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On Variable-Order Fractional Discrete Macroeconomic Model: Stability, Chaos, and Complexity

  • Ali Aloui,
  • Louiza Diabi,
  • Omar Kahouli,
  • Adel Ouannas and ,
  • Lilia El Amraoui and
  • Mohamed Ayari
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Macroeconomic mathematical models are practical instruments structured to carry out theoretical analyses of macroeconomic developments. In this manuscript, the Caputo-like fractional operator of variable order is used to introduce and investigate the...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,009 Views
13 Pages

In this work, we recall some definitions on fractional calculus with discrete-time. Then, we introduce a discrete-time Hopfield neural network (D.T.H.N.N) with non-commensurate fractional variable-order (V.O) for three neurons. After that, phase-plot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Neural Networks, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,368 Views
19 Pages

The New Four-Dimensional Fractional Chaotic Map with Constant and Variable-Order: Chaos, Control and Synchronization

  • Tareq Hamadneh,
  • Souad Bensid Ahmed,
  • Hassan Al-Tarawneh,
  • Omar Alsayyed and ,
  • Gharib Mousa Gharib,
  • Maha S. Al Soudi,
  • Abderrahmane Abbes and
  • Adel Ouannas
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 October 2023

Using fractional difference equations to describe fractional and variable-order maps, this manuscript discusses the dynamics of the discrete 4D sinusoidal feedback sine iterative chaotic map with infinite collapse (ICMIC) modulation map (SF-SIMM) wit...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,505 Views
16 Pages

Initial Conditions and Resilience in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer of an Urban Basin

  • Patricio Pacheco,
  • Eduardo Mera,
  • Voltaire Fuentes and
  • Carolina Parodi

10 February 2023

The possibilities of micrometeorological resilience in urban contexts immersed in a basin geographical configuration are investigated. For this purpose, time series data with measurements of meteorological variables (temperature, magnitude of wind sp...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,764 Views
17 Pages

27 November 2014

This paper introduces a type of modified hybrid projective synchronization with complex transformationmatrix (CMHPS) for different dimensional fractional-order complex chaos and fractional-order real hyper-chaos. The transformationmatrix in this type...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2,191 Views
10 Pages

Rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction cannot be reduced to a linear, time-based sequence of protection, strength, and return to sport. Persistent asymmetries, quadriceps inhibition, and variable re-injury rates highlight that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,680 Views
34 Pages

6 January 2022

Up until now, studies of Kauffman network stability have focused on the conditions resulting from the structure of the network. Negative feedbacks have been modeled as ice (nodes that do not change their state) in an ordered phase but this blocks the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Systems and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,793 Views
27 Pages

4 December 2017

The chaos-based optimization algorithm (COA) is a method to optimize possibly nonlinear complex functions of several variables by chaos search. The main innovation behind the chaos-based optimization algorithm is to generate chaotic trajectories by m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probabilistic Methods for Inverse Problems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,261 Views
45 Pages

27 November 2013

Transitions to chaos in archetypal low-dimensional nonlinear maps offer real and precise model systems in which to assess proposed generalizations of statistical mechanics. The known association of chaotic dynamics with the structure of Boltzmann–Gib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,333 Views
16 Pages

Stochastic SO(2) Lie Group Method for Approximating Correlation Matrices

  • Melike Bildirici,
  • Yasemen Ucan and
  • Ramazan Tekercioglu

30 April 2025

Standard correlation analysis is one of the frequently used methods in financial markets. However, this matrix can give erroneous results in the conditions of chaos, fractional systems, entropy, and complexity for the variables. In this study, we emp...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,237 Views
44 Pages

12 March 2020

We reveal the analytic relations between a matrix permanent and major nature’s complexities manifested in critical phenomena, fractal structures and chaos, quantum information processes in many-body physics, number-theoretic complexity in mathe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the NP-Complexity of Nature: Critical Phenomena, Chaos, Fractals, Graphs, Boson Sampling, Quantum Computing and More)
  • Article
  • Open Access
467 Views
23 Pages

18 August 2026

Four-dimensional chaotic systems have garnered significant attention due to their complex nonlinear dynamics, high-dimensional complexity, and wide range of applications in science and engineering. This paper proposes and investigates a novel four-di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Approaches to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, 4th Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,202 Views
13 Pages

5 December 2023

The new way of thinking science from Newtonian determinism to nonlinear unpredictability and the dawn of advanced computer science and technology can be summarized in the words of the theoretical physicist Michel Baranger, who, in 2000, said in a con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ionospheric and Magnetic Signatures of Space Weather Events at Middle and Low Latitudes: Experimental Studies and Modelling (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,082 Views
20 Pages

26 March 2024

A study was carried out in Santiago de Chile, located in a geographic basin, on the sustainability and diffusion of the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Hourly measurements were used (carried out for 3.25 years in seven communes of the city) to quantify t...

(This article belongs to the Section Biometeorology and Bioclimatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,649 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2016

This paper studies a continuous Bertrand duopoly game model with two-stage delay. Our aim is to investigate the influence of delay and weight on the complex dynamic characteristics of the system. We obtain the bifurcation point of the system respect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
2,979 Views
27 Pages

A Fractional Atmospheric Circulation System under the Influence of a Sliding Mode Controller

  • Ramapura N. Premakumari,
  • Chandrali Baishya,
  • Pundikala Veeresha and
  • Lanre Akinyemi

10 December 2022

The earth’s surface is heated by the large-scale movement of air known as atmospheric circulation, which works in conjunction with ocean circulation. More than 105 variables are involved in the complexity of the weather system. In this work, we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends on the Mathematical Models and Solitons Arising in Real-World Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
376 Views
15 Pages

Macroeconomic systems are increasingly characterized by fractal structures, entropy-generating processes, and chaotic dynamics that challenge the assumptions of traditional regression methods. The presence of self-similarity, fractal structure, and s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractal and Fractional Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
259 Views
36 Pages

25 September 2026

We present a dynamical systems analysis of ion-acoustic waves in a forced plasma system, focusing on chaos, multistability, and stochastic sensitivity as functions of the Mach number. Both deterministic and stochastic versions of a reduced third-orde...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,277 Views
16 Pages

Exploring Chaos in Fractional Order Systems: A Study of Constant and Variable-Order Dynamics

  • Reem Allogmany,
  • Nada A. Almuallem,
  • Reima Daher Alsemiry and
  • Mohamed A. Abdoon

16 April 2025

Fractional calculus generalizes well-known differentiation and integration to noninteger orders, allowing a more accurate framework for modeling complex dynamical behaviors. The application of fractional-order systems is quite wide in engineering, bi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Its Applications in Partial Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
549 Views
24 Pages

Understanding complex systems requires analytical tools capable of covering nonlinear dynamics, structural complexity, and informational uncertainty simultaneously. In this context, chaos theory, fractal analysis, and entropy measures provide complem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal Structures and Multiscale Dynamics in Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,085 Views
29 Pages

5 October 2025

Fractional-order chaotic systems have emerged as powerful tools in secure communications and multimedia protection owing to their memory-dependent dynamics, large key spaces, and high sensitivity to initial conditions. However, most existing fraction...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
603 Views
14 Pages

31 August 2026

This study investigates how non-ideal electromechanical actuation influences the emergence and modulation of complex dynamics in dissipative nonlinear systems. A hybrid four-dimensional model is formulated by coupling a continuous stirred tank reacto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mixing and Mass Transfer in Various Chemical Reactors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,440 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2022

The paper presents an improved Komodo Mlipir Algorithm (KMA) with variable inertia weight and chaos mapping (VWCKMA). In contrast to the original Komodo Mlipir Algorithm (KMA), the chaotic sequence initialization population generated by Tent mapping...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Air Pollution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,041 Views
36 Pages

22 June 2024

To construct a chaotic system with complex characteristics and to improve the security of image data, a five-dimensional tri-valued memristor chaotic system with high complexity is innovatively constructed. Firstly, a pressure-controlled tri-valued m...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,629 Views
22 Pages

1 March 2022

The concentration distribution of anthropocentric pollutants is favored by urban densification, affecting the micrometeorology in big cities. To examine this condition, chaos theory was applied to time series of measurements of urban meteorology and...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,100 Views
22 Pages

9 March 2020

This study investigated urban water consumption complexity using chaos theory to improve forecasting performance to help optimize system management, reduce costs and improve reliability. The objectives of this study were to (1) investigate urban wate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
581 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2026

In this study, we develop a novel variable-order fractional extension of an eight-dimensional (8D) hyperchaotic differential equation system modeled via the Liouville–Caputo operator. Moving beyond constant fractional-order models, our system i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Approaches to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,285 Views
28 Pages

29 December 2025

As conventional computing architectures face fundamental physical limitations and the von Neumann bottleneck constrains computational efficiency, neuromorphic systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation information processing. Me...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,306 Views
17 Pages

10 October 2024

Due to the security weaknesses of chaos-based pseudorandom number generators, in this paper, a new pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) based on mixing three-dimensional variables of a cat chaotic map is proposed. A uniformly distributed chaotic sequ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chaos-Based Secure Communication and Cryptography, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,037 Views
18 Pages

This paper introduces hybrid models designed to analyze daily and weekly bitcoin return spanning the periods from 18 July 2010 to 28 December 2023 for daily data, and from 18 July 2010 to 24 December 2023 for weekly data. Firstly, the fractal and cha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Dynamics and Control in Green Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,761 Views
16 Pages

Chaos and Predictability in Ionospheric Time Series

  • Massimo Materassi,
  • Tommaso Alberti,
  • Yenca Migoya-Orué,
  • Sandro Maria Radicella and
  • Giuseppe Consolini

17 February 2023

Modelling the Earth’s ionosphere is a big challenge, due to the complexity of the system. Different first principle models have been developed over the last 50 years, based on ionospheric physics and chemistry, mostly controlled by Space Weathe...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
374 Views
22 Pages

8 June 2026

This work investigates the complex dynamics of two novel Holling type II predator–prey (PP) models under the impact of climate change and controlled by the Caputo and Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operators. Here, Holling type II and static...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,035 Views
14 Pages

Complex Modified Projective Difference Function Synchronization of Coupled Complex Chaotic Systems for Secure Communication in WSNs

  • Fangfang Zhang,
  • Rui Gao,
  • Zhe Huang,
  • Cuimei Jiang and ,
  • Yawen Chen and
  • Haibo Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 April 2022

Complex-variable chaotic systems (CVCSs) have numerous advantages over real-variable chaotic systems in chaos communication due to their increased unpredictability, confidentiality, and the ease of implementation. Synchronization between the master a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
149 Citations
15,344 Views
40 Pages

Nonlinear Methods Most Applied to Heart-Rate Time Series: A Review

  • Teresa Henriques,
  • Maria Ribeiro,
  • Andreia Teixeira,
  • Luísa Castro and ,
  • Luís Antunes and
  • Cristina Costa-Santos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 March 2020

The heart-rate dynamics are one of the most analyzed physiological interactions. Many mathematical methods were proposed to evaluate heart-rate variability. These methods have been successfully applied in research to expand knowledge concerning the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy, Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
723 Views
22 Pages

This article deals with the global existence and uniqueness of solutions to a fractional-order SIQR epidemic model, alongside its intricate chaotic and complex dynamics as functions of the fractional order. The well-posedness of the model solutions,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Calculus in Bioengineering and Mathematical Biology: Novel Approaches to Biomedical Applications and Infectious Disease Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,011 Views
12 Pages

TARDYS Quantifiers: Extracting Temporal and Reversible DYnamical Symmetries

  • Nhat V. Nguyen,
  • Arjendu K. Pattanayak and
  • Andrés Aragoneses

5 December 2022

One of the great challenges in complex and chaotic dynamics is to reveal the details of its underlying determinism. This can be manifest in the form of temporal correlations or structured patterns in the dynamics of a measurable variable. These tempo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Semiconductor Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,014 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2022

Through chaos theory, experimental data of hourly time series are analyzed. These time series consist of Radon concentration levels and meteorological variables of temperature, pressure, and relative humidity within the boundary layer and very close...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,391 Views
18 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Non-Linear Dynamics Analysis and Predictability of Solar Radiation Time Series for La Reunion Island (France)

  • Miloud Bessafi,
  • Dragutin T. Mihailović,
  • Slavica Malinović-Milićević,
  • Anja Mihailović and ,
  • Guillaume Jumaux,
  • François Bonnardot,
  • Yannick Fanchette and
  • Jean-Pierre Chabriat
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 December 2018

Analysis of daily solar irradiation variability and predictability in space and time is important for energy resources planning, development, and management. The natural intermittency of solar irradiation is mainly triggered by atmospheric turbulent...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
436 Views
26 Pages

28 September 2026

This study explores the application of complex network theory to examine the temporal dynamics of groundwater levels in a region. It presents the first ever application of a coupled chaos theory–complex network framework to investigate the temp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,199 Views
25 Pages

Influence of Volumetric Geometry on Meteorological Time Series Measurements: Fractality and Thermal Flows

  • Patricio Pacheco Hernández,
  • Gustavo Navarro Ahumada,
  • Eduardo Mera Garrido and
  • Diego Zemelman de la Cerda

This work analyzes the behavior of the boundary layer subjected to stresses by obstacles using hourly measurements, in the form of time series, of meteorological variables (temperature (T), relative humidity (RH), and magnitude of the wind speed (WS)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractals in Earthquake and Atmospheric Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,678 Views
13 Pages

2 February 2021

In this paper, novel variants for the Ensemble Particle Swarm Optimizer (EPSO) are proposed where ten chaos maps are merged to enhance the EPSO’s performance by adaptively tuning its main parameters. The proposed Chaotic Ensemble Particle Swarm Optim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Design and Control of Electric Machines)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,979 Views
12 Pages

Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Chaos-Based Image Encryption Algorithms

  • Hristina Stoycheva,
  • Stanimir Sadinov,
  • Krasen Angelov,
  • Panagiotis Kogias and
  • Michalis Malamatoudis

25 August 2025

This paper presents a modification of an image encryption algorithm combining chaos and the Fibonacci matrix by integrating artificial intelligence via a Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT). The goal is to improve the robustness of the algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Conference on Electronics, Engineering Physics and Earth Science (EEPES 2025))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,042 Views
20 Pages

Entropy and Chaos in Self-Organizing Systems

  • Nikitas Gerolimos,
  • Vasileios Alevizos and
  • Georgios Priniotakis

15 February 2026

Self-organizing systems arise in complex biomechanical structures, human locomotion, and neural control hierarchies, yet quantitative methods for describing order formation and loss of stability remain limited. This study develops a mathematical fram...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Control for Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,486 Views
29 Pages

A Comparative Study of BERT-Based Models for Teacher Classification in Physical Education

  • Laura Martín-Hoz,
  • Samuel Yanes-Luis,
  • Jerónimo Huerta Cejudo,
  • Daniel Gutiérrez-Reina and
  • Evelia Franco Álvarez

28 September 2025

Assessing teaching behavior is essential for improving instructional quality, particularly in Physical Education, where classroom interactions are fast-paced and complex. Traditional evaluation methods such as questionnaires, expert observations, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,251 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2021

This paper presents an algorithm for efficient uncertainty quantification (UQ) in the presence of many uncertainties that follow a nonstandard distribution (e.g., lognormal). Using the polynomial chaos expansion (PCE), the algorithm builds surrogate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Techniques for Safety, Reliability, and Security in Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Views
25 Pages

5 November 2026

Discrete neuron models efficiently reproduce complex firing behaviors, while meminductive coupling introduces history-dependent regulation without substantially increasing model complexity. A discrete meminductor is coupled to the Rulkov neuron to co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,190 Views
31 Pages

3 April 2025

Small, forested catchments are prototypes of terrestrial ecosystems and have been studied in several disciplines of environmental science over several decades. Time series of water and matter fluxes and nutrient concentrations from these systems exhi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications—In Honor of Professor Osvaldo Anibal Rosso's 70th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,774 Views
20 Pages

A qualitative study of thermal transfers is carried out from a record of measurements (time series) of meteorological variables (temperature, relative humidity and magnitude of wind speeds) and pollutants (PM10, PM2.5 and CO) in six localities locate...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,194 Views
21 Pages

26 October 2017

This paper constructs a continuous dual-channel closed-loop supply chain (DCLSC) model with delayed decision under government intervention. The existence conditions of the local stability of the equilibrium point are discussed. We analyze the influen...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,633 Views
28 Pages

gPCE-Based Stochastic Inverse Methods: A Benchmark Study from a Civil Engineer’s Perspective

  • Filippo Landi,
  • Francesca Marsili,
  • Noemi Friedman and
  • Pietro Croce

In civil and mechanical engineering, Bayesian inverse methods may serve to calibrate the uncertain input parameters of a structural model given the measurements of the outputs. Through such a Bayesian framework, a probabilistic description of paramet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inspection, Assessment and Retrofit of Transport Infrastructure)

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