Modeling risks in dependent systems: a Copula-Bayesian approach

Due to the important role of concrete in construction sector, a novel metaheuristic method, namely whale optimization algorithm (WOA), is employed for simulating 28-day compressive strength of concrete (CSC). To this end, the WOA is coupled with a neural network (NN) to optimize its computational parameters. Also, dragonfly algorithm (DA) and ant colony optimization (ACO) techniques are considered as the benchmark methods. The CSC influential parameters are cement, slag, water, fly ash, superplasticizer (SP), fine aggregate (FA), and coarse aggregate (CA). First, a population-based sensitivity analysis is carried out to achieve the most efficient structure of the proposed model. In this sense, the WOA-NN with the population size of 400 and five hidden nodes constructed the best-fitted network. The results revealed that the WOA-NN (Error = 2.0746 and Correlation = 0.8976) presents the most reliable prediction of the CSC, followed by the DA-NN (Error = 2.5138 and Correlation = 0.8209) and ACO-NN (Error = 2.8843 and Correlation = 0.8000) benchmark models. The findings showed that utilizing the WOA optimization technique, along with typical neural network, results in developing a promising tool for modeling the CSC.

Fine-tuning of neural computing using whale optimization algorithm for predicting compressive strength of concrete

We propose a method to improve the prediction performance of recommender systems via a Dual (user anditem) Training Error based Correction approach (DTEC). The proposed method is applied to the Synthetic Coordinate Recommendation system (SCoR) (Papadakis et al., 2017) and to other Ithree state-of-the-art systems. Initially, a recommender system is used Ito provide recommendations for users and items. Subsequently, we introduce a second stage, after initial execution of the recommender system, that improves its predictions taking into account the error in the training set between users and items and their similarity. These corrections can be performed from both user and item viewpoints, and finally a dual system is proposed that efficiently combines both corrections. DTEC computes a model that makes zero the recommendation error in the training set, and then applies it on the test set to improve the rating predictions. The proposed DTEC approach is applicable Ito any model-based recommender system with positive training error, potentially increasing the accuracy of the recommendations. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and high performance of DTEC on four well-known, real-world datasets.

Improving recommender systems via a Dual Training Error based Correction approach

Proof of witness presence: Blockchain consensus for augmented democracy in smart cities

Article history: Received: June 26, 2020 Received in revised format: June 3

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The relationship between organizational changes and job satisfaction through the mediating role of job stress in the Jordanian telecommunication sector

Spearman's rank relationship coefficient is a nonparametric (dispersion free) rank measurement. Spearman's coefficient is not a measure of the direct relationship between two factors, as a few ”analysts” proclaim. Pearson's relationship coefficient is the covariance of the two factors separated by the result of their standard deviations. The possibility of the paper is to look at the estimations of Pearson's concrete compressive strength coefficient and Spearman's rank relationship coefficient and in addition their factual hugeness for various arrangements of information depicting provincial records of the financial advancement. In this, the Spearman correlation coefficient is based on the ranked values for each variable rather than the raw data. Spearman correlation is often used to evaluate relationships involving ordinal variables. The Pearson and Spearman's method is compared with the rank coefficient in the concrete compressive strength.

Swapna Anupriya Chandhini

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Analysing the concrete compressive strength using Pearson and Spearman