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11 Citations
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20 September 2023

This paper discusses some properties of complex-valued fuzzy metric spaces and introduces the α-admissible mappings in the setting of complex-valued fuzzy metric spaces. We establish fixed point theorems for mappings satisfying symmetric contra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Analysis and Fixed Point Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,183 Views
13 Pages

An Application of Urysohn Integral Equation via Complex Partial Metric Space

  • Rajagopalan Ramaswamy,
  • Gunaseelan Mani,
  • Arul Joseph Gnanaprakasam,
  • Ola A. Ashour Abdelnaby and
  • Stojan Radenović

11 June 2022

Metric fixed point theory has vast applications in various domain areas, as it helps in finding analytical solutions under various contractive conditions, including non-linear integral-type contractions. In our present work, we have established fixed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Inequalities with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,298 Views
16 Pages

16 March 2016

The objective of this article is to bridge the gap between two important research directions: (1) nearest neighbor search, which is a fundamental computational tool for large data analysis; and (2) complex network analysis, which deals with large rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,003 Views
11 Pages

20 July 2023

In this paper, we establish a result for the existence of common fixed points for multi-valued mappings, satisfying some contractions for complex-valued b-metric spaces. Finally, we present an example to illustrate and support our results.

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,418 Views
19 Pages

13 August 2024

We undertake this study with the objective of introducing certain control functions in the contractive condition to prove fixed-point theorems in the framework of complex-valued bipolar metric spaces. The incorporation of control functions broadens t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Its Related Topics IV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,759 Views
17 Pages

8 January 2019

Owing to the notion of a complex-valued metric space, we prove fixed point results, which generalize some common fixed point results under contractive condition for rational expression in the context of complex-valued metric spaces. In application, w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Fractional Calculus with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,022 Views
18 Pages

Almost Ćirić Type Contractions and Their Applications in Complex Valued b-Metric Spaces

  • Muhammad Sarwar,
  • Syed Khayyam Shah,
  • Zoran D. Mitrović,
  • Aiman Mukheimer and
  • Nabil Mlaiki

16 August 2023

In this article, we present the use of a unique and common fixed point for a pair of mappings that satisfy certain rational-type inequalities in complex-valued b-metric spaces. We also provide applications related to authenticity concerns in integral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Its Related Topics IV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,320 Views
16 Pages

31 October 2024

The objective of this article is to establish common fixed point results in the background of complex-valued controlled metric spaces for generalized rational contractions. Our findings generalize a number of well-established results in the literatur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Elementary Fixed Point Theory and Common Fixed Points II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,355 Views
20 Pages

5 December 2023

The aim of the present research work is to investigate the solution of Urysohn integral equation by common fixed point result in the setting of complex valued b-metric space. To obtain the objective, we used a generalized rational contraction involvi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Mathematical Analysis and Functional Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,446 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2024

The aim of this research article is to introduce generalized rational contractions in the context of complex-valued metric spaces and to establish novel common fixed-point theorems. Our findings generalize several well-known fixed-point theorems and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,732 Views
9 Pages

15 September 2019

The purpose of this article is to introduce a fixed point result for a general contractive condition in the context of complex valued metric spaces. Also, some important corollaries under this contractive condition are obtained. As an application, we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Related Nonlinear Problems with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,367 Views
14 Pages

Multi-Attribute Decision Making Method for Node Importance Metric in Complex Network

  • Yongheng Zhang,
  • Yuliang Lu,
  • Guozheng Yang and
  • Zijun Hang

12 February 2022

Correctly measuring the importance of nodes in a complex network is critical for studying the robustness of the network, and designing a network security policy based on these highly important nodes can effectively improve security aspects of the net...

(This article belongs to the Topic Multi-Criteria Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,101 Views
18 Pages

Common Fixed Points Technique for Existence of a Solution of Urysohn Type Integral Equations System in Complex Valued b-Metric Spaces

  • Muhammad Suhail Aslam,
  • Monica Felicia Bota,
  • Mohammad S. R. Chowdhury,
  • Liliana Guran and
  • Naeem Saleem

18 February 2021

In this paper we give some common fixed point theorems for Ćirić type operators in complex valued b-metric spaces. Also, some corollaries under this contraction condition are obtained. Our results extend and generalize the results of Hammad et al. In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Systems and Optimal Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,551 Views
18 Pages

A Complexity Metrics Suite for Cascading Style Sheets

  • Adewole Adewumi,
  • Sanjay Misra and
  • Robertas Damaševičius

We perform a theoretical and empirical analysis of a set of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) document complexity metrics. The metrics are validated using a practical framework that demonstrates their viability. The theoretical analysis is performed using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,621 Views
14 Pages

Metrics of Genomic Complexity in the Evolution of Bacterial Endosymbiosis

  • Pablo Román-Escrivá,
  • Moisès Bernabeu,
  • Eleonora Paganin,
  • Wladimiro Díaz-Villanueva and ,
  • Miguel Verdú,
  • José L. Oliver,
  • Vicente Arnau and
  • Andrés Moya
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 March 2025

Endosymbiosis can be considered a regressive or degenerative evolutionary process characterized at the genomic level by genome erosion and degeneration due to high mutational pressure toward AT (adenine and thymine) bases. The genomic and biological...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
831 Views
10 Pages

26 November 2024

Modelling and metrication of the complexity of systems have occupied a growing and largely underdeveloped problem space in the literature of complex systems. In this research, preliminary results depicting the complexity of a service system premised...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 11th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,510 Views
21 Pages

17 October 2022

A complexity metric is proposed for the quantification of system complexity using information about the composition of a system and its interactions depicted in a System Modelling Language (SysML) model. The proposed metric is adapted from the comple...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,155 Views
31 Pages

Measuring Complexity at the Requirements Stage: Spectral Metrics as Development Effort Predictors

  • Maximilian Vierlboeck,
  • Antonio Pugliese,
  • Roshanak Rose Nilchiani,
  • Paul T. Grogan and
  • Rashika Sugganahalli Natesh Babu

30 March 2026

Complexity in engineered systems presents one of the most persistent challenges in modern development since it is driving cost overruns, schedule delays, and outright project failures. Yet while architectural complexity has been studied, the structur...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,846 Views
11 Pages

Air Traffic Complexity Assessment Based on Ordered Deep Metric

  • Haiyan Chen,
  • Linghui Zhang,
  • Ligang Yuan,
  • Weiqi Zhu and
  • Li Liu

26 November 2022

Since air traffic complexity determines the workload of controllers, it is a popular topic in the research field. Benefiting from deep learning, this paper proposes an air traffic complexity assessment method based on the deep metric of air traffic i...

(This article belongs to the Collection Air Transportation—Operations and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,965 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2020

Underwater photogrammetry has been increasingly used in coral-reef research in recent years. Habitat metrics extracted from resulting three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions can be used to examine associations between the structural complexity of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Coral Reefs Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,664 Views
38 Pages

10 November 2021

The rise of global attention toward sustainability and sustainable development (SD) has provided increased incentives for research development and investment in these areas. Food systems are at the center of human needs and global population growth s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Food Systems and Circular Bioeconomy)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,213 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2020

Quantifying the three-dimensional (3D) habitat structure of coral reefs is an important aspect of coral reef monitoring, as habitat architecture affects the abundance and diversity of reef organisms. Here, we used photogrammetric techniques to genera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater 3D Recording & Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
20 Pages

22 August 2025

The basic theoretical properties of the approximate symmetric chordal metric (ASCM) for two real or complex numbers are studied, and reliable, accurate, and efficient algorithms are proposed for its computation. ASCM is defined as the minimum between...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,351 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2022

The Riemann extension, introduced by E. K. Patterson and A. G. Walker, is a semi-Riemannian metric with a neutral signature on the cotangent bundle T∗M of a smooth manifold M, induced by a symmetric linear connection ∇ on M. In this pape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometry: Theory and Applications Part II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,369 Views
20 Pages

Modern software systems consist of many software components; the source code of modern software systems is hard to understand and maintain for new developers. Aiming to simplify the readability and understandability of source code, companies that spe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Best Practices, Challenges and Opportunities in Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,374 Views
20 Pages

4 August 2025

We extend the theory of splits in finite metric spaces to infinite ones. Within this more general framework, we investigate the class of spaces having metrics that are integer-valued and totally split-decomposable, as well as the polyhedral complex s...

(This article belongs to the Section Geometry and Topology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,423 Views
27 Pages

8 September 2025

Two hybrid, entropy-guided node metrics are proposed for the k-hop environment: Entropy-Weighted Redundancy (EWR) and Normalized Entropy Density (NED). The central idea is to couple local Shannon entropy with neighborhood density/redundancy so that s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory and Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
810 Views
28 Pages

Geometry of Deformed Cellular Spaces

  • Shlomo Barak and
  • George Salman

24 May 2026

We develop an operational, measurement-first framework for the geometry of locally finite cell complexes, in which length is defined as a count of face crossings, and curvature is read off from the discrepancy between a measured radius and a radius r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometry and Its Applications in Theoretical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,942 Views
25 Pages

This study proposes an improved YOLO11n-seg instance segmentation model to address the limitations of existing models in accurately identifying mature blueberries in complex greenhouse environments. Current methods often lack sufficient accuracy when...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,772 Views
14 Pages

Measuring Software Modularity Based on Software Networks

  • Yiming Xiang,
  • Weifeng Pan,
  • Haibo Jiang,
  • Yunfang Zhu and
  • Hao Li

28 March 2019

Modularity has been regarded as one of the most important properties of a successful software design. It has significant impact on many external quality attributes such as reusability, maintainability, and understandability. Thus, proposing metrics t...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,482 Views
39 Pages

Calibration for Improving the Medium-Range Soil Forecast over Central Tibet: Effects of Objective Metrics’ Diversity

  • Yakai Guo,
  • Changliang Shao,
  • Guanjun Niu,
  • Dongmei Xu and ,
  • Yong Gao and
  • Baojun Yuan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 September 2024

The high spatial complexities of soil temperature modeling over semiarid land have challenged the calibration–forecast framework, whose composited objective lacks comprehensive evaluation. Therefore, this study, based on the Noah land surface m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change and Regional Sustainability in Arid Lands)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,675 Views
9 Pages

4 July 2024

Almost contact complex Riemannian manifolds, also known as almost contact B-metric manifolds, are equipped with a pair of pseudo-Riemannian metrics that are mutually associated with each other using the tensor structure. Here, we consider a special c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Studies in Differential Geometry and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,901 Views
12 Pages

26 June 2023

Almost contact complex Riemannian manifolds, also known as almost contact B-metric manifolds, are, in principle, equipped with a pair of mutually associated pseudo-Riemannian metrics. Each of these metrics is specialized as a Yamabe almost soliton wi...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Geometry and Topology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,290 Views
31 Pages

20 August 2025

With the increasing complexity of grid project systems, it is difficult for an individual project management perspective to meet the macro management needs of the project, unapplicable to overall project layout management. However, the current grid p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,958 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2022

Theoretical possibilities of models of gravity with dynamical signature are discussed. The different scenarios of the signature change are proposed in the framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity. We consider, subsequently, the dynamical signature in the...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,747 Views
16 Pages

Developing Versatile Graphic Map Load Metrics

  • Radek Barvir and
  • Vit Vozenilek

Graphic map load is a property of a map quantifying the amount of map content. It indicates the visual complexity of the map and helps cartographers to adapt maps and other geospatial visualizations to accomplish their purpose. Generally, map design...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geovisualization and Map Design)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,025 Views
11 Pages

3 June 2025

The manifolds studied are almost contact complex Riemannian manifolds, known also as almost contact B-metric manifolds. They are equipped with a pair of pseudo-Riemannian metrics that are mutually associated to each other using an almost contact stru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis on Differentiable Manifolds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,518 Views
17 Pages

Air Traffic Complexity Analysis in Multi-Airport Terminal Areas Based on Route Segment–Flight State Interdependent Network

  • Chuanlong Zhang,
  • Xiangxi Wen,
  • Minggong Wu,
  • Libiao Zhang and ,
  • Hanchen Xie,
  • Lingzhong Meng and
  • Jiale Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 September 2025

An analysis of air traffic complexity in multi-airport terminal areas can assist air traffic controllers in accurately assessing the air traffic situation and collaboratively managing air traffic flows, thereby enhancing the utilization of airspace r...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,630 Views
20 Pages

Analysis of Complexity and Performance for Automated Deployment of a Software Environment into the Cloud

  • Marian Lăcătușu,
  • Anca Daniela Ionita,
  • Florin Daniel Anton and
  • Florin Lăcătușu

21 April 2022

Moving to the cloud is a topic that tends to be present in all enterprises that have digitalized their activities. This includes the need to work with software environments specific to various business domains, accessed as services supported by vario...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,874 Views
22 Pages

Spatiotemporal Graph Indicators for Air Traffic Complexity Analysis

  • Ralvi Isufaj,
  • Thimjo Koca and
  • Miquel Angel Piera

25 November 2021

There has been extensive research in formalising air traffic complexity, but existing works focus mainly on a metric to tie down the peak air traffic controllers workload rather than a dynamic approach to complexity that could guide both strategical,...

(This article belongs to the Collection Air Transportation—Operations and Management)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,560 Views
22 Pages

The Simultaneous Local Metric Dimension of Graph Families

  • Gabriel A. Barragán-Ramírez,
  • Alejandro Estrada-Moreno,
  • Yunior Ramírez-Cruz and
  • Juan A. Rodríguez-Velázquez

27 July 2017

In a graph G = ( V , E ) , a vertex v ∈ V is said to distinguish two vertices x and y if d G ( v , x ) ≠ d G ( v , y ) . A set S ⊆ V is said to be a local metric generator for G if any pair of adjacent vertices o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,125 Views
42 Pages

Weighted Bergman Kernels and Mathematical Physics

  • Elisabetta Barletta,
  • Sorin Dragomir and
  • Francesco Esposito

29 April 2020

We review several results in the theory of weighted Bergman kernels. Weighted Bergman kernels generalize ordinary Bergman kernels of domains Ω ⊂ C n but also appear locally in the attempt to quantize classical states of mechanic...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,338 Views
52 Pages

Noise contamination is a common challenge in the analysis of time series data, where stochastic perturbations can obscure deterministic dynamics and complicate the interpretation of signals from chaotic and physiological systems. Reliable identificat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,179 Views
11 Pages

13 January 2025

Almost contact complex Riemannian manifolds, also known as almost contact B-metric manifolds, are equipped with Ricci–Bourguignon-like almost solitons. These almost solitons are a generalization of the known Ricci–Bourguignon almost solit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differentiable Manifolds and Geometric Structures)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,662 Views
40 Pages

16 October 2021

Digitalization increasingly enforces organizations to accommodate changes and gain resilience. Emerging technologies, changing organizational structures and dynamic work environments bring opportunities and pose new challenges to organizations. Such...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,965 Views
10 Pages

1 January 2023

A Yamabe soliton is considered on an almost-contact complex Riemannian manifold (also known as an almost-contact B-metric manifold), which is obtained by a contact conformal transformation of the Reeb vector field, its dual contact 1-form, the B-metr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Axioms: Geometry and Topology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,425 Views
10 Pages

27 October 2016

In this paper, we prove some optimal inequalities involving the intrinsic scalar curvature and the extrinsic Casorati curvature of submanifolds in a generalized complex space form with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection and a generalized Sasakian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
658 Views
12 Pages

2 July 2025

The subject of this study is almost contact complex Riemannian manifolds, also known as almost contact B-metric manifolds. The considerations are restricted to a special class of these manifolds, namely those of the Sasaki-like type, because of their...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Studies in Differential Geometry and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,580 Views
17 Pages

17 August 2021

In recent years, complex-valued fuzzy metric spaces (in short CVFMS) were introduced by Shukla et al. (Fixed Point Theory 32 (2018)). This setting is a valuable extension of fuzzy metric spaces with the complex grade of membership function. They also...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stability, Periodicity, and Related Problems in Fractional-Order Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,588 Views
15 Pages

Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Versus Dynamic Conformal Arc Therapy for Single Isocenter Stereotactic Radiotherapy of Multiple Brain Metastases

  • Theodoros Stroubinis,
  • Maria Giannopoulou,
  • Despoina Stasinou,
  • Michalis Psarras and ,
  • Anna Zygogianni,
  • Maria Protopapa,
  • Vassilis Kouloulias and
  • Kalliopi Platoni
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Introduction: Stereotactic radiosurgery is a highly precise radiotherapy technique widely used for the management of brain metastases. While VMAT enables highly conformal dose distributions, it is often associated with increased plan complexity and l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Engineering the Future of Radiotherapy: Innovations and Challenges)

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