Search methods are common mechanisms in problem solving. In many AI applications, they are used with heuristic functions to prune the search space and improve performance. In last three decades, much effort has beenּ directed toward research on such heuristic functions and search methods by AI community. As it is very hard to build theoretical models for heuristic functions to predict their beha...

Due to advent of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), mainly due to rapid advances in integration technologies the electronics industry has achieved a phenomenal growth over the last two decades. Various applications of VLSI circuits in high-performance computing, telecommunications, and consumer electronics has been expanding progressively, and at a very hasty pace. Steady advances in semi-con...

This research is related to the usefulness of different machine learning methods in forecasting time series on financial markets. The main issue in this field is that economic managers and scientific society are still longing for more accurate forecasting algorithms. Fulfilling this request leads to an increase in forecasting quality and, therefore, more profitability and efficiency. In this pa...

Deterring the optimum design of large-scale structures is a difficult task. Great number of design variables, largeness of the search space and controlling great number of design constraints are major preventive factors in performing optimum design of large-scale truss structures in a reasonable time. Meta-heuristic algorithms are known as one of the useful tools to d...

periodic vehicle routing problem focuses on establishing a plan of visits to clients over a given time horizon so as to satisfy some service level while optimizing the routes used in each time period. This paper presents a new effective heuristic algorithm based on data mining tools for periodic vehicle routing problem (PVRP). The related results of proposed algorithm are compared with the resu...

Algorithms and Tools for Verification and Testing of Asynchronous Programs