Somayeh Hessam¹, Shaghayegh Vahdat¹, Irvan Masoudi Asl^2,*, Mahnaz Kazemipoor³, Atefeh Aghaei⁴, Shahaboddin Shamshirband,^5,6,*, Timon Rabczuk⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.1, pp. 11-26, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06472

Abstract In recent years, Parkinson's Disease (PD) as a progressive syndrome of the nervous system has become highly prevalent worldwide. In this study, a novel hybrid technique established by integrating a Multi-layer Perceptron Neural Network (MLP) with the Biogeography-based Optimization (BBO) to classify PD based on a series of biomedical voice measurements. BBO is employed to determine the optimal MLP parameters and boost prediction accuracy. The inputs comprised of 22 biomedical voice measurements. The proposed approach detects two PD statuses: 0-disease status and 1- good control status. The performance of proposed methods compared with PSO, GA, ACO and ES method. The… More >

Di Shang^1,*, Mohammed Ghriga¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.1, pp. 1-10, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.08217

Abstract In this research, we aim to identify and investigate the impacts of key influencers on community formations and developments. We assess the impacts of key influencers by analyzing the activities and structure of the social media presence of a local community. Results of our analysis show that key influencers play important roles in connecting the community, transferring information, and improving overall sentiment of the community members. Our findings suggest that community practitioners can apply social network analysis to identify value-added influencers and discover strategies for improving the community and keeping leadership roles. More >

Aziguli Wulamu^1,2, Zhenqi Sun^1,2, Yonghong Xie^1,2,*, Cong Xu^1,2, Alan Yang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1283-1295, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.07722

Abstract At present, End-to-End trainable Memory Networks (MemN2N) has proven to be promising in many deep learning fields, especially on simple natural language-based reasoning question and answer (QA) tasks. However, when solving some subtasks such as basic induction, path finding or time reasoning tasks, it remains challenging because of limited ability to learn useful information between memory and query. In this paper, we propose a novel gated linear units (GLU) and local-attention based end-to-end memory networks (MemN2N-GL) motivated by the success of attention mechanism theory in the field of neural machine translation, it shows an improved possibility to develop the ability… More >

Yan Liu^1,*, Lian Liu¹, Yu Yan², Hao Feng¹, Shichang Ding³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1123-1139, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05619

Abstract Social organizations can be represented by social network because it can mathematically quantify and represent complex interrelated organizational behavior. Exploring the change in dynamic social network is essential for the situation awareness of the corresponding social organization. Social network usually evolves gradually and slightly, which is hard to be noticed. The statistical process control techniques in industry field have been used to distinguish the statistically significant change of social network. But the original method is narrowed due to some limitation on measures. This paper presents a generic framework to address the change detection problem in dynamic social network and introduces… More >

Xiaoyu Li¹, Qinsheng Zhu^2,*, Qingyu Meng², Caishu You¹, Mingzheng Zhu¹, Yong Hu², Yiming Huang^1,3, Hao Wu², Desheng Zheng⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1087-1095, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06060

Abstract Quantum correlation which is different to the entanglement and classical correlation plays important role in quantum information field. In our setup, neural network method is adopted to simulate the link between the Rènyi discord (α = 2) and the geometric discord (Bures distance) for special canonical initial states in order to show the consistency of physical results for different quantification methods. Our results are useful for studying the differences and commonalities of different quantizing methods of quantum correlation. More >

Xin Li^1,2, Yanchun Liang^1,2, Minghao Zhao^1,2, Chong Wang^1,2,3, Yu Jiang^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1073-1085, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05929

Abstract In recent years, extreme weather events accompanying the global warming have occurred frequently, which brought significant impact on national economic and social development. The ocean is an important member of the climate system and plays an important role in the occurrence of climate anomalies. With continuous improvement of sensor technology, we use sensors to acquire the ocean data for the study on resource detection and disaster prevention, etc. However, the data acquired by the sensor is not enough to be used directly by researchers, so we use the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to enhance the ocean data. We use GAN… More >

Hefei Ling¹, Jia Wu¹, Ping Li^1,*, Jialie Shen²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1041-1054, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05605

Abstract Gait recognition is a complicated task due to the existence of co-factors like carrying conditions, clothing, viewpoints, and surfaces which change the appearance of gait more or less. Among those co-factors, clothing analysis is the most challenging one in the area. Conventional methods which are proposed for clothing invariant gait recognition show the body parts and the underlying relationships from them are important for gait recognition. Fortunately, attention mechanism shows dramatic performance for highlighting discriminative regions. Meanwhile, latent semantic analysis is known for the ability of capturing latent semantic variables to represent the underlying attributes and capturing the relationships from… More >

Gengxin Sun^1,*, Sheng Bin¹, Meng Jiang², Ning Cao³, Zhiyong Zheng⁴, Hongyan Zhao⁵, Dongbo Wang⁶, Lina Xu⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1015-1027, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05644

Abstract With the emergence and development of blockchain technology, a new type of social networks based on blockchain had emerged. In these social networks high quality content creators, filters and propagators can all be reasonably motivated. Due to the transparency and traceability brought by blockchain technology, the public opinion propagation in such social networks presents new characteristics and laws. Based on the theory of network propagation and blockchain, a new public opinion propagation model for this kind of social network based on blockchain technology is proposed in this paper. The model considers the effect of incentive mechanism produced by reasonably quantifying… More >

Aziguli Wulam^1,2, Yingshuai Wang^1,2, Dezheng Zhang^1,2,*, Jingyue Sang³, Alan Yang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1003-1013, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.07704

Abstract In recent years, the models combining traditional machine learning with the deep learning are applied in many commodity recommendation practices. It has been proved better performance by the means of the neural network. Feature engineering has been the key to the success of many click rate estimation model. As we know, neural networks are able to extract high-order features automatically, and traditional linear models are able to extract low-order features. However, they are not necessarily efficient in learning all types of features. In traditional machine learning, gradient boosting decision tree is a typical representative of the tree model, which can… More >

Chaofan Duan¹, Jing Feng^1,*, Haotian Chang¹, Jianping Pan², Liming Duan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 989-1002, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06033

Abstract Coverage is an important issue for resources rational allocation, cognitive tasks completion in sensor networks. The mobility, communicability and learning ability of smart sensors have received much attention in the past decade. Based on the deep study of game theory, a mobile sensor non-cooperative game model is established for the sensor network deployment and a local information-based topology control (LITC) algorithm for coverage enhancement is proposed. We both consider revenue of the monitoring events and neighboring sensors to avoid nodes aggregation when formulating the utility function. We then prove that the non-cooperative game is an exact potential game in which… More >