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Mathematics, Volume 7, Issue 8

2019 August - 108 articles

Cover Story: The problem of optimal box positioning is a problem of finding a position of a box with given edge lengths that maximizes the number of enclosed points of the given set (the figure illustrates a 3-dimensional example). In this paper the problem was proved to be NP-hard. View this paper.
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Articles (108)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,226 Views
13 Pages

20 August 2019

In this article, we discuss new characterizations of Cohen-Macaulay bipartite edge ideals. For arbitrary bipartite edge ideals I ( G ) , we also discuss methods to recognize regular elements on I ( G ) s for all s 1 in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,305 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2019

In this paper, we introduce the various types of generalized invexities, i.e., α f -invex/ α f -pseudoinvex and ( G , α f ) -bonvex/ ( G , α f ) -pseudobonvex functions. Furthermore, we construct nontrivial numerical exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,784 Views
12 Pages

On Stability of Iterative Sequences with Error

  • Salwa Salman Abed and
  • Noor Saddam Taresh

20 August 2019

Iterative methods were employed to obtain solutions of linear and non-linear systems of equations, solutions of differential equations, and roots of equations. In this paper, it was proved that s-iteration with error and Picard–Mann iteration w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,922 Views
22 Pages

20 August 2019

The aims of this study are to propose the linguistic picture fuzzy Dombi (LPFD) aggregation operators and decision-making approach to deal with uncertainties in the form of linguistic picture fuzzy sets. LPFD operators have more flexibility due to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,970 Views
10 Pages

19 August 2019

This paper analyzes the nonlocal elliptic system involving the p(x)-biharmonic operator. We give the corresponding variational structure of the problem, and then by means of Ricceri’s Variational theorem and the definition of general Lebesgue-S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,344 Views
15 Pages

19 August 2019

In this effort we propose a data-driven learning framework for reduced order modeling of fluid dynamics. Designing accurate and efficient reduced order models for nonlinear fluid dynamic problems is challenging for many practical engineering applicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,550 Views
8 Pages

Neutrosophic Quadruple Vector Spaces and Their Properties

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

19 August 2019

In this paper authors for the first time introduce the concept of Neutrosophic Quadruple (NQ) vector spaces and Neutrosophic Quadruple linear algebras and study their properties. Most of the properties of vector spaces are true in case of Neutrosophi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
174 Citations
6,142 Views
23 Pages

Hybrid Control Scheme for Projective Lag Synchronization of Riemann–Liouville Sense Fractional Order Memristive BAM NeuralNetworks with Mixed Delays

  • Grienggrai Rajchakit,
  • Anbalagan Pratap,
  • Ramachandran Raja,
  • Jinde Cao,
  • Jehad Alzabut and
  • Chuangxia Huang

19 August 2019

This sequel is concerned with the analysis of projective lag synchronization of Riemann–Liouville sense fractional order memristive BAM neural networks (FOMBNNs) with mixed time delays via hybrid controller. Firstly, a new type of hybrid control sche...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,117 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2019

Since financial engineering problems are of great importance in the academic community, effective methods are still needed to analyze these models. Therefore, this article focuses mainly on capturing the discrete behavior of linear and nonlinear Blac...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,575 Views
22 Pages

19 August 2019

This study focuses on the stochastic differential calculus of Itô, as an effective tool for the analysis of noise in forest growth and yield modeling. Idea of modeling state (tree size) variable in terms of univariate stochastic differential eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,375 Views
19 Pages

Some Generalized Contraction Classes and Common Fixed Points in b-Metric Space Endowed with a Graph

  • Reny George,
  • Hossam A. Nabwey,
  • Rajagopalan Ramaswamy and
  • Stojan Radenović

18 August 2019

We have introduced the new notions of R-weakly graph preserving and R-weakly α -admissible pair of multivalued mappings which includes the class of graph preserving mappings, weak graph preserving mappings as well as α -admissible mappings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
14,251 Views
16 Pages

Rock Classification from Field Image Patches Analyzed Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network

  • Xiangjin Ran,
  • Linfu Xue,
  • Yanyan Zhang,
  • Zeyu Liu,
  • Xuejia Sang and
  • Jinxin He

18 August 2019

The automatic identification of rock type in the field would aid geological surveying, education, and automatic mapping. Deep learning is receiving significant research attention for pattern recognition and machine learning. Its application here has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,293 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2019

A novel public key cryptographic algorithm using a matrix pattern is developed to improve encrypting strength. Compared to the Rivest–Sharmir–Adleman (RSA) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithms, our proposed algorithm has superior encrypti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,634 Views
17 Pages

Quasi-Isometric Mesh Parameterization Using Heat-Based Geodesics and Poisson Surface Fills

  • Daniel Mejia-Parra,
  • Jairo R. Sánchez,
  • Jorge Posada,
  • Oscar Ruiz-Salguero and
  • Carlos Cadavid

17 August 2019

In the context of CAD, CAM, CAE, and reverse engineering, the problem of mesh parameterization is a central process. Mesh parameterization implies the computation of a bijective map ϕ from the original mesh M R 3 to the planar...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,450 Views
23 Pages

16 August 2019

The current research explores the injection of a viscous fluid through a moving flat plate with a transverse uniform magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flow field to reduce sliding drag. Two cases of velocity slip between the slider and the ground are studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,020 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2019

The aim of this paper is to introduce a modified viscosity iterative method to approximate a solution of the split variational inclusion problem and fixed point problem for a uniformly continuous multivalued total asymptotically strictly pseudocontra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,425 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2019

In this paper, we establish a new q-integral identity, the result is then used to derive two q-integral inequalities of Simpson-type involving strongly preinvex functions. Some special cases of the obtained results are also considered, it is shown th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,858 Views
10 Pages

Global Stability of Fractional Order Coupled Systems with Impulses via a Graphic Approach

  • Bei Zhang,
  • Yonghui Xia,
  • Lijuan Zhu,
  • Haidong Liu and
  • Longfei Gu

15 August 2019

Based on the graph theory and stability theory of dynamical system, this paper studies the stability of the trivial solution of a coupled fractional-order system. Some sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the global stability of the trivia...

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

15 August 2019

In this paper, new refinements and improvements of Jordan’s and Kober’s inequalities are presented. We give new polynomial bounds for the s i n c ( x ) and cos ( x ) functions based on the interpolation and approximation m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,827 Views
25 Pages

A Modified Fletcher–Reeves Conjugate Gradient Method for Monotone Nonlinear Equations with Some Applications

  • Auwal Bala Abubakar,
  • Poom Kumam,
  • Hassan Mohammad,
  • Aliyu Muhammed Awwal and
  • Kanokwan Sitthithakerngkiet

15 August 2019

One of the fastest growing and efficient methods for solving the unconstrained minimization problem is the conjugate gradient method (CG). Recently, considerable efforts have been made to extend the CG method for solving monotone nonlinear equations....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,064 Views
15 Pages

A New Gronwall–Bellman Inequality in Frame of Generalized Proportional Fractional Derivative

  • Jehad Alzabut,
  • Weerawat Sudsutad,
  • Zeynep Kayar and
  • Hamid Baghani

15 August 2019

New versions of a Gronwall–Bellman inequality in the frame of the generalized (Riemann–Liouville and Caputo) proportional fractional derivative are provided. Before proceeding to the main results, we define the generalized Riemann–Liouville and Caput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,215 Views
34 Pages

Modeling and Control of IPMC Actuators Based on LSSVM-NARX Paradigm

  • Liangsong Huang,
  • Yu Hu,
  • Yun Zhao and
  • Yuxia Li

13 August 2019

Ionic polymer-metal composites are electrically driven intelligent composites that are readily exposed to bending deformations in the presence of external electric fields. Owing to their advantages, ionicpolymer-metal composites are promising candida...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
5,467 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Approach to Generalized Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Sets and Its Application in Decision Support System

  • Muhammad Jabir Khan,
  • Poom Kumam,
  • Peide Liu,
  • Wiyada Kumam and
  • Shahzaib Ashraf

13 August 2019

The basic idea underneath the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy soft set is very constructive in decision making, since it considers how to exploit an extra intuitionistic fuzzy input from the director to make up for any distortion in the information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,258 Views
12 Pages

13 August 2019

The Van der Pol oscillator is investigated by the parameter control method. This method only needs to control one parameter of the Van der Pol oscillator by a simple periodic function; then, the Van der Pol oscillator can behave chaotically from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,146 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2019

Radial basis function-based quasi-interpolation performs efficiently in high-dimensional approximation and its applications, which can attain the approximant and its derivatives directly without solving any large-scale linear system. In this paper, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,629 Views
15 Pages

Approximate Controllability of Infinite-Dimensional Degenerate Fractional Order Systems in the Sectorial Case

  • Dumitru Baleanu,
  • Vladimir E. Fedorov,
  • Dmitriy M. Gordievskikh and
  • Kenan Taş

12 August 2019

We consider a class of linear inhomogeneous equations in a Banach space not solvable with respect to the fractional Caputo derivative. Such equations are called degenerate. We study the case of the existence of a resolving operators family for the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,626 Views
11 Pages

12 August 2019

In this paper, we study differential equations arising from the generating function of the ( r , β ) -Bell polynomials. We give explicit identities for the ( r , β ) -Bell polynomials. Finally, we find the zeros of the ( r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,985 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2019

This work is concerned with the delay-dependent criteria for exponential stability analysis of neutral differential equation with a more generally interval-distributed and discrete time-varying delays. By using a novel Lyapunov–Krasovkii functi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,078 Views
10 Pages

On Ball Numbers

  • Wolf-Dieter Richter

12 August 2019

We first shortly review, in part throwing a new light on, basics of ball numbers for balls having a positively homogeneous Minkowski functional and turn over then to a new particular class of ball numbers of balls having a Minkowski functional being...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,129 Views
40 Pages

12 August 2019

In this study, we systematically investigate a road-rail intermodal routing problem the optimization of which is oriented on the customer demands on transportation economy, timeliness and reliability. The road-rail intermodal transportation system is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,522 Views
36 Pages

12 August 2019

Context-aware video recommender systems (CAVRS) seek to improve recommendation performance by incorporating contextual features along with the conventional user-item ratings used by video recommender systems. In addition, the selection of influential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,728 Views
13 Pages

11 August 2019

We consider a differential game of fisheries in a fan-like control structure of the type “supervisor—several agents”. The dynamics of the controlled system is described by a non-linear differential equation model which is identified...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,428 Views
14 Pages

10 August 2019

The trustworthiness of software is crucial to some safety critical areas. Performance is an important attribute of software trustworthiness. Software component technology is the mainstream technology of software development. How to achieve the perfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,652 Views
11 Pages

10 August 2019

The goal of this research is to extend and investigate an improved approach for calculating the weighted Moore–Penrose (WMP) inverses of singular or rectangular matrices. The scheme is constructed based on a hyperpower method of order ten. It i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,745 Views
26 Pages

9 August 2019

In this paper, we propose a generalized multiperiod mean-variance portfolio optimization based on consideration of benchmark orientation and intertemporal restrictions, in which the investors not only focus on their own performance but also tend to c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
3,601 Views
16 Pages

q-Analogue of Differential Subordinations

  • Miraj Ul-Haq,
  • Mohsan Raza,
  • Muhammad Arif,
  • Qaiser Khan and
  • Huo Tang

9 August 2019

In this article, we study differential subordnations in q-analogue. Some properties of analytic functions in q-analogue associated with cardioid domain and limacon domain are considered. In particular, we determine conditions on α such th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,215 Views
7 Pages

9 August 2019

The solution of a wide class of applied problems can be represented as an integral over the trajectories of a random process. The process is usually modeled with the Monte Carlo method and the integral is estimated as the average value of a certain f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,011 Views
12 Pages

9 August 2019

In this article, we aim to establish several inequalities for differentiable exponentially convex and exponentially quasi-convex mapping, which are connected with the famous Hermite–Hadamard (HH) integral inequality. Moreover, we have provided...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,927 Views
25 Pages

Iterative Methods for Solving a System of Linear Equations in a Bipolar Fuzzy Environment

  • Muhammad Akram,
  • Ghulam Muhammad,
  • Ali N. A. Koam and
  • Nawab Hussain

9 August 2019

We develop the solution procedures to solve the bipolar fuzzy linear system of equations (BFLSEs) with some iterative methods namely Richardson method, extrapolated Richardson (ER) method, Jacobi method, Jacobi over-relaxation (JOR) method, Gauss&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,708 Views
12 Pages

9 August 2019

In this paper, extended homogeneous balance method is presented with the aid of computer algebraic system Mathematica for deriving new exact traveling wave solutions for the foam drainage equation and the Kowerteg-de Vries–Burgers equation whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,910 Views
11 Pages

On Pata–Suzuki-Type Contractions

  • Obaid Alqahtani,
  • Venigalla Madhulatha Himabindu and
  • Erdal Karapınar

8 August 2019

In this paper, we aim to obtain fixed-point results by merging the interesting fixed-point theorem of Pata and Suzuki in the framework of complete metric space and to extend these results by involving admissible mapping. After introducing two new con...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,921 Views
14 Pages

8 August 2019

Let SR * be the class of starlike functions with real coefficients, i.e., the class of analytic functions f which satisfy the condition f ( 0 ) = 0 = f ( 0 ) 1 , Re { z f ( z ) / f ( z ) } >...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,869 Views
13 Pages

On New Solutions of Time-Fractional Wave Equations Arising in Shallow Water Wave Propagation

  • Rajarama Mohan Jena,
  • Snehashish Chakraverty and
  • Dumitru Baleanu

8 August 2019

The primary objective of this manuscript is to obtain the approximate analytical solution of Camassa–Holm (CH), modified Camassa–Holm (mCH), and Degasperis–Procesi (DP) equations with time-fractional derivatives labeled in the Caput...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,046 Views
16 Pages

Credit Risk Contagion and Systemic Risk on Networks

  • Marina Dolfin,
  • Damian Knopoff,
  • Michele Limosani and
  • Maria Gabriella Xibilia

7 August 2019

This paper proposes a model of the dynamics of credit contagion through non-performing loans on financial networks. Credit risk contagion is modeled in the context of the classical SIS (Susceptibles-Infected-Susceptibles) epidemic processes on networ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,161 Views
15 Pages

The Italian Domination Numbers of Generalized Petersen Graphs P(n,3)

  • Hong Gao,
  • Changqing Xi,
  • Kun Li,
  • Qingfang Zhang and
  • Yuansheng Yang

7 August 2019

An Italian dominating function of G is a function f : V ( G ) { 0 , 1 , 2 } , for every vertex v such that f ( v ) = 0 , it holds that u N ( v ) f ( u ) 2 . The Italian domination number &gamma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,681 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2019

This study deals with the preventive maintenance optimization problem based on a reliability threshold. The conditional reliability threshold is used instead of the system reliability threshold. Then, the difference between the two thresholds is disc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,433 Views
19 Pages

7 August 2019

We consider a queuing network with single-server nodes and heterogeneous customers. The number of customers, which can obtain service simultaneously, is restricted. Customers that cannot be admitted to the network upon arrival make repeated attempts...

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