Publications by Mohsen Afsharchi

Publications

Journal papers Google Scholar
2023 - H. Mohammadi Azni, M. Afsharchi, and A. Allahverdi, Improving Brain Tumor Segmentation Performance Using CycleGAN based Feature Extraction, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 82(12)(2023), 18039-18058, (Springer).
2022 - Kh. Soltanian, A. Ebnenasir, and M. Afsharchi, Modular Grammatical Evolution for the Generation of Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30(2)(2022), 291-327, (MIT Press).
2022 - M. Shokoohi, M. Afsharchi, and H. Shah-Hoseini, Dynamic Distributed Constraint Optimization using Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, Soft Computing, Volume 26(8)(2022), 3601-3629, (Springer).
2022 - K. Seyedhoseinzadeh, H.A. Rahmani Dashti, M. Afsharchi,and M. Aliannejadi, Leveraging Social Influence based on Users Activity Centers for Point-of-interest Recommendation, Information Processing & Management, Volume 59(2)(2022), (Elsevier).
2021 - A. Hekmatmanesh, H. Mohammadi Azni, H. Wu, M. Afsharchi, M. Li and H. Handroos, Imaginary Control of a Mobile Vehicle using Deep Learning Algorithm: A Brain Computer Interface Study, IEEE Access, Volume 10,(2021), 20043-20052, (IEEE Access).
2021 - M. Ghaffari, M. Afsharchi, Learning to Shift Load Under Uncertain Production in the Smart Grid, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Volume 31(2)(2020), (Wiley Online Library).
2020 - M. Mahmoudi, M. Afsharchi,and S. Khodayifar, Demand Response Management in Smart Homes Using Robust Optimization, Electric Power Components and Systems, Volume 48(8)(2021), 817-832, (Taylor & Francis Online).
2020 - F. Ghorbani, M. Afsharchi,and V. Derhami, Learning with Policy Prediction in Continuous State-Action Multi-agent Decision Processes, Soft Computing 24(2)(2020)(SC-Springer).
2019 - E. Ganjkhani, M. Afsharchi, An Effective Test Case Prioritization by Combination of Strategies, SN Applied Sciences, Volume 1(2)(2019),1-4, (WSpringer).
2019 - E. Fazli and M. Afsharchi, A Time and Space-Efficient Compositional Method for Prime and Test Paths Generation, IEEE ACCESS 7,P:134399-134410(2019)(IEEE-ACCESS).
2019 - S. Ahmadian,N. Joorabloo, M. Jalili, Y.Ren, M.Meghdadi and M. Afsharchi, A Social Recommender System based on Reliable Implicit Relationships. Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 192, 105371, (2019)(KBS-Elsevier).
2019 - M.F. Sadi, E. Ansari,and M. Afsharchi, Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using New Features Based on Word Embeddings, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Volume 37(1):1467-1476 (2019)(JIFS-IOS-Press).
2019 - F. Ghorbani, M. Afsharchi,and V. Derhami, A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Fuzzy Approximation for Distributed Stochastic Unit Commitment, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Volume 37(5): 6613-6628(JIFS-IOS-Press).
2019 - S. Ahmadian, M. Afsharchi,and M. Meghdadi, A Novel Approach based on Multi-view Reliability Measures to Alleviate Data Sparsity in Recommender Systems, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-018-7079-x,January 2018.
2018 - S. Ahmadian, M. Afsharchi,and M. Meghdadi, An Effective Social Recommendation Method based on User Reputation Model and Rating Profile Enhancements, Journal of Information Science, DOI: 10.1177/0165551518808191,October 2018.
2018 - S. Ahmadian, M. Meghdadi,and M. Afsharchi, Incorporating Reliable Virtual Ratings into Social Recommendation Systems, Journal of Applied Intelligence Volume 48, Number 7, July 2018.
2018 - A. Ghasem Azar, M. Afsharchi, M. Davoodi, and B. Sadegh,A Multi-Objective Market-Driven Framework for Efficient Electricity Matching in the Smart Grid, International Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 70: 199-215 (2018)(EAAI-Elsevier).
2018 - S. Ahmadian, M. Meghdadi,and M. Afsharchi, A Social Recommendation Method Based on an Adaptive Neighbor Selection Mechanism, Journal of Information Processing and Management, Volume 54, Issue 4, July 2018, Pages 707-725 (IPM-Elsevier).
2017 - F. Ghorbani, V. Derhami,and M. Afsharchi, Fuzzy Least Square Policy Iteration and Its Mathematical Analysis, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems(IJFS-Springer),Volume 19, Issue 3, pp 849-862.
2014 - M. Ramaninia, E. Bigdeli,and M. Afsharchi, A Scalable Algorithm to Solve Distributed Constraint Optimization, International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp 55-67.
2014 - M. Arab, M. Afsharchi, Community Detection in Social Networks using Hybrid Merging of Sub Communities, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 40, April 2014, pp 73-84.
2013 - E. Davoodi, K. Kianmehr, M. Afsharchi, A Semantic Social Network-based Expert Recommender System, Applied Intelligence, Volume 39, Issue 1, pp 1-13
2013 - M. Afsharchi, A. Didandeh, N. Mirbakhsh, Concept Learning Games: An Ontological Study in Multi-Agent Systems, The International Journal of Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 15, Issue 4, pp 653-676.
2013 - M. Afsharchi, B.H. Far, A. Didandeh, N. Mirbakhsh, Common Understanding in a Multi-Agent System Using Ontology-Guided Learning, The International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, Volume 36, Issue 1, pp 83-120 .
2009 - H. Mohammadi, E. Nedaee, M.Afsharchi, N. Yazdani. M. Sahimi, A Percolation Model of Mobile Ad hoc Networks, International Journal of Modern Physics C, Volume: 20, Issue: 12, PP. 1871-1902
2007 - M. Afsharchi, B.H. Far and J. Denzinger. Enhancing Communication With Groups of Agents Using Learned Non-unanimous Ontology Concepts. The International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, Volume 7, Number 1, PP. 107-121, 2009, IOS Press
2005 - Mohsen Afsharchi and Behrouz H. Far. Enterprise Knowledge Management Using Knowledge Orchestration Agency. Decision Support in Agent Mediated Environments; Editors Gloria Phillips-Wren and Lakhmi Jain, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, publisher IOS Press, Chapter 3, 2005.
2004 - Mohsen Afsharchi, Behrouz Homayoun Far and Wei Wu. A Unified View of Software Agents Interactions. Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication, IEICE, Vol. E87-D, No. 4, pp. 896-907, April 2004

Conference papers
2023 - Sh. Yousefi, M. Hooshmand, M. Afsharchi, Early Discovery of Emerging Entities in Persian Twitter with Semantic Similarity, 9th International Conference on Web Research (ICWR) 2023, P:259-263.

	2022 - 
	Kh. Soltanian, A.Ebnenasir, M. Afsharchi,
	Modular Grammatical Evolution for the Generation of Artificial Neural Networks, 
	Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion 2022, P:41-42.

	2020 - 
	Z. Hashemian,Z. Sharifi, K. Soltanian, M. Afsharchi 
	Using Augmented Genetic Algorithm for Search-Based Software Testing, 
	The International Conference on Contemporary Issues In Data Science, 2019, P: 248-257.

	2019 - 
	H.R. Rahmani,M. Aliannejadi, R.Mirzaei Zadeh, M. Baratchi, M. Afsharchi, F. Crestani
	Category-Aware Location Embedding for Point-of-Interest Recommendation, 
	The International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. ACM, 2019.

	2019 - 
	H.R. Rahmani,M. Aliannejadi, S. Ahmadian, M. Baratchi, M. Afsharchi, F. Crestani
	LGLMF: Local Geographical based Logistic Matrix Factorization Model for POI Recommendation, 
	The 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference AIRS 2019, P:66-78.

	2018 - 
	S. Ahmadian, N. Joorabloo, M. Jalili, M. Meghdadi, M. Afsharchi, Y. Ren 
	A Temporal Clustering Approach for Social Recommender Systems, 
	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2018.

	2018 - 
	R. Heidari, M. Afsharchi and R. Khanmohammadi. 
	A Markovian Decision Process Analysis of Experienced Agents Joining Ad-Hoc Teams, 
	Proceedings of the  Euromicro 
	Conference on Digital System Design, DSD, 2018. 

	2015 - 
	Z. Alizadeh, M. Afsharchi and A. Ghasem Azar. 
	A Distributed Energy-Efficient Algorithm for 
	Cellular Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks, 
	Proceedings of the  International 
	Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and 
	Innovations, 75-95, AIAI, 2015. 

	2015 - 
	A. Jamshidpey, M. Afsharchi. Task 
	Allocation in Robotic Swarms: Explicit Communication Based Approaches. 
	Proceedings of Canadian Conference on AI 2015: 59-67, Halifax 2015. 

	2015 - H. Khani, M. Afsharchi.
	Security Games with Ambiguous Beliefs of 
	Agents, Proceedings of PRIMA 
	2015,585-593, Bertinoro, Italy, 2015. 

	2014 - 
	A. Ghasem Azar, M. Davoodi, M. Afsharchi and B.Sadeghi Bigham. 
	A Greedy Agent-Based Resource 
	Allocation in the Smart Electricity Markets, 
	Proceedings of the  International 
	Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and 
	Innovations, 150-161, AIAI, 2014. 

	2014 - S.Amini and
      M. Afsharchi. Finding Better Teammates in a Semi-cooperative Multi-agent System, 
	Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2014. 

2012 - M.Arab and
      M. Afsharchi. A Modularity Maximization Algorithm for Community
      Detection in Social Networks with Low Time Complexity,
      Proceedings of The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web
      Intelligence, WI 2012.

2012 - E. Davoodi,
      M. Afsharchi, and K. Kianmehr. A Social
      Network-based Approach to Expert Recommendation System,
      Proceedings of  the 7th International Conference on
      Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, HAIS 2012.

2012 - R. Najafi and M. Afsharchi. Network Intrusion
      Detection Using Tree Augmented Naive-Bayes,
      Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Issues in
      Computer Science, CICIS 2012.

2011 - E. Bigdeli, M. Ramaninia, and
      M. Afsharchi. DGOPT:
      Dynamic Group Optimization to Find Better to Group Formations in DCOPS,
      Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on OPTimization
      in Multiagent Systems, OPTMAS 2011.

2011 - E. Bigdeli, M. Ramaninia, and
      M. Afsharchi. Solving
      Distributed Optimization Problems- an Evolutionary Approach,
      Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial
      Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Rome, Italy.

2010 - E. Bigdeli, M. Ramaninia, and
      M. Afsharchi. PKOPT: Faster k-Optimal Solution for DCOP by
      Improving Group Selection Strategy, Proceedings of the
      22th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
      (ICTAI 2010), Arras, France.

2010 - N. Mirbakhsh, A. Didandeh, and
      M. Afsharchi, Concept Learning Games: The Game of Query and
      Response, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
      Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2010), Toronto, Canada,
      pp. 234-240.

2010 - A. Didandeh, N. Mirbakhsh and
      M. Afsharchi, Negotiating
      to Learn Non-Unanimous Concepts, In Proceedings of the
      Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models for
      Negotiation (HuCom2010), 2010, Delft, The
      Netherlands.

2009 - N. Mirbakhsh, A. Didandeh, M.Afsharchi, Incremental Non-Unanimous Concept Reformation
      through Queried Object Classification, Proceedings of the
      International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT09), Italy,
      2009 

2009 - B. H. Far,
      C. Zhong,Z. Yang, M. Afsharchi,
      Realization
      of Semantic Search Using Concept Learning and Document Annotation Agents,
      Proceedings of the 29th 
      International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
      Engineering(SEKE09), 2009

2009 - L. Safari, M.Afsharchi, B.H. Far, Concepts
      in Action: Performance Study of Agents Learning Ontology Concepts From
      Peer Agents, 
      Proceedings of International Conference on Agents and Artificial
      Intelligence (ICAART09), Portugal,
      (2009) 

2008 - M.Afsharchi, C. Zhong, Z.
      Yang and B.H.Far, Ontology Learning
      Supported Semantic Search Using Cooperative Agents,
      Proceedings of the 20th 
      International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
      Engineering(SEKE08), 2008

2007 - B.H. Far,
      A.H. Elamy and N. Houari
      and M. Afsharchi, Adjudicator: A
      Statistical Approach for Learning Ontology Concepts from Peer Agents,Proceedings
      of the Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and
      Knowledge Engineering(SEKE07), 2007.

2006 - M. Afsharchi, B.H. Far, and J. Denzinger, Learning
      Non-Unanimous Ontology Concepts to Communicate with Groups of Agents,
      Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent
      Technology (IAT-06) , Hong
       Kong, IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 211-217.

2006 - M. Afsharchi, B.H. Far, Improving
      Example Selection for Agents Teaching Ontology Concepts, Proceedings of
      the 10th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA'06),
      Springer LNCS 4149, 2005, pp. 228-242 .

2006 - M. Afsharchi, B.H. Far, and J. Denzinger,
      Ontology Guided
      Learning to Improve Communication among Groups of Agents,
      Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous
      Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'06), Hakodate, 2006, pp. 923-930 .

2006 - Mohsen Afsharchi and B.H. Far, Automated Ontology Evolution in a
      Multi-Agent System, Proceedings of the ACM International
      Conference on Scalable Information Systems, (INFOSCALE'06), Article No.
      16, 2006.

2006 - Mohsen Afsharchi, and B.H. Far, Elicitation, Representation and Management of Software
      Design Knowledge Using Multiagent Technology, Proceedings of
      the 11th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'06), 2006.

2005 - Mohsen Afsharchi and Behrouz H. Far.Elicitation, Representation and
      Management of Software Design Knowledge. The
      Second CDEN International Conference on Design Education, Innovation, and
      Practice, July 18-20, 2005 Kananaskis, Alberta,
       Canada. 

2001 -
      Mohsen Afsharchi et.el. The Pasargad Robot : A team description paper for Zanjan
       University Robots
      team.
      Accepted in RoboCup 2001, August 2-10, 2001 Seattle,USA
      

1997 - Mohsen Afsharchi, M.Fathi and M.Oghabian. A Fast Method for Three Dimensional Surface Tracking. The 3rd International Conference of Computer Society of Iran, 23-25 Dec., 1997 Tehran, Iran.