Mathematics, Volume 10, Issue 9

In the present paper, we provide and verify several results obtained by using the Chatterjea and $\stackrel{`}{\mathrm{C}}$iri$\stackrel{`}{\mathrm{c}}$ fixed-point theorems by using $(\alpha -\psi )$-contractive mapping in $C^{*}$-algebra-valued metric space. We provide some examples and an applic...

The automatic handling of banknotes can be conducted not only by specialized facilities, such as vending machines, teller machines, and banknote counters, but also by handheld devices, such as smartphones, with the utilization of built-in cameras and...

The reservoir characterization aims to provide the analysis and quantification of the injection-production relationship, which is the fundamental work for production management. The connectivity between injectors and producers is dominated by geologi...

We consider an approach to mathematical modeling of photodegradation of polymer nanocomposites with photoactive additives using the Monte Carlo methods. We principally pay attention to the strength decrease of these materials under solar light action...

The split feasibility problem (SFP) has many practical applications, which has attracted the attention of many authors. In this paper, we propose a different method to solve the SFP and the fixed-point problem involving quasi-nonexpansive mappings. W...

Scientifically and reasonably pricing products and allocating slots are key to improving the profitability and competitiveness of high-speed railway expresses. In this research, we focus on the freight transportation pricing and slot allocation of hi...

Many problems in daily life exhibit nonlinear behavior. Therefore, it is important to solve nonlinear problems. These problems are complex and difficult due to their nonlinear nature. It is seen in the literature that different artificial intelligenc...

This paper discusses statistical inference and optimal design of constant-stress accelerated life testing for the Chen distribution under progressive Type-II censoring. The scale parameter of the life distribution is assumed to be a logarithmic linea...

With the transition to neural architectures, machine translation achieves very good quality for several resource-rich languages. However, the results are still much worse for languages with complex morphology, especially if they are low-resource lang...

The exploration of contractive inequalities which do not imply the continuity of the mapping at fixed points was an interesting open problem for quite some time. A significant amount of progress was made in the last two decades towards the solution o...

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For the interpretation of digital entrepreneurship, the context in which the entrepreneurial process takes place plays an important role. The context emphasizes that to analyze the entrepreneurial process, it is no longer sufficient to analyze only t...

Aircraft maintenance is a complex domain where designing new systems that include Machine Learning (ML) algorithms can become a challenge. In the context of designing a tool for Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) in aircraft maintenance planning, this...

Chenciner bifurcation appears for some two-dimensional systems with discrete time having two independent variables. Investigated here is a special case of degeneration where the implicit function theorem cannot be used around the origin, so a new app...

Accelerated life testing (ALT) is a time-saving technology used in a variety of fields to obtain failure time data for test units in a fraction of the time required to test them under normal operating conditions. This study investigated progressive-s...

Tools for decision making need to be simple to use. In previous papers, we advocated that decision engineering needs to provide these tools, as well as a list of necessary properties that aggregation functions need to satisfy. When we model decisions...

The minimization of annual operating costs in radial distribution networks with the optimal selection and siting of fixed-step capacitor banks is addressed in this research by means of a two-stage optimization approach. The first stage proposes an ap...

The process of project portfolio selection is crucial in many organizations, especially R&D organizations. There is a need to make informed decisions on the investment in various projects or lack thereof. As the projects may continue over more th...

Traffic forecasting plays an important role in intelligent transportation systems. However, the prediction task is highly challenging due to the mixture of global and local spatiotemporal dependencies involved in traffic data. Existing graph neural n...

This work establishes an exponential stability result for a porous-elastic system, where the dissipation mechanisms act on the porous and elastic equations. Our result completes some of the results in the literature for unbounded domains.

In this paper, we investigate the event-triggered consensus problems of nonlinear strict feedback MASs under directed graph. Based on the high-gain control technique, we firstly give a state-based event-triggered consensus algorithm and prove that Ze...

We obtain the existence of multiple pairs of periodic solutions for difference equations of type $-\Delta \left(\frac{\Delta u(n - 1)}{\sqrt{1 - {|\Delta u(n - 1)|}^2}}\right)=\lambda g\left(u\left(n\right)\right)(n\in \mathbb{Z}),$ where $g:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ is a co...

Traffic flow forecasting is challenging for us to analyze intricate spatial–temporal dependencies and obtain incomplete information of spatial–temporal connection. Existing frameworks mostly construct spatial and temporal modeling based o...

Due to the advancements of information technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of distributed sensors and IoT devices in the social IoT (SIoT) systems is proliferating. This has led to various multimedia applications, face recogniti...

With the fast development of networks, one has to focus on the security of information running in real networks. A technology that might be able to resist attacks equipped with AI techniques and quantum computers is the so-called topological graphic...

Non-stationarity of EEG signals lead to high variability across sessions, which results in low classification accuracy. To reduce the inter-session variability, an unsupervised domain adaptation method is proposed. Arithmetic mean and covariance are...

This paper is a numerical simulation of highly dispersive optical solitons in birefringent fibers with polynomial nonlinear form, which is achieved for the first time. The algorithmic approach is applied with the usage of the Laplace–Adomian de...

Computational science simulations produce huge volumes of data for scientific research organizations. Often, this data is shared by data centers distributed geographically for storage and analysis. Data corruption in the end-to-end route of data tran...

A quick search dynamic vector-evaluated particle swarm optimization algorithm based on fitness distance (DVEPSO/FD) is proposed according to the fact that some dynamic multi-objective optimization methods, such as the DVEPSO, cannot achieve a very ac...

In this paper, we deal with the general fractional integrals and the general fractional derivatives of arbitrary order with the kernels from a class of functions that have an integrable singularity of power function type at the origin. In particular,...

Let $K_{p,q}$ ($1\le p,q\le \infty$ with $1/p+1/q\ge 1$) be the ideal of $(p,q)$-compact operators. This paper investigates the compactness and null sequences via $K_{p,q}$, and an approximation property of the ideal of $K_{p,q}$-compact operators.

In this work, we study complex-valued data detection performance in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We focus on the problem of recovering an n-dimensional signal whose entries are drawn from an arbitrary constellation $\mathcal{K}\subset \mathbb{C}$ f...

In this paper, an effective frequency control strategy is proposed for emulating sufficient inertia power and improving frequency stability. The developed technique is based on applying virtual inertia control (VIC) with superconducting magnetic ener...

Asynchronous Video Interviewing (AVI) is considered one of the most recent and promising innovations in the recruitment process. Using AVI in combination with AI-based technologies enables recruiters/employers to automate many of the tasks that are t...

Synchronous homopolar motors (SHMs) with an excitation winding located at the stator and a toothed salient pole rotor are a good alternative to motors traditionally used in traction applications such as induction motors or interior permanent magnet s...

An engineered fluid, called nanofluid, is expected to have better thermal conductivity than conventional working fluids. The superior heat transfer performance and various possible applications promote the analysis of nanofluids in different flow geo...

As the novel coronavirus pandemic has spread globally since 2019, most countries in the world are conducting vaccination campaigns. First, based on the traditional SIR infectious disease model, we introduce a positive feedback mechanism associated wi...

The unsteady flow of biological liquid through non-uniform pumps under porosity impacts is considered. The Jeffrey fluid is used as blood in the current study, which is also characterized as viscoelastic fluid because of its dual characteristics: on...

A mathematical model of the nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton associated with viral infection in phytoplankton under the Atangana-Baleanu derivative in Caputo sense is investigated in this study. We prove the theoretical results for the existence an...

In this paper, we study the effect of using small prime numbers within the Joye–Libert public key encryption scheme. We introduce two novel versions and prove their security. We further show how to choose the system’s parameters such that...

We construct the global existence and exponential time decay rates of mild solutions to the non-linear Fokker–Planck equation near a global Maxwellians with small-amplitude initial data in the low regularity function space $L_k^1{L}_T^{\infty }{L}_v^2$ where...

A connected graph $\Gamma$ is k-extendable for a positive integer k if every matching M of size k can be extended to a perfect matching. The extendability number of $\Gamma$ is the maximum k such that $\Gamma$ is k-extendable. In this paper, we prove th...

In this paper, we consider the problem of pricing a spread option when the underlying assets follow a bivariate regime-switching jump diffusion model. We exploit an approximation technique which is based on the univariate Fourier transform representa...

It is shown how the decoding algorithms of Pellikaan and Rosenthal can be coupled to produce a decoding algorithm for convolutional codes. Bounds for the computational cost per decoded codeword are also computed. As a case study, our results are appl...

Scene text detection and recognition, such as automatic license plate recognition, is a technology utilized in various applications. Although numerous studies have been conducted to improve recognition accuracy, accuracy decreases when low-quality le...

We focus on an estimation method based on deep learning in terms of fault correction time for the operation reliability assessment of open-source software (OSS) under the environment of an edge computing service. Then, we discuss fault severity level...

Infinite cyclic groups created by various objects belong to the class to the class basic algebraic structures. In this paper, we construct the infinite cyclic group of differential neurons which are modifications of artificial neurons in analogy to l...

The efficient parameter estimation of harmonics is required to effectively design filters to mitigate their adverse effects on the power quality of electrical systems. In this study, a fractional order swarming optimization technique is proposed for...

Movies are one of the integral components of our everyday entertainment. In today’s world, people prefer to watch movies on their personal devices. Many movies are available on all popular Over the Top (OTT) platforms. Multiple new movies are r...

Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm (AOA) is a physically inspired optimization algorithm that mimics arithmetic operators in mathematical calculation. Although the AOA has an acceptable exploration and exploitation ability, it also has some shortcomin...