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Symmetry, Volume 9, Issue 12

December 2017 - 36 articles

Cover Story: The theory of knotoids can be regarded as a refinement of classical knot theory. Knotoids provide a natural topological domain for studying the knotting of physical structures involving open-ended curves, for example, polymers. In analogy, braidoids extend the classical braids and they form a counterpart theory to the theory of knotoids. Any braidoid gives rise to a knotoid via the closure map and any knotoid can be turned into a braidoid whose closure is topologically equivalent to the starting knotoid. Braidoids can be used for encoding the topological information of knotoids in terms of algebraic expressions. View this paper
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Articles (36)

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
12,874 Views
32 Pages

Internet of Things: A Scientometric Review

  • Juan Ruiz-Rosero,
  • Gustavo Ramirez-Gonzalez,
  • Jennifer M. Williams,
  • Huaping Liu,
  • Rahul Khanna and
  • Greeshma Pisharody

6 December 2017

Internet of Things (IoT) is connecting billions of devices to the Internet. These IoT devices chain sensing, computation, and communication techniques, which facilitates remote data collection and analysis. wireless sensor networks (WSN) connect sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,723 Views
22 Pages

6 December 2017

In this paper, we introduce formulae for the determinants of matrices with certain symmetry. As applications, we will study the Alexander polynomial and the determinant of a periodic link which is presented as the closure of an oriented 4-tangle.

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,680 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2017

This paper introduces the principle and key technology of single radio frequency (RF) link Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system based on a switched parasitic antenna (SPA). The software SystemVue is adopted for signal processing and system-le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,201 Views
14 Pages

A Study for Parametric Morphogeometric Operators to Assist the Detection of Keratoconus

  • Laurent Bataille,
  • Francisco Cavas-Martínez,
  • Daniel G. Fernández-Pacheco,
  • Francisco J. F. Cañavate and
  • Jorge L. Alio

5 December 2017

The aim of this study is to describe a new keratoconus detection method based on the analysis of certain parametric morphogeometric operators extracted from a custom patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) model of the human cornea. A corneal geometr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,145 Views
12 Pages

5 December 2017

In this paper, first we show that under the assumption of the center of h being zero, diagonal non-abelian extensions of a regular Hom-Lie algebra g by a regular Hom-Lie algebra h are in one-to-one correspondence with Hom-Lie algebr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,281 Views
22 Pages

3 December 2017

This paper proposes a virtualized network function orchestration system based on Network Function Virtualization (NFV), one of the main technologies in 5G mobile networks. This system should provide connectivity between network devices and be able to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,971 Views
14 Pages

A Model for Shovel Capital Cost Estimation, Using a Hybrid Model of Multivariate Regression and Neural Networks

  • Abdolreza Yazdani-Chamzini,
  • Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas,
  • Jurgita Antucheviciene and
  • Romualdas Bausys

1 December 2017

Cost estimation is an essential issue in feasibility studies in civil engineering. Many different methods can be applied to modelling costs. These methods can be divided into several main groups: (1) artificial intelligence, (2) statistical methods,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,136 Views
25 Pages

1 December 2017

To fuzzify the crisp functions, the extension principle has been widely used for performing this fuzzification. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the continuity of fuzzified function using the more generalized extension principle. The Hausd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,490 Views
18 Pages

Tool-Wear Analysis Using Image Processing of the Tool Flank

  • Ovidiu Gheorghe Moldovan,
  • Simona Dzitac,
  • Ioan Moga,
  • Tiberiu Vesselenyi and
  • Ioan Dzitac

30 November 2017

Flexibility of manufacturing systems is an essential factor in maintaining the competitiveness of industrial production. Flexibility can be defined in several ways and according to several factors, but in order to obtain adequate results in implement...

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