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This work implements the Firefly algorithm (FA)

The main goal of intrusion detection system (IDS) is to monitor the network performance and to investigate any signs of any abnormalities over the network. Recently, intrusion detection systems employ machine learning techniques, due to the fact that machine learning techniques proved to have the ability of learning and adapting in addition to allowing a prompt response. This work proposes a model for intrusion detection and classification using machine learning techniques. The model first acquires the data set and transforms it in the proper format, then performs feature selection to pick out a subset of attributes that worth being considered. After that, the refined data set was processed by the Konstanz information miner (KNIME). To gain better performance and a decent comparative analysis, three different classifiers were applied. The anticipated classifiers have been executed and assessed utilizing the KNIME analytics platform using (CICIDS2017) datasets. The experimental results showed an accuracy rate ranging between (98.6) as the highest obtained while the average was (90.59%), which was satisfying compared to other approaches. The gained statistics of this research inspires the researchers of this field to use machine learning in cyber security and data analysis and build intrusion detection systems with higher accuracy.

The current outbreak of monkeypox (mpox) has become a major public health concern because of the quick spread of this disease across multiple countries. Early detection and diagnosis of mpox is crucial for effective treatment and management. Considering this, the purpose of this research was to detect and validate the best performing model for detecting mpox using deep learning approaches and classification models. To achieve this goal, we evaluated the performance of five common pretrained deep learning models (VGG19, VGG16, ResNet50, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNetB3) and compared their accuracy levels when detecting mpox. The performance of the models was assessed with metrics (i.e., the accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score). Our experimental results demonstrate that the MobileNetV2 model had the best classification performance with an accuracy level of 98.16%, a recall of 0.96, a precision of 0.99, and an F1-score of 0.98. Additionally, validation of the model with different datasets showed that the highest accuracy of 0.94% was achieved using the MobileNetV2 model. Our findings indicate that the MobileNetV2 method outperforms previous models described in the literature in mpox image classification. These results are promising, as they show that machine learning techniques could be used for the early detection of mpox. Our algorithm was able to achieve a high level of accuracy in classifying mpox in both the training and test sets, making it a potentially valuable tool for quick and accurate diagnosis in clinical settings.

This article describes how parallel to the continuous growth of the Internet, which allows people to share and collaborate more, social networks have become more attractive as a research topic in many different disciplines. Community structures are established upon interactions between people. Detection of these communities has become a popular topic in computer science. How to detect the communities is of great importance for understanding the organization and function of networks. Community detection is considered a variant of the graph partitioning problem which is NP-hard. In this article, the Firefly algorithm is used as an optimization algorithm to solve the community detection problem by maximizing the modularity measure. Firefly algorithm is a new Nature-inspired heuristic algorithm that proved its good performance in a variety of applications. Experimental results obtained from tests on real-life networks demonstrate that the authors' algorithm successfully detects the community structure.