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Cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases are global threats to public health and cause approximately 19 million deaths worldwide annually. This high mortality rate can be reduced with the use of technological advancements in medical science that can facilitate continuous monitoring of physiological parameters-blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood glucose, etc. The futuristic values of these critical physiological or vital sign parameters not only enable in-time assistance from medical experts and caregivers but also help patients manage their health status by receiving relevant regular alerts/advice from healthcare practitioners. In this study, we propose a machine-learning-based prediction and classification system to determine futuristic values of related vital signs for both cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases. Based on the prediction of futuristic values, the proposed system can classify patients' health status to alarm the caregivers and medical experts. In this machine-learning-based prediction and classification model, we have used a real vital sign dataset. To predict the next 1-3 minutes of vital sign values, several regression techniques (i.e., linear regression and polynomial regression of degrees 2, 3, and 4) have been tested. For caregivers, a 60-second prediction and to facilitate emergency medical assistance, a 3-minute prediction of vital signs is used. Based on the predicted vital signs values, the patient's overall health is assessed using three machine learning classifiers, i.e., Support Vector Machine (SVM), Naive Bayes, and Decision Tree. Our results show that the Decision Tree can correctly classify a patient's health status based on abnormal vital sign values and is helpful in timely medical care to the patients., Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest., (Copyright © 2021 Wajid Shah et al.)

This document discusses the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in data science and its potential to create a better society. It highlights the benefits of AI in various domains such as science, medicine, technology, and social sciences. The document also addresses the challenges of integrating multiple AI technologies from different fields and the open issues in this emerging field. The special issue presented in the document includes 22 papers covering topics such as job advertisement analysis, malware detection, image enhancement, machine learning techniques, and optimization algorithms. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. [Extracted from the article]

This paper proposes a deep learning model that is robust and capable of handling highly uncertain inputs. The model is divided into three phases: creating a dataset, creating a neural network based on the dataset, and retraining the neural network to handle unpredictable inputs. The model utilizes entropy values and a non-dominant sorting algorithm to identify the candidate with the highest entropy value from the dataset. This is followed by merging the training set with adversarial samples, where a mini-batch of the merged dataset is used to update the dense network parameters. This method can improve the performance of machine learning models, categorization of radiographic images, risk of misdiagnosis in medical imaging, and accuracy of medical diagnoses. To evaluate the efficacy of the proposed model, two datasets, MNIST and COVID, were used with pixel values and without transfer learning. The results showed an increase of accuracy from 0.85 to 0.88 for MNIST and from 0.83 to 0.85 for COVID, which suggests that the model successfully classified images from both datasets without using transfer learning techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cloud computing is the on‐demand provision of computing resources over the Internet, such as cloud storage, computing power, network, and so on. Cloud computing has several advantages, including high speed, cost reduction, data security, and scalability. The main challenge in cloud environment is to balance the workloads and network traffic among the available resources to achieve maximum performance. Several methods have been proposed in the literature for effective load balancing, including heuristic, meta‐heuristic, and hybrid algorithms. The performance of these techniques has been improved by combining machine learning based Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques and meta‐heuristic algorithms. Most of the existing load balancing techniques are not aware of the content type of user tasks. However, from the literature, the content type of the tasks can be very effective to design a balanced workload distribution system in the cloud. In this work, a novel AI‐assisted hybrid approach called Content‐aware Machine Learning based Load Balancing Scheduler (CA‐MLBS) is proposed. The scheduling system CA‐MLBS combines machine learning and meta‐heuristic algorithms to perform classification based on file type. To achieve this, a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifier is used to classify user tasks into different content types such as video, audio, image, and text. A metaheuristic algorithm based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used to map users' tasks in the cloud. The proposed approach was implemented and evaluated using a renowned Cloudsim simulation kit and compared with Ant Colony Optimization File Type Format (ACOFTF) and Data Files Type Formatting (DFTF) heuristics. The results of the proposed study show that the proposed CA‐MLBS technique achieved improvements of up to 29%, 29%, and 44% in terms of makespan, response time, and throughput, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have witnessed great advancement in the field of neural networks for processing graph datasets. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have outperformed current models/algorithms in accomplishing tasks such as semi-supervised node classification, link prediction, and graph classification. GCNs perform well even with a very small training dataset. The GCN framework has evolved to Graph Attention Model (GAT), GraphSAGE, and other hybrid frameworks. In this paper, we effectively usd the network centrality approach to select nodes from the training set (instead of a traditional random selection), which is fed into GCN (and GAT) to perform semi-supervised node classification tasks. This allows us to take advantage of the best positional nodes in the network. Based on empirical analysis, we choose the betweenness centrality measure for selecting the training nodes. We also mathematically justify why our proposed technique offers better training. This novel training technique is used to analyze the performance of GCN and GAT models on five benchmark networks—Cora, Citeseer, PubMed, Wiki-CS, and Amazon Computers. In GAT implementations, we obtain improved classification accuracy compared to the other state-of-the-art GCN-based methods. Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, the results obtained for Citeseer, Wiki- CS, and Amazon Computer datasets are the best compared to all the existing node classification methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cervical cancer is one of the deadliest diseases in women worldwide. It is caused by long-term infection of the skin cells and mucosal cells of the genital area of women. The most disturbing thing about this cancer is the fact that it does not show any symptoms when it occurs. In the diagnosis and prognosis of cervical cancer disease, machine learning has the potential to help detect it at an early stage. In this paper, we analyzed different supervised machine learning techniques to detect cervical cancer at an early stage. To train the machine learning model, a cervical cancer dataset from the UCI repository was used. The different methods were evaluated using this dataset of 858 cervical cancer patients with 36 risk factors and one outcome variable. Six classification algorithms were applied in this study, including an artificial neural network, a Bayesian network, an SVM, a random tree, a logistic tree, and an XG-boost tree. All models were trained with and without a feature selection algorithm to compare the performance and accuracy of the classifiers. Three feature selection algorithms were used, namely (i) relief rank, (ii) wrapper method and (iii) LASSO regression. The maximum accuracy of 94.94% was recorded using XG Boost with complete features. It is also observed that for this dataset, in some cases, the feature selection algorithm performs better. Machine learning has been shown to have advantages over traditional statistical models when it comes to dealing with the complexity of large-scale data and uncovering prognostic features. It offers much potential for clinical use and for improving the treatment of cervical cancer. However, the limitations of prediction studies and models, such as simplified, incomplete information, overfitting, and lack of interpretability, suggest that further efforts are needed to improve the accuracy, reliability, and practicality of clinical outcome prediction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to air pollution, pollutants that harm humans and other species, as well as the environment and natural resources, can be detected in the atmosphere. In real-world applications, the following impurities that are caused due to smog, nicotine, bacteria, yeast, biogas, and carbon dioxide occur uninterruptedly and give rise to unavoidable pollutants. Weather, transportation, and the combustion of fossil fuels are all factors that contribute to air pollution. Uncontrolled fire in parts of grasslands and unmanaged construction projects are two factors that contribute to air pollution. The challenge of assessing contaminated air is critical. Machine learning algorithms are used to forecast the surroundings if any pollution level exceeds the corresponding limit. As a result, in the proposed method air pollution levels are predicted using a machine learning technique where a computer-aided procedure is employed in the process of developing technological aspects to estimate harmful element levels with 99.99% accuracy. Some of the models used to enhance forecasts are Mean Square Error (MSE), Coefficient of Determination Error (CDE), and R Square Error (RSE). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces a new model to identify a group of trajectory outliers from a large trajectory database and proposes several algorithms. These can be split into three categories: 1) algorithms based on data mining and knowledge discovery, which study the different correlations among the trajectory data and identify the group of abnormal trajectories from the knowledge extracted; 2) algorithms based on machine learning and computational intelligence methods, which use the ensemble learning and metaheuristics to find the group of trajectory outliers; and 3) an algorithm exploring the convolution deep neural network that learns the different features of historical data to determine the group of trajectory outliers. Experiments on different trajectory databases have been carried out to investigate the proposed algorithms. The results show that the deep learning solution outperforms data mining, machine learning, and computational intelligence solutions, as well as state-of-the-art solutions in terms of runtime and accuracy performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces a secure and scalable intelligent transportation and human behavior system to accurately discover knowledge from urban traffic data. The data are secured using blockchain learning technology, where the scalability is ensured by a threaded GPU. In addition, different optimizations are provided to efficiently process data on the GPU. A reinforcement deep learning algorithm is also established to merge local knowledge discovered on each site into global knowledge. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework, intensive experiments have been carried out on well-known intelligent transportation and human behavior data. Our results show that our proposed framework outperforms the baseline solutions for the outlier detection use case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart phones are an integral component of the mobile edge computing (MEC) framework. Securing the data stored on mobile devices is very crucial for ensuring the smooth operations of cloud services. A growing number of malicious Android applications demand an in-depth investigation to dissect their malicious intent to design effective malware detection techniques. The contemporary state-of-the-art model suggests that hybrid features based on machine learning (ML) techniques could play a significant role in android malware detection. The selection of application's features plays a very crucial role to capture the appropriate behavioural patterns of malware instances for a useful classification of mobile applications. In this study, we propose a novel hybrid approach to detect android malware, wherein static features in conjunction with dynamic features of smart phone applications are employed. We collect these hybrid features using permissions, intents, and run-time features (such as information leakage, cryptography's exploitation, and network manipulations) to analyse the effectiveness of the employed techniques for malware detection. We conduct experiments using over 5,000 real-world applications. The outcomes of the study reveal that the proposed set of features has successfully detected malware threats with 97% F-measure results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ransomware continues to pose a significant threat to cybersecurity by extorting money from users by locking their devices and personal data. The attackers force the payment of a ransom in order to restore access to personal files. Because of the structural similarity, detection of ransomware and benign applications becomes vulnerable to evasion attacks. Ensemble learning can provide countermeasures, while attackers can use the same technique to improve the effectiveness of their respective attacks. This motivates us to investigate whether the distinct ensemble method can achieve better performance when combined with the voting-based method. This research proposes a hybrid approach that examines permissions, text, and network-based features both statically and dynamically by monitoring memory usage, system call logs, and CPU usage. Ensemble machine learning analyzers on static and dynamic features extracted from Android malware applications (ransomware and non-ransomware) are then trained in the designed model. Our experimental results show that the proposed ensemble classification and detection technique can classify unknown static and dynamic ransomware behavior to mitigate adversarial evasion attacks. [Display omitted] • The designed model extracts and analyzes static network-based features. • Two ML-based ensemble models are proposed for static and dynamic feature sets. • The model is for Android ransomware adversarial evasion attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mining patterns with high utilization (or called high-utility itemset mining, HUIM) is considered a major issue in recent decades especially in the market (e.g., supermarket) engineering since it reveals the profitable information/products for decision-making. Many existing works focused on mining high-utility itemsets from databases that revealed a very large amount of patterns. This process cannot make the precise decision in a short time, e.g., real-time and online decision-making system, since it is not a trivial task to find the appropriate and useful information from a huge amount of the discovered knowledge in a limited time. Mining closed patterns with high utilization (or called closed high-utility pattern mining) is an alternative way to reveal fewer and concise patterns with high utilization in market engineering. However, many past works considered the complete mining progress of all HUIs and they do not consider the correlation between transactions thus when the transactions are not highly relevant, the trained model could not be perfectly used for the predication, which shows inappropriate results in machine learning tasks. In this paper, we consider the clustering models that can divide the transactions into the proper groups based on their correlation, which can be used to make a better accuracy model for prediction. To reduce the mining progress of the CHUIs, a compact GA model is also used in the mining progress, thus in the large-scale situation, a sufficient number of satisfied CHUIs can be discovered in a limited time. Based on the designed framework, the designed model can, not only mine the good enough CHUIs in the limited time for the large-scale environment but also the adopted clustering concept can make a better predictive model in the machine learning process, thus higher accuracy results can be obtained. Experimental results are then evaluated to compare the state-of-the-art CHUI-Miner and CLS-Miner with the developed DcGA model, and the designed DcGA achieves the best runtime performance and satisfied mining results. • A clustering model is utilized to group the transactions with high correlation. • A compact GA is utilized to find the satisfied patterns in a limit time. • Better performance is obtained compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, numerous Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have been applied in many areas of cybersecurity. However, most of these systems can only be seen as a black box to users. To improve our understanding of such systems, adversarial machine learning approaches can be used. The main features are detected by analyzing the extent of such changes, which helps in identifying the main reasons for misclassification. In this paper, the presented approach has obtained satisfactory results that accurately explains the reasons for misclassifications. Some features of the presented method can be applied to any classifier with defined gradients without the need for modifications. The proposed model can be extended to perform more diagnoses and it can be used for a deeper analysis of systems, obtaining more than 95% accuracy classification on the used datasets in the experiments. [Display omitted] • Explains misclassifications by data-driven AI models using an adversarial approach. • Compute the minimum number of changes to input features required. • Increased average classification accuracy by 2.5% post modification. • Designed a black-box attack to test the correctness and trustworthiness. • Used explanation maps to examine the effectiveness of attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]