PURPOSE To develop a reliable and valid quality of life questionnaire for Indian patients with diabetes. METHODS A draft of 75 questions was prepared on the basis of expert opinion, focus group discussions, review of existing literature and detailed semi-structured interviews of patients with diabetes with the intention of including all aspects of diabetes-specific and quality of life conside...

We consider the downlink of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cellular network consisting multiple cooperative UAVs, whose operations are coordinated by a central ground controller using wireless fronthaul links, to serve user equipments (UEs). A problem jointly designing UAVs’ positions, transmit beamforming, as well UAV-UE association is formulated in form mixed integer nonlinear prog...

Many problems can be characterized by several competing objectives. Multiple objective optimization problems have recently received considerable attention specially by the evolutionary algorithms community. Their proposals, however, require an adequate codiication of the problem into strings, which is not always easy to do. This paper introduces a new algorithm, called MDQL, for multiple object...

Deep learning has improved state-of-the-art results in many important fields, and has been the subject of much research in recent years, leading to the development of several systems for facilitating deep learning. Current systems, however, mainly focus on model building and training phases, while the issues of data management, model sharing, and lifecycle management are largely ignored. Deep l...

In recent times, malware has progressed by utilizing distinct advanced machine learning techniques for detection. However, the model becomes complicated and singular value decomposition depth-based detectors failed to detect significantly with minimum time overhead. This paper proposes a multinomial linked latent dirichlet modular double q (MLLD-MDQL) efficiently based on network behavior patte...

A derivative-free optimization (DFO) method is an that does not make use of derivative information in order to find the optimal solution. It advantageous for solving real-world problems which only available about objective function output a specific input. In this paper, we develop framework DFO called DQL method. designed be versatile hybrid capable performing direct search, quadratic-model an...