Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) poses the VNF placement problem under multiple, potentially conflicting objectives, such as Quality of Service (QoS), costs, and resource efficiency. This work treats VNF placement as a many-objective optimization problem (MaOP) and presents two primary contributions: (i) a correlation analysis of state-of-the-art objectives to reduce dimensionality while maintaining representativeness, resulting in…

The technology of Big Data got the capability to process large amounts of data, manage them effectively and make retrieval whenever it is required. Decision making in any organisation is a challenging task since decisions need to be made based on the accessibility of data and its status, this becomes more challenging especially in large…

Dysphoria is a state faced when one experienced disappointment. If it is not handled properly, dysphoria may trigger acute stress, anxiety and depression. Typically, the individual who experienced dysphoria are in-denial because dysphoria is always being associated with negative connotations such as incompetency to handle pressure, weak personality and lack of will power. To date,…