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In the Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) a set of locations is given, each with a score. The objective is to determine a fixed number of routes (teams), limited in length, that visit some locations and maximize the sum of the collected scores. For the first time we introduce bi-objective TOP which has a second objective, to balance all team's scores for the purpose of obtaining fair teams. So the second...
An emotion recognition method from the face images is proposed in this paper, which can recognize seven emotions of human, i.e., six basic expressions in addition to neutral. The proposed method uses the GLCM approach for feature extraction and the nearest neighbor (NN) for classification. The fuzzy Euclidean distance is used. GLCM provides the texture characteristics of an input image through the...
In the last few decades, many opinion formation models have been proposed to describe how opinion interactions among individuals result in different distributions of opinions within social systems. Emotion plays a key role when people try to influence others' opinions, but applying emotion to opinion formation models has attracted little attention. In this paper, we discuss how emotion can affect...
Wireless sensor network (WSN) is an inexpensive newfound technology with many applications in various fields (such as biology Environment, war and natural disasters). A network consisting of a large number of sensor nodes and collecting information from the environment in a distributed environment. The main limitations include limited energy, low communication capacity, low storage volume, and low...
In this study, we investigated the effects of mastering multiple scripts in handwritten character recognition by means of computational simulations. In particular, we trained a set of deep neural networks on two different datasets of handwritten characters: the HODA dataset, which is a collection of images of handwritten Persian digits, and the MNIST dataset, which contains Latin handwritten digits...
In recent years advent of social networking services has created large amounts of data. Microblogging website is a kind of social network in which users share short messages with others. One of the most popular microblogging services is Twitter. Every day millions of people post their opinions and sentiments in this microblog. Due to the large numbers of tweets, finding new approaches to discover...
In almost every mental disorder, there are deficiencies in both structure and function of the brain. So the need for analyzing complementary modalities that project all aspects of the brain is rising. The most severe kind of these disorders is schizophrenia. The main cause of schizophrenia is still unknown. Therefore, analyzing resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) and structural MRI (sMRI) to investigate...
The Gaussian noise profile has been demonstrated to be an inaccurate model in several antenna beamforming problems. Many available beamformers are based on second-order statistics and their efficiency degrades significantly due to impulsive noise existed in the received signal. Therefore, a demand exists for attention to address beamforming problems under nonGaussian noise environments. According...
Image representation is proven as a long-standing activity in computer vision. The rich context and large amount of information in images makes image recognition hard. So the image features must be extracted and learned correctly. Obtaining good image descriptors is greatly challenging. In recent years Learning Binary Features has been applied for many representation tasks of images, but it is shown...
Location-based queries have brought challenging privacy issues for mobile users. Having access to data, anytime from anywhere, raises many security concerns. One of these concerns is user's location privacy, where a user must reveal her location to get the desired result. The question is how to benefit from such queries without endangering user's location privacy. This paper presents a new method...
This study presents a new sine and cosine (S&C) optimization algorithm using a novel position update approach. In the proposed algorithm, the position update procedure for each search agent is determined by two coefficients, namely the exploration rate and the exploitation rate. These coefficients are updated in each run of the algorithm and provide an appropriate balance between the exploration...
The evolutions in the electrical industry in recent years cause many challenges and require new means and methods to deal with it. Changes in the electrical systems are inevitable with the advent of challenges and issues in energy markets. The rapid expansion of energy systems required smart grid and services like advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) with two-way interaction. Since devices in smart...
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