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We live in a period when smart devices gather a large amount of data from a variety of sensors and it is often the case that decisions are taken based on them in a more or less autonomous manner. Still, many of the inputs do not prove to be essential in the decision-making process; hence, it is of utmost importance to find the means of eliminating the noise and concentrating on the most influential attributes. In this sense, we put forward a method based on the swarm intelligence paradigm for extracting the most important features from several datasets. The thematic of this paper is a novel implementation of an algorithm from the swarm intelligence branch of the machine learning domain for improving feature selection. The combination of machine learning with the metaheuristic approaches has recently created a new branch of artificial intelligence called learnheuristics. This approach benefits both from the capability of feature selection to find the solutions that most impact on accuracy and performance, as well as the well known characteristic of swarm intelligence algorithms to efficiently comb through a large search space of solutions. The latter is used as a wrapper method in feature selection and the improvements are significant. In this paper, a modified version of the salp swarm algorithm for feature selection is proposed. This solution is verified by 21 datasets with the classification model of K-nearest neighborhoods. Furthermore, the performance of the algorithm is compared to the best algorithms with the same test setup resulting in better number of features and classification accuracy for the proposed solution. Therefore, the proposed method tackles feature selection and demonstrates its success with many benchmark datasets.

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Computerized tomography (CT) scans and X-rays play an important role in the diagnosis of COVID-19 and pneumonia. On the basis of the image analysis results of chest CT and X-rays, the severity of lung infection is monitored using a tool. Many researchers have done in diagnosis of lung infection in an accurate and efficient takes lot of time and inefficient. To overcome these issues, our proposed study implements four cascaded stages. First, for pre-processing, a mean filter is used. Second, texture feature extraction uses principal component analysis (PCA). Third, a modified whale optimization algorithm is used (MWOA) for a feature selection algorithm. The severity of lung infection is detected on the basis of age group. Fourth, image classification is done by using the proposed MWOA with the salp swarm algorithm (MWOA-SSA). MWOA-SSA has an accuracy of 97%, whereas PCA and MWOA have accuracies of 81% and 86%. The sensitivity rate of the MWOA-SSA algorithm is better that of than PCA (84.4%) and MWOA (95.2%). MWOA-SSA outperforms other algorithms with a specificity of 97.8%. This proposed method improves the effective classification of lung affected images from large datasets.

In this paper, a novel algorithm (IBC1) for graph clustering with no prior assumption of the number of clusters is introduced. Furthermore, an additional algorithm (IBC2) for graph clustering when the number of clusters is given beforehand is presented. Additionally, a new measure of evaluation of clustering results is given—the accuracy of formed clusters (T). For the purpose of clustering human activities, the procedure of forming string sequences are presented. String symbols are gained by modeling spatiotemporal signals obtained from inertial measurement units. String sequences provided a starting point for forming the complete weighted graph. Using this graph, the proposed algorithms, as well as other well-known clustering algorithms, are tested. The best results are obtained using novel IBC2 algorithm: T = 96.43%, Rand Index (RI) 0.966, precision rate (P) 0.918, recall rate (R) 0.929 and balanced F-measure (F) 0.923.

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The interest for cryptocurrencies is high and hence this work focuses on providing a practical real-world application of the swarm metaheuristics and long short term memory model (LSTM). The goal is price forecasting which is interesting due to the high volatility of the cryptocurrencies. The authors apply LSTM for the solution of the problem which has been proven to reap results with this type of problem. The LSTM is further optimized by a swarm metaheuristic -arithmetic optimization algorithm (AOA). The solution was tested alongside familiar high-performing competitors with the use of standard metrics mean absolute error (MAE), mean squared error (MSE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), and root mean squared error (RMSE). These metrics have been used for comparison between the solutions, upon which the proposed solution obtained overall best performance that testifies to the improvement of the solution.

Artificial intelligence and internet of things (IoT) fields have contributed to the flourishment of the industry 4.0 concept. The main benefits include the improvements in terms of device communication, productivity, and efficiency. Nevertheless, there is a downside concerning the security of these systems. The amount of devices and their diversity prove a security risk. Due to this intrusion detection systems are paramount. This paper proposes a novel framework exploiting extreme gradient boosting machine learning model which is optimized by a modified version of the multi-verse optimizer metaheuristic. The UNSW-NB intrusion dataset was used for experimental purposes on which the other cutting-edge techniques were tested and compared. The results provide the proof of improvement as the proposed method outperformed all other overall metaheuristic performances. Furthermore, the units for truthfulness and polarity for the case have been established as a standard evaluation system. True and false positives exist alongside the same negative counterparts. The results provided by these metrics have been visualized and used for further comparison proving the superiority of the performance of the proposed solution.