M.A. Jayaram

Work place: Department of Master of Computer Applications, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India.

E-mail: jayaramdps@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Image Processing, Computing Platform, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

M.A.Jayaram., received BE from Bangalore university, M.Tech from NIT(K) , Surathkal, MCA(IGNOU), and PhD from VTU, Belgaum, Karnataka. Dr.M.A.Jayaram has 32 years of teaching and 13 years of research experience.
Authored 12 Books and more than 100 reasearch papers in National/ International Journals and conferences. Areas of specialization includes, digital image processing, soft computing, data analytics and algorithmic problem solving. Has guided one reasearch scholar and currently guiding three research scolars. Is a member in editorial team of several reputed International Journals.

Author Articles
An Informal Approach to Identify Bright Graduate Students by Evaluating their Classroom Behavioral Patterns by Using Kohonen Self Organizing Feature Map

By C.Bhanuprakash Y.S. Nijagunarya M.A. Jayaram

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2018.08.03, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2018

The intention of this paper is to analyze how a behavior of a student will influence us in gauging their performance level rather than considering their traditional examination scores. This approach is considered to be one of the informal approaches which guide many school managements to identify good, average and poor category of students. The main criteria used here is behavioral science which explores activities and interactions among the student community when they are inside the school campus.
School-Wide Positive Behavior Support can assist in addressing the issues related to the prevention, educational identification and effective intervention implementation through its systemic logic, data-based decision making, and capacity building within and across schools.
Clustering is the process of grouping a set of data objects into multiple groups or clusters with high similarities and dissimilarities. Dissimilarities and Similarities are assessed on the attribute values describing the objects and often involve distance measures. Clustering acts as a data mining tool by having its roots in many application areas such as biology, security, business intelligence, web search etc.
In this survey, we have involved 200 + students who are currently studying engineering streams in various classes that includes first semester to final semester. Their age group was in the range of 18 to 22 years. Their behavioral survey has been conducted over a span of 4 to 6 months by closely observing their activities, mannerisms and then evaluated by entering in to this system by using the evaluation interface. This evaluation interface consists of 15 features with 4 optional choices. Each choice is rated with a specific numeric value. By taking one of the choices among all the 15 features for each of the student, at the end, he/she will get some score which will be stored in a database. With the help of this score, a manual grouping was done. Later, for the same dataset, a soft computing technique has been applied by working with self organizing feature map algorithm for grouping the students.

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Clustering of Faculty by Evaluating their Appraisal Performance by using Feed Forward Neural Network Approach

By C.Bhanuprakash Y.S. Nijagunarya M.A. Jayaram

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2017.03.05, Pub. Date: 8 Mar. 2017

Clustering is the process of grouping a set of data objects into multiple groups or clusters with high similarities and dissimilarities. Dissimilarities and Similarities are assessed on the attribute values describing the objects and often involve distance measures. Clustering acts as a data mining tool by having its roots in many application areas such as biology, security, business intelligence, web search etc.
Our Institute is currently using a software application with a name “Merit System”, which evaluates the performance of the staff members regarding their level of teaching by considering various factors. It computes the performance level by collecting feedback from every student. It gives the appraisal result in the form of 30 points earned to every staff member. It acts as a tool for the management of our college to gauge the performance level of the teacher which in turn helps them in assessing annual increments and other promotions.
The main drawback of this system is its inability in grouping of staff members like Group-A, Group-B, Group-C etc. Because, many of the staff members have scored the performance points in the range of 21 to 30 which will creates lot of ambiguities to the management to make clusters of staff members to these groups. This issue is the prime concern of this paper and it was given with an approach to solve this problem by considering possible optimum soft computing technique that includes Feed Forward Neural Network approach.

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