Journal of Information Technology Management (مدیریت فناوری اطلاعات)

  In the modern technological age, laptops are widely used for doing various day-to-day activities and getting updates all around us. The COVID-19 situation is playing a vital role in a dynamic shift in buyer behavior with multiple personal computing devices at home. Prioritizing and selecting appropriate laptop devices is difficult because there are several options of laptops that are available in the market, and these are equipped with the latest features to do gaming, designing, attending online classes, and performing office and other everyday tasks. There are multiple selection criteria that are complex in nature. MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making) approaches can handle and analyze these complicated criteria. By using MCDM techniques, decision-making can be done to select the top-ranked alternative from among the available alternatives. This paper exhibits a group of two MCDM techniques; Best Worst Method (BWM) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), which have been used to evaluate relative weights of considered conflicting criteria such as brand, price, storage capacity, RAM, processor, weight, touch screen, Bluetooth, and screen size, and these weights are used in the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for ranking and selecting the best product of laptops.

Without utilization of computer and its related technology, modern day’s life cannot be headway. It has also transformed into an incredibly troublesome task. The genuine challenges included are shorter life cycles, cost effective and higher software quality goals. Despite these challenges the software developers have started to give cautious thought on to the procedure to develop software, testing and reliability investigation of software and to reinforce the method. Developer most fundamental decisions related to the perfect release time of Software. Software development method incorporates a piece of vulnerabilities and ambiguities. We have proposed a multi objective software release time issue under fuzzy environment using a software reliability growth model to overcome such vulnerabilities and ambiguities. Further we have discussed the fuzzy environment framework to deal with the issue. Considering model and issue, we can especially address the issue of when to release software under these conditions. Results are illustrated numerically.

Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has been gaining popularity pertaining to its numerous benefits and ability to be applied in various fields. It helps consumers in making informed decisions and aids service providers in delivering an enhanced service or product. Despite all these benefits, dealing with the huge amounts of eWOM is a consistent problem. eWOM helpfulness comes handy in order to address this issue. In this study, we utilize 16699 hotels related eWOM written by 1099 reviewers which are collected from TripAdvisor.com. Our main objective is to analyze which factors impact eWOM helpfulness and how. For this purpose, eight unique variables belonging to three different categories are selected (eWOM length, eWOM subjectivity, eWOM polarity, eWOM readability, eWOM recency, hotel rating, reviewer badge and reviewer helpfulness) and are analyzed using econometric modelling. Our findings show that hotel rating as well as reviewer badge and helpfulness enjoy a positive significant relationship with eWOM helpfulness. It also suggests that eWOM length, readability and subjectivity positively influences eWOM helpfulness though eWOM polarity and recency are found to have an inverse relationship with the helpfulness of eWOM. Thus, our study reports that review, hotel and reviewer characteristics impact eWOM helpfulness in different ways. This study is summarized with the discussion of theoretical and practical implications.

The human machine interface research in the light of modern fast computers and advanced sensors is taking new heights. The classification and processing of neural activity in the brain accessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Electrocorticography (ECoG), EEG Electroencephalogram (EEG) etc., are peeling off new paradigms for pattern recognition in human brain-machine interaction applications. In the present paper, an effective novel scheme based upon a synergetic approach employing the Genetic Algorithm (GA), Support Vector Machine and Wavelet packet transform for motor imagery classification and optimal Channel selection is proposed. GA with SVM acting as the objective function is employed for simultaneous selection of features and channels optimally. The binary population of GA is uniquely represented in three-dimensional structure and a new cross-over operator for GA are introduced. The new modified cross-over operator is proposed for the modified three-dimensional population. The ‘data set I’ of ‘BCI Competition IV’ is taken for evaluation of the efficacy of the proposed scheme. For subject ‘a’ accuracy is 88.9 6.9 with 10 channels, for subject ‘b’ accuracy is 79.20±5.36with 11 channels, for subject ‘f’ accuracy is 90.50±3.56 with 13 channels, and for subject ‘g’ accuracy is 92.23±3.21with 12 channels. The proposed scheme outperforms in terms of classification accuracy for subjects ‘a, b, f, g’ and in terms of number of channels for subject ‘a’ and that for subject ‘b’ is same as reported earlier in literature. Therefore, proposed scheme contributes a significant development in terms of new three-dimensional representation of binary population for GA as well as significant new modification to the GA operators. The efficacy of the scheme is evident from the results presented in the paper for dataset under consideration.

Pandemic has brought all together a new environment of working and compelled all the off line educational institutions to become online educational platforms and strengthen their online resources. We need to understand online platforms as universities, institutes, schools, colleges or any educational institute which are working online and providing degrees, certificates, diplomas for several courses and programs. In different researches related to online education and Covid -19, investigations addressed student’s perspective or teachers perspective. Literature review has showed the gap in exploring the turnaround strategies inspired by the parent’s perspective for online education especially with respect to young children (Age group 8 to 12 years). Apart from literature review and analysis of secondary data from websites and search engines, qualitative research was undertaken to know about parent’s views in general about the online platforms and particularly about WHJ (White Hat Junior). The focused group discussion and the indepth interviews revealed very useful information with regard to Online educational platforms and especially WHJ in relation to Covid -19 times. Findings relate to awareness, acceptability, perception change, costs, safety issues, etc. It has brought out elaborately in this case based research, how parents expectation may impact the turnaround strategies of their wards’ online educational platforms. In different researches related to online education and Covid -19, investigations addressed student’s perspective or teacher’s perspective.

Substitution-boxes (S-boxes) are very important nonlinear components used for achieving strong confusion for enhancing cryptographic security in most of the block ciphers. Designing cryptographically strong S-boxes has been a major research domain for the designers of symmetric crypto systems. In the proposed research work, Bat Algorithm based swarm technique is proposed to design strong S-boxes.  Cryptographic strong S-boxes are obtained by the developed swarm technique. Authors analyze cryptographic strength of the obtained S-box by evaluating properties like Bijectivity, Nonlinearity, Bit-Independence Criterion, Linear Probability and Differential Uniformity. The obtained performance parameters for the designed new S-box by the swarm technique are compared with some recently reported S-boxes in the literature. The designed S-box has good cryptographic strength. The designed S-box has good cryptographic strength like nonlinearity = 110.75 and average Strict Avalanche Criterion (SAC) value = 0.506. For the constructed S-box, most of the Differential uniformity components are 4 and shows uniform distribution approximately. The proposed new S-box is also free from the fixed points.

Cloud Computing has drastically simplified the management of IT resources by introducing the concept of resource pooling. It has led to a tremendous improvement in infrastructure planning. The major goals of cloud computing include maximization of computing resources with minimization of cost. But the truth is that everything has a price and cloud computing is no different. With Cloud computing there comes a number of security concerns which need to be addressed. Cloud forensics plays a vital role to address the security issues related to cloud computing by identifying, collecting and studying digital evidence in cloud environment. The aim of the research paper is to explore the concept of cloud forensic by applying optimization for feature selection before classification of data on cloud side. The data is classified as malicious and non-malicious using convolutional neural network. The proposed system makes a comparison of models with and without feature selection algorithms before applying the data to CNN. A comparison of different metaheuristics algorithms- Particle Swarm Optimization, Shuffled Frog Leap Optimization and Fire fly algorithm for feature optimization is done based on convergence rate and efficiency.

Human Identification has been widely implemented to enhance the efficiency of surveillance systems, however, systems based on common CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras are mostly incompatible with the advanced identification algorithms which aim to extract the facial features or speech of an individual for identification. Gait (i.e., an individual’s unique walking pattern/style) is a leading exponent when compared to first-generation biometric modalities as it is unobtrusive (i.e., it requires no contact with the individual), hence proving gait to be an optimal solution to human identification at a distance. This paper proposes an automatic identification system that analyzes gait to identify humans at a distance and predicts the strength of the match (i.e., probability of the match being positive) between two gait profiles. This is achieved by incorporating computer vision, digital image processing, vectorization, artificial intelligence, and multi-threading. The proposed model extracts gait profiles (from low-resolution camera feeds) by breaking down the complete gait cycle into four quarter-cycles using the variations in the width of the region-of-interest and then saves the gait profile in the form of four distinct projections (i.e., vectors) of length 20 units each, thus, summing up to 80 features for each individual’s gait profile. The focus of this study revolved around the speed-accuracy tradeoff of the proposed model where, with a limited dataset and training, the model runs at a speed of 30Hz and yields 85% accurate results on average. A Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (ROC) is obtained for comparison of the proposed model with other machine learning models to better understand the efficiency of the system

The widespread use of E-commerce websites has drastically increased the need for automatic recommendation systems with machine learning. In recent years, many ML-based recommenders and analysers have been built; however, their scope is limited to using a single filtering technique and processing with clustering-based predictions. This paper aims to provide a systematic year-wise survey and evolution of these existing recommenders and analysers in specific deep learning-based hybrid filtering categories using movie datasets. They are compared to others based on their problem analysis, learning factors, data sets, performance, and limitations. Most contributions are found with collaborative filtering using user or item similarity and deep learning for the IMDB datasets. In this direction, this paper introduces a new and efficient Hybrid Filtering based Recommendation System using Deep Learning (HFRS-DL), which includes multiple layers and stages to provide a better solution for generating recommendations.

In this paper, we have extended our literature survey with experimental implementation. Analyzing numerous Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in software engineering (SE) can help understand the field better; the outcomes will be more effective when used with it. Our manuscript shows various AI-based algorithms that include Machine learning techniques (ML), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Genetic Algorithms (GA) applications. Software testing using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) approach, predicting software maintainability with Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH), Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), and Software production with time series analysis technique. Furthermore, data is the fuel for AI-based model testing and validation techniques. We have also used NASA dataset promise repository in our script. There are various applications of AI in SE, and we have experimentally demonstrated one among them, i.e., software defect prediction using AI-based techniques. Moreover, the expected future trends have also been mentioned; these are some significant contributions to the research