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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit"

Aristotle

My Research Areas of Interest

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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the study that includes computational procedures to perform actions that human beings do and require a certain amount of intelligence. Communication and learning represent the ways that humans show their intelligence. Both ways require certain mental skills like synthesis, analysis, decision making, judgment, organizing, reasoning, hypothesis, interpretation etc. Artificial intelligence (AI) involves knowledge representation, search, perception and inference. To generate results, artificial intelligence (AI) must define and read the data in forms that will allow representation and processing. The way to succeed that is search and inference. Referring to search there must sophisticated search algorithms to find the optimal solutions. Then inferences are drawn for each situation. The way through artificial intelligence (AI) leads to decision making start from data selection process, continues pre-processing data, then data transformation, data mining plays a key role to entire process, finally results evaluation will lead to decision making.
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Digital Strategy
Data Analytics
E-Business Development
E-Commerce
Social Media Marketing
Internet of Behaviors (IoB)
User Behavior
User Experience
Consumer Behavior
Marine Life Science

The Way We Search Defines The Way We Live

Traveling Salesman Problem - A Lifechanging Game

Find The Best Possible Option

Given a list of objectives and the efforts needed between each one of the objectives, what is the shortest possible effort that is needed to accomplish each objective?

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a mathematical problem that asks the question: "Given a list of cities and the distances between them, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the starting city?"

The TSP is a classic example of a combinatorial optimization problem, and its solution has important practical applications in fields such as transportation, logistics, and manufacturing.

The concept of the TSP can also be applied metaphorically to the way we approach problem-solving and decision-making in our daily lives. Just as the TSP asks us to find the most efficient route between multiple points, our approach to searching for information and solutions can shape the way we navigate our lives.

If we approach problems with a narrow, linear mindset, we may miss out on alternative perspectives and creative solutions. Conversely, if we approach problems with an open-minded, exploratory mindset, we may discover unexpected connections and possibilities.

In this sense, the TSP serves as a reminder that the way we search defines the way we live, and that the paths we choose can have a significant impact on the outcomes we achieve.

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