Detection of the diseases on tomatoes in advance and making early intervention and treating increases the production amount, efficiency and quality which will satisfy the consumer with a more affordable shelf price. In this way, the efforts of the farmers who are waiting for the harvest throughout the season will not be wasted. In this paper a compact convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed for diseases identification task where the network is comprised of only 6 layers that is why it is computationally cheap in terms of parameters employed in the network. This network is trained by using PlantVillage’s tomato crops dataset which consists of 10 classes (9 diseases and 1 healthy). The proposed network is first compared with well-known pre-trained ImageNet deep networks using transfer learning approach. The results show that the proposed network performed better than pre-trained knowledge transferred deep network models and it is shown that there is no need to constitute very large, complicated network architectures to achieve a superior tomato diseases identification performance. Furthermore, to increase the performance of proposed network, data augmentation techniques are also employed during the network training. The proposed network achieves an accuracy, F₁ score, Matthews correlation coefficient, true positive rate and true negative rate of 99.70%, 98.49%, 98.31%, 98.49% and 99.81%, respectively using 9,077 unseen test images. Our results are better than or similar to the results of the state-of-the-art deep neural network approaches that used PlantVillage database and the proposed method employs the cheapest architecture.

In real world uncertainty exist in almost every problem. Decision-makers are often unable to describe the situation accurately or predict the outcome of potential solutions due to uncertainty. To resolve these complicated situations, which include uncertainty, we use expert descriptive knowledge which can be expressed as fuzzy data. Pakistan, a country with a key geographic and strategic position in South Asia, relies heavily on irrigation for its economy, which involves careful consideration of the limits. A variety of factors can affect yield, including the weather and water availability. Crop productivity from reservoirs and other sources is affected by climate change. The project aims to optimize Kharif and Rabbi crop output in canal-irrigated areas. The optimization model is designed to maximize net profit and crop output during cropping seasons. Canal-connected farmed areas are variables in the crop planning model. Seasonal crop area, crop cultivated area, crop water requirement, canal capacity, reservoir evaporation, minimum and maximum storage, and overflow limits affect the two goals. The uncertainties associated with the entire production planning are incorporated by considering suitable membership functions and solved using the Multi-Objective Neutrosophic Fuzzy Linear Programming Model (MONFLP). For the validity and effectiveness of the technique, the model is tested for the wheat and rice production in Pakistan. The study puts forth the advantages of neutrosophic fuzzy algorithm which has been proposed, and the analyses derived can be stated to deal with yield uncertainty in the neutrosophic environments more effectively by considering the parameters which are prone to abrupt changes characterized by unpredictability.

Malaria is a blood disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite that is transmitted through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes. These mosquitoes can cross borders without passports or visas, making malaria a global health concern. To effectively treat malaria, infectious disease specialists must monitor the efficacy of the treatment by counting the number of parasites in a patient’s blood at various time intervals. However, this task is challenging because it involves examining thin or thick blood smear samples under a microscope, which can be tiring to the human eye, particularly when there are many infected patients or when there is a shortage of clinical experts. In such cases, rapid diagnosis is crucial. One approach is to capture microscopic images of blood smear samples using a camera and then employ deep learning-based object detection models to detect and count the infected red blood cells. In this study, state-of-the-art object detection models, including CenterNet, EfficientDet, Faster R-CNN, RetinaNet, and YOLOv8, were explored. The dataset was generated using thin blood smear images in the laboratory. The results revealed that YOLOv8s outperformed the other models, achieving an score of 0.9031 and an mAP@[0.50:0.05:0.95] score of 0.5957. This study also found that various model combinations and ensemble strategies could improve the detection of malaria parasites. Specifically, the weighted boxes fusion ensembling approach achieved an score of 0.9186 and an mAP@[0.50:0.05:0.95] score of 0.6196. In contrast, the non-maximum weighted method achieved an score of 0.9324 and an mAP@[0.50:0.05:0.95] score of 0.6214.

Geographically dispersed Fog Computing architecture ubiquitously connected to a range of heterogeneous nodes at the edge of the network can provide cooperative flexible, and variable computations, communications, and storage services. Several fog computing methods, models, and techniques have been used to solve cloud issues. The fuzzy theory has also been used in many aspects of fog computing. Objectives: This work presents a systematic literature review of the use of fuzzy theory in Fog Computing, highlighting the main practical motivations, classification types in research approaches, fuzzy methods used, popular evaluation tools, open issues, and future trends. Methods: The investigations were systematically performed using fuzzy theory in fog computing, and four databases which are ScienceDirect, Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and IEEE Xplore Digital Library from 2015 to 2022, were used to analyse their performance evaluation, architecture, and applications. Results: 94 articles were selected based on fuzzy theory in fog computing using different methods, models, and techniques, based on the proposed exclusion and inclusion criteria. The results of the taxonomy were divided into five major classes: task and resource management, intrusion detection systems, trust management, and healthcare services. Discussion: Applications requiring real-time, low latency, and quick responses are well suited for fog computing. These studies show that resource sharing improves the fog computing architecture by delivering reduced latency, distributed processing, improved scalability, better security, fault tolerance, and privacy. Conclusion: The majority of the time, research areas on fuzzy theory in fog computing are crucially significant. We conclude that this review will enhance research capacity, thereby expanding and creating new research domains.

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is essential to ensure environmental compliance and commercial growth in the current climate. Businesses constantly look for fresh concepts and techniques for ensuring environmental sustainability. To keep up with the new trends in environmental concerns related to company management and procedures, Green Supplier Selection (GSS) criteria are added to the traditional supplier selection processes. This study aims to identify general and environmental supplier selection criteria to provide a framework that can assist decision-makers in choosing and prioritizing appropriate green supplier selection. The development and implementation of decision support systems aimed to solve these difficulties at a rapid rate. In order to manage inaccurate data and simulate decision-making problems. Fuzzy sets introduced by Zadeh, are a useful technique to handle the imperfectness and uncertainty in different problems. Although fuzzy sets can handle incomplete information in different real worlds problems, but its cannot handle all type of uncertainty such as incomplete and indeterminate data. Therefore different extensions of fuzzy sets such as intuitionistic fuzzy, pythagorean fuzzy and q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets introduced to address the problems of uncertainty by considering the membership and non-membership grade. However, these concepts have some shortcomings in the handling uncertainty with sub-attributes. To overcome this difficulties Khan et al. developed the structure of q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft sets by combining q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets with hypersoft sets. A remarkable and beneficial research work is done in the field of q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft sets, and then we think about the application. In this paper, we use the structure of q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft in multi-criteria supplier selection problems. For this, we present aggregation operator to solve multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems with q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft (q-ROFH) information, known as ordered weighted geometric aggregation operator. Since the uncertainty and vagueness is an unavoidable feature of multi-criteria decision-making problems, the proposed structure can be a useful tool for decision making in an uncertain environment. Further, the expert opinions were investigated using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique, which helped identify interrelationship and causal preference of green supplier evaluation aspects that used aggregation operators. Finally, a numerical example of the proposed method for the task of Green Supplier Selection is presented.