Donald Douglas Atsa'am

Donald Atsa’am is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Informatics, University of the Free State, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus. His research interests are in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Computational Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Donald is a Certified Information Systems Auditor with several years of experience in Systems Audit and Control.

Publications

Segmentation of Pregnant Women to Guide How Intervention Programs Are Formulated and Implemented to Ensure Positive Pregnancy Outcomes
Segmentation of Pregnant Women to Guide How Intervention Programs Are Formulated and Implemented to Ensure Positive Pregnancy Outcomes
Donald Douglas Atsa'am, Terlumun Gbaden, Ruth Wario. © 2023. 14 pages.
Interventions and schemes aimed at reducing the risks associated with pregnancy are often implemented wholesale. This often leads to misdirection of interventions to the wrong...
Variable Selection by Domain Experts vs. Filter Algorithms for Clinical Predictive Modeling
Variable Selection by Domain Experts vs. Filter Algorithms for Clinical Predictive Modeling
Terlumun Gbaden, Jerome Aondongu Achir, Donald Douglas Atsa'am. © 2023. 18 pages.
Studies on variable selection in the medical field have focused largely on algorithms with little attention paid to domain experts in this regard. This chapter compared the...
Association Rules Extraction From the Coronavirus Disease 2019: Attributes on Morbidity and Mortality
Association Rules Extraction From the Coronavirus Disease 2019: Attributes on Morbidity and Mortality
Donald Douglas Atsa'am, Ruth Wario. © 2022. 10 pages.
This research was aimed to extract association rules on the morbidity and mortality of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The dataset has four attributes that determine...
A Lone Wolf vs. an Affiliated Terrorist: Knowledge Inference on Who Poses More Danger to the Tourist
A Lone Wolf vs. an Affiliated Terrorist: Knowledge Inference on Who Poses More Danger to the Tourist
Donald Douglas Atsa'am, Ruth Wario. © 2022. 9 pages.
The global terrorism database (GTD) shows that 3.5% of the total terror attacks across the world between 1970 to 2019 were targeted at tourists. A terror attack can be...
Pattern Mining on How Organizational Tenure Affects the Psychological Capital of Employees Within the Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Linking Employees' Organizational Tenure With PsyCap
Pattern Mining on How Organizational Tenure Affects the Psychological Capital of Employees Within the Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Linking Employees' Organizational Tenure With PsyCap
Donald Douglas Atsa'am, Ersin Kuset Bodur. © 2021. 12 pages.
Psychological capital (PsyCap) is a measure of the positive capabilities of an individual which consists of four components: hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. In this...
Knowledge Extraction on the Nexus Between Terrorism Criteria and Attacks on Private Citizens and Property
Knowledge Extraction on the Nexus Between Terrorism Criteria and Attacks on Private Citizens and Property
Donald Douglas Atsa'am, Ruth Wario. © 2021. 11 pages.
This study extracted knowledge on the association between terrorism inclusion criteria and one of the terrorism target/victim types known as “private citizens and property.”...
Classifier Selection for the Prediction of Dominant Transmission Mode of Coronavirus Within Localities: Predicting COVID-19 Transmission Mode
Classifier Selection for the Prediction of Dominant Transmission Mode of Coronavirus Within Localities: Predicting COVID-19 Transmission Mode
Donald Douglas Atsa'am, Ruth Wario. © 2021. 12 pages.
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an ongoing concern that requires research in all disciplines to tame its spread. Nine classification algorithms were selected...
Feature Selection Algorithm Using Relative Odds for Data Mining Classification
Feature Selection Algorithm Using Relative Odds for Data Mining Classification
Donald Douglas Atsa'am. © 2020. 26 pages.
A filter feature selection algorithm is developed and its performance tested. In the initial step, the algorithm dichotomizes the dataset then separately computes the association...