{"title":"Automatic analysis of ECG signals based on their fractal and multifractal properties","authors":"Evgeniya Gospodinova, Penio Lebamovski, Mitko Gospodinov","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472421","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic analysis of electrocardiographic (ECG) signals, including the heart rate variability (HRV), makes it possible to assess the health status of patients, by reducing the likelihood of human error and providing an optimal and relatively accurate result. HRV is an important information indicator for diagnosing and predicting cardiovascular disease, which is based on measuring the intervals between heartbeats (known as RR-time intervals) derived from ECG signals. HRV has been used for research in various scientific fields, including information technology where it is used to create software products for automatic analysis of ECG signals in order to gain additional knowledge about the behavior of RR fluctuations in normal and disease states. ECG signals are non-stationary and one of the most suitable methods for analysis are the fractal methods. This article presents the results of the study of the fractal and multifractal properties of real ECG signals, combined into two groups: ECG signals of healthy subjects as well as patients with cardiovascular disease (arrhythmia), using the methods: Rescaled range (R/S) analysis and Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA). The obtained values of the studied parameters are used to distinguish healthy subjects from sick ones, by applying statistical analysis. The statistical analysis is performed by applying a t-test to determine the statistical significance of the studied ECG signals and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis to assess the quality of the selected methods. The obtained results show that the fractal methods used are suitable for analysis of the dynamics of RR intervals and for distinguishing the healthy subjects from those with pathological diseases.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129368168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marin Fotache, Irina-Cristina Cojocariu, A. Bertea
{"title":"High-Level Machine Learning Framework for Sports Events Ticket Sales Prediction","authors":"Marin Fotache, Irina-Cristina Cojocariu, A. Bertea","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472426","url":null,"abstract":"As all the other live events, sports were particularly affected by the covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, with the vaccination campaigns and the expected mass immunization chances are that the social life might soon come back to that was normal before 2020. This paper presents a high-level framework for predicting match ticket sales for a football/soccer club activating in a national championship. Written in R and available as a collection of scripts in a GitHub repository, the framework relies heavily on two R ecosystems of packages for data processing and modeling, tidyverse and tidymodels. For illustration, the framework was applied on a data set provided by a struggling team in Romanian first football league. Predictors relate to expected weather conditions at the start of the game, match day of the week and the starting hour, the phase of the season, and also the team's most recent performances relative to the current match. Despite the dataset limits, results of exploratory data analysis and predictive models are encouraging not only in estimating the match ticket sales, but also in identifying the most important variables associated with ticket sales variability.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130909817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuli Laato, Sampsa Rauti, Lauri Koivunen, J. Smed
{"title":"Technical cheating prevention in location-based games","authors":"Samuli Laato, Sampsa Rauti, Lauri Koivunen, J. Smed","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472449","url":null,"abstract":"Online multiplayer game developers have plenty of motivation to prevent technical cheating in their games. In the case of location-based games (LBGs), in addition to the usual anti-cheat measures, developers need to be able to verify players’ location sensor data. This is a challenge, as mobile devices’ sensor data is easy to manipulate, and its verification goes beyond the permissions granted to individual applications such as LBGs. In this work we focus on the most popular LBG, Pokémon GO, and investigate via a technical analysis and gray literature search what countermeasures the game has implemented to prevent technical cheating. We obtain a large diverse set of data which we synthesize using the Gioia method into three main clusters: (1) preemptive measures; (2) ad hoc analysis; and (3) player communication. Our work demonstrates that a wide range of technical tools, both self-developed and 3rd party provided, are used to enhance the multi-layered cheating prevention of LBGs. Our findings can be considered an exemplar look into the industry leaders’ solutions to technical cheating issues that LBGs face.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128720871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Borodzhieva, Ivanka D. Tsvetkova, S. Zaharieva, Dimitar Dimitrov, V. Mutkov
{"title":"Project-Based Learning Approach Applied in the Course “Digital Electronics” for Studying the Topic “Binary Multipliers”","authors":"A. Borodzhieva, Ivanka D. Tsvetkova, S. Zaharieva, Dimitar Dimitrov, V. Mutkov","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472446","url":null,"abstract":"Lecturers face new challenges of how to present their disciplines in the COVID-19 pandemic. Online education is not so easy when students are future engineers, because they cannot use real equipment like during in-person classes. The paper presents the application of project-based learning on the topic “Binary Multipliers” implemented with different computer-based tools, such as MS Excel (electronic spreadsheets), Logisim, ISE Project Navigator, LearningApps, etc. as a way of presenting this topic to the students making the classes more attractive using active learning methods.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133321125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Krum Videnov, V. Stoykova, M. Vasilev, Z. Zlatev, Mariya Georgieva-Nikolova, Petya Yordanova
{"title":"Improvement of the irrigation system for orchids","authors":"Krum Videnov, V. Stoykova, M. Vasilev, Z. Zlatev, Mariya Georgieva-Nikolova, Petya Yordanova","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472436","url":null,"abstract":"In the present work, software tools have been adapted to improve the operation of a drip irrigation system for orchids, which can be used to meet the specific watering requirements of these plants. The orchids used are divided into two groups - those with a single watering and to which an irrigation system is used. The parameters of the control object are obtained. It has been proven that the proposed system is sustainable and workable. Simulation made through open and closed loop control systems. It was found that the closed loop system significantly improves the irrigation process of the studied plants. An improvement in the operation of an automatic drip irrigation system is proposed by sharing data on the change in the color indices of the plant leaves and the resistance of the orchid mixture. Guidelines are given for the practical use of the developed precise system for watering orchids.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129701097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Text Mining Approach for Identifying Research Trends","authors":"S. Sulova","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472433","url":null,"abstract":"With the increase of unstructured data, the issues connected with automatic text processing, the categorization of documents and the discovery of topics have become objects of growing interest. In order to improve the process of grouping and processing research publications, we would like to propose a method based upon natural language processing. It is based on text mining technologies which aim to identify key tendencies in documents. It processes the content of publications by clustering and identifies the topics of each identified group. This analysis helps by identifying key tendencies as well as discovering emerging new areas of research. Publications from the research literature database, Scopus, were used to test the approach. The topic of the publications is “the application of digital technologies in the logistics business”. The experiments were completed using the RapidMiner Studio software.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126798304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fault-Tolerant Real-Time System with Adjustable Reliability","authors":"Edita Djambazova","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472415","url":null,"abstract":"Dependable real-time systems are built out of fault-tolerant components that communicate through a replicated network. They obey strict design principles in order to deliver a correct service in high reliability environments. High reliability is obtained applying replication at different levels. System components are built with two modules operating in active redundancy. The paper presents the approach of adjustable reliability which studies different redundancy distributions of system components. The simulation results show the influence of component redundancy on system reliability. The comparison of systems with different component redundancy distribution shows that in some cases higher reliability can be achieved using nodes with one, two, and three modules.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130976836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Danev, A. Bosakova-Ardenska, P. Panayotov, P. Boyanova
{"title":"GasHolesJ- a software tool for measurement of gas holes in cheese","authors":"A. Danev, A. Bosakova-Ardenska, P. Panayotov, P. Boyanova","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472424","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to present an approach for objective and automatic detection and measure the gas holes in Swiss-type of cheese (Emmental) by computer vision techniques. Samples of four brands of Emmental cheese are bought from the marketplace. The cheese is factory cut into slices. Each slice of the cheese is captured at both sides by a digital camera and the images are saved locally in a computer. A standalone computer program called GasHolesJ is developed for processing the images. The program uses techniques for performing manual thresholding and nineteen algorithms for global auto thresholding are implemented in it. The results images obtained after performing manual and auto thresholding are analyzed and a difference operation between them is performed, in order to compare the efficiency of each auto threshold algorithms with the efficiency of manual threshold technique. The results show that six algorithms for global auto thresholding are effective enough for detection gas holes in Emmental cheese.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126532042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attitudes of primary and secondary students towards online lessons during Covid-19","authors":"Stefan Stajić, M. Ivanović","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472435","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) forced the closure of schools nationwide at the outset of the pandemic. The aim of this paper is to examine the attitudes of primary/secondary school students in Novi Sad, Serbia towards online lessons during pandemic. However, the online course on geography was open to non-Serbian students i.e. students from other countries who used Preply platform. The research was conducted based on the online survey regarding the attitudes of students. Main results of data analysis indicate that students prefer face to face lessons. Around 15.8% of students recommend using only online lessons in the future. Live lesson e.g. Google Meet, Zoom was mostly given to respondents.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116355429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AHP enlargement in traditional Entropy-TOPSIS approach for selecting desktop personal computers for distance learning: Decomposition of evaluation criteria in blocks with AHP for better consideration of users’ needs in the MCDM process on the example of the Entropy-TOPSIS approach","authors":"I. Petrov","doi":"10.1145/3472410.3472431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472410.3472431","url":null,"abstract":"Distance learning became more popular in recent years and its effectiveness depends on the reliability of complex information systems. Under conditions of COVID-19 and the economic crisis, a larger number of users have to implement new working point(s) requiring unplanned investment efforts. Schools, universities, and households are interested in products and components that are adequate to the specifics of the education and can be purchased, maintained, and operated at minimum costs. In this context, the selections of personal computers (PCs) have to take into account various technical parameters and economic factors. Although Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) uses different approaches for supporting decision-makers (DM), there are still many areas for possible improvements. One of them, the enlargement of the traditional “Entropy-TOPSIS” approach with the AHP method provides a more structured, transparent, and objective definition of weights for evaluation criteria in many areas.","PeriodicalId":115575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126636101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}