The neural networks, AI applications, are effective prediction methods. Therefore, in the current research a prediction system was proposed using these neural networks. It studied the technical share indices, viewing price not only as a function of time, but also as a function depending on several indices among which were the opening and closing, top and bottom trading session prices or trading volume. The above technical indices of a number of Egyptian stock market shares during the period from 2007 to 2017, which can be used for training the proposed system, were collected and used as follows: The data were divided into two sets. The first one contained 67% of the total data and was used for training neural networks and the second contained 33% and was used for testing the proposed system. The training set was segmented into subsets used for training a number of neural networks. The output of such networks was used for training another network hierarchically. The system was, then, tested using the rest of the data.

Load balancing is a significant aspect of cloud computing which is essential for identical load sharing among resources like servers, network interfaces, hard drives (storage) and virtual machines (VMs) hosted on physical servers. In cloud computing, Deep  Learning (DL) techniques can be used to achieve QoS such as improve resource utilization and throughput; while reduce latency, response time and cost, balancing load across machines, thus, increasing the system reliability. DL results in effective and accurate decision making of intelligent resource allocation to the incoming requests, thereby, choosing the most suitable resource to complete them.  However, in previous researches on load balancing, there is limited application of DL approaches. In this paper, the significance of DL approaches have been analysed in the area of cloud computing.  A Framework for Workflow execution in cloud environment has been proposed and implemented, namely, Deep Learning- based Deadline-constrained, Dynamic VM Provisioning and Load Balancing (DLD-PLB). Optimal schedule for VMs has been generated using Deep Learning based technique. The Genome workflow tasks have been taken as input to the suggested framework. The results for makespan and cost has been computed for the proposed framework and has been compared with our earlier proposed framework for load balancing optimization - Hybrid approach based Deadline-constrained, Dynamic VM Provisioning and Load Balancing (HDD-PLB)” framework for Workflow execution. The earlier proposed approaches for load balancing were based on hybrid Predict-Earliest-Finish Time (PEFT) with ACO for underutilized VM optimization and hybrid PEFT-Bat approach for optimize the utilization of overflow VMs.

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is the process of retrieving similar images of a query image from a source of images based on the image contents. In this paper, color and texture features are used to represent image contents. Color layout descriptor (CLD) and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) are used as color and texture features respectively. CLD and GLCM are efficient for representing images with local dominant regions. For retrieving similar images of a query image, the features of the query image is matched with that of the images of the source. We use cityblock distance for this feature matching purpose. K-nearest images using cityblock distance are the similar images of a query image. Our CBIR approach is scale invariant as CLD is scale invariant. Another set of features, GLCM defines color patterns. It makes the system efficient for retrieving similar images based on spatial relationships between colors. We also measure the efficiency of our approach using k-nearest neighbors algorithm. Performance of our proposed method, in terms of precision and recall, is promising and better, compared to some recent related works.

Prediction of defect prone software modules is now considered as an important activity of software quality assurance. This approach uses the software metrics to predict whether the developed module is defective or not. This research presents MLP based ensemble classification framework to predict the defect prone software modules. The framework predicts the defective modules by using three dimensions: 1) Tuned MLP, 2) Tuned MLP with Bagging 3) Tuned MLP with Boosting. In first dimension only the MLP is used for the classification after optimization. In second dimension, the optimized MLP is integrated with bagging technique. In third dimension, the optimized MLP is integrated with boosting technique. Four publically available cleaned NASA MDP datasets are used for the implementation of proposed framework and the performance is evaluated by using F-measure, Accuracy, Roc Area and MCC. The performance of the proposed framework is compared with ten widely used supervised classification techniques by using Scott-Knott ESD test and the results reflects the high performance of the proposed framework. 

Stock market prediction is a process of trying to decide the stock trends based on the analysis of historical data. However, the stock market is subject to rapid changes. It is very difficult to predict because of its dynamic & unpredictable nature. The main goal of this paper is to present a model that can predict stock market trend. The model is implemented with the help of machine learning algorithms using eleven technical indicators. The model is trained and tested by the published stock data obtained from DSE (Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh). The empirical result reveals the effectiveness of machine learning techniques with a maximum accuracy of 86.67%, 64.13% and 69.21% for “today”, “tomorrow” and “day_after_tomorrow”.