Fusion: Practice and Applications

In the digital age, the safeguarding of information through effective cybersecurity measures is paramount. This paper presents the development of a robust cryptographic model tailored for cybersecurity applications. The background underscores the increasing prevalence of cyber threats and the necessity for advanced encryption techniques to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. The methodology involves the design and implementation of the cryptographic model using state-of-the-art algorithms and protocols. Rigorous testing and evaluation were conducted to assess the model's performance in various cyber environments. The results indicate that the proposed model significantly enhances security, demonstrating high resistance to common cyber-attacks with an average encryption time of 0.5 seconds for a 1MB file and a decryption accuracy rate of 99.9%. The model also achieved a data integrity verification success rate of 99.8% and an overall system efficiency improvement of 45% compared to existing models. The conclusion highlights the model's effectiveness and potential for broad application in securing digital communication, offering a substantial contribution to the field of cybersecurity.

A more extensive attack surface for cyber incursions has resulted from the fast expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, calling for more stringent security protocols. This research introduces a new method for protecting Internet of Things (IoT) networks against intrusion assaults by combining Game Theory with Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). Various cyber dangers are becoming more common as a result of the networked nature and frequently inadequate security measures of IoT devices. Because these threats are ever-changing and intricate, traditional security measures can't keep up. An effective optimization method for allocating resources and pathfinding is provided by ACO, which takes its cues from the foraging behavior of ants, while Game Theory provides a strategic framework for modeling the interactions between attackers and defenders. Attackers and defenders in the proposed system are modeled as players in a game where the objective is to maximize their payout. Minimizing damage by anticipating and minimizing assaults is the defender's task. The monitoring pathways are optimized and resources are allocated effectively with the help of ACO. In response to changes in network conditions, the system dynamically modifies defensive tactics by updating the game model in real time. The results of the simulation show that the suggested method successfully increases the security of the Internet of Things. Compared to 87.4% using conventional approaches, the detection accuracy increased to 95.8%. From 10.5 seconds down to 7.3 seconds, the average reaction time to identified incursions was cut in half. Furthermore, there was a 20% improvement in resource utilization efficiency, guaranteeing that defensive and monitoring resources were allocated optimally. Internet of Things (IoT) network security is greatly improved by combining Game Theory with Ant Colony Optimization. In addition to enhancing detection accuracy and reaction times, this combination method guarantees resource efficiency. The results demonstrate the practicality of this approach, which offers a solid foundation for protecting Internet of Things devices from ever-changing cyber dangers.

In today's digital era, ensuring robust and secure authentication mechanisms is crucial. Multi-fusion biometric authentication systems have emerged as a powerful solution to enhance security and reliability by integrating multiple biometric traits. This paper presents a novel Multi-Fusion Biometric Authentication approach using Minutiae-Driven Fixed-Size Template Matching (MFTM). The proposed method leverages the unique features of minutiae points in fingerprints and combines them with other biometric modalities, such as iris and facial recognition, to create a fixed-size template for matching. The fusion process involves extracting and normalizing minutiae points from the fingerprint, followed by their integration with iris and facial features using a robust feature fusion algorithm. The fixed-size template ensures consistency and efficiency in the matching process, addressing challenges related to template size variability and computational overhead. Extensive experiments conducted on standard biometric datasets demonstrate that the proposed MFTM approach significantly enhances authentication accuracy, reduces false acceptance and rejection rates, and provides a highly secure and scalable authentication solution suitable for various applications, including access control and identity verification. The results show an authentication accuracy of 98.7%, a false acceptance rate (FAR) of 0.2%, and a false rejection rate (FRR) of 0.5%. Additionally, the computational time for matching is reduced by 25% compared to traditional methods, highlighting the efficiency and practicality of the proposed approach.

This study addresses the growing threat of network attacks by exploring their types and analyzing the challenges associated with their precise detection. To mitigate these threats, we propose a novel cyber security approach that integrates Genetic Algorithm (GA) and neural network architecture. The GA is employed for the selection and optimization of attributes that represent DDoS and malware attack features. These optimized features are then fed into a neural network for training and classification. The effectiveness of the proposed approach was evaluated through precision, recall, and F-measure analyses, demonstrating superior detection capabilities for DDoS and malware attacks compared to existing methods. Furthermore, we introduce a hybrid approach that combines Swarm Intelligence (SI) and nature-inspired techniques. The GA is utilized to select features and reduce the dataset size, followed by the application of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) with Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) to further filter irrelevant features. The results show that this hybrid approach significantly enhances the accuracy and efficiency of network attack detection in wide area networks.

The application of the test case prioritization method is a key part of system testing intended to think it through and sort out the issues early in the development stage. Traditional prioritization techniques frequently fail to take into account the complexities of big-scale test suites, growing systems and time constraints, therefore cannot fully fix this problem. The proposed study here will deal with a meta-heuristic hybrid method that focuses on addressing the challenges of the modern time. The strategy utilizes genetic algorithms alongside a black hole as a means to create a smooth tradeoff between exploring numerous possibilities and exploiting the best one. The proposed hybrid algorithm of genetic black hole (HGBH) uses the capabilities of considering the imperatives such as code coverage, fault finding rate and execution time from search algorithms in our hybrid approach to refine test cases considerations repetitively. The strategy accomplished this by putting experiments on a large-scale project of industrial software developed. The hybrid meta-heuristic technique ends up being better than the routine techniques. It helps in higher code coverage, which, in turn, enables to detect crucial defects at an early stage and also to allocate the testing resources in a better way. In particular, the best APFD value was 0.9321, which was achieved in 6 generations with 4.879 seconds the value to which the computer was run. Besides these, , the approach resulted in the mean value of APFD as 0.9247 and 0.9302  seconds which took from 10.509 seconds to 30.372 seconds. The carried out experiment proves the feasibility of this approach in implementing complex systems and consistently detecting the changes, enabling it to adapt to rapidly changing systems. In the end, this research provides us with a new hybrid meta-heuristic way of test case prioritization and optimization, which, in turn, helps to tackle the obstacles caused by large-scale test cases and constantly changing systems.

The rapid adoption of the Internet of Things throughout healthcare and smart city construction has led to a rise in networked devices and security issues. This work suggests new techniques to improve IoT safety and maximise computing resources. We develop a complete security architecture integrating lightweight cryptography, blockchain, machine learning anomaly detection, and federated learning. We did so because we know that traditional security measures are inadequate for the Internet of Things. The lightweight cryptographic algorithm (LCA) provides efficient encryption and decryption, making it ideal for low-resource Internet of Things devices. Twenty processes comprise the LCA design. These operations include key generation, data encryption, digital signatures, and integrity checking. These procedures secure IoT data transfers. ADML detects anomalies in encrypted Internet of Things data using machine learning. This approach may identify security issues better. To keep up with data trends, this method extracts features, trains models, and updates them. Blockchain-based data integrity (BDI) is the third element. Blockchain ensures that Internet of Things data is reliable and full. BDI developed an immutable ledger solution to increase IoT data security and dependability. This data integrity system generates blocks, hashes, confirms blocks, and updates the blockchain. Fourth, FLIoT (Federated Learning for the Internet of Things) emphasises data privacy and collaborative model training across IoT devices. Foundation for the Internet of Things (FIoT) protocols and standards aim to increase IoT devices' collective intelligence while safeguarding users' privacy. It includes local model training, model aggregation, and the latest global model distribution. Our work also uses Secure Multi-party Computation (SMC) to analyse data more thoroughly and continuously, addressing online transaction cybersecurity issues. The framework outperforms the current state of the art in memory use, energy consumption, anomaly detection accuracy and precision, and encryption and decryption time. The "Hybrid Fusion Framework" combines lightweight cryptographic algorithms with federated learning, machine learning, blockchain technology, and other similar technologies to provide an effective, adaptable, and affordable IoT security solution.

In the past three years, social media has had a significant impact on our lives, including crisis management. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of accurate information and exposed the spread of false information. This paper specifically examines the COVID-19 crisis and analyzes relevant literature to provide insights for national authorities and organizations. Utilizing social media data for crisis management poses challenges due to its unstructured nature. To overcome this, the paper proposes a comprehensive method that addresses all aspects of long-term crisis management. This method relies on labeled and structured information for accurate sentiment analysis and classification. An automated approach is presented to annotate and classify tweet texts, reducing manual labeling and improving classifier accuracy. The framework involves generating topics using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and ranking them with a new algorithm for data annotation. The labeled text is transformed into feature representation using Bert embeddings, which can be utilized in deep learning models for categorizing textual data. The primary aim of this paper is to offer valuable insights and resources to researchers studying crisis management through social media literature, with a specific focus on high-accuracy sentiment analysis.

The combination of deep neural networks and assistance vector machines for hyperspectral image recognition is presented in this work. A key issue in the real-world hyperspectral imaging system is hyperspectral picture recognition. Although deep learning can replicate highly dimensional feature vectors from source data, it comes at a high cost in terms of time and the Hugh phenomenon. The selection of the kernel feature and limit has a significant impact on the presentation of a kernel-based learning system. We introduce Support Vector Machine (SVM), a kernel learning method that is used to feature vectors obtained from deep learning on hyperspectral images. By modifying the data structure's parameters and kernel functions, the learning system's ability to solve challenging problems is enhanced. The suggested approaches' viability is confirmed by the outcomes of the experiments. At a particular rate, accuracy of testing for classification is around 90%. Moreover, to significantly make framework robust, validation is done using 5-flod verification.

At the forefront of sustainable energy solutions lies renewable energy, particularly solar power. Nevertheless, the optimization of solar power systems necessitates comprehensive analytics, especially for proactive maintenance fault anticipation. This research evaluates data fusion techniques using both linear and non-linear regression models for predicting faults in solar power plants. The study begins with careful data preparation processes to ensure clean and harmonized data sets that include irradiation, temperature, historical fault records, and yield. Linear regression techniques provide insights into straightforward correlations while non-linear models go deep into complex relationships within the data. The results indicate positive outcomes demonstrating the potential of these fusion techniques as far as improving accuracy in fault prediction is concerned. These findings highlight the importance of refining data preparation prior to any fusion process and recommend further exploration into more advanced fusion methodologies. This paper helps advance proactive maintenance strategies for solar power plants thereby making this source of energy more dependable and resilient.

The technology behind data fusion and picture instruction is continuously advancing along with the progression of society, and new applications for these skills are increasingly becoming available in everyday life to accommodate the expansion of scientific and technological knowledge. The term "data fusion technology" relates to a computer processing method that allows the use of a computer to automatically analyze and synthesize several observation data gleaned in time series in accordance with criteria to complete the necessary decision-making and evaluation tasks. But teaching surrounding multiple risks. This paper aims to identify and assess risks in teaching. The assessment risks in teaching are a critical task and contain multiple conflict criteria. We use Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). In this paper, we use an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to rank and compute each criterion's weights. We use five main and twenty sub-criteria. These criteria were evaluated under a neutrosophic environment—an example provided to present the outcomes of the proposed model. 

The financial crises has emphasized the part of financial relationship as a potential source of macroeconomic variability and systemic risk worldwide. Predicting financial crises using deep learning (DL) infers leveraging neural network (NN) to identify patterns indicative of future financial crisis and analyse complicated financial data. DL approaches such as recurrent neural network (RNN) or long short-term memory (LSTM) that process a massive quantity of past financial data such as geopolitical events, economic indicators, and market prices. These models target to identify refined connections and signals that can lead to an economic recession by learning from earlier crisis and their precursors. The problem resides in the complex and dynamic nature of financial market, demanding continuous training and modification of methods to retain significance in the aspect of developing financial condition. Although DL shows the potential to increase prediction capabilities, it's vital to accept the inherent ambiguity in financial market and the requirement for cutting-edge development of models to enhance their accuracy and reliability. This study proposes a jellyfish search algorithm based feature selection with optimum deep learning algorithm (JSAFS-ODL) for financial crisis prediction (FCP). The objective of JSAFS-ODL technique is classified the presence of financial crises or non-financial crises. To accomplish this, the JSAFS-ODL technique applies JSA based feature selection (JSA-FS) to choose an optimum set of features. Besides, RNN-GRU model can be used for the FCP. For enhancing the detection results of the RNN-GRU approach, chimp optimization algorithm (COA) can be utilized for the optimal tuning of the hyperparameters correlated to the RNN-GRU model. To guarantee the better performance of the JSAFS-ODL procedure, a series of tests were involved. The obtained values highlighted that the JSAFS-ODL technique reaches significant performance of the JSAFS-ODL technique.

Intelligent System for Customer Churn Prediction (CCP) relates to a system or application that controls advanced artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and machine learning (ML) methods for anticipating and predicting customer churn in business or service. CCP approach utilizes various data sources comprising customer behavior and historical data, to create predictive method able of categorizing customers who are potential to leave or stop their engagement. By employing intelligent method, this system supports businesses in proactively addressing customer retention and executing manners to decrease churn, ultimately enhancing revenue retention and customer satisfaction. It connects wide data sources, comprising customer behavior and historical information, to progress difficult methods that can identify customers at risk of leaving or discontinuing their service or subscription. By leveraging deep learning (DL) method, this intelligent system enhances the efficiency and accuracy of customer churn prediction, allowing businesses to take proactive measures to maintain customers, maintain revenue, and develop customer satisfaction. This article presents an Intelligent System for Customer Churn Prediction using Dipper Throat Optimization with Deep Learning (ISCCP-DTODL) methodology in Telecom Industries. The purpose of the ISCCP-DTODL system focuses on the design of intelligent systems for the effective prediction of customer churners and non-churners. To accomplish this, the ISCCP-DTODL system performs Z-score data normalization to preprocess the data. For feature selection and to reduce high dimensionality of features, the ISCCP-DTODL technique uses DTO algorithm. Besides, the ISCCP-DTODL technique makes use of hybrid CNN-BiLSTM model for churn prediction. At last, jellyfish optimization (JFO) based hyperparameter tuning approach can be employed to pick hyperparameters connected to CNN-BiLSTM technique. To display enhanced performance of ISCCP-DTODL technique, a widespread set of simulations was performed. The extensive results stated that ISCCP-DTODL model illustrates improved results than its current techniques in terms of dissimilar measures.

Intelligent data analytics for customer churn prediction (CCP) harnesses predictive modelling algorithms, machine learning (ML) techniques, and advanced big data analytics and also uncovers the underlying drivers and patterns of churn and detects customers at risk of churning. This business strategy help organization to implement retention efforts to decrease customer attrition and proactively detect at-risk customers. CCP allows businesses to take proactive measures such as targeted marketing campaigns, personalized offers, or enhanced customer service, to maintain valuable customer and decrease revenue loss. It is widely used in industries like telecommunications, subscription services, e-commerce, and finance to optimize customer retention strategies and enhance long-term profitability. ML algorithm can detect indicator and underlying trends that precedes churn by analyzing historical customer data, including transactional patterns, behaviors, demographics, and customer interaction. The study introduces Intelligent Data Analytics using Hybrid Gradient Optimization Algorithm with Machine Learning (IDA-HGOAML) Model for Customer Churn Prediction. The main intention of IDA-HGOAML method focuses on the prediction and classification of customer churns and non-churns. To do so, the IDA-HGOAML technique initially undergoes data pre-processing using Z-score normalization. The IDA-HGOAML model makes use of equilibrium optimization algorithm (EOA) for the feature selection (FS). Besides, the churn prediction method is implemented by the convolutional autoencoder (CAE) model. Finally, the HGOA is exploited for the optimal hyperparameter selection of CAE model, thereby enhancing the prediction results. A widespread experimental analysis were performed to validate the enhanced efficiency of the IDA-HGOAML method. The extensive outcomes indicated the improved prediction results of the IDA-HGOAML method over existing techniques in terms of different measures.

Deceptive content recognition in social media employing artificial intelligence (AI) includes the use of sophisticated techniques and machine learning (ML) methods to recognize deceptive or wrong data shared on numerous platforms. AI methods analyse textual as well as multimedia content, investigative patterns, linguistic cues, and contextual info to flag latent cases of deception. As a result of the use of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), these systems identify subtle nuances, misrepresentation strategies, and anomalies in user-generated content. This active technique permits social media platforms, organizations, and consumers to recognize and diminish the spread of deceptive content, donates to a more reliable online atmosphere, and aids in fighting tasks modelled by misinformation and false news. This study offers a novel sine cosine algorithm with deep learning-based deceptive content detection on social media (SCADL-DCDSM) technique. The SCADL-DCDSM technique incorporates the ensemble learning process with a hyperparameter tuning strategy for classifying the sentiments. Primarily, the SCADL-DCDSM technique pre-processes the input data to change the input data into a valuable format. Moreover, the SCADL-DCDSM algorithm follows the BERT model for the word embedding process. Moreover, the SCADL-DCDSM technique involves an ensemble of three models for sentiment classification such as long short-term memory (LSTM), extreme learning machine (ELM), and attention-based recurrent neural network (ARNN). Finally, SCA can be executed for better hyperparameter choice of the DL models. The SCADL-DCDSM system integrates the explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) system LIME has been employed for a comprehensive explainability and understanding of the black-box process, enhancing correct deceptive content recognition. The simulation result analysis of the SCADL-DCDSM algorithm has been examined on a benchmark database. The simulation outcome illustrated that the SCADL-DCDSM methodology achieves optimum solution than other approaches in terms of different measures.

Falling is among the most threatening event proficient by the ageing population. There is a necessity for the development of the fall detection (FD) system with the increasing ageing population. FD in an Internet of Things (IoT) platform has developed as a vital application with the rapidly increasing population of aging population and the essential for continuous health monitoring. Falls among the ageing can performance in serious injuries, decreased independence, and longer recovery periods. The FD approach can constructed on deep learning (DL) approaches, especially, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are capable in learning difficult patterns from the sensor data. The CNNs investigate the spatial features, but the RNNs approach the temporal dependencies, allowing accurate recognition of fall events. This study presents an Evolutionary Algorithm with Deep Learning based Fall Detection and Classification (EADL-FDC) methodology in the IoT platform. The projected EADL-FDC algorithm allows the DL approaches for the effective recognition and classification of falls for disabled and ageing people. In the presented EADL-FDC technique, the span-partial structure, and attention (SPA-Net) model is utilized for feature extraction purposes. In addition, the symbiotic organism search (SOS) approach was used for the parameter selection of the SPA-Net system. The deep belief network (DBN) model is applied to classify the fall events. Lastly, the moth flame optimization (MFO) algorithm can be utilized to finetune the hyperparameters related to the DBN algorithm. The stimulation analysis of the EADL-FDC method takes place on the fall detection dataset. The experimental outcome depicts the remarkable solution of the EADL-FDC technique over other existing DL methods.