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Eferhire Valentine Ugbotu
University of Salford
Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Electrical & Electronics Engineering Energy Engineering

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Integrating Hybrid Statistical and Unsupervised LSTM-Guided Feature Extraction for Breast Cancer Detection De Rosal Ignatius Moses Setiadi; Arnold Adimabua Ojugo; Octara Pribadi; Etika Kartikadarma; Bimo Haryo Setyoko; Suyud Widiono; Robet Robet; Tabitha Chukwudi Aghaunor; Eferhire Valentine Ugbotu
Journal of Computing Theories and Applications Vol. 2 No. 4 (2025): JCTA 2(4) 2025
Publisher : Universitas Dian Nuswantoro

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62411/jcta.12698

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Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, requiring early and accurate diagnosis to reduce mortality. This study proposes a hybrid classification pipeline that integrates Hybrid Statistical Feature Selection (HSFS) with unsupervised LSTM-guided feature extraction for breast cancer detection using the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer (WDBC) dataset. Initially, 20 features were selected using HSFS based on Mutual Information, Chi-square, and Pearson Correlation. To address class imbalance, the training set was balanced using the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE). Subsequently, an LSTM encoder extracted non-linear latent features from the selected features. A fusion strategy was applied by concatenating the statistical and latent features, followed by re-selection of the top 30 features. The final classification was performed using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) with RBF kernel and evaluated using 5-fold cross-validation and a held-out test set. Experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved an average training accuracy of 98.13%, F1-score of 98.13%, and AUC-ROC of 99.55%. On the held-out test set, the model reached an accuracy of 99.30%, precision of 100%, and F1-score of 99.05%, with an AUC-ROC of 0.9973. The proposed pipeline demonstrates improved generalization and interpretability compared to existing methods such as LightGBM-PSO, DHH-GRU, and ensemble deep networks. These results highlight the effectiveness of combining statistical selection and LSTM-based latent feature encoding in a balanced classification framework.
Investigating a SMOTE-Tomek Boosted Stacked Learning Scheme for Phishing Website Detection: A Pilot Study Eferhire Valentine Ugbotu; Frances Uchechukwu Emordi; Emeke Ugboh; Kizito Eluemunor Anazia; Christopher Chukwufunaya Odiakaose; Paul Avwerosuoghene Onoma; Rebecca Okeoghene Idama; Arnold Adimabua Ojugo; Victor Ochuko Geteloma; Amanda Enaodona Oweimieotu; Tabitha Chukwudi Aghaunor; Amaka Patience Binitie; Anne Odoh; Chris Chukwudi Onochie; Peace Oguguo Ezzeh; Andrew Okonji Eboka; Joy Agboi; Patrick Ogholuwarami Ejeh
Journal of Computing Theories and Applications Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): JCTA 3(2) 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62411/jcta.14472

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The daily exchange of informatics over the Internet has both eased the widespread proliferation of resources to ease accessibility, availability and interoperability of accompanying devices. In addition, the recent widespread proliferation of smartphones alongside other computing devices has continued to advance features such as miniaturization, portability, data access ease, mobility, and other merits. It has also birthed adversarial attacks targeted at network infrastructures and aimed at exploiting interconnected cum shared resources. These exploits seek to compromise an unsuspecting user device cum unit. Increased susceptibility and success rate of these attacks have been traced to user's personality traits and behaviours, which renders them repeatedly vulnerable to such exploits especially those rippled across spoofed websites as malicious contents. Our study posits a stacked, transfer learning approach that seeks to classify malicious contents as explored by adversaries over a spoofed, phishing websites. Our stacked approach explores 3-base classifiers namely Cultural Genetic Algorithm, Random Forest, and Korhonen Modular Neural Network – whose output is utilized as input for XGBoost meta-learner. A major challenge with learning scheme(s) is the flexibility with the selection of appropriate features for estimation, and the imbalanced nature of the explored dataset for which the target class often lags behind. Our study resolved dataset imbalance challenge using the SMOTE-Tomek mode; while, the selected predictors was resolved using the relief rank feature selection. Results shows that our hybrid yields F1 0.995, Accuracy 0.997, Recall 0.998, Precision 1.000, AUC-ROC 0.997, and Specificity 1.000 – to accurately classify all 2,764 cases of its held-out test dataset. Results affirm that it outperformed bench-mark ensembles. Result shows the proposed model explored UCI Phishing Website dataset, and effectively classified phishing (cues and lures) contents on websites.
Investigating Security Enhancement in Hybrid Clouds via a Blockchain-Fused Privacy Preservation Strategy: Pilot Study Tabitha Chukwudi Aghaunor; Eferhire Valentine Ugbotu; Emeke Ugboh; Paul Avwerosuoghene Onoma; Frances Uchechukwu Emordi; Arnold Adimabua Ojugo; Victor Ochuko Geteloma; Rebecca Okeoghene Idama; Peace Oguguo Ezzeh
Journal of Computing Theories and Applications Vol. 3 No. 4 (2026): JCTA 3(4) 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62411/jcta.15508

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The proliferation of cloud infrastructures has intensified concerns regarding data security, integrity, identity and access management, and user privacy. Despite recent advances, existing solutions often lack comprehensive integration of privacy-preserving mechanisms, dynamic trust management, and cross-provider interoperability. This study proposes an AI-enabled, zero-trust, blockchain-fused identity management framework for secure, privacy-preserving multi-cloud environments. The framework integrates homomorphic encryption with differential privacy for aggregate-level protection and secure multi-party computation for collaborative data processing. The proposed system was validated in a simulated multi-cloud environment using CloudSim, Ethereum blockchain, and AWS EC2. Experimental results indicate homomorphic encryption latency of approximately 450ms per operation and statistically significant security improvements (t(128) = 12.47, p < 0.001), privacy (t(95) = 8.93, p < 0.001), and throughput (t(156) = 15.21, p < 0.001). The framework achieved differential privacy with ε = 0.1 while retaining 99.2% data utility, and demonstrated a 34% improvement in processing speed over conventional differential privacy approaches. In addition, the implementation was observed to be 2.3× faster than BGV-based configurations, with 45% lower memory consumption than CKKS and a 67% reduction in ciphertext size relative to baseline implementations. From an operational perspective, the framework shows a 23% reduction in security management costs, a 31% improvement in resource utilization efficiency, and an 18% decrease in compliance audit expenses. The model further indicates a 27% reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) compared with multi-vendor security solutions, a projected return on investment (ROI) within 14 months, and an 89% reduction in security incident response costs under the evaluated conditions.
EcoSMEAL: Energy Consumption with Optimization Strategy via a Secured Smart Monitor-Alert Ensemble Tabitha Chukwudi Aghaunor; Joy Agboi; Eferhire Valentine Ugbotu; Paul Avweresuoghene Onoma; Arnold Adimabua Ojugo; Christopher Chukwufunaya Odiakaose; Andrew Okonji Eboka; Peace Oguguo Ezzeh; Victor Ochuko Geteloma; Amaka Patience Binitie; Anderson Ise Orobor; Blessing Uche Nwozor; Patrick Ogholuwarami Ejeh; Christopher Chukwudi Onochie
Journal of Fuzzy Systems and Control Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025): Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025)
Publisher : Peneliti Teknologi Teknik Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59247/jfsc.v3i3.319

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The global demand for automation that seeks the efficient consumption and usage of energy via the adoption of embedded-fit management solutions that yield improved performance with reduced consumption has become the new norm. These explore sensor-based units in their own right with eco-friendly platforms that raise germane environmental, health, and consumption regulation(s) concerns that have today become a global issue, even when they proffer improved life standards that replace traditional solutions. Our study posits an embedded sensor design to observe environmental conditions associated with energy consumption by residential or home appliances. It utilizes a machine learning scheme and algorithm to analyze the total energy consumed by each appliance and delivers optimal consumption that reduces energy waste. The system was tested across multiple parameters and found to yield desired effectiveness, reliability, and efficiency. Our utilization of the ESP8266 and ThingSpeak is able to handle extensive inputs without significant delays or data losses. Results affirms the system ability to maintain stable performance even with more devices connected to the unit.
Phishing Website Detection via a Transfer Learning based XGBoost Meta-learner with SMOTE-Tomek Joy Agboi; Frances Uche Emordi; Christopher Chukwufunaya Odiakaose; Rebecca Okeoghene Idama; Evans Fubara Jumbo; Amanda Enaodona Oweimieotu; Peace Oguguo Ezzeh; Andrew Okonji Eboka; Anne Odoh; Eferhire Valentine Ugbotu; Paul Avwerosuoghene Onoma; Arnold Adimabua Ojugo; Tabitha Chukwudi Aghaunor; Amaka Patience Binitie; Christopher Chukwudi Onochie; Patrick Ogholuwarami Ejeh; Blessing Uche Nwozor
Journal of Fuzzy Systems and Control Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025): Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025)
Publisher : Peneliti Teknologi Teknik Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59247/jfsc.v3i3.325

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The widespread proliferation of smartphones has advanced portability, data access ease, mobility, and other merits; it has also birthed adversarial targeting of network resources that seek to compromise unsuspecting user devices. Increased susceptibility was traced to user's personality, which renders them repeatedly vulnerable to exploits. Our study posits a stacked learning model to classify malicious lures used by adversaries on phishing websites. Our hybrid fuses 3-base learners (i.e. Genetic Algorithm, Random Forest, Modular Net) with its output sent as input to the XGBoost. The imbalanced dataset was resolved via SMOTE-Tomek with predictors selected using a relief rank feature selection. Our hybrid yields F1 0.995, Accuracy 1.000, Recall 0.998, Precision 1.000, MCC 1.000, and Specificity 1.000 – to accurately classify all 3,316 cases of its held-out test dataset. Results affirm that it outperformed benchmark ensembles. The study shows that our proposed model, as explored on the UCI Phishing Website dataset, effectively classified phishing (cues and lures) contents on websites.
Co-Authors Amaka Patience Binitie Amanda Enaodona Oweimieotu Anderson Ise Orobor Andrew Okonji Eboka Anne Odoh Arnold Adimabua Ojugo Arnold Adimabua Ojugo Bimo Haryo Setyoko Blessing Uche Nwozor Blessing Uche Nwozor Chris Chukwudi Onochie Christopher Chukwudi Onochie Christopher Chukwufunaya Odiakaose Christopher Chukwufunaya Odiakaose De Rosal Ignatius Moses Setiadi Emeke Ugboh Emeke Ugboh Etika Kartikadarma Evans Fubara Jumbo Frances Uche Emordi Frances Uchechukwu Emordi Joy Agboi Joy Agboi Kizito Eluemunor Anazia Octara Pribadi Patrick Ogholuwarami Ejeh Patrick Ogholuwarami Ejeh Paul Avweresuoghene Onoma Paul Avwerosuoghene Onoma Peace Oguguo Ezzeh Peace Oguguo Ezzeh Rebecca Okeoghene Idama Robet Robet Suyud Widiono Tabitha Chukwudi Aghaunor Victor Ochuko Geteloma Victor Ochuko Geteloma