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Nowadays, retrieval is an inseparable part of user activities and due to growing usage of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), it has become a hot and challenging research topic specially in the past decade. The most important challenge that retrieval systems (including CBIR systems) are facing is the semantic gap between abstractions in the user’s mind and what is searched. One of the ways of dealing with this challenge is getting more information from the user about what he needs and so decreasing the distance between user’s will and what he gives to search engine as the description of his need. In this research, the class of query image is supposed to be given. For using this... 

Text classification is one if the widest and most important applications in data mining. Because of the huge number of features in these applications, a method for dimensionality reduction is needed before applying the classification algorithm. Various number of methods for dimensionality reduction and feature selection are proposed. Feature selection based on feature ranking has received much attention by researchers. The major reasons are their scalability, ease of use, and fast computation. Feature ranking methods are divided to different categories and use different measures for scoring features. Recently ensemble methods have entered the field of ranking, and achieved more accuracy... 

Damage detection in all kinds of human-made structures has been given serious attention as one of the main branches of engineering sciences, and significant progress has been made in this field, especially in the field of civil engineering, aerospace and heavy industries. However, although this topic is discussed academically in the field of offshore structures for two decades, not much development has happened in practice and it is still in the stage of knowledge development. One of the most important characteristics of practical online damage detection methods is the ability to be used knowing little information about the modal characteristics of the structure. In this research, an attempt... 

Fatigue life prediction of a mechanical part is one of issues which a group of engineers are engaged with it and always they try to design the parts with the maximum of lifetime. Although many researches have been done in this field but yet we can see that predicted life are different from that happens in the reality because there are some uncertainties in the phenomena. Our effort in this project is creating an algorithm design so that the parts are designed by it, have the maximum fatigue life and the minimum uncertainty in prediction. In this project we have considered geometrical, material and random loading uncertainties as error resources. Older methods those are presented in this... 

Majority of the oil and gas reservoirs, in the main hydrocarbon production regions around the world, are naturally fractured reservoirs. Fractures play an important role in reservoir fluid flow either in the form of high permeable complex conduits or strong permeability anisotropies. Realistic characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs requires an exhaustive understanding of fracture connectivity and fracture pattern geometry. These subsequently demand description of many fracture parameters such as density (intensity), spacing, orientation, size and aperture. Therefore, a first step in fractured reservoirs characterization is the static geometric modeling of the subsurface fracture... 

Nowadays we are witnessing the emergence of machine learning in various applications. One of the key problems in data science and machine learning is the problem of dimensionality reduction, which deals with finding a mapping that embeds samples to a lower-dimensional space such that, the relationships between the samples and their properties are preserved in the secondary space as much as possible. Obtaining such mapping is essential in today's high-dimensional settings. Moreover, due to the large volume of data and high-dimensional samples, it is infeasible or insecure to process and store all data in a single machine. As a result, we need to process data in a distributed manner.In this... 

The human heart is a complex system that contains many clues about its function in its electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Due to the high mortality rate of heart diseases, detection and recognition of ECG arrhythmias is essential. The most difficult problem faced by ECG analysis is the vast variations among morphologies of ECG signals. In this study, we propose an approach for y detection of abnormal beats and data visualization with respect to ECG morphologies by using manifold learning. In order to do so, a nonlinear dimensionality reduction method based on the Laplacian Eigenmaps is used to reduce the high dimensions of the ECG signals, followed by the application of Bayesian and FLDA method... 

The purpose of this research is analyzing designed experiments which their response variable is in form of multichannel profiles. For this purpose, a number of experiments with multichannel profile response variable designed at first. Then by random effect model, output data calculated. Experiments output data dimension reduced using principal component analysis and its extensions. After that, regression analysis used to analyze results of dimensionality reduction data in order to estimate coefficients of potentially effective variables in response. At the end, coefficients of effective variables classified with a hierarchical classification method in order to discover change and its root...