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Abstract Our environment has been significantly impacted by climate change. According to previous research, insect catastrophes induced by global climate change killed many trees, inevitably contributing to forest fires. The condition of the forest is an essential indicator of forest fires. Analysis of aerial images of a forest can detect deceased and living trees at an early stage. Automated forest health diagnostics are crucial for monitoring and preserving forest ecosystem health. Combining Modified Generative Adversarial Networks (MGANs) and YOLOv5 (You Only Look Once version 5) is presented in this paper as a novel method for assessing forest health using aerial images. We also employ the Tabu Search Algorithm (TSA) to enhance the process of identifying and categorizing unhealthy forest areas. The proposed model provides synthetic data to supplement the limited labeled dataset, thereby resolving the frequent issue of data scarcity in forest health diagnosis tasks. This improvement enhances the model's ability to generalize to previously unobserved data, thereby increasing the overall precision and robustness of the forest health evaluation. In addition, YOLOv5 integration enables real-time object identification, enabling the model to recognize and pinpoint numerous tree species and potential health issues with exceptional speed and accuracy. The efficient architecture of YOLOv5 enables it to be deployed on devices with limited resources, enabling forest-monitoring applications on-site. We use the TSA to enhance the identification of unhealthy forest areas. The TSA method effectively investigates the search space, ensuring the model converges to a near-optimal solution, improving disease detection precision and decreasing false positives. We evaluated our MGAN-YOLOv5 method using a large dataset of aerial images of diverse forest habitats. The experimental results demonstrated impressive performance in diagnosing forest health automatically, achieving a detection precision of 98.66%, recall of 99.99%, F1 score of 97.77%, accuracy of 99.99%, response time of 3.543 ms and computational time of 5.987 ms. Significantly, our method outperforms all the compared target detection methods showcasing a minimum improvement of 2% in mAP.

Power-efficient wireless sensor network routing techniques (WSN). Clustering is used to extend WSNs' lifetimes. One node act as the cluster head (CH) to represent the others in communications. The member nodes are less important than the cluster hub (CH) in the clustering procedure. Fuzzy techniques based on clustering theory may provide evenly distributed loads. In this study, we provide a fuzzy-logic-based solution that factors in distance to base station (BS), number of nodes, remaining energy, compactness, distance to communicate within a cluster, number of CH, and remaining energy. Fuzzy clustering has a preliminary and final step. First, we select CH based on distance to the base station (BS), remaining node vigor, and node compactness. In the second phase, clusters are created by combining nodes that aren't already in a CH, using density, outstanding vigor, and detachment as limitations. The proposed solution increases load balancing and node longevity. This work provides a unique hybrid routing technique for forming clusters and managing data transfer to the base station. Simulation findings confirm the protocol's functionality and competence. Reduced energy use keeps network sensor nodes online longer. The framework outperforms Stable Election Protocol (SEP), hybrid energy-efficient distributed clustering (HEED), and Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH). Using the nodes' energy levels to create a grid pattern for the clusters gave four clusters. In addition, the proposed method has a 4347%, 41.46%, 39.26%, 37.57% and 35.67% reduction in average energy consumption when compared with the conventional algorithms. The proposed technologies could increase the network's lifetime, stability interval, packet transfer rate (throughput), and average energy. The suggested protocol is at least 50% better in every statistic that was looked at, such as network lifetime, stability interval, packet transmission rate (throughput), and average energy use.

Fever is one of the most common reasons for unwell children presenting to pharmacists and primary healthcare practitioners. Currently there are no guidelines for assessment and management of fever specifically for community and primary healthcare workers in the sub-Saharan Africa region. This multidisciplinary consensus guide was developed to assist pharmacists and primary healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa to risk stratify and manage children who present with fever, decide when to refer, and how to advise parents and caregivers.Fever is defined as body temperature ≥ 37.5 °C and is a normal physiological response to illness that facilitates and accelerates recovery. Although it is often associated with self-limiting illness, it causes significant concern to both parents and attending healthcare workers. Clinical signs may be used by pharmacy staff and primary healthcare workers to determine level of distress and to distinguish between a child with fever who is at high risk of serious illness and who requires specific treatment, hospitalisation or specialist care, and those at low risk who could be managed conservatively at home. In children with warning signs, serious causes of fever that may need to be excluded include infections (including malaria), non-infective inflammatory conditions and malignancy. Simple febrile convulsions are not in themselves harmful, and are not necessarily indicative of serious infection. In the absence of illness requiring specific treatment, relief from distress is the primary indication for prescribing pharmacotherapy, and antipyretics should not be administered with the sole intention of reducing body temperature. Care must be taken not to overdose medications and clear instructions should be given to parents/caregivers on managing the child at home and when to seek further medical care.

Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are expanding rapidly, reporting on daily news, social activities and regional or international actual occurrences. Twitter and other platforms have gained popularity because they allow users to submit information, links, photos and videos with few restrictions on content. As a result of technology advances (“big” data) and an increasing trend toward institutionalizing ethics regulation, social network analysis (SNA) research is currently confronted with serious ethical challenges. A significant percentage of human interactions occur on social networks online. In this instance, content freshness is essential, as content popularity declines with time. Therefore, we investigate how influencer content (i.e., posts) generates interactions, as measured by the number of likes and reactions. The Gradient Boosted Decision Tree (GBDT) and the Chaotic Gradient-Based Optimizer are required for estimation (CGBO). Using earlier group interactions, we develop the Influencers Prediction issue in this study’s setting of SN-created groups. We also provide a GBDT-CGBO framework and an efficient method for identifying users with the ability to influence the future behaviour of others. Our contribution is based on logic, experimentation and analytic techniques. The goal of this paper is to find domain-based social influencers using a framework that uses semantic analysis and machine learning modules to measure and predict users’ credibility in different domains and at different times. To solve these problems, future research will have to focus on co-authorship networks and economic networks instead of online social networks. The results show that our GBDT-CGBO method is both useful and effective. Based on the test results, the GBDT-CGBO model can correctly classify unclear data, which speeds up processing and makes it more efficient.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have distributed a collection of tiny sensor nodes deployed randomly in the given symmetry environment to sense natural phenomena. The sensed data are disseminated symmetrically to the control station using multi-hop communication. In WSN, the energy conservation during node coverage plays a major role in detecting node failure and providing efficient and symmetrical data transmission to the nodes of WSN. Using the cluster method and efficient localization techniques, the nodes are grouped and the precise location of the nodes is identified to establish the connection with the nearby nodes in the case of node failure. The location accuracy is achieved using the localization estimation of the anchor nodes and the nearest hop node distance estimation using the received signal strength measurement. The node optimization can be performed efficiently by the accurate estimation of the localization of the node. To optimize the node coverage and provide energy efficient and symmetrical localization among the nodes, in this paper, a cluster-based routing protocol and a novel bio-inspired algorithm, namely, Modified Bat for Node Optimization (MB−NO), to localize and optimize the unknown nodes along with the reinforcement-based Q learning algorithm is proposed with the motive of increasing the accuracy estimation between anchor nodes and the other neighbor nodes, with the objective function to optimize and improve the nodes’ coverage among the network’s nodes in order to increase the nodes’ localization accuracy. The distance metrics between the anchor nodes and other neighbor nodes have an estimated symmetry with three node positions, namely C-shape, S-shape and H-shape, using the Q learning algorithm. The proposed algorithm is implemented using the NS3 simulator. The simulation results show that the accuracy and precision of the proposed algorithm are achieved at 98% in the node coverage optimization with reduced Mean Localization Error (MLE) and computational process time compared with other bio-inspired algorithms, such as Artificial Bee Colony optimization and Genetic Algorithms.

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) comprise numerous underwater wireless sensor nodes dispersed in the marine environment, which find applicability in several areas like data collection, navigation, resource investigation, surveillance, and disaster prediction. Because of the usage of restricted battery capacity and the difficulty in replacing or charging the inbuilt batteries, energy efficiency becomes a challenging issue in the design of UWSN. Earlier studies reported that clustering and routing are considered effective ways of attaining energy efficacy in the UWSN. Clustering and routing processes can be treated as nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP) hard optimization problems, and they can be addressed by the use of metaheuristics. This study introduces an improved metaheuristics-based clustering with multihop routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks, named the IMCMR-UWSN technique. The major aim of the IMCMR-UWSN technique is to choose cluster heads (CHs) and optimal routes to a destination. The IMCMR-UWSN technique incorporates two major processes, namely the chaotic krill head algorithm (CKHA)-based clustering and self-adaptive glow worm swarm optimization algorithm (SA-GSO)-based multihop routing. The CKHA technique selects CHs and organizes clusters based on different parameters such as residual energy, intra-cluster distance, and inter-cluster distance. Similarly, the SA-GSO algorithm derives a fitness function involving four parameters, namely residual energy, delay, distance, and trust. Utilization of the IMCMR-UWSN technique helps to significantly boost the energy efficiency and lifetime of the UWSN. To ensure the improved performance of the IMCMR-UWSN technique, a series of simulations were carried out, and the comparative results reported the supremacy of the IMCMR-UWSN technique in terms of different measures.

In recent years, the underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) has received a significant interest among research communities for several applications, such as disaster management, water quality prediction, environmental observance, underwater navigation, etc. The UWSN comprises a massive number of sensors placed in rivers and oceans for observing the underwater environment. However, the underwater sensors are restricted to energy and it is tedious to recharge/replace batteries, resulting in energy efficiency being a major challenge. Clustering and multi-hop routing protocols are considered energy-efficient solutions for UWSN. However, the cluster-based routing protocols for traditional wireless networks could not be feasible for UWSN owing to the underwater current, low bandwidth, high water pressure, propagation delay, and error probability. To resolve these issues and achieve energy efficiency in UWSN, this study focuses on designing the metaheuristics-based clustering with a routing protocol for UWSN, named MCR-UWSN. The goal of the MCR-UWSN technique is to elect an efficient set of cluster heads (CHs) and route to destination. The MCR-UWSN technique involves the designing of cultural emperor penguin optimizer-based clustering (CEPOC) techniques to construct clusters. Besides, the multi-hop routing technique, alongside the grasshopper optimization (MHR-GOA) technique, is derived using multiple input parameters. The performance of the MCR-UWSN technique was validated, and the results are inspected in terms of different measures. The experimental results highlighted an enhanced performance of the MCR-UWSN technique over the recent state-of-art techniques.

The increasing demand for cloud computing has shifted business toward a huge demand for cloud services, which offer platform, software, and infrastructure for the day-to-day use of cloud consumers. Numerous new cloud service providers have been introduced to the market with unique features that assist service developers collaborate and migrate services among multiple cloud service providers to address the varying requirements of cloud consumers. Many interfaces and proprietary application programming interfaces (API) are available for migration and collaboration services among cloud providers, but lack standardization efforts. The target of the research work was to summarize the issues involved in semantic cloud portability and interoperability in the multi-cloud environment and define the standardization effort imminently needed for migrating and collaborating services in the multi-cloud environment.

Cloud interoperability provides cloud services such as Software as a Service (SaaS) or customer system to communicate between the cloud providers. However, one of the most important barriers for existing researches was to adopt the application’s or data’s in cloud computing environments so as to obtain efficient cloud interoperability. This paper focuses on reliable cloud interoperability with a heterogeneous cloud computing resource environment with the objective of providing unilateral provision computing capabilities of a cloud server without the help of human interaction and allowing proper utilization of applications and services across various domains by using an effective cloud environment available at runtime. Moreover, the framework uses hybrid squirrel search genetic algorithm (HSSGA) to select the relevant features from a set of extracted features in order to eliminate irrelevant data which provides advantages of low computational time and less memory usage. Thereafter, for a proper selection of cloud server with respect to the selected features, the system has developed the improved adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (I-ANFIS) which provides accurate server selection and helps against uncertainties caused by servers or applications. Hence, the experimental result of the proposed framework gives an accuracy of 94.24% and remains more efficient compared to existing frameworks.