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Tuning the K value in K-nearest neighbors for malware detection M. Abualhaj, Mosleh; Abu-Shareha, Ahmad Adel; Shambour, Qusai Y.; Al-Khatib, Sumaya N.; Hiari, Mohammad O.
IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) Vol 13, No 2: June 2024
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijai.v13.i2.pp2275-2282

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Malicious software, also referred to as malware, poses a serious threat to computer networks, user privacy, and user systems. Effective cybersecurity depends on the correct detection and classification of malware. In order to improve its effectiveness, the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) method is applied systematically in this study to the task of malware detection. The study investigates the effect of the number of neighbors (K) parameter on the KNN's performance. MalMem-2022 malware datasets and relevant evaluation criteria like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score will be used to assess the efficacy of the suggested technique. The experiments evaluate how parameter tuning affects the accuracy of malware detection by comparing the performance of various parameter setups. The study findings show that careful parameter adjustment considerably boosts the KNN method's malware detection capability. The research also highlights the potential of KNN with parameter adjustment as a useful tool for malware detection in real-world circumstances, allowing for prompt and precise identification of malware.
A novel approach for e-health recommender systems Alsaaidah, Adeeb M.; Shambour, Qusai Y.; Abualhaj, Mosleh M.; Abu-Shareha, Ahmad Adel
Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Vol 13, No 4: August 2024
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/eei.v13i4.7749

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The increasing use of the internet for health information brings challenges due to the complexity and abundance of data, leading to information overload. This highlights the necessity of implementing recommender systems (RSs) within the healthcare domain, with the aim of facilitating more effective and precise healthcare-related decisions for both healthcare providers and users. Health recommendation systems can suggest suitable healthcare items or services based on users' health conditions and needs, including medications, diagnoses, hospitals, doctors, and healthcare services. Despite their potential benefits, RSs encounter significant limitations, including data sparsity, which can lead to recommendations that are unreliable and misleading. Considering the increasing significance of health recommendation systems and the challenge of sparse data, we propose an effective approach to improve precision and coverage in recommending healthcare items or services. This aims to assist users and healthcare practitioners in making informed decisions tailored to their unique needs and health conditions. Empirical testing on two healthcare rating datasets, including sparse datasets, illustrate that our proposed approach outperforms baseline recommendation methods. It excels in improving both the precision and coverage of health-related recommendations, demonstrating effective handling of extremely sparse datasets.
Enhancing Spam Detection Using Hybrid of Harris Hawks and Firefly Optimization Algorithms Abualhaj, Mosleh M.; Shambour, Qusai Y.; Alsaaidah, Adeeb; Abu-Shareha, Ahmad; Al-Khatib, Sumaya; Hiari, Mohammad O.
Journal of Applied Data Sciences Vol 5, No 3: SEPTEMBER 2024
Publisher : Bright Publisher

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47738/jads.v5i3.279

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The emergence of the modern Internet has presented numerous opportunities for attackers to profit illegally by distributing spam mail. Spam refers to irrelevant or inappropriate messages that are sent on the Internet to numerous recipients. Many researchers use many classification methods in machine learning to filter spam messages. However, more research is still needed to assess using metaheuristic optimization algorithms to classify spam emails in feature selection. In this paper, we endorse fighting spam emails by employing a union of Firefly Optimization Algorithm (FOA) and Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) algorithms to classify spam emails, along with one of the most well-known and efficient methods in this area, the Random Forest (RF) classifier. In this process, the experimental studies on the ISCX-URL2016 spam dataset yield promising results. For instance, the union of HHO and FOA, along with using an RF classifier, achieved an accuracy of 99.83% in detecting spam emails.
A multi-criteria trust-enhanced collaborative filtering algorithm for personalized tourism recommendations Shambour, Qusai Y.; Al-Zyoud, Mahran M.; Alsaaidah, Adeeb M.; Abualhaj, Mosleh M.; Abu-Shareha, Ahmad A.
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 36, No 3: December 2024
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v36.i3.pp1919-1928

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The exponential growth of online information has LED to significant challenges in navigating data overload, particularly in the tourism industry. Travelers are overwhelmed with choices regarding destinations, accommodations, dining, and attractions, making it difficult to select options that best meet their needs. Recommender systems have emerged as a promising solution to this problem, aiding users in decision-making by providing personalized suggestions based on their preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering (CF) methods, however, face limitations, such as data sparsity and reliance on single rating scores, which do not fully capture the complexity of user preferences. This study proposes a hybrid multi-criteria trust-enhanced CF (HMCTeCF) algorithm to improve the accuracy and robustness of tourism recommendations. HMCTeCF improves the quality of recommendations by integrating multi-criteria user preferences with trust relationships among users and between items. Experimental results using real-world datasets, including Restaurants-TripAdvisor and Hotels-TripAdvisor, demonstrate that HMCTeCF outperforms benchmark CF-based recommendation methods. It achieves higher prediction accuracy and coverage rate, effectively addressing the data sparsity problem. This innovative algorithm facilitates a more personalized and enriching travel experience, particularly in scenarios with limited user data. The findings highlight the importance of considering multiple criteria and trust relationships in developing robust recommendation systems for the tourism industry.
Enhancing malware detection through self-union feature selection using gray wolf optimizer Abualhaj, Mosleh M.; Shambour, Qusai Y.; Abu-Shareha, Ahmad Adel; Al-Khatib, Sumaya N.; Amer, Amal
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 37, No 1: January 2025
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v37.i1.pp197-205

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This research explores the impact of malware on the digital world and presents an innovative system to detect and classify malware instances. The suggested system combines a random forest (RF) classifier and gray wolf optimizer (GWO) to identify and detect malware effectively. Therefore, the suggested system is called RFGWO-Mal. The RFGWO-Mal system employs the GWO for feature selection in binary and multiclass classification scenarios. Then, the RFGWO-Mal system uses a novel self-union feature selection approach, combining features from different subsets of binary and multiclass classification extracted using the GWO optimizer. The RF classifier is then applied for classifying malware and benign data. The comprehensive Obfuscated-MalMem2022 dataset was utilized to evaluate the suggested RFGWO-Mal system, which has been implanted using Python. The suggested RFGWO-Mal system achieves significantly improved results using the novel self-union feature selection approach. Specifically, the RFGWO-Mal system achieves an outstanding accuracy of 99.95% in binary classification and maintains a high accuracy of 86.57% with multiclass classification. The findings underscore the achievement of a self-union feature selection approach in enhancing the performance of malware detection systems, providing a valuable contribution to cybersecurity.
Detecting spam using Harris Hawks optimizer as a feature selection algorithm Abualhaj, Mosleh M.; Abu-Shareha, Ahmad Adel; Nabil Alkhatib, Sumaya; Shambour, Qusai Y.; Alsaaidah, Adeeb M.
Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Vol 14, No 3: June 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/eei.v14i3.9198

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The Harris Hawks optimization (HHO) was used in this study to enhance spam identification. Only the features with a high influence on spam detection have been selected using the HHO metaheuristic technique. The HHO technique's assessment of the selected features was conducted using the ISCX-URL2016 dataset. The ISCX-URL2016 dataset has 72 features, but the HHO technique reduces that to just 10 features. Extra tree (ET), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and support vector machine (SVM) techniques are used to complete the classification assignment. 99.81% accuracy is attained by the ET, 99.60% by XGBoost, and 98.74% by SVM. As we can see, with the ET, XGBoost, and k-nearest neighbor (KNN) techniques, the HHO technique achieves accuracy above 98%. Nonetheless, the ET technique outperforms the XGBoost and KNN techniques. ET outperforms other methods due to its robust ensemble approach, which benefits from the diverse and relevant feature subset selected by HHO. HHO's effective reduction of noisy or redundant features enhances ET's ability to generalize and avoid overfitting, making it a highly efficient combination for spam detection. Thus, it looks promising to combat spam emails by combining the ET technique for classification with the HHO technique for feature selection.