journal of engineering science and technology 

About: journal of engineering science and technology is an academic journal published by Taylor's University. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Rasch model & Finite element method. It has an ISSN identifier of 1823-4690. Over the lifetime, 519 publications have been published receiving 3815 citations. The journal is also known as: JESTEC.

A comparison study for intrusion database (kdd99, nsl-kdd) based on self organization map (som) artificial neural network

Abstract: Detecting anomalous traffic on the internet has remained an issue of concern for the community of security researchers over the years. The advances in the area of computing performance, in terms of processing power and storage, have fostered their ability to host resource-intensive intelligent algorithms, to detect intrusive activity, in a timely manner. As part of this project, we study and analyse the performance of Self Organization Map (SOM) Artificial Neural Network, when implemented as part of an Intrusion Detection System, to detect anomalies on acknowledge Discovery in Databases KDD 99 and NSL-KDD datasets of internet traffic activity simulation. Results obtained are compared and analysed based on several performance metrics, where the detection rate for KDD 99 dataset is 92.37%, while detection rate for NSL-KDD dataset is 75.49%.

Effect of sodium hydroxide concentration on fresh properties and compressive strength of self-compacting geopolymer concrete

Abstract: This paper reports the results of the laboratory tests conducted to investigate the effect of sodium hydroxide concentration on the fresh properties and compressive strength of self-compacting geopolymer concrete (SCGC). The experiments were conducted by varying the concentration of sodium hydroxide from 8 M to 14 M. Test methods such as Slump flow, V-Funnel, L-box and JRing were used to assess the workability characteristics of SCGC. The test specimens were cured at 70°C for a period of 48 hours and then kept in room temperature until the day of testing. Compressive strength test was carried out at the ages of 1, 3, 7 and 28 days. Test results indicate that concentration variation of sodium hydroxide had least effect on the fresh properties of SCGC. With the increase in sodium hydroxide concentration, the workability of fresh concrete was slightly reduced; however, the corresponding compressive strength was increased. Concrete samples with sodium hydroxide concentration of 12 M produced maximum compressive strength.

Data mining application in credit card fraud detection system

Abstract: Data mining is popularly used to combat frauds because of its effectiveness. It is a well-defined procedure that takes data as input and produces models or patterns as output. Neural network, a data mining technique was used in this study. The design of the neural network (NN) architecture for the credit card detection system was based on unsupervised method, which was applied to the transactions data to generate four clusters of low, high, risky and high-risk clusters. The self-organizing map neural network (SOMNN) technique was used for solving the problem of carrying out optimal classification of each transaction into its associated group, since a prior output is unknown. The receiver-operating curve (ROC) for credit card fraud (CCF) detection watch detected over 95% of fraud cases without causing false alarms unlike other statistical models and the two-stage clusters. This shows that the performance of CCF detection watch is in agreement with other detection software, but performs better.

Ad-hoc Networks Energy Consumption: A review of the Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols

Abstract: In MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) communication at the mobile nodes can be achieved by using multihop wireless links. The architecture of such network is based not on a centralized base station but on each node which acts as a router and forwards data packets to other nodes in the network. The aim of each protocol, in an ad-hoc network, is to find valid routes between two communicating nodes. These protocols must be able to handle high mobility of the nodes which often cause changes in the network topology. This paper evaluates four ad-hoc network protocols (AODV, DSDV, DSR and TORA) in different network scales taking into consideration the mobility factor. The evaluation of these four protocols was carried out using Network Simulator-2 (ns2), and the poor performance of TORA may be attributed to its implementation in this package. Therefore further investigation of TORA implementation in ns2 needs to be carried out.