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    Ensemble deep neural network based quality of service prediction for cloud service recommendation
    (Elsevier B.V., 2021) Sahu, P.; Raghavan, S.; Chandrasekaran, K.
    Applications of Cloud Services are increasing day by day, and so is the difficulty of choosing the best-suited service for a customer. Quality of Service (QoS) parameters can be used for quality assurance and evaluation; further, a service can be recommended based on these QoS parameters’ values. Recommendation systems are getting much attention lately. It has a crucial role in almost all the major commercial platforms and many improvements are being made to make the recommendations more precise and closer to the user's requirements. Conventional Machine Learning algorithms and statistical analysis methods, presently are not that efficient in learning the complex correlation between data elements. Lately, Deep Learning models have proven to be practical and precise in areas like natural language processing, image processing, data mining, & data interpretation. However, there are not many examples of complete Deep Learning applications for cloud service recommendation systems, though some works partially use Deep Learning. We propose the Ensemble of Deep Neural Networks (EDNN) method, which is of the hybrid type, i.e., the fusion of neighborhood-based and neural network model-based methods. The output obtained from both the models are combined using another different neural network model. Our approach for predicting QoS values is simple and different from previous works, and the results show that it outperforms other classical methods marginally. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
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    Forecasting Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Using Hybrid CNN-LSTM Model
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Varma, B.; Naik, N.; Chandrasekaran, K.; Venkatesan, M.; Rajan, J.
    Land-use and land-cover (LULC) information helps analyze future trends and is essential for environmental management and sustainable planning. Time-series satellite images are employed in this study to forecast changes in LULC. Deep-learning (DL) frameworks have been widely used for modeling dynamic LULC changes at the regional level. However, improving the accuracy of the existing prediction models is necessary. This letter proposes an integrated convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory network (LSTM) known as a hybrid CNN-LSTM model to address the fine-scale LULC prediction requirement. The efficiency of the proposed approach was examined using LULC data for the Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka State, India. The proposed model achieved an overall accuracy of 95.11% and a kappa coefficient of 0.92, based on the ground-truth data for 2014. The model's predictions for 2035, based on data from 2005 to 2014, revealed the following trends: Urbanization exhibited a pattern of rapid expansion and increased growth. The integrated CNN-LSTM model extracted spatial and temporal features for effectively predicting LULC changes. Infrastructure development, population density, and enhanced economic activities were the major driving factors of changes in LULC for the study region. Robust LULC change forecasting will strengthen LULC evaluations, aid in understanding complex land-use systems, and empower decision-makers to formulate effective land management strategies in the coming years. © 2004-2012 IEEE.
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    Assessment of land use and land cover change detection and prediction using deep learning techniques for the southwestern coastal region, Goa, India
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024) Naik, N.; Chandrasekaran, K.; Sundaram, V.; Prabhavathy, P.
    Understanding the connections between human activities and the natural environment depends heavily on information about land use and land cover (LULC) in the form of accurate LULC maps. Environmental monitoring using deep learning (DL) is rapidly growing to preserve a sustainable environment in the long term. For establishing effective policies, regulations, and implementation, DL can be a valuable tool for assessing environmental conditions and natural resources that will positively impact the ecosystem. This paper presents the assessment of land use and land cover change detection (LULCCD) and prediction using DL techniques for the southwestern coastal region, Goa, also known as the tourist destination of India. It consists of three components: (i) change detection (CD), (ii) quantification of LULC changes, and (iii) prediction. A new CD assessment framework, Spatio-Temporal Encoder-Decoder Self Attention Network (STEDSAN), is proposed for the LULCCD process. A dual branch encoder-decoder network is constructed using strided convolution with downsampling for the encoder and transpose convolution with upsampling for the decoder to assess the bitemporal images spatially. The self-attention (SA) mechanism captures the complex global spatial-temporal (ST) interactions between individual pixels over space-time to produce more distinct features. Each branch accepts the LULC map of 2 years as one of its inputs to determine binary and multiclass changes among the bitemporal images. The STEDSAN model determines the patterns, trends, and conversion from one LULC type to another for the assessment period from 2005 to 2018. The binary change maps were also compared with the existing state of the art (SOTA) CD methods, with STEDSAN having an overall accuracy of 94.93%. The prediction was made using an recurrent neural network (RNN) known as long short term memory network (LSTM) for the year 2025. Experiments were conducted to determine area-wise changes in several LULC classes, such as built-up (BU), crops (kharif crop (KC), rabi crop (RC), zaid crop (ZC), double/triple (D/T C)), current fallow (CF), plantation (PL), forests (evergreen forest (EF), deciduous forest (DF), degraded/scurb forest (D/SF)), littoral swamp (LS), grassland (GL), wasteland (WL), waterbodies max (Wmx), and waterbodies min (Wmn). As per the analysis, over the period of 13 years, there has been a net increase in the amount of BU (1.25%), RC (1.17%), and D/TC(2.42%) and a net decrease in DF (3.29%) and WL(1.44%) being the most dominant classes being changed. These findings will offer a thorough description of identifying trends in coastal areas that may incorporate methodological hints for future studies. This study will also promote handling the spatial and temporal complexity of remotely sensed data employed in categorizing the coastal LULC of a heterogeneous landscape. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.