Abstract Face Recognition is a challenging task for recognizing and detecting the identity of an individual. Although, plethora of work has already been done in the field of pattern recognition still there has been lot which has not been addressed in any of the literature. In the current research, we have presented a comparative analysis using three popularly known techniques for face recognition namely, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) using Eigen Faces, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) using Singular Value Decomposition, and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) using Gabor filters. These techniques are implemented and evaluated using various measuring metrics such as false acceptance, false recognition rate, and so on. We used ORL and Yale Face dataset to test the robustness of implemented algorithms. Results show that ANN model for face recognition outperforms the other two techniques by achieving more accurate results and shows the highest recognition rate of 97.49% on ORL database. Moreover, it is also observed that ANN model shows the minimum error count of about 2.502% on ORL database while it is 3.5% on Yale Face dataset. To evaluate further, the implemented techniques are compared with best known techniques in class implemented by various researchers.

Summary Due to the growth of applications and the integration of new customers into the world of computing systems, computing needs to be changed and to become more powerful and flexible than before. Meanwhile, cloud computing is presented as a model beyond a system that is currently capable of answering most request needs. Flexible infrastructure for cloud computing and virtualization technology provide new features to support business activities. Clouds are a very important topic that used secure management tools for storage, security and securing data centers in a flexible manner. One of the important matters in cloud technologies is virtual machine migration (VMM). There are different ways to implement the VMM, but because of the limitation of resources' energy, energy management is also very important and challenging. Due to the NP‐hard nature of this problem, this paper presents an energy‐aware VMM engine for cloud computing using the discrete bacterial foraging algorithm as a new collective behavior‐based metaheuristics algorithm. The CloudSim simulator is employed to investigate the efficiency of this method. The obtained results have shown that the proposed method improves the energy consumption and the migration count.

Abstract Precise modeling of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is a crucial issue in analyzing and controlling electrical energy production. In this paper, a novel semiexperimental model is proposed for forecasting of PEMFC output voltage. As well, the coevolution ribonucleic acid genetic algorithm (coRNA‐GA) is presented as a novel estimation approach for determination of proposed model coefficients. This optimization method is motivated by the biological RNA, encodes the chromosomes by RNA nucleotide basics, and accepts a few RNA operations. This paper proposed several genetic operators to preserve the diversity of particles, and two sets from particles are chosen using various validation functions. In these two subpopulations, different evolutionary methods have been employed for balancing of seeking and extraction. Input pressure of cathode is chosen in this paper as a further parameter for modifying the depiction of concentration overvoltage (Vcon) in the case of conventional Amphlett's PEMFC system. Finally, the performance of the coRNA‐GA algorithm, as well as the precision of the obtained model, is authenticated via empirical results. Also, the obtained results are compared with some other methods, and the superiority of the proposed model is demonstrated in voltage prediction accuracy.