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Object tracking is an important tool for video analysis which has been applied to public surveillance, road safety, and scene analysis. In multiobject tracking, the goal is to extract the trajectory of every target using spacial and temporal information. Since new objects can enter the tracking area, an object detector is required to detect their presence. This detector locates target objects in all frames and its (noisy) output is delivered to an associator that returns each object’s trajectory. The associator uses the motion and appearance model of the objects to discover their relation and find the trajectories. In this thesis, each target is partitioned into a number of non-overlapping... 

The airport terminal is difficult to plan and design due to the different components and the intricate complexity of its parts. At the airport terminal, we face a queue system which simulation is always a good way to analyze. In addition, computer simulation using modern softwares with the capability to model different types of systems, including the airport terminal, while being less realistic than analytical models, is less costly than operational Exercise.In this study, a supportive approach for better and specific management of Iranian airport terminal buildings with discrete-event simulation is proposed, considering the need for managing the airport terminals building in the country and... 

Limited water resources in Iran have made dams an important part of the country’s infrastructure. As a result of the large number of in-progress and expected dam projects in the country, consideration of sustainability factors during planning, construction and operation phases of dam projects can create significant economical, social and environmental impacts in the long term. To come up with an inclusive sustainable development, new sustainability assessment approaches seek for sustainable development at the entire project’s life-cycle; they are looking for sustainable development at all design, construction, operation, maintenance and even demolition phases. In this research we have... 

This thesis examines a new electromagnetic mode called line mode. This mode occurs when the boundaries have complementary surface impedances. It is possible to control the mode confinement by changing the surface impedance values. Impedance surfaces with non-complementary impedances guides the quasi-line mode, which is a mode between the line mode and the edge mode. Essential features of the line wave are its singularity over the line, its broad bandwidth, and its robustness to certain defects. Another significant characteristic of a line wave is that unlike surface waves in which it is not possible to change the spin orientation, in a line wave, the spin orientation can be altered by... 

Despite eye-catching progressive trends in highway safety, there have been a great number of unpleasant incidents in highways. A number of 8841 people died in road accidents in the first 6 month this year with 1.7% increase compared to the accidents occurred in 1396 [59]. Operation of a modeling process shall provide the engineers with more opportunities to identify the affecting factors in roads incidents. Safety infrastructure management is mainly aimed at ensuring the efficient measurement, systematic recognition and consequently deterioration of road accidents when they have been designed, constructed and used [37]. Building information modeling (BIM) tends to be a developed managerial... 

Despite the vulnerability of non-structural systems in buildings to disasters, their resilient design has received minimal attention from the practitioners of the construction industry. However, interruption in the performance of these systems jeopardizes the functionality of the buildings and threatens the resilience of the whole community. To address this issue, the present study proposes a novel framework for predicting possible damage states of non-structural building systems under disasters. The proposed framework benefits from an automated combination of Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a visualized 3D database of the building's components and the Machine Learning (ML)... 

Despite progressive trends in road safety, thousands of people die in road accidents, and millions are injured each year all around the world. The consequences of traffic accidents are not limited to injuries or fatality. Yet, they have a wide range of indirect economic and social effects, such as the financial burden of medical expenses or young labor loss. Therefore, the need to improve road safety and reduce road accident rates is essential for all communities.The first step to improving road safety is to build a reliable accident information management system. Accident information management systems are effective platforms in the design of highways and vehicles. They also present... 

Optimization-based wind farms control focusing on fatigue loads minimization represents a promising approach to establish a balanced tradeoff between power production in wind farms and lifetime extension of the wind turbines. This dissertation aims to develop a novel strategy to determine individual wind turbine power set-points in such a way that fatigue loads imposed on the units are minimized. The research considers main oscillation modes of the turbine structure and the determining forces to evaluate the amount of fatigues.Based on detailed modelling of wind farms which includes influences of wake effects on the mean wind speed and turbulence intensity, a novel approach is used to... 

Preparation of a vision document, strategic plan and appropriate roadmap for the development of BIM in the country has a key role in the success of BIM implementation in the construction industry. Therefore, in this study, we tried to study the obstacles and challenges in Iran. In order to achieve the desired result, first the status of BIM use in 6 selected countries with different levels of development was examined. Then, by examining the international documents and standards of BIM in the leading countries of the world and the relationship between these documents and standards, they determined the success indicators, challenges and obstacles of BIM implementation and tried to explain the... 

The construction industry involves a wide variety of information and models, and has faced numerous challenges over the years, leading to disputes within the industry. In order to increase productivity on a construction project, collaboration and information exchange are crucial among various stakeholders, including owners, architects, engineers, estimators, surveyors, contractors, and others. This study focuses on the design and development of a native collaboration environment based on construction information modeling. The platform's requirements, specifications, and capabilities were scientifically determined through a literature review, examining collaboration environments in different... 

Iran is a developing country where construction activities are significantly increased annually. Construction project contracts have a crucial effect on the project ensuring implementation that carries out the expectations and requirements of all parties. Additionally, building construction is a cost and time-consuming process. Builders and construction contractors must adhere to balanced contractual norms and standards to reduce the costs incurred by the contracting parties and to appropriately respond to the risks occurred. The next significant concern is reducing contractual claims and disputes that can delay the project's operation for an extended period. The necessity of preparing a... 

In recent decades, many building projects have been implemented in the form of partnership agreements between the land owners and the private contractors, investing in the buildings’ construction. The growing trend of implementing such projects is due to the increased price of land and the constructors’ inability to separately buy a piece of land and implement their individual building projects. On the other hand, many owners cannot afford the construction cost of building projects. At present, this form of building partnership agreement arranged and concluded between the landowner and the contractor is not normally signed through balanced and thoroughly thought contract documents. This... 

The utilization of tower cranes at construction sites presents numerous inherent risks. These cranes are commonly employed for lifting heavy loads, which carry the potential hazard of accidental falls. Simultaneously, workers may inadvertently overlook overhead dangers while focusing on their tasks. To mitigate these risks, laws in many countries explicitly prohibit individuals from occupying the vicinity directly beneath suspended loads, known as the fall zone. Such measures are vital to safeguard against the peril of heavy loads plummeting onto people. However, existing studies have not offered a comprehensive and efficient approach to identify crane load fall zone. To address this gap,... 

During the last decades, the exponential population growth as well as the adverse impacts of climate change have brought about serious challenges in supplying freshwater demands. In this regard, buildings account for a considerable portion of freshwater withdrawal. Accordingly, urgent measures should be taken to tackle this crisis. Rainwater harvesting (RWH), Greywater recycling (GWR), and Hybrid rainwater greywater (HRG) systems are considered efficient substitute resources that are able to reduce the consumption of water supplied by centralized networks in buildings. Nonetheless, there is a vital need for the financial and technical assessment of these systems. Additionally, multiple... 

Optical computing is a new approach to the hardware implementation of devices that were previously implemented digitally and electronically. It has attracted a great deal of interest due to its benefits, which include high bandwidth, extensive internal connections, the possibility of parallel processing, high calculation speed, and low power consumption. Consequently, this type of implementation is regarded as an appropriate substrate for optical neural networks. Compact and low-power CMOS-compatible hardware can be used for on-chip optical neural networks (ONNs), enabling affordable and portable image classification solutions for applications like autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and... 

The construction industry is one of the important and driving sectors of every country's economy, and construction projects are one of the economic development factors of countries. These plans lead to economic growth and development through the mobility they create in public and private capital. Every year, a significant share of the government budget is spent on the implementation of public construction projects. Due to the key role of public construction projects in the development of the country on the one hand and spending huge national funds on the other hand, it is important to pay attention to their efficiency and productivity. Excess costs of public construction projects and delays... 

In recent years, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted considerable amount of interest because of a wide area of applications and a lot of advantages. UAVs have been extensively used for military operations that include tracking, surveillance, active engagement with weapons and airborne data acquisition. UAVs are also in demand commercially due to their advantages in comparison to manned vehicles. These advantages include lower manufacturing and operating costs, flexibility in configuration depending on customer request and not risking the pilot on demanding missions. Safety and efficiency are crucial factors in drones, so in this thesis, these issues are considered. Wind... 

Nowadays, most of businesses are becoming computer-based. This trend causes the organizations to become more vulnerable to internal and external threats. Internal threats are done through insiders. Insiders unlike outsiders have capabilities which aid them to easily carry out their illicit activities. Unfortunately, most of research in computer security has focused on the outsider threats, whereas the most damaging is the result of insiders’ illicit activities.This dissertation addresses three primary necessities of the research in the area of insider threat: a consistent definition of insider threat, a classification of types of insider threats, and a classification of vulnerabilities which... 

This project focuses on the Tennessee East-man challange problem(TEP) and the impact of setpoint changes and controller tunning on plant performance and profitability. TE has four major units. it is an unstable system due to the reaction within the reactor and a recycle streamcausing snow ball effect. As a result the control of this system is not easy. The study has been conducted along two main directions. First, selecting the optimal values for the setpoints and applying them in the simulation. secondly, try to find better parameter for controller in simulation. Simulation is based on working of Ricker. In TEP like the other multivariable systems, it is ameanable to use a centralized... 

Decentralized control is a typical method for the design of industrial MIMO control systems. However, in most multivariable systems, the existence of large interactions limit the achievable performance of such controllers. In the Nyquist Array design method proposed by Rosenbrock, the system interactions can be reduced using a precompensator, such that a decentralized controller may be used with acceptable performance. A well designed pre-compensator will effectively decouple the system and the multivariable systems may be considered as a set of SISO systems. It is therefore obvious that the key element in the Nyquist Array design method is the design of the pre-compensator. There are two...