2022 March-1 - 176 articles
The stability of the economy of any country is primarily determined by the totality of macroeconomic indicators that describe the current economic state. This article provides a multi-dimensional analysis of the macroeconomic situation in Europe acco...
IoT is extensively used in many infrastructure applications, including telehealth, smart homes, smart grids, and smart cities. However, IoT has the weakest link in system security since it often has low processing and power resources. It is important...
The importance measure is a crucial method to identify and evaluate the system weak link. It is widely used in the optimization design and maintenance decision of aviation, aerospace, nuclear energy and other systems. The dissimilar redundancy actuat...
In this paper, a new strategic analysis method is introduced, called the ten-element analysis (TEA) method to determine the firm’s strategic position in the market. The new method is grounded on the computation of the reflections of the externa...
DNA has evolved as a cutting-edge medium for digital information storage due to its extremely high density and durable preservation to accommodate the data explosion. However, the strings of DNA are prone to errors during the hybridization process. I...
Sarcasm detection plays an important role in natural language processing as it can impact the performance of many applications, including sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance detection. Despite substantial progress on sarcasm detection, the...
Croon and van Veldhoven discussed a model for analyzing micro–macro multilevel designs in which a variable measured at the upper level is predicted by an explanatory variable that is measured at the lower level. Additionally, the authors propos...
Reversible data hiding schemes hide information into a digital image and simultaneously increase its contrast. The improvements of the different approaches aim to increase the capacity, contrast, and quality of the image. However, recent proposals co...
Optimal designs of constant-stress accelerated life test plans is one of the important topics in reliability studies. Many devices produced have very high reliability under normal operating conditions. The question then arises of how to make the opti...
Branching patterns are ubiquitous in nature; consequently, over the years many researchers have tried to characterize the complexity of their structures. Due to their hierarchical nature and resemblance to fractal trees, they are often thought to hav...
This paper explores the effectiveness of parallel stylometric document embeddings in solving the authorship attribution task by testing a novel approach on literary texts in 7 different languages, totaling in 7051 unique 10,000-token chunks from 700...
The electrical behaviour of a system, such as an electrode–tissue interface (ETI) or a biological tissue, can be used for its characterization. One way of accomplishing this goal consists of measuring the electrical impedance, that is, the oppo...
The following article presents the elaboration and results obtained from a 3D finite element, of the 8-node hexahedron type with 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) per node (48 DOF per element) based on third degree Hermitian polynomials, and of a 2-node str...
In this paper, we consider the finite-time synchronization for drive-response BAM neural networks with time-varying delays. Instead of using the finite-time stability theorem and integral inequality method, by using the maximum-value method, two new...
The quantum model has been considered to be advantageous over the Markov model in explaining irrational behaviors (e.g., the disjunction effect) during decision making. Here, we reviewed and re-examined the ability of the quantum belief–action...
A localized virtual boundary element–meshless collocation method (LVBE-MCM) is proposed to solve Laplace and Helmholtz equations in complex two-dimensional (2D) geometries. “Localized” refers to employing the moving least square met...
In the present study, a multiphysics mathematical model for reproducing the flow field characteristics of an inflatable aeroshell was developed to study the aerodynamic properties of the flow around a membrane reentry vehicle. Firstly, the configurat...
This work aims to identify techniques leading to a highly available request processing service by using the natural decentralization and the dispersion power of the hash function involved in a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). High availability is presen...
In the context of the DigiLab4U international project, this paper describes a simulation-based serious game that can be used as a virtual teaching lab in higher education courses, especially in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Data Science, Manage...
As an effective and efficient discriminative learning method, the broad learning system (BLS) has received increasing attention due to its outstanding performance without large computational resources. The standard BLS is derived under the minimum me...
The marginal Bayesian predictive classifiers (mBpc), as opposed to the simultaneous Bayesian predictive classifiers (sBpc), handle each data separately and, hence, tacitly assume the independence of the observations. Due to saturation in learning of...
In this paper, we establish a new
We analyze a set of explicit Runge–Kutta pairs of orders six and five that share no extra properties, e.g., long intervals of periodicity or vanishing phase-lag etc. This family of pairs provides five parameters from which one can freely pick....
There are a great many epidemiological models that have been implemented to describe COVID-19 data; however, few attempted to reproduce the entire phenomenon due to the complexity of modeling recurrent outbreaks. In this work a fractional growth mode...
Personalised computer models of cardiac function, referred to as cardiac digital twins, are envisioned to play an important role in clinical precision therapies of cardiovascular diseases. A major obstacle hampering clinical translation involves the...
In December 2019, Severe Special Infectious Pneumonia (SARS-CoV-2)–the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)– appeared for the first time, breaking out in Wuhan, China, and the epidemic spread quickly to the world in a very short period time. Acco...
The sinh-Gordon equation is simply the classical wave equation with a nonlinear sinh source term. It arises in diverse scientific applications including differential geometry theory, integrable quantum field theory, fluid dynamics, kink dynamics, and...
Simulation with position-based dynamics is very popular due to its high efficiency. However, it has the weaknesses of lacking details when too few vertices are involved in simulation and inefficiency when too many vertices are used for simulation. To...
This study investigates, for the first time, the product of spacing estimation of the modified Kies exponential distribution parameters as well as the acceleration factor using constant-stress partially accelerated life tests under the Type-II censor...
We introduce a Green function and analogues of other related kernels for finite and infinite networks whose edge weights are complex-valued admittances with positive real part. We provide comparison results with the same kernels associated with corre...
By using appropriate methods of variational analysis, the necessary conditions of optimality are established for new classes of constrained optimization problems involving multiple and curvilinear integral functionals. Additionally, two illustrative...
The stochastic (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equation (SBSE) is considered in this article, which is forced by the Wiener process. To attain the analytical stochastic solutions such as the polynomials, hyperbolic and trigonometric functions of t...
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Security and privacy issues with IoT edge devices hinder the application of IoT technology in many applications. Applying cryptographic protocols to edge devices is the perfect solution to security issues. Implementing these protocols on edge devices...
After a product has undergone a manufacturing process, it usually has several important quality characteristics. When the process quality of all quality characteristics meets the requirements of the quality level, the process quality of the product c...
The performance of constrained multi-objective differential evolution algorithms (CMOEAs) is mainly determined by constraint handling techniques (CHTs) and their generation strategies. To realize the adaptive adjustment of CHTs and generation strateg...
In this paper, we consider a new kind of Kirchhoff-type equation which is stated in the introduction. Under certain assumptions on potentials, we prove by variational methods that the equation has at least a ground state solution and investigate the...
The risk assessment of engineering systems represents an important part of the quality of service and dependability. The existing methods for risk evaluation use crisp sets for rating partial indicators’ proposition and their cumulative product...
In this paper, the stability analysis and controller design of two-dimensional (2-D) switched system with random disturbances are studied. First, based on the Fornasini–Marchesini local state space model, a random discrete 2-D switched system m...
New studies are emerging to reduce energy costs and become a more sustainable society. One of the processes where the greatest savings can be made is in cooking, due to its large-scale global use. In this vein, this study aims to analyse the influenc...
The analysis of user-generated content on the Internet has become increasingly popular for a wide variety of applications. One particular type of content is represented by the user reviews for programs, multimedia, products, and so on. Investigating...
The present work investigates the influence of triple diffusion on Carreau nanoliquid in peristaltic flow through an asymmetric channel. By using appropriate non-dimensional parameters, governing equations are transformed to conventional non-linear p...
This paper introduces a new variant of the Shortest Path Problem (
The paper introduces a new approach to enhance optimization algorithms when solving the piecewise linearization problem of a given function. Eight swarm intelligence algorithms were selected to be experimentally compared. The problem is represented b...
Functional brain connectivity networks obtained from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have been extensively utilized for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the traditional correlation analysis techn...
Since the replicated core counters the (inferior) converse reduction axiom under multi-choice non-transferable-utility (NTU) situations, two converse reduction axiomatic enlargements of the replicated core are generated. These two enlargements are th...
Manufacturing process optimization is an ever-actual goal. Within this goal, machining parameters optimization is a very important task. Machining parameters strongly influence the manufacturing costs, process productivity and piece quality. Literatu...
Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms remain a strong trend in optimization. Human-inspired optimization algorithms should be more intuitive and relatable. This paper proposes a novel optimization algorithm inspired by a human search party. We hyp...
Cancer drivers play an important role in regulating cell growth, cell cycles, and DNA replication. Identifying these cancer drivers provides cancer researchers with indispensable knowledge that has important implications for clinical decision making....
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a key factor in the educational context, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and, correctly implemented, can help to improve academic performance. The aim of this researc...
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