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Nowadays, BDI architecture is of the most well known agent’s architectures. BDI architecture or the architecture in which the system is viewed as rational agents based on the attitudes of belief, desire and intention represents an abstraction of human deliberation based on a theory of rational action in the human cognition process. BDI logic introduced by Rao and Georgeff have been widely used as the theoretical basis of specification and implementation of rational agents. BDI logic is limited to deal with crisp assertion, while the assertions encountered in real world are not precise and thus cannot be treated simply by using yes or no. Moreover, In order to obtain more human like agents we... 

The current thesis argues about employee Performance Appraisal System (PAS) of damavand project which is one of the MAPNA Combined Cycle Power Plant Construction and Development Co (MD-2) projects.A few studies have been done in the field of human resource management in project structure and project-based organizations in comparison with classic organizations structure. the PAS might have a different role in project structure as a function in human resource management.In this research the required data has collected via interview with employees and some top managers of MD-2 Company.and Theme analysis has been used to analyzing the data. this study has described the effect of organizational,... 

Some firms grow very rapidly, the others much more slowly. In this research we compare the founding strategies of 32 Iranian software industry new ventures that have grown very rapidly with those with much less growth. This study aims to compare these two groups of firms, in order to provide insights into the attributes of rapid-growth software firms founding strategies. Founding strategies, in this research, refers both to the characteristics of the entrepreneurs who establish the firm, and to the decisions regarding initial markets and products. Results indicate that high-growth firms used to have more experienced entrepreneurs (managerial, industry specific, and work experience). In... 

In software testing, it is often desirable to find test inputs that exercise specific program features. Good testing means uncovering as many faults as possible with a potent set of tests. Thus, a test series that has the potential to uncover many faults is better than one that can only uncover a few. To find these inputs by hand is extremely time-consuming, especially when the software is complex. Therefore, many attempts have been made to automate the process. There are three major methods to generate software test data: Random test data generation, Symbolic test data generation and Dynamic test data generation. Dynamic test data generation, such as those using genetic algorithms, is... 

In this study, factors which lead in failures in reengineering processes in project based companies have been investigated. The research used qualitative methods, and finally using theme analysis to identify the main factors.Consequently, the main causes of failure of re-engineering projects have been identified and classified in six basic categories including: organizational leadership, planning, human resources management, mental models causing resistance, culture and organizational climate and communication. That each of these themes includes some subset of the agents it represents. In this study, a suitable pattern for organizations which intend to perform reengineering has been... 

The main objective of all managers of the economic organizations, manufacturing and industrial companies and service providers is to take steps toward improvement and effective use of different resources like workforce, capital, materials, energy and information. To attain the desired productivity, managers have to observe requirements such as establishment of a working organizational structure, effective implementation methods, safe equipment and tools, balanced working atmosphere and qualified human force as the most important factor. Therefore productivity culture should be publicized throughout the organization, and human force should be considered as the main component of this process.... 

This thesis addresses the main stages of ship vibration analysis and introduces applied strategies for vibration reduction of an existing ship. First, the basic theory of ship vibration is considered and the main sources of ship vibration are enumerated. Then, the manner and the steps of vibration measurement on ship structure are presented and a summary of vibration measurement guidelines is mentioned. Afterward, the procedure how to analyze the measured data of ship vibration is outlined and a comparison between the measured data and standard limits for vibration level considering structural vibration, machinery vibration and human comfort is done. Next, human response to vibration and the... 

Nowadays Human Resource Management (HRM) has a critical and fundamental importance in organization management. In the beginning and middle of 20th century and even in the last decades of that century financial investments were important in different economic sectors and industries, but in the beginning of 21th century human resource and training is one of the most fundamental issues in all of economic sectors and industries, especially in power industry. Following this point of view, people with appropriate education and qualifications should be employed in power industry. These employees should be skillfully able of working with complicated technology of power industry as well as being... 

In this research, we introduce a semi-supervised manifold regularization framework for hu- man pose estimation. Here we aim the three major challenges in discriminative human pose estimation. We utilize the unlabeled data to reduce the need to labeled data and compen- sate for the complexities in the input space. We model the underlying manifold by a nearest neighbor graph. Due to depth ambiguity which is the main challenge in this problem, the true underlying manifold of the data bends and gets too close to itself is some areas which results in poor graph construction. To solve this problem, we argue that the optimal graph is a subgraph of the k-nearest neighbor graph and employ an... 

Semi-automated Continuous Speech system deals with collecting corpus speech. It has very different problems in various natural languages because of different types of speech, and collecting speech corpus containing continuous word is very time-and- cost consuming. To overcome this problem, human-based computing techniques are proposed to collect speech corpus. In this thesis, we describe influencing factors in collecting steps of continuous speech and provide a description of human-based techniques to solve problems specially collecting of continuous speech. To collect speech corpus using human-based techniques, a game has been used so that speech corpus of web users are collected during the... 

Human tracking is an essential step in many computer vision-based applications. As single view tracking may not be sufficiently robust and accurate, tracking based on multiple cameras has been widely considered in recent years. This thesis presents a distributed human tracking method in a smart camera network and introduces a particle filter design based on Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and color histogram. The proposed adaptive motion model also estimates the target speed from the history of its latest displacement and improves the robustness of the tracker by decreasing the probability of missing targets. In addition, a distributed data fusion method is proposed which fuses the... 

The purpose of this project is estimating the two-or three-dimensional human condition using existing data(images or video). Human pose estimation can be used in applications، including the detection of human behavior، animation،human computer interaction، physical therapy and، etc . We use sparse representation method to estimating human pose In this project .Sparse representation methods in recent years has been used in many fields and probably in pose estimation can achieve good results with this method  

In thi¬s thesis we studied 3d reconstruction of synchronized multi-view videos containing dynamic scenes of complicated deformable surfaces and fast motions, such as soccer scenes. Our pupose is to extract shape and motion of scene simultaneousely via a spacio-temporal framework. To this end, we translate our problem to a registration problem both in stereo and temporal pairs. We review 3D reconstruction methods and their related concepts like stereo correspondence and scene flow. This review is necessary to choose the best solution.In proposed solution we formulate 3d recnstruction problem as an optimization problem.Using variational framework we integrate error functional over image planes... 

The performance evaluation involves a process by which the employees are periodically and officially evaluated. Major reasons of performance evaluation include, among others, identification of efficient employees and granting bonuses to them to create stimuli to improve their and other employees' performances. The main objective of performance evaluation constitutes study of people's performances in the organization in order for directors to take proper and required decisions to enhance both quantities and qualities of the employees' works. The performance evaluation is deemed to be a major critical function of the management of human resources to facilitate organizational effectiveness. In... 

The goal of this research is to elucidate the mechanism of Cell recognition in molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) using already utilized techniques. Our approach employs a more flexible non-covalent imprinting method which starts from a readily available polymer and utilizes an aqueous environment for both MIP synthesis and testing. Cell MIPs against MG-63 cell were synthesized. The synthesis procedure was optimized to obtain better binding characteristics to the targeted cell. Adsorption of target cell onto imprinted Alginate Spheres was facilitated by these macromolecular fingerprints as revealed by various microscopical examinations The imprinted Spheres showed high selectivity toward... 

Estimating 3D pose of the human body in videos has many potential applications in motion analysis, surveillance and human computer interfaces. In the last decade using more than one camera causes more accurate pose estimation. Most of the previous works use calibrated and fixed cameras but in action this is not a realistic assumption and using some arbitrary moving cameras is more likely. We introduce a novel method for this purpose. Our approach does not require specifying locations and directions of the cameras. The method uses a database of 3D poses for different human activities. This database includes body silhouettes from multiple viewpoints. To estimate the 3D body pose, silhouettes... 

The present study was performed aiming to identify the ethical dilemmas human resource managers confront with in Iranian project-based organizations as well as to trace out the underlying causes. “Ethical dilemma” refers to a decision making situation in which ethical considerations render all the alternatives inapt, thence making the decision making process ethically complex. First of all, a theoretical framework was developed based on the preceding research; then, the study was further conducted utilizing a qualitative research method with an exploratory approach. The data were collected using in-depth interviews and analysed using the theme analysis method. The corresponding interviewees... 

According to the principles of the country 20-year outlook charter Iran as a developing nation should be ranked first in economic, scientific and technological status in the region. Productivity improvement in all fields is one of the key essentials for realization of stable economic growth. Construction industry in developing countries contributes a major share of gross domestic product (GDP). It has a crucial bearing on economic growth, therefore enhancement of performance indicators in this industry will result in economic development of the country. This research project has offered a pattern for measuring and analyzing labor and machinery productivity in large scale construction. This... 

On the contrary to common explanations of fertility transition in the Iraninan Economy there has been a growing human capital without decline of fertility for some decades followed by a rapid fall in fertility without a higher growth of human capital during the next decades. Accounting for these facts we propose a new link between subsidies financed by exogenous oil revenue and the evolution of fertility and human capital. While the educational subsidy accelerates the growth of human capital, the presence of financial subsidies keeps fertility from declining. Then, fertility declines with sizeable delay but sharply because (i) high fertility in first generations implies a growth rate of... 

Human facial activity recognition is one of the endeavors to improve human-computer interaction. Recognition of excitements and emotions on human face by machine and makinga corresponding reaction is essential for man machine intraction.The purpose of this project is recognizingactivities such as speaking, eating, laughing, agree and disagree which have more complexity than usualemotions such as fear and happinesscontained in common datasets.So, adataset in accordance with the above mentioned 5 activities was collected and the appropriate feature vector for analyzing these face activities were implemented.Distance between the interest points located on the face were used as parameters in...