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Hydroponic plant cultivation is booming, but stock and sales are hard to predict. Poor prediction can cause farmers to overstock and lose money. This study suggests a framework that uses several machine learning models, including Linear Regression (LR), Random Forest (RF), Decision Tree (DT), and Extreme Gradient Boosting. "Ensemble Learning," which combines these models, should yield more accurate and generalizable results than a single model. This framework is assessed using historical hydroponic plant sales data and related factors like price, weather, and market trends. The model's performance is measured by the difference between predictions and actual values using RMSE and MAE metrics. This framework should improve hydroponic plant stock and sales predictions. Farmers can make better production, inventory, and harvest distribution decisions. Besides reducing financial losses, this reduces food waste and improves food security.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death globally, necessitating effective predictive systems. This research aims to analyze the effectiveness of various machine learning (ML) models—Logistic Regression (LR), Random Forest (RF), Naive Bayes (NB), Support Vector Classifier (SVC), and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)—in predicting heart disease using publicly available health data. The study involved pre-processing data, training models, and evaluating them using accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and G-Mean metrics. The results show that KNN is the most reliable model, with the highest accuracy of 92%. Significant health features were identified, such as chest pain type and maximum heart rate. The study contributes to improving clinical decision support systems by identifying optimal ML models for heart disease prediction.

The growth of e-commerce in Indonesia has led to the emergence of various online shopping platforms, with Shopee being one of the most popular in Semarang City. User reviews on the Shopee application serve as a valuable data source for analyzing customer satisfaction levels; however, the large volume of data requires a systematic and accurate analytical approach. This study aims to analyze user review sentiments of the Shopee application using three machine learning algorithms: Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, and Support Vector Machine (SVM), as well as comparing the accuracy of these three algorithms. This research utilized 1000 reviews collected through web scraping from the Play Store, which were categorized into three classifications: positive, neutral, and negative sentiments. The analysis process encompassed pre-processing stages, feature extraction using TF-IDF, and classification using Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, and Support Vector Machine algorithms. The results demonstrated that the Random Forest algorithm achieved the highest accuracy at 96.19%, followed by Support Vector Machine with 95.71% accuracy, and Naïve Bayes with 84.76% accuracy. This research highlights the effectiveness of Random Forest and SVM in classifying user review sentiments towards the Shopee application.

This research focuses on the application of predictive analytics in digital classrooms to track and predict student performance. The study aims to address the limitations of traditional teacher judgment, which often relies on limited data points and subjective assessments. The research proposes a machine learning-driven approach that utilizes data from Learning Management Systems (LMS), including student engagement, academic performance, and attendance, to predict student success or failure with greater accuracy. Various machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF), are applied to develop a predictive model that can identify at-risk students early. The findings show that the model achieves an accuracy rate of over 85%, with key predictors including past academic performance and student engagement. This model outperforms traditional assessment methods by providing real-time, data-driven insights that enable timely interventions. The study concludes that predictive analytics has significant potential to enhance educational outcomes by offering personalized support and improving curriculum design. However, challenges such as data integration, fairness, and privacy concerns must be addressed for broader implementation.

This research explores various machine learning approaches, including deep learning and ensemble methods, to predict climate change indicators. We focus on temperature and precipitation trends using large datasets spanning multiple decades. By comparing the performance of algorithms like CNN, RNN, and random forests, we identify the most accurate models for specific climate variables. Our findings demonstrate that ensemble models provide better accuracy and reliability, especially for temperature predictions.

Customer attrition has become the focus of many businesses today – since the online market space has continued to proffer customers, various choices and alternatives to goods, services, and products for their monies. Businesses must seek to improve value, meet customers' teething demands/needs, enhance their strategies toward customer retention, and better monetize. The study compares the effects of data resampling schemes on predicting customer churn for both Random Forest (RF) and XGBoost ensembles. Data resampling schemes used include: (a) default mode, (b) random-under-sampling RUS, (c) synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE), and (d) SMOTE-edited nearest neighbor (SMOTEEN). Both tree-based ensembles were constructed and trained to assess how well they performed with the chi-square feature selection mode. The result shows that RF achieved F1 0.9898, Accuracy 0.9973, Precision 0.9457, and Recall 0.9698 for the default, RUS, SMOTE, and SMOTEEN resampling, respectively. Xgboost outperformed Random Forest with F1 0.9945, Accuracy 0.9984, Precision 0.9616, and Recall 0.9890 for the default, RUS, SMOTE, and SMOTEEN, respectively. Studies support that the use of SMOTEEN resampling outperforms other schemes; while, it attributed XGBoost enhanced performance to hyper-parameter tuning of its decision trees. Retention strategies of recency-frequency-monetization were used and have been found to curb churn and improve monetization policies that will place business managers ahead of the curve of churning by customers.

Background: Additive manufacturing (AM) requires reliable and efficient defect detection mechanisms to ensure structural integrity and product quality, yet conventional inspection approaches remain time-consuming and often unsuitable for real-time industrial deployment. Objective: This study aims to develop and experimentally validate an artificial intelligence based vision inspection system capable of accurately detecting surface defects in AM components. Methods: A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture utilizing pretrained backbones (ResNet and EfficientNet) was implemented with a transfer learning strategy and data augmentation techniques. High-resolution AM surface images representing porosity, cracks, and layer misalignment were used for training and evaluation. Model performance was assessed using Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-score, and mean Average Precision (mAP), and comparative benchmarking was conducted against traditional machine learning models such as Support Vector Machine and Random Forest. Results: The proposed CNN-based models significantly outperformed conventional approaches, achieving up to 95.1% Accuracy and 92.8% mAP. The EfficientNet backbone demonstrated superior generalization capability, particularly in balancing Precision and Recall, indicating robust defect detection performance across multiple categories. These findings confirm that AI-driven inspection frameworks provide scalable and reliable quality assurance solutions for advanced manufacturing environments.

Skin diseases are highly prevalent and transmissible. It has been one of the major health problems that most people face. The diseases are dangerous to the skin and tend to spread over time. A patient can be cured of these skin diseases if they are detected on time and treated early. However, it is difficult to identify these diseases and provide the right medications. This study's research objectives involve developing an ensemble machine learning based model for classifying Erythemato-Squamous Diseases (ESD). The ensemble techniques combine five different classifiers, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Classifier, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting, by merging their predictions and utilizing them as input features for a meta-classifier during training. We tested and validated the ensemble model using the dataset from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) repository to assess its effectiveness. The Individual classifiers achieved different accuracies: Naïve Bayes (85.41%), Support Vector Machine (98.61%), Random Forest (97.91%), Decision Tree (95.13%), Gradient Boosting (95.83%). The stacking method yielded a higher accuracy of 99.30% and a precision of 1.00, recall of 0.96, F1 score of 0.97, and specificity of 1.00 compared to the base models. The study confirms the effectiveness of ensemble learning techniques in classifying ESD.

Fraudsters increasingly exploit unauthorized credit card information for financial gain, targeting un-suspecting users, especially as financial institutions expand their services to semi-urban and rural areas. This, in turn, has continued to ripple across society, causing huge financial losses and lowering user trust implications for all cardholders. Thus, banks cum financial institutions are today poised to implement fraud detection schemes. Five algorithms were trained with and without the application of the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) to assess their performance. These algorithms included Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Naïve Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Logistic Regression (LR). The methodology was implemented and tested through an API using Flask and Streamlit in Python. Before applying SMOTE, the RF classifier outperformed the others with an accuracy of 0.9802, while the accuracies for LR, KNN, NB, and SVM were 0.9219, 0.9435, 0.9508, and 0.9008, respectively. Conversely, after the application of SMOTE, RF achieved a prediction accuracy of 0.9919, whereas LR, KNN, NB, and SVM attained accuracies of 0.9805, 0.9210, 0.9125, and 0.8145, respectively. These results highlight the effectiveness of combining RF with SMOTE to enhance prediction accuracy in credit card fraud detection.

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. The journal was alerted to issues within this article, including significant overlap in content, methodology, and visual materials with another previously published article: "Social Engineering Attack Classifications on Social Media Using Deep Learning" (DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2023.032373) published in Computers, Materials & Continua in 2023. Upon thorough investigation, it was found that the article substantially reproduces ideas, methodologies, and figures from the original work without proper attribution, violating the ethical standards of the journal and academic publishing. The authors were contacted and asked to provide an explanation for these concerns. The corresponding author acknowledged the oversight and accepted responsibility for the duplication. Consequently, the authors formally requested the withdrawal of the paper. As per journal policy, the Editor-in-Chief has decided to retract the article due to a breach of publication ethics. The journal sincerely regrets that these issues were not detected during the manuscript screening and review process and apologizes to the authors of the original article, as well as to the readers of the journal. For more information on the journal’s ethical policies, please visit: Retraction Policy.

The occurrence of scorch during the production of flexible polyurethane is a significant issue that negatively impacts foam products' resilience and generally jeopardizes their integrity. The likelihood of foam product failure can be decreased by optimizing production variables based on machine learning algorithms used to predict the occurrence of scorch. Investigating technology is required because prevention is the best approach to dealing with this problem. Hence, machine learning algorithms were trained to predict the occurrence of scorch using the thermodynamic profile of polyurethane foam, which is made up of recorded production variables. A variety of heuristics algorithms were trained and assessed for how well they performed, namely XGBoost, Decision trees, Random Forest, K-nearest neighbors, Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machines, and Logistic Regression. The XGboost ensemble was found to perform best. It outperformed others with an accuracy of 98.3% (i.e., 0.983), followed by logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, K-nearest neighbors, and naïve Bayes, yielding a training accuracy of 88.1%, 66.7%, 84.2%, 87.5%, and 67.5% respectively. The XGBoost was finally used, yielding 2-distinct cases of non(occurrence) of scorch. Ensemble demonstrates that it is quite capable and is an effective way to predict the occurrence of scorch.

Rice plays a vital role as the main food source for almost half of the global population, contributing more than 21% of the total calories humans need. Production predictions are important for determining import-export policies. This research proposes the XGBoost method to predict rice harvests globally using FAO and World Bank datasets. Feature analysis, removal of duplicate data, and parameter tuning were carried out to support the performance of the XGBoost method. The results showed excellent performance based on which reached 0.99. Evaluation of model performance using metrics such as MSE, and MAE measured by k-fold validation show that XGBoost has a high ability to predict crop yields accurately compared to other regression methods such as Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boost (GB), Bagging Regressor (BR) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN). Apart from that, an ablation study was also carried out by comparing the performance of each model with various features and state-of-the-art. The results prove the superiority of the proposed XGBoost method. Where results are consistent, and performance is better, this model can effectively support agricultural sustainability, especially rice production.

This study explores the role of sentiment analysis as a predictive tool for understanding and forecasting product launch success in the digital market. Sentiment analysis involves the classification of consumer sentiment expressed on social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, and it can significantly impact businesses by predicting consumer behavior and product performance. The research highlights the relationship between social media sentiment and product success, demonstrating that positive sentiment is strongly correlated with higher sales and consumer engagement, while negative sentiment can lead to declines. Machine learning models, including Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Random Forest, were employed to classify sentiment from large volumes of social media data and correlate it with product performance indicators such as sales volume and consumer interaction. The study found that sentiment analysis models were highly effective in predicting product success, with positive sentiment generally driving product profitability and negative sentiment posing a potential threat to brand reputation. Moreover, the analysis showed that social media sentiment provides real-time insights into consumer perceptions, enabling businesses to quickly adjust marketing strategies and product development plans. These findings underscore the importance of integrating sentiment analysis into product launch evaluations and strategic decision-making. Future research should explore the integration of sentiment analysis with other predictive market models and investigate the effects of fake reviews and post-purchase consumer behaviors on product success.

Rapid technological developments encourage the banking sector to continue to innovate so as not to be left behind. Tight competition in this industry is caused by customers' freedom to choose products and services that are considered more profitable. This phenomenon is known as Customer Churn, which is a condition where customers choose not to continue subscribing to a particular company. The method applied uses a machine learning approach and customer segmentation approach. The churn analysis results show that the machine learning model, especially the random forest model, has the highest level of accuracy with an F1-Score of 91%. This model has the potential to reduce churn rates from 20.4% to 5.61%, illustrating its positive impact. Apart from that, for the clustering results, the K-Prototype model was obtained for the clustering model with the highest Silhouette Score number of 0.1557 and 4 clusters were obtained.