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One of the most heatedly debated issues in Computer Science is Outlier Detection due to its vast and substantial applications such as credit cards, Image Processing,tax fraud detection, and medical approaches. Consequently, Outlier detection has been researched within various domains and knowledge disciplines. On the other hand, the research attempts have not been sufficient to overcome this critical problem considerably inasmuch as nearly all proposed techniques are associated with a special kind of applications or datasets.Firstly, this thesis attempts to provide a precise definition which not only excludes other one’s drawbacks, but also has its distinctive merits. Three essential...