Daily Archives: September 24, 2026

Authors: Assistant Professor Hakam Chand

Abstract: The paper analyses infrastructure and market connectivity as joint determinants of climate-resilient horticulture in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh. It uses a secondary-data case-study approach and the latest consistent state horticulture series available in the supplied publications, covering 2011-12 to 2024-25. Although horticulture output expanded during the period, climate variability, fragmented production, seasonal irrigation, post-harvest losses and costly transport threaten the stability of smallholder returns. Kangra’s traditional kuhl systems, road network, urban centres and crop diversity provide a strong base, but infrastructure must function as an integrated service chain. The study develops an Infrastructure Readiness Matrix covering water, planting material, extension, protection, aggregation, grading, cold chain, processing, roads, digital information and finance. It also proposes indicators for reliability, utilisation and inclusion. The analysis suggests that water harvesting and micro-irrigation should be combined with crop planning; pack houses should be located only where verified throughput exists; and producer aggregation should precede capital-intensive cold-chain investment. Climate resilience requires diversified crops and seasons, quality planting material, local weather and pest advisories, and multiple market channels. A phased investment and monitoring framework is recommended for Kangra.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22933192

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Authors: Parav Sharma, Rajesh Chauhan, Akshay Bhardwaj

Abstract: In today's complex cloud-native microservice architectures, the traditional rule-based monitoring approaches are insufficient for system reliability. The solution to this is the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into DevOps, often known as AIOps. This paper introduces an AI-powered observability framework that combines the LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) autoencoder with the Prometheus-Grafana observability stack for anomaly detection in Kubernetes-based microservice environments. The system collects real-time CPU utilization metrics from different microservices, trains an LSTM model on metric records, and detects anomalies using reconstruction error thresholding. Under controlled CPU stress injection, the characteristic scale of reconstruction error, measured as the mean plus two standard deviations of each condition's own reconstruction errors, is approximately 27 times higher than under baseline conditions, indicating that the model's reconstruction error responds strongly to abnormal workload patterns. Because a single training run may not be representative, the model is retrained ten times on a 6,407-timestep dataset; the reconstruction-error threshold is 0.000676 +/- 0.000038 and the anomaly rate 4.38% +/- 0.26% (mean +/- SD), a coefficient of variation of 5.6%, indicating that the result is reproducible rather than an artifact of one random initialization. The trained model is then deployed as a continuous detector that scores live metrics every 60 seconds; in a controlled test it flagged all 17 readings taken while an injected workload was active and returned to normal after its removal. The LSTM-based model detects anomalies without relying on fixed alert boundaries, offering a more adaptive alternative to static threshold approaches and enabling proactive detection of system abnormalities in cloud-native DevOps environments.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22932622

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