Genetic algorithm (GA) is an artificial intelligence search method that uses the process of evolution and natural selection theory and is under the umbrella of evolutionary computing algorithm. It is an efficient tool for solving optimization problems. Integration among (GA) parameters is vital for successful (GA) search. Such parameters include mutation and crossover rates in addition to population that are important issues in (GA). However, each operator of GA has a special and different influence. The impact of these factors is influenced by their probabilities; it is difficult to predefine specific ratios for each parameter, particularly, mutation and crossover operators. This paper reviews various methods for choosing mutation and crossover ratios in GAs. Next, we define new deterministic control approaches for crossover and mutation rates, namely Dynamic Decreasing of high mutation ratio/dynamic increasing of low crossover ratio (DHM/ILC), and Dynamic Increasing of Low Mutation/Dynamic Decreasing of High Crossover (ILM/DHC). The dynamic nature of the proposed methods allows the ratios of both crossover and mutation operators to be changed linearly during the search progress, where (DHM/ILC) starts with 100% ratio for mutations, and 0% for crossovers. Both mutation and crossover ratios start to decrease and increase, respectively. By the end of the search process, the ratios will be 0% for mutations and 100% for crossovers. (ILM/DHC) worked the same but the other way around. The proposed approach was compared with two parameters tuning methods (predefined), namely fifty-fifty crossover/mutation ratios, and the most common approach that uses static ratios such as (0.03) mutation rates and (0.9) crossover rates. The experiments were conducted on ten Traveling Salesman Problems (TSP). The experiments showed the effectiveness of the proposed (DHM/ILC) when dealing with small population size, while the proposed (ILM/DHC) was found to be more effective when using large population size. In fact, both proposed dynamic methods outperformed the predefined methods compared in most cases tested.

Class imbalance occurs in classification problems in which the ''normal'' cases, or instances, significantly outnumber the ''abnormal'' instances. Training a standard classifier on imbalanced data leads to predictive biases which cause poor performance on the class(es) with lower prior probabilities. The less frequent classes are often critically important events, such as system failure or the occurrence of a rare disease. As a result, the class imbalance problem has been considered to be of great importance for many years. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm that utilizes the furthest neighbor of a candidate example to generate new synthetic samples. A key advantage of SOMTEFUNA over existing methods is that it does not have parameters to tune (such as K in SMOTE). Thus, it is significantly easier to utilize in real-world applications. We evaluate the benefit of resampling with SOMTEFUNA against state-of-the-art methods including SMOTE, ADASYN and SWIM using Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machine classifiers. Also, we provide a statistical analysis based on Wilcoxon Signed-rank test to validate the significance of the SMOTEFUNA results. The results indicate that the proposed method is an efficient alternative to the current methods. Specifically, SOMTEFUNA achieves better 5-fold cross validated ROC and precision-recall space performance.

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Predicting the compressive strength of cement-stabilized rammed earth (CSRE) using current testing machines is time-consuming and costly and may harm the environment due to the samples’ waste. This paper presents an automatic method using computer vision and deep learning to solve the problem. For this purpose, a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model is proposed, which was evaluated on a new in-house scanning electron microscope (SEM) image database containing 4284 images of materials with different compressive strengths. The experimental results show reasonable prediction results compared to other traditional methods, achieving 84% prediction accuracy and a small (1.5) oot Mean Square Error (RMSE). This indicates that the proposed method (with some enhancements) can be used in practice for predicting the compressive strength of CSRE samples.

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