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Noncommutative Hypergeometric and Basic Hypergeometric Equations
Alessandro Conflitti, Michael J. Schlosser
Pages: 429 - 443
Recently, J. A. Tirao [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 100(14) (2003) 8138–8141] considered a matrix-valued analogue of the 2F1 Gauß hypergeometric function and showed that it is the unique solution of a matrix-valued hypergeometric equation analytic at z = 0 with value I, the identity matrix, at z = 0. We give...
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Quaternion-Valued Breather Soliton, Rational, and Periodic KdV Solutions
John Cobb, Alex Kasman, Albert Serna, Monique Sparkman
Pages: 429 - 452
Quaternion-valued solutions to the non-commutative KdV equation are produced using determinants. The solutions produced in this way are (breather) soliton solutions, rational solutions, spatially periodic solutions and hybrids of these three basic types. A complete characterization of the parameters...
Research Article
Integrability on generalized q-Toda equation and hierarchy
Anni Meng, Chuanzhong Li, Shuo Huang
Pages: 429 - 441
In this paper, we construct a new integrable equation which is a generalization of q-Toda equation. Meanwhile its soliton solutions are constructed to show its integrable property. Further the Lax pairs of the generalized q-Toda equation and a whole integrable generalized q-Toda hierarchy are also constructed....
Research Article
Real Forms of the Complex Twisted N=2 Supersymmetric Toda Chain Hierarchy in Real N=1 and Twisted N=2 Superspaces
O. Lechtenfeld, A. Sorin
Pages: 433 - 444
Three nonequivalent real forms of the complex twisted N=2 supersymmetric Toda chain hierarchy (solv-int/9907021) in real N=1 superspace are presented. It is demostrated that they possess a global twisted N=2 supersymmetry. We discuss a new superfield basis in which the supersymmetry transformations are...
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Fault diagnosis of sucker rod pumping systems based on Curvelet Transform and sparse multi-graph regularized extreme learning machine
Ao Zhang, Xianwen Gao
Pages: 428 - 437
A novel approach is proposed to complete the fault diagnosis of pumping systems automatically. Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform is firstly adopted to extract features of dynamometer cards that sampled from sucker rod pumping systems, then a sparse multi-graph regularized extreme learning machine algorithm...
Research Article
Spectral Zeta Functions of a 1D Schrödinger Problem
Joe Watkins
Pages: 428 - 444
We study the spectral zeta functions associated to the radial Schrödinger problem with potential V(x) = x2M + αxM−1 + (λ2 − 1/4)/x2. After directly computing some of the zeta functions, we use the quantum Wronskian equation to give sum rules between them, allowing for instances where the explicit form...
Research Article
Magnetic curves in Sasakian manifolds
Simona Luiza Druţă-Romaniuc, Jun-ichi Inoguchi, Marian Ioan Munteanu, Ana Irina Nistor
Pages: 428 - 447
In this paper we classify the magnetic trajectories corresponding to contact magnetic fields in Sasakian manifolds of arbitrary dimension. Moreover, when the ambient is a Sasakian space form, we prove that the codimension of the curve may be reduced to 2. This means that the magnetic curve lies on a...
Research Article
Local Semantic Indexing for Resource Discovery on Overlay Network Using Mobile Agents
M. Singh, X. Cheng, R. Belavkin
Pages: 432 - 455
One of the most crucial problems in a peer-to-peer system is locating of resources that are shared by various nodes. Various techniques suggested in literature suffer from drawbacks viz. saturation of network, inability to locate multi-keyword based resource or locate resource based on semantics. We...
Research Article
A Three State Hard-Core Model on a Cayley Tree
James Martin, Utkir Rozikov, Yuri Suhov
Pages: 432 - 448
We consider a nearest-neighbor hard-core model, with three states , on a homogeneous Cayley tree of order k (with k + 1 neighbors). This model arises as a simple example of a loss network with nearest-neighbor exclusion. The state (x) at each node x of the Cayley tree can be 0, 1 and 2. We have Poisson...
Short Communication
On Symmetry Reduction of Nonlinear Generalization of the Heat Equation
Valentyn Marchenko
Pages: 432 - 434
Reductions and classes of new exact solutions are constructed for a class of Galileiinvariant heat equations.
Research Article
Linearization of a Second-Order Stochastic Ordinary Differential Equation
Sergey V. Meleshko, Eckart Schulz
Pages: 427 - 441
Necessary and sufficient conditions which allow a second-order stochastic ordinary differential equation to be transformed to linear form are presented. The transformation can be chosen in a way so that all but one of the coefficients in the stochastic integral part vanish. The linearization criteria...
Research Article
Multiple Hamiltonian Structures and Lax Pairs for BogoyavlenskyVolterra Systems
Stelios P. Kouzaris
Pages: 431 - 450
Results on the Volterra model which is associated to the simple Lie algebra of type An are extended to the BogoyavlenskyVolterra systems of type Bn, Cn and Dn. In paticular we find Lax pairs, Hamiltonian and Casimir functions and multi-Hamiltonian structures. Moreover, we investigate recursion operators,...
Research Article
A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach for Machine Tool Selection Problem in a Fuzzy Environment
Arzum Ozgen, Gülfem Tuzkaya, Umut R. Tuzkaya, Dogan Ozgen
Pages: 431 - 445
Tools and machines have an important effect on the manufacturing operations’ effectiveness and the selection process of appropriate tools and machines is a complex issue with the consideration of multiple criteria. Considering the complexity of the problem area and the difficulties in machine tools...
Research Article
CPO: A Crow Particle Optimization Algorithm
Ko-Wei Huang, Ze-Xue Wu
Pages: 426 - 435
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is the most well known of the swarm-based intelligence algorithms and is inspired by the social behavior of bird flocking. However, the PSO algorithm converges prematurely, which rapidly decreases the population diversity, especially when approaching local optima. Recently,...
Research Article
Gross-Pitaevskii non-linear dynamics for pseudo-spinor condensates
Alessandro Michelangeli, Alessandro Olgiati
Pages: 426 - 464
We derive the equations for the non-linear effective dynamics of a so called pseudo-spinor Bose-Einstein condensate, which emerges from the linear many-body Schrödinger equation at the leading order in the number of particles. The considered system is a three-dimensional diluted gas of identical bosons...
Research Article
Linearization of one-dimensional nonautonomous jump-diffusion stochastic differential equations
Gazanfer Unal, Ismail Iyigunler, C Masood Khalique
Pages: 430 - 442
Necessary and sufficient conditions for the linearization of one-dimensional nonau- tonomous jump-diffusion stochastic differential equations are given. Stochastic inte- grating factor is introduced to solve the linear jump-diffusion stochastic differential equations. Closed form solutions to certain...
Research Article
Generalized Componentwise Splitting Scheme For Option Pricing Under The Heston-Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Model
Maryam Safaei, Abodolsadeh Neisy, Nader Nematollahi
Pages: 425 - 438
In this paper, we consider a numerical pricing of European call and put options under the Heston-Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (HCIR) model. Based on this model, the prices of options are derived by solving a three-dimensional partial differential equation. We generalize a componentwise splitting scheme for solving...
Research Article
Bubbles, Clusters and Denaturation in Genomic DNA: Modeling, Parametrization, Efficient Computation
Nikos Theodorakopoulos
Pages: 429 - 447
The paper uses mesoscopic, nonlinear lattice dynamics based (Peyrard–Bishop–Dauxois, PBD) modeling to describe thermal properties of DNA below and near the denaturation temperature. Computationally efficient notation is introduced for the relevant statistical mechanics. Computed melting profiles of long...
Letter to Editor
Some Examples of Algebraic Geodesics on Quadrics. II
A. M. Perelomov
Pages: 423 - 428
In this note we give new examples of algebraic geodesics on some two-dimensional quadrics, namely, on ellipsoids, one-sheet hyperboloids, and hyperbolic paraboloids. It appears that in all considered cases, such geodesics are rational space curves.
Research Article
Orbital stability of the smooth solitary wave with nonzero asymptotic value for the mCH equation
Chaohong Pan, Lijing Zheng
Pages: 423 - 438
This paper is concerned with orbital stability of the smooth solitary wave with nonzero asymptotic value for the mCH equation
ut−uxxt+2kux+au2ux=2uxuxx+uuxxx.
Under the parametric conditions a > 0 and
k<18a
, an interesting phenomenon is discovered, that is, for the stability there...
Research Article
The Marshall-Olkin-Kumaraswamy-G family of distributions
Laba Handique, Subrata Chakraborty, G.G. Hamedani
Pages: 427 - 447
A new family of continuous probability distributions is proposed by using Kumaraswamy-G distribution as the base line distribution in the Marshall-Olkin construction. A number of known distributions are derived as particular cases. Various properties of the proposed family like formulation of the pdf...
Research Article
The Incompressible NavierStokes for the Nonlinear Discrete Velocity Models
A. Bellouquid
Pages: 426 - 445
We establish the incompressible NavierStokes limit for the discrete velocity model of the Boltzmann equation in any dimension of the physical space, for densities which rmain in a suitable small neighborhood of the global Maxwellian. Appropriately scaled families solutions of discrete Boltzmann equation...
Research Article
On New Representations of Galilei Groups
W.I. Fushchych, R.Z. Zhdanov
Pages: 426 - 435
We have constructed new realizations of the Galilei group and its natural extensions by Lie vector fields. These realizations together with the ones obtained by Fushchych & Cherniha (Ukr. Math. J., 1989, 41, N 10, 1161; N 12, 1456) and Rideau & Winternitz (J. Math. Phys., 1993, 34, 558) give a complete...
Research Article
Multiparameter Deformations of the Algebra gln in Terms of Anyonic Oscillators
A.M. Gavrilik, N.Z. Iorgov
Pages: 426 - 431
Generators of multiparameter deformations Uq;s1,s2,...,sn-1 (gln) of the universal enveloping algebra U(gln) are realized bilinearly by means of an appropriately generalized form of anyonic oscillators (AOs). This modification takes into account the parameters s1, ..., sn-1 and yields usual AOs when...
Research Article
A Model of Heart Rate Kinetics in Response to Exercise
James Robert Stirling, Maria Zakynthinaki, Ignacio Refoyo, Javier Sampedro
Pages: 426 - 436
We present a mathematical model, in the form of two coupled ordinary differential equations, for the heart rate kinetics in response to exercise. Our heart rate model is an adaptation of the model of oxygen uptake kinetics of Stirling et al. [21]; a physiological justification for this adaptation, as...
Research Article
Multi-Sine Cosine Algorithm for Solving Nonlinear Bilevel Programming Problems
Yousria Abo-Elnaga, M.A. El-Shorbagy
Pages: 421 - 432
In this paper, multi-sine cosine algorithm (MSCA) is presented to solve nonlinear bilevel programming problems (NBLPPs); where three different populations (completely separate from one another) of sine cosine algorithm (SCA) are used. The first population is used to solve the upper level problem, while...
Research Article
Nonstandard Separability on the Minkowski Plane
Giuseppe Pucacco, Kjell Rosquist
Pages: 421 - 430
We present examples of nonstandard separation of the natural Hamilton–Jacobi equation on the Minkowski plane 𝕄2. By “nonstandard” we refer to the cases in which the form of the metric, when expressed in separating coordinates, does not have the usual Liouville structure. There are two possibilities:...
Research Article
Some Generalizations of Weibull Distribution and Related Processes
K. Jayakumar, M. Girish Babu
Pages: 425 - 434
A new class of distributions containing Marshall-Olkin extended Weibull distribution is introduced. The role of this distribution in the study of minification process is established. A new class of distributions that includes the Laplace and Logistic distributions is introduced. Properties and generation...
Research Article
Products in the category of 2n-manifolds
Andrew Bruce, Norbert Poncin
Pages: 420 - 453
We prove that the category of 2n-manifolds has all finite products. Further, we show that a 2n-manifold (resp., a 2n-morphism) can be reconstructed from its algebra of global 2n-functions (resp., from its algebra morphism between global 2n-function algebras). These results are of importance...
Research Article
Coadjoint Orbits of Certain Motion Groups and Their Coherent States
Majdi Ben Halima
Pages: 420 - 430
Let ℍn, n ≥ 1, be the (2n+1)-dimensional Heisenberg group and let K be a closed connected subgroup of the unitary group U(n) acting on ℍn by automorphisms. Using the moment map, we provide in this paper a dequantization procedure for all generic admissible coadjoint orbits of the semidirect product G...
Research Article
Diagnostics of a Multiresponse Regression Model with Autocorrelated Errors
Sibnarayan Guria, Sugata Sen Roy
Pages: 424 - 433
In this paper we study the diagnostics of a multiresponse regression model with a first-order autoregressive error sequence. The deletion technique is used to identify the outliers taking account of the dependence structure of the errors. Besides the usual measures, some scalar measures to gauge the...
Research Article
Hk Metrics on the Diffeomorphism Group of the Circle
Adrian Constantin, B. Kolev
Pages: 424 - 430
Each Hk inner product, k N, endows the diffeomorphism group of the circle with a Riemannian structure. For k 1 the Riemannian exponential map is a smooth local diffeomorphism and the length-minimizing property of geodesics holds.
Research Article
A Multi-criteria Optimization Approach to Health Care Tasks Scheduling Under Resources Constraints
Sarah Ben Othman, Slim Hammadi
Pages: 419 - 439
We are interested in this paper in studying and developing a decision support tool for multi-skill health care tasks scheduling in the Pediatric Emergency Department. We use an evolutionary algorithm and we propose the use of fuzzy logic to formulate an adapted fitness function. We consider the potential...
Research Article
Shannon Information in K-records for Pareto-type Distributions
Zohreh Zamani, Mohsen Madadi
Pages: 419 - 438
Pareto distributions provides models for many applications in the social, natural and physical sciences. In this paper, we derive the Shannon information contained in upper (lower) k-record values and associated k-record times of Pareto-type distributions for a finite sample of fixed size and for an...
Research Article
Group Evidential Reasoning Approach for MADA under Fuzziness and Uncertainties
Mi Zhou, Xin-Bao Liu, Jian-Bo Yang, Chang Fang
Pages: 423 - 441
Multiple attribute decision analysis (MADA) problems often include both qualitative and quantitative attributes which may be either precise or inaccurate. The evidential reasoning (ER) approach is one of reliable and rational methods for dealing with MADA problems and can generate aggregated assessments...
Research Article
Gauge Theory Approach Towards an Explicit Solution of the (Classical) Elliptic Calogero-Moser System
Edwin Langmann
Pages: 423 - 439
We discuss the relation of the trigonometric Calogero-Moser (CM) system to YanMills gauge theories and its generalization to the elliptic case. This yields a liearization of the time evolution of the elliptic CM system and suggests two promising strategies for finding a fully explicit solution of this...
Research Article
A Note on the Appearance of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Fields in Integrable Hierarchies
L. Fehér, A. Gábor
Pages: 423 - 432
A family of mappings from the solution spaces of certain generalized Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies to the self-dual Yang-Mills system on R2,2 is described. This provides an extension of the well-known relationship between self-dual connections and integrable hierarchies of AKNS and Drinfeld-Sokolov type.
Research Article
A MapReduce Approach to Address Big Data Classification Problems Based on the Fusion of Linguistic Fuzzy Rules
Sara del Río, Victoria López, José Manuel Benítez, Francisco Herrera
Pages: 422 - 437
The big data term is used to describe the exponential data growth that has recently occurred and represents an immense challenge for traditional learning techniques. To deal with big data classification problems we propose the Chi-FRBCS-BigData algorithm, a linguistic fuzzy rule-based classification...
Research Article
On the Spectral Problem Associated with the Camassa-Holm Equation
Christer Bennewitz
Pages: 422 - 432
We give a basic uniqueness theorem in the inverse spectral theory for a Sturm-Liouville equation with a weight which is not of one sign. It is shown that the theorem may be applied to the spectral problem associated with the Camassa-Holm integrable system which models shallow water waves.
Research Article
External and Distributed Databases: Efficient and Secure XML Query Assurance
Andrew Clarke, Eric Pardede, Robert Steele
Pages: 421 - 433
Emerging information system architectures will often be comprised of distributed systems and data repositories. As a result, providing efficient and secure query assurance over these emerging future information systems is a concern. This paper details the use of temporary time stamps and variable hash...
Research Article
On Some Generalized Symmetric Integral Operators of Buschman-Erdelyi's Type
N. Virchenko
Pages: 421 - 425
Some new symmetric integral operators with kernels involving the generalized Legendre's function of the first kind Pm,n k (z) are introduced. Some their applications are given.
Research Article
SONFIS: Structure Identification and Modeling with a Self-Organizing Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System
Héctor Allende-Cid, Rodrigo Salas, Alejandro Veloz, Claudio Moraga, Héctor Allende
Pages: 416 - 432
This paper presents a new adaptive learning algorithm to automatically design a neural fuzzy model. This constructive learning algorithm attempts to identify the structure of the model based on an architectural self-organization mechanism with a data-driven approach. The proposed training algorithm self-organizes...
Research Article
Generalized Exponential Estimator for the Estimation of Clustered Population Variance in Adaptive Cluster Sampling
Muhammad Nouman Qureshi, Ayesha Iftikhar, Muhammad Hanif
Pages: 416 - 424
In this paper, we proposed a generalized exponential estimator with two auxiliary variables for the estimation of highly clumped population variance under adaptive cluster sampling design. The expressions of approximate bias and minimum mean square error are derived. A family of exponential ratio and...
Research Article
Vectorial Regularization and Temporal Means in Keplerian Motion
Daniel Condurache, Vladimir Martinusi
Pages: 420 - 440
We study the well-known Kepler’s problem by introducing a new vectorial regularization. This helps deduce Kepler’s equations by a simple and unified method. Some integral temporal means are also obtained by means of this regularization. The vectorial eccentricity plays a fundamental part in this approach.
Research Article
Symmetry constraint of MKdV equations by binary nonlinearization
Wenxiu Ma
Pages: 420 - 433
A symmetry constraint for the MKdV integrable hierarchy is presented by binary nonlinearization. The spatial and temporal parts of the Lax pairs and adjoint Lax pairs of MKdV equations are all constrained as finite-dimensional Liouville integrable Hamiltonian systems, whose integrals of motion are explicitly...
Review Article
A Review on Information Accessing Systems Based on Fuzzy Linguistic Modelling
E. Herrera-Viedma, A.G. Lopez-Herrera
Pages: 420 - 437
This paper presents a survey of some fuzzy linguistic information access systems. The review shows information retrieval systems, filtering systems, recommender systems, and web quality evaluation tools, which are based on tools of fuzzy linguistic modelling. The fuzzy linguistic modelling allows us...
Research Article
Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Implement a Multifactor Authentication System
Jackson Phiri, Tie-Jun Zhao, Cong Hui Zhu, Jameson Mbale
Pages: 420 - 430
The recent years have seen a rise in the number of cases of cyber-crime committed through identity theft and fraud. To address this problem, this paper uses adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system, fuzzy logic and artificial neural network to implement a multifactor authentication system through a technique...
Research Article
First-Order Integer-Valued Moving Average Process with Power Series Innovations
Eisa Mahmoudi, Ameneh Rostami
Pages: 415 - 431
In this paper, we introduce a first-order nonnegative integer-valued moving average process with power series innovations based on a Poisson thinning operator (PINMAPS(1)) for modeling overdispersed, equidispersed and underdispersed count time series. This process contains the PINMA process with geometric,...
Research Article
Semidiscrete Integrable Nonlinear Systems Generated by the New Fourth Order Spectral Operator: Systems of Obverse Type
Oleksiy O. Vakhnenko
Pages: 415 - 425
In the framework of zero-curvature representation we have proposed three distinct versions of semidiscrete integrable nonlinear systems arising due to a proper multifield augment of integrable nonlinear Schrödinger system with the background-controlled intersite resonant couplings. The specification...
Letter to Editor
Peakons Arising as Particle Paths Beneath Small-Amplitude Water Waves in Constant Vorticity Flows
Delia Ionescu-Kruse
Pages: 415 - 422
We present a new kind of particle path in constant vorticity water of finite depth, within the framework of small-amplitude waves.