Research Articles (Computer Science)
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Africa 3: A continental network model to enable the African fourth industrial revolution
(IEEE, 2020)It is widely recognised that collaboration can help fast-track the development of countries in Africa. Leveraging on the fourth industrial revolution, Africa can achieve accelerated development in health care services, ... -
Immunological changes during space travel: A ground-based evaluation of the impact of Neutron Dose Rate on Plasma Cytokine levels in human whole blood cultures
(MPDI, 2021): In 2020, a global pandemic led to lockdowns, and subsequent social and business restrictions. These required overnight implementation of emergency measures to permit continued functioning of vital industries. Digital ... -
Basic statistical estimation outperforms machine learning in monthly prediction of seasonal climatic parameters
(MPDI, 2021)Machine learning (ML) has been utilized to predict climatic parameters, and many successes have been reported in the literature. In this paper, we scrutinize the effectiveness of five widely used ML algorithms in the ... -
A review of the fractal market hypothesis for trading and market price prediction
(MPDI, 2022)This paper provides a review of the Fractal Market Hypothesis (FMH) focusing on financial times series analysis. In order to put the FMH into a broader perspective, the Random Walk and Efficient Market Hypotheses are ... -
Comparison of phenolic content and antioxidant activity for fermented and unfermented rooibos samples extracted with water and methanol
(MPDI, 2022)Rooibos is brewed from the medicinal plant Aspalathus linearis. It has a well-established wide spectrum of bio-activity properties, which in part may be attributed to the phenolic antioxidant power. The antioxidant ... -
Transport inequalities and the adoption of intelligent transportation systems in Africa: A research landscape
(MDPI, 2021)Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), also known as Smart Transportation, is an infusion of information and communication technologies into transportation. ITS are a key component of smart cities, which have seen ... -
Improving quality-of-service in cloud/fog computing through efficient resource allocation
(MPDI, 2019)Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management, which includes the adoption of appropriate ... -
Carbon futures trading and short-term price prediction: An analysis using the fractal market hypothesis and evolutionary computing
(MPDI, 2021)This paper presents trend prediction results based on backtesting of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme futures market. This is based on the Intercontinental Exchange from 2005 to 2019. An alternative trend ... -
Cyber physical systems dependability using cps-iot monitoring
(MPDI, 2021)Recently, vast investments have been made worldwide in developing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) as solutions to key socio-economic challenges. The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has also enjoyed widespread adoption, mostly for ... -
Higher education students’ perceptions of online learning during Covid-19—A comparative study
(MPDI, 2021)The pandemic and subsequent ‘lockdowns’ dramatically changed the educational landscape of higher education institutions. Before-COVID-19, traditional universities had choices in pedagogical practice, which included a ... -
Thoughts on the future of higher education in the UK: A personal view with a historical context
(MPDI, 2021)Before the effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic, there had been continued debate about the future of Higher Education (HE) in the UK. It is now accepted that the effect of the pandemic will have a long-lasting effect on HE ... -
A mobile survey for collecting data from deaf people who use sign language for communication
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc, 2021)Hearing researchers and practitioners might have encountered challenges in collecting data from Deaf people who mainly rely on sign language for communication. This could be due to language barriers and the non-user-friendly ... -
Intelligent transportation related complex systems and sensors
(MPDI, 2021)Building around innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management, intelligent transport systems (ITSs) are being widely adopted worldwide to improve the efficiency and safety of the ... -
Emotion and stress recognition related sensors and machine learning technologies
(MPDI, 2021)Intelligent sociotechnical systems are gaining momentum in today’s informationrich society, where different technologies are used to collect data from such systems and mine this data to make useful insights about our ... -
A preliminary study of a graphene fractal sierpinski antenna
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2020)We provide a preliminary study of a Graphene fractal antenna operating at THz frequencies with the opportunity to modulate the emission. There are many advantages of the fractal design, namely multiband/wideband ability, ... -
Groundwater prediction using machine-learning tools
(MPDI, 2020)Predicting groundwater availability is important to water sustainability and drought mitigation. Machine-learning tools have the potential to improve groundwater prediction, thus enabling resource planners to: (1) anticipate ... -
Water distribution network leak detection management
(Curran Associates Inc., 2020)Water is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity and must be effectively managed to ensure minimal losses. Water is a basic human resource and during both a physical and a cyber war, limiting, or interrupting the supply ... -
An ontology for the south african protection of personal information act
(Curran Associates Inc., 2020)The protection and management of data, and especially personal information, is becoming an issue of critical importance in both the business environment and in general society. Various institutions have justifiable reasons ... -
Regional rainfall prediction using support vector machine classification of large-scale precipitation maps
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)Rainfall prediction helps planners anticipate potential social and economic impacts produced by too much or too little rain. This research investigates a class-based approach to rainfall prediction from 1-30 days in advance. ... -
Complex sequential data analysis: A systematic literature review of existing algorithms
(SAICSIT, 2020)This paper provides a review of past approaches to the use of deep-learning frameworks for the analysis of discrete irregularpatterned complex sequential datasets. A typical example of such a dataset is financial data ...
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