International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (13 papers in press)

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• Discrete Cuckoo Search for 0-1 knapsack problem  
  by Aziz Ouaarab 
  Abstract: This paper presents a resolution of a space management optimisation problem such as 0-1 knapsack problems (KP) by discrete cuckoo search algorithm (DCS). The proposed approach includes an adaptation process of three main components: the objective function, the solution representation, and the step move operator. A simplified conception of these three components is designed without introducing an additional technique, especially in the search process for the optimal solution. Three sets of benchmark instances have been taken from the literature to test the performance of DCS. Experimental results prove that DCS is effective in solving different types of 0-1 KP instances. The result comparisons with other state-of-the-art algorithms show that DCS is a competitive approach that outperforms most of them.
  Keywords: 0-1 knapsack problem; discrete cuckoo search; DCS; combinatorial optimisation; L´evy flights; approximate algorithm.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2024.10064048
   
  
• Early Stage Analysis of Breast Cancer Using Intelligent System  
  by Arpita Nath Boruah, Mrinal Goswami 
  Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) poses a considerable global health concern for women which makes a significant issue for women's well-being worldwide. It is crucial to develop a system that can proactively identify the critical risk factors associated with BC. The present study introduces an intelligent system for BC by analysing risk factors (IS-BC-analysing-RF) which utilises decision tree rules to identify the primary risk factors underlying BC accurately. The rules are processed based on the proposed score function to get the most relevant ones. Finally, using the sequential search approach, the critical risk factors are identified along with their respective ranges. Based on the simulation results using University of California at Irvine (UCI) repository BC dataset, the findings indicate that the proposed IS-BC-analysing-RF system is highly significant and has the potential to effectively mitigate the risk of BC by targeting and managing one or two crucial risk factors.
  Keywords: decision system; breast cancer; decision tree; machine learning; risk factor.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2024.10064214
   
  
• A Novel LWT-based Robust Watermark Strategy for Colour Images  
  by Prachee Dewangan, Debabala Swain, Monalisa Swain 
  Abstract: With the progress of information technology, digital data larceny and duplicity become very easier. Image watermarking in cryptography is a major domain that provides manifold security features like confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, etc. This research introduces a robust watermarking scheme for colour images. The proposed technique segments the colour image into three layers red, green and blue. The lifting wavelet transform (LWT) and differential histogram shifting are used to embed text watermark information into the R layer. The performance of the proposed technique was assessed using the SIPI image dataset. Test outputs show that the proposed scheme maintains the balance between imperceptibility and robustness. This scheme has a better resistance against all types of attacks like different noises, filter effects, image compressions, etc. Besides, the text watermark can be successfully extracted for different types of tampering like content removal attacks, and content addition attacks.
  Keywords: robust watermarking; geometric attack; fragile attack; dual watermark; lifting wavelet transform.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2024.10064256
   
  
• Detecting Driver Mutations in Colorectal Cancer through Big Data Analysis  
  by Amna Sethi, Muhammad Saad Khan, Fatima Hashmi, Saim Ali Akber 
  Abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a complex disease causing a significant challenge to global health with profound impacts on morbidity and mortality. There is a need to identify genetic biomarkers for early diagnosis of disease. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of CRC genomes was conducted to identify consistent mutations in both coding and non-coding highlighting their pivotal role in CRC pathogenesis. The results of this study revealed consistent mutations in coding regions that validated known CRC driver genes. The consistent non-coding mutations were also identified within transcription factors binding sites (TFBS) in CRC cell lines. The statistical significance of these mutations suggests their potential impact on gene regulation leading to the development and progression of CRC. They might act as potential biomarkers for early diagnosis of the disease. To conclude, the findings of this study might provide novel therapeutic targets and diagnostic markers for personalised medicine.
  Keywords: colorectal cancer; CRC; driver mutations; driver genes; biomarkers; transcription factors binding sites; TFBS.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2024.10064784
   
  
• Enhancing Link Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks: A Novel Algorithm Integrating Global and Local Topological Structures  
  by Shambhu Kumar, Arti Jain, DINESH BISHT 
  Abstract: The link prediction problem has gained significant importance due to the emergence of many social networks. Existing link prediction algorithms in social networks often prioritise local or global attributes, yielding satisfactory performance on specific network types but with limitations like reduced accuracy or higher computational burden. This paper presents a novel link prediction approach that integrates global and local topological structures, assessing node similarity through a similarity index formula between two node pairs that is based on three key features: the number of common neighbours between nodes with some penalty factor introduced for each common node, node influence, and the shortest path distance between unconnected nodes. Evaluation using AUC has been performed against seven datasets and demonstrates significant improvement over baseline and state-of-the-art methods, enhancing accuracy by 30% and 6.75%. This highlights the efficacy of integrating global and local features for more accurate link prediction.
  Keywords: social network; link prediction; common neighbour; similarity measure; degree centrality; node distance.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10064902
   
  
• Comparative Analysis of Distance Measures in Stock Network Construction and Cluster Analysis  
  by Serkan Alkan 
  Abstract: The mutual information (MI) metric and the Pearson correlation metric are both widely used in cluster analysis and stock network construction. This paper presents a detailed comparison between the MI metric and the Pearson correlation metric. To detect nonlinear relationships, polynomial and natural cubic spline regressions are proposed as alternatives to the MI metric. The methodology for computing model-fitting indices for determining network adjacencies is explained in detail, along with a comparison of the results with the MI methodology. This study employs two data sets derived from the log returns of the daily adjusted closing prices of 402 stocks in the S&P500 index to measure the impact of a financial crisis on nonlinearity: one covering the crisis period from January 2007 to December 2009, and the other covering the non-crisis period between January 2012 and December 2015. The local and global properties of hierarchical stock networks are compared using the minimum spanning tree for each distance measure. The graph-theoretic internal cluster validity indices and external indices are also used to investigate the relationship between the performance of the community detection algorithm and the selection of metrics.
  Keywords: financial networks; mutual information; Pearson correlation; regression models; community detection.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10065097
   
  
• Analysis and Evaluation of Business Process Management (BPM) Tools and Techniques in the Industry 4.0  
  by Hari Lal Bhaskar  
  Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analysis and evaluate the different tools and techniques of business process management (BPM) as well as selection and adoption factors for process mining tools in industry 4.0 for BPM. This paper also discusses that how tools and techniques of process mining can be used to drive the pedals of microeconomics principles. This paper discusses the core concepts of BPM and process mining tool in industry 4.0 as well as evaluation of different types of models etc. A tactical roadmap has been provided with a lot of comparative analysis for selecting a process mining tool or software for initiating a business process optimisation or BPR program. This work lies in the fact that how the modern-day digitally enabled organization, industry 4.0 to be specific, can actually benefit and re-organise its legacy systems using data-driven business insights, in order to achieve operational excellence.
  Keywords: Business Process Management (BPM); Digital Transformation; Digitalization; Process Mining; Industry 4.0; BPM tools; Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10065406
   
  
• A Frequent Itemset Generation Approach in Data Mining using Transaction-Labelling Dynamic Itemset Counting (TL-DIC) Method  
  by Ambily Balaram, Nedunchezhian Raju 
  Abstract: A significant amount of data is generated, gathered, stored, and evaluated in real-world applications as a result of technology breakthroughs. Data mining (DM) combines a number of disciplines to efficiently discover hidden patterns from vast archives of historical information. To significantly reduce complexities associated with data, the proposed method, transaction-labelling dynamic itemset counting (TL-DIC), utilises a labelling approach on the given transactional database to logically arrange and process the underlying transactions. This method generates frequent itemsets thereby improving the performance of conventional dynamic itemset counting (DIC) method. Based on experimental findings, the average scan count in DIC and M-Apriori is 4% and 3.66%, respectively higher than TL-DIC, for different support counts. TL-DIC executes 20% and 16% quicker than DIC and M-Apriori, respectively, in terms of execution time. These results validate the proposed approach’s efficacy in creating frequent itemsets from large datasets.
  Keywords: data mining; association rule mining; ARM; dynamic itemset counting method; DIC; frequent itemset generation; transaction labelling; TL; labelling.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10065414
   
  
• Sorting Paired Points: A Dissimilarity Measure Based on Sorting of Series  
  by Wallace Pinheiro, Ricardo Q. A. Fernandes, Ana Bárbara Sapienza Pinheiro 
  Abstract: We propose a new dissimilarity measure, sorting different time series and measuring their absolute and relative degree of disorganisation. This work compares this strategy with the state-of-the-art of dissimilarities or similarities measures, such as DTW, maximal information coefficient (MIC) and complexity-invariant distance (CID). Two clustering algorithms, one deterministic and one non-deterministic, K-means and hierarchical, allow us to analyse their results. To infer the accuracy, we use two different indexes, maximal HITS, and adjusted Rand index. The results of the experiments, over 128 different datasets, demonstrate that the proposed approach provides more accurate results for different domains using the proposed metrics.
  Keywords: clustering; similarity; time series; entropy; sorting.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10065723
   
  
• Ensemble of Large Self-Supervised Transformers for Improving Speech Emotion Recognition  
  by Mrunal Gavali, Abhishek Verma 
  Abstract: Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging and active field of collaborative, social robotics to improve human-robot interaction (HRI) and affective computing as a feedback mechanism. More recently self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have become an important method for learning speech representations. We present results of experiments on the challenging largescale speech emotion RAVDESS dataset. Six very large state-of-the-art selfsupervised learning transformer models were trained on the speech emotion dataset.Wav2vec2.0-XLSR-53 was the most successful of the six level-0 models and achieved classification accuracy of 93%. We propose majority voting ensemble models that combined three and five level-0 models. The five-model and three-model majority voting ensemble models achieved 96.88% and 96.53% accuracy respectively and thereby significantly outperformed the best level-0 model and surpassed the state-of-the-art.
  Keywords: Speech Emotion Recognition; self-supervised learning; Emotion AI; transformers; speech processing; acoustic features.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10065871
   
  
• Ensemble Learning Models for Predicting the Gaming Addiction Behaviours of Adolescents  
  by Nongyao Nai-arun, Warachanan Choothong 
  Abstract: This paper proposes: 1) to create a prediction model for the game addiction of adolescents using six data mining algorithms; 2) to optimise the models by adjusting the parameters; 3) to create an ensemble model. Bagging and boosting algorithms were investigated for improving the models. Data were collected from eight Northern Rajabhat Universities in Thailand. The results found that bagging with neural network had shown the highest performance with an accuracy of 99.35%, followed by the boosting with neural network (99.02%). The model with the best-optimised parameters of the neural network algorithm achieved by adjusting the learning rate. The best model was used to develop a web application for predicting the gaming addiction behaviours of adolescents which would contribute to solve the problem.
  Keywords: classification; ensemble learning; bagging; boosting; neural network; random forest; optimisation; gaming addiction behaviours.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10065942
   
  
• A Review on Breast Cancer Detection using Machine Learning Techniques  
  by Sowjanya Yerramaneni, Sudheer Reddy K. 
  Abstract: One of the major diseases that has a high mortality rate in women is breast cancer. As the womens death rate has been increasing every year, it is necessary to decrease this number to detect the cancerous cells accurately by employing various methods. This paper presents a review of various works on the detection of breast cancer using various machine learning techniques such as decision tree, random forest, K-nearest neighbour, support vector machine, logistic regression and Na
  Keywords: breast cancer; classification models; machine learning; neural networks; deep learning.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10065995
   
  
• An Approach to Improve the Healthcare Purchase Decision: An Application in a Healthcare Center in Turkey  
  by Sena Kumcu, Bahar Özyörük 
  Abstract: For the healthcare sector, the right supplier selection and order quantity allocation decisions for the healthcare sector are crucial because the healthcare sector must deliver its products and services to its patients properly and on time. However, in this sector, supplier selection and order allocation decision is still not given enough attention. For this reason, there is a significant research and application gap in the literature. In this study, first, in order to determine the annual purchasing needs of the medical equipment that are vital for a healthcare centre in Ankara, T
  Keywords: healthcare procurement practices; supplier selection; order allocation; goal programming; ABC-VED analysis.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2025.10066154