A digital image scrambling method based on a 2D cellular automaton, specifically the well-known Game of Life, produces an effective image encryption technique.

Purpose: Sea Lion Optimization (SLnO) algorithm involves the ability of exploration and exploitation phases, and it is able to solve combinatorial optimization problems. For these reasons, it is considered a global optimizer. The scheduling operation is completed by imitating the hunting behavior of sea lions. Design/methodology/approach: Cloud computing (CC) is a type of distributed computing, contributory in a massive number of available resources and demands, and its goal is sharing the resources as services over the internet. Because of the optimal using of these services is everlasting challenge, the issue of task scheduling in CC is significant. In this paper, a task scheduling technique for CC based on SLnO and multiple-objective model are proposed. It enables decreasing in overall completion time, cost and power consumption; and maximizes the resources utilization. The simulation results on the tested data illustrated that the SLnO scheduler performed better performance than other state-of-the-art schedulers in terms of makespan, cost, energy consumption, resources utilization and degree of imbalance. Findings: The performance of the SLnO, Vocalization of Whale Optimization Algorithm (VWOA), Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA), Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) and Round Robin (RR) algorithms for 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 independent cloud tasks on 8, 16 and 32 VMs was evaluated. The results show that SLnO algorithm has better performance than VWOA, WOA, GWO and RR in terms of makespan and imbalance degree. In addition, SLnO exhausts less power than VWOA, WOA, GWO and RR. More precisely, SLnO conserves 5.6, 21.96, 22.7 and 73.98% energy compared to VWOA, WOA, GWO and RR mechanisms, respectively. On the other hand, SLnO algorithm shows better performance than the VWOA and other algorithms. The SLnO algorithm's overall execution cost of scheduling the cloud tasks is minimized by 20.62, 39.9, 42.44 and 46.9% compared with VWOA, WOA, GWO and RR algorithms, respectively. Finally, the SLnO algorithm's average resource utilization is increased by 6, 10, 11.8 and 31.8% compared with those of VWOA, WOA, GWO and RR mechanisms, respectively. Originality/value: To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this work is original and has not been published elsewhere, nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Type 2 diabetes is a common life-changing disease that has been growing rapidly in recent years. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 90% of patients with diabetes worldwide have type 2 diabetes. Although there is no permanent cure for type 2 diabetes, this disease needs to be detected at an early stage to provide prognostic support to allied health professionals and develop an effective prevention plan. This can be accomplished by analyzing medical datasets using data mining and machine-learning techniques. Due to their efficiency, metaheuristic algorithms are now utilized in medical datasets for detecting chronic diseases, with better results than traditional methods. The main goal is to improve the performance of the existing approaches for the detection of type 2 diabetes. A bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm called cuttlefish was used to select the essential features in the medical data preprocessing stage. The performance of the proposed approach was compared to that of a well-known bio-inspired metaheuristic feature selection algorithm called the genetic algorithm. The features selected from the cuttlefish and genetic algorithms were used with different classifiers. The implementation was applied to two datasets: the Pima Indian diabetes dataset and the hospital Frankfurt diabetes dataset; generally, these datasets are asymmetry, but some of the features in these datasets are close to symmetry. The results show that the cuttlefish algorithm has better accuracy rates, particularly when the number of instances in the dataset increases.