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AppliedMath, Volume 6, Issue 1

2026 January - 18 articles

Cover Story: The human brain is a paradigmatic complex system, whose structure and dynamics emerge across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Fractal geometry offers a powerful mathematical framework to quantify this complexity beyond classical Euclidean descriptions. This review brings together the theoretical foundations, methodological advances, and neuroscientific applications of fractal dimension analysis. We highlight how fractal measures sensitively capture structural and functional brain organization across health, development, aging, neurodegenerative disease, and altered states of consciousness. By linking neural integration and differentiation with multiscale organization, fractal dimension emerges as a unifying descriptor of brain complexity and a promising quantitative biomarker at the interface of mathematics, physics, and clinical neuroscience. View this paper
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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,612 Views
32 Pages

The historical and conceptual foundations of General Relativity are revisited, putting the main focus on the physical meaning of the invariant ds2, the Equivalence Principle, and the precise interpretation of spacetime geometry. It is argued that Alb...

(This article belongs to the Section Deterministic Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,057 Views
22 Pages

Assessing Cost Efficiency Thresholds in Fragmented Agriculture: A Gamma-Based Model of the Trade-Off Between Unit and Total Parcel Costs

  • Elena Sánchez Arnau,
  • Antonia Ferrer Sapena,
  • Maria Carmen Cárcel-Mas,
  • Claudia Sánchez Arnau and
  • Enrique A. Sánchez Pérez

Parcel size strongly influences agricultural production costs, and combining spatial and economic information within a mathematical setting helps to clarify this relationship. In this study, we introduce a Gamma-based stochastic framework to integrat...

(This article belongs to the Section Probabilistic & Statistical Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,305 Views
27 Pages

Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal Fusion and Bayesian Decision-Making for DSS

  • Vesna Antoska Knights,
  • Marija Prchkovska,
  • Luka Krašnjak and
  • Jasenka Gajdoš Kljusurić

Uncertainty-aware decision-making increasingly relies on multimodal sensing pipelines that must fuse correlated measurements, propagate uncertainty, and trigger reliable control actions. This study develops a unified mathematical framework for multim...

(This article belongs to the Section Probabilistic & Statistical Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
610 Views
11 Pages

This paper presents a Maple implementation of an interval verification method for identifying isolated simple zeros in square polynomial systems. Compared to the known MATLAB (R2019b) implementation, the Maple-based approach achieves significantly hi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Numerical Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
909 Views
19 Pages

On Families of Elliptic Curves Ep,q:y2=x3−pqx That Intersect the Same Line La,b:y=abx of Rational Slope

  • Eldar Sultanow,
  • Anja Jeschke,
  • Amir Darwish Tfiha,
  • Madjid Tehrani and
  • William J. Buchanan

We investigate a special family of elliptic curves, namely Ep,q:y2=x3−pqx, where p<q are odd primes. We study sufficient conditions for p and q so that the corresponding elliptic curve has non-trivial rational points. The number of sufficien...

(This article belongs to the Section Deterministic Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
545 Views
16 Pages

The Rasch model has the desirable property that item parameter estimation can be separated from person parameter estimation. This implies that no assumptions about the ability distribution are required when estimating item difficulties. Pairwise esti...

(This article belongs to the Section Probabilistic & Statistical Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,291 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, we present a novel method for background estimation and updating in video sequences, utilizing an innovative approach that combines an intelligent truncated mean, the stationary wavelet transform (SWT), and advanced thresholding techni...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Numerical Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,690 Views
33 Pages

As artificial intelligence systems proliferate across critical societal domains, understanding the nature, patterns, and evolution of AI-related harms has become essential for effective governance. Despite growing incident repositories, systematic co...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Numerical Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
890 Views
21 Pages

Forest fires pose escalating threats to ecological security and public safety in Guangdong Province. This study presents a novel machine learning framework for fire occurrence prediction by synergistically integrating multi-source geospatial data. Ut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,413 Views
20 Pages

It is well known that the position of the Jacobian matrix spectrum in the left-half complex plane provides the local asymptotic stability of a nonlinear dynamical system, but it is also well known that for large matrices, computing its eigenvalues ju...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,405 Views
25 Pages

Conceptual Proposal for a Computational Platform to Assist in the Learning and Cognitive Development Process of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Solution Based on a Multicriteria Structure

  • David de Oliveira Costa,
  • Cleyton Mário de Oliveira Rodrigues,
  • Ana Claudia Souza,
  • Carlo Marcelo Revoredo da Silva,
  • Andrei Bonamigo,
  • Miguel Ângelo Lellis Moreira,
  • Marcos dos Santos,
  • Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes and
  • Daniel Augusto de Moura Pereira

This study proposes a structured multicriteria approach to assist professionals in the selection of appropriate computing platforms for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, particularly those between 4 and 6 years of age. Recognizing the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,071 Views
16 Pages

Fractal geometry offers a mathematical framework to quantify the complexity of brain structure and function. The fractal dimension (FD) captures self-similarity and irregularity across spatial and temporal scales, surpassing the limits of traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,076 Views
13 Pages

Effective identification of strain-hardening parameters is essential for predictive plasticity models used in automotive applications. However, the performance of Bayesian optimization depends strongly on kernel hyperparameters in the Gaussian-proces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
705 Views
18 Pages

Generalized Interval-Valued Convexity in Fractal Geometry

  • Muhammad Zakria Javed,
  • Muhammad Uzair Awan,
  • Dafang Zhao,
  • Awais Gul Khan and
  • Lorentz Jäntschi

The main goal of this study is to explain the idea of generalized interval-valued (I.V) convexity on a fractal set. We first define the basic operations for a generalized interval of Rs with 0<s≤1. Then, we expand the idea of (I.V) Riemann inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Control for Solving Optimization Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,489 Views
15 Pages

Machine learning (ML) is a powerful tool in drug design, enabling the rapid analysis of large and complex molecular graphs that represent the structural and chemical properties of medications. It enhances the precision and speed with which molecular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,336 Views
17 Pages

Turing patterns, characterised by spatial self-organisation in reaction–diffusion systems, exhibit sensitivity to initial conditions. This sensitivity, known as the robustness problem, results in different final patterns emerging even from smal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
464 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, an economic competition–cooperation model is examined, which has one core enterprise and four satellite enterprises. This extends previous smaller models in the literature mathematically. The unique positive solution to the origi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
915 Views
23 Pages

Survey of Quasiasymptotic Behavior of Distributions in Relation to the Properties of Their Fractional Transforms

  • Sanja Atanasova,
  • Slavica Gajić,
  • Smiljana Jakšić and
  • Snježana Maksimović

Fractional transforms have emerged as powerful analytical tools that bridge the time, frequency, and scale domains by introducing a fractional-order parameter into the kernel of classical transforms. This survey provides an overview of the mathematic...

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