Application of Data Mining Tools in Shrink Sleeve Labels Converting Process

With the use of fuzzy logic techniques, neural computing can be integrated in symbolic reasoning to solve complex real world problems. In fact, artificial neural networks, expert systems, and fuzzy logic systems, in the context of approximate reasoning, share common features and techniques. A model of Fuzzy Connectionist Expert System is introduced, in which an artificial neural network is designed to construct the knowledge base of an expert system from, training examples (this model can also be used for specifications of rules in fuzzy logic control). Two types of weights are associated with the synaptic connections in an AND-OR structure: primary linguistic weights, interpreted as labels of fuzzy sets, and secondary numerical weights. Cell activation is computed through min-max fuzzy equations of the weights. Learning consists in finding the (numerical) weights and the network topology. This feedforward network is described and first illustrated in a biomedical application (medical diagnosis assistance from inflammatory-syndromes/proteins profiles). Then, it is shown how this methodology can be utilized for handwritten pattern recognition (characters play the role of diagnoses): in a fuzzy neuron describing a number for example, the linguistic weights represent fuzzy sets on cross-detecting lines and the numerical weights reflect the importance (or weakness) of connections between cross-detecting lines and characters.

Intelligent computing system based on pattern recognition and data mining algorithms

Data Mining refers to a set of methods applicable to large and complex databases to eliminate the randomness and discover the hidden pattern. Datamining (DM), also known as knowledge discovery from databases (KDD), is the extraction of new knowledge from huge databases. Data mining involves the use of sophisticated data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. Data mining tools can forecast the future trends and activities to support the decision of people. The scope of datamining is associated with Uncovering trends and patterns are a great power for the businesses of all sectors and industries. Modern intrusion detection applications are confronted with a variety of issues. These applications must be reliable, extensible, manageable, and minimal in maintenance costs. Data mining-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have shown high accuracy, good generalisation to novel types of intrusion, and stable behaviour in a changing environment in recent years. The number of hidden layers in various neural network topologies is evaluated in order to discover the best neural network. The technique of attempting to discover instances of network attacks by comparing current behaviour to the expected actions of an intruder is known as misuse detection. Artificial neural networks have the ability to detect and classify network activity using data that is limited, incomplete, and nonlinear. The main purpose of this work is to identify privacy and security concerns among cloud computing participants and consumers in a distributed environment. Techniques like Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Data Mining are combined to automatically identify and uncover patterns from many sorts of materials. Predictive analytics is capable of dealing with both continuous and discontinuous changes. Classification, prediction, and to some extent, affinity analysis constitute the analytical methods employed in predictive analytics. The contemporary study in text or document mining is focusing on syntactic components and the semantic environment. In order to accomplish this, and with the motivation gained from our previous research contributions, we investigated a mining model to classify documents based on the Order of Context, Concept, and Semantic Relations (OCCSR). The use of data mining techniques based on Cloud computing will enable users to retrieve meaningful information from virtually integrated data warehouses, lowering infrastructure and storage costs. Data mining can extract useful and potentially useful information from the cloud. Big Data is typically defined by three characteristics known as the 3Vs (Volume, Velocity and Variety). The surveys approaches, environments, and technologies in key areas for Big Data analytics capabilities and discusses how they aid in the development of analytics solutions for Clouds. The clustering technique belongs to an unsupervised learning and it is used to discover a new set of categories. Grid-based clustering has the shortest processing time, which is typically determined by the size of the grid rather than the data. We compare the performance of three clustering algorithms: hierarchical clustering, density-based clustering, and K Means clustering. The majority of current approaches to detecting misuse involve the use of rule-based expert systems to identify indicators of known attacks. We provide a brief overview of the use of various Artificial Intelligence techniques and their advancements in the design, development, and application of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for protecting computer and communication networks from intruders. The goal of Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD) is to extract information that is not obvious by using careful and detailed analysis and interpretation. To drive decisions and actions, analytics employs KDD, data mining, text mining, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and advanced and interactive visualisation techniques.

Patient classification and outcome prediction in IgA nephropathy

Medical datasets hold huge number of records about the patients, the doctors and the diseases. The extraction of useful information which will provide knowledge in decision making process for the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases are becoming increasingly determinant. Knowledge Discovery and data mining make use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms which are applied to discover hidden patterns and relations in complex datasets using intelligent agents. The existing data mining algorithms and techniques are designed to solve the individual problems, such as classification or clustering. Up till now, no unifying theory is developed.Among the different algorithms in data mining for prediction, classification, interpretation and visualization, ‘k-means clustering’, ‘Decision Trees (C4.5)’, ‘Neural Network (NNs)’ and ‘Data Visualization (2D or 3D scattered graphs)’ algorithms are frequently utilized in data mining tools. The choice of the algorithm depends on the intended use of extracted knowledge.In this paper, the mentioned algorithms are unified into a tool, called Unified Medical Data Miner (UMDM) that will enable prediction, classification, interpretation and visualization on a diabetes dataset.KeywordsMedicineClusteringClassification & PredictionVisualizationAgent Data miningUnified Medical Data Miner

Aim/Purpose: This study carried out a systematic review of the literature on artificial intelligence (AI) in English language teaching (ELT). The objective was to delineate the current research progress in the field and to further understand the challenges. Background: The study analyzed articles published between 2015 and 2021. Methodology: The qualitative research method was employed. Five steps were taken to steer the review. 200 articles were scrutinized; 64 were retained. Contribution: Prior research on AI in ELT has not investigated how the literature is progressing or what areas of AI are being covered. Without a holistic picture, some important research findings could be missed. Understanding how studies on AI in ELT are designed and implemented will contribute to a greater understanding of the existing state of research. Findings: Findings show that there is a promising future for AI in ELT. AI in ELT yielded positive results in terms of optimizing the English language skills, translation, assessment, recognition, attitude, satisfaction, etc. It was also found out that more and more articles on the topic are being published; the mixed research method is the most commonly used, higher education level is the most sampled, students as participants are the most sampled, and most studies developed novel AI-based systems. Various AI approaches have been identified in the reviewed studies, including machine learning, neural network, support vector machine, genetic algorithms, deep learning, decision tree, expert system, natural language processing, data mining, cloud computing, and edge computing. However, AI in ELT is still in its infancy, where little research has been conducted and gaps in the literature are still present, especially in terms of inherent issues related to body language, gestures, expressions, emotions, translation, lack of elaborate description of teaching material used for learning driven by AI, uncertainties and vagueness with regards to what can be considered under the realm of AI, and most authors being outside of the ELT discipline. Recommendations for Practitioners: This literature review is likely to provide practitioners with an overview of the current adopted technology, research method, instruments and/or tools, educational level, language skill, and the effects reported by the AI-based studies for designing effective systems for the use of AI in their ELT classrooms. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers need to conduct research on AI in ELT along with a detailed in-depth description of the methodology, research design, and the proposed systems used to achieve AI in ELT. Furthermore, it is recommended that researchers explore the efficiency of AI-based systems used in previous research and ensure their relevance and functionality. They are also required to provide in-depth analysis of the challenges inherent to systems that have been highlighted in the literature, which will maximize the potentials of these AI-based technologies. Impact on Society: The findings of this paper can provide visualization of research findings that could particularly benefit researchers, educators, and AI specialists who are involved in the study of the applications of AI in ELT. Future Research: Future AI research needs to seriously include more detailed descriptions of the method in further research.

Over the last decade data warehousing and data mining tools have evolved from research into a unique and popular applications, ranging from data warehousing and data mining for decision support to business intelligence and other kind of applications. The chapter presents and discusses data warehousing methodologies along with the main components of data mining tools and technologies and how they all could be integrated together for knowledge management in a broader sense. Knowledge management refers to the set of processes developed in an organization to create, extract, transfer, store and apply knowledge. The chapter also focuses on how data mining tools and technologies could be used in extracting knowledge from large databases or data warehouses. Knowledge management increases the ability of an organization to learn from its environment and to incorporate knowledge into the business processes by adapting to new tools and technologies. Knowledge management is also about the reusability of the knowledge that is being extracted and stored in the knowledge base. One way to improve the reusability is to use this knowledge base as front-ends to case-based reasoning (CBR) applications. The chapter further focuses on the reusability issues of knowledge management and presents an integrated framework for knowledge management by combining data mining (DM) tools and technologies with CBR methodologies. The purpose of the integrated framework is to discover, validate, retain, reuse and share knowledge in an organization with its internal users as well as its external users. The framework is independent of application domain and would be suitable for uses in areas, such as data mining and knowledge management in e-government.

Modeling multiple land use changes using ANN, CART and MARS: Comparing tradeoffs in goodness of fit and explanatory power of data mining tools

Recent advances in information technology have made it possible to solve increasingly complex problems, and also to collect and store huge amounts of information. These vast quantities of data further have to be transformed into relevant value-added and “decision-quality” knowledge. It is against this background that the KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases), a multidisciplinary field using computer learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, database technology, expert systems, and data visualization, appeared in the early 90's. In order to assess these technologies in the medical field, we have tested some of these techniques on a large database at our disposal, named DiabCare stemming from the WHO – DiabCare program for the application of the Saint-Vincent Declaration. It contains evaluation data on the health care of patients with diabetes, and in particular, its complications. So far, data analysis has been done using classical statistical methods, and we now intend to make use of such data-mining tools as Associations Rules and Decision and Classification Trees for further exploration of this database. The results presented here show that data mining techniques can be used successfully to extract knowledge from medical databases. The results obtained using Association Rules and especially Decision Trees are very promising.

Nowadays, expert systems being used in various fields have received a great deal of attention. Auditing is one such field, along with determining the audit opinion type. An expert system consists of a knowledge database and an inference engine. The objective of this research is to make an expert system that will be of help to auditors in predicting and determining the different types of audit reports. The expert system receives data or knowledge from financial reports and determines the types of audit opinions by using an artificial neural network and a decision tree as an inference engine. An expert system should be able to explain the solution, but presenting the reason for the results obtained with a neural network is difficult. This study attempts to provide a method that will present simple and understandable reasons for the results obtained with neural networks.

Data mining (DM) is not a well-understood subject. Data mining is perceived as being a mystical, not mathematically rigorous methodology that often produces results without any validation or verification. Some of that is a correct perception. Indeed, few mathematical theorems demonstrate the rigorous validity of Data Mining. We need to interest more mathematicians in this field—a field that was born from Biology and not from Mathematics. Then, why use it if it is not mathematically fully validated? Simply, it is the best strategy we have knowledge and data are sparse, incomplete, or imprecise. We do not use this technique in a well-defined and well-understood problem where models have been proven and validated. Instead, we use DM when those mechanistic/deterministic models fail, knowledge is insufficient, but data is abundant. Data Mining comprises several mathematical techniques. They fulfill different needs: Expert System is a reasoning-based technique that is useful when knowledge is available and rules on a system’s behavior can be derived. One part of an Expert System is a technique now known as Block-Chain (originally as Black-Board). Information is shared securely. A sharing partner can acquire someone else’s information as long they add information to the blackboard. This technique was popularized by the Bitcoin industry and is now being rapidly accepted by Banks. Expert Systems are used mainly when knowledge is available. Additional information can be obtained by forming knowledge trees that are concatenated. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are techniques that can be used when only data instead of knowledge is available. The approach "mimics" the brain's "Pattern-Recognition" capabilities. It is mainly used to extract knowledge from data. There are two main types of ANN: Supervised and unsupervised learning. As an example of Supervise d learning are those ANN tools used to discover relationships between the dependent (output) and independent (input) variables. The non-supervised ANN are frequently used as excellent tools for Data Compression and for estimating the most probable values in incomplete data. Those main techniques get help from Fuzzy Logic, which enables us to deal with the data's uncertainties or with incomplete knowledge that is available. Search Techniques, such as Genetic algorithms (an exciting and fun option instead of Optimization techniques). Traditional Optimization techniques and Statistics are commonly used too as part of Data Mining. In this paper, I will address each technique's fundamentals, discuss the validity of the results, and guide the reader at the best choices for a given problem type. We will close the paper with examples on using the techniques for alloy design and stress corrosion cracking in Nuclear reactors, time permitting.

Hybridization of CBR and numeric soft computing techniques for mining of scarce construction databases

Today’s buildings are adequately informative because of the wide implementation of the building automation system (BAS). In this regard, data mining (DM) tools have an excellent ability to interpret and discover interesting, unknown information from raw data collected from BAS. The present work is a case study, in which DM tools (such as clustering and decision tree) are applied to understand the operational pattern of a hot water storage tank (sanicube) used in a residential building, located in Scotland. The main objective of this study is to explore the correlation among the important features (storage tank temperature, solar collector, the operation of the sanicube heating element, etc.) in the chosen building. Interesting correlations and patterns between the solar collector, storage tank, sanicube-heating element are explored. The clustering results show the existence of different charging patterns of the storage tank and it highly influences the space heating (SH) and domestic hot water (DHW) temperature. The main inference from the result is that the charging of the storage tank is not automatic, and it is influenced by the occupancy behaviour. To maintain the temperature of the storage tank and subsequently to meet the SH and DHW demand, the operation of both solar collector and sanicube heating element (during night time) is recommended rather than operating only the solar collector.

This chapter presents opportunities to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in aviation and aerospace industries. The AI used an innovative technology for improving the effectiveness of building aviation systems in each stage of the lifecycle for enhancing the security of aviation systems and the characteristic ability to learn, improve, and predict difficult situations. The AI is presented in Air Navigation Sociotechnical system (ANSTS) because the activity of ANSTS, is accompanied by a high degree of risk of causing catastrophic outcomes. The operator's models of decision making in AI systems are presented such as Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems for pilots of manned and unmanned aircraft, air traffic controllers, engineers, etc. The quality of operator's decisions depends on the development and use of innovative technology of AI and related fields (Big Data, Data Mining, Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Collaboration Decision Making, Blockchain, Artificial Neural Network, etc.).

Churn is a customer's behaviour to quit using product or service and then move to another company. Customer churn is serious problem that must be handled to keep company survive. Handling of churn customers starts from predicting which customers will churn. One approach in predicting customer churn is data mining. This study compares two classification methods in data mining namely artificial neural networks and decision trees in banking industry case. The result showed that the artificial neural network has accuracy 86% and precision 71%, which is better than the decision tree. However, the decision tree has a better recall value than the artificial neural network, which is 58%..