{"title":"Characteristics of smallholder dairy farms by association rules mining based on apriori algorithm","authors":"Devotha G. Nyambo, E. Luhanga, Z. Yonah","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10021712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10021712","url":null,"abstract":"Characteristics of smallholder dairy farmers across regions are highly similar. However, introduction of improved farm management practices and extension support can be effective if specific constraints are identified for each farm typology. So far, approaches used to formulate farm types and characterise farming systems are not tailored to studying hidden patterns from farm datasets. Using the apriori association rules mining algorithm, characteristics of four smallholder dairy farm types are studied. Applying the power of the ArulesViz package, frequent items were visualised. These visuals which display some hidden attributes, solidified understanding on the key determinants for change in the studied farm types. The hidden smallholder farm characteristics were identified in addition to those given by cluster analysis in preliminary studies. Characterising smallholder farm data by using association rules mining is recommended in order to understand such systems in terms of what/how the majority practice rather than basing on cluster averages.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43282939","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":"Reliability and validity of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale among university students of Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Sayeed Akhter, Rehnuma Ferdous","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10019427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10019427","url":null,"abstract":"The aims of the present study were to translate the Rosenberg self-esteem scale into Bengali language, and to examine the reliability and validity of Bengali version of the scale. The scale was completed by a sample of 232 Bangladeshi university students. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a single-factorial structure of the scale. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that the one-factor solution provides the best fit. The Bengali version of the scale also indicated adequate concurrent validity. Furthermore, the scale showed satisfactory levels of internal consistency and temporal stability over a three-week period. In addition, gender differences were identified, male students were found to score higher than females. To conclude, these findings provided empirical support for the Bengali version of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale to measure global self-esteem of Bangladeshi university students.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44022610","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}
T. P. Kumar, M. K. Priyadarsini, K. Soundarapandiyan
{"title":"A study on impact of students perceived service quality on brand performance of self-financing engineering institutions","authors":"T. P. Kumar, M. K. Priyadarsini, K. Soundarapandiyan","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10019457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10019457","url":null,"abstract":"Higher education engineering institutions in India faces a tough competition in getting the students, the students perception towards the institution depends upon the brand image of the institution. This scenario pushes the engineering education to think about branding and positioning in the competitive market and which can help to give the college the unique position in the market and help in gaining competitive advantage. This study aims at assessing the perceived service quality of the self financing engineering institutions students, their satisfaction, students' trust and students' loyalty contribute towards brand performance of self financing engineering institution. This study is descriptive research design type and is based on the primary data; and by using the simple random sampling technique. The result indicates that the perceived service quality has significant effect on students' satisfaction, which then leads to significant effect on brand performance.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47668381","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":"Bayesian SEM analyses the cyber crime awareness in India","authors":"K. Ravichandran, S. Arulchelvan","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10019424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2019.10019424","url":null,"abstract":"Crime is a major phenomenon in the world and it is challenging normal life of human society in such crimes as murder, rape, robbery, and computer-related crimes. Cyber-related crimes have happened more to individuals and others. These computer-related crimes are the most important crime and challenging modern society by tracking, hacking, cracking, spamming and morphing through the online network. These trends in Indian media help in preventing cybercrime and creating social awareness to the public. This paper identifies prevention, victimisation, vandalism, terrorism, and impact of media and safety in the social media consolidate environment. In this emergent situation, media is playing an important role in creating cybercrime awareness. This complimentary aims to penetrate and recognise the relationships amongst the antecedents of impact of cyber news in the framework of the civic media incorporate environment by Bayesian approximation and suspect of the structural equation model.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42393944","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":"Use of metaphors for acceptance of cognitive assistants: a qualitative study","authors":"M. A. K. Siddike, Y. Kohda","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016546","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive assistants (CAs) are new decision tools, able to provide people with high quality recommendations. CAs are very primitive and beginning to appear in the market. As a result, trustworthiness and relative advantages of using CAs are the most influential factors for acceptance of CAs by the people in the society. The prime objective of this paper is to investigate how trustworthiness and relative advantages play the most important role for acceptance of CAs using novel approach of metaphors. Three metaphors namely: pets, alarm clock and vase were used to investigate the acceptance of CAs by the people in the society. To achieve the objective, a qualitative research was undertaken to deeply investigate the issue. A total of 32 interviews were conducted into three steps. The interview data was analysed using MAXQDA 12 (a qualitative data analysis software) by applying the 'grounded theory' research approach. Results indicate that the metaphor pets (trustworthiness and relative advantages) and alarm clock (only relative advantages of using CAs) influence the people's acceptance of CAs in the society. A theoretical framework of acceptance of CAs was presented based on the findings and insights from this research. Finally, the paper concludes by suggesting future research directions.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":"10 1","pages":"243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48682910","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":"Modelling urban sprawl using fuzzy cellular automata model for the city of Jaipur","authors":"P. Sisodia, R. Shekhawat, V. Tiwari","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016543","url":null,"abstract":"The unorganised, unplanned, uncontrolled, and unauthorised development has been termed as urban sprawl and often referring to as a complex pattern of transportation, social, economic, and land use development. The rapid increase in population and economic development are the primary influences of urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is the major problem of metropolitan areas all over the world especially developing countries. The impact of urban sprawl can be noted as pollution, traffic, loss of prime agricultural land, deforestation, congestion of places, and water pollution. In this paper, we have proposed a fuzzy-CA-Markov model for modelling urban sprawl. The factors which influence the urban sprawl is considered as fuzzy parameter like accessibility from local road, accessibility from main road, accessibility from major road, slop, altitude, and density. The future prediction of urban sprawl was measured through Markov's cellular automata model.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":"10 1","pages":"285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42310804","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":"Protecting the rights of people displaced by dams: an assessment of the development of Ghana's Bui Dam","authors":"M. M. Muhammed, F. Teng-Zeng","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016545","url":null,"abstract":"For over a half century now, large-scale dams and other large infrastructure projects have been pursued to advance the socioeconomic transformation of various countries and regions. However, adverse effects sometimes arise through the execution of the projects including the violations of the rights of affected communities and persons as a result of development-induced displacement and resettlement activities. One of the theoretical approaches that advocate for processes that lead to positive outcomes in the implementation of such development projects is the rights-based approach. Using primary data from Ghana's Bui Dam Project, the perceptions and views of the displaced people, their leaders, the dam managers and other relevant stakeholders are analysed with the view to unmasking the extent to which the rights of the displaced people were safeguarded and promoted throughout the project cycle. While the paper reveals that some positive outcomes have been attained in the Bui Dam Project, more favourable outcomes would have been realised if international covenants relating to the rights of infrastructure-affected-people were mainstreamed into local legal frameworks instead of heavily relying on best practice standards which are only hortatory and prescriptive.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":"10 1","pages":"300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45944008","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":"Comparing different classifiers and feature selection techniques for emotion classification","authors":"S. Srinivasan, P. Ramesh","doi":"10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2018.10016544","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we have explored the potentiality of six different supervised machine learning approaches and feature selection filters to recognize four basic emotions (anger, happy, sadness and surprise) using three different heterogeneous emotion-annotated dataset which combines sentences from news headlines, fairy tales and blogs. For classification purpose, we have chosen the feature set to include the bag-of-words. Our study reveals the fact that the use of the resampling filter and the feature selection filters together contribute towards boosting the prediction accuracies of the classifiers. However, the boosting capabilities are more profound in the resampling filter in comparison to the use of the different feature selection filters.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":"10 1","pages":"259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42594188","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 retention and credit risk analysis using ANN, SVM and DNN","authors":"Dr. Nagaraj V. Dharwadkar, Priyanka S. Patil","doi":"10.1504/ijsss.2018.10016548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsss.2018.10016548","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the banking sector are facing various challenges such as customer retention, fraud detection, risk management and customer segmentation. It can be possible to find solutions to these problems with the help of data analytics and machine learning (ML). In this paper, we have proposed a model which provides the solution to problems of the banking sector for customer retention and credit risk analysis. We used supervised learning techniques namely artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM) and deep neural network (DNN) to analyse bank customer data. In order to analyse the algorithms we have used German credit dataset to evaluate the customer retention and credit risk. The experimental result shows that the using ANN, SVM and DNN algorithms, we could able to to reach recognition accuracy of 98%, 92% and 97% respectively for bank customer data and 72%, 72% and 76% for German credit dataset. The proposed method provides an efficient solution for retention and credit risk analysis of bank customers, which improves the profit of the banks by retaining the customers.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":"10 1","pages":"316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43335823","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 wine retail sector: a case for improving the Nigerian market","authors":"Osadebamwen Anthony Ogbeide","doi":"10.1504/ijsss.2018.10015148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsss.2018.10015148","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of the study was to determine how best to improve the Nigerian wine retail market. A survey questionnaire was used to obtain information relevant to the objectives of the study. The result showed wine consumers from the two countries were similar in consumption pattern, socio-demographics and involvement with wine. However, the study found that the retailing of wine was more developed in Australia than in Nigeria. The opportunities to acquire wine knowledge, taste before purchase and engage in wine related activities were limited in Nigeria but widely available in Australia as an effective market strategy. These opportunities must be provided to consumers in the Nigerian wine market. Free pre-purchase wine tasting must be encouraged to boost consumers' involvement with wine, consumption of assorted wines and development of palate by potential wine drinkers.","PeriodicalId":89681,"journal":{"name":"International journal of society systems science","volume":"10 1","pages":"223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45301196","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}