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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
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Novel Frequency-Based Approach to Analyze the Stability of Polynomial Fractional Differential Equations

  • Hassan Yaghoubi,
  • Assef Zare,
  • Mohammad Rasouli and
  • Roohallah Alizadehsani

31 January 2023

This paper proposes a novel approach for analyzing the stability of polynomial fractional-order systems using the frequency-distributed fractional integrator model. There are two types of frequency and temporal stabilization methods for fractional-or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,459 Views
25 Pages

21 June 2024

This paper introduces a novel formulation of the clustering problem, namely, the minimum sum-of-squares clustering of infinitely tall data (MSSC-ITD), and presents HPClust, an innovative set of hybrid parallel approaches for its effective solution. B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,894 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2016

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using a uniform linear array (ULA) is a classical problem in array signal processing. In this paper, we focus on DOA estimation based on the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion, transform the estimation problem int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,968 Views
18 Pages

Continuous Stability TS Fuzzy Systems Novel Frame Controlled by a Discrete Approach and Based on SOS Methodology

  • Ameni Ellouze,
  • Omar Kahouli,
  • Mohamed Ksantini,
  • Ali Rebhi,
  • Nidhal Hnaien and
  • François Delmotte

4 December 2021

Generally, the continuous and discrete TS fuzzy systems’ control is studied independently. Unlike the discrete systems, stability results for the continuous systems suffer from conservatism because it is still quite difficult to apply non-quadr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,621 Views
11 Pages

Design of Polynomial Observer-Based Control of Fractional-Order Power Systems

  • Hamdi Gassara,
  • Imen Iben Ammar,
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf,
  • Lassaad Mchiri and
  • Mohamed Rhaima

27 October 2023

This research addresses the problem of globally stabilizing a distinct category of fractional-order power systems (F-OP) by employing an observer-based methodology. To address the inherent nonlinearity in these systems, we leverage a Takagi–Sug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,162 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2023

This paper deals with systematic approaches for the analysis of stability properties and controller design for nonlinear dynamical systems. Numerical methods based on sum-of-squares decomposition or algebraic methods based on quantifier elimination a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,265 Views
24 Pages

20 August 2021

In this paper, we present a novel technique to design fixed structure controllers, for both continuous-time and discrete-time systems, through an H∞ mixed sensitivity approach. We first define the feasible controller parameter set, which is the set o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,190 Views
20 Pages

The α-Groups under Condorcet Clustering

  • Tarik Faouzi,
  • Luis Firinguetti-Limone,
  • José Miguel Avilez-Bozo and
  • Rubén Carvajal-Schiaffino

24 February 2022

We introduce a new approach to clustering categorical data: Condorcet clustering with a fixed number of groups, denoted α-Condorcet. As k-modes, this approach is essentially based on similarity and dissimilarity measures. The paper is divided i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,578 Views
14 Pages

6 February 2020

Lyapunov functions enable analyzing the stability of dynamic systems described by ordinary differential equations without finding the solution of such equations. For nonlinear systems, devising a Lyapunov function is not an easy task to solve in gene...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,182 Views
11 Pages

The Non-Tightness of a Convex Relaxation to Rotation Recovery

  • Yuval Alfassi,
  • Daniel Keren and
  • Bruce Reznick

5 November 2021

We study the Perspective-n-Point (PNP) problem, which is fundamental in 3D vision, for the recovery of camera translation and rotation. A common solution applies polynomial sum-of-squares (SOS) relaxation techniques via semidefinite programming. Our...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,674 Views
15 Pages

Stability Analysis and Stabilization of General Conformable Polynomial Fuzzy Models with Time Delay

  • Imen Iben Ammar,
  • Hamdi Gassara,
  • Mohamed Rhaima,
  • Lassaad Mchiri and
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf

25 September 2024

This paper introduces a sum-of-squares (S-O-S) approach to Stability Analysis and Stabilization (SAS) of nonlinear dynamical systems described by General Conformable Polynomial Fuzzy (GCPF) models with a time delay. First, we present GCPF models, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,508 Views
18 Pages

Polynomial Method for PLL Controller Optimization

  • Ta-Chung Wang,
  • Sanjay Lall and
  • Tsung-Yu Chiou

27 June 2011

The Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) is a key component of modern electronic communication and control systems. PLL is designed to extract signals from transmission channels. It plays an important role in systems where it is required to estimate the phase of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,434 Views
18 Pages

Passive Fuzzy Controller Design for the Parameter-Dependent Polynomial Fuzzy Model

  • Cheung-Chieh Ku,
  • Chein-Chung Sun,
  • Shao-Hao Jian and
  • Wen-Jer Chang

28 May 2023

This paper discusses a passive control issue for Nonlinear Time-Varying (NTV) systems subject to stability and attenuation performance. Based on the modeling approaches of Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model and Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) model, a Pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,176 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2025

K-means clustering is a fundamental tool in data mining, yet its scalability and efficacy decline when faced with massive datasets. In this work, we introduce BiModalClust, a novel clustering algorithm that leverages a bimodal optimization paradigm t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,926 Views
14 Pages

25 October 2021

Autoencoders are commonly used in representation learning. They consist of an encoder and a decoder, which provide a straightforward method to map n-dimensional data in input space to a lower m-dimensional representation space and back. The decoder i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,414 Views
15 Pages

28 September 2020

The security of RSA relies on the computationally challenging factorization of RSA modulus N=p1 p2 with N being a large semi-prime consisting of two primes p1and p2, for the generation of RSA keys in commonly adopted cryptosystems. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,353 Views
18 Pages

19 May 2022

Information theoretic measures were applied to the study of the randomness associations of different financial time series. We studied the level of similarities between information theoretic measures and the various tools of regression analysis, i.e....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,341 Views
20 Pages

20 March 2025

Modular arithmetic is used to apply generalized C-coloured checkerboard patterns to m×n gridded rectangles, ensuring that colours cycle both horizontally and vertically. This paper yields methods for counting the number of squares of each colou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,889 Views
24 Pages

Ordering Unicyclic Connected Graphs with Girth g ≥ 3 Having Greatest SK Indices

  • Wang Hui,
  • Adnan Aslam,
  • Salma Kanwal,
  • Mahnoor Akram,
  • Tahira Sumbal Shaikh and
  • Xuewu Zuo

6 April 2023

For a graph, the SK index is equal to the half of the sum of the degrees of the vertices, the SK1 index is equal to the half of the product of the degrees of the vertices, and the SK2 index is equal to the half of the square of the sum of the degrees...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,704 Views
17 Pages

Geometry and Entanglement of Two-Qubit States in the Quantum Probabilistic Representation

  • Julio Alberto López-Saldívar,
  • Octavio Castaños,
  • Eduardo Nahmad-Achar,
  • Ramón López-Peña,
  • Margarita A. Man’ko and
  • Vladimir I. Man’ko

24 August 2018

A new geometric representation of qubit and qutrit states based on probability simplexes is used to describe the separability and entanglement properties of density matrices of two qubits. The Peres–Horodecki positive partial transpose (ppt) -c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,736 Views
15 Pages

12 November 2021

Semi-prime factorization is an increasingly important number theoretic problem, since it is computationally intractable. Further, this property has been applied in public-key cryptography, such as the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) encryption systems fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,836 Views
8 Pages

11 June 2022

A nonnegative variance estimation procedure is suggested for an unbalanced data where two factors are nested in another. Since the involved factors are all random, the approach is based on a nested three-way random model. The proposed method for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,833 Views
13 Pages

7 November 2022

This paper discusses the robust stability and stabilization of polynomial fractional differential (PFD) systems with a Caputo derivative using the sum of squares. In addition, it presents a novel method of stability and stabilization for PFD systems....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,679 Views
12 Pages

An Entropy-Based Approach for Measuring Factor Contributions in Factor Analysis Models

  • Nobuoki Eshima,
  • Minoru Tabata and
  • Claudio Giovanni Borroni

24 August 2018

In factor analysis, factor contributions of latent variables are assessed conventionally by the sums of the squared factor loadings related to the variables. First, the present paper considers issues in the conventional method. Second, an alternative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,049 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2020

Efforts were made to predict and evaluate blast-induced ground vibrations and frequencies using an adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), which has a fast-learning capability and the ability to capture the non-linear response during t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,030 Views
18 Pages

Use of Total Least Squares Adjustment in Geodetic Applications

  • Aleš Marjetič,
  • Tomaž Ambrožič and
  • Simona Savšek

16 March 2024

This article discusses the method of computing the values of the unknowns under the condition of the minimum sum of the squares of the residuals of the observations, also known as the least squares method, with the additional condition of taking into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
389 Views
23 Pages

Study on the Isolated Asphaltene Thermal Cracking from an Unconventional Oil Using Diverse Estimating Arrhenius Parameter Approaches

  • Guillermo Félix,
  • Alexis Tirado,
  • Mikhail A. Varfolomeev,
  • Eder Lugo-Medina,
  • Carlos A. Soto-Robles and
  • Jorge Ancheyta

19 November 2025

The lack of complex schemes and proper kinetic studies for asphaltenes pyrolysis is a significant problem for understanding the reaction mechanisms. Therefore, this study evaluates various parameter estimation approaches (focusing on reaction rate co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,221 Views
13 Pages

Iterative Group Decomposition for Refining Microaggregation Solutions

  • Laksamee Khomnotai,
  • Jun-Lin Lin,
  • Zhi-Qiang Peng and
  • Arpita Samanta Santra

4 July 2018

Microaggregation refers to partitioning n given records into groups of at least k records each to minimize the sum of the within-group squared error. Because microaggregation is non-deterministic polynomial-time hard for multivariate data, most exist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
727 Views
12 Pages

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification where a methyl group is added to a DNA molecule, typically at the cytosine base within a CpG dinucleotide. This process can influence gene expression without changing the underlying DNA sequence. Essentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,624 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2021

Tree diameter measurements are repetitive, time-consuming, and laborious but necessary to obtain the diameter distribution of the stands. Tree diameter distribution provides much of the information necessary for sustainable management and can be pred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,342 Views
18 Pages

Techniques used to analyze exceedances over a high threshold are in great demand for research in economics, environmental science, and other fields. The generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) has been widely used to fit observations exceeding the tail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,584 Views
20 Pages

22 January 2024

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are commonly employed to study the genetic basis of complex traits/diseases, and a key question is how much heritability could be explained by all single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in GWAS. One widely used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,549 Views
35 Pages

28 May 2021

Benford’s Law predicts that the first significant digit on the leftmost side of numbers in real-life data is distributed between all possible 1 to 9 digits approximately as in LOG(1 + 1/digit), so that low digits occur much more frequently than high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,214 Views
17 Pages

This paper proposes an optimal beamforming strategy for a downlink multi-user multi-input–multi-output (MIMO) dual-function radar communication (DFRC) system with dirty paper coding (DPC) adopted at the transmitter. We aim to achieve the maximu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
949 Views
23 Pages

A Dual-Norm Support Vector Machine: Integrating L1 and L Slack Penalties for Robust and Sparse Classification

  • Xiaoyong Liu,
  • Qingyao Liu,
  • Shunqiang Liu,
  • Genglong Yan,
  • Fabin Zhang,
  • Chengbin Zeng and
  • Xiaoliu Yang

6 September 2025

This paper presents a novel support vector machine (SVM) classification approach that simultaneously accounts for both overall and extreme misclassification errors via a dual-norm regularization strategy. Traditional SVMs minimize the L1-norm of slac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,311 Views
16 Pages

15 February 2023

The design of analog circuits is a complex and repetitive process aimed at finding the best design variant. It is characterized by uncertainty and multivariate approaches. The designer has to make different choices to satisfy a predefined specificati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,905 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2022

This work describes the development of a fast Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell. The MPC cost-function used considers the sum of absolute values of predicted control errors (the L1 norm). Unlike p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,080 Views
14 Pages

The Socioeconomic Impact of Tourism in East Kazakhstan Region: Assessment Approach

  • Selvina Aliyeva,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Degang Yang,
  • Kanat Samarkhanov,
  • Ordenbek Mazbayev,
  • Aday Sekenuly,
  • Gulnura Issanova and
  • Sadyrbek Kozhokulov

3 September 2019

The article presents a methodical approach based on an integrated assessment of the social and economic impacts of tourism for East Kazakhstan Region. The assessment was done using indicators such as the number of tourists, accommodation units, touri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,609 Views
11 Pages

19 August 2017

In order to check the reliability of an NMR-based metabolomic approach to evaluating blend composition (and declaration), a series of 81 Italian/Tunisian blends samples at different percentage composition (from 10/90 to 90/10% Coratina/Tunisian oil b...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,671 Views
12 Pages

Separable MSE-Based Design of Two-Way Multiple-Relay Cooperative MIMO 5G Networks

  • Donatella Darsena,
  • Giacinto Gelli,
  • Ivan Iudice and
  • Francesco Verde

4 November 2020

While the combination of multi-antenna and relaying techniques has been extensively studied for Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, it is expected to still play an important role in 5th Generation (5G) netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,245 Views
20 Pages

FTIR-Based Microplastic Classification: A Comprehensive Study on Normalization and ML Techniques

  • Octavio Villegas-Camacho,
  • Iván Francisco-Valencia,
  • Roberto Alejo-Eleuterio,
  • Everardo Efrén Granda-Gutiérrez,
  • Sonia Martínez-Gallegos and
  • Daniel Villanueva-Vásquez

This study examines the potential of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques for classifying microplastics using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Six commonly used industrial plastics (PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, and PS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,028 Views
17 Pages

Interference Management for a Wireless Communication Network Using a Recurrent Neural Network Approach

  • Mohammad Abrar Shakil Sejan,
  • Md Habibur Rahman,
  • Md Abdul Aziz,
  • Rana Tabassum,
  • Young-Hwan You,
  • Duck-Dong Hwang and
  • Hyoung-Kyu Song

5 June 2024

Wireless communication technologies have profoundly impacted the interconnectivity of mobile users and terminals. Nevertheless, the exponential increase in the number of users poses significant challenges, particularly in interference management, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,267 Views
24 Pages

Selection of Image Texture Analysis and Color Model in the Advanced Image Processing of Thermal Images of Horses following Exercise

  • Małgorzata Domino,
  • Marta Borowska,
  • Natalia Kozłowska,
  • Anna Trojakowska,
  • Łukasz Zdrojkowski,
  • Tomasz Jasiński,
  • Graham Smyth and
  • Małgorzata Maśko

12 February 2022

As the detection of horse state after exercise is constantly developing, a link between blood biomarkers and infrared thermography (IRT) was investigated using advanced image texture analysis. The aim of the study was to determine which combinations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,005 Views
14 Pages

Coastal Improvements for Tide Models: The Impact of ALES Retracker

  • Gaia Piccioni,
  • Denise Dettmering,
  • Marcello Passaro,
  • Christian Schwatke,
  • Wolfgang Bosch and
  • Florian Seitz

Since the launch of the first altimetry satellites, ocean tide models have been improved dramatically for deep and shallow waters. However, issues are still found for areas of great interest for climate change investigations: the coastal regions. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,060 Views
14 Pages

9 December 2020

Box delivery is a complicated manual material handling task which needs to consider the box weight, delivering speed, stability, and location. This paper presents a subtask-based inverse dynamic optimization formulation for determining the two-dimens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,640 Views
14 Pages

26 November 2009

The method of Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME), proposed in Golan, Judge and Miller (1996), is an information-theoretic approach that is robust to multicolinearity problem. It uses an objective function that is the sum of the entropies for coefficie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,946 Views
20 Pages

21 May 2023

Traditional centrifugal pump performance prediction (CPPP) employs the semi-theoretical and semi-empirical approaches; however, it can lead to many prediction errors. Considering the superiority of deep learning when applied to nonlinear systems, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,516 Views
20 Pages

FOMCON Toolbox-Based Direct Approximation of Fractional Order Systems Using Gaze Cues Learning-Based Grey Wolf Optimizer

  • Bala Bhaskar Duddeti,
  • Asim Kumar Naskar,
  • Veerpratap Meena,
  • Jitendra Bahadur,
  • Pavan Kumar Meena and
  • Ibrahim A. Hameed

This study discusses a new method for the fractional-order system reduction. It offers an adaptable framework for approximating various fractional-order systems (FOSs), including commensurate and non-commensurate. The fractional-order modeling and co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,244 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2023

The proliferation of inverter-based distributed energy resources (IBDERs) has increased the number of control variables and dynamic interactions, leading to new grid control challenges. For stability analysis and designing appropriate protection cont...

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