Gooding Titus

Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

E-mail: gooding@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Information Security, Network Security, Data Mining, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

GOODING TITUS is a post-graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His current research interest include cyber security and Data mining.

Author Articles
An Improved Machine Learning-Based Short Message Service Spam Detection System

By Odukoya Oluwatoyin Akinyemi Bodunde Gooding Titus Aderounmu Ganiyu

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2019.12.05, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2019

The use of Short Message Services (SMS) as a mechanism of communication has resulted to loss of sensitive information such as credit card details, medical information and bank account details (user name and password). Several Machine learning-based approaches have been proposed to address this problem, but they are still unable to detect modified SMS spam messages more accurately. Thus, in this research, a stack- ensemble of four machine learning algorithms consisting of Random Forest (RF), Logistic Regression (LR), Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), and Support Vector Machine (SVM), were employed to detect more accurately SMS spams. The simulation was carried out using Python Scikit- learn tools. The performance evaluation of the proposed model was carried out by benchmarking it with an existing model. The evaluation results showed that the proposed model has an increase of 3.03% of accuracy, 8.94% of Recall, 2.17% of F-measure; and a decrease of 4.55% of Precision over the existing model. This indicates that the proposed model reduces the false alarm rate and thus detects spams more accurately. In conclusion, the ensemble method performed better than any individual algorithms and can be adopted by the Network service providers for better Quality of Service.

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