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4 June 2024

The present paper investigates flaw strength distributions established using various flexural tests on batches of SiC bar test specimens, namely four-point bending as well as three-point bending tests with different span lengths. Flaw strength is pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Ceramics, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,454 Views
11 Pages

Research on Modeling Method for Optimal Allocation of Wellhead Targets in Large Well Clusters

  • Liupeng Wang,
  • Haonan Duan,
  • Zhikun Liu,
  • Yuanchao Peng and
  • Xuyang Liu

14 August 2024

The paper proposes a genetic ant colony algorithm that integrates genetic and ant colony algorithms, enhancing the heuristic function of the latter, to address target point distribution issues in large well clusters. This algorithm utilizes genetic a...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,095 Views
12 Pages

2 March 2020

Evolution of distribution of strategies in game theory is an interesting question that has been studied only for specific cases. Here I develop a general method to extend analysis of the evolution of continuous strategy distributions given a quadrati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,086 Views
15 Pages

28 May 2021

In geometry and topology, a family of probability distributions can be analyzed as the points on a manifold, known as statistical manifold, with intrinsic coordinates corresponding to the parameters of the distribution. Consider the exponential famil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measures of Information)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,524 Views
20 Pages

16 September 2024

This paper is set to analytically describe properties of the hyperbolic distribution. This law, along with the variance-gamma distribution, is one of the most popular normal mean–variance mixtures from the point of view of various applications....

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,549 Views
26 Pages

A New Truncated Lindley-Generated Family of Distributions: Properties, Regression Analysis, and Applications

  • Mohamed Hussein,
  • Gabriela M. Rodrigues,
  • Edwin M. M. Ortega,
  • Roberto Vila and
  • Howaida Elsayed

20 September 2023

We present the truncated Lindley-G (TLG) model, a novel class of probability distributions with an additional shape parameter, by composing a unit distribution called the truncated Lindley distribution with a parent distribution function G(x). The pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,481 Views
18 Pages

RSA-PT: A Point Transformer-Based Semantic Segmentation Network for Uninterrupted Operation in a Distribution Network Scene

  • Deyu Nie,
  • Linong Wang,
  • Shaocheng Wu,
  • Zhenyang Chen and ,
  • Yongwen Li and
  • Bin Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 April 2025

The digitization of uninterrupted operation in the distribution network is of great significance for improving people’s quality of life and promoting economic development. As an important means of achieving digitization, point cloud technology...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access

Study on Elastic Distribution of Different Functional Regions of Bra Mold Cup

  • Jing Xia,
  • Long Wu,
  • Bo-an Ying,
  • Jing Qi and
  • Xin Zhang

31 December 2022

This paper explores the elastic coefficient of sponge material in different functional areas and functional zones of the bra mold cup to improve the accuracy of parameter setting in the finite element modeling of the bra mold cup, reduce the error of sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,547 Views
17 Pages

Semantic Segmentation of Distribution Network Point Clouds Based on NF-PTV2

  • Long Han,
  • Bin Song,
  • Shaocheng Wu,
  • Deyu Nie and ,
  • Zhenyang Chen and
  • Linong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 February 2025

An on-site survey is the primary task of working live in distribution networks. However, the traditional manual on-site survey method is not only not very intuitive but also inefficient. The application of 3D point cloud technology has opened up new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,759 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Error Criterion of Fundamental Matrix Based on Principal Component Analysis

  • Yuxia Bian,
  • Shuhong Fang,
  • Ye Zhou,
  • Xiaojuan Wu and ,
  • Yan Zhen and
  • Yongbin Chu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 October 2022

Estimating the fundamental matrix (FM) using the known corresponding points is a key step for three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction, and its uncertainty directly affects camera calibration and point-cloud calculation. The symmetric epipolar dis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,105 Views
16 Pages

Urban catering systems constitute an important subsystem of the complex urban system. They can reveal not only the impact of urban functional structure on the catering but also the behavioral patterns of individual catering points through the explora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
966 Views
22 Pages

Bayesian Analysis of the Doubly Truncated Zubair-Weibull Distribution: Parameter Estimation, Reliability, Hazard Rate and Prediction

  • Zakiah I. Kalantan,
  • Mai A. Hegazy,
  • Abeer A. EL-Helbawy,
  • Hebatalla H. Mohammad and ,
  • Doaa S. A. Soliman,
  • Gannat R. AL-Dayian and
  • Mervat K. Abd Elaal
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 June 2025

This paper discusses the Bayesian estimation for the unknown parameters, reliability and hazard rate functions of the doubly truncated Zubair-Weibull distribution. Informative priors (gamma distribution) for the parameters are used to obtain the post...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,525 Views
8 Pages

29 September 2021

In general, the state of a system in which a physical quantity such as mass is distributed over space can be modeled by a function that represents the density distribution. The purpose of this paper is to introduce special functions that can be appli...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,058 Views
12 Pages

20 June 2017

Many signals can be described as functions on the unit disk (ball). In the framework of group representations it is well-known how to construct Hilbert-spaces containing these functions that have the groups SU(1,N) as their symmetry groups. One illus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
609 Views
26 Pages

29 March 2026

This study introduces stochastic surrogates of all the cross-partial derivatives of functions using L evaluations of functions at randomized points. Such randomized points are constructed using the class of lp-spherical distributions or equivalent di...

(This article belongs to the Section Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,033 Views
10 Pages

The applicability ranges of macroscopic and microscopic electromagnetism are contrasting. While microscopic electromagnetism deals with point sources, singular fields, and discrete atomistic materials, macroscopic electromagnetism concerns smooth ave...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photonics Metamaterials: Processing and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,660 Views
24 Pages

The rail transit station realm is an important urban spatial node that carries various behavioral activities and multiple functions. In order to accurately identify the spatial and temporal distribution of population activities and functional facilit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Geospatial Analytics Based on Crowdsourced Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,199 Views
9 Pages

21 June 2022

The well-known Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon (MWW) statistic is based on empirical distribution estimates. However, the data are often drawn from smooth populations. Therefore, the smoothness characteristic is not preserved. In addition, several...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,351 Views
14 Pages

25 July 2018

Discharge and water quality are two important attributes of rivers, although the joint response relationship between discharge and multiple water quality indicators is not clear. In this paper, the joint probability distributions are established by c...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
329 Views
23 Pages

4 June 2026

We study change-point estimation for absolutely continuous independent and identically distributed random variables from a nonparametric point of view. We define a sequence of processes and estimators based on U-statistics, whose kernel function has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics: From Theory to Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,280 Views
25 Pages

5 August 2021

Polyharmonic spline (PHS) radial basis functions (RBFs) have been used in conjunction with polynomials to create RBF finite-difference (RBF-FD) methods. In 2D, these methods are usually implemented with Cartesian nodes, hexagonal nodes, or most commo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics)
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  • Open Access
1,468 Views
15 Pages

Draw Tower Optical Fibers with Functional Coatings and Their Possible Use in Distributed Sensor Technology

  • Sandy Alomari,
  • Kenny Hey Tow,
  • Joao Pereira,
  • Miguel Soriano-Amat and ,
  • Tedros Weldehawariat,
  • Korina Hartmann,
  • Remco Nieuwland and
  • Åsa Claesson
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 December 2025

Functional coatings on optical fibers enable selective detection of environmental and chemical parameters, but their use is typically limited to point or quasi-distributed sensing due to localized deposition techniques. In this work, we demonstrate a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Optical Sensors 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,182 Views
13 Pages

On an Umbral Point of View of the Gaussian and Gaussian-like Functions

  • Giuseppe Dattoli,
  • Emanuele Di Palma and
  • Silvia Licciardi

4 December 2023

The theory of Gaussian functions is reformulated using an umbral point of view. The symbolic method we adopt here allows an interpretation of the Gaussian in terms of a Lorentzian image function. The formalism also suggests the introduction of a new...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,386 Views
9 Pages

Novel Phenomena of the Hartle–Hawking Wave Function

  • Subeom Kang,
  • Wan-il Park and
  • Dong-han Yeom

6 April 2024

We find a novel phenomenon in the solution to the Wheeler–DeWitt equation by solving numerically the equation assuming O(4)-symmetry and imposing the Hartle–Hawking wave function as a boundary condition. In the slow-roll limit, as expecte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetries in Gravity Research: Classical and Quantum)
  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
38 Pages

17 July 2026

In this paper, we consider a randomized TB model with two treatment modalities, home treatment and hospital treatment, in which β1 and β2 satisfy the log-normal Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. First, we prove the local stability of the po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,761 Views
14 Pages

A Wigner Quasiprobability Distribution of Work

  • Federico Cerisola,
  • Franco Mayo and
  • Augusto J. Roncaglia

11 October 2023

In this article, we introduce a quasiprobability distribution of work that is based on the Wigner function. This proposal rests on the idea that the work conducted on an isolated system can be coherently measured by coupling the system to a quantum m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Fluctuations, Decoherence and Emergent Phenomena)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,685 Views
15 Pages

cpd: An R Package for Complex Pearson Distributions

  • María José Olmo-Jiménez,
  • Silverio Vílchez-López and
  • José Rodríguez-Avi

3 November 2022

The complex Pearson (CP) distributions are a family of probability models for count data generated by the Gaussian hypergeometric function with complex arguments. The complex triparametric Pearson (CTP) distribution and its biparametric versions, the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Soft Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,985 Views
27 Pages

25 November 2024

This paper investigates statistical methods for estimating unknown lifetime parameters using a progressive first-failure censoring dataset. The failure mode’s lifetime distribution is modeled by the odd-generalized-exponential–inverse-Wei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability and Risk of Complex Systems: Modelling, Analysis and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,209 Views
25 Pages

4 March 2021

Finding new valuable sampling points and making these points better distributed in the design space is the key to determining the approximate effect of Kriging. To this end, a high-precision Kriging modeling method based on hybrid sampling criteria (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surrogate Modeling and Related Methods in Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1,494 Views
27 Pages

Following various natural and man-made disasters, a critical challenge in emergency response is establishing an emergency living supplies distribution center that minimizes service costs while ensuring rapid and efficient delivery of essential goods...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,187 Views
7 Pages

Statistical inference is used to estimate population parameters based on sample information and to quantify the sampling error based on the probability narrative. The population mean is inferred by its sample mean, but when using sample variance, the...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,055 Views
13 Pages

15 January 2023

A differential game with random duration is considered. The terminal time of the game is a random variable settled using a composite distribution function. Such a scenario occurs when the operating mode of the system changes over time at the appropri...

(This article belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,876 Views
17 Pages

28 July 2021

Singularities in the stress field of the stagnation-point flow of a viscoelastic fluid have been studied for various viscoelastic constitutive models. Analyzing the analytical solutions of these models is the most effective way to study this problem....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viscoelasticity: Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Simulations, and Experimental Work)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,356 Views
12 Pages

Surge Margin Optimization of Centrifugal Compressors Using a New Objective Function Based on Local Flow Parameters

  • Johannes Ratz,
  • Sebastian Leichtfuß,
  • Maximilian Beck,
  • Heinz-Peter Schiffer and
  • Friedrich Fröhlig

Currently, 3D-CFD design optimization of centrifugal compressors in terms of the surge margin is one major unresolved issue. On that account, this paper introduces a new kind of objective function. The objective function is based on local flow parame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,515 Views
22 Pages

Discrete Geodesic Distribution-Based Graph Kernel for 3D Point Clouds

  • Mehmet Ali Balcı,
  • Ömer Akgüller,
  • Larissa M. Batrancea and
  • Lucian Gaban

21 February 2023

In the structural analysis of discrete geometric data, graph kernels have a great track record of performance. Using graph kernel functions provides two significant advantages. First, a graph kernel is capable of preserving the graph’s topologi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Point Cloud Processing, Sensing and Understanding)
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  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,285 Views
19 Pages

8 March 2019

Leaf angle is a critical structural parameter for retrieving canopy leaf area index (LAI) using the PROSAIL model. However, the traditional method using default leaf angle distribution in the PROSAIL model does not capture the phenological dynamics o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observations and Crop Models for Sustainable Agricultural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,472 Views
14 Pages

Analytical Prediction for Nonlinear Buckling of Elastically Supported FG-GPLRC Arches under a Central Point Load

  • Zhicheng Yang,
  • Airong Liu,
  • Jie Yang,
  • Siu-Kai Lai and ,
  • Jiangen Lv and
  • Jiyang Fu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 April 2021

In this paper, we present an analytical prediction for nonlinear buckling of elastically supported functionally graded graphene platelet reinforced composite (FG-GPLRC) arches with asymmetrically distributed graphene platelets (GPLs). The effective m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Analysis of Static, Dynamic, and Thermal Behavior of Shell, Plate, and Beam Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,658 Views
38 Pages

18 March 2022

Elasticity is a very popular concept in economics and physics, recently exported and reinterpreted in the statistical field, where it has given form to the so-called elasticity function. This function has proved to be a very useful tool for quantifyi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,577 Views
20 Pages

PointStaClu: A Deep Point Cloud Clustering Method Based on Stable Cluster Discrimination

  • Xin Cao,
  • Haoyu Wang,
  • Qiuquan Zhu,
  • Yifan Wang and ,
  • Xiu Liu,
  • Kang Li and
  • Linzhi Su
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 July 2024

Potential inconsistencies between the goals of unsupervised representation learning and clustering within multi-stage deep clustering can diminish the effectiveness of these techniques. However, because the goal of unsupervised representation learnin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Point Cloud Processing with Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
714 Views
14 Pages

Classifying Consensus Sequences Using Point-Set Representations

  • Jason Shulman,
  • Cristian M. Cisneros,
  • Preethi H. Gunaratne and
  • Gemunu H. Gunaratne

25 May 2026

Consensus sequences at sites such as exon–intron boundaries or branch points are displayed with sequence logos. Implicit in this representation is a presumption of independence of nucleic acids at distinct sites; consequently, sequence logos fa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Biological Systems with Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
14,026 Views
17 Pages

29 January 2021

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) point cloud has been widely used in the fields of ground powerline surveying, forest monitoring, urban modeling, and so on because of the great convenience it brings to people’s daily life. However, the sparsity an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Multi-Category Object Detection Using Aerial Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
141 Views
19 Pages

22 October 2026

Free-space optical (FSO) communication offers high-capacity wireless connectivity but is highly susceptible to atmospheric impairments in arid and dust-prone environments. This paper presents a closed-form outage analysis for FSO links subject to Bet...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,895 Views
20 Pages

Risk assessment of dam’s running status is an important part of dam management. A data-driven method based on monitored displacement data has been applied in risk assessment, owing to its easy operation and real-time analysis. However, previous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring of Coastal and Offshore Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,536 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2018

The number of feature points on the surface of a non-cooperative target satellite used for monocular vision-based relative navigation affects the onboard computational load. A feature point selection method called the quasi-optimal method is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,980 Views
11 Pages

25 September 2021

A dozen papers have considered the concept of negation of probability distributions (pd) introduced by Yager. Usually, such negations are generated point-by-point by functions defined on a set of probability values and called here negators. Recently...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,243 Views
13 Pages

Flood Risk Modeling under Uncertainties: The Case Study of Croatia

  • Toni Kekez,
  • Roko Andricevic and
  • Snjezana Knezic

16 May 2022

This study presents an approach for assessing the flood risk using the fully probabilistic description of the annual damage using the derived higher-order statistical moments of the annual damage random variable. The annual damage distribution is use...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,576 Views
22 Pages

An Interphase Short-Circuit Fault Location Method for Distribution Networks Considering Topological Flexibility

  • Hua Xie,
  • Zhe Liu,
  • Kai Li,
  • Qifang Chen and ,
  • Chao Yang and
  • Tong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 March 2025

The location of faults in distribution networks represents a crucial line of defence, ensuring the safe and reliable operation of these networks. This paper puts forth a methodology for the location of short-circuit faults between phases within the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation, Decision-Making and Market Simulation of a New Type of Power System)

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