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Mathematics, Volume 10, Issue 2

2022 January-2 - 123 articles

Cover Story:

In the last few decades the study of classical inequalities, such as Jensen’s, Hölder’s, Minkowski’s and similar inequalities, has experienced a great expansion. Many extensions, generalizations, improvements, refinements and applications of these inequalities have been proven to support different research ideas. The connection point between numerous generalizations is the theory of isotonic linear functionals.

A refinement of the converse Hölder’s inequality for functionals using an interpolation result for Jensen’s inequality is given. Additionally, similar improvements in the converse of Beckenbach’s inequality are obtained. We consider the converse Minkowski’s inequality for functionals and its continuous form, and give refinements of it.  An application on integral mixed means is given. View this paper.

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Articles (123)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,582 Views
30 Pages

Estimation of the Instantaneous Reproduction Number and Its Confidence Interval for Modeling the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Publio Darío Cortés-Carvajal,
  • Mitzi Cubilla-Montilla and
  • David Ricardo González-Cortés

17 January 2022

In this paper, we derive an optimal model for calculating the instantaneous reproduction number, which is an important metric to help in controlling the evolution of epidemics. Our approach, within a frequentist framework, gave us the opportunity to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling with Applications in Real-World Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,388 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2022

The analytically time integrable time-space domain (ATI-TSD) is discovered based on which the minimum time-space domain is identified for treatment on singularities in the three-dimensional time-domain boundary element method (3D TD-BEM) formulation....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Methods in Wave Scattering and Diffraction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,712 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2022

A photovoltaic (PV) system is one of the renewable energy resources that can help in meeting the ever-increasing energy demand. However, installation of PV systems is prone to faults that can occur unpredictably and remain challenging to detect. Majo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,517 Views
10 Pages

17 January 2022

In this work, a novel nonlocal model without energy dissipations is presented to investigate the impacts of the nonlocal thermoelastic parameters in a nanoscale material by the eigenvalue approach. The basic equations are applied under the Green and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Continuum Mechanics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
246 Citations
30,883 Views
26 Pages

Transformation and Linearization Techniques in Optimization: A State-of-the-Art Survey

  • Mohammad Asghari,
  • Amir M. Fathollahi-Fard,
  • S. M. J. Mirzapour Al-e-hashem and
  • Maxim A. Dulebenets

17 January 2022

To formulate a real-world optimization problem, it is sometimes necessary to adopt a set of non-linear terms in the mathematical formulation to capture specific operational characteristics of that decision problem. However, the use of non-linear term...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operations Research and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,545 Views
22 Pages

Forecasting the Passage Time of the Queue of Highly Automated Vehicles Based on Neural Networks in the Services of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems

  • Vladimir Shepelev,
  • Sultan Zhankaziev,
  • Sergey Aliukov,
  • Vitalii Varkentin,
  • Aleksandr Marusin,
  • Alexey Marusin and
  • Aleksandr Gritsenko

17 January 2022

This study addresses the problem of non-stop passage by vehicles at intersections based on special processing of data from a road camera or video detector. The basic task in this article is formulated as a forecast for the release time of a controlle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Computing in Industry Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,710 Views
8 Pages

Dominating Broadcasts in Fuzzy Graphs

  • Passawan Noppakaew,
  • Kaewkan Hengthonglert and
  • Sawanya Sakuntasathien

17 January 2022

Broadcasting problems in graph theory play a significant role in solving many complicated physical problems. However, in real life there are many vague situations that sometimes cannot be modeled using usual graphs. Consequently, the concept of a fuz...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,239 Views
23 Pages

17 January 2022

This study contributes to the debate on accessibility of higher education in Chile, with a special focus on the geospatial dimension of access to university studies. This paper addresses the central question of whether geography (physical distance an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economics of Education: Quantitative Methods for Educational Policies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,528 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2022

Time-delay is an inevitable factor in practice, which may affect the performance of optimal control. In this paper, the event-triggered impulsive optimal control for linear continuous-time dynamic systems is studied. The event-triggered impulsive opt...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,024 Views
20 Pages

Geometric Compatibility Indexes in a Local AHP-Group Decision Making Context: A Framework for Reducing Incompatibility

  • Juan Aguarón,
  • María Teresa Escobar,
  • José María Moreno-Jiménez and
  • Alberto Turón

17 January 2022

This paper deals with the measurement of the compatibility in a local AHP-Group Decision Making context. Compatibility between two individuals or decision makers is understood as the property that reflects the proximity between their positions or pre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multicriteria Decision Making and the Analytic Hierarchy Process)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,264 Views
24 Pages

Graph-Based Siamese Network for Authorship Verification

  • Daniel Embarcadero-Ruiz,
  • Helena Gómez-Adorno,
  • Alberto Embarcadero-Ruiz and
  • Gerardo Sierra

17 January 2022

In this work, we propose a novel approach to solve the authorship identification task on a cross-topic and open-set scenario. Authorship verification is the task of determining whether or not two texts were written by the same author. We model the do...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graphs, Metrics and Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,234 Views
35 Pages

Individual Disturbance and Attraction Repulsion Strategy Enhanced Seagull Optimization for Engineering Design

  • Helong Yu,
  • Shimeng Qiao,
  • Ali Asghar Heidari,
  • Chunguang Bi and
  • Huiling Chen

16 January 2022

The seagull optimization algorithm (SOA) is a novel swarm intelligence algorithm proposed in recent years. The algorithm has some defects in the search process. To overcome the problem of poor convergence accuracy and easy to fall into local optimali...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,072 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2022

Among various developments in the field of computer vision, single image super-resolution of images is one of the most essential tasks. However, compared to the integer magnification model for super-resolution, research on arbitrary magnification has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods and Applications for Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,802 Views
24 Pages

Applying Parallel and Distributed Models on Bio-Inspired Algorithms via a Clustering Method

  • Álvaro Gómez-Rubio,
  • Ricardo Soto,
  • Broderick Crawford,
  • Adrián Jaramillo,
  • David Mancilla,
  • Carlos Castro and
  • Rodrigo Olivares

16 January 2022

In the world of optimization, especially concerning metaheuristics, solving complex problems represented by applying big data and constraint instances can be difficult. This is mainly due to the difficulty of implementing efficient solutions that can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,127 Views
20 Pages

16 January 2022

The aim of this paper is to propose a new faster iterative scheme (called AA-iteration) to approximate the fixed point of (b,η)-enriched contraction mapping in the framework of Banach spaces. It is also proved that our iteration is stable and con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Progress in General Topology and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,847 Views
24 Pages

16 January 2022

The accuracy of an airfoil stall prediction heavily depends on the computation of the separated shear layer. Capturing the strong non-equilibrium turbulence in the shear layer is crucial for the accuracy of a stall prediction. In this paper, differen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,723 Views
18 Pages

16 January 2022

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQP), which often appear in engineering practice and management science, and other fields, are investigated in this paper. By introducing appropriate auxiliary variables, QCQP can be transformed into its...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point, Optimization, and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,794 Views
21 Pages

Retrial BMAP/PH/N Queueing System with a Threshold-Dependent Inter-Retrial Time Distribution

  • Valentina I. Klimenok,
  • Alexander N. Dudin,
  • Vladimir M. Vishnevsky and
  • Olga V. Semenova

16 January 2022

In this paper, we study a multi-server queueing system with retrials and an infinite orbit. The arrival of primary customers is described by a batch Markovian arrival process (BMAP), and the service times have a phase-type (PH) distribution. Previous...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,529 Views
15 Pages

16 January 2022

This paper introduces a new loading condition considering the combined thermo-electro-mechanical coupling effect in a series solution-based approach to analyze the free-edge interlaminar stresses in smart composite laminates. The governing equations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Computational Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Functional Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,218 Views
6 Pages

16 January 2022

The paper presents a theoretical framework for the phenomenon of the price war in the context of general equilibrium, with special attention to the production system. The natural question that arises is whether Nash-optimal production plans being the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in the Game Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,233 Views
20 Pages

16 January 2022

A Multinomial Processing Tree (MPT) is a directed tree with a probability associated with each arc and partitioned terminal vertices. We consider an additional parameter for each arc, a measure such as time. Each vertex represents a process. An arc d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Computational Models of Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,205 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2022

The scientific and reasonable evaluation of the carrying capacity of water resources is of guiding significance for solving the issues of water resource shortages and pollution control. It is also an important method for realizing the sustainable dev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Fuzzy Sets Theory and Their Extensions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,712 Views
16 Pages

Hermite-Hadamard-Type Fractional Inclusions for Interval-Valued Preinvex Functions

  • Kin Keung Lai,
  • Jaya Bisht,
  • Nidhi Sharma and
  • Shashi Kant Mishra

16 January 2022

We introduce a new class of interval-valued preinvex functions termed as harmonically h-preinvex interval-valued functions. We establish new inclusion of Hermite–Hadamard for harmonically h-preinvex interval-valued function via interval-valued...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Variational Problems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,498 Views
14 Pages

16 January 2022

The development of different industrial fields, including mechanical and power engineering and electronics, demands the augmentation of heat transfer in engineering devices. Such enhancement can be achieved by adding extended heat transfer surfaces t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Mathematical Applications in Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,857 Views
7 Pages

On Groups in Which Many Automorphisms Are Cyclic

  • Mattia Brescia and
  • Alessio Russo

15 January 2022

Let G be a group. An automorphism α of G is said to be a cyclic automorphism if the subgroup ⟨x,xα⟩ is cyclic for every element x of G. In [F. de Giovanni, M.L. Newell, A. Russo: On a class of normal endomorphisms of groups,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Group Theory and Related Topics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,039 Views
13 Pages

15 January 2022

This paper introduces the new annulus body to establish the optimal lower bound for the anisotropic logarithmic potential as the complement to the theory of its upper bound estimate which has already been investigated. The connections with convex geo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments of Function Spaces and Their Applications I)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
3,785 Views
15 Pages

15 January 2022

In recent years, alternative engine technologies are necessary to resolve the problems related to conventional vehicles. Electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are effective solutions to decarbonize the transportation sector. It...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,579 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Modification of Accelerated Double Direction and Double Step-Size Optimization Schemes

  • Milena J. Petrović,
  • Dragana Valjarević,
  • Dejan Ilić,
  • Aleksandar Valjarević and
  • Julija Mladenović

15 January 2022

We propose an improved variant of the accelerated gradient optimization models for solving unconstrained minimization problems. Merging the positive features of either double direction, as well as double step size accelerated gradient models, we defi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,347 Views
15 Pages

15 January 2022

This paper presents the main analytical methods, in the context of current developments in the study of complex multibody systems, to obtain evolution equations for a multibody system with deformable elements. The method used for analysis is the fini...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Mechanics and Dynamic Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,123 Views
25 Pages

Calculating Complete Lists of Belyi Pairs

  • Nikolai M. Adrianov and
  • George B. Shabat

15 January 2022

Belyi pairs constitute an important element of the program developed by Alexander Grothendieck in 1972–1984. This program related seemingly distant domains of mathematics; in the case of Belyi pairs, such domains are two-dimensional combinatori...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Combinatorial Algebra, Computation, and Logic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,464 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2022

A non-iterative method for the difference of means is presented to calculate the log-Euclidean distance between a symmetric positive-definite matrix and the mean matrix on the Lie group of symmetric positive-definite matrices. Although affine-invaria...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,332 Views
15 Pages

Viral Infection Spreading and Mutation in Cell Culture

  • Latifa Ait Mahiout,
  • Bogdan Kazmierczak and
  • Vitaly Volpert

14 January 2022

A new model of viral infection spreading in cell cultures is proposed taking into account virus mutation. This model represents a reaction-diffusion system of equations with time delay for the concentrations of uninfected cells, infected cells and vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling in Biomedicine II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,801 Views
19 Pages

Applications of Solvable Lie Algebras to a Class of Third Order Equations

  • María S. Bruzón,
  • Rafael de la Rosa,
  • María L. Gandarias and
  • Rita Tracinà

14 January 2022

A family of third-order partial differential equations (PDEs) is analyzed. This family broadens out well-known PDEs such as the Korteweg-de Vries equation, the Gardner equation, and the Burgers equation, which model many real-world phenomena. Further...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry Methods and Applications for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,176 Views
27 Pages

14 January 2022

The management control system in an industry is managerial, directional, hindrance, and cohesive action in order to cohere and regulate various branches and sub-branches. In fact, it is a system that supports the real state of matters in the right wa...

(This article belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,604 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2022

In this paper, we study a non-linear weighted Grushin system including advection terms. We prove some Liouville-type theorems for stable solutions of the system, based on the comparison property and the bootstrap iteration. Our results generalise and...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,642 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2022

We consider a time-inhomogeneous Markov chain with a finite state-space which models a system in which failures and repairs can occur at random time instants. The system starts from any state j (operating, F, R). Due to a failure, a transition from a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stability Problems for Stochastic Models: Theory and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,663 Views
11 Pages

14 January 2022

A new type of non-classical 2D contact problem formulated over non-convex admissible sets is proposed. Specifically, we suppose that a composite body in its undeformed state touches a wedge-shaped rigid obstacle at a single contact point. Composite b...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,733 Views
3 Pages

14 January 2022

The articles published in the Special Issue “Differential Equation Models in Applied Mathematics: Theoretical and Numerical Challenges” of the MDPI Mathematics journal are here collected [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Equation Models in Applied Mathematics: Theoretical and Numerical Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,535 Views
21 Pages

Expect: EXplainable Prediction Model for Energy ConsumpTion

  • Amira Mouakher,
  • Wissem Inoubli,
  • Chahinez Ounoughi and
  • Andrea Ko

14 January 2022

With the steady growth of energy demands and resource depletion in today’s world, energy prediction models have gained more and more attention recently. Reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint are critical factors for achieving efficie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Simulation and Control in Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,813 Views
10 Pages

14 January 2022

By recalling van der Waerden theorem, there exists a least a positive integer w=w(k;r) such that for any n≥w, every r-colouring of [1,n] admits a monochromatic k-term arithmetic progression. Let k≥2 and rk(n) denote the minimum number of colour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,222 Views
28 Pages

Learning EOQ Model with Trade-Credit Financing Policy for Imperfect Quality Items under Cloudy Fuzzy Environment

  • Mahesh Kumar Jayaswal,
  • Mandeep Mittal,
  • Osama Abdulaziz Alamri and
  • Faizan Ahmad Khan

13 January 2022

An imprecise demand rate creates problems in profit optimization in business scenarios. The aim is to nullify the imprecise nature of the demand rate with the help of the cloudy fuzzy method. Traditionally, all items in an ordered lot are presumed to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Applications in Industrial Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,125 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2022

Differential and integral equations in reflexive Banach spaces have gained great attention and hve been investigated in many studies and monographs. Inspired by those, we study the existence of the solution to a delay functional integral equation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,498 Views
14 Pages

13 January 2022

The Gierer-Meinhardt system is one of the prototypical pattern formation models. The bifurcation and pattern dynamics of a spatiotemporal discrete Gierer-Meinhardt system are investigated via the couple map lattice model (CML) method in this paper. T...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,110 Views
17 Pages

G-Hypergroups: Hypergroups with a Group-Isomorphic Heart

  • Mario De Salvo,
  • Dario Fasino,
  • Domenico Freni and
  • Giovanni Lo Faro

13 January 2022

Hypergroups can be subdivided into two large classes: those whose heart coincide with the entire hypergroup and those in which the heart is a proper sub-hypergroup. The latter class includes the family of 1-hypergroups, whose heart reduces to a singl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hypergroup Theory and Algebrization of Incidence Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,954 Views
18 Pages

13 January 2022

In this study, a link between the squared norm of the second fundamental form and the Laplacian of the warping function for a warped product pointwise semi-slant submanifold Mn in a complex projective space is presented. Some characterizations of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Partial Differential Equations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,550 Views
27 Pages

13 January 2022

Contemporary literature continues to foster discussion whether financial development is important for economic growth. In the clash of theoretical arguments, the prevailing idea is that finance exerts a direct positive influence on GDP growth. Howeve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Analysis and Models to Financial Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,009 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2022

The weighted gradient reproducing kernel collocation method is introduced to recover the heat source described by Poisson’s equation. As it is commonly known that there is no unique solution to the inverse heat source problem, the weak solution...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,860 Views
25 Pages

On Active Vibration Absorption in Motion Control of a Quadrotor UAV

  • Francisco Beltran-Carbajal,
  • Hugo Yañez-Badillo,
  • Ruben Tapia-Olvera,
  • Antonio Favela-Contreras,
  • Antonio Valderrabano-Gonzalez and
  • Irvin Lopez-Garcia

13 January 2022

Conventional dynamic vibration absorbers are physical control devices designed to be coupled to flexible mechanical structures to be protected against undesirable forced vibrations. In this article, an approach to extend the capabilities of forced vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Modeling, Control, and Optimization Methods in Power Hybrid Systems - 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,045 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2022

The gender gap in STEM-related job positions is a fact, and it is closely related to the low percentage of women studying STEM degrees. This poses a problem because Europe, as well as the United States and the rest of the developed countries, keep de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in STEM Education)

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