Credit rating migration ranks amongst the most pertinent issues concerning institutional lenders and investors alike. There are a number of studies that have employed both parametric and non-parametric methodologies to forecast credit rating migration, employing machine learning methods; and...

Structured Query Language injection (SQLi) attack is a code injection technique where hackers inject SQL commands into a database via a vulnerable web application. Injected SQL commands can modify the back-end SQL database and thus compromise the security of a web application. In the previous...

Rapid diagnosis of symptoms caused by pest attack, diseases and nutritional or physiological disorders in apple orchards is essential to avoid greater losses. This paper aimed to evaluate the efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to automatically detect and classify symptoms of...

The prediction of legal outcomes and other legal domain related variables has served as the basis of a number of recent studies. While recent studies have estimated standardised variables and dichotomous outcomes such as the outcome of a judicial decision process, few studies have employed...

Human facial expressions change so subtly that recognition accuracy of most traditional approaches largely depend on feature extraction. In this article, the authors employ a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to devise a facial expression recognition system to discover deeper feature...

This paper discusses recent and unique inventions in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). To that end, firstly the authors discuss the Sixth Sense Technology. This technology allows users to interact with virtual objects in the real world in a unique manner. It has a number of applications which...

Using the principal component analysis (PCA) and support vector regression machine (SVR) in predicting the credit rating of online stores. Collects 14 variables, including 982 observations of dress shops in Taobao. Firstly, the authors use the method of PCA to filter and reduce the dimension of...