About the Authors

Absalom E. Ezugwu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ezugwua@ukzn.ac.za

Affiliations School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Computer Science, Federal University Lafia, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Francis Akutsah

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Micheal O. Olusanya

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Aderemi O. Adewumi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.