The recognition of Padang traditional foods presents a challenge because of their high visual similarity, which makes manual classification difficult. This study aims to develop an automatic image classification model for Padang foods using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm. The dataset consisted of 1350 images across nine classes of Padang dishes including omelet, chili egg, cow tendon curry, stuffed intestine curry, fish curry, dendeng batokok, rendang, ayam pop, and fried chicken. The CNN architecture was trained for twenty epochs and evaluated using accuracy, loss, confusion matrix, and testing with new images. The results show that the model reached a final training accuracy of 70.2 percent and a validation accuracy of 65 percent, while testing with unseen images produced correct predictions with moderate confidence levels. These findings suggest that CNN is effective for classifying Padang traditional foods and can be applied in culinary promotion, digital food catalogs, and technology based ordering platforms.
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are pivotal for efficient data management, particularly in tasks involving name searches and entity identification. This study evaluates text preprocessing techniques, including case folding, phonetic normalization, and gender tagging, that affect the performance of classical (TF-IDF, LSI) and CNN-based retrieval models for multilingual name matching. Using a dataset of 365,468 globally diverse names, this study implements a preprocessing pipeline featuring: Double Metaphone phonetic preprocessing (92% validation accuracy), gender disambiguation for unisex names (92% accuracy), and optimized n-gram tokenization for short names. Evaluation metrics include precision, recall, F1-score, and our novel Name Similarity Score (NSS), combining orthographic and phonetic preprocessing. Results show our full pipeline improves recall to 1.00 and F1-score by 37% while reducing false negatives by 63%. Key findings reveal: TF-IDF achieves superior recall (0.98 vs CNN’s 0.85), LSI handles cultural variants effectively, and CNNs deliver the highest precision (0.91 vs TF-IDF’s 0.70), particularly for unisex names. This work contributes both a scalable multilingual preprocessing framework and the NSS evaluation metric for robust name retrieval systems.
Employee performance directly impacts organizational efficiency, yet traditional HR analytics often lack predictive precision. This study bridges HR theory and machine learning by evaluating tree-based algorithms for employee data analysis. Using a dataset of 15,227 employee records, we tested the Bagged Decision Tree algorithm, focusing on variables such as talent, career values, and aspirations. The Bagged Decision Tree achieved 98.65% accuracy, with talent and career values as key predictors. Excluding aspiration values reduced accuracy slightly to 98.57%, while excluding career values lowered it significantly to 92.13%. These findings highlight the robustness of the Bagged Decision Tree in HR analytics and emphasize the importance of variable selection, particularly career values and talent, in predicting performance outcomes. Future work should further explore real-world implementation challenges.
The growing volume of global waste poses a significant challenge for effective waste management, particularly in developing countries where awareness and practices around waste sorting remain limited. This study aims to enhance elementary school students' understanding and efficiency in sorting organic and inorganic waste using an interactive, AI-powered educational tool. The proposed system, WasteWise, integrates YOLOv8 for real-time object detection and ESP32-CAM for capturing waste images. A pre-test and post-test experimental design was conducted to assess students’ performance before and after using the system. The results showed a notable improvement in sorting accuracy, increasing from 60% with manual sorting to 90% using the WasteWise system, alongside reduced sorting time. These findings highlight the system's potential not only as an automated waste classification tool but also as a cost-effective and engaging platform for promoting environmental awareness and digital literacy among young learners.
Gondang is one of the PSHT sub-branches located in Sragen Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. In managing member data from recruitment to promotion, conventional methods are still used using office applications and information dissemination is still using brochures and social media. This research aims to develop an information system that can help manage data and disseminate information at PSHT Gondang. The system developed can manage the registration of prospective member to become a member and the process of promotion. Delivery of information in the form of organizational structures, announcements, activity schedules, services for member and community, activity galleries containing photos and videos can also be accessed through the system.EUD was chosen as a method in system development because time required is quite short with a relatively small cost allocation. The system is created using Laravel framework and Firebase as a database with a responsive display so that it can be accessed using a smartphone. By using the EUD method, users can modify the appearance and existing information if there is a change in data from the organization which was not available in previous research.
