k nearest neighbours (kNN) queries are fundamental in many applications, ranging from data mining, recommendation system and Internet of Things, to Industry 4.0 framework applications. In mining, specifically, it can be used for the classification of...
As a popular spatial operation, the k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) query is widely used in various spatial application systems. How to efficiently process a kNN query on spatial big data has always been an important research topic in the field of spatial...
The paper considers a time-efficient implementation of the k nearest neighbours (kNN) algorithm. A well-known approach for accelerating the kNN algorithm is to utilise dimensionality reduction methods based on the use of space-filling curves. In this...
The paper considers a solution to the problem of developing two-stage hybrid SVM-kNN classifiers with the aim to increase the data classification quality by refining the classification decisions near the class boundary defined by the SVM classifier....
Our interest is in time series classification regarding cyber–physical systems (CPSs) with emphasis in human-robot interaction. We propose an extension of the k nearest neighbor (kNN) classifier to time-series classification using intervals’ numbers...
Considering the variation of the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) in wireless networks, the objective of this study is to investigate and propose a method of indoor localization in order to improve the accuracy of localization that is compro...
The focus of this research is the application of the k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm in terms of classifying botnet attacks in the IoT environment. The kNN algorithm has several advantages in classification tasks, such as simplicity, effectiveness, and...
The k-nearest- neighbor (kNN) algorithm is crucial in data mining and machine learning, yet its deployment on large-scale datasets within cloud environments presents significant security and efficiency challenges. This paper is dedicated to advancing...
The kNN machine learning method is widely used as a classifier in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems. Although the kNN algorithm works similarly both online and in offline mode, the use of all training instances is much more critical online tha...
Wall-to-wall tree-lists information (lists of species and diameter for every tree) at a regional scale is required for managers to assess forest sustainability and design effective forest management strategies. Currently, the k-nearest neighbors (kNN...
The rapid adoption of GPS-enabled mobile devices has produced massive trajectory datasets that drive modern applications in traffic prediction, logistics, and spatio-temporal analytics. Yet traditional database management systems (DBMSs) still lack n...
In this study, we propose three k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) optimization techniques for a distributed, in-memory-based, high-dimensional indexing method to speed up content-based image retrieval. The proposed techniques perform distributed, in-memory,...
In recent years, collecting data is becoming easier and cheaper thanks to many improvements in information technology (IT). The connection of sensors to the internet is becoming cheaper and easier (for example, the internet of things, IOT), the cost...
Previous works were dedicated to the functional k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) and the local linearity method estimations of a regression operator. In this paper, a sequence pair of (Xi,Yi)i=1,…,n of functional mixing observations are considered. We treat...
Privacy Preserving and Anonymity have gained significant concern from the big data perspective. We have the view that the forthcoming frameworks and theories will establish several solutions for privacy protection. The k-anonymity is considered a key...
As an important vegetation canopy parameter, the leaf area index (LAI) plays a critical role in forest growth modeling and vegetation health assessment. Estimating LAI is helpful for understanding vegetation growth and global ecological processes. Ma...
The drift of metal oxide semiconductor (MOX) chemical sensors is one of the most important topics in this field. The work aims to test the performance of MOX gas sensors over the aging process. Firstly, sensors were tested with ethanol to understand...
The nearest neighbors query problem on road networks constitutes a crucial aspect of location-oriented services and has useful practical implications; e.g., it can locate the k-nearest hotels. However, researches who study road networks still encount...
The kNN (k-nearest neighbors) classification algorithm is one of the most widely used non-parametric classification methods, however it is limited due to memory consumption related to the size of the dataset, which makes them impractical to apply to...
Quantifying spatially explicit or pixel-level aboveground forest biomass (AFB) across large regions is critical for measuring forest carbon sequestration capacity, assessing forest carbon balance, and revealing changes in the structure and function o...
In this paper, the two-simultaneous-leak isolation problem in water distribution networks is addressed. This methodology relies on optimal sensor placement together with a leak location strategy using two well-known classifiers: k-NN and discriminant...
In the context of this research work, we studied the problem of privacy preserving on spatiotemporal databases. In particular, we investigated the k-anonymity of mobile users based on real trajectory data. The k-anonymity set consists of the k neares...
With the growing popularity of cloud computing, it is convenient for data owners to outsource their data to a cloud server. By utilizing the massive storage and computational resources in cloud, data owners can also provide a platform for users to ma...
This paper redefines picture fuzzy soft matrices (pfs-matrices) because of some of their inconsistencies resulting from Cuong’s definition of picture fuzzy sets. Then, it introduces several distance measures of pfs-matrices. Afterward, this pap...
k-nearest neighbors (k-NN), which is known to be a simple and efficient approach, is a non-parametric supervised classifier. It aims to determine the class label of an unknown sample by its k-nearest neighbors that are stored in a training set. The k...
This paper proposes a learning-based adaptive imputation method (LAI) for imputing missing power data in an energy system. This method estimates the missing power data by using the pattern that appears in the collected data. Here, in order to capture...
Ultra high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID)-based indoor localization technology has been a competitive candidate for context-awareness services. Previous works mainly utilize a simplified Friis transmission equation for simulating...
In shallow water, passive sonar usually has great difficulty in discriminating a surface acoustic source from an underwater one. To solve this problem, a supervised machine learning method using only one hydrophone is implemented in this paper. First...
A quantum hybrid (QH) intelligent approach that blends the adaptive search capability of the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimisation (QPSO) method with the intuitionistic rationality of traditional fuzzy k-nearest neighbours (Fuzzy k-NN) algorith...
Satellite forest inventories are the only feasible way to map Canada’s vast, remote forest regions, such as those in the Northwest Territories (NWT). A method used to create such inventories is the k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) algorithm, which sp...
This paper introduces a technique using a k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifier and hybrid features extracted from acoustic emission (AE) signals for detecting leakages in a gas pipeline. The whole algorithm is embedded in a microcontroller unit (MCU)...
Statistical analyses often require unbiased and reliable data completion. In this work, we imputed missing fine particulate matter (PM2.5) observations from eight years (2012–2019) of records in 59 air quality monitoring (AQM) stations in Israe...
Aiming at the existing problems in practical teaching in higher education, we construct an intelligent teaching recommendation model for a higher education practical discussion course based on naive Bayes machine learning and an improved k-NN data mi...
A highly accurate indoor positioning under the effect of multipath reflections has been a prominent challenge for recent research. This paper proposes a novel indoor visible light communication (VLC) positioning model by connecting k-nearest neighbor...
Aiming at the intrusion detection problem of the wireless sensor network (WSN), considering the combined characteristics of the wireless sensor network, we consider setting up a corresponding intrusion detection system on the edge side through edge c...
This paper proposes a novel methodology for very short term forecasting of hourly global solar irradiance (GSI). The proposed methodology is based on meteorology data, especially for optimizing the operation of power generating electricity from photo...
The article discusses the utilization of Pulsed Multifrequency Excitation and Spectrogram Eddy Current Testing (PMFES-ECT) in conjunction with the supervised learning method for the purpose of estimating defect parameters in conductive materials. To...
For classified and sensitive electronic documents within the scope of enterprises and organizations, in order to standardize and strengthen the confidentiality management of enterprises and meet the actual needs of secret text classification, a docum...
In previous classification studies, three non-parametric classifiers, Random Forest (RF), k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM), were reported as the foremost classifiers at producing high accuracies. However, only a few studies...
Every day, hundreds of thousands of new malicious files are created. Existing pattern-based antivirus solutions have difficulty detecting these new malicious files. Artificial intelligence (AI)–based malware detection has been proposed to solve...
Background: This work presents an artificial intelligence-based algorithm for detecting Parkinson’s disease (PD) from voice signals. The detection of PD at pre-symptomatic stages is imperative to slow disease progression. Speech signal processi...
Tea and herbal infusions are the most consumed non-alcoholic beverages worldwide and possess bioactive components with multiple health benefits. They are categorized into different classes that depend on their elaboration process, origin, and compone...
In many spatial applications, users are only interested in data objects that are visible to them. Hence, finding visible data objects is an important operation in these real-world spatial applications. This study addressed a new type of spatial query...
With the improvement in wind turbine (WT) operation and maintenance (O&M) technologies and the rise of O&M cost, fault diagnostics in WTs based on a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system has become among the cheapest and eas...
This study presents a low-carbon decision-making algorithm for water-spot tourists, based on the k-NN spatial-accessibility optimization model, to address the problems of water-spot tourism spatial decision-making. The attributes of scenic water spot...
The prediction of forest biomass at the landscape scale can be achieved by integrating data from field plots with satellite imagery, in particular data from the Landsat archive, using k-nearest neighbour (kNN) imputation models. While studies have de...
This research aims to examine the use of image processing and texture analysis to find a more reliable and efficient solution for identifying and classifying types of meat, based on their texture. The method used involves the use of feature extractio...
Image-based point clouds obtained using aerial photogrammetry share many characteristics with point clouds obtained by airborne laser scanning (ALS). Two approaches have been used to predict forest parameters from ALS: the area-based approach (ABA) a...
This paper presents the results of an investigation on ambient air odour quality in the vicinity of a municipal landfill. The investigations were carried out during the spring–winter and the spring seasons using two types of the electronic nose instr...
Artificial intelligence algorithms need an external computing device such as a graphics processing unit (GPU) due to computational complexity. For running artificial intelligence algorithms in an embedded device, many studies proposed light-weighted...
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