Mathematical Research Summaries With Biographical Sketches, Volume 2

This new book provides research summaries from a number of different focuses in Mathematics, and compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in this important field.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Continuous-GRASP Revisited
Chapter 2 The Noising Methods
Chapter 3 Matheuristics: Embedding MILP Solvers into Heuristic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problem
Chapter 4 An Empirical Investigation of Different Solution Strategies for Meta-Heuristic Optimization: Solution Representation, Divers
Chapter 5 Non-deterministic Decoding with Mapping Rearrangement to Enhance Precision in Binary Encoding
Chapter 6 Towards a More Efficient Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimizer Free of Parameters
Chapter 7 A Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm to Search for Pareto Solutions of Series-Parallel System Component Allocation Problems
Chapter 8 A Survey of Genetic Algorithms for Shop Scheduling Problems
Chapter 9 A Scheduling Approach for the Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Chapter 10 Electric Distribution Network Operation Planning Using Chu and Beasley Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization
Chapter 11 A Distributed Approach for Designing Efficient Search Algorithms: An Application to Solve the Location-Routing Problem
Chapter 12 The Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem: An Integer Programming-Based Heuristic and Computational Results
Chapter 13 Optimization for Feature Selection in DNA Microarrays
Chapter 14 Ant Colony System: Application for the Single and Multi-objective Multidimensional Knapsack Problems
Chapter 15 Synergistic Combination of Evolutionary Algorithms and Fuzzy Systems: Application to Control Design
Chapter 16 Analysis of Structures by Total Potential Optimization Using Meta- Heuristic Algorithms (TPO/MA)
Chapter 17 A Review of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in Insurance Applications
Chapter 18 Rough Sets in Insurance Sector
Chapter 19 Prediction of Claims and Selection of Risk Factors in Automobile Insurance Using Support Vector Machines, Genetic Algorithms and Classification Trees
Chapter 20 Tail Value at Risk. An Analysis with the Normal-Power Approximation
Chapter 21 Financial Applications of Modal Interval Analysis
Chapter 22 A Method for Analysis of Transmission Lines Terminated by Nonlinear Loads
Chapter 23 Markus-Sell’s Theorem for Asymptotically Almost Periodic Systems
Chapter 24 A Survey of the Method of Lyapunov Functions of Two Variables in the Study of Stability and Persistence of Dynamical Systems
Chapter 25 Krylov and Schur Subspaces in Construction of Prediction Error Filter: Computational Complexity and Performance Comparison
Chapter 26 High-Fidelity Modeling and Vibration-Based System Identification and Damage Inspection of Flexible Structures
Chapter 27 Complexity and Chaos Theory in Social Sciences: Scientific Philosophy or Quantitative Science?
Chapter 28 Local Stability Analysis of an Age-Structured Hepatitis B Transmission Model
Chapter 29 Parametric Resonance and Homoclinic Chaos in a Bullard-Type Dynamo
Chapter 30 Birhythmicity, Synchronization and Chaos in an Enzyme-Substrate Reaction with a Ferroelectric Behavior
Chapter 31 Dynamics of Low and High Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Bird Population
Chapter 32 Analysis of a Predator-Prey Model with Sigmoidal Response Function and SIS Disease
Chapter 33 Modelling the Effects of Multi-Intervention Campaigns for the Malaria Epidemic in Malawi
Chapter 34 Modelling the Dynamics of HIV-TB Co-Infection in a Variable Size Population
Chapter 35 Case Detection on Tuberculosis Dynamics with Isolation in a Sanatorium
Chapter 36 Advances in Discrete Dynamics
Chapter 37 Simulated Annealing: In Mathematical Global Optimization Computation, Hybrid with Local or Global Search, and Practi
Chapter 38 Handling Equality and Inequality Linear Constraints in Simulated Annealing
Chapter 39 Aircraft Design with Simulated Annealing for SAE Aerodesign Competition
Chapter 40 Simulated Annealing Applied to the Resolution of Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Maximum Parsimony
Chapter 41 Improved Parallel Simulated Annealing Applied to Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization
Chapter 42 Simulated Annealing Applications in Thermodynamic Calculations
Chapter 43 SA Optimization of Two-Chamber Mufflers Equipped with Multiple Parallel Perforated Tubes within a Constrained Space
Chapter 44 A Simulated Annealing Algorithm to Solve the Log-Truck Scheduling Problem
Chapter 45 Potential Applications of Simulated Annealing to Multi-Species Fish Habitat Conservation in the Gulf of Maine
Chapter 46 Second-Order Perturbations in Encke’s Method for Spacecraft Flybys
Chapter 47 Common-Rail Diesel Injectors Bond Graph Modelling Through the AMESim Platform
Chapter 48 Mathematical Modelling of Filtration and Catalytic Oxidation of Diesel Particulates in Filter Porous Media
Chapter 49 Water Demand Simplifications Used To Build Mathematical Models For Hydraulic Simulations
Chapter 50 Dynamic Prediction of Failures: A Comparison of Methodologies for a Wind Turbine
Chapter 51 Advances in Mathematical Modeling of Supercritical Extraction Processes
Chapter 52 Pipe Database Analysis Transduction to Assess the Spatial Vulnerability to Biofilm Development in Drinking W
Chapter 53 On Kernel Spectral Clustering for Identifying Areas of Biofilm Development in Water Distribution Systems
Chapter 54 Unsupervised Methodology for Sectorization of Trunk Depending Water Supply Networks
Chapter 55 Quantifying the Behavior of the Actors in the Spread of Android Malware Infection
Chapter 56 A Stochastic Agent-Based Approach to Interregional Migration in Quantitative Sociodynamics
Chapter 57 A Bayesian Mathematical Model to Analyse Religious Behavior in Spain
Chapter 58 Model of Problems Cleaning in Education
Chapter 59 Does VAT Growth Impact Compulsive Shopping in Spain?
Chapter 60 Is Fitness Activity an Emergent Business? Economic Influences and Consequences of Male Fitness Practice
Chapter 61 Popular Support to Terrorist Organizations: A Short-Term Prediction Based on a Dynamic Model Applied to a Real Case
Chapter 62 Mathematical Modelling of the Consumption of High-Invasive Plastic Surgery: Economic Influences and Consequences
Chapter 63 An Optimal Scheme for Solving the Nonlinear Global Positioning System Problem
Chapter 64 How to Make a Comparison Matrix in AHP without All the Facts
Chapter 65 On Optimal Gaussian Preliminary Orbit Determination by Using a Generalized Class of Iterative Methods
Chapter 66 Solving Engineering Models which Use Matrix Hyperbolic Sine and Cosine Functions
Chapter 67 RSV Modeling Using Genetic Algorithms in a Distributed Computing Environment Based on Cloud File Sharing
Chapter 68 Multi-Agent and Clustering in Data Analysis of GPR Images
Chapter 69 Semi-Automatic Segmentation of IVUS Images for the Diagnosis of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
Chapter 70 Analysis and Detection of V-Formations and Circular Formations in a Set of Moving Entities
Chapter 71 Analysis of Noise for the Sparse Givens Method in CT Medical Image Reconstruction
Chapter 72 Agent-Based Model to Determine the Evolution of the Seroprotection Against Meningococal C over the Next Years
Chapter 73 Applying Clustering Based on Rules for Finding Patterns of Functional Dependency in Schizophrenia
Chapter 74 Modeling Mathematical Flowgraph Models in Recurrent Events: An Application to Bladder Carcinoma
Chapter 75 Numerical Solution of American Option Pricing Models Using Front-Fixing Method
Chapter 76 Estimation of the Cost of Academic Underachievement in High School in Spain Over the Next Few Years
Chapter 77 A Finite Difference Scheme for Options Pricing Modeled by Lévy Processes
Chapter 78 Portfolio Composition to Replicate Stock Market Indexes. Application to the Spanish Index IBEX-35
Chapter 79 Current Research Topics in Galois Geometry
Chapter 80 Planning and Scheduling an Emergency Room Workforce Using Linear Programming
Chapter 81 Neurodynamic Solvers, Robotic Applications and Solution Nonuniqueness of Linear Programming
Chapter 82 Mathematical Equivalence of Simple Recourse and Chance Constraints in Linear Stochastic Programming
Chapter 83 A Decomposable Linear Programming Model for Energy Supply Chains
Chapter 84 High Order Boundary Value Problems: Existence, Localization and Multiplicity Results
Chapter 85 Mapping Data Processing Neural Networks onto Distributed Computer Systems with Regular Structures
Chapter 86 Mapping Parallel Program Graphs onto Graphs of Distributed Computer Systems by Neural Network Algorithms
Chapter 87 Large-Scale and Fine-Grain Parallelism in Plasma Simulation
Chapter 88 Numerical Modelling of Astrophysical Flow on Hybrid Architecture Supercomputers
Chapter 89 Efficient Computational Approaches for Parallel Stochastic Simulation on Supercomputers
Chapter 90 Lattice Gas Cellular Automata for a Flow Simulation and Their Parallel Implementation
Chapter 91 Parallel Simulation of Asynchronous Cellular Automata
Chapter 92 XPU: A C++ Metaprogramming Approach to Ease Parallelism Expression: Parallelization Methodology, Internal Design
Chapter 93 An Approach to the Construction of Robust Systems of Interacting Processes
Chapter 94 Early Learning in Parallel Programming
Chapter 95 Sub-Independence: A Useful Concept
Chapter 96 Minimization of Quadratic Forms and Generalized Inverses
Chapter 97 The Study of the Invariants of Homogeneous Matrix Polynomials Using the Extended Hermite Equivalence εrh
Chapter 98 Cramer’s Rule For Generalized Inverse Solutions
Chapter 99 Feedback Actions on Linear Systems Over Von Neumann Regular Rings
Chapter 100 How To Characterize Properties of General Hermitian Quadratic Matrix-Valued Functions By Rank and Inertia
Chapter 101 Introduction to the Theory of Triangular Matrices (Tables)
Chapter 102 Recent Developments in Iterative Algorithms for Solving Linear Matrix Equations
Chapter 103 Simultaneous Triangularization of a Pair of Matrices Over A Principal Ideal Domain With Quadratic Minimal Polynomials
Chapter 104 Relation of Row-Column Determinants with Quasi-determinants of Matrices Over A Quaternion Algebra
Chapter 105 First Order Chemical Kinetics Matrices and Stability of O.D.E. Systems
Chapter 106 Stochastic Modelling and Simulations of Structured Investment Plans
Chapter 107 Limitation of the Least Square Method in the Evaluation of Dimension of Fractal Brownian Motions
Chapter 108 Parameter Estimation for Weighted Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes with Discrete Observations
Chapter 109 Comparing Traditional Proofs of the Modulus of Continuity and the Law of the Iterated Logarithm to a New Method Which Yields Rates of Convergence
Chapter 110 Transporting a Macroscopic Object by Brownian Motion – An Object as a Pollen Particle, Robots As Liquid Molecules –
Chapter 111 Maximum Principle for Stochastic Discrete-Time Ito Equations
Chapter 112 On The Controllability for Neutral Stochastic Functional Differential Equations Driven by a Fractional Brownian Motion in a Hilbert Space
Chapter 113 Controllability of Impulsive Neutral Stochastic Functional Integro- Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Chapter 114 Specific Features of Brownian Diffusion of Nanoparticles in Micro-Nanodroplets
Chapter 115 Brownian Motion and the Formation of Dark Matter Haloes
Chapter 116 Literature as a Diffusion Process
Chapter 117 Almost Periodic Solution of Some Stochastic Difference Equations
Chapter 118 Impulsive Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by G-Brownian Motion
Chapter 119 Fractional Stochastic Differential Equations
Chapter 120 Abstract Second-Order Damped Stochastic Evolution Equations in a Hilbert Space Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Chapter 121 Abstract Convex Functionals Defined on Rn and Their Subdifferentiability
Chapter 122 Convex-Along-Rays Functionals Defined on Rn and Their Subdifferentiability
Chapter 123 Increasing Positively Homogeneous Functional Defined on Rn and Their Subdifferentiability
Chapter 124 The Cutting Angle Method and a Local Search on Optimal Control Problems
Chapter 125 The Cutting Angle Method for Solving of Variational Problems
Chapter 126 The Cutting Angle Method on Optimal Control Problems
Chapter 127 Preserver Problems over Finite Fields
Chapter 128 Classical Coherent State Transforms over Finite Fields
Chapter 129 The Structure of Finite mΘ Field Intrinsic Anatomy
Chapter 130 mΘ Cyclic Codes on a mΘ Field
Chapter 131 On Two Problems of Carlitz and Their Generalizations
Chapter 132 Compactons in Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Chapter 133 Elastic and Plastic Type Behaviours in the Fractal Theory of Motion at Nanoscale
Chapter 134 Malignant Invasion Model with a Small Amount of Diffusion in the Framework of a Fractal Theory: Implications of Drug Release from the Polymeric Matrix Process
Chapter 135 Non-Linearities in Drug Release Processes from Polymeric Microparticles: Implications in the Fractal Morpho-Functional Structure of Biological Systems
Chapter 136 Chaos and Self-Structuring Behaviors in the Dynamics of Biological Structures: Implications of Drug Release from the Polymeric Matrix Process
Chapter 137 Behaviors of Travelling Waves and Shapiro Steps Types in a Tumour-Growth Model
Chapter 138 The Astonishing Evolutionary Dynamics of a Class of Nonlinear Discrete 2D Pattern Formation and Growth Models
Chapter 139 Directed Partial Orders on Quaternions – A Brief Summary
Chapter 140 Spin 1 Particle with Anomalous Magnetic Moment in the External Uniform Electric Field
Chapter 141 Techniques of Projective Operators Used to Construct Solutions for a Spin 1 Particle with Anomalous Magnetic Moment in the Exte
Chapter 142 A Quaternion Approach in the Estimation of the Attitude of an Industrial Robot
Chapter 143 2D Hermite-Gaussian and Gauss-Laguerre Circular Harmonic Eigenfunction of the Quaternion and Reduced Biquaternion Fourier Transform
Chapter 144 The Quaternions with an Application of Quadrotors Team Formation
Chapter 145 Determinantal Representations of the Drazin and W-Weighted Drazin Inverses over the Quaternion Skew Field with Applications
Chapter 146 A Process Algebra Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics: Physics From the Top Up
Chapter 147 Realizing Success for Complex Converging Systems
Chapter 148 Development of the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation of Rotating Cosmogonical Body Formation
Chapter 149 The Application of Neural Network Modeling in Organizing a Hierarchical Teaching System Based on Mentorship
Chapter 150 Modelling Organisation Networks Collaborating on Health and Environment within ASEAN
Chapter 151 The Evolution Equation of Lie-Type for Finite Deformations and Its Time-Discrete Integration
Chapter 152 New Applications of Symmetry Analysis to Nonlinear Evolution Equations
Chapter 153 A Method for Exponentially Stabilizing a Class of 1-D PDEs
Chapter 154 The Principal Component Analysis of Omics Data
Chapter 155 A Factor Analysis of an Outcome Measurement Survey for Science, Technology and Society: A Course of General Education Based on PCA
Chapter 156 The Application of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to Performance Enhancement of Hyperspectral Radiative Transfer Computations
Chapter 157 Random Approximations in Stochastic Programming: A Survey
Chapter 158 Approximation and Estimation of the Approximation Error in Stochastic Programing Programs
Chapter 159 Probabilistic Linear Programming Problem with Cauchy Distributed Random Variables
Chapter 160 Stochastic Modeling of Imperfect Markets
Chapter 161 Optimizing Derivatives through Stochastic Programming
Chapter 162 A Guide for the Use of the Stochastic Programming References Reported in the Contributions of this Book
Chapter 163 Synchronization of Chaotic Dynamic Systems via Nonlinear Observers
Chapter 164 On Multi-Domain Spectral Relaxation Method for Chaotic Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations
Chapter 165 Encrypted Real-World Image Communication Design Using Synchronized Discrete-Time Hyper Chaotic Maps