture, and built up a short-term gas load forecast system - the Tell Future system. This system performs very well for short-term gas load forecasting, which is built based on various Back-Propagation (BP) algorithms. The standard Back-Propagation (BP) algorithm for training feed-forward neural networks have proven robust even for difficult problems. In order to forecast the future load from the trained networks, the history loads, temperature, wind velocity, and calendar information should be used in addition to the predicted future temperature and wind velocity. Compared to other regression methods, the neural networks allow more flexible relationships between temperature, wind, calendar information and load pattern. Feed-forward neural networks can be used in many kinds of forecasting in different industrial areas. Similar models can be built to make electric load forecasting, daily water consumption forecasting, stock and markets forecasting, traffic flow and product sales forecasting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]