Tuesday 26 July 2016

Let’s Talk Farming – An analysis of 3 papers

Paper 1: Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Elham Bolandnazar, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Hanifreza Motamed Shariati, Nor Badrul Anuar, Miss Laiha Mat Kiah, "Decreasing environmental impacts of cropping systems using life cycle assessment (LCA) and multi-objective genetic algorithm", Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 86, 1 January 2015

Paper 2: Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar, Sean Clark, Shahaboddin Shamahirband, Nor Badrul Anuar, Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib, Abdullah Gani, "Evaluation of traditional and consolidated rice farms in Guilan Province, Iran, using life cycle assessment and fuzzy modeling", Science of the Total Environment 481 (2014) 242–251, 2014

Paper 3: Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Elham Bolandnazar , Sasan Barak, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Hamid Maghsoudlou, Torki A. Altameem , Abdullah Gani, "A clustering model based on an evolutionary algorithm for better energy use in crop production", Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Volume 29, Issue 8, 2015

THE JOURNALS

Information about the journals were excessed from the Web of Science and as can be seen in Tables 1-3, these are Q1 or Q2 journals. But, these are not the main stream computer science journals where you would expect most computer scientist to publish. Never mind these papers are on the subject of rice, or farming or agriculture, so they should not be published in mainstream computer science journals. Let’s give the authors the benefit of the doubt, ok?

Table 1:
lnformation from WOS for Journal of Cleaner Production

ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL 5 of 50 Q1
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 16 of 225 Q1
GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 5 of 29 Q1

Table 2: lnformation from WOS for Science of the Total Environment


ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES32 of 225Q1

Table 3: lnformation from WOS for Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
CR® Category Rank in Category Quartile in Category
ENGINEERING, CIVIL 19 of 126 Q1
ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL 21 of 50 Q2
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 88 of 225 Q2
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY 8 of 123 Q1
WATER RESOURCES 15 of 85 Q1

THE SUBJECT DOMAIN

Paper 1 is about assesing environmental aspects associate with watermelon farming over its life cycle using genetic algorithm and data envelopment analysis. Results and conclusion quite vague!

Paper 2 is like Paper 1 but for rice, still using life cycle assessment (LCA) and using neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The difference is the analysis is compared between consolidated farming (CF) vs. traditional farming. (TF) The discovery is that CFs have better environmental performance when compared to TF.

Paper 3 is about energy consumption and its negative impact in water melon farms using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) clustering model. Results: Best cluster performance produced in large farms.

FUNDING

The research in paper 1 was fund by University of Tehran for giving their financial support. This work is also support by the Malaysian Ministry of Education under the University of Malaya High Impact Research Grant UM.C/625/1/HIR/MoE/FCSIT/ 12.

Paper 2 was fund by the University of Tehran the Malaysian Ministry of Education under the University of Malaya High Impact Research Grant UM.C/ 625/1/HIR/MoE/FCSIT/17.

Paper 3 was fund by University of Tehran and University Malaya using the research grant UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOE/FCSIT/03.

THE COLLABORATORS

The collaborators in Paper 1 are from the University of Tehran, Iran. One is a PhD student from the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, but it is not sure whether the other one is a student or not. 3 UM researchers including The Genius.

The same PhD student as Paper 1 is involve in Paper 2 togather with another PhD student in Agricultural Mechanization, Department of Biosystems Engineering,University of Tabriz, a Associate Professor and Farm Director from Berea College, US. Agriculture and Natural Resources who is also an independent researcher according to his Researchgate profile and 4 UM researchers. 3 from computer system, including The Genius and 1 from information system.

How the Iranians, American decide to do research togather with UM researchers? Interesting!

Same 2 Iranians from Paper 1 involved in Paper 3, add with another PhD student from Qazvin Islamic Azad University Department of Industrial Engineering with a senior resercher in Economics from the VSB in Czech Republic. Also, 1 researcher from King Saud University, Department of Computer Science Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Don’t know if student or staff. And 1 professor from UM.

ORIGINALITY CHECK

Paper (1) – 28% Similarity
Paper (2) – 45% Similarity
Paper (3) - 100% Similarity – 96% Student Papers Submitted to King Saud University, 4% Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

QUESTION

Paper 1
Why UM researchers use UMHIR funds research in watermelon farming in Iran?
Why Malaysia government fund this research for Iranian student in Iran?

Are the 3 UM researchers involved in this research are agricultural or even botany experts?
Are they experts in genetic algorithm (GA) or operations research (OR)?

Do their research profile do claim them to be experts in GA or OR? Or are they are security experts?

Of course The Genius claims that he can do anything and is an expert in everything!

Why are two success researchers in computer science, including an associate professor (nor prof) in UM collaborate with a PhD student in agriculture?

Any environmental experts? Don’t know.

Paper 2
Why UM researchers use UMHIR funds for research in rice farm in Iran?
Why Malaysia government fund this research for Iranian student in Iran and researcher in US. US bigger, richer country, why not fund the research?

Are the 4 UM researchers involved in this research are agricultural or even botany experts?
Are they experts in fuzzy system (FS).
Do their research profile do claim them to be experts in FS. Or are their profile say they're security experts?

Of course The Genius claims that he can do anything and is an expert in everything!

Paper 3
Ditto
Saudi Arabia also rich country, why Malaysia fund research?
Any Energy experts?


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