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본 연구는 대학생의 중도탈락 패턴을 식별하는 효과적인 자동 분류 기법을 제안하고, 이를 바탕으로 중도 탈락을 예방하기 위한 지능형 추천 시스템의 구현 방안을 제시하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이를 위해 1) 실제 대학생의 재학/제적 데이터를 기반으로 기계 학습의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 데이터 처리 방안을 제안하고, 2) 5종의 기계 학습 알고리즘을 이용하여 성능 비교 실험을 실시하였다. 3) 실험 결과, 제안 기법이 베이스라인에 비해 모든 알고 리즘에서 우수한 성능을 보여주었다. 제적생의 식별 정확률(precision)은 랜덤 포레스트(Random Forest)를 사용 할 때 최대 95.6%, 제적생의 재현율(recall)은 나이브 베이즈(Naive Bayes)를 사용할 때 최대 80.0%로 측정되었 다. 4) 마지막으로, 실험 결과를 바탕으로 중도탈락 가능성이 높은 학생을 우선 상담하는 추천 시스템의 활용 방안 을 제시하였다. 교육 현안 문제를 해결하기 위해 IT 분야의 기술을 활용하는 융합 연구를 통해 합리적인 의사결정 을 수행할 수 있음을 확인하였으며 향후 지속적인 연구를 통해 다양한 인공지능 기술을 적용하고자 한다.

This study proposed an effective automatic classification technique to identify dropout patterns of university students, and based on this, an intelligent recommender system to prevent dropouts. To this end, 1) a data processing method to improve the performance of machine learning was proposed based on actual enrollment/dropout data of university students, and 2) performance comparison experiments were conducted using five types of machine learning algorithms. 3) As a result of the experiment, the proposed method showed superior performance in all algorithms compared to the baseline method. The precision rate of discrimination of enrolled students was measured to be up to 95.6% when using a Random Forest(RF), and the recall rate of dropout students was measured to be up to 80.0% when using Naive Bayes(NB). 4) Finally, based on the experimental results, a method for using a counseling recommender system to give priority to students who are likely to drop out was suggested. It was confirmed that reasonable decision-making can be conducted through convergence research that utilizes technologies in the IT field to solve the educational issues, and we plan to apply various artificial intelligence technologies through continuous research in the future.

Due to the recent rapid increase in passenger and cargo air transport demand, the capacity of Jeju International Airport has been approaching its limit. Even though in COVID-19 crisis which has started from Nov 2019, Jeju International Airport still suffers from strong demand in terms of air passenger and cargo transportation. However, it is an undeniable fact that the delay has also increased in Jeju International Airport. In this study, we analyze the correlation between weather and delayed departure operation based on both datum collected from the historical airline operation information and aviation weather statistics of Jeju International Airport. Adopting machine learning techniques, we then analyze weather condition Jeju International Airport and construct a delay prediction model. The model presented in this study is expected to play a useful role to predict aircraft departure delay and contribute to enhance aircraft operation efficiency and punctuality in the Jeju International Airport.

In recent years, machine learning algorithms are continuously being used and expanded in various fields, such as facial recognition, signal processing, personal authentication, and stock prediction. In particular, various algorithms, such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, and Q-learning, are continuously being improved. Among these algorithms, the expansion of deep learning is rapidly changing. Nevertheless, machine learning algorithms have not yet been applied in several fields, such as personal authentication technology. This technology is an essential tool in the digital information era, walking recognition technology as promising biometrics, and technology for solving state-space problems. Therefore, algorithm technologies of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and Q-learning, which are typical machine learning algorithms in various fields, such as agricultural technology, personal authentication, wireless network, game, biometric recognition, and image recognition, are being improved and expanded in this paper.

Free space optical (FSO) communication systems offer high-bandwidth, secure data transmission over wireless channels. Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have considerable promise in mitigating these challenges and enhancing the reliability and efficiency of FSO systems. This comprehensive survey examines ML and DL techniques applied to FSO systems, covering advancements in channel modeling and estimation, and demodulation. Additionally, this review highlights the role of ML and DL in hybrid FSO/RF systems, focusing on resource management, dynamic switching, relay selection, underwater FSO, and ATP. Emerging trends, future research directions, standardization efforts, and unresolved challenges are discussed. Our overall conclusion highlights that DL, especially hybrid and attention-based models, demonstrates strong potential in dynamic channel adaptation and tracking under turbulence, while reinforcement learning shows promise for real-time resource allocation and switching.

Sepsis and Neonatal sepsis are major challenges in global healthcare because they cause life-threatening organ dysfunction in intensive care adult and pediatric patients due to downregulated host response to a particular infection. Early clinical identification of sepsis is difficult, and failure to provide prompt treatment can often lead to crucial stages and increase the rates of fatality. Thus an intense study is needed to determine and categorize sepsis in its initial stage. The complexity of varying clinical statistics makes it difficult to attain a precise definition in pediatrics. The advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) technologies in the implementation of protocols show promising real-time models for predicting sepsis at the primary stage and thereby reducing the mortality rate. This review article contemplates the complete list of procedures through which sepsis and neonatal sepsis are speculated by ML and DL and concentrates specifically on data available in the adult emergency care unit as well as the neonatal intensive care unit. The survey process was carried out by searching terms related to ML and DL merged with topics concerning sepsis and neonatal sepsis. The literature analysis was carried out from Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed databases for the period from 2015 to 2022. The assessment of the risk of bias was carried out for the eleven selected papers using the Prediction Model Risk of Bias Assessment Tool (PROBAST). The eleven papers were selected from different medical care units based on the performance measure AUROC, which ranges from 0.68 to 0.95. Five papers involving ML/DL models reduce the bias and lessen risk occurrence. Five papers generate an increase in bias but can be applied to new data. One paper works with above twenty-five features has high-risk probability but predicts patients within 5?6 h in the future. This survey portrays the role of prediction models that supports the researchers and clinicians for better decision-making and antibiotic administration at an earlier stage.

In education reform, a growing number of courses are being taught in conjunction with online platforms, posing new challenges for predicting students' performance. This study focuses on ideological and political education courses delivered through a massive open online courses platform. This paper gathered student behavior data, screened relevant features, and proposed an improved beetle antennae search-backpropagation neural network (IBAS-BPNN) method to forecast students' grades after learning the course. Moreover, experiments were conducted using the collected dataset. The findings indicated that the features selected based on information gain rate exhibited superior predictive capabilities compared to those selected using the Pearson correlation coefficient. By utilizing the top ten features as inputs to the IBAS-BPNN model, the model achieved a macroP value of 88.86%, a macroR value of 87.52%, and a macroF1-score of 88.18%. These results outperformed other optimized BPNN algorithms and surpassed machine learning approaches such as k-nearest neighbor and decision tree. The outcomes validate the reliability of the proposed method for grade prediction and its potential applicability in practice.

In this study, we present a novel approach for enhancing chest X-ray image classification (normal, Covid-19, edema, mass nodules, and pneumothorax) by combining contrastive learning and machine learning algorithms. A vast amount of unlabeled data was leveraged to learn representations so that data efficiency is improved as a means of addressing the limited availability of labeled data in X-ray images. Our approach involves training classification algorithms using the extracted features from a linear fine-tuned Momentum Contrast (MoCo) model. The MoCo architecture with a Resnet34, Resnet50, or Resnet101 backbone is trained to learn features from unlabeled data. Instead of only fine-tuning the linear classifier layer on the MoCopretrained model, we propose training nonlinear classifiers as substitutes for softmax in deep networks. The empirical results show that while the linear fine-tuned ImageNet-pretrained models achieved the highest accuracy of only 82.9% and the linear fine-tuned MoCo-pretrained models an increased highest accuracy of 84.8%, our proposed method offered a significant improvement and achieved the highest accuracy of 87.9%.

Cardio-Vascular Diseases (CVD) is found to be rampant in the populace leading to fatal death. The statistics of a recent survey reports that the mortality rate is expanding due to obesity, cholesterol, high blood pressure and usage of tobacco among the people. The severity of the disease is piling up due to the above factors. Studying about the variations of these factors and their impact on CVD is the demand of the hour. This necessitates the usage of modern techniques to identify the disease at its outset and to aid a markdown in the mortality rate. Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining domains have a research scope with their enormous techniques that would aassist in the prediction of the CVD priory and identify their behavioural patterns in the large volume of data. The results of these predictions will help the clinicians in decision making and early diagnosis, which would reduce the risk of patients becoming fatal. This paper compares and reports the various Classification, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Deep Learning models that are used for prediction of the Cardio-Vascular diseases. The survey is organized as threefold: Classification and Data Mining Techniques for CVD, Machine Learning Models for CVD and Deep Learning Models for CVD prediction. The performance metrics used for reporting the accuracy, the dataset used for prediction and classification, and the tools used for each category of these techniques are also compiled and reported in this survey.

홈페이지를 통하여 제공되는 인사말에는 보통 추구하고자 하는 목표 등을 포함한 핵심 정보가 담기며 소 통의 일환으로 이용되고 있다. 개인의 건강증진 및 사회통합의 역할을 담당하는 프로스포츠에서도 홈페이지 인사 말은 그 의미하는 바와 역할이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 국내 프로스포츠 홈페이지 인사말을 대상으로 machine learning 기법을 이용하여 분석해 보았다. 그 결과 다음을 알 수 있었다, 첫째, 분석 대상으로 삼은 4개 프로리그 모두에서 유사한 결과를 보인바, 차별화를 발견할 수 없었다. 둘째, 워드 클라우드 분석, 네트워크 분석을 통해 보 았을 때, 감사의 인사와 함께 지속적인 성원을 부탁하는 내용이 주를 이루고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 나아가 감성 분석 결과 4개 프로리그 모두 예상했던 대로 긍정적인 단어의 선택이 많았으며, 분산분석 결과 그 차이는 통계적 으로 유의하지 않았다(p>0.05). 이에 향후 홈페이지 인사말 개편 시에는, 각 프로리그의 캐치프레이즈를 충분하게 담아내고, 나아가 각 구단이 프로스포츠 운영을 통하여 이루고자 하는 방향성 등이 잘 포함되도록 개선할 것을 제 안하였다.

Greetings on websites homepages typically contain core information, such as goals and visions, and serve as a means of communication. In professional sports, which play a role in promoting individual health and social integration, website greetings hold significant meaning and importance. This study analyzed greetings on domestic professional sports websites using machine learning techniques. The results are as follows: First, all four professional leagues analyzed showed similar results, revealing no differentiation. Second, word cloud and network analyses indicated that greetings mostly consist of words of gratitude and requests for continued support. Furthermore, sentiment analysis showed that, as expected, positive words were predominantly chosen across all four leagues, and analysis of variance revealed no statistically significant differences (p>0.05). Therefore, it is suggested that in future revisions of websites greetings, they should fully incorporate each professional league’s slogan and direction, as well as the objectives each club aims to achieve through professional sports operations.

People often create fake social media accounts to express themselves anonymously. However, these fake accounts can harm the reputation of individuals and businesses, resulting in fewer genuine likes and followers. Instagram, a top-rated social media platform often used for business and political engagement, suffers from the negative impacts of these accounts. This highlights the urgent need for a dependable system to identify whether Instagram accounts are genuine. This study investigated several machine learning models for developing a fake account detection system. Single models, such as support vector machines, naïve Bayes, logistic regression, multilayer perceptron, and ensemble models based on bootstrap aggregating techniques and boosting, were trained and tested. The training and testing processes were conducted using a 10-fold cross-validation to prevent overfitting. The test results indicated that the adaptive and gradient boosting models achieved the best accuracy and an F1 score of more than 92%, with precision surpassing 93%.

In modern society, user privacy is emerging as an important issue as closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems increase rapidly in various public and private spaces. If CCTV cameras monitor sensitive areas or personal spaces, they can infringe on personal privacy. Someone's behavior patterns, sensitive information, residence, etc. can be exposed, and if the image data collected from CCTV is not properly protected, there can be a risk of data leakage by hackers or illegal accessors. This paper presents an innovative approach to "machine learning based reversible chaotic masking method for user privacy protection in CCTV environment." The proposed method was developed to protect an individual's identity within CCTV images while maintaining the usefulness of the data for surveillance and analysis purposes. This method utilizes a two-step process for user privacy. First, machine learning models are trained to accurately detect and locate human subjects within the CCTV frame. This model is designed to identify individuals accurately and robustly by leveraging state-of-the-art object detection techniques. When an individual is detected, reversible chaos masking technology is applied. This masking technique uses chaos maps to create complex patterns to hide individual facial features and identifiable characteristics. Above all, the generated mask can be reversibly applied and removed, allowing authorized users to access the original unmasking image.

Increased use of software and complexity of software functions, as well as shortened software quality evaluation periods, have increased the importance and necessity for automation of software testing. Automating software testing by using machine learning not only minimizes errors in manual testing, but also allows a speedier evaluation. Research on machine learning in automated software testing has so far focused on solving special problems with algorithms, leading to difficulties for the software developers and testers, in applying machine learning to software testing automation. This paper, proposes a new machine learning framework for software testing automation through related studies. To maximize the performance of software testing, we analyzed and categorized the machine learning algorithms applicable to each software test phase, including the diverse data that can be used in the algorithms. We believe that our framework allows software developers or testers to choose a machine learning algorithm suitable for their purpose.

Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs) experience die-to-die variations in addition to the already challenging within-die variations. This adds an additional design complexity and makes variation estimation and full-chip optimization even more challenging. In this paper, we show that the industry standard on-chip variation (AOCV) tables cannot be applied directly to 3D paths that are spanning multiple dies. We develop a new machine learning-based model and methodology for an accurate variation estimation of logic paths in 3D designs. Our model makes use of key parameters extracted from existing GDSII 3D IC design and sign-off simulation database. Thus, it requires no runtime overhead when compared to AOCV analysis while achieving an average accuracy of 90% in variation evaluation. By using our model in a full-chip variation-aware 3D IC physical design flow, we obtain up to 16% improvement in critical path delay under variations, which is verified with detailed Monte Carlo simulations.

The paper presents three machine learning based keyphrase extraction methods that respectively use Decision Trees, Na$\ddot{i}$ve Bayes, and Artificial Neural Networks for keyphrase extraction. We consider keyphrases as being phrases that consist of one or more words and as representing the important concepts in a text document. The three machine learning based keyphrase extraction methods that we use for experimentation have been compared with a publicly available keyphrase extraction system called KEA. The experimental results show that the Neural Network based keyphrase extraction method outperforms two other keyphrase extraction methods that use the Decision Tree and Na$\ddot{i}$ve Bayes. The results also show that the Neural Network based method performs better than KEA.

The rapid growth of web applications has increased the need for advanced features and strong security. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models play a crucial role in meeting these needs by improving efficiency and enhancing security. However, integrating these models into web applications can be challenging due to complex implementation and potential security risks. This paper compares Python and Node.js, two popular technology stacks, to determine their effectiveness in integrating ML models into web applications. It also explores the role of web application firewalls (WAF) and the ML algorithms that support them, analyzing current trends in their use and adoption. The overarching objective is to discern the technology stack that provides superior support for back-end ML integration and to identify the ML algorithms that are most effective in enhancing WAF capabilities against sophisticated security threats. By offering a synthesis of technical and security insights, this research seeks to empower developers and cybersecurity practitioners with the knowledge required to make well-informed decisions regarding technology stack selection and the implementation of ML-driven security mechanisms in web application development.

Purpose: This study analyzed the methodological characteristics of machine learning (ML) applications in nursing research, evaluated their reporting quality against standardized guidelines, and assessed progress toward clinical implementation. Methods: A PRISMA-com pliant systematic review (PROSPERO CRD42024595877) searched nine English- and Ko rean-language databases through September 27, 2024. Included studies applied ML to a nursing question and had at least one nursing-affiliated author. Two reviewers independently extracted data following the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) framework. Reporting quality was appraised using the TRIPOD+AI checklist. Results: Of 125 included studies, supervised learning predominated (93.6%), with random forest, lo gistic regression, and support vector machines as common algorithms. The most frequent performance metrics were the area under the receiver operating curve and accuracy. Mean TRIPOD+AI compliance was 50.4% (standard deviation=9.37), with reporting quality lowest for data preparation (48.0%) and class imbalance handling (22.4%). Research focused on predicting pressure injuries, falls, and readmissions. Only seven studies described clinical deployment, often citing ethical or workflow barriers. Conclusion: While ML studies in nursing are increasing and show strong discriminatory accuracy, their impact is limited by inconsis tent reporting, limited external validation, and rare clinical deployment. Translating these al gorithms into practice requires adopting comprehensive reporting guidelines like TRIPOD+AI, documenting each CRISP-DM phase, and integrating nurse-centered decision-support path ways.

Background Pressure pain hypersensitivity (PPH) is used to measure pain sensitivity in deep tissues, but factors contributing to PPH remain unclear. Abnormal neck and scapula posture are thought to play a role in shoulder pain. Traditional statistical methods like logistic regression have limitations in capturing complex relationships, while machine learning (ML) can model nonlinear relationships effectively. Purpose The purpose of the present study was to develop, evaluate, and compare the predictive performance of ML models and logistic regression for classifying food service workers (FWs) with and without PPH based on postural analysis data. Study design Cross sectional study. Methods FWs (n=150) meeting specific criteria were assessed for PPH and underwent postural analysis. ML algorithms (logistic regression, neural network, random forest, gradient boosting, decision tree, and support vector machine) were used for classification. Model performance was evaluated using the area under the curve (AUC), accuracy, recall, precision, and F1 score. Feature importance was assessed. Results Gradient boosting exhibited the best performance (AUC: 0.867) in classifying PPH, followed by random forest (AUC: 0.822) in the test dataset. Logistic regression performed less effectively (AUC: 0.613). For feature importance analysis, scapular downward rotation ratio, forward head posture, BMI and rounded shoulder angle were the top four important predictors of PPH in gradient boosting model. Conclusions Gradient boosting, along with identified predictors, offers promise for early intervention and risk assessment tools in addressing musculoskeletal pain in food service workers.

The channel state information (CSI) is essential for the base station (BS) to schedule user equipments (UEs) and efficiently manage the radio resources. Hence, the BS requests UEs to regularly feed back the CSI. However, frequent CSI reporting causes large signaling overhead. To reduce the feedback overhead, we propose two machine learning-based approaches to adjust the CSI feedback interval. We use a deep neural network and reinforcement learning (RL) to decide whether an UE feeds back the CSI. Simulation results show that the RL-based approach achieves the lowest mean squared error while reducing the number of CSI feedback transmissions.

As we enter the digital age, new methods of personality testing-namely, machine learning-based personality assessment scales-are quickly gaining attraction. Because machine learning-based personality assessments are made based on algorithms that analyze digital footprints of people’s online behaviors, they are supposedly less prone to human biases or cognitive fallacies that are often cited as limitations of traditional personality tests. As a result, machine learning-based assessment tools are becoming increasingly popular in operational settings across the globe with the anticipation that they can effectively overcome the limitations of traditional personality testing. However, the provision of scientific evidence regarding the psychometric soundness and the fairness of machine learning-based assessment tools have lagged behind their use in practice. The current paper provides a brief review of empirical studies that have examined the validity of machine learning-based personality assessment, focusing primarily on social media text mining method. Based on this review, we offer some suggestions about future research directions, particularly regarding the important and immediate need to examine the machine learning-based personality assessment tools’ compliance with the practical and legal standards for use in practice (such as inter-algorithm reliability, test-retest reliability, and differential prediction across demographic groups). Additionally, we emphasize that the goal of machine learning-based personality assessment tools should not be to simply maximize the prediction of personality ratings. Rather, we should explore ways to use this new technology to further develop our fundamental understanding of human personality and to contribute to the development of personality theory.

Fault detection of rotating engine components in the aircraft engine is a challenging task that must constantly be monitored to provide aviation safety. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on multi-layer perceptron (MLP) to detect in real time the degree of faults in a turbine engine disk due to a crack. To further improve detection accuracy while reducing computational complexity, the recursive feature elimination (RFE) is applied as a potent feature selection method. Satisfactorily, simulation results show that the proposed framework is robust to changes in operating conditions and outperforms comparative approaches.