To ensure the continuous supply of power in remote areas utilizing renewable energy resources is significant. Hence, in this research, an effective energy management method for a small-scale hybrid wind-solar-battery-Ultra-capacitor-based microgrid is proposed. Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) has been presented in conjunction with wind and solar energy conversion technologies characterized by coupling of power electronic converters, neural networks, optimization, battery, controllers, and ultra-capacitor storage systems to attain the intended performance. The power balance is regulated via an energy management system by considering the fluctuation in load demand and renewable energy power generation. Further, the voltage controller utilizes the deep Siamese neural network (deep SNN) that effectively carries out energy management among the hybrid renewable energy sources. The smelling-based hunting optimization assists in optimal parameter tuning and training of the deep SNN for enhancing the HESS’s efficiency. In addition, the microgrid operates independently and offers a testing area for different energy management systems and testing scenarios. The proposed small-scale microgrid, which is based on renewable energy, can serve as a significant testing area for methods utilized in smart grid applications. The proposed SBHO model’s efficiency is determined by varying the voltage, current, and power of the wind, solar, battery, and ultra-capacitor measurements. The current capacity of the battery reaches −11.06A and the battery voltage reaches 259.831 V in 0.82 s. The DC load measurement utilizing the SBHO approach obtained a DC bus voltage of 357.11V, a load current of 3.348 A within 0.82 s, and in DC power load attained the 1195.58 W within 0.82 s. The battery’s SOC by applying the smelling-based hunting optimization is gradually increased to 50.008% in 0.82s.In terms of the PV measurement, the PV current, PV voltage, and PV power are obtained as 4.238A,241.08V, and 1021.64W for the SBHO approach which surpasses other competent techniques. The ultra-capacitor current ranges from 35A to 40A with reduced heavy discharge of SOC from 98% obtained on evaluating the performance. The output power of wind using a boost convert remains 3000 W with few harmonics.

Lung cancer patients’ chances of survival can increase with early detection. For the diagnosis of lung cancer, precise lung nodule identification in computed tomography (CT) images is crucial. The variety of the lung nodules and the complexity of the surroundings, however, have made robust nodule identification a challenging problem. To address this challenge, the Extensible Hunt Optimization-based deep Convolutional Neural Network classifier (EHO-deep CNN), is developed in this research for detecting the lung nodules present in the CT images. The proposed model in which the preprocessing is performed through the median filter to eliminate the artifacts in the image. Specifically, the images are segmented by adopting the centralized superpixels segmentation-based iterative clustering (CSSBIC) technique that enhances the accuracy of segmentation. The proposed approach relies on the GLCM and the VGG16-based feature extraction to explicate the discrimination of the lung nodule features. In addition, the retrieved features are combined and fed forwarded to the Deep CNN classifier that is optimally tuned via the EHO algorithm. The EHO algorithm is developed by fusing the fitness function of Border collie dogs with the hunting characteristics of Dingo to enhance convergence rate and performance. The proposed EHO-deep CNN is reported in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity values as 98.13%, 98.98%, and 97.28% when measuring TP 80 for the LIDC-IDRI dataset and 96.09%, 96.70%, and 95.48% for measuring k-fold 10. Further, implementing the suggested model obtains the values of 95.34%, 92.88%, and 97.80% for the LUNA 16 dataset when measuring TP 80 and 98.21%, 98.06%, 98.35% when measuring k-fold 10, which outperforms other existing techniques in effectiveness.

Creative ideas are introduced to the market by business owners, and inventiveness creates new demands that cause existing markets to be disrupted and new ones to be created, which are then destroyed by even more innovative goods or services. In this rsesearch work, an empirical study is undertaken to gather information about business model innovation and creativity as well as Entrepreneurship development in Greek SMEs. Using the stratum sample size determination formula, a valid sample of 257 people influenced the study. SEM and the F-test were used in the research’s data analysis. The findings of the study demonstrate that entrepreneurship has a significant connection between business model innovation & creativity and digital capabilities. The test results also indicate that digital capabilities have a favorable impact on the business model innovation & creativity. They also found that the creativity and innovation of business models have a favorable impact on entrepreneurs’ business survival. However, the creativity and innovation of business models have no favorable impact on entrepreneurs’ business performance and reputation.

Conversational agents (CAs) have been widely used for many domains, such as healthcare, education, and business. One main category of CAs is task-oriented CAs, which aim to help users to complete a set of specific tasks. However, task-oriented CAs can fail to answer the user’s question, which can lead to a breakdown in the dialogue (when it is not possible to complete a conversation with a CA). Breakdown detection is an essential task for developing better CAs. Several related studies have focused on breakdown detection using different sets of features, for example, topic transition, word-based similarity and clustering; but, the existing studies develop features mainly from the system’s outputs or user’s inputs, whereas the features can be extracted from both sides, as well as from the interaction between them. Therefore, in this work, we developed a new supervised fusion machine learning (ML) model that combines the prediction from two machine learning algorithms for breakdown detection CAs services system. We developed features from different groups focusing on both the user input and the system response. Then we select the optimal combined features. The features are based on sentence similarity, sentiment features, and count-based features. The developed fusion model is mainly based on the two best performances of the single classifiers (SVM and RF). We explore several single ML algorithms using different sets of features and the combined features. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed fusion model, we compared the proposed models against baseline methods using four sets of data. We conclude that the proposed fusion model with the combined features outperforms the baselines and all other models in terms of prediction accuracy and f-score measures.

The recent development of communication technologies made it possible for people to share opinions on various social media platforms. The opinion of the people is converted into small-sized textual data. Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is a process used by businesses and other organizations to assess these textual data in order to comprehend people’s opinions about the services or products offered by them. The majority of earlier Sentiment Analysis (SA) research uses lexicons, word frequencies, or black box techniques to obtain the sentiment in the text. It should be highlighted that these methods disregard the relationships and interdependence between words in terms of semantics. Hence, an efficient ABSA framework to determine the sentiment from the textual reviews of the customers is developed in this work. Initially, the raw text review data is collected from the standard benchmark datasets. The gathered text reviews undergo text pre-processing to neglect the unwanted words and characters from the input text document. The pre-processed data is directly provided to the feature extraction phase in which the seq2seq network and transformer network are employed. Further, the optimal features from the two resultant features are chosen by utilizing the proposed Modified Bird Swarm-Ladybug Beetle Optimization (MBS-LBO). After obtaining optimal features, these features are fused together and given to the final detection model. Consequently, the Optimized Cascaded Long Short Term Memory (OCas-LSTM) is proposed for predicting the sentiments from the given review by the users. Here, the parameters are tuned optimally by the MBS-LBO algorithm, and also it is utilized for enhancing the performance rate. The experimental evaluation is made to reveal the excellent performance of the developed SA model by contrasting it with conventional models.

Recommender Systems are mainly used in various e-commerce applications, especially online stores threatening users’ privacy. The privacy issues can be overcome by using security solutions, which include blockchain technology for privacy applications. The fusion of the Internet of Things and blockchain technology has fully improved modern distributed systems. The combination guarantees the safety and scalability of the recommender system. We aim to create an authorized secure exchange device using blockchain-enabled multiparty computation by adding smart contracts to the core blockchain protocol. The recommendation structure and Blockchain technology make online shopping more convenient and private. We propose a blockchain-related recommender system using the “movielens” data. The case study includes a smart contract model that recommends movies to buyers. Initially, we tested the model on a small “movielens dataset” and extended it to a 3M movielens dataset. We developed a classifier model for movielens and proposed a Dual light graph convolutional network for movielens data classification. Our results, including ablation analysis, show that blockchain strategies and Dual light graph convolutional networks can effectively improve recommender systems’ privacy. Furthermore, the suggested blockchain technique can be stretched by similar procedures.

Testing and debugging have been the most significant steps of software development since it is tricky for engineers to create error-free software. Software testing takes place after coding with the goal of finding flaws. If errors are found, debugging would be done to identify the source of the errors so that they may be fixed. Detecting as well as locating defects are thus two essential stages in the creation of software. We have created a unique approach with the following two working phases to generate a minimized test suite that is capable of both detecting and localizing faults. In the initial test suite minimization process, the cases were generated and minimized based on the objectives such as D-score and coverage by the utilization of the proposed Blue Monkey Customized Black Widow (BMCBW) algorithm. After this test suite minimization, the fault validation is done which includes the process of fault detection and localization. For this fault validation, we have utilized an improved Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). At 90% of the learning rate the accuracy of the presented work is 0.97%, 2.20%, 2.52%, 0.97% and 2.81% is better than the other extant models like AOA, COOT, BES, BMO and BWO methods. The results obtained proved that our Blue Monkey Customized Black Widow Optimization-based fault detection and localization approach can provide superior outcomes.

Ride-sharing contributes significantly to lowering trip expenses, easing traffic congestion and decreasing air pollution. However, current order pairing approaches in ride-sharing usually focus on minimizing total trip distances or maximizing platform profits, overlooking the drivers’ desire for increased earnings. As a result, drivers might provide dishonest information to gain higher profits, leading to inefficient order pairing for the ride-sharing platform and potential losses for both the platform and drivers. In this paper, we address this challenging issue by developing efficient order pairing mechanisms that maximize the social welfare of the platform and drivers. Specifically, we introduce two truthful auction-based order pairing mechanisms, SWMOM-VCG and SWMOM-GM, where drivers bid on platform-published orders to complete them and earn profits. We provide theoretical proof that both mechanisms fulfill the criteria of individual rationality, profitability, truthfulness and so on. Using real taxi order data from New York City, we assess the performance of both mechanisms and show that they achieve greater social welfare compared to existing methods. Additionally, we find that SWMOM-GM requires less computation time than SWMOM-VCG for order pairing, with only a minor reduction in social welfare.

IoT-Fog computing provides a wide range of services for end-based IoT systems. End IoT devices interface with cloud nodes and fog nodes to manage client tasks. Critical attacks like DDoS and other security risks are more likely to compromise IoT end devices while they are collecting data between the fog and the cloud layer. It’s important to find these network vulnerabilities early. By extracting features and placing the danger in the network, DL is crucial in predicting end-user behavior. However, deep learning cannot be carried out on Internet of Things devices because to their constrained calculation and storage capabilities. In this research, we suggest a three-stage Deep Hybrid Detection Model for Attack Detection in IoT-Fog Architecture. Improved Z-score normalization-based data preparation will be carried out in the initial step. On the basis of preprocessed data, features like IG, raw data, entropy, and enhanced MI are extracted in the second step. The collected characteristics are used as input to hybrid classifiers dubbed optimized Deep Maxout and Deep Belief Network (DBN) in the third step of the process to classify the assaults based on the input dataset. A hybrid optimization model called the BMUJFO (Blue Monkey Updated Jellyfish Optimization) technique is presented for the best Deep Maxout training. Additionally, the suggested model produced higher accuracy, precision, sensitivity, and specificity results, with values of 95.26 percent, 94.84%, 96.28%, and 97.84%, respectively.

This paper presents an automatic facial micro-expression recognition system (FMER) from video sequence. Identification and classification are performed on basic expressions: happy, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness, anger, and neutral states. The system integrates three main steps. The first step consists in face detection and tracking over three consecutive frames. In the second step, the facial contour extraction is performed on each frame to build Euclidean distance maps. The last task corresponds to the classification which is achieved with two methods; the SVM and using convolutional neural networks. Experimental evaluation of the proposed system for facial micro-expression identification is performed on the well-known databases (Chon and Kanade and CASME II), with six and seven facial expressions for each classification method.