Researcher:  Mukhethwa Mulangaphuma, Sol Plaatje UniversitySupervisor: Dr Colin Chibaya, Sol Plaatje University Swarm robotics is an AI field focused on applying swarm intelligence paradigms and methodologies to groups of homogeneous robots to perform difficult tasks that individuals cannot.  Social insects and other living creatures inspire swarm robotics. This research

Researcher:  Nerissa Muthayan, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor:  Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The principles of democracy are crumbling, as the internet is becoming more censored.  Internet shutdowns during elections are detrimental to democracy and indicate a dangerous disregard for human rights and effective governance.  This

Researcher:  Taryn Michael, Sol Plaatje UniversitySupervisor:  Prof. Scott Hazelhurst, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Genotype data helps understand how genetic variations lead to genetic diseases This data is extremely large to store and analyze efficiently Thus, the PLINK format was introduced to save storage space.  This research implemented

Researcher:  Tshegofatso Kgomo, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg High youth unemployment and low economic growth are challenges in South Africa (SA).  Entrepreneurship is considered an essential catalyst for this challenge. For entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) are pivotal because they are the

Researcher:  Kola Ijasan, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Babatunde Oluwayomi, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Increase in Land Value – conventional urban land economics theories argue that transportation costs are a major element in land value.  The availability of transportation infrastructure such as motorways or train lines

Researcher:  Lulamile Mtebeni, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg This research analyses the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is poverty and other forms of socioeconomic deprivation. By analyzing all terrorist incidents between 1997 to 2020, this research sought to contribute

Researcher: Malahlane Komane, University of LimpopoSupervisor: Dr Alphonce Bere, University of Venda The study uses a recursive partitioning approach. To investigate the age at first marriage for women living in South Africa. There are well known methods of recursive partitioning which includes CART and random forest. The aim of

Researcher:  Percival Shimange, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr R Maluta, University of Venda Our environment’s climate change has effects on energy consumption, generation, systems, and infrastructure. In the last decade, the demand for alternative energy conversion and storage devices has increased significantly.  This project uses organic solar

Researcher:  Sedzani Ndou, University of VendaSupervisors:  Prof. O. Olugbenga Breast cancer is a deadly disease mostly in women’s health all over the world, as it is considered the second most deadly cancer after lung cancer.  To predict breast cancer we implement six different algorithms. We try to pick the

Researcher:  Merriam Thoka, University of LimpopoSupervisor: Dr Hairong Bau, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Tree-based machine learning (ML) models are non-linear predictive models utilized today due to their accuracy and efficiency, but understanding their decisions has received very little attention.  Recently, banks are adopting ML to compute credit score