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Symmetry, Volume 10, Issue 8

2018 August - 56 articles

Cover Story: We critically discuss here the computation of the dispersion diagram for guiding/radiating structures with 1-D periodicity. The full-wave simulations of finite sections of the periodic structure are combined with the appropriate simplifying network models, as shown in the figure. Panel (b) corresponds to a cascade of two-port networks while panel (c) corresponds to a cascade of multi-port networks. The advantages, limitations, and range of validity of the two different combined methods are thoroughly analyzed. View this paper.
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Articles (56)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,895 Views
15 Pages

Commutative Generalized Neutrosophic Ideals in BCK-Algebras

  • Rajab Ali Borzooei,
  • Xiaohong Zhang,
  • Florentin Smarandache and
  • Young Bae Jun

20 August 2018

The concept of a commutative generalized neutrosophic ideal in a B C K -algebra is proposed, and related properties are proved. Characterizations of a commutative generalized neutrosophic ideal are considered. Also, some equivalence relations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebraic Structures of Neutrosophic Triplets, Neutrosophic Duplets, or Neutrosophic Multisets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,077 Views
19 Pages

Agustín de Betancourt’s Double-Acting Steam Engine: Geometric Modeling and Virtual Reconstruction

  • José Ignacio Rojas-Sola,
  • Belén Galán-Moral and
  • Eduardo De la Morena-De la Fuente

20 August 2018

In this paper, the geometric modeling and virtual reconstruction of the double-acting steam engine designed by Agustín de Betancourt in 1789 are shown. For this, the software Autodesk Inventor Professional is used, which has allowed us to obta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,486 Views
11 Pages

20 August 2018

BM123-64 block cipher, which was proposed by Minh, N.H. and Bac, D.T. in 2014, was designed for high speed communication applications factors. It was constructed in hybrid controlled substitution–permutation network (CSPN) models with two types...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry-Adapted Machine Learning for Information Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,173 Views
23 Pages

Generating Functions for Orthogonal Polynomials of A2, C2 and G2

  • Tomasz Czyżycki,
  • Jiří Hrivnák and
  • Jiří Patera

20 August 2018

The generating functions of fourteen families of generalized Chebyshev polynomials related to rank two Lie algebras A 2 , C 2 and G 2 are explicitly developed. There exist two classes of the orthogonal polynomials corresponding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,479 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2018

Electric multiple unit (EMU) trains’ high-level maintenance planning is a discrete problem in mathematics. The high-level maintenance process of the EMU trains consumes plenty of time. When the process is undertaken during peak periods of the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Mathematics and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
9,023 Views
18 Pages

Skin Lesion Segmentation Method for Dermoscopy Images Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Mohanad Aljanabi,
  • Yasa Ekşioğlu Özok,
  • Javad Rahebi and
  • Ahmad S. Abdullah

18 August 2018

The occurrence rates of melanoma are rising rapidly, which are resulting in higher death rates. However, if the melanoma is diagnosed in Phase I, the survival rates increase. The segmentation of the melanoma is one of the largest tasks to undertake a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,893 Views
13 Pages

18 August 2018

Higher order Schwarzian derivatives for normalized univalent functions were first considered by Schippers, and those of convex functions were considered by Dorff and Szynal. In the present investigation, higher order Schwarzian derivatives for the Ja...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integral Transforms and Operational Calculus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,355 Views
8 Pages

Neutrosophic Duplets of {Zpn,×} and {Zpq,×} and Their Properties

  • Vasantha Kandasamy W.B.,
  • Ilanthenral Kandasamy and
  • Florentin Smarandache

17 August 2018

The notions of neutrosophy, neutrosophic algebraic structures, neutrosophic duplet and neutrosophic triplet were introduced by Florentin Smarandache. In this paper, the neutrosophic duplets of Z p n , Z p q and Z p 1 p 2 &...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebraic Structures of Neutrosophic Triplets, Neutrosophic Duplets, or Neutrosophic Multisets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,351 Views
16 Pages

17 August 2018

Fault diagnosis is an important issue in various fields and aims to detect and identify the faults of systems, products, and processes. The cause of a fault is complicated due to the uncertainty of the actual environment. Nevertheless, it is difficul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebraic Structures of Neutrosophic Triplets, Neutrosophic Duplets, or Neutrosophic Multisets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,369 Views
22 Pages

16 August 2018

Non-pairwise additive three-body dispersion potentials dependent upon one or more electric octupole moments are evaluated using the theory of molecular quantum electrodynamics. To simplify the perturbation theory calculations, an effective two-photon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Quantum Electrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,592 Views
24 Pages

Perception of 3D Symmetrical and Nearly Symmetrical Shapes

  • Vijai Jayadevan,
  • Tadamasa Sawada,
  • Edward Delp and
  • Zygmunt Pizlo

16 August 2018

The human visual system uses priors to convert an ill-posed inverse problem of 3D shape recovery into a well-posed one. In previous studies, we have demonstrated the use of priors like symmetry, compactness and minimal surface in the perception of 3D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry-Related Activity in Mid-Level Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,985 Views
17 Pages

Chinese Remainder Theorem-Based Secret Image Sharing with Small-Sized Shadow Images

  • Jinrui Chen,
  • Kesheng Liu,
  • Xuehu Yan,
  • Lintao Liu,
  • Xuan Zhou and
  • Longdan Tan

15 August 2018

Secret image sharing (SIS) with small-sized shadow images has many benefits, such as saving storage space, improving transmission time, and achieving information hiding. When adjacent pixel values in an image are similar to each other, the secret ima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Data Hiding Systems in Image Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,633 Views
14 Pages

15 August 2018

In this work, we study the completely integrable sixth-order nonlinear Ramani equation. By applying the Lie symmetry analysis technique, the Lie point symmetries and the optimal system of one-dimensional sub-algebras of the equation are derived. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Mathematics and Symmetry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,050 Views
23 Pages

15 August 2018

Unsupervised machine learning and knowledge discovery from large-scale datasets have recently attracted a lot of research interest. The present paper proposes a distributed big data clustering approach-based on adaptive density estimation. The propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Approaches and Advances in Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,181 Views
23 Pages

13 August 2018

At the dawn of big data and 5G networks, end-to-end communication with large amounts of data between mobile devices is difficult to be implemented through the traditional face-to-face transmission mechanism in social networks. Consequently, opportuni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,082 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2018

We consider the constrained ordered weighted averaging (OWA) aggregation problem with a single constraint and lower bounded variables. For the three-dimensional constrained OWA aggregation problem with lower bounded variables, we present four types o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,446 Views
30 Pages

12 August 2018

A novel global harmony search (NGHS) algorithm, as proposed in 2010, is an improved algorithm that combines the harmony search (HS), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and a genetic algorithm (GA). Moreover, the fixed parameter of mutation probabilit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,190 Views
13 Pages

Finite Element Study of a Threaded Fastening: The Case of Surgical Screws in Bone

  • J. A. López-Campos,
  • A. Segade,
  • E. Casarejos,
  • J. R. Fernández,
  • J. A. Vilán and
  • P. Izquierdo

11 August 2018

This paper studies the stress state of a threaded fastening by using Finite Element (FE) models, applied to surgical screws in cortical bone. There is a general interest in studying the stress states induced in the different elements of a joint cause...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,069 Views
12 Pages

Steganalysis of Inactive Voice-Over-IP Frames Based on Poker Test

  • Jie Liu,
  • Hui Tian,
  • Chin-Chen Chang,
  • Tian Wang,
  • Yonghong Chen and
  • Yiqiao Cai

11 August 2018

This paper concentrates on the detection of steganography in inactive frames of low bit rate audio streams in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) scenarios. Both theoretical and experimental analyses demonstrate that the distribution of 0 and 1 in en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Data Hiding Systems in Image Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,356 Views
14 Pages

A Multi-Level Privacy-Preserving Approach to Hierarchical Data Based on Fuzzy Set Theory

  • Jinyan Wang,
  • Guoqing Cai,
  • Chen Liu,
  • Jingli Wu and
  • Xianxian Li

10 August 2018

Nowadays, more and more applications are dependent on storage and management of semi-structured information. For scientific research and knowledge-based decision-making, such data often needs to be published, e.g., medical data is released to impleme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,278 Views
12 Pages

Novel Procedure for Designing and 3D Printing a Customized Surgical Template for Arthrodesis Surgery on the Sacrum

  • Francesco Naddeo,
  • Alessandro Naddeo,
  • Nicola Cappetti,
  • Emilio Cataldo and
  • Riccardo Militio

10 August 2018

In this article, the authors propose a novel procedure for designing a customized 3D-printed surgical template to guide surgeons in inserting screws into the sacral zone during arthrodesis surgeries. The template is characterized by two cylindrical g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,943 Views
12 Pages

9 August 2018

Linguistic neutrosophic numbers (LNNs) are a powerful tool for describing fuzzy information with three independent linguistic variables (LVs), which express the degrees of truth, uncertainty, and falsity, respectively. However, existing LNNs cannot d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,368 Views
26 Pages

9 August 2018

In this paper we provide an application of neutrosophic bipolar fuzzy sets in daily life’s problem related with HOPE foundation that is planning to build a children hospital, which is the main theme of this paper. For it we first develop the th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebraic Structures of Neutrosophic Triplets, Neutrosophic Duplets, or Neutrosophic Multisets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,929 Views
11 Pages

On the Distinguishing Number of Functigraphs

  • Muhammad Fazil,
  • Muhammad Murtaza,
  • Zafar Ullah,
  • Usman Ali and
  • Imran Javaid

9 August 2018

Let G 1 and G 2 be disjoint copies of a graph G and g : V ( G 1 ) → V ( G 2 ) be a function. A functigraph F G consists of the vertex set V ( G 1 ) ∪ V ( G 2 ) and the edge set E (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Graph Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,458 Views
14 Pages

Thermodynamic Response of Beams on Winkler Foundation Irradiated by Moving Laser Pulses

  • Yuxin Sun,
  • Shoubin Liu,
  • Zhangheng Rao,
  • Yuhang Li and
  • Jialing Yang

8 August 2018

In this paper, the exact analytical solutions are developed for the thermodynamic behavior of an Euler-Bernoulli beam resting on an elastic foundation and exposed to a time decaying laser pulse that scans over the beam with a uniform velocity. The go...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,061 Views
20 Pages

Barycenter Theorem in Phase Characteristics of Symmetric and Asymmetric Windows

  • Jiufei Luo,
  • Haitao Xu,
  • Kai Zheng,
  • Xinyi Li and
  • Song Feng

8 August 2018

Asymmetric windows are of increasing interest to researchers because of the nonlinear and adjustable phase response, as well as alterable time delay. Short-time phase distortion can provide an essential improvement in speech coding, and also has bett...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,865 Views
23 Pages

7 August 2018

Autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models are important in many fields and applications, although they are most widely applied in time series analysis. Expanding the ARMA models to the case of various complex data is arguably one of the more challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,752 Views
14 Pages

Binary Icosahedral Group and 600-Cell

  • Jihyun Choi and
  • Jae-Hyouk Lee

7 August 2018

In this article, we have an explicit description of the binary isosahedral group as a 600-cell. We introduce a method to construct binary polyhedral groups as a subset of quaternions H via spin map of SO(3). In addition, we show that the binary icosa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Mathematics and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
154 Citations
10,890 Views
27 Pages

Different Forms of Triangular Neutrosophic Numbers, De-Neutrosophication Techniques, and their Applications

  • Avishek Chakraborty,
  • Sankar Prasad Mondal,
  • Ali Ahmadian,
  • Norazak Senu,
  • Shariful Alam and
  • Soheil Salahshour

7 August 2018

In this paper, we introduce the concept of neutrosophic number from different viewpoints. We define different types of linear and non-linear generalized triangular neutrosophic numbers which are very important for uncertainty theory. We introduced th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebraic Structures of Neutrosophic Triplets, Neutrosophic Duplets, or Neutrosophic Multisets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,946 Views
11 Pages

6 August 2018

We study the dependence of the superconducting gaps on both the disorder and the temperature within the two-band model for iron-based materials. In the clean limit, the system is in the s± state with sign-changing gaps. Scattering by nonmagnet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gap Symmetry and Structure of Superconductors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,786 Views
11 Pages

On the Multiplicative Degree-Based Topological Indices of Silicon-Carbon Si2C3-I[p,q] and Si2C3-II[p,q]

  • Young Chel Kwun,
  • Abaid Ur Rehman Virk,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • M. A. Rehman and
  • Shin Min Kang

3 August 2018

The application of graph theory in chemical and molecular structure research has far exceeded people’s expectations, and it has recently grown exponentially. In the molecular graph, atoms are represented by vertices and bonds by edges. Topologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,206 Views
14 Pages

Fundamental Homomorphism Theorems for Neutrosophic Extended Triplet Groups

  • Mehmet Çelik,
  • Moges Mekonnen Shalla and
  • Necati Olgun

3 August 2018

In classical group theory, homomorphism and isomorphism are significant to study the relation between two algebraic systems. Through this article, we propose neutro-homomorphism and neutro-isomorphism for the neutrosophic extended triplet group (NETG...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebraic Structures of Neutrosophic Triplets, Neutrosophic Duplets, or Neutrosophic Multisets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,847 Views
21 Pages

A Historical Perspective of the Theory of Isotopisms

  • Raúl M. Falcón,
  • Óscar J. Falcón and
  • Juan Núñez

3 August 2018

In the middle of the twentieth century, Albert and Bruck introduced the theory of isotopisms of non-associative algebras and quasigroups as a generalization of the classical theory of isomorphisms in order to study and classify such structures accord...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,882 Views
14 Pages

On Special Kinds of Involute and Evolute Curves in 4-Dimensional Minkowski Space

  • Muhammad Hanif,
  • Zhong Hua Hou and
  • Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar

2 August 2018

Recently, extensive research has been done on evolute curves in Minkowski space-time. However, the special characteristics of curves demand advanced level observations that are lacking in existing well-known literature. In this study, a special kind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,575 Views
17 Pages

2 August 2018

Since digital media is gaining popularity nowadays, people are more concerned about its integrity protection and authentication since tampered media may result in unexpected problems. Considering a better media protection technique, this paper propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,760 Views
18 Pages

CRCM: A New Combined Data Gathering and Energy Charging Model for WRSN

  • Yuhou Wang,
  • Ying Dong,
  • Shiyuan Li,
  • Hao Wu and
  • Mengyao Cui

2 August 2018

With the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the problem about how to increase the lifecycle of the WSNs is always a hot discussion point, and some researchers have devoted to the ‘energy saving’ to decrease the energy consump...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,175 Views
6 Pages

1 August 2018

The aim of this paper is to use elementary methods and the recursive properties of a special sequence to study the computational problem of one kind symmetric sums involving Fubini polynomials and Euler numbers, and give an interesting computational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with their Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,048 Views
15 Pages

No-Reference Image Blur Assessment Based on Response Function of Singular Values

  • Shanqing Zhang,
  • Pengcheng Li,
  • Xianghua Xu,
  • Li Li and
  • Ching-Chun Chang

1 August 2018

Blur is an important factor affecting the image quality. This paper presents an efficient no-reference (NR) image blur assessment method based on a response function of singular values. For an image, the grayscale image is computed to the acquire spa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
9,374 Views
25 Pages

1 August 2018

For companies active in various sectors, the implementation of transport services and other logistics activities has become one of the key factors of efficiency in the total supply chain. Logistics outsourcing is becoming more and more important, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,550 Views
13 Pages

Study of Morpho-Geometric Variables to Improve the Diagnosis in Keratoconus with Mild Visual Limitation

  • Francisco Cavas-Martínez,
  • Daniel G. Fernández-Pacheco,
  • Francisco J. F. Cañavate,
  • Jose S. Velázquez-Blázquez,
  • Jose M. Bolarín and
  • Jorge L. Alió

1 August 2018

The validation of new methods for the diagnosis of incipient cases of Keratoconus (KC) with mild visual limitation is of great interest in the field of ophthalmology. During the asymmetric progression of the disease, the current diagnostic indexes do...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Engineering Design)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,722 Views
15 Pages

1 August 2018

A critical discussion on the computation of the dispersion diagram of electromagnetic guiding/radiating structures with one-dimensional periodicity using general-purpose electromagnetic simulation software is presented in this work. In these methods,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Electromagnetism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,752 Views
20 Pages

Interval Fuzzy Segments

  • Lambert Jorba and
  • Romà Adillon

1 August 2018

In this paper, we bring together two concepts related to uncertainty and vagueness: fuzzy numbers and intervals. With them, we build a new structure whose elements we call interval fuzzy segments. We have undertaken this based on the conviction that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,270 Views
18 Pages

1 August 2018

Facial landmarking locates the key facial feature points on facial data, which provides not only information on semantic facial structures, but also prior knowledge for other kinds of facial analysis. However, most of the existing works still focus o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Facial Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,290 Views
17 Pages

1 August 2018

The casing of deformable warheads warps under the action of deforming charges. The deformation profiles may be concave-, convex-, or D-shaped, but they are all symmetrical. The D-shape is considered the optimal deformation profile. The width of the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,835 Views
9 Pages

1 August 2018

We study a q-analogue of Euler numbers and polynomials naturally arising from the p-adic fermionic integrals on Zp and investigate some properties for these numbers and polynomials. Then we will consider p-adic fermionic integrals on Zp of the two va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,835 Views
13 Pages

1 August 2018

The 125 GeV boson is quite consistent with the Higgs boson of the Standard Model (SM), but there is a challenge from Anderson as to whether this particle is in the Lagrangian. As Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Run 2 enters its final year of running, we...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,773 Views
18 Pages

1 August 2018

We studied the high-harmonic generation (HHG) of a two-level-system (TLS) driven by an intense monochromatic phase-locked laser based on complex spectral analysis with the Floquet method. In contrast with phenomenological approaches, this analysis de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Quantum Electrodynamics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
75 Citations
5,759 Views
26 Pages

Systematic Review of Decision Making Algorithms in Extended Neutrosophic Sets

  • Mohsin Khan,
  • Le Hoang Son,
  • Mumtaz Ali,
  • Hoang Thi Minh Chau,
  • Nguyen Thi Nhu Na and
  • Florentin Smarandache

1 August 2018

The Neutrosophic set (NS) has grasped concentration by its ability for handling indeterminate, uncertain, incomplete, and inconsistent information encountered in daily life. Recently, there have been various extensions of the NS, such as single value...

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