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An Attributed And Diverse Encoder-Decoder Processing Technique For Anomaly Detection., Kenneth Antony John

Master's Projects

Attributed graphs are graphs that contain extra information about the attributes of nodes and edges. They can be used to model a plethora of real-world scenarios like social networks, bank transactions, and even academic citation data. Anomalies in such graphs can be irregularities or unusual patterns that are observed in the attributes or the structure of the graph. Anomaly detection in attributed networks is a crucial task, aiming to identify such anomalies. Existing methodologies use various deep learning techniques using graph neural networks, graph encoder-decoder architectures, and multi-layer perceptions. This study proposes a new approach to improve the existing methods …

Cluster Analysis For Concept Drift Detection In Malware, Aniket Mishra

Master's Projects

The rapid evolution of malware presents significant challenges for detection systems. This is due to malware families adapting through feature manipulation and obfuscation, which causes concept drift. A clustering based approach is used to detect and adapt to these shifts. The KronoDroid dataset is segmented into batch sizes of 50 and analyzed with MiniBatch K-Means clustering. The silhouette coefficient is used to evaluate clustering quality, and help identify drift by detecting significant changes in cluster patterns. Concept drift will cause retraining of supervised classifiers, including Linear SVM, RF, MLP, and XGBoost. Three scenarios are used: static models, periodic retraining, and …

Implicit Personality Detection From User Behaviour In Recommendation Systems, Uzma Zubair Shaikh

Master's Projects

Recommendation systems are an integral part of any business, and a crucial factor in determining their success as these systems help businesses in marketing their products to the right kind of audience. Conventional methods of building recommendation systems such as collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation, although effective, suffer from limitations such as cold start and the data sparsity problems. Moreover, these methods aim at finding similar products as user’s past interactions rather than personalizing the recommendations. The upsurge in use of social media, over-the-top content (OTT), and e-commerce platforms has made the task of personalizing recommendations imperative, leading to the …

Wall-E: An Autonomous Ai Rover For Precision Agriculture, Simar Ghumman

Master's Projects

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) are emerging as a crucial tool in the world of precision agriculture. By working with UGVs equipped with machine learning, we can find solutions to a range of complex agricultural problems. My project, titled “Wall-E: Artificial Intelligence Robot for Precision Agriculture,” focuses on developing a UGV capable of navigating through agriculture fields autonomously while capturing data. Using machine learning, computer vision, and other sensor technologies, Wall-E is capable of estimating the total yield of crops, self-localization, mapping its environment in real time, and avoiding obstacles along its route. The purpose of this project is to automate …

Llamatalk: Empowering Conversations With Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Aravind Rokkam

Master's Projects

This research report talks about the implementation and a comparative study of Llama 7B model’s fine-tuning technique and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities in the context of creating a reliable AI therapist. This study focuses on training these models using diverse datasets consisting of doctor-patient conversations predominantly addressing general health issues. Using a technique like fine-tuning within the Llama 7B model, the project focuses on training the model with a diverse dataset comprising doctor-patient interactions primarily addressing general health concerns. Additionally, carefully organized mental health dataset from HOPE dataset, ensuring the bot's responsiveness to mental health inquiries. Through integration with …

Malware Detection Using Qr And Aztec Code Representations, Atharva Khadilkar

Master's Projects

In recent years, the use of image-based techniques for malware detection has gained prominence, with numerous studies demonstrating the efficacy of deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in classifying images derived from executable files. In this paper, we consider an innovative method that relies on an image conversion process that consists of transforming executable files into QR and Aztec codes. These codes capture structural patterns in a format that may enhance the learning capabilities of CNNs. We design and implement CNN architectures tailored to the unique properties of these codes and apply them to a comprehensive analysis …

Parameter Identifiability Analysis And Calibration For Power System Dynamic Models, Lei Wang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Accurate dynamic models are crucial for stable and reliable power system operation, making their validation essential. The accuracy of parameter estimation is influenced by several factors, including available observables, model structure, and estimation methods. However, in dynamic models, estimating parameters can be difficult when some of them are unidentifiable, meaning their values cannot be uniquely determined from the available data. This challenge may stem from limited impact of parameters on the measured outputs, parameter interactions, or poor data quality. Therefore, an identifiability analysis should be conducted prior to parameter estimation or model calibration. This preliminary step helps to determine which …

Matthew Gaber: Peekaboo, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Helge Janicke

Research Datasets

Cyber-attacks continue to evolve, increasing in frequency and sophistication where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming essential in detecting modern malware. However, the accuracy of AI in malware detection is dependent on the quality of the features it is trained with. Static and dynamic analysis of malware is limited by the widespread use of obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques employed by malware authors, where if an analysis environment is detected the malware will hide its malicious behavior. However, Dynamic Binary Instrumentation (DBI) allows deep and precise control of the malware sample, thereby facilitating the extraction of authentic features from sophisticated and evasive …

Expanding Australia's Defence Capabilities For Technological Asymmetric Advantage In Information, Cyber And Space In The Context Of Accelerating Regional Military Modernisation: A Systemic Design Approach, Pi-Shen Seet, Anton Klarin, Janice Jones, Michael N. Johnstone, Violetta Wilk, Stephanie Meek, Summer O'Brien

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Introduction. The aim of the project was to conduct a systemic design study to evaluate Australia'sopportunities and barriers for achieving a technological advantage in light of regional military technological advancement. It focussed on the three domains of (1) cybersecurity technology, (2) information technology, and (3) space technology.

Research process. Employing a systemic design approach, the study first leveraged scientometric analysis, utilising informetric mapping software (VOSviewer) to evaluate emerging trends and their implications on defence capabilities. This approach facilitated a broader understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of defence technologies, identifying key areas for further exploration. The subsequent survey study, engaging 828 …

Improving Question Answering Retrieval System Through Multi-Result Ranking Model, Danupat Khamnuansin

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Recent trends in various industries involve integrating artificial intelligence (AI) systems to enhance operational efficiency. Among these advancements, AI-supported question-answering (QA) systems have gained significant attention. These systems typically employ a two-stage process, integrating QA system capabilities with Information Retrieval (IR) methods. The introduction of the Retrieval Question Answering (ReQA) has further refined this process, offering a more practical solution, aiming to improve real-world applicability. Considering the wide availability of diverse QA retrieval models, employing a combination of multiple systems presents as a viable solution. However, the approach to combining QA retrieval systems remains relatively limited. We propose a method …

การออกแบบและพัฒนาระบบการจัดการความรู้สำหรับการพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์แบบสกรัมตามมาตรฐาน Iso/Iec 12207, กีรติกา ห่อเกียรติ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

โครงงานมหาบัณฑิตนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ในการปรับปรุงกระบวนการจัดการความรู้ของหน่วยงานแห่งหนึ่งให้สอดคล้องกับมาตรฐานไอเอสโอ/ไออีซี 12207 กระบวนการจัดการความรู้นี้นำเสนอสำหรับโครงการที่ใช้ระเบียบวิธีแบบเอจายล์ตามกรอบงานสกรัม พร้อมทั้งได้ออกแบบและพัฒนาระบบการจัดการความรู้ เพื่อสนับสนุนการประยุกต์ใช้กระบวนการจัดการความรู้ภายในองค์กร ระบบที่พัฒนาสามารถให้บริการในการจัดเก็บ ค้นหา และแบ่งปันความรู้จากโครงการต่าง ๆ ขององค์กร อีกทั้งสนับสนุนให้มีการแบ่งปันความรู้เพื่อให้มีการพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ที่ความสอดคล้องตามความต้องการของผู้ใช้ และช่วยเพิ่มสมรรถนะในการทำงานของทีมพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ การดำเนินงานเริ่มจากการศึกษาแนวคิดและมาตรฐานที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการจัดการความรู้ รวมถึงการวิเคราะห์มาตรฐาน ไอเอสโอ/ไออีซี 12207 เพื่อประเมินและปรับปรุงกระบวนการจัดการความรู้ในปัจจุบันของ 2 กิจกรรม ได้แก่ “กิจกรรมที่ 3) การแบ่งปันสินทรัพย์ความรู้ทั่วทั้งองค์กร” และ “กิจกรรมที่ 4) การจัดการความรู้ ทักษะ และสินทรัพย์ความรู้” ในการปรับปรุงกระบวนการนั้นได้นำเสนอ โครงสร้างพื้นฐานกระบวนการ และการนิยามกระบวนการที่ปรับปรุง จากนั้นได้ทำการพัฒนาระบบการจัดการความรู้ ที่สามารถรองรับกระบวนการจัดการความรู้ที่ปรับปรุงแล้ว รวมถึงทวนสอบระบบกับความต้องการเชิงฟังก์ชัน และเพื่อยืนยันว่าระบบสามารถสนับสนุนกระบวนการทำงานของทีมสกรัมตามการนิยามกระบวนการได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ ผลลัพธ์ของโครงงานนี้แสดงว่า ได้ช่วยเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการจัดการความรู้ภายในองค์กรตัวอย่าง และสามารถใช้เป็นแนวทางสำหรับองค์กรอื่น ๆ ที่ต้องการปรับปรุงกระบวนการจัดการความรู้ในบริบทของการพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์แบบสกรัม

Enhancing Multilingual Sentence Representation Learning For The Job Recruitment Domain, Napat Laosaengpha

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

With the advancement in natural language processing (NLP), there has been significant development in multilingual pretraining sentence encoder. Typically, these pretraining models are trained on large-scale datasets that consist of general text data from various sources such as Wikipedia. However, the general proposed models aren't enough to understand contexts in such a domain-specific, especially in the job recruitment domain. It is due to its niche nature and the lack of readily available related information. To enhance the existing multilingual pretraining sentence encoder and mitigate the aforementioned problems, we first propose multi-task dual-encoder framework to improve the sentence encoder for general-purpose …

Benchmarking And Enhancing Generalization In Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition, Mohamed Osman Ismael

Theses and Dissertations

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is pivotal in advancing human-computer interaction by enabling machines to understand and respond to human emotions. Despite significant progress with self-supervised learning models, SER systems often struggle with generalization across diverse languages and unseen data distributions, limiting their real-world applicability. This thesis addresses these challenges by first introducing a large-scale benchmark to evaluate the robustness and adaptability of state-of-the-art SER models in both in-domain and out-of-domain settings. The benchmark includes a diverse set of multilingual datasets, emphasizing cross-lingual and out-of-domain evaluations to assess model generalization. Surprisingly, we find that the Whisper model, originally designed for automatic …

Predicting Remaining Useful Life Of Turbofan Engines On Cmapss And N-Cmapss Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, Samaikya Tippareddy

Master's Projects

Aircraft engines are susceptible to failure at multiple points over their lifespan and need replacement or repairs. The ability to proactively determine how long an engine will function helps avoid fatalities and build a reliable prognostic system. To accomplish this, predictive models are being developed using various approaches like physics-based and data-driven techniques. Physics-based models need huge computing power for simulations and domain knowledge for understanding and implementing the models. Alternatively, if we have substantial data for prediction, data-driven models can be used. In this research, we use data-driven approach for engine Remaining-Useful-Life (RUL) prediction on the NASA Commercial Modular …

Formula 1 Commentary Generator Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Hiral Moliya

Master's Projects

This project aims to create a high-quality commentary generation system utilizing cutting-edge Generative AI technologies, with a particular focus on the T5 transformer-based text-to-text transfer transformer (T5). The primary goal is to create a fully autonomous and contextually aware commentary system that will be able to provide consistent and insightful commentary on dynamic events that reflect the level of detail normally associated with human commentary. Upon giving the input as a text input of the race events the model using large language models that are trained on a large range of datasets creates text-based commentary. The system in order to …

An Empirical Analysis Of Adversarial Attacks In Federated Learning, Rohit Mapakshi

Master's Projects

In this paper, we experimentally analyze the susceptibility of selected Federated Learning (FL) systems to the presence of adversarial clients. We find that temporal attacks significantly affect model performance in FL, especially when the adversaries are active throughout and during the ending rounds of the FL process. Machine Learning models like Multinominal Logistic Regression, Support Vector Classifier (SVC), Neural Network models like Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Convolution Neural Network (CNN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and tree-based machine learning models like Random Forest and XGBoost were considered. These results highlight the effectiveness of temporal attacks and the need …

Multimodal Techniques For Malware Classification, Jonathan Jiang

Master's Projects

The threat of malware has remained a serious concern for computer networks and systems, highlighting the need for accurate classification techniques. This research adopted the structured nature of PE files incorporated with a multi-modal machinelearning approach, to classify malware types. Features extracted from the PE headers were used to train an LSTM model. Features extracted from the PE sections were used to train a CNN model. Probabilities produced from these two models were then concatenated and fed into an SVM classifier. This multi-modal approach demonstrated high accuracy by experimenting with and verifying the approach on a large and labeled dataset. …

Explainable Reinforcement Learning For Network Routing Optimization, Yu Xiu

Master's Projects

Software-defined Networking (SDN) provides a solution for configuring multiple network devices by offering a centralized controller architecture. Network routing is one of the most crucial problems in network configuration. In particular, the surging network traffic demands require efficient routing techniques to load balance communication links. In order to optimize the communication path’s utilization and reduce request blocking, this project utilizes Reinforcement Learning (RL) to decide the routes for given network requests. Furthermore, we adopt Explainable Reinforcement Learning (XRL) to explain the RL learning agent’s decision-making process to enhance the trustworthiness of our approach. In particular, we focus on Feature Importance …

A Review Of Textmining Techniques: Trends, And Applications In Various Domains, Hiba J. Aleqabie, Mais Saad Sfoq, Rand Abdulwahid Albeer, Enaam Hadi Abd

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Text mining, a subfield of natural language processing (NLP), has received considerable attention in recent years due to its ability to extract valuable insights from large volumes of unstructured textual data. This review aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the applicability of text mining techniques across various domains and industries. The reviewstarts off with a dialogue of the basic ideas and methodologies that are concerned with textual content mining together with preprocessing, feature extraction, and machine learning algorithms. Furthermore, this survey highlights the challenges faced at some stage in implementing textual content mining strategies. Additionally, the review explores emerging …

Applications For The Groups , Where Prime Upper Than 9, Lemya Abd Alameer Hadi, Mahmood S. Fiadh, Niran Sabah Jasim, Jabbar Abed Eleiwy

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

The problem of finding the cyclic decomposition (c.d.) for the groups ), where prime upper than 9 is determined in this work. Also, we compute the Artin characters (A.ch.) and Artin indicator (A.ind.) for the same groups, we obtain that after computingthe conjugacy classes, cyclic subgroups, the ordinary character table (o.ch.ta.) and the rational valued character table for each group.