Malware Classification Based on Multilayer Perception and Word2Vec for IoT Security

With the construction of smart cities, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing rapidly, leading to an explosive growth of malware designed for IoT devices. These malware pose a serious threat to the security of IoT devices. The traditional malware classification methods mainly rely on feature engineering. To improve accuracy, a large number of different types of features will be extracted from malware files in these methods. That brings a high complexity to the classification. To solve these issues, a malware classification method based on Word2Vec and Multilayer Perception (MLP) is proposed in this article. First, for one malware sample, Word2Vec is used to calculate a word vector for all bytes of the binary file and all instructions in the assembly file. Second, we combine these vectors into a 256x256x2-dimensional matrix. Finally, we designed a deep learning network structure based on MLP to train the model. Then the model is used to classify the testing samples. The experimental results prove that the method has a high accuracy of 99.54%.

Classify Elderly Pain Severity from Open-Source Automatically Video Clip Facial Action Units Analysis. A Study from the Integrated Pain Artificial Intelligence Network (I-PAIN) Data Repository.

Background: It is increasingly interesting to monitor pain severity in elderly individuals by applying machine learning models. In previous studies, OpenFace© - a well-known automated facial analysis algorithm, was used to detect facial action units (FAUs) that initially need long hours of human coding. However, OpenFace© developed from the dataset that dominant young Caucasians who were illicit pain in the lab. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the accuracy and feasibility of the model using data from OpenFace© to classify pain severity in elderly Asian patients in clinical settings.Methods: Data from 255 Thai individuals with chronic pain were collected at Chiang Mai Medical School Hospital. The phone camera recorded faces for 10 seconds at a 1-meter distance briefly after the patients provided self-rating pain severity. For those unable to self-rate, the video was recorded just after the move, which illicit pain. The trained assistant rated each video clip for the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD). The classification of pain severity was mild, moderate, or severe. OpenFace© process video clip into 18 FAUs. Five classification models were used, including logistic regression, multilayer perception, naïve Bayes, decision tree, k-nearest neighbors (KNN), and support vector machine (SVM). Results: Among the models that included only FAU described in the literature (FAUs 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 25, 26, 27 and 45), multilayer perception yielded the highest accuracy of 50%. Among the machine learning selection features, the SVM model for FAU 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 20, 25, 45, and gender yielded the best accuracy of 58%. Conclusion: Our open-source automatic video clip facial action unit analysis experiment was not robust for classifying elderly pain. Retraining facial action unit detection algorithms, enhancing frame selection strategies, and adding pain-related functions may improve the accuracy and feasibility of the model.

APLICAÇÃO DE MODELOS DE REDES NEURAIS ARTIFICIAIS NA PREVISÃO DO PREÇO DO ALUMÍNIO

O alumínio é um metal não ferroso muito utilizado nas indústrias metalúrgicas, farmacêuticas, aeronáuticas e alimentares. O preço do alumínio apresenta muitos fatores de incerteza. Desse modo a sua previsão é muito importante na definição de políticas industriais, bem como para os produtores e consumidores. Neste contexto, este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar a eficácia de modelos das redes neurais artificiais (RNAs) para a previsão do preço do alumínio. A base de dados apresenta uma série histórica do preço do alumínio no período entre 2006 e 2020. Modelos de previsão, baseados em Redes Neurais LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) e MLP (Multilayer Perception) foram implementados na linguagem Python, utilizando o framework Keras. Resultados obtidos dos dois modelos que foram comparados. Verificou-se, também, para um horizonte de seis meses que o modelo LSTM apresentou um melhor desempenho que o modelo MLP.

Prognosis of a Degradable Hydraulic System

This article proposes a preliminary diagnostic/prognostic method for the identification of a critical system, undergoing a continuous evolutionary degradation, in a production area, and the determination of the component responsible for its degradation, called the failing element. Using for this, a model based on learning by multilayer perception (MLP). The purpose of this paper is to provide a modeling approach that makes it possible to determine the level of degradation reached by the system at any given point of time, in a precise way. Thus, the horizon of the failure will be produced with a minimum error compared to the discrete jump model used in the literature. The proposed approach consists of using a neural network with fewer layers and optimal computing time. We performed data learning (tests) in order to illustrate a regression of good correlation of these data (tests) on a centrifugal pump with satisfactory performance parameters and compared it with other commonly used methods.

Finding Similar Entities Across Knowledge Graphs

Finding similar entities among knowledge graphs is an essential research problem for knowledge integration and knowledge graph connection. This paper aims at finding semantically similar entities between two knowledge graphs. This can help end users and search agents more effectively and easily access pertinent information across knowledge graphs. Given a query entity in one knowledge graph, the proposed approach tries to find the most similar entity in another knowledge graph. The main idea is to leverage graph embedding, clustering, regression and sentence embedding. In this approach, RDF2Vec has been employed to generate vector representations of all entities of the second knowledge graph and then the vectors have been clustered based on cosine similarity using K medoids algorithm. Then, an artificial neural network with multilayer perception topology has been used as a regression model to predict the corresponding vector in the second knowledge graph for a given vector from the first knowledge graph. After determining the cluster of the predicated vector, the entities of the detected cluster are ranked through sentence-BERT method and finally the entity with the highest rank is chosen as the most similar one. To evaluate the proposed approach, experiments have been conducted on real-world knowledge graphs. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.