1. Improved performance of PEM fuel cells stack feeding switched reluctance motor using multi-objective dragonfly optimizer

   • E. A. El-Hay
   • M. A. El-Hameed
   • A. A. El-Fergany

   Original Article 09 May 2018 Pages: 6909 - 6924

   

2. Motor imagery tasks-based EEG signals classification using tunable-Q wavelet transform

   • Sachin Taran
   • Varun Bajaj

   Original Article 11 May 2018 Pages: 6925 - 6932

   

3. Positive solutions and exponential stability of positive equilibrium of inertial neural networks with multiple time-varying delays

   • Le Van Hien
   • Le Dao Hai-An

   Original Article 15 May 2018 Pages: 6933 - 6943

   

4. Recurrent fuzzy wavelet neural networks based on robust adaptive sliding mode control for industrial robot manipulators

   • Vu Thi Yen
   • Wang Yao Nan
   • Pham Van Cuong

   Original Article 16 May 2018 Pages: 6945 - 6958

   

5. A new comprehensive possibilistic group decision approach for resilient supplier selection with mean–variance–skewness–kurtosis and asymmetric information under interval-valued fuzzy uncertainty

   • N. Foroozesh
   • R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
   • B. Vahdani

   Original Article 16 May 2018 Pages: 6959 - 6979

   

6. Short-term prediction of market-clearing price of electricity in the presence of wind power plants by a hybrid intelligent system

   • Afshin Aghajani
   • Rasool Kazemzadeh
   • Afshin Ebrahimi

   Original Article 17 May 2018 Pages: 6981 - 6993

   

7. Free alignment classification of dikarya fungi using some machine learning methods

   • Abbas Rohani
   • Mojtaba Mamarabadi

   Original Article 17 May 2018 Pages: 6995 - 7016

   

8. Some new dual hesitant fuzzy linguistic operators based on Archimedean t-norm and t-conorm

   • Nian Zhang
   • Zhigang Yao
   • Guiwu Wei

   Original Article 18 May 2018 Pages: 7017 - 7040

   

9. An approach toward decision-making and medical diagnosis problems using the concept of spherical fuzzy sets

   • Tahir Mahmood
   • Kifayat Ullah
   • Naeem Jan

   Original Article 18 May 2018 Pages: 7041 - 7053

   

10. Hysteretic noisy frequency conversion sinusoidal chaotic neural network for traveling salesman problem

    • Junfei Qiao
    • Zhiqiang Hu
    • Wenjing Li

    Original Article 18 May 2018 Pages: 7055 - 7069

    

11. A hybridized ELM using self-adaptive multi-population-based Jaya algorithm for currency exchange prediction: an empirical assessment

    • Smruti Rekha Das
    • Debahuti Mishra
    • Minakhi Rout

    Original Article 21 May 2018 Pages: 7071 - 7094

    

12. Optimization of radial unbalanced distribution networks in the presence of distribution generation units by network reconfiguration using harmony search algorithm

    • Alireza Roosta
    • Hamid-Reza Eskandari
    • Mohammad-Hassan Khooban

    Original Article 22 May 2018 Pages: 7095 - 7109

    

13. A chaotic image encryption algorithm based on 3-D bit-plane permutation

    • Zhi-hua Gan
    • Xiu-li Chai
    • Yi-ran Chen

    Original Article 22 May 2018 Pages: 7111 - 7130

    

14. An ensemble of RBF neural networks in decision tree structure with knowledge transferring to accelerate multi-classification

    • Shadi Abpeykar
    • Mehdi Ghatee

    Original Article 22 May 2018 Pages: 7131 - 7151

    

15. A fuzzy twin support vector machine based on information entropy for class imbalance learning

    • Deepak Gupta
    • Bharat Richhariya
    • Parashjyoti Borah

    Original Article 24 May 2018 Pages: 7153 - 7164

    

16. Prediction of electricity consumption in cement production: a time-varying delay deep belief network prediction method

    • Xiaochen Hao
    • Zhaoxu Wang
    • Yantao Zhao

    Original Article 25 May 2018 Pages: 7165 - 7179

    

17. Hybrid PPFCM-ANN model: an efficient system for customer churn prediction through probabilistic possibilistic fuzzy clustering and artificial neural network

    • E. Sivasankar
    • J. Vijaya

    Original Article 28 May 2018 Pages: 7181 - 7200

    

18. A novel efficient substitution-box design based on firefly algorithm and discrete chaotic map

    • Hussam A. Ahmed
    • Mohamad Fadli Zolkipli
    • Musheer Ahmad

    Original Article 28 May 2018 Pages: 7201 - 7210

    

19. Prediction of the vertical force during FSW of AZ31 magnesium alloy sheets using an artificial neural network-based model

    • Alessio D’Orazio
    • Archimede Forcellese
    • Michela Simoncini

    Original Article 29 May 2018 Pages: 7211 - 7226

    

20. A web-oriented expert system for planning hurdles race training programmes

    • Krzysztof Przednowek
    • Krzysztof Wiktorowicz
    • Janusz Iskra

    Original Article Open access 30 May 2018 Pages: 7227 - 7243

    

21. Delay-distribution-dependent non-fragile state estimation for discrete-time neural networks under event-triggered mechanism

    • Yajing Yu
    • Hongli Dong
    • Jiahui Li

    Original Article 01 June 2018 Pages: 7245 - 7256

    

22. Freeze-drying behaviour prediction of button mushrooms using artificial neural network and comparison with semi-empirical models

    • Ayon Tarafdar
    • Navin Chandra Shahi
    • Anupama Singh

    Original Article 02 June 2018 Pages: 7257 - 7268

    

23. An energy-aware cluster-based stable protocol for wireless sensor networks

    • Nitin Mittal
    • Urvinder Singh
    • Balwinder Singh Sohi

    Original Article 04 June 2018 Pages: 7269 - 7286

    

24. A hybrid-adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for multi-objective regression test suites optimization

    • Zeeshan Anwar
    • Hammad Afzal
    • Omar Arif

    Original Article 06 June 2018 Pages: 7287 - 7301

    

25. Simultaneous visual-appearance-level and spatial-temporal-level dictionary learning for video-based person re-identification

    • Xiaoke Zhu
    • Xiao-Yuan Jing
    • Yilin Ren

    Original Article 07 June 2018 Pages: 7303 - 7315

    

26. A hybrid social influence model for pedestrian motion segmentation

    • Habib Ullah
    • Mohib Ullah
    • Muhammad Uzair

    Original Article 07 June 2018 Pages: 7317 - 7333

    

27. Application of an evolutionary technique (PSO–SVM) and ANFIS in clear-water scour depth prediction around bridge piers

    • B. M. Sreedhara
    • Manu Rao
    • Sukomal Mandal

    Original Article 07 June 2018 Pages: 7335 - 7349

    

28. Sparse regularized discriminative canonical correlation analysis for multi-view semi-supervised learning

    • Shudong Hou
    • Heng Liu
    • Quansen Sun

    Original Article 07 June 2018 Pages: 7351 - 7359

    

29. Sitcom-star-based clothing retrieval for video advertising: a deep learning framework

    • Haijun Zhang
    • Yuzhu Ji
    • Linlin Liu

    Original Article 07 June 2018 Pages: 7361 - 7380

    

30. Topological structure regularized nonnegative matrix factorization for image clustering

    • Wenjie Zhu
    • Yunhui Yan
    • Yishu Peng

    Original Article 11 June 2018 Pages: 7381 - 7399

    

31. Back propagation bidirectional extreme learning machine for traffic flow time series prediction

    • Weidong Zou
    • Yuanqing Xia

    Original Article 11 June 2018 Pages: 7401 - 7414

    

32. Retrospective analysis for phase I statistical process control and process capability study using revised sample entropy

    • Shing I. Chang
    • Zheng Zhang
    • Donghai Wang

    Original Article 13 June 2018 Pages: 7415 - 7428

    

33. Artificial intelligence design charts for predicting friction capacity of driven pile in clay

    • Hossein Moayedi
    • Sajad Hayati

    Original Article 14 June 2018 Pages: 7429 - 7445

    

34. A deep discriminative and robust nonnegative matrix factorization network method with soft label constraint

    • Ming Tong
    • Yiran Chen
    • Shengnan Xi

    Original 21 June 2018 Pages: 7447 - 7475

    

35. NFC-ARP: neuro-fuzzy controller for adaptive resource provisioning in virtualized environments

    • Veni Thangaraj
    • Mary Saira Bhanu Somasundaram

    Original Article 23 June 2018 Pages: 7477 - 7488

    

36. Application of nature inspired optimization algorithms in optimum positioning of pump-as-turbines in water distribution networks

    • Mojtaba Tahani
    • Hossein Yousefi
    • Roshanak Fahimi

    Original Article 26 June 2018 Pages: 7489 - 7499

    

37. Enhanced migrating birds optimization algorithm for U-shaped assembly line balancing problems with workers assignment

    • Zikai Zhang
    • Qiuhua Tang
    • Zixiang Li

    Original Article 28 June 2018 Pages: 7501 - 7515

    

38. Metaheuristic algorithms to allocate and schedule of the rescue units in the natural disaster with fatigue effect

    • Sina Nayeri
    • Ebrahim Asadi-Gangraj
    • Saeed Emami

    Original Article 28 June 2018 Pages: 7517 - 7537

    

39. Classification and diagnostic prediction of prostate cancer using gene expression and artificial neural networks

    • S. S. Tirumala
    • A. Narayanan

    Original Article 29 June 2018 Pages: 7539 - 7548

    

40. CB-ICA: a crossover-based imperialist competitive algorithm for large-scale problems and engineering design optimization

    • Zahra Aliniya
    • Mohammad Reza Keyvanpour

    Original Article 29 June 2018 Pages: 7549 - 7570

    

41. Tree physiology optimization on SISO and MIMO PID control tuning

    • A. Hanif Halim
    • I. Ismail

    Original Article 29 June 2018 Pages: 7571 - 7581

    

42. Calculations of the heat source parameters on the basis of temperature fields with the use of ANN

    • Joanna Wróbel
    • Adam Kulawik

    Original Article Open access 29 June 2018 Pages: 7583 - 7593

    

43. An integrated Taguchi loss function–fuzzy cognitive map–MCGP with utility function approach for supplier selection problem

    • Arash Alizadeh
    • Samuel Yousefi

    Original Article 30 June 2018 Pages: 7595 - 7614

    

44. English–Mizo Machine Translation using neural and statistical approaches

    • Amarnath Pathak
    • Partha Pakray
    • Jereemi Bentham

    Original Article 30 June 2018 Pages: 7615 - 7631

    

45. A novel chaotic optimal foraging algorithm for unconstrained and constrained problems and its application in white blood cell segmentation

    • Gehad Ismail Sayed
    • Mona Solyman
    • Aboul Ella Hassanien

    Original Article 02 July 2018 Pages: 7633 - 7664

    

46. On the exploration and exploitation in popular swarm-based metaheuristic algorithms

    • Kashif Hussain
    • Mohd Najib Mohd Salleh
    • Yuhui Shi

    Original Article 03 July 2018 Pages: 7665 - 7683

    

47. An interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy projection-based approach and application to evaluating knowledge transfer effectiveness

    • Chuan Yue

    Original Article 03 July 2018 Pages: 7685 - 7706

    

48. Improved stochastic fractal search algorithm with chaos for optimal determination of location, size, and quantity of distributed generators in distribution systems

    • Tri Phuoc Nguyen
    • Tung The Tran
    • Dieu Ngoc Vo

    Original Article 03 July 2018 Pages: 7707 - 7732

    

49. An adaptive efficient memristive ink drop spread (IDS) computing system

    • Sajad Haghzad Klidbary
    • Saeed Bagheri Shouraki
    • Iman Esmaili Paeen Afrakoti

    Original Article 04 July 2018 Pages: 7733 - 7754

    

50. Of daemons and men: reducing false positive rate in intrusion detection systems with file system footprint analysis

    • George Mamalakis
    • Christos Diou
    • Leonidas Georgiadis

    Original Article 05 July 2018 Pages: 7755 - 7767