Ali Murtaza¹, Muhammad Usman Qadir¹, Muhammad Awais Khan¹, Izhar ul Haq^1,*, Kamran Shah¹, Nizar Akhtar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1887-1899, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020006

Abstract Transfemoral prostheses have evolved from mechanical devices to microprocessor-based, electronically controlled knee joints, allowing amputees to regain control of their limbs. For improved amputee experience at varying ambulation rates, these devices provide controlled damping throughout the swing and stance phases of the gait cycle. Commercially available microprocessor-based prosthetic knee (MPK) joints use linear controllers, heuristic-based methods, and finite state machine based algorithms to track the refence gait cycle. However, since the amputee experiences a variety of non-linearities during ambulation, such as uneven terrains, walking backwards and climbing stairs, therefore, traditional controllers produces error, abnormal movements, unstable control system and require… More >

Naeem Ali¹, Taher M. Ghazal^2,3, Alia Ahmed¹, Sagheer Abbas⁴, M. A. Khan⁵, Haitham M. Alzoubi⁶, Umar Farooq⁷, Munir Ahmad⁴, Muhammad Adnan Khan^8,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1671-1687, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019892

Abstract Supply Chain Collaboration is the network of various entities that work cohesively to make up the entire process. The supply chain organizations’ success is dependent on integration, teamwork, and the communication of information. Every day, supply chain and business players work in a dynamic setting. They must balance competing goals such as process robustness, risk reduction, vulnerability reduction, real financial risks, and resilience against just-in-time and cost-efficiency. Decision-making based on shared information in Supply Chain Collaboration constitutes the recital and competitiveness of the collective process. Supply Chain Collaboration has prompted companies to implement the perfect data analytics functions (e.g., data… More >

Yanfen Guo^1,2, Zhe Cui¹, Xiaojie Li^2,*, Jing Peng^1,2, Jinrong Hu², Zhipeng Yang³, Tao Wu², Imran Mumtaz⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1771-1782, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019785

Abstract Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common malignant tumors of the head and neck, and its incidence is the highest all around the world. Intensive radiotherapy using computer-aided diagnosis is the best technique for the treatment of NPC. The key step of radiotherapy is the delineation of the target areas and organs at risk, that is, tumor images segmentation. We proposed the segmentation method of NPC image based on multi-scale cascaded fully convolutional network. It used cascaded network and multi-scale feature for a coarse-to-fine segmentation to improve the segmentation effect. In coarse segmentation, image blocks and data augmentation… More >

Saima Akram^1,*, Allah Nawaz¹, Muhammad Bilal Riaz², Mariam Rehman³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1467-1482, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019767

Abstract In this article, the maximum possible numbers of periodic solutions for the quartic differential equation are calculated. In this regard, for the first time in the literature, we developed new formulae to determine the maximum number of periodic solutions greater than eight for the quartic equation. To obtain the maximum number of periodic solutions, we used a systematic procedure of bifurcation analysis. We used computer algebra Maple 18 to solve lengthy calculations that appeared in the formulae of focal values as integrations. The newly developed formulae were applied to a variety of polynomials with algebraic and homogeneous trigonometric coefficients of… More >

Adnan Muhammad Shah, KangYoon Lee^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1719-1735, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019666

Abstract Online physician reviews (OPRs) critically influence the patients’ consultation decisions on physician rating websites. The increasing number of OPRs contributes to the challenge of information overload. The worth of development needs to be explored further. Based on the OPRs collected from RateMDs and Healthgrades, and Plutchik’s wheel on human emotions framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of emotional intensity (positive and negative) incorporated in OPRs on review helpfulness (RH). The proposed model was empirically tested using data from two physician rating websites and applying a mixed-methods approach (text mining and econometrics). The results suggested that… More >

G. Prathiba^1,*, M. Santhi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1611-1626, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.018975

Abstract High-quality, high-resolution flash ADCs are used in reliable VLSI (Very Large-Scale Integrated) circuits to minimize the power consumption. An analogue electrical signal is converted into a discrete-valued sequence by these ADCs. This paper proposes a four-bit 1.2GS/s low-power Clocked Flash ADC (C-FADC). A low-power Clocked-Improved Threshold Inverter Quantization (CITIQ) comparator, an Adaptive Bubble Free (ABF) logic circuit, and a compact Binary Encoder (BE) are all part of the presented structure. A clock network in the comparator circuit reduces skew and jitters, while an ABF logic circuit detects and corrects fourth order bubble faults detected from thermometer code, and then the… More >

Ao Xiong¹, Meng Chen^1,*, Shaoyong Guo¹, Yongjie Li², Yujing Zhao², Qinghai Ou³, Chuan Liu⁴, Siwen Xu⁵, Xiangang Liu⁶

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1641-1654, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.018881

Abstract To solve the problem of energy consumption optimization of edge servers in the process of edge task unloading, we propose a task unloading algorithm based on reinforcement learning in this paper. The algorithm observes and analyzes the current environment state, selects the deployment location of edge tasks according to current states, and realizes the edge task unloading oriented to energy consumption optimization. To achieve the above goals, we first construct a network energy consumption model including servers’ energy consumption and link transmission energy consumption, which improves the accuracy of network energy consumption evaluation. Because of the complexity and variability of… More >

S. Balammal@Geetha^*, R. Muthukkumar, V. Seenivasagam

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1737-1752, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.018822

Abstract Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is an approach of retrieving similar images from a large image database. Recently CBIR poses new challenges in semantic categorization of the images. Different feature extraction technique have been proposed to overcome the semantic breach problems, however these methods suffer from several shortcomings. This paper contributes an image retrieval system to extract the local features based on the fusion of scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) and KAZE. The strength of local feature descriptor SIFT complements global feature descriptor KAZE. SIFT concentrates on the complete region of an image using high fine points of features and KAZE ponders… More >

K. Ambika^1,*, M. Balasingh Moses²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1809-1823, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.018580

Abstract In addition to replacing desktop-based methods, cloud computing is playing a significant role in several areas of data management. The health care industry, where so much data is needed to be handled correctly, is another arena in which artificial intelligence has a big role to play. The upshot of this innovation led to the creation of multiple healthcare clouds. The challenge of data privacy and confidentiality is the same for different clouds. Many existing works has provided security framework to ensure the security of data in clouds but still the drawback on revocation, resisting collusion attack along with privacy of… More >

Umanesan Ramakrishnan^1,*, Nandhagopal Nachimuthu²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1547-1559, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.017123

Abstract Recently, various research fields have begun dealing with massive datasets forseveral functions. The main aim of a feature selection (FS) model is to eliminate noise, repetitive, and unnecessary featuresthat reduce the efficiency of classification. In a limited period, traditional FS models cannot manage massive datasets and filterunnecessary features. It has been discovered from the state-of-the-art literature that metaheuristic algorithms perform better compared to other FS wrapper-based techniques. Common techniques such as the Genetic Algorithm (GA) andParticle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, however, suffer from slow convergence and local optima problems. Even with new generation algorithms such as Firefly heuristic and Fish… More >