2023 September - 122 articles
The inherent non-smoothness of the vibroimpact system leads to complex behaviors and a strong sensitivity to parameter changes. Unfortunately, uncertainties and errors in system parameters are inevitable in mechanical engineering. Therefore, investig...
Entropy-based and fractal-based metrics derived from heart rate variability (HRV) have enriched the way cardiovascular dynamics can be described in terms of complexity. The most commonly used multifractal testing, a method using q moments to explore...
The effects of nonextensive electrons on nonlinear ion acoustic waves in dusty negative ion plasmas with ion–dust collisions are investigated. Analytical results show that both solitary and shock waves are supported in this system. The wave pro...
This exploratory study investigates a human agent’s evolving judgements of reliability when interacting with an AI system. Two aims drove this investigation: (1) compare the predictive performance of quantum vs. Markov random walk models regard...
Nearest-neighbour clustering is a simple yet powerful machine learning algorithm that finds natural application in the decoding of signals in classical optical-fibre communication systems. Quantum k-means clustering promises a speed-up over the class...
Matrix factorization is a long-established method employed for analyzing and extracting valuable insight recommendations from complex networks containing user ratings. The execution time and computational resources demanded by these algorithms pose l...
We present the truncated Lindley-G (TLG) model, a novel class of probability distributions with an additional shape parameter, by composing a unit distribution called the truncated Lindley distribution with a parent distribution function
A vehicular network embodies a specialized variant of wireless network systems, characterized by its capability to facilitate inter-vehicular communication and connectivity with the encompassing infrastructure. With the rapid development of wireless...
We investigate the dynamics of a system composed of two different subsystems when subjected to different nonlinear Fokker–Planck equations by considering the H–theorem. We use the H–theorem to obtain the conditions required to estab...
Counterfactual definiteness (CFD) means that if some property is measured in some context, then the outcome of the measurement would have been the same had this property been measured in a different context. A context includes all other measurements...
Electromagnetic coils are indispensable components for energy conversion and transformation in various systems across industries. However, electromagnetic coil insulation failure occurs frequently, which can lead to serious consequences. To facilitat...
The information bottleneck (IB) framework formalises the essential requirement for efficient information processing systems to achieve an optimal balance between the complexity of their representation and the amount of information extracted about rel...
Recent research has shown that visual–text pretrained models perform well in traditional vision tasks. CLIP, as the most influential work, has garnered significant attention from researchers. Thanks to its excellent visual representation capabi...
Studying simple chaotic systems with fractional-order derivatives improves modeling accuracy, increases complexity, and enhances control capabilities and robustness against noise. This paper investigates the dynamics of the simple Sprott-B chaotic sy...
In recent years, it has become clear that intrinsically disordered protein segments play diverse functional roles in many cellular processes, thus leading to a reassessment of the classical structure–function paradigm. One class of intrinsicall...
The House-Tree-Person (HTP) sketch test is a psychological analysis technique designed to assess the mental health status of test subjects. Nowadays, there are mature methods for the recognition of depression using the HTP sketch test. However, exist...
We study the probability of an undetected error for general q-ary codes. We give upper and lower bounds on this quantity, by the Linear Programming and the Polynomial methods, as a function of the length, size, and minimum distance. Sharper bounds ar...
Realistic fluid models play an important role in computer graphics applications. However, efficiently reconstructing volumetric fluid flows from monocular videos remains challenging. In this work, we present a novel approach for reconstructing 3D flo...
With the rapid development of edge computing and the Internet of Things, the problem of information resource sharing can be effectively solved through multi-party collaboration, but the risk of data leakage is also increasing. To address the above is...
Extreme inequality represents a grave challenge for impoverished individuals and poses a threat to economic growth and stability. Despite the fulfillment of affirmative action measures aimed at promoting equal opportunities, they often prove inadequa...
A quantum particle constrained between two high potential barriers provides a paradigmatic example of a system sustaining quasi-bound (or resonance) states. When the system is prepared in one of such quasi-bound states, the wave function approximatel...
In this study, the security implications of utilizing the concept of entanglement in time in the quantum representation of a blockchain data structure are investigated. The analysis reveals that the fundamental idea underlying this representation rel...
To improve the accuracy of short-term multi-energy load prediction models for integrated energy systems, the historical development law of the multi-energy loads must be considered. Moreover, understanding the complex coupling correlation of the diff...
We examine the effects of imperfect phase estimation of a reference signal on the bit error rate and mutual information over a communication channel influenced by fading and thermal noise. The Two-Wave Diffuse-Power (TWDP) model is utilized for stati...
Clustering is used to analyze the intrinsic structure of a dataset based on the similarity of datapoints. Its widespread use, from image segmentation to object recognition and information retrieval, requires great robustness in the clustering process...
For the point-to-point additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with an eavesdropper and feedback, it has already been shown that the secrecy capacity can be achieved by a secret key-based feedback scheme, where the channel feedback is used for s...
Networks are widely used to model the interaction between individual dynamic systems. In many instances, the total number of units and interaction coupling are not fixed in time, and instead constantly evolve. In networks, this means that the number...
We carry out a systematic study on the motion of test particles in the region inner to the naked singularity of a quasi-hyperbolically symmetric
The Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, situated within China’s Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, significantly influence and are impacted by their air quality conditions. Rapid urbanization, high populatio...
An abundance of features in the light field has been demonstrated to be useful for saliency detection in complex scenes. However, bottom-up saliency detection models are limited in their ability to explore light field features. In this paper, we prop...
This paper is concerned with event-triggered bounded consensus tracking for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with uncertainties (MASs). Remarkably, the considered MASs allow multiple uncertainties, including unknown control coeff...
Blockchain integrates peer-to-peer networks, distributed consensus, smart contracts, cryptography, etc. It has the unique advantages of weak centralization, anti-tampering, traceability, openness, transparency, etc., and is widely used in various fie...
With the development of the smart grid, the traditional defect detection methods in transmission lines are gradually shifted to the combination of robots or drones and deep learning technology to realize the automatic detection of defects, avoiding t...
Equilibrium thermodynamics answers the question, “by how much?” Nonequilibrium thermodynamics answers the question “how fast?” The physicochemical mechanics approach presented in this article answers both of these questions. I...
This study considers a wireless network where multiple nodes transmit status updates to a base station (BS) through a shared bandwidth-limited channel. Considering the random arrival of status updates, we measure the data freshness with the age of sy...
Depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by anxiety, pessimism, and suicidal tendencies, which has serious impact on human’s life. In this paper, we use Granger causality index based on polynomial kernel as network node connectivity c...
Phase diagrams are powerful tools to understand the multi-scale behaviour of complex systems. Yet, their determination requires in practice both experiments and computations, which quickly becomes a daunting task. Here, we propose a geometrical appro...
It has been shown that three-dimensional self-assembled multicellular structures derived from human pluripotent stem cells show electrical activity similar to EEG. More recently, neurons were successfully embedded in digital game worlds. The biologic...
Many methods have been developed to study nonparametric function-on-function regression models. Nevertheless, there is a lack of model selection approach to the regression function as a functional function with functional covariate inputs. To study i...
This study introduces the Spacetimeformer model, a novel approach for predicting stock prices, leveraging the Transformer architecture with a time–space mechanism to capture both spatial and temporal interactions among stocks. Traditional Long&...
This paper develops and optimizes a non-orthogonal and noncoherent multi-user massive single-input multiple-output (SIMO) framework, with the objective of enabling scalable ultra-reliable low-latency communications (sURLLC) in Beyond-5G (B5G)/6G wire...
Over the past three decades, describing the reality surrounding us using the language of complex networks has become very useful and therefore popular. One of the most important features, especially of real networks, is their complexity, which often...
In this review, our goal is to design and test quantum-like algorithms for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in open systems to structure a human–machine team to be able to reach its maximum performance. Unlike the laboratory, in open systems, teams...
In this paper, we study the system size expansion of a stochastic model for radiation-induced DNA damage kinetics and repair. In particular, we characterize both the macroscopic deterministic limit and the fluctuation around it. We further show that...
The Second Law of Thermodynamics represents a milestone in the history of not only physics but also chemistry, engineering, and, more generally, life and natural sciences [...]
Consensus algorithms are the core technology of a blockchain and directly affect the implementation and application of blockchain systems. Delegated proof of stake (DPoS) significantly reduces the time required for transaction verification by selecti...
Horizontal eco-compensation lacks effective solutions for implementing comprehensive multifactor compensation and determining the compensation standard. To meet those needs, a method named entropy flat surface was proposed and put into practice. Howe...
It is known that maximal entropy random walks and partition functions that count long paths on graphs tend to become localized near nodes with a high degree. Here, we revisit the simplest toy model of such a localization: a regular tree of degree p w...
The formalism of reduced quantum electrodynamics is generalized to the case of heterostructures composed of a few atomically thick layers, and the corresponding effective (2+1)-dimensional gauge theory is formulated. This dimensionally reduced theory...
Contact fatigue is one of the most common failure forms of typical basic components such as bearings and gears. Accurate prediction of contact fatigue performance degradation trends in components is conducive to the scientific formulation of maintena...
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