literary adaptation is recasting literary books such as novels, short stories, or even poems in a new form such as films, stage plays, or even video games. persian literature abounds with dramatic events. there are many fascinating narratives such as shahnameh of ferdowsi, khmseh of nezami, mathnavi of rumi, and tarikh-e beyhaghi of beyhaghi, which have the dramatic capacity of literary adaptat...

greimas and other semioticians of the paris school believe that reality is always illusive and that the factors affecting the formation of a narrative are always ambiguous. based on this view, a narrative is always a simulation of reality. based on greimas' actants model, this paper presents an analysis of two stories from tarikh-e beyhaghi, with the aim of revealing two types of narratives; th...

How to optimize posted price mechanisms? The sequential posted-price (SPP) mechanism is one of the widely used selling mechanisms in practice. In this mechanism, seller presents each buyer with a sequentially and can either accept or reject mechanism's offer. Despite widespread use SPP problem optimizing prices has not been fully addressed. paper entitled, “Improved Revenue Bounds for Posted-Pr...