CSAE 103 – METHODS OF RESEARCH

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
2ndSemester, School Year 2022-2023

NAME: ________________________________ Score: ________

Course, Year &Section: __________________ Date: _________

I. There will be two (2) Abstracts of Studies. Read them very carefully and answer
the succeeding questions concisely. You are given one and a half hours to finish
the exam. No more submissions will be accepted once the time is up. Once
submitted, answers cannot be edited.

A.

Research Title: Identification of Philippine Herbal Medicine Plant Leaf Using Artificial
Neural Network

Source: R. G. de Luna et al. (2017). Identification of Philippine herbal medicine plant

leaf using artificial neural network. IEEE 9th International Conference on Humanoid,
Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment
and Management (HNICEM), Manila, 2017, pp. 1-8, doi:10.1109/HNICEM.2017.8269470.

Abstract:

The study described in this paper consists of a system that involves image
processing techniques to extract relevant features related to leaf in conjunction with
using artificial neural network in order to detect and identify some Philippine herbal
plants. Real samples of twelve different herbal medicine plant leaves are collected
where each leaf are isolated in single image. Several features are extracted using
techniques in image processing. With the artificial neural network acting as
autonomous brain network, the system can identify the species of the herbal
medicine plant leaves being tested. The system can also provide information about
the diseases the herbal plant can cure. For the training, a features dataset of 600
images coming from 50 images per herbal plant are used. With the aid of Python, a
neural network model with optimized parameters are established producing 98.16 %
identification for the whole dataset. To evaluate the actual performance of the
system, a separate 72 sample images of herbal plants are tested with the neural
network model implemented in MATLAB. Experimental results demonstrate a 98.61 %
accuracy of herbal plant identification.

Questions:
1. Why is the research categorized under the area of COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES?

2. What is the main objective of the study?

3. What method did the researcher use to attain the objective of the study?

4. What can the system described in the abstract do (system features)?

5. What is the result of the experiment done in the study?

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B.

Research Title:Research Paper Recommender Systems on Big Scholarly Data

Source: Chen, T. and Le, M. (July 2018). Research Paper Recommender Systems on
Big Scholarly Data. Conference Paper. Available at
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-97289-3_20

Abstract:

Rapidly growing scholarly data has been coined Big Scholarly Data (BSD),
which includes hundreds of millions of authors, papers, citations, and other
scholarly information. The effective utilization of BSD may expedite various
research-related activities, which include research management, collaborator
discovery, expert finding and recommender systems. Research paper recommender
systems using smaller datasets have been studied with inconclusive results in the
past. To facilitate research to tackle the BSD challenge, we built an analytic
platform and developed a research paper recommender system. The recommender
system may help researchers find research papers closely matching their interests.
The system is not only capable of recommending proper papers to individuals based
on his/her profile, but also able to recommend papers for a research field using the
aggregated profiles of researchers in the research field.

The BSD analytic platform is hosted on a computer cluster running data center
operating system and initiated its data using Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)
dataset, which includes citation information from more than 126 million academic
articles and over 528 million citation relationships between these articles. The
research paper recommender system was implemented using Scala programming
language and algorithms supplemented by Spark MLib. The performance of the
recommender system is evaluated by the recall rate of the Top-N recommendations.
The recall rates fall in the range of 0.3 to 0.6. Our recommender system currently
bears the same limitation as other systems that are based on user-based
collaborative filtering mechanisms. The cold-start problem can be mitigated by
supplementing it with the item-based collaborative filtering mechanism.
Questions:

1. Why is the research categorized under the area of APPLIED COMPUTING?

2. What is the main objective of the study?

3. What method did the researcher use to attain the objective of the study?

4. What can the system described in the abstract do (system features)?

5. What is the implication of the recall rates result that fall in the range of 0.3 to 0.6?

Prepared by: Recommending Approval: Approved:

FLORIBETH P. CUISON CHARLIE S. MARZAN DARWIN C. LLAVORE

Professor IV Program Chair Dean
BSCS Straight Curriculum

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