Despite the importance of resource allocation issues, there is no systematic, comprehensive and detailed survey on resource allocation approaches in the fog-computing context. In this article, we provide a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the resource allocation approaches in fog environments in the form of a classical taxonomy to recognize the state-of-the-art mechanisms on this important topic and provide open issues. The presented taxonomy is categorized into three main fields: centralized allocation, decentralized allocation, and integrated allocation (published between 2017 and March 2022). According to what is known in fog computing, load balancing and service placement are among the most important basic parameters that ensure service quality. These fields are classified into four methods, approximate, exact, fundamental, and hybrid. In addition, this article investigates resource allocation metrics with all advantages and limitations related to chosen resource allocation mechanisms in networks.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. It can cause a massive impact on a patient's memory and mobility. As this disease is irreversible, early diagnosis is crucial for delaying the symptoms and adjusting the patient's lifestyle. Many machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) based-approaches have been proposed to accurately predict AD before its symptoms onset. However, finding the most effective approach for AD early prediction is still challenging. This review explored 24 papers published from 2018 until 2021. These papers have proposed different approaches using state of the art machine learning and deep learning algorithms on different biomarkers to early detect AD. The review explored them from different perspectives to derive potential research gaps and draw conclusions and recommendations. It classified these recent approaches in terms of the learning technique used and AD biomarkers. It summarized and compared their findings, and defined their strengths and limitations. It also provided a summary of the common AD biomarkers. From this review, it was found that some approaches strove to increase the prediction accuracy regardless of their complexity such as using heterogeneous datasets, while others sought to find the most practical and affordable ways to predict the disease and yet achieve good accuracy such as using audio data. It was also noticed that DL based-approaches with image biomarkers remarkably surpassed ML based-approaches. However, they achieved poorly with genetic variants data. Despite the great importance of genetic variants biomarkers, their large variance and complexity could lead to a complex approach or poor accuracy. These data are crucial to discover the underlying structure of AD and detect it at early stages. However, an effective pre-processing approach is still needed to refine these data and employ them efficiently using the powerful DL algorithms.

African Buffalo Optimization, as a novel evolutionary computing technique, has succeeded in many continuous problems, but research on discrete problems especially combinatorial optimization problem has been done little. In this paper, a modified African Buffalo Optimization (ABO) algorithm was proposed to solve a typical combinatorial optimization problem: Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), which is a well-known NP-hard problem. Fuzzy Matrices were used to represent the Location and speed of the Buffaloes in ABO and the operators in the original ABO formulas were redefined. Then the algorithm was tested with concrete examples in TSPLIB, experiment shows that the algorithm can achieve good results.