software testing is a critical part of software development. Often, test suite sizes grow significantly with subsequent modifications to the software over time resulting into potential redundancies. Test redundancies ...
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software testing is a critical part of software development. Often, test suite sizes grow significantly with subsequent modifications to the software over time resulting into potential redundancies. Test redundancies are undesirable as they incur costs and are not helpful to detect new bugs. Owing to time and resource constraints, test suite minimization strategies are often sought to remove those redundant test cases in an effort to ensure that each test can cover as much requirements as possible. There are already many works in the literature exploiting the greedy computational algorithms as well as the meta-heuristic algorithms, but no single strategy can claim dominance in terms of test data reduction over their counterparts. Furthermore, despite much useful work, existing strategies have not sufficiently explored the hybrid based meta-heuristic strategies. In order to improve the performance of existing strategies, hybridization is seen as the key to exploit the strength of more than one meta-heuristic algorithm. Given such prospects, this research explores a hybrid test redundancy reduction strategy based on Global Neighborhood Algorithm and Simulated Annealing, called GNAA. Overall, GNAA offers better reduction as compared to the original GNA and many existing works.
Adopted to solve optimization problems, meta-heuristic algorithms aim to judiciously explore the search space in search of the good optimal solution. As such, the effectiveness of any particular meta-heuristic algorit...
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Adopted to solve optimization problems, meta-heuristic algorithms aim to judiciously explore the search space in search of the good optimal solution. As such, the effectiveness of any particular meta-heuristic algorithm is heavily dependent on their control parameters, that is, to ensure balance exploration and exploitation. In the field of t-way testing, much work has been done to adopt meta-heuristic algorithms for generating interaction test suite(where t indicates the interaction strength). In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Flower Pollination Algorithm(AFPA) for pairwise testing. Unlike the original Flower Pollination Algorithm(FPA), our AFPA removes the static probability dependency inherent in FPA(i.e. for selection of local and global search operator). Specifically, we allow a dynamic and adaptive probability instead. The experimental results show that AFPA can produce the optimum results in many cases. AFPA also demonstrates its capacity to dynamically control global and local search based on the system configuration.
Combinatorial interaction testing (CIT) is a useful testing technique to ad- dress the interaction of input parameters in softwaresystems. In many ap- plications, the technique has been used as a systematic sampling ...
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The teaching learning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm has shown competitive performance in solving numerous real-world optimization problems. Nevertheless, this algorithm requires better control for exploitation a...
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Search techniques are an integral part for text authentication and plagiarism checks. In this work, our aim is to develop an efficient search algorithm for Arabic text (words and sentences) in a large database. The da...
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The paper deals with the issues of data collection in the dynamic Internet of Things network. An approach proposed is based on the models and methods of social networks analysis along with clustering methods commonly ...
The paper deals with the issues of data collection in the dynamic Internet of Things network. An approach proposed is based on the models and methods of social networks analysis along with clustering methods commonly used in this case. The developed hybrid model tracks contacts between nodes of the network thus creating 'social relationships' for each node and estimates the number and the frequency of 'social contacts' characterizing the degree of 'friendships'. After fixing the contacts between nodes the model takes into consideration only the nodes connected by 'friendship' relation. Data collection based on 'social structure' provides higher security level and shows the enhancement as regards energy saving and delays of data transfer.
Brain Tumours are highly complex, particularly when it comes to their initial and accurate diagnosis, as this determines patient prognosis. Conventional methods rely on MRI and CT scans and employ generic machine lear...
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Brain Tumours are highly complex, particularly when it comes to their initial and accurate diagnosis, as this determines patient prognosis. Conventional methods rely on MRI and CT scans and employ generic machine learning techniques, which are heavily dependent on feature extraction and require human intervention. These methods may fail in complex cases and do not produce human-interpretable results, making it difficult for clinicians to trust the model's predictions. Such limitations prolong the diagnostic process and can negatively impact the quality of treatment. The advent of deep learning has made it a powerful tool for complex image analysis tasks, such as detecting brain Tumours, by learning advanced patterns from images. However, deep learning models are often considered "black box" systems, where the reasoning behind predictions remains unclear. To address this issue, the present study applies Explainable AI (XAI) alongside deep learning for accurate and interpretable brain Tumour prediction. XAI enhances model interpretability by identifying key features such as Tumour size, location, and texture, which are crucial for clinicians. This helps build their confidence in the model and enables them to make better-informed decisions. In this research, a deep learning model integrated with XAI is proposed to develop an interpretable framework for brain Tumour prediction. The model is trained on an extensive dataset comprising imaging and clinical data and demonstrates high AUC while leveraging XAI for model explainability and feature selection. The study findings indicate that this approach improves predictive performance, achieving an accuracy of 92.98% and a miss rate of 7.02%. Additionally, interpretability tools such as LIME and Grad-CAM provide clinicians with a clearer understanding of the decision-making process, supporting diagnosis and treatment. This model represents a significant advancement in brain Tumour prediction, with the potential to enhance pat
Nowadays, the movement control is troublesome for the expanding traffic. The quick addition in vehicular excursions without relating growing in street space is achieving generous blockage in various parts. This makes ...
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This purpose of this study is to validate the important risk factors influencing the construction projects in a developing country of Yemen by using experts' evaluations and literature review. These factors influe...
This purpose of this study is to validate the important risk factors influencing the construction projects in a developing country of Yemen by using experts' evaluations and literature review. These factors influence the project's quality, time and cost. The semi-structured interviews were employed through online means using thirteen experts to achieve the set objective. Depending on the expert's overviews, out of 56 considered factors, 42 factors were assigned as the most related risk factors influencing the construction projects in Yemen. The obtained outcomes from this study can serve as the risk factors for building blocks in establishing a conceptual model to manage risks of the construction projects in Yemen.
Academic accreditation standards are defined clearly in Higher Educational Institutions(HEI) plans, management, and delivering results of assessment student with learning outcomes. In recent years, all universities ...
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Academic accreditation standards are defined clearly in Higher Educational Institutions(HEI) plans, management, and delivering results of assessment student with learning outcomes. In recent years, all universities and institutions work hard to increase their approval privileges, skills, achievements through getting the accreditation from HEI. The aim of this integrative review was to examine the current evidence on the impact of technology learning on student learning and academic performance and analysis the main factors of an institution accreditation process. The authors searched several electronic databases for relevant articles, with different learning techniques. The main contribution of this study lies in showing the general criteria’s of accreditation standards that focus on essential technology enhanced learning, student learning outcomes, and faculty technology experience on academic performance of universities. The result from this paper is showing the relations between what have been done and presented before with methods, factors, suggestions to identify these activities.
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