issue 1 publication date 2016-01-01

• An improved joint model: POS tagging and dependency parsing
• Isolated Persian/Arabic handwriting characters: Derivative projection profile features, implemented on GPUs
• Holistic Farsi handwritten word recognition using gradient features
• A new model for persian multi-part words edition based on statistical machine translation
• Applications of two new algorithms of cuckoo optimization (CO) and forest optimization (FO) for solving single row facility layout problem (SRFLP)
• Predicting air pollution in Tehran: Genetic algorithm and back propagation neural network
• Classification of ECG signals using Hermite functions and MLP neural networks
• PSO for multi-objective problems: Criteria for leader selection and uniformity distribution
• Noisy images edge detection: Ant colony optimization algorithm
• Governor design for hydropower plants by intelligent sliding mode variable structure control
• Trajectory tracking of under-actuated nonlinear dynamic robots: Adaptive fuzzy hierarchical terminal sliding-mode control
• Dynamic characterization and predictability analysis of wind speed and wind power time series in Spain wind farm
• Discrete-time repetitive optimal control: Robotic manipulators