Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are commonly used to solve nonlinear problems. ANNs are composed of parallel interconnected layers that include processing elements called neurons. These neurons use mathematical functions to process the data, mimicking the human brain. In this study, we use...

An outlier is a datum that is far from other data points in which it occurs. It can have a considerable impact on the output. Therefore, removing or resolving it before the analysis is essential to prevent skewing. Outliers in a survey sampling can have a significant outcome on statistical...

The COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly around the world and is currently one of the most leading causes of death and heath disaster in the world. Turkey, like most of the countries, has been negatively affected by COVID-19. The aim of this study is to design a predictive model based on artificial...

Experts often have unequal authority levels in organizations. However, this has rarely been considered reasonably in solving problems in the manufacturing system. In addition, a fuzzy collaborative estimation method can be more flexible and effective if experts have unequal authority levels. We...

Spam emails are unwanted and unsolicited messages. The major problems in email spam detection methods are low detection rates and a high likelihood of false alarms. This study proposes a hybrid correlation-based deep learning model for email spam classification using a fuzzy inference system....

The cycle time of a wafer lot refers to the time that the wafer lot has experienced from its input to output. Predicting the cycle time of each wafer lot is a crucial task for a wafer fabrication factory (wafer fab), but existing prediction methods cannot achieve 100% accuracy. Therefore, if the...

It is an important task to make predictions of trading volumes of financial indices to market participants. In the present study, we focus on this issue for the Chinese Stock Index 300 (CSI300) spot by exploring the high-frequency one-minute data spanning the launch date of the corresponding...

Academic institutions operate in an extremely demanding and competitive environment. Some difficulties confronting most schools are delivering high-quality education to the students, developing systems for evaluating student performance, analyzing performance, and recognizing the future demands...

With recent increases in the use of social media in agricultural communities, many farmers are showing more and more interest in participating in social media and sharing different aspects of their profession with peers and policymakers. However, researchers have not explored this valuable data...

There has been a huge gap between male and female students in the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Women have always been inadequately represented in the field of information technology and engineering, both in universities and in the labor market. To understand the...