{"title":"Impact of social attributes on Predictive Analytics in telecommunication industry","authors":"Osama Z. Hashmi, S. Sheikh","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511470","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will be presenting how the social attributes impact the Predictive Analytics results when applied on the telecommunication industry dataset. Predictive Analytics is the new emerging field in data mining, and is actively being applied to solve multiple business questions, such as Customer Churn, Product Up-Sell and Cross-Sell, etc. Predictive Analytical models exploit patterns that are found in historical and transactional data to identify risks, opportunities and future events. During comparative analysis it was noticed that with the Addition of Social Attributes, the Efficiency and Reliability of these Models is greatly enhanced.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115072540","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":"The role of artificial neural network in project performance of Higher Learning Institutions, Pakistan","authors":"M. S. Javed, A. Mahmood, S. Sulaiman","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511455","url":null,"abstract":"The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is one of the prestigious institutions of Government of Pakistan its main objective is to upgrade Higher Learning Institutions (HLI) in Pakistan to be centers of education, research and development. The objective of this paper is to study the applications of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technology particularly in capital project risk analysis. The use of this technology will help the decision makers to improve the effectiveness of the decision making process at the front-end stage of projects in the HLI of Pakistan. The advantages of ANN are highlighted over the traditional system to be used as decision making system. Artificial neural network model is superior in the prediction of project cost and time variations.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132487519","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":"Crop classification using feature extraction from satellite imagery","authors":"Asma Akhtar, Muhammad Nazir, S. Khan","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511479","url":null,"abstract":"Plants are a major source of food stuff, medicine and industry. However it is an important and difficult task to recognize species of crop on earth. Therefore it is pertinent to design an appropriate recognition system of crops. As the frontier of space technology is progressed rapidly, remote sensing provides very convenient resource for development in agriculture. In this paper, we proposed a new method for crop classification from satellite imagery. In this method, first of all, we assembled satellite imagery database of different crops and then extract Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) features from each crop and then classify them by different individual classifiers. At the end we described analysis of different classifiers that which classifier performed best. Various techniques have been compared against our proposed model for determining the supremacy of our model and results have shown significant improvement in accuracy and reliability.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114242146","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":"Customer churn prediction for telecommunication: Employing various various features selection techniques and tree based ensemble classifiers","authors":"Adnan Idris, Asifullah Khan","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511498","url":null,"abstract":"Ensemble classifiers have received increasing attention for attaining the higher classification performance in recent times. In this paper, we present comparative performances of various tree based ensemble classifiers in collaboration with maximum relevancy and minimum redundancy (mRMR), Fisher's ratio and F-score based features selection schemes for a challenging problem of churn prediction in telecommunication. The large sized telecommunication dataset has been the main hurdle in achieving the desired classification performance in the contemporary proposed churn prediction models. Though, tree based ensemble classifiers are considered suitable for larger datasets, but we have found rotation forest and rotboost as effective techniques compared to random forest, which employ boosting through features selection and increased diversity by incorporating linear feature extraction method such as Principal Component Analysis. In addition to the features selection performed by used ensembles, we have also incorporated mRMR, Fisher's ratio and F-score techniques for features selection. mRMR returns a coherent and well discriminants feature set, compared to Fisher's ratio and F-score, which significantly reduces the computations and helps classifier in attaining improved performance. The performance evaluation is conducted using area under curve, sensitivity and specificity where Rotboost, an ensemble of rotation forest and Adaboost in collaboration with mRMR has shown competitive results for churn prediction in telecommunication as compared to other ensemble methods.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114983650","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":"Soft-metric based decoding for photon counting receivers","authors":"I. Bari, M. Delgado, M. Mondin, F. Daneshgaran","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511488","url":null,"abstract":"In [1] a low-complexity photon-counting receiver has been presented, which may be employed in long-distance amplification-free classical optical communication schemes, and which is typically modeled through its equivalent Binary Symmetric Channel (BSC) model. In this paper, we consider the scheme described in [1], but we model it as a time varying Binary Input-Multiple Output (BIMO) channel, and analyze its performance in presence of soft-metric based capacity approaching error correcting codes. We show that the classical channel capacity of the suggested BIMO model is higher than the capacity of the BSC model, and that the use of the BIMO model allows to feed the channel decoder with soft information, in the form of Log-Likelihood Ratios (LLRs), achieving a significant reduction in Bit Error Rate (BER) and Frame Error Rate (FER) with respect to classical hard-metric-based schemes which should be used in conjunction with a BSC channel model.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115346263","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":"Policy-based network management in a machine-to-machine (M2M) network","authors":"M. Siddiqui, S. Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511473","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major characteristics behind the success of Machine to machine (M2M) Networks is the least human involvement. With the penetration of smart-devices and intelligent home-appliances, M2M communication has opened the doors of new prospects for us. With the advent of autonomous organization and network & service management, conventional networks are fast replaced by machine-to-machine M2M networks. Recent trend has shown that Policy-based network management is becoming an important component in M2M. Therefore, we have designed a policy based network management system for M2M Networks. The contributions of this work are a light-weight Information Model, a compatible policy editing and compilation mechanism and a feedback loop based intelligent control PBNM system. The practicality of the proposed system is illustrated by the realization of a Policy Server for enabling PBNM along with an adapter for simultaneously management of sensor networks and smart phones (and devices).","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123498076","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":"An analysis of Newton's method in wireless systems using Gabor frames","authors":"U. Masud, M. I. Baig","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511480","url":null,"abstract":"Gabor expansion technique with a one tap time frequency channel model has shown to be an effective realization method. The error introduced by a dispersive single tap time frequency channel model can be reduced by using optimized Gabor prototype frames. This problem can be formulated into a semi definite programming problem. From practical point of view, the situation becomes increasingly interesting under Wide-Sense Stationary Uncorrelated Scattering (WSSUS) channel conditions. This paper presents and analyzes the performance of Newton's method in optimization to find the solution. On account of its physical significance and impact, consideration has been given to the WSSUS conditions. The performance of the algorithm under UMTS suburban conditions reveals attention grabbing results, especially the reduced time for standard delay spreads is worth mentioning. The flexibility with generalized multicarrier schemes featuring augmented time bandwidth activity makes the model tempting in the context of cognitive radio environments. This has targeted numerous applications such as building a sensor network with a re-configurable receiver adapting to various wireless standards.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128476082","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":"Relay based cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks over rayleigh fading channel with path loss effects","authors":"N. Zarin, S. Mahmud, I. Khan","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511450","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we tackle the issue of cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio network with path loss effects. Cooperative relays are introduced between primary user and cognitive center. The deteriorating effect of path loss is evaluated by measuring the detection performance of energy detector employed in cognitive radio network. Both single relay and multiple relays regimes are employed. Two schemes for relay's location in cognitive radio network are proposed and the impact of relay's location between primary user and cognitive receiver is evaluated through cognitive center's detection parameters i.e probability of false alarm and probability of detection. The receiver performance is analyzed for Rayleigh fading channels, independent and identically distributed. The path loss exponent is taken as 3 to show the degenerative radio environment. The detection performance has been greatly improved by increasing number of relays and locating the relays nearer to the primary user, whereas moving the relays away from primary user drastically decreases the probability of detection.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116025433","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":"Parameter optimization for non-local de-noising using Elite GA","authors":"Aksam Iftikhar, Saima Rathore, A. Jalil","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511448","url":null,"abstract":"Non-local means de-noising is a simple but effective image restoration method. It exploits usual redundancy found in real-life images. It computes similarity between patches of pixels, in a non-local window, instead of pixels themselves. This similarity measure defines participation/weight of each pixel in the de-noising process. In this research study, non-local means de-noising has been applied to noisy synthetic and brain MR images by optimizing its parameters through Genetic Algorithm. Elite Genetic Algorithm, a novel idea, has also been proposed to optimize several parameters of the non-local framework. It works in a hierarchical structure i.e. K Primary GAs and one Secondary GA. Each Primary GA evolves with independent population and gives rise to nk elite chromosomes after t generations, which collectively serve as population of Secondary GA. Evolution with Elite GA results in improved speed of convergence as Secondary GA starts its evolution with more fit chromosomes instead of randomly generated population. These elite chromosomes are expected to be better solutions, thus have higher probability to approach global minima/maxima in no time. Algorithm has been tested on the said images and improved convergence rate has been observed for Elite GA. Moreover, the individuals selected by Elite GA are as fit as traditional GA as verified by PSNR and RMSE results.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124137842","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":"Detecting structural errors in BPMN process models","authors":"O. Kherbouche, Adeel Ahmad, H. Basson","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511490","url":null,"abstract":"Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) has emerged as a standard notation to express the business process models. A lack of formal semantics in the BPMN can cause the syntactic and structural errors. The former requires less effort to be checked, while the later usually needs a complex state-space analysis to prove some properties, like the deadlock-freedom and the livelock-freedom. In this paper, we present an approach based on model checking for the automated verification of business process models. We illustrate the deadlocks, livelocks, and multiple termination problems, which can help the business modelers to avoid structural errors.","PeriodicalId":396084,"journal":{"name":"2012 15th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)","volume":"70 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131991592","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}