Network coverage is one of the most important challenges in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In a WSN, each sensor node has a sensing area coverage based on its sensing range. In most applications, sensor nodes are randomly deployed in the environment which causes the density of nodes become high in some areas and low in some other. In this case, some areas are not covered by none of sensor nodes which these areas are called coverage holes. Also, creating areas with high density leads to redundant overlapping and as a result the network lifetime decreases. In this paper, a cluster-based scheme for the coverage problem of WSNs using learning automata is proposed. In the proposed scheme, each node creates the action and probability vectors of learning automata for itself and its neighbors, then determines the status of itself and all its neighbors and finally sends them to the cluster head (CH). Afterward, each CH starts to reward or penalize the vectors and sends the results to the sender for updating purposes. Thereafter, among the sent vectors, the CH node selects the best action vector and broadcasts it in the form of a message inside the cluster. Finally, each member changes its status in accordance with the vector included in the received message from the corresponding CH and the active sensor nodes perform environment monitoring operations. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the network coverage and the energy consumption.

Task scheduling is one of the main and important challenges in the cloud environment. The dynamic nature and changing conditions of the cloud generally leads to problems for the task scheduling. Hence resource management and scheduling are among the important cases to improve throughput of cloud computing. This paper presents an online, a non-preemptive scheduling solution using two learning automata for the task scheduling problem on virtual machines in the cloud environment that is called LABTS. This algorithm consists three phases: in the first one, the priority of tasks sent by a learning automaton is predicted. In the second phase, the existing virtual machines are classified according to the predictions in the previous phase. Finally, using another learning automaton, tasks are assigned to the virtual machines in the third phase. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm in the cloud environment reduces the value of two parameters makespan and degree of imbalance.

In the last decade, eye gaze detection system has been known as one of the most important area activities in image processing and computer vision. The performance of eye gaze detection system is related to iris detection and recognition (IR). Iris recognition plays very important role for person identification. The aim of this paper is to achieve higher recognition rate compared to learning automata based methods. Usually, iris retrieval based systems consist of several parts including: pre-processing, iris detection, normalization, feature extraction and classification that are captured from eye region. In this paper, a new method without normalization step is proposed. Meanwhile, Speeded up Robust Features (SURF) descriptor is used to extract features of iris images. The descriptor of each iris image creates a vector with 64 dimensions. For classification step, learning automata classifier is applied. The proposed method is tested on three known iris databases; UBIRIS, MMU and UPOL database. The proposed method results in recognition rate of 100% for UBIRIS and UPOL databases and 99.86% for MMU iris database. Also, EER rate of the proposed method for UBIRIS, UPOL and MMU iris database are 0.00%, 0.00% and 0.008%, respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed learning automata classifier results in minimum classification error, and improves precision and computation time.

Coverage improvement is one of the main problems in wireless sensor networks. Given a finite number of sensors, improvement of the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save cost of sensors for locating in grid points. For achieving good coverage, the sensors should be placed in adequate places. This paper uses the genetic and learning automata as intelligent methods for solving the blanket sensor placement. In this paper an NP-complete problem for arbitrary sensor fields is described which is one of the most important issues in the research fields, so the proposed algorithm is going to solve this problem by considering two factors: first, the complete coverage and second, the minimum used sensors. The proposed method is examined in different areas using MATLAB. The results confirm the successes of using this new method in sensor placement; also they show that the new method is more efficient than other methods like FAPBIL and MDPSO in large areas