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Mathematics, Volume 9, Issue 3

2021 February-1 - 93 articles

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Articles (93)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,807 Views
9 Pages

2 February 2021

The exact solution of the movement equation of the Coriolis vibratory gyroscope (CVG) with a linear law of variation of the angular rate of rotation of the base is given. The solution is expressed in terms of the Weber functions (the parabolic cylind...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Approximation Theory and Methods 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,120 Views
7 Pages

2 February 2021

For a simple graph G=(V,E) with no isolated vertices, a total Roman {3}-dominating function(TR3DF) on G is a function f:V(G)→{0,1,2,3} having the property that (i) ∑w∈N(v)f(w)≥3 if f(v)=0; (ii) ∑w∈N(v)f(w)≥2 if f(v)=1; and (iii) every vertex v with f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Discrete Applied Mathematics and Graph Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
9,012 Views
20 Pages

Computer Vision and Human Behaviour, Emotion and Cognition Detection: A Use Case on Student Engagement

  • Pieter Vanneste,
  • José Oramas,
  • Thomas Verelst,
  • Tinne Tuytelaars,
  • Annelies Raes,
  • Fien Depaepe and
  • Wim Van den Noortgate

1 February 2021

Computer vision has shown great accomplishments in a wide variety of classification, segmentation and object recognition tasks, but tends to encounter more difficulties when tasks require more contextual assessment. Measuring the engagement of studen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,891 Views
14 Pages

1 February 2021

In this paper, we apply the pseudospectral method based on the Chebyshev cardinal function to solve the parabolic partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs). Since these equations play a key role in mathematics, physics, and engineering, finding...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential/Difference Equations: Mathematical Modeling, Oscillation and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,289 Views
15 Pages

Price Competition and Setup Cost

  • Rui Ota and
  • Hiroshi Fujiu

1 February 2021

Few studies analyze the endogenous emergence of price competition in a new product market. This paper analyzes two differentiated products, an existing product and a newly introduced substitutable product, and investigates conditions under which a pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Modelling: Theory, Methods and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,120 Views
25 Pages

1 February 2021

Given a digital image (or digital object) (X,k),X⊂Zn, this paper initially establishes a group structure of the set of self-k-isomorphisms of (X,k) with the function composition, denoted by Isok(X) or Autk(X). In particular, let Ckn,l be a simple clo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Problems and Applications of Fixed Point Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,367 Views
34 Pages

1 February 2021

A novel semi-supervised learning method is proposed to better utilize labeled and unlabeled samples to improve classification performance. However, there is exists the limitation that Laplace regularization in a semi-supervised extreme learning machi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,119 Views
9 Pages

31 January 2021

We study a class of nonlinear operators that can be written as the composition of a linear operator and a nonlinear map. We obtain results on fixed point index based on parameters that are related to the definitions of nonlinear spectra. As a particu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear Spectral Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,047 Views
15 Pages

Ordering Awad–Varma Entropy and Applications to Some Stochastic Models

  • Răzvan-Cornel Sfetcu,
  • Sorina-Cezarina Sfetcu and
  • Vasile Preda

31 January 2021

We consider a generalization of Awad–Shannon entropy, namely Awad–Varma entropy, introduce a stochastic order on Awad–Varma residual entropy and study some properties of this order, like closure, reversed closure and preservation in some stochastic m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Models and Methods with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,129 Views
13 Pages

Two-Variable Type 2 Poly-Fubini Polynomials

  • Ghulam Muhiuddin,
  • Waseem Ahmad Khan and
  • Ugur Duran

31 January 2021

In the present work, a new extension of the two-variable Fubini polynomials is introduced by means of the polyexponential function, which is called the two-variable type 2 poly-Fubini polynomials. Then, some useful relations including the Stirling nu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polynomial Sequences and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,127 Views
33 Pages

31 January 2021

In this paper, we review overdispersed Bayesian generalized spatial conditional count data models. Their usefulness is illustrated with their application to infant mortality rates from Colombian regions and by comparing them with the widely used Besa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Statistics with Its Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,753 Views
17 Pages

Generalized Developable Cubic Trigonometric Bézier Surfaces

  • Muhammad Ammad,
  • Md Yushalify Misro,
  • Muhammad Abbas and
  • Abdul Majeed

31 January 2021

This paper introduces a new approach for the fabrication of generalized developable cubic trigonometric Bézier (GDCT-Bézier) surfaces with shape parameters to address the fundamental issue of local surface shape adjustment. The GDCT-B&e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Geometric Modeling: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,904 Views
11 Pages

Compression-Based Methods of Time Series Forecasting

  • Konstantin Chirikhin and
  • Boris Ryabko

31 January 2021

Time series forecasting is an important research topic with many practical applications. As shown earlier, the problems of lossless data compression and prediction are very similar mathematically. In this article, we propose several forecasting metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methodological and Applied Contributions on Stochastic Modelling and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,370 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2021

This communication provides a discussion of a scheme originally proposed by Falcón in a paper entitled “Latin squares associated to principal autotopisms of long cycles. Applications in cryptography”. Falcón outlines the protocol for a cryptographica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Codes, Designs, Cryptography and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,188 Views
13 Pages

30 January 2021

Currently, much research attention has focused on generalizations of known mathematical objects in order to obtain adequate models describing real phenomena. An important role in the applied theory of probability and mathematical statistics is the ga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Methods and Convergence in Probability with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,320 Views
29 Pages

Modeling and Simulation Techniques Used in High Strain Rate Projectile Impact

  • Derek G. Spear,
  • Anthony N. Palazotto and
  • Ryan A. Kemnitz

30 January 2021

A series of computational models and simulations were conducted for determining the dynamic responses of a solid metal projectile impacting a target under a prescribed high strain rate loading scenario in three-dimensional space. The focus of this st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,526 Views
16 Pages

Optimal Control for a Nonlocal Model of Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows

  • Evgenii S. Baranovskii and
  • Mikhail A. Artemov

30 January 2021

This paper deals with an optimal control problem for a nonlocal model of the steady-state flow of a differential type fluid of complexity 2 with variable viscosity. We assume that the fluid occupies a bounded three-dimensional (or two-dimensional) do...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Equations: Theory, Methods, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,227 Views
18 Pages

30 January 2021

The mathematical modeling of unsteady flow of micropolar Cu–Al2O3/water nanofluid driven by a deformable sheet in stagnation region with thermal radiation effect has been explored numerically. To achieve the system of nonlinear ordinary differential...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Dynamics 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,487 Views
14 Pages

Common α-Fuzzy Fixed Point Results for F-Contractions with Applications

  • Jamshaid Ahmad,
  • Giuseppe Marino and
  • Saleh Abdullah Al-Mezel

30 January 2021

F-contractions have inspired a branch of metric fixed point theory committed to the generalization of the classical Banach contraction principle. The study of these contractions and α-fuzzy mappings in b-metric spaces was attempted timidly and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Abstract Metric Spaces: Usefulness in Statistics and Fixed Point Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,906 Views
9 Pages

30 January 2021

In recent years, many advanced techniques have been applied to financial problems; however, very few scholars have used the Lie theory. The purpose of this study was to examine the options for a trade account through Lie symmetry analysis. According...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Statistical Methods Applications in Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,070 Views
10 Pages

29 January 2021

Markov-type inequalities are often used in numerical solutions of differential equations, and their constants improve error bounds. In this paper, the upper approximation of the constant in a Markov-type inequality on a simplex is considered. To dete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Problems and Applications of Fixed Point Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,585 Views
17 Pages

Machine Learning Control Based on Approximation of Optimal Trajectories

  • Askhat Diveev,
  • Sergey Konstantinov,
  • Elizaveta Shmalko and
  • Ge Dong

29 January 2021

The paper is devoted to an emerging trend in control—a machine learning control. Despite the popularity of the idea of machine learning, there are various interpretations of this concept, and there is an urgent need for its strict mathematical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control, Optimization, and Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,749 Views
10 Pages

29 January 2021

A new class of differential variational inequalities (DVIs), governed by a variational inequality and an evolution equation formulated in infinite-dimensional spaces, is investigated in this paper. More precisely, based on Browder’s result, optimal c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,383 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2021

Since the launch of Bitcoin, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding what asset class it is. Several authors recognize the potential of cryptocurrencies but also certain deviations with respect to the functions of a conventional currency. Ins...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Analysis and Models to Financial Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,349 Views
14 Pages

29 January 2021

This note is concerned with two new methods for the solution of a Cauchy problem. The first method is based on homotopy-perturbation approach which leads to solving a series of well-posed boundary value problems. No regularization is needed in this m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis: Inverse Problems – Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,652 Views
23 Pages

A Simple and Effective Approach for Tackling the Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling Problem

  • Mohamed Abdel-Basset,
  • Reda Mohamed,
  • Mohamed Abouhawwash,
  • Ripon K. Chakrabortty and
  • Michael J. Ryan

29 January 2021

In this research, a new approach for tackling the permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSSP) is proposed. This algorithm is based on the steps of the elitism continuous genetic algorithm improved by two strategies and used the largest rank valu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,048 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Integrated Interval Rough MCDM Model for Ranking and Selection of Asphalt Production Plants

  • Bojan Matić,
  • Stanislav Jovanović,
  • Milan Marinković,
  • Siniša Sremac,
  • Dillip Kumar Das and
  • Željko Stević

29 January 2021

Asphalt production plants play an important role in the field of civil engineering, but also in the entire economic system since the construction of roads enables uninterrupted functioning within it. In this paper, the ranking of asphalt production p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiple Criteria Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,993 Views
21 Pages

29 January 2021

We study power-mixture type functional equations in terms of Laplace–Stieltjes transforms of probability distributions on the right half-line [0,∞). These equations arise when studying distributional equations of the type Z=dX+TZ, where the random va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Characterization of Probability Distributions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,578 Views
21 Pages

Fuzzy Automata as Coalgebras

  • Ai Liu,
  • Shun Wang,
  • Luis Soares Barbosa and
  • Meng Sun

29 January 2021

The coalgebraic method is of great significance to research in process algebra, modal logic, object-oriented design and component-based software engineering. In recent years, fuzzy control has been widely used in many fields, such as handwriting reco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics in Software Reliability and Quality Assurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,684 Views
14 Pages

28 January 2021

We investigate the efficiency of several types of continued fraction expansions of a number in the unit interval using a generalization of Lochs theorem from 1964. Thus, we aim to compare the efficiency by describing the rate at which the digits of o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability, Statistics and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,705 Views
11 Pages

28 January 2021

Single-phase flux reversal motors (FRMs) with sintered rare-earth permanent magnets on the stator for low-cost high-speed applications have a reliable rotor and a good specific power. However, to reduce eddy current loss, the sintered rare-earth magn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Approaches to Modeling, Optimally Designing, and Controlling Electric Machine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,894 Views
21 Pages

Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Solution of a Model of HIV with a Discrete Time Delay

  • Abraham J. Arenas,
  • Gilberto González-Parra,
  • Jhon J. Naranjo,
  • Myladis Cogollo and
  • Nicolás De La Espriella

28 January 2021

We propose a mathematical model based on a set of delay differential equations that describe intracellular HIV infection. The model includes three different subpopulations of cells and the HIV virus. The mathematical model is formulated in such a way...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models of Delay Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
2,255 Views
28 Pages

28 January 2021

Consider a free boundary problem of compressible-incompressible two-phase flows with surface tension and phase transition in bounded domains Ωt+,Ωt−⊂RN, N≥2, where the domains are separated by a sharp compact interface &Gamma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maximal Regularity, Stability Estimates and Mathematical Fluid Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,418 Views
17 Pages

On Killing Vector Fields on Riemannian Manifolds

  • Sharief Deshmukh and
  • Olga Belova

28 January 2021

We study the influence of a unit Killing vector field on geometry of Riemannian manifolds. For given a unit Killing vector field w on a connected Riemannian manifold (M,g) we show that for each non-constant smooth function f∈C∞(M) there exists a non-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sasakian Space)
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  • Open Access
64 Citations
5,123 Views
15 Pages

28 January 2021

The aim of this paper is to present a new method and the tool to validate the numerical results of the Volterra integral equation with discontinuous kernels in linear and non-linear forms obtained from the Adomian decomposition method. Because of dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,928 Views
26 Pages

28 January 2021

In 1639, the treatise Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum sive Conicorum operis ad abdita radii reflexi et refracti mysteria praevij et facem praeferentis. Libri quatuor priores by Claude Mydorge was printed in Paris. This volume, which followed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,421 Views
12 Pages

A Fuzzy Evaluation Decision Model for the Ratio Operating Performance Index

  • Mingyuan Li,
  • Kuen-Suan Chen,
  • Chun-Min Yu and
  • Chun-Ming Yang

28 January 2021

In order to take into account cost and timeliness and enhance accuracy testing, this study developed the fuzzy number and membership function, using the confidence interval of ratio operating performance index. Subsequently, according to the statisti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Applications in Industrial Engineering)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,853 Views
20 Pages

28 January 2021

In this paper, we obtain sufficient conditions for the persistence and permanence of a family of nonautonomous systems of delay differential equations. This family includes structured models from mathematical biology, with either discrete or distribu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Differential Equations and Applications 2020)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,852 Views
19 Pages

Spatial Externalities of Income Inequality on Security in Latin America

  • Pablo Ponce,
  • José Álvarez-García,
  • Mary Cumbicus and
  • María de la Cruz del Río-Rama

27 January 2021

The aim of this research is to analyse the effect of income inequality on the homicide rate. The study is carried out in 18 Latin American countries for the period 2005–2018. The methodology used is the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) model and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,452 Views
12 Pages

Demographic Dynamics in Multitype Populations with Migrations

  • Manuel Molina-Fernández and
  • Manuel Mota-Medina

27 January 2021

This research work deals with mathematical modeling in complex biological systems in which several types of individuals coexist in various populations. Migratory phenomena among the populations are allowed. We propose a class of mathematical models t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Statistics and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,763 Views
26 Pages

A pde-Based Analysis of the Spectrogram Image for Instantaneous Frequency Estimation

  • Vittoria Bruni,
  • Michela Tartaglione and
  • Domenico Vitulano

27 January 2021

Instantaneous frequency (IF) is a fundamental feature in multicomponent signals analysis and its estimation is required in many practical applications. This goal can be successfully reached for well separated components, while it still is an open pro...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,609 Views
11 Pages

27 January 2021

Logit, probit and complementary log-log models are the most widely used models when binary dependent variables are available. Conventionally, these models have been frequentists. This paper aims to demonstrate how such models can be implemented relat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Medical Statistics: Theory, Computation, Applicability)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,087 Views
16 Pages

Design of Constrained Robust Controller for Active Suspension of In-Wheel-Drive Electric Vehicles

  • Xianjian Jin,
  • Jiadong Wang,
  • Shaoze Sun,
  • Shaohua Li,
  • Junpeng Yang and
  • Zeyuan Yan

27 January 2021

This paper presents a constrained robust H∞ controller design of active suspension system for in-wheel-independent-drive electric vehicles considering control constraint and parameter variation. In the active suspension system model, parameter...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,660 Views
18 Pages

Geometric Characterization of Injective Banach Lattices

  • Anatoly Kusraev and
  • Semën Kutateladze

27 January 2021

This is a continuation of the authors’ previous study of the geometric characterizations of the preduals of injective Banach lattices. We seek the properties of the unit ball of a Banach space which make the space isometric or isomorphic to an inject...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Algebra and Logic)
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  • Open Access
2,203 Views
22 Pages

27 January 2021

The Hochschild cohomological dimension of any commutative k-algebra is lower-bounded by the least-upper bound of the flat-dimension difference and its global dimension. Our result is used to show that for a smooth affine scheme X satisfying Pointcar&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,117 Views
22 Pages

Towards a Notion of Basis for Knowledge-Based Systems—Applications

  • Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral,
  • Joaquín Borrego-Díaz,
  • Juan Galán-Páez and
  • Daniel Rodríguez-Chavarría

27 January 2021

In the paradigm of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), the design of methods to simplify the reasoning leads to more efficient processes. A point of view that provides valuable insights is the algebraic one. In this work, a notion of basis (and dimension)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Algebra and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,036 Views
23 Pages

27 January 2021

Considering the peculiarities of logistics in the electronic commerce (e-commerce) supply chain (ESC) and e-commerce platform’s altruistic preferences, a model including an e-commerce platform, third-party logistics service provider, and manufa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods and Analysis for the Industrial Management and Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,292 Views
25 Pages

27 January 2021

Recently, maintaining a complex mechanical system at the appropriate times is considered a significant task for reliability engineers and researchers. Moreover, the development of advanced mechanical systems and the dynamics of the operating environm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Models and Methods with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,248 Views
28 Pages

26 January 2021

In this paper, the solution to long standing problem of deriving Maxwell’s equations and Lorentz force from first principles, i.e., from Coulomb’s law, is presented. This problem was studied by many authors throughout history but it was n...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)

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