Statistical Comparison of Architecture Driven Modernization with other Cloud Migration Frameworks and Formation of Clusters

Corporations are migrating their legacy software systems towards the cloud environment for amelioration, to avail benefits of the cloud. Long term success of modernizing a legacy software depends on the characteristics of the chosen cloud migration approach. Organizations must think over how strategically imperative is the chosen cloud migration framework to their business? Thus, the Object Management Group (OMG) has defined standards for the modernization process based on Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) framework. ADM serves as a vehicle for facilitating the arrangement of information technology with business stratagem and its architecture. Until now, it seems that there is no systematic mapping among ADM and other cloud migration frameworks, highlighting the demanding features. This research aims to give an in-depth study of similar cloud migration frameworks. Thus, the researchers introduced the clusters containing cloud migration frameworks having similar features to ADM. This systematic mapping can be seen as a valuable asset for those who are interested in choosing the best migration framework from the pool of cloud modernization frameworks, according to their legacy software requirements. The clustering technique is used to appraise and compare ADM with some of the other cloud migration frameworks for highlighting the similarities and key differences. The quality of clusters is evaluated by the Rand index and Silhouette measurements. The study distills the record and yields a sound and healthy catalog for essential events and concerns that are communal in cloud migration frameworks. This research offers the one-stop-shop convenience that the industry desperately desires.

Finnim Iterative Imputation Of Missing Values In Dissolved Gas Analysis Dataset

Missing values are a common occurrence in a number of real world databases, and statistical methods have been developed to deal with this problem, referred to as missing data imputation. In the detection and prediction of incipient faults in power transformers using Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA), the problem of missing values is significant and has resulted in inconclusive decision making. This study proposes an efficient non-parametric iterative imputation method, named FINNIM, which comprises of three components : the imputation ordering, the imputation estimator and the iterative imputation. The relationship between gases and faults and the percentage of missing values in an instance are used as a basis for the imputation ordering; whilst the plausible values for the missing values are estimated from k-nearest neighbour instances in the imputation estimator; and the iterative imputation allows complete and incomplete instances in a DGA dataset to be utilized iteratively for imputing all the missing values. Experimental results on both artificially inserted and actual missing values found in a few DGA datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in imputation accuracy, classification performance and convergence criteria at different missing percentages

NIS-Apriori-based rule generation with three-way decisions and its application system in SQL

In the study, non-deterministic information systems-Apriori-based (NIS-Apriori-based) rule generation from table data sets with incomplete information, SQL implementation, and the unique characteristics of the new framework are presented. Additionally, a few unsolved new research topics are proposed based on the framework. We follow the framework of NISs and propose certain rules and possible rules based on possible world semantics. Although each rule τ depends on a large number of possible tables, we prove that each rule τ is determined by examining only two τ -dependent possible tables. The NIS-Apriori algorithm is an adjusted Apriori algorithm that can handle such tables. Furthermore, it is logically sound and complete with regard to the rules. Subsequently, the implementation of the NIS-Apriori algorithm in SQL is described and a few new topics induced by effects of NIS-Apriori-based rule generation are confirmed. One of the topics that are considered is the possibility of estimating missing values via the obtained certain rules. The proposed methodology and the environment yielded by NIS-Apriori-based rule generation in SQL are useful for table data analysis with three-way decisions

Analytical Properties of Credibilistic Expectation Functions

The expectation function of fuzzy variable is an important and widely used criterion in fuzzy optimization, and sound properties on the expectation function may help in model analysis and solution algorithm design for the fuzzy optimization problems. The present paper deals with some analytical properties of credibilistic expectation functions of fuzzy variables that lie in three aspects. First, some continuity theorems on the continuity and semicontinuity conditions are proved for the expectation functions. Second, a differentiation formula of the expectation function is derived which tells that, under certain conditions, the derivative of the fuzzy expectation function with respect to the parameter equals the expectation of the derivative of the fuzzy function with respect to the parameter. Finally, a law of large numbers for fuzzy variable sequences is obtained leveraging on the Chebyshev Inequality of fuzzy variables. Some examples are provided to verify the results obtained

Fuzzy Random Facility Location Problems with Recourse

Abstract-The objective of this paper is to study facility location problems under a hybrid uncertain environment involving randomness and fuzziness. A two-stage fuzzy random facility location model with recourse is developed in which the demands and the costs are assumed to be fuzzy random variables. As in general the fuzzy random parameters in the model can be regarded as continuous fuzzy random variables with infinite realizations, the computation of the recourse requires solving infinite second-stage programming problems. Owing to this fact, the recourse function cannot be calculated analytically, which implies that the model cannot benefit from the use of methods of classical mathematical programming. In order to solve the location problems of this nature, we first develop techniques of fuzzy random simulation. In the sequel, by combining the fuzzy random simulation, simplex algorithm and binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO), a hybrid algorithm is proposed to solve the two-stage fuzzy random facility location model. Finally, an illustrative numerical example is provided

FUND ALLOCATION METHOD BASED ON A BLOCK OF SHARES

Abstract. In a real investment, stocks are dealt with based on a block of shares. A block of shares is a minimum unit for trading stocks. However, a conventional portfolio selection problem does not consider about a block of shares. If we deal with stocks according to a block of shares, real allocations of funds to each stock should differ among the cases of different amounts of money. Furthermore, a decision maker should be unable to buy less than one block even if the investing ratio for some stock is much smaller. The objective of this paper is to build a portfolio selection model in consideration of the amount of investing funds and a block of shares. Our model is formulated as an integer quadratic programming problem. In general, an integer nonlinear programming problem is difficult to solve for all but the smallest cases. So we also propose the efficiently approximate model employing a Meta-controlled Boltzmann machine

A Proposal of Machine Learning by Rule Generation from Tables with Non-deterministic Information and Its Prototype System

A logical framework on Machine Learning by Rule Generation (MLRG) from tables with non-deterministic information is proposed, and its prototype system in SQL is implemented. In MLRG, the certain rules defined in Rough Non-deterministic Information Analysis (RNIA) are obtained at first, and each uncertain attribute value is estimated so as to cause the certain rules as many as possible, because the certain rules show us the most reliable information. This strategy is similar to the maximum likelihood estimation in statistics. By repeating this process, a standard table and the rules in its table are learned (or estimated) from a given table with non-deterministic information. Even though it will be hard to know the actual unknown values, MLRG will give a plausible estimation value.International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (IJCRS 2017), 3-7 July, 2017, Olsztyn, Polan

An enhanced possibilistic programming model with fuzzy random confidence-interval for multi-objective problem

Mathematical models are established to represent real-world problems. Since the real-world faces various types of uncertainties, it makes mathematical model suffers with insufficient uncertainties modeling. The existing models lack of explanation in dealing uncertainties. In this paper, construction of mathematical model for decision making scenario with uncertainties is presented. Primarily, fuzzy random regression is applied to formulate a corresponding mathematical model from real application of a multi-objective problem. Then, a technique in possibilistic theory, known as modality optimization is used to solve the developed model. Consequently, the result shows that a well-defined multi-objective mathematical model is possible to be formulated for decision making problems with the uncertainty. Indeed, such problems with uncertainties can be solved efficiently with the presence of modality optimization