International Journal of Engineering and Manufacturing (IJEM)

IJEM Vol. 11, No. 4, Aug. 2021

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REGULAR PAPERS

Tree-classification Algorithm to Ease User Detection of Predatory Hijacked Journals: Empirical Analysis of Journal Metrics Rankings

By Arnold Adimabua Ojugo Obinna Nwankwo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2021.04.01, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2020

A major challenge today in communication and over various communications medium is the wanton havoc wreaked by attackers as they continue to eavesdrop and intrude. Young and inexperienced academia are today faced with the challenge of journal houses to send cum have their articles published. The negative impact thus, of predatory and hijacked journals cannot be over-emphasized as adversaries use carefully crafted, social engineering (phishing attack) skills – to exploit unsuspecting and inexperienced academia usually for personals gains. These attacks re-direct victims to fake pages. The significance of the study is to advance a standard scheme/techniques employed by phished (predatory/hijacked) journals to scam young academia and inexperienced researchers in their quest for visibility in highly impactful indexed journals. Thus, our study advances a decision-tree algorithm that educates users by showing various indicators cum techniques advanced by predatory and hijacked journals. We explore journal phishing attacks employed by such journals, targeted at young academia to adequately differentiate also using web-page ranking. Results show the classification algorithm can effectively detect 95-percent accuracy of journal phishing based on journal metric indicators and website ranks.

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An Improved Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm for Liquid flow Control System

By Pijush Dutta Madhurima Majumder Asok Kumar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2021.04.02, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2021

Liquid flow in a process industry is one of the significant factors which should be controlled to get the better quality and decrease the expense of generation. Customary methodology includes manual tuning of the input process parameter to obtain the required flow rate is tedious and exorbitant. Notwithstanding, estimation of a precise computational model for fluid stream control procedure can fill in as elective methodology. It is only a non-straight enhancement issue. As a contextual investigation, the WFT - 20-I measure control arrangement for flow rate measurement and Control issue is thought of. In this work we proposes a hybrid improved particle swarm optimization (PSO-GWO) used to start the people's position, which can build the decent variety of the wolf pack, balance the global and neighborhood search capacity of the calculation and improve the intermingling pace of the calculation contrast with the Gray wolf enhancement (GWO) and Particle swarm advancement (PSO). Non linear models are improved utilizing those recently proposed streamlining strategies. Additionally all the utilized optimization techniques can anticipate the fluid stream rate with good exactness. The outcomes were investigated by utilizing the root mean square error (RMSE), exactness, and the different measures to evaluate the level of identification performance of the liquid flow contextual analysis model. The trustworthiness of the present models was compared with the past model for similar subsystems utilizing competitive intelligent methodologies. The measurable examination of the acquired outcomes produced the proposed HPSOGWO has most elevated generally speaking proficiency (i.e.99.96%) and it beat the others strategies for the majority of the instances of demonstrating for fluid stream control process. The outcomes of the present model show that the proposed approach gives prevalent demonstrating execution and outflanks its rivals.

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Hardware Synthesize and Performance Analysis of Intelligent Transportation Using Canny Edge Detection Algorithm

By Aisha Baloch Tayab D Memon Farida Memon Bharat Lal Ved Viyas Tony Jan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2021.04.03, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2021

The World is moving toward Smart traffic management and monitoring technologies. Vehicle detection and classification are the two important features of intelligent transportation system. Several algorithms for detection of vehicles such as Sobel, Prewitt, and Robert etc. but due to their less accuracy and sensitivity to noise they could not detect vehicles clearly. In this paper, a simple and rapid prototyping approach for vehicle detection and classification using MATLAB Xilinx system generator and Zedboard is presented. The Simulink model of vehicle detection and classification is designed using a complex canny edge detection algorithm for vehicle detection. The canny edge detection algorithm offers 91% accuracy as compared to its counterpart Sobel and Perwitt algorithms that offer 79.4% and 76.1% accuracy. The feature vector approach is used for vehicle classification. The proposed model is simulated and validated in MATLAB. The Canny edge detection and feature vector algorithms for vehicle detection and classification are synthesized through the Xilinx system generator in Zedboard. The proposed design is validated with the existing works. The implementation results reveal that the proposed system for vehicle detection and classification takes only 8 ns of execution time with a 128MHz clock, which is the lowest and optimum calculation period for the smart city.

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Fully Automated Hydroponics System for Smart Farming

By Hariram M Shetty Kshama Pai K Navaneeth Mallya Pratheeksha

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2021.04.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2021

This project is focused on developing a Fully Automatic Hydroponics system which helps in monitoring and controlling temperature, Humidity, pH and EC in Hydroponics. Hydroponics is a method of growing crops without soil. Plants are grown in rows or on trellises, just like in a traditional garden, but they have their roots in water rather than in dirt. Although, there are different ways in which hydroponics can be implemented, there is no individual system which can measure and control pH and EC level of nutrient solution along with its surrounding temperature and humidity automatically. We use PIC16F877A microcontroller and four pumps, three of which are used to pump water, nutrient solution, pH solution and the fourth pump is used to control the humidity. A fan is used to control the temperature which increases its speed as the temperature increases. The pumps are turned on depending on the EC and pH values obtained from the electrodes. A passive LCD display is used to display variations in the values. Different Analysis like water usage, plant growth in comparison with regular farming method and hydroponics is successfully completed which results in hydroponics system is significant method in comparison with soiled cultivation method in terms of yield and water usage. This project is expected to produce high yield crops by taking minimal space, makes work easier for farmers in growing of plants, and also consumes less amount of water when compared to traditional method resulting in conservation of water.

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Colour, Texture, and Shape Features based Object Recognition Using Distance Measures

By S.M. Mohidul Islam Farhana Tazmim Pinki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2021.04.05, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2021

Object recognition is the recognizing process of objects into semantically expressive classes using its visual insides. Classification of objects becomes complex and challenging task because of its size, poor image quality, occlusion, scaling, geometric distortion, lightening, etc. In this paper, global descriptors that means Color, Texture, and Shape features are used to recognize object. Color histogram is used to obtain the color content, texture content is obtained using Gabor wavelet, and shape content is extracted using Hough transform. These low level or global features are used for creating feature vector. Distance measure is used to find the 1-Nearest Neighbor from the training images i.e. object with minimum distance or maximum similarity with visual contents of the query image. The class of that training image is the predicted label of the query image. We have used twelve different distance measures: some are metrics, some are non-metrics and finally, their recognition accuracy is compared. Ensemble of these distance measures is also used for object recognition in the image. We evaluate this method on a publicly available object-recognition dataset: Columbia Object Image Library (COIL-100) dataset. The experiments show that the recognized results outperform many state-of-the-art methods.

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