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We define soft
2021 October-2 - 110 articles
We define soft
Combinatorial optimization problems are often considered NP-hard problems in the field of decision science and the industrial revolution. As a successful transformation to tackle complex dimensional problems, metaheuristic algorithms have been implem...
The paper addresses a new facet of problem regarding the application of AHP in the real world. There are occasions that decision makers are not certain about relative importance assignment in pairwise comparison. The decision makers think the relativ...
Let R be a commutative graded ring with unity, S be a multiplicative subset of homogeneous elements of R and P be a graded ideal of R such that
Kung and Traub (1974) proposed an iterative method for solving equations defined on the real line. The convergence order four was shown using Taylor expansions, requiring the existence of the fifth derivative not in this method. However, these hypoth...
The order of appearance of n (in the Fibonacci sequence)
The recovery efforts of the tourism and hospitality sector are compromised by the emergence of COVID-19 variants that can escape vaccines. Thus, maintaining non-pharmaceutical measures amidst massive vaccine rollouts is still relevant. The previous w...
In recent years in Taiwan, scholars who study financial bankruptcy have mostly focused on individual listed and over-the-counter (OTC) industries or the entire industry, while few have studied the independent electronics industry. Thus, this study in...
In this study, we investigate pricing policy and coordination conditions in an online-to-offline supply chain considering corporate environmental responsibility and lateral inventory transshipment. First, we provide demand functions to capture effect...
The paper deals with a finite-source queueing system serving one class of customers and consisting of heterogeneous servers with unequal service intensities and of one common queue. The main model has a non-preemptive service when the customer can no...
Big Data are highly effective for systematically extracting and analyzing massive data. It can be useful to manage data proficiently over the conventional data handling approaches. Recently, several schemes have been developed for handling big datase...
In this paper, two new families of non-stationary subdivision schemes are introduced. The schemes are constructed from uniform generalized B-splines with multiple knots of orders 3 and 4, respectively. Then, we construct a third-order reverse subdivi...
Given a continuous map
Social influence analysis is a very popular research direction. This article analyzes the social network of musicians and the many influencing factors when musicians create music to rank the influence of musicians. In order to achieve the practical p...
An algorithm for synchronization of a network composed of interconnected Hindmarsh–Rose neurons is presented. Delays are present in the interconnections of the neurons. Noise is added to the controlled input of the neurons. The synchronization algori...
The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is fluctuating worldwide. Since the COVID-19 epidemic has a negative impact on all countries and has become a significant threat, it is necessary to determine the most effective strategy for governmen...
This paper presents the application of simulation to assess and predict the influence of random factors of pedestrian flow and its continuity on the traffic capacity of a signal-controlled intersection during a right turn. The data were collected fro...
Starting with the interactive relationship between electronic money and household consumption stimuli, this paper deeply analyzes the changes in the behavior of each monetary subject under the impact of electronic money, and establishes a DSGE model...
When images are acquired for finger-vein recognition, images with nonuniformity of illumination are often acquired due to varying thickness of fingers or nonuniformity of illumination intensity elements. Accordingly, the recognition performance is si...
Choosing the physical place in which to locate a company or make investments is a strategic decision that managers must make when their business activities begin and as they expand. These decisions are key to firms’ survival. This study sought to she...
With the evolution of modern digital pathology, examining cancer cell tissues has paved the way to quantify subtle symptoms, for example, by means of image staining procedures using Eosin and Hematoxylin. Cancer tissues in the case of breast and lung...
Optimal control problems arise in many applications and need suitable numerical methods to obtain a solution. The indirect methods are an interesting class of methods based on the Pontryagin’s minimum principle that generates Hamiltonian Boundary Val...
The inverse spectral problem for the second-order differential pencil with quadratic dependence on the spectral parameter is studied. We obtain sufficient conditions for the global solvability of the inverse problem, prove its local solvability and s...
In this paper, we introduce a new iterative method using an inertial technique for approximating a common fixed point of an infinite family of nonexpansive mappings in a Hilbert space. The proposed method’s weak convergence theorem was established un...
This paper proposes a code defined on a finite ring
An investment in a portfolio can not only guarantee returns but can also effectively control risk factors. Portfolio optimization is a multi-objective optimization problem. In order to better assist a decision maker to obtain his/her preferred invest...
In this paper, we complement a study recently conducted in a paper of H.A. Mombeni, B. Masouri and M.R. Akhoond by introducing five new asymmetric kernel c.d.f. estimators on the half-line
In this study, we firstly obtain De Moivre-type identities for the second-order Bronze Fibonacci sequences. Next, we construct and define the third-order Bronze Fibonacci, third-order Bronze Lucas and modified third-order Bronze Fibonacci sequences....
With the influence of digital technology in our daily lives continuously growing, we investigate methods with the purpose of assessing the stability, sustainability, and design of systems of token economies that include tokens and conventional curren...
Service quality is an important factor for a successful company. The SERVQUAL model is widely used. However, it has been controversial over the past 30 years. This research aims to develop a service quality measurement model that can be supported in...
We present a finite volume method formulated on a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian mesh for highly advective 1D hyperbolic systems altogether with its application to plug-flow heat exchanger modeling/simulation. Advection of sharp moving fronts is an import...
In this paper, we propose a high-quality image authentication method based on absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) compressed images. The existing AMBTC authentication methods may not be able to detect certain malicious tampering due to th...
Optimization techniques, specially metaheuristics, are constantly refined in order to decrease execution times, increase the quality of solutions, and address larger target cases. Hybridizing techniques are one of these strategies that are particular...
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are broadly used in numerous applications such as computer vision and image classification. Although CNN models deliver state-of-the-art accuracy, they require heavy computational resources that are not always aff...
A generalization of the well-known Fibonacci sequence is the
Multigranulation rough set (MGRS) based on soft relations is a very useful technique to describe the objectives of problem solving. This MGRS over two universes provides the combination of multiple granulation knowledge in a multigranulation space. T...
The registration of point clouds in a three-dimensional space is an important task in many areas of computer vision, including robotics and autonomous driving. The purpose of registration is to find a rigid geometric transformation to align two point...
The mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) model emerged from the advances proposed by Shulman in 1986 and 1987 as part of the teacher’s professional knowledge model, and refers to the mathematical knowledge that the teacher employs to carry out t...
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One serious disadvantage of any multicarrier-modulation technique such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is its high peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) which might lead to signal clipping in several scenarios. To maximize the trans...
This article presents a novel four-dimensional autonomous fractional-order chaotic system (FOCS) with multi-nonlinearity terms. Several dynamics, such as the chaotic attractors, equilibrium points, fractal dimension, Lyapunov exponent, and bifurcatio...
This study proposes a method for resource management and optimisation in the industrial sector of China. Differing from previous research on the green assessment of industrial systems focusing on “black box” evaluation, our approach contributes to th...
The forecast of carbon trading price is crucial to both sellers and purchasers; multi-scale integration models have been used widely in this process. However, these multi-scale models ignore the feature reconstruction process as well as the residual...
For the sake of providing insight into the use of nonstandard techniques à la A. Robinson and into Luxemburg’s nonstandard hull construction, we first present nonstandard proofs of some known results about
In this paper, we introduce the notion of resolvable networks. A resolvable network is a digraph of subnetworks, where subnetworks may overlap, and the inner structure of subnetworks are not interesting from the viewpoint of the network. There are tw...
Student dropout, defined as the abandonment of a high education program before obtaining the degree without reincorporation, is a problem that affects every higher education institution in the world. This study uses machine learning models over two C...
In this paper, the cluster synchronization of a variable-order fractional community network with nonidentical dynamics is investigated. For achieving the cluster synchronization, intermittent controllers are designed, and the sufficient conditions wi...
Over the last few decades, public programs have driven the gradual adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education. The most ambitious project in Spain so far was Escuela 2.0, which provided students from the regions that o...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its social implications generate adverse psychological effects that affect success in education where educational methodologies are not ready to overcome the problem. This article presents the design and evaluation of a gami...
Non-negative continuous outcomes with a substantial number of zero values and incomplete longitudinal follow-up are quite common in medical costs data. It is thus critical to incorporate the potential dependence of survival status and longitudinal me...
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