in the middle of the nineteenth century, iran was shaken by a series of serious upheavals caused by the babi movement . some scholars like ivanov have emphasized on social and economic factors and examined this phenomen from a marxist viewpoint . in this paper, moojan momen makes a more detailed analysis than any made hitherto of these upheavals and criticises the marxist viewpoint.

The users of digital cameras often take multiple photographs of the same scene. Such multiple shots usually have a special meaning to the photographer, and require further actions, e.g. selection of the best exposure/composition/portrait or stitching several images into a panorama or composite image. We present a method of fast retrieval of all groups of shots taken from the same viewpoint. Thi...

This paper presents an algorithm for viewpointbased similarity discernment of linguistic concepts on Semantic Network Array Processor (SNAP). The viewpoint-based similarity discernment plays a key role in retrieving similar propositions. This is useful for advanced knowledge processing areas such as analogical reasoning and case-based reasoning. The algorithm assumes that a knowledge base is co...

Probabilistic models of the performance of computer systems have long been used to predict future performance. What has not been recognized, however, is that performance models can also be used to diagnose past performance problems. In this paper, we analyze queueing networks from the probabilistic modeling perspective, applying inference methods from graphical models that allow answering diagn...

While different algebraic structures have been proposed for the treatment of concurrency, finding solutions for equations over these structures needs to be worked on further. This article is a survey of process algebra from a very narrow viewpoint, that of finite automata and regular languages. What have automata theorists learnt from process algebra about finite state concurrency? The title is...

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