To my beautiful wife, Ashley. For your unconditional love, faithful encouragement, and resolute support. You have always believed in and inspired the pursuit of my dreams. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to express my immense gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Glenn Sjoden. What started as an undergraduate summer research project transformed into my path in graduate school. As both an advisor ...

This paper aims to explore the possibility of using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for multi-document comparative summarization which detects the main differences in documents. The first two sections of this paper focus on the definition of comparative summarization and a brief explanation of using the LDA topic model in this context. In the last three sections, our novel method for multi-do...

background: depression is one of the most common psychiatry disorders. the most common treatments for this disorder are pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. due to the side effects and expensiveness of these methods, developing the non-drug treatments seems to be necessary. this study tries to determine the effect of eight weeks of aerobic exercises on depression, frequency of negative automatic ...

We propose a strategy, based on domain decomposition methods , for parallelizing existing sequential simulators for solving partial diier-ential equations. Using an object-oriented programming framework, high-level parallelizations can be done in an eecient and systematical way. Concrete case studies, including numerical experiments, are provided to further illustrate this parallelization strat...

This paper identifies features that occur frequently in coherence relations labelled CHOSEN ALTERNATIVE. This achieves two goals: (1) to identify evidence for an argument being considered an alternative excluded from further consideration, and (2) to contribute to the automatic identification of coherence relations and their arguments. It is shown that the simplest of these features occur signi...

Cooperative communications, in which a relay node assists the source node to deliver its packets to the destination node thus adding diversity, is gaining more attention within the research community. The initial studies on the physical layer have shown significant gains from cooperative diversity in terms of reliability, coverage range and energy efficiency. A Cooperative Automatic Repeat reQu...

The primary focus of this paper is multi-document comparative summarization. At first, the concept of comparative summarization is defined, and then the existing approaches are described. Finally, a new method using LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis) for comparative summarization is proposed. Key-Words: Comparative summarization, contrastive summarization, summarization via LSA

in this paper, we propose an approach for automatic generation of novel intrusion signatures. this approach can be used in the signature-based network intrusion detection systems (nidss) and for the automation of the process of intrusion detection in these systems. in the proposed approach, first, by using several one-class classifiers, the profile of the normal network traffic is established. ...

Sequence analysis is often the first guide for the prediction of residues in a protein family that may have functional significance. A few methods have been proposed which use the division of protein families into subfamilies in the search for those positions that could have some functional significance for the whole family, but at the same time which exhibit the specificity of each subfamily (...