The range of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is based on nature-inspired metaheuristics is rapidly increasing across various scientific fields as it is used to solve complex engineering problems. This work develops a cloud machine learning system, called the Nature-inspired Metaheuristic Optimization and Prediction System (NiMOPS) that is composed of metaheuristic AI and web modules. For the purposes of web development, this work connects two programming languages, which are MATLAB and Java. A MATLAB Compiler is used to package the system into Java Archive (JAR) files, which provides the core modules for the development of the NiMOPS Website using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). IDE compiles the JAR files, and web utilities (JavaScript, CSS, Servlet, and other utility files) to form the response-request connection between the user and the server. Therefore, the web-based system does not require the installation of an application by the users because they can access the cloud computing system ubiquitously with a browser or mobile device. Furthermore, it has many functions, including export – import file, train model, optimize prediction, save model and visualize results. Several case studies of this system, involving classification and regression problems, were examined. The analytic results of using the system to solve classification problems revealed that the system had a fault diagnosis accuracy of 96.5% and an accidental small fire accuracy of 52.4%. In solving regression problems, the Root Mean Square Error was 28.58% - 68.82% better than those of previous methods. In particular, the proposed system performed multiple performance measures that were utilized in a regression analysis and were found to be more reliable evaluation metrics than used in elsewhere. The analytic experience verified that cloud computing provides an innovative way to enable decision-makers to solve engineering problems.

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