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Papers by francis balahadia
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research
Purpose-This study aims to develop and evaluate TYFIREQUAKE virtual reality simulation of fire, e... more Purpose-This study aims to develop and evaluate TYFIREQUAKE virtual reality simulation of fire, earthquake, and typhoon scenarios using Virtual Reality (VR) as an alternative training tool and application for increasing the level of disaster preparedness to be able to apply the safety and precautionary measures in emergencies. Methodology-The proponents applied the Rapid Application Development (RAD) model as a software development model and followed the different phases such as outlining the requirements, user designs and input, constructions, and finalization of the software. The study incorporates different software for creating virtual environments, layout designs of scenarios, characters, controllers, interactive elements, and AI non-player characters. The system developed the desired output and functionalities like presenting the Before, During, and After scenarios of each disaster with time monitoring and assessment 1386 Results-Moreover, it was evaluated using test cases such as functionality case testing, sharing test, installation, and load test, portability test, performance test, and system test wherein the system Passed all tests. In this study, the design for simulated training on the disaster was discovered to be capable of exposing a person to a disastrous environment without endangering the person immersed in the condition. Conclusions-This virtual training program for earthquakes, fire, typhoons, and tsunami/floods can be used without a cost or by spending a lot of money on deploying reallife trainers and equipment for physical drills. The results of this study suggest that a similar design for a larger community may be provided to local cities mandated by the government to propagate disaster awareness and emergency preparedness programs. Recommendations-It is suggested that the developed mobile application can be implemented in emergency response teams as a tool for disseminating awareness of disasters, especially to the children. Additional features that can provide feedback, a database as a repository of data and information for crafting more insightful ideas in generating activities on disaster prevention. Research Implications-The TYFIREQUAKE mobile application could be an effective training tool for equipping children with sufficient knowledge and skills in responding to typhoons, fires, and earthquakes. They can learn the proper strategies for coping with disasters specifically in identifying the possible safe places, maximizing the available resources, and action plans for recovery before, during, and after the disasters.
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research
Purpose-This study developed an online crime reporting system that uses artificial intelligence t... more Purpose-This study developed an online crime reporting system that uses artificial intelligence to analyze crime incident reports to provide up-to-date crime statistics, map crime hot locations, and manage dynamic databases. Method-The knowledge discovery process in databases (KDD) was utilized for the model development. Scrum, an agile development technique, proved helpful in the iterative and Research Implications-The academe and local law enforcement agencies must collaboratively develop strategies that reinforce the importance of community engagement. The system provides public access through geo-mapping that supports the community, or locally based crime prevention, instead of targeting individuals, targets areas where the risks of becoming involved in crime or being victimized are high.
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research
Purpose-The legislative branch of a province is generally in charge of making laws. In addition t... more Purpose-The legislative branch of a province is generally in charge of making laws. In addition to this, they are also in charge of enacting programs and policies for the general well-being of the citizens within the province. The general public may not be able to keep track of legislative performances since there is a growing number of legislative-generated documents. This study developed a system that integrated the application of topic modeling in crafting ordinances, resolutions, and policies for the Province of Laguna. Method-This research employed the SCRUM methodology process in the development of the system and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling using R language to classify text within a document to a particular topic and created model through Observation-based evaluation and Quantitative metrics such as Perplexity and Coherence to determine k-value (number of topics) based on the corpus wherein it was collected in the Twitter and Legislative Management System Portal. Results-The results showed the LDA used returned the optimal value for perplexity and coherence which was determined by testing different k-values ranging from 1 to 2 which is presented to users as a line graph. The developed system provided a system module 1163 that can enable users to find the optimal number of topics (k value) and present the results in a visually appealing interface on the user's account portal which gives insights into what possible new ideas in formulation ordinances, resolutions, and policies in Laguna. Conclusion-The developed system in this study allows legislators of the province of Laguna to collect public posts from the social networking site Twitter and use Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling. It also provides an interactive graph that allows users to explore the LDA model generated by the system and helps to reveal topics of concern from the community that leads to government officials in formulating policies and ordinances appropriate for the needs of the community. Recommendations-It is recommended to develop an additional module that automatically generates the topic model based on the selected LDA evaluation procedure and should be tested in a larger-sized corpus to further test its capabilities as well as to improve the list of the stop words and noise removal feature. Implications-The system can be used to simply accomplish the document trail page where users can preview document details and the application of the visualization techniques in the system helps to facilitate the to provide an impression by extracting words, and topics that can be a basis of crafting programs and priorities of the government officials in taking actions to the citizen concerns.
2022 2nd International Conference in Information and Computing Research (iCORE)
2018 IEEE 10th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology,Communication and Control, Environment and Management (HNICEM), 2018
Fire safety and prevention has always been a subject of concern in the Philippines, as fire incid... more Fire safety and prevention has always been a subject of concern in the Philippines, as fire incidents are a common cause of economic and ecological troubles every year. The aim of this study was to identify significant relationship of fire incidents in terms of location and time to build a model of fire risk forecasting in the capital city of Manila. A total of 3,506 fire incidents were recorded by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) during the six-year period from 2011 to 2016. The overall record are 3506 fire incidents included in the study which analyzed using the Pearson’s Chi-square statistical technique. The summer months February to May showed the utmost number of fire, and that most fire incidents occurred from 9 AM to 11 AM and from 6 PM to 10 PM. The highest number of fire incidents recorded happened in the densely-populated districts of Sampaloc and Tondo. The study shows that there are no significant relationship of location (space) to time and to day however in terms of location to month and year show highly significant. The findings of this study can prove useful to the BFP office in Manila, in that they need to look at recurring trends in fire incidents in terms of location and month to create programs aimed towards fire prevention awareness. This research can be extended to include other spatial factors such as weather conditions and geographical coordinates in the assessment of fire incidents.
TENCON 2018 - 2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2018
Existing literature outlining models of e-government was reviewed to find a suitable framework fo... more Existing literature outlining models of e-government was reviewed to find a suitable framework for restructuring the official website of the municipality of Paete in Laguna province. The research sought out for improvements to the local government portal that will enhance the delivery of services to citizens. With this aim the researcher chose a conceptual model that promotes interactivity, facilitates information collection, and integrates transformative approaches to governance. A new system incorporating Tambouris’ e-Participation Stages was proposed, with modifications to address the general needs of the public, facilitate citizen participation, streamline local government processes, and increase responsiveness from government officials. Upon implementation, the stakeholders will be asked to evaluate the proposed system through a series of direct and indirect interviews. Further exploratory and longitudinal studies involving other LGUs in Laguna are recommended to assess the eff...
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the results of spatiotemporal analysis of the 3,50... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the results of spatiotemporal analysis of the 3,506 fire incidents in the city of Manila from 2011 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach A spatiotemporal and statistical analysis was carried out to determine the pattern of fire incidents in the city of Manila. Findings Fire incidence in Manila did not exhibit any pattern in terms of time, day of the week or month of the year. However, fire incidence did exhibit a pattern in terms of location. Faulty electrical connections are the major cause of fires throughout the year and throughout the 14 municipalities of Manila. Thus, the null hypothesis stating that spatiotemporal characteristics of cases of fire in the city of Manila do not exhibit a pattern is partially rejected. Research limitations/implications Future studies may investigate the influence of building maintenance, government control, and cooking and cigarette-disposal behaviors on fire occurrence. It is recommended that the stud...
International Journal of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Crime has a big impact in both the human lives and the society’s growth, which needs to be addres... more Crime has a big impact in both the human lives and the society’s growth, which needs to be addressed and controlled. Machine learning algorithms as the fanciest technology to assist decision makers in policy making has proven its reliability in showing unseen patterns in crime. This research aims to examine the capability of trees and ensemble trees in classifying crime through model development. Experiments were done to enhance the capability of the ensembles in both classification and regression. Feature extraction like synthetic minority oversampling technique was applied in order to address the problem in the imbalanced data. Different metrics relevant to classification and regression were considered in evaluating the performance of each model used. With the use of different metrics, Gradient boosted tree was found to have better classification capability in crime dataset after outperforming decision tree and random forest in both classification and regression problem. Furthermo...
International Journal of Academe and Industry Research
This study focused on the awareness of about the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015 in the universi... more This study focused on the awareness of about the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015 in the university academic staff and challenges encountered of all stakeholders in the university. Also, it is deals on the correlation of respondents’ demographic profile to the level of awareness and challenges. The study used a descriptive research design and a convenience sampling technique with a total of 100 survey participants from senior officials, professors, faculty, and non-faculty personnel. To collect responses, the researchers adapted a structured survey questionnaire used in this study and generated Google Forms. Descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentage, and weighted mean were used to analyse the extracted data. The spearman was used for data inferential analysis. The results of the study show that employees’ level of awareness to the implementation of ISO 9001:2015 are Fully Aware and Aware, particularly in terms of the quality mission, vision, and objectives. However,...
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2017
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2021
Purpose–This study aims to contribute to the fire research by developing a fire report management... more Purpose–This study aims to contribute to the fire research by developing a fire report management system for the BFP that can analyze spatiotemporal attributes of fire and 520apply Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) methods to identify patterns of fire incidents in the city of Manila.Method–The proponents applied the Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) methods for the processing of identifying fire patterns as well as the application of SMOTE, One-Hot Encoding, and Agile Method as Software developmental model. Result–The records obtained from the BFP headquarters in Manila had a total of 3,506 cases during the six years from 2011 to 2016. The accuracy of the Decision Tree classifier model was 95.92%.Using KDD approach, it generated decision rules fire pattern in Manila. Most fire causes fall under the 'Under Investigation' category while Residential-Commercial types of establishments in Intramuros were affected. Lastly, the fire occurred in the mornings, during Sunday...
2019 International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), 2019
This study utilized data mining and geo-mapping methods to develop a fire risk management system ... more This study utilized data mining and geo-mapping methods to develop a fire risk management system for the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in the city of Manila. This system was integrated into a web portal where the BFP personnel can log and view fire incident reports, which are then evaluated and mined for marking fire “hot spots” on a customized map of the city, as well as for producing recommendations based on the risk level assessment of any location for a given date. Based on results of experimentation, the Decision Tree classifier model was selected, with 95.92% accuracy. Geocoding produced 92% output of geographical coordinates from address information in the data set. The system can help the fire agency in raising the fire risk awareness of the community country and in facilitating their fire risk reduction planning.
International Review of Social Sciences Research, 2022
This study analyzed the cases on the Violence against Women and their Children (VAWC) in the prov... more This study analyzed the cases on the Violence against Women and their Children (VAWC) in the province of Laguna to determine the level of law awareness, reasons for unreported violence incidents and preferences on reporting VAWC cases. To assess the collected responses, descriptive statistics and Kruskal Wallis were utilized. Convenience sampling was used with 356 respondents, 34 of whom were witnesses to the abuse and 65 are the victims of abuse. Majority of witnesses to the abuse were women between 16 and 20 years old while the victims were between 16 and 30 years old. Emotional abuse is the most common type witnessed regardless of age, location, civil status, occupation, or educational attainment. While physical abuse is the most common type experienced by the victims, it is frequently perpetrated by their former husbands. Ironically, respondents were “Very Aware” of the VAWC law but the 70.5% of them do not report cases due to embarrassment, fear of being blamed, inability to ma...
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2022
Purpose-Many educational systems across the world have shifted to online learning methodology as ... more Purpose-Many educational systems across the world have shifted to online learning methodology as a measure against Covid-19 Pandemic to continue educating students. This phenomenon is causing a lot of complications to the educational system around the world in the context of developing countries, especially to the public state colleges and universities. This paper aims to identify and describe the challenges of online learning from the perspective of Information Technology Education (ITE) students in the public state colleges and universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method-It used descriptive research for the conducted of the study wherein survey questionnaires were sent out via electronic survey in different state colleges and universities in the Philippines. The evaluations were calculated using descriptive statistics and Chi-square and responses were compared between their profilesusing a nonparametric test. Results-The findings obtained the demographic profile of the ITE s...
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2022
Purpose–Thispaperaimed to develop a system that applies VADER Sentiment Analysis to tweets collec... more Purpose–Thispaperaimed to develop a system that applies VADER Sentiment Analysis to tweets collected using adevelopedtwitter scraper toolto identify the insights of public responsesbased on their tweetson certain government servicesrendered to them thus providing legislators of the province of Laguna an additional tool in writing future legislations.Method–This study may serve as an additional tool tothe Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Laguna in identifying sentiments of the public in terms of government services that are rendered and lack thereof based on the collected tweets written in Tagalog, English or Taglish(Tagalog and English).Data collected through the Twitter scraper tool are preprocessed taking into consideration the special characters that also have impact on scoring sentiments, emojis,and emoticons. The compound score is computed by normalizing the sum of the polarityscores foreach tweet.Results–Aside from a tabular visualization of VADER’s results, the system also provide...
2019 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE), 2019
The study aims to create a fire model that can generate pattern to obtain profile of fire inciden... more The study aims to create a fire model that can generate pattern to obtain profile of fire incidents in Manila that can help facilitate the assessment of fire incidents by providing a quick, thorough, and scientific analysis of fire data, the outputs of which in turn can be utilized as basis for the formulation of new programs and fire prevention activities. The researchers applied K-means clustering approach and Elbow method using Python scikit-learn tool to process the fire incidents dataset and produce the number of clusters with centroid and correlation heatmap which resulted to five clusters. The most noticeable result is the "Day" attribute, Wednesday and Thursday, which are similar across all five clusters. In addition, most fire incidents occurred between 12:00 NN to 4:00 PM, around lunchtime and afternoon siesta. The result also shows that the poor are the most vulnerable likewise, the middle class. It concludes that government can reconsider its services on fire protection issues and fire disaster management. Data mining techniques applied to fire incident reports was limited in the Philippines. With this. more work should be carried out using prediction which can help in predicting the presence of a fire incident so that firefighter could immediately respond.
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2019
Purpose–This study exploredthe utilization of ICT tools and resources in developing ICTeachMUqPO.... more Purpose–This study exploredthe utilization of ICT tools and resources in developing ICTeachMUqPO. Thisinformation e-learning module system is a web-based application designed to support the academic needs of bothfaculty and students, in particular to tracklearning progress.Method–The proponents conducted a group discussion andcollaboration with the end users andreviewed literature on faculty development andrelated studies to gather preliminaryinformation. They also identified all software and hardware specifications necessary in developing the system througha survey. The descriptive method of research was employed in designing the system evaluationprocess. Judgmental or purposive sampling was usedin selecting the respondents (n=113) who answered the evaluation survey. Result–The system evaluation survey was patterned after ISO 25010 and consisted of the following components: functionality, usability, reliability, performance, security, compatibilityand supportability. The overallrat...
2017 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2017
The spatio-temporal analysis of fire could allow decision makers to prepare an effective fire man... more The spatio-temporal analysis of fire could allow decision makers to prepare an effective fire management plan that makes efficient use of needed resources. This study aims to analyze fire data in the City of Manila from 2011 to 2015 through spatio-temporal analysis. A total of 2,823 fire incidents were investigated and fires due to faulty electrical connections occurring from 4PM to 8PM emerged as the time with the most number of fires. Daily pattern does not show much variation although the monthly pattern shows that the summer months have higher number of fire occurrences compared with the rest of the months except for September, which had most number of recorded fires during the 5-year period. Further research direction can include determining the impact of socioeconomic and environmental factors in fire incidence likewise the utilization of geo-visualization techniques, prediction model and simulation as tools in improving fire service and management.
The study serves as a technological advancement for learning, utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) and ... more The study serves as a technological advancement for learning, utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) and a new experience for children, adolescents, and adults especially with autism disorder. Safety and preparedness are major concerns regarding disasters and calamities. In 2014, 324 natural disasters were registered and 140.8 million people became victims worldwide. The study also wants to catch the attention of the children with autism using VR, immersing them inside the VR world teaching them to be prepared and ready against calamities and disasters. The intention of the study is to create an immersive simulation of different events about disasters to raise awareness of these children towards disaster and calamity. It consists of series of decision making, giving them a choice of what is right and what is wrong. The proponents created simulation in a portable way, utilizing ICT as learning material to expand the social and cognitive development of the children with ASD in emergencies and...
TENCON 2018 - 2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2018
Finite state machine is a model of computation based on a theoretical machine, made of one or mor... more Finite state machine is a model of computation based on a theoretical machine, made of one or more states. Computing Science students and practitioners use it to model real world objects and simulate problems in several disciplines such as mathematics, artificial intelligence, games or linguistics. Based on the assessment made by the proponents, little percentage of the students who took the course were able to retain knowledge on its theoretical foundation, while none on the application side. It was further supported by some literature that some computing students find difficulties in learning this course. The main reason is the knowledge retention because they cannot remember their previous lessons. This research can be a useful contribution in designing a better e-learning application particularly for the Computing Science students. Given the right feature, the mobile application can benefit both the educational institution, students and faculty members. In view of this study, it...
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research
Purpose-This study aims to develop and evaluate TYFIREQUAKE virtual reality simulation of fire, e... more Purpose-This study aims to develop and evaluate TYFIREQUAKE virtual reality simulation of fire, earthquake, and typhoon scenarios using Virtual Reality (VR) as an alternative training tool and application for increasing the level of disaster preparedness to be able to apply the safety and precautionary measures in emergencies. Methodology-The proponents applied the Rapid Application Development (RAD) model as a software development model and followed the different phases such as outlining the requirements, user designs and input, constructions, and finalization of the software. The study incorporates different software for creating virtual environments, layout designs of scenarios, characters, controllers, interactive elements, and AI non-player characters. The system developed the desired output and functionalities like presenting the Before, During, and After scenarios of each disaster with time monitoring and assessment 1386 Results-Moreover, it was evaluated using test cases such as functionality case testing, sharing test, installation, and load test, portability test, performance test, and system test wherein the system Passed all tests. In this study, the design for simulated training on the disaster was discovered to be capable of exposing a person to a disastrous environment without endangering the person immersed in the condition. Conclusions-This virtual training program for earthquakes, fire, typhoons, and tsunami/floods can be used without a cost or by spending a lot of money on deploying reallife trainers and equipment for physical drills. The results of this study suggest that a similar design for a larger community may be provided to local cities mandated by the government to propagate disaster awareness and emergency preparedness programs. Recommendations-It is suggested that the developed mobile application can be implemented in emergency response teams as a tool for disseminating awareness of disasters, especially to the children. Additional features that can provide feedback, a database as a repository of data and information for crafting more insightful ideas in generating activities on disaster prevention. Research Implications-The TYFIREQUAKE mobile application could be an effective training tool for equipping children with sufficient knowledge and skills in responding to typhoons, fires, and earthquakes. They can learn the proper strategies for coping with disasters specifically in identifying the possible safe places, maximizing the available resources, and action plans for recovery before, during, and after the disasters.
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research
Purpose-This study developed an online crime reporting system that uses artificial intelligence t... more Purpose-This study developed an online crime reporting system that uses artificial intelligence to analyze crime incident reports to provide up-to-date crime statistics, map crime hot locations, and manage dynamic databases. Method-The knowledge discovery process in databases (KDD) was utilized for the model development. Scrum, an agile development technique, proved helpful in the iterative and Research Implications-The academe and local law enforcement agencies must collaboratively develop strategies that reinforce the importance of community engagement. The system provides public access through geo-mapping that supports the community, or locally based crime prevention, instead of targeting individuals, targets areas where the risks of becoming involved in crime or being victimized are high.
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research
Purpose-The legislative branch of a province is generally in charge of making laws. In addition t... more Purpose-The legislative branch of a province is generally in charge of making laws. In addition to this, they are also in charge of enacting programs and policies for the general well-being of the citizens within the province. The general public may not be able to keep track of legislative performances since there is a growing number of legislative-generated documents. This study developed a system that integrated the application of topic modeling in crafting ordinances, resolutions, and policies for the Province of Laguna. Method-This research employed the SCRUM methodology process in the development of the system and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling using R language to classify text within a document to a particular topic and created model through Observation-based evaluation and Quantitative metrics such as Perplexity and Coherence to determine k-value (number of topics) based on the corpus wherein it was collected in the Twitter and Legislative Management System Portal. Results-The results showed the LDA used returned the optimal value for perplexity and coherence which was determined by testing different k-values ranging from 1 to 2 which is presented to users as a line graph. The developed system provided a system module 1163 that can enable users to find the optimal number of topics (k value) and present the results in a visually appealing interface on the user's account portal which gives insights into what possible new ideas in formulation ordinances, resolutions, and policies in Laguna. Conclusion-The developed system in this study allows legislators of the province of Laguna to collect public posts from the social networking site Twitter and use Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling. It also provides an interactive graph that allows users to explore the LDA model generated by the system and helps to reveal topics of concern from the community that leads to government officials in formulating policies and ordinances appropriate for the needs of the community. Recommendations-It is recommended to develop an additional module that automatically generates the topic model based on the selected LDA evaluation procedure and should be tested in a larger-sized corpus to further test its capabilities as well as to improve the list of the stop words and noise removal feature. Implications-The system can be used to simply accomplish the document trail page where users can preview document details and the application of the visualization techniques in the system helps to facilitate the to provide an impression by extracting words, and topics that can be a basis of crafting programs and priorities of the government officials in taking actions to the citizen concerns.
2022 2nd International Conference in Information and Computing Research (iCORE)
2018 IEEE 10th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology,Communication and Control, Environment and Management (HNICEM), 2018
Fire safety and prevention has always been a subject of concern in the Philippines, as fire incid... more Fire safety and prevention has always been a subject of concern in the Philippines, as fire incidents are a common cause of economic and ecological troubles every year. The aim of this study was to identify significant relationship of fire incidents in terms of location and time to build a model of fire risk forecasting in the capital city of Manila. A total of 3,506 fire incidents were recorded by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) during the six-year period from 2011 to 2016. The overall record are 3506 fire incidents included in the study which analyzed using the Pearson’s Chi-square statistical technique. The summer months February to May showed the utmost number of fire, and that most fire incidents occurred from 9 AM to 11 AM and from 6 PM to 10 PM. The highest number of fire incidents recorded happened in the densely-populated districts of Sampaloc and Tondo. The study shows that there are no significant relationship of location (space) to time and to day however in terms of location to month and year show highly significant. The findings of this study can prove useful to the BFP office in Manila, in that they need to look at recurring trends in fire incidents in terms of location and month to create programs aimed towards fire prevention awareness. This research can be extended to include other spatial factors such as weather conditions and geographical coordinates in the assessment of fire incidents.
TENCON 2018 - 2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2018
Existing literature outlining models of e-government was reviewed to find a suitable framework fo... more Existing literature outlining models of e-government was reviewed to find a suitable framework for restructuring the official website of the municipality of Paete in Laguna province. The research sought out for improvements to the local government portal that will enhance the delivery of services to citizens. With this aim the researcher chose a conceptual model that promotes interactivity, facilitates information collection, and integrates transformative approaches to governance. A new system incorporating Tambouris’ e-Participation Stages was proposed, with modifications to address the general needs of the public, facilitate citizen participation, streamline local government processes, and increase responsiveness from government officials. Upon implementation, the stakeholders will be asked to evaluate the proposed system through a series of direct and indirect interviews. Further exploratory and longitudinal studies involving other LGUs in Laguna are recommended to assess the eff...
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the results of spatiotemporal analysis of the 3,50... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the results of spatiotemporal analysis of the 3,506 fire incidents in the city of Manila from 2011 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach A spatiotemporal and statistical analysis was carried out to determine the pattern of fire incidents in the city of Manila. Findings Fire incidence in Manila did not exhibit any pattern in terms of time, day of the week or month of the year. However, fire incidence did exhibit a pattern in terms of location. Faulty electrical connections are the major cause of fires throughout the year and throughout the 14 municipalities of Manila. Thus, the null hypothesis stating that spatiotemporal characteristics of cases of fire in the city of Manila do not exhibit a pattern is partially rejected. Research limitations/implications Future studies may investigate the influence of building maintenance, government control, and cooking and cigarette-disposal behaviors on fire occurrence. It is recommended that the stud...
International Journal of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Crime has a big impact in both the human lives and the society’s growth, which needs to be addres... more Crime has a big impact in both the human lives and the society’s growth, which needs to be addressed and controlled. Machine learning algorithms as the fanciest technology to assist decision makers in policy making has proven its reliability in showing unseen patterns in crime. This research aims to examine the capability of trees and ensemble trees in classifying crime through model development. Experiments were done to enhance the capability of the ensembles in both classification and regression. Feature extraction like synthetic minority oversampling technique was applied in order to address the problem in the imbalanced data. Different metrics relevant to classification and regression were considered in evaluating the performance of each model used. With the use of different metrics, Gradient boosted tree was found to have better classification capability in crime dataset after outperforming decision tree and random forest in both classification and regression problem. Furthermo...
International Journal of Academe and Industry Research
This study focused on the awareness of about the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015 in the universi... more This study focused on the awareness of about the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015 in the university academic staff and challenges encountered of all stakeholders in the university. Also, it is deals on the correlation of respondents’ demographic profile to the level of awareness and challenges. The study used a descriptive research design and a convenience sampling technique with a total of 100 survey participants from senior officials, professors, faculty, and non-faculty personnel. To collect responses, the researchers adapted a structured survey questionnaire used in this study and generated Google Forms. Descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentage, and weighted mean were used to analyse the extracted data. The spearman was used for data inferential analysis. The results of the study show that employees’ level of awareness to the implementation of ISO 9001:2015 are Fully Aware and Aware, particularly in terms of the quality mission, vision, and objectives. However,...
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2017
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2021
Purpose–This study aims to contribute to the fire research by developing a fire report management... more Purpose–This study aims to contribute to the fire research by developing a fire report management system for the BFP that can analyze spatiotemporal attributes of fire and 520apply Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) methods to identify patterns of fire incidents in the city of Manila.Method–The proponents applied the Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) methods for the processing of identifying fire patterns as well as the application of SMOTE, One-Hot Encoding, and Agile Method as Software developmental model. Result–The records obtained from the BFP headquarters in Manila had a total of 3,506 cases during the six years from 2011 to 2016. The accuracy of the Decision Tree classifier model was 95.92%.Using KDD approach, it generated decision rules fire pattern in Manila. Most fire causes fall under the 'Under Investigation' category while Residential-Commercial types of establishments in Intramuros were affected. Lastly, the fire occurred in the mornings, during Sunday...
2019 International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), 2019
This study utilized data mining and geo-mapping methods to develop a fire risk management system ... more This study utilized data mining and geo-mapping methods to develop a fire risk management system for the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in the city of Manila. This system was integrated into a web portal where the BFP personnel can log and view fire incident reports, which are then evaluated and mined for marking fire “hot spots” on a customized map of the city, as well as for producing recommendations based on the risk level assessment of any location for a given date. Based on results of experimentation, the Decision Tree classifier model was selected, with 95.92% accuracy. Geocoding produced 92% output of geographical coordinates from address information in the data set. The system can help the fire agency in raising the fire risk awareness of the community country and in facilitating their fire risk reduction planning.
International Review of Social Sciences Research, 2022
This study analyzed the cases on the Violence against Women and their Children (VAWC) in the prov... more This study analyzed the cases on the Violence against Women and their Children (VAWC) in the province of Laguna to determine the level of law awareness, reasons for unreported violence incidents and preferences on reporting VAWC cases. To assess the collected responses, descriptive statistics and Kruskal Wallis were utilized. Convenience sampling was used with 356 respondents, 34 of whom were witnesses to the abuse and 65 are the victims of abuse. Majority of witnesses to the abuse were women between 16 and 20 years old while the victims were between 16 and 30 years old. Emotional abuse is the most common type witnessed regardless of age, location, civil status, occupation, or educational attainment. While physical abuse is the most common type experienced by the victims, it is frequently perpetrated by their former husbands. Ironically, respondents were “Very Aware” of the VAWC law but the 70.5% of them do not report cases due to embarrassment, fear of being blamed, inability to ma...
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2022
Purpose-Many educational systems across the world have shifted to online learning methodology as ... more Purpose-Many educational systems across the world have shifted to online learning methodology as a measure against Covid-19 Pandemic to continue educating students. This phenomenon is causing a lot of complications to the educational system around the world in the context of developing countries, especially to the public state colleges and universities. This paper aims to identify and describe the challenges of online learning from the perspective of Information Technology Education (ITE) students in the public state colleges and universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method-It used descriptive research for the conducted of the study wherein survey questionnaires were sent out via electronic survey in different state colleges and universities in the Philippines. The evaluations were calculated using descriptive statistics and Chi-square and responses were compared between their profilesusing a nonparametric test. Results-The findings obtained the demographic profile of the ITE s...
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2022
Purpose–Thispaperaimed to develop a system that applies VADER Sentiment Analysis to tweets collec... more Purpose–Thispaperaimed to develop a system that applies VADER Sentiment Analysis to tweets collected using adevelopedtwitter scraper toolto identify the insights of public responsesbased on their tweetson certain government servicesrendered to them thus providing legislators of the province of Laguna an additional tool in writing future legislations.Method–This study may serve as an additional tool tothe Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Laguna in identifying sentiments of the public in terms of government services that are rendered and lack thereof based on the collected tweets written in Tagalog, English or Taglish(Tagalog and English).Data collected through the Twitter scraper tool are preprocessed taking into consideration the special characters that also have impact on scoring sentiments, emojis,and emoticons. The compound score is computed by normalizing the sum of the polarityscores foreach tweet.Results–Aside from a tabular visualization of VADER’s results, the system also provide...
2019 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE), 2019
The study aims to create a fire model that can generate pattern to obtain profile of fire inciden... more The study aims to create a fire model that can generate pattern to obtain profile of fire incidents in Manila that can help facilitate the assessment of fire incidents by providing a quick, thorough, and scientific analysis of fire data, the outputs of which in turn can be utilized as basis for the formulation of new programs and fire prevention activities. The researchers applied K-means clustering approach and Elbow method using Python scikit-learn tool to process the fire incidents dataset and produce the number of clusters with centroid and correlation heatmap which resulted to five clusters. The most noticeable result is the "Day" attribute, Wednesday and Thursday, which are similar across all five clusters. In addition, most fire incidents occurred between 12:00 NN to 4:00 PM, around lunchtime and afternoon siesta. The result also shows that the poor are the most vulnerable likewise, the middle class. It concludes that government can reconsider its services on fire protection issues and fire disaster management. Data mining techniques applied to fire incident reports was limited in the Philippines. With this. more work should be carried out using prediction which can help in predicting the presence of a fire incident so that firefighter could immediately respond.
International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 2019
Purpose–This study exploredthe utilization of ICT tools and resources in developing ICTeachMUqPO.... more Purpose–This study exploredthe utilization of ICT tools and resources in developing ICTeachMUqPO. Thisinformation e-learning module system is a web-based application designed to support the academic needs of bothfaculty and students, in particular to tracklearning progress.Method–The proponents conducted a group discussion andcollaboration with the end users andreviewed literature on faculty development andrelated studies to gather preliminaryinformation. They also identified all software and hardware specifications necessary in developing the system througha survey. The descriptive method of research was employed in designing the system evaluationprocess. Judgmental or purposive sampling was usedin selecting the respondents (n=113) who answered the evaluation survey. Result–The system evaluation survey was patterned after ISO 25010 and consisted of the following components: functionality, usability, reliability, performance, security, compatibilityand supportability. The overallrat...
2017 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2017
The spatio-temporal analysis of fire could allow decision makers to prepare an effective fire man... more The spatio-temporal analysis of fire could allow decision makers to prepare an effective fire management plan that makes efficient use of needed resources. This study aims to analyze fire data in the City of Manila from 2011 to 2015 through spatio-temporal analysis. A total of 2,823 fire incidents were investigated and fires due to faulty electrical connections occurring from 4PM to 8PM emerged as the time with the most number of fires. Daily pattern does not show much variation although the monthly pattern shows that the summer months have higher number of fire occurrences compared with the rest of the months except for September, which had most number of recorded fires during the 5-year period. Further research direction can include determining the impact of socioeconomic and environmental factors in fire incidence likewise the utilization of geo-visualization techniques, prediction model and simulation as tools in improving fire service and management.
The study serves as a technological advancement for learning, utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) and ... more The study serves as a technological advancement for learning, utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) and a new experience for children, adolescents, and adults especially with autism disorder. Safety and preparedness are major concerns regarding disasters and calamities. In 2014, 324 natural disasters were registered and 140.8 million people became victims worldwide. The study also wants to catch the attention of the children with autism using VR, immersing them inside the VR world teaching them to be prepared and ready against calamities and disasters. The intention of the study is to create an immersive simulation of different events about disasters to raise awareness of these children towards disaster and calamity. It consists of series of decision making, giving them a choice of what is right and what is wrong. The proponents created simulation in a portable way, utilizing ICT as learning material to expand the social and cognitive development of the children with ASD in emergencies and...
TENCON 2018 - 2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2018
Finite state machine is a model of computation based on a theoretical machine, made of one or mor... more Finite state machine is a model of computation based on a theoretical machine, made of one or more states. Computing Science students and practitioners use it to model real world objects and simulate problems in several disciplines such as mathematics, artificial intelligence, games or linguistics. Based on the assessment made by the proponents, little percentage of the students who took the course were able to retain knowledge on its theoretical foundation, while none on the application side. It was further supported by some literature that some computing students find difficulties in learning this course. The main reason is the knowledge retention because they cannot remember their previous lessons. This research can be a useful contribution in designing a better e-learning application particularly for the Computing Science students. Given the right feature, the mobile application can benefit both the educational institution, students and faculty members. In view of this study, it...