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Existence of Natural and Conformally Invariant Quantizations of Arbitrary Symbols

P. Mathonet, F. Radoux
Pages: 539 - 556
A quantization can be seen as a way to construct a differential operator with prescribed principal symbol. The map from the space of symbols to the space of differential operators is moreover required to be a linear bijection. In general, there is no natural quantization procedure, that is, spaces of...

Equilibria of a solvable N-body problem and related properties of the N numbers xn at which the Jacobi polynomial of order N has the same value

Oksana Bihun, Francesco Calogero
Pages: 539 - 551
The class of solvable N-body problems of “goldfish” type has been recently extended by including (the additional presence of) three-body forces. In this paper we show that the equilibria of some of these systems are simply related to the N roots xn of the polynomial equation PN(α,β) (x)= w, where...

Migration Ratio Model Analysis of Biogeography-Based Optimization Algorithm and Performance Comparison

Jie-sheng Wang, Jiang-di Song
Pages: 544 - 558
Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm is based on species migration between habitats to complete information circulation and sharing, which achieves the global optimization by improving the adaptability of habitats. In this paper, the basic migration balance model of biogeography theory is...

Bi-GRU Sentiment Classification for Chinese Based on Grammar Rules and BERT

Qiang Lu, Zhenfang Zhu, Fuyong Xu, Dianyuan Zhang, Wenqing Wu, Qiangqiang Guo
Pages: 538 - 548
Sentiment classification is a fundamental task in NLP, and its aim to predict the sentiment polarities of the given texts. Recent researches show great interest in modeling Chinese sentiment classification. However, the complexity of Chinese grammar makes the performance of the existing Chinese sentiment...

Feature selection for monotonic classification via maximizing monotonic dependency

Weiwei Pan, Qinghua Hu, Yanping Song, Daren Yu
Pages: 543 - 555
Monotonic classification is a special task in machine learning and pattern recognition. As to monotonic classification, it is assumed that both features and decision are ordinal and there is the monotonicity constraints between the features and decision. Little work has been focused on feature selection...

Estimating the Parameters of a Generalized Exponential Distribution

Syed Afzal Hossain
Pages: 537 - 553
A three-parameter generalized exponential distribution was suggested by Hossain and Ahsanullah [5]. Some important aspects of this distribution in the area of estimation remain unexplored in the earlier works. We discuss here the maximum likelihood (ML) method and the method of moments to estimate the...

Fault Diagnosis of Bearings Using an Intelligence-Based Autoregressive Learning Lyapunov Algorithm

Farzin Piltan, Jong-Myon Kim
Pages: 537 - 549
Bearings are complex components with nonlinear behavior that are used to reduce the effect of inertia. They are used in applications such as induction motors and rotating components. Condition monitoring and effective data analysis are important aspects of fault detection and classification in bearings....

Group decision making methods of the incomplete IFPRs and IPRs

Zaiwu Gong, Chonglan Guo, Yuanyuan He
Pages: 542 - 552
We propose optimal priority methods on the incomplete intuitionistic fuzzy preference relation (IFPR) and the incomplete interval preference relation (IPR). The least squares method has been used previously to derive the priority vector of the fuzzy preference relation (FPR). In this paper, we generalize...

Behavior-aware Trustworthiness Study of Networked Software Xianwen Fang

Xianwen Fang, Changjun Jiang, Xiaoqin Fan
Pages: 542 - 552
The essence characteristics of software trustworthiness are software execution effect and behavior can be anticipated, which is an important index of software quality. Under the open and dynamic environments, some uncertainty factors cause the behavior of software to be uncontrolled, uncertainty and...

On Slant Magnetic Curves in S-manifolds

Güvenç Şaban, Cihan Özgür
Pages: 536 - 554
We consider slant normal magnetic curves in (2n + 1)-dimensional S-manifolds. We prove that γ is a slant normal magnetic curve in an S-manifold (M2m+s, φ, ξα, ηα, g) if and only if it belongs to a list of slant φ-curves satisfying some special curvature equations. This list consists of some specific...

An Unbiased Estimator of Finite Population Mean Using Auxiliary Information

B. Mahanty, G. Mishra
Pages: 534 - 539
In this paper, an unbiased estimator is constructed by using a linear combination of an estimator of study variable and mean per unit estimator of an auxiliary variable under simple random sampling without replacement scheme. The efficiency of the estimator under optimality compared with the mean per...

Towards Crafting a Smooth and Accurate Functional Link Artificial Neural Networks Based on Differential Evolution and Feature Selection for Noisy Database

Ch. Sanjeev Kumar Dash, Satchidananda Dehuri, Sung-Bae Cho, Gi-Nam Wang
Pages: 539 - 552
This work presents an accurate and smooth functional link artificial neural network (FLANN) for classification of noisy database. The accuracy and smoothness of the network is taken birth by suitably tuning the parameters of FLANN using differential evolution and filter based feature selection. We use...

On A Group Of Automorphisms Of The Noncommutative Burgers Hierarchy

Boris A. Kupershmidt
Pages: 539 - 549
Bäcklund transformations are constructed for the noncommutative Burgers hierarchy, generalizing the commutative ones of Weiss, Tabor, Carnevale, and Pickering. These transformations are shown to be invertible and form a group.

A Variational Principle for Volume-Preserving Dynamics

Giuseppe Gaeta, Paola Morando
Pages: 539 - 554
We provide a variational description of any Liouville, i.e. volume preserving, autnomous vector field on a smooth manifold. This is obtained via a "maximal degree" variational principle; critical sections for this are integral manifolds for the Liouville vector field. We work in coordinates and provide...

The gauge transformation of the q-deformed modified KP hierarchy

Jipeng Cheng, Jinzheng Wang, Xingyong Zhang
Pages: 533 - 542
In this paper, we mainly study three types of gauge transformation operators for the q-mKP hierarchy. The successive applications of these gauge transformation operators are derived. And the corresponding communities between them are also investigated.

Generalized Conditional Symmetries, Related Solutions and Conservation Laws of the Grad-Shafranov Equation with Arbitrary Flow

Rodica Cimpoiasu
Pages: 531 - 544
The generalized conditional symmetry (GCS) method is applied to the case of a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation (GGSE) with incompressible flow of arbitrary direction. We investigate the conditions which yield the GGSE that admits a special class of second-order GCSs. Three GCS generators and the associated...

On the dynamics of internal waves interacting with the equatorial undercurrent

Alan Compelli, Rossen Ivanov
Pages: 531 - 539
The interaction of the nonlinear internal waves with a nonuniform current with a specific form, characteristic for the equatorial undercurrent, is studied. The current has no vorticity in the layer, where the internal wave motion takes place. We show that the nonzero vorticity that might be occuring...

An Efficient Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Solving Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Problems

Ying Sun, Yuelin Gao
Pages: 530 - 543
This paper presents an efficient modified particle swarm optimization (EMPSO) algorithm for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems. In the proposed algorithm, a new evolutionary strategies for the discrete variables is introduced, which can solve the problem that the evolutionary strategy...

What an Effective Criterion of Separability says about the Calogero Type Systems

Stefan Rauch-Wojciechowski, Claes Waksjö
Pages: 535 - 547
In [15] we have proved a 1-1 correspondence between all separable coordinates on Rn (according to Kalnins and Miller [9]) and systems of linear PDEs for separable potetials V (q). These PDEs, after introducing parameters reflecting the freedom of choice of Euclidean reference frame, serve as an effective...

Analytic Behaviour of Competition among Three Species

P.G.L. Leach, J. Miritzis
Pages: 535 - 548
We analyse the classical model of competition between three species studied by May and Leonard (SIAM J Appl Math 29 (1975) 243-256) with the approaches of singlarity analysis and symmetry analysis to identify values of the parameters for which the system is integrable. We observe some striking relations...

Minimal surfaces associated with orthogonal polynomials

Vincent Chalifour, Alfred Michel Grundland
Pages: 529 - 549
This paper is devoted to a study of the connection between the immersion functions of two-dimensional surfaces in Euclidean or hyperbolic spaces and classical orthogonal polynomials. After a brief description of the soliton surfaces approach defined by the Enneper-Weierstrass formula for immersion and...

The Virasoro action on the tau function for the constrained discrete KP hierarchy

Jipeng Cheng, Maohua Li, Jingsong He
Pages: 529 - 538
With the help of the squared eigenfunction potential, the action of the Virasoro symmetry on the tau function of the constrained discrete KP hierarchy is derived.

Lp - Lq Decay Estimates for Wave Equations with Time-Dependent Coefficients

Michael Reissig
Pages: 534 - 548
The goal of this survey article is to explain the up-to-date state of the theory of Lp - Lq decay estimates for wave equations with time-dependent coefficients. We explain the influence of oscillations in the coefficients by using a precise classification. Moreover, we will see how mass and dissipation...

Integrable Discretizations of Some Cases of the Rigid Body Dynamics

Yuri B. Suris
Pages: 534 - 560
A heavy top with a fixed point and a rigid body in an ideal fluid are important examples of Hamiltonian systems on a dual to the semidirect product Lie algebra e(n) = so(n) Rn . We give a Lagrangian derivation of the corresponding equations of motion, and introduce discrete time analogs of two integrable...

Mapping between the dynamic and mechanical properties of the relativistic oscillator and Euler free rigid body

Alberto Molgado, Adan Rodríguez
Pages: 534 - 547
In this work we investigate a formal mapping between the dynamical properties of the unidimensional relativistic oscillator and the asymmetrical rigid top at a clas- sical level. We study the relativistic oscillator within Yamaleev’s interpretation of Nambu mechanics. Such interpretation is based on...

Activity Efficiency Model in Business Process Under Conflict Information and Its Application

Qiu Xiaoping, Li Juan, Ruin Fatimah, Jiong Chen
Pages: 528 - 536
Information transition and sharing is necessary for business process management and multi-source information may cause information conflict and reduce activity efficiency. This paper proposes a novel activity efficiency model in business process under conflict information. First, the evidence theory...

Composition of Lie Group Elements from Basis Lie Algebra Elements

George W. Bluman, Omar Mrani-Zentar, Deshin Finlay
Pages: 528 - 557
It is shown explicitly how one can obtain elements of Lie groups as compositions of products of other elements based on the commutator properties of associated Lie algebras. Problems of this kind can arise naturally in control theory. Suppose an apparatus has mechanisms for moving in a limited number...

Measure of Departure from Point Symmetry and Decomposition of Measure for Square Contingency Tables

Kiyotaka Iki, Sadao Tomizawa
Pages: 526 - 533
For square contingency tables with ordered categories, Tomizawa, Biometrica J. 28 (1986), 387–393, considered the conditional point symmetry model. Kurakami et al., J. Stat. Adv. Theory Appl. 17 (2017), 33–42, considered the another point symmetry and the reverse global symmetry model. The present paper...

A Framework for Function Allocation in Intelligent Driver Interface Design for Comfort and Safety

Wuhong Wang, Fuguo Huo, Huachun Tan, Heiner Bubb
Pages: 531 - 541
This paper presents a conceptual framework for ecological function allocation and optimization matching solution for a human-machine interface with intelligent characteristics by “who does what and when and how” consideration. As a highlighted example in nature-social system, intelligent transportation...

Hybridizing a fuzzy multi-response Taguchi optimization algorithm with artificial neural networks to solve standard ready-mixed concrete optimization problems

Barış Şimşek, Yusuf Tansel İç, Emir Hüseyin Şimşek
Pages: 525 - 543
In this study, a fuzzy multi-response standard ready-mixed concrete (SRMC) optimization problem is addressed. This problem includes two conflicting quality optimization objectives. One of these objectives is to minimize the production cost. The other objective is to assign the optimal parameter set of...

Investment Opportunities Forecasting: Extending the Grammar of a GP-based Tool

Michael Kampouridis, Edward Tsang
Pages: 530 - 541
In this paper we present a new version of a GP financial forecasting tool, called EDDIE 8. The novelty of this version is that it allows the GP to search in the space of indicators, instead of using pre-specified ones. We compare EDDIE 8 with its predecessor, EDDIE 7, and find that new and improved solutions...

Resource-constraint Multi-project Scheduling with Priorities and Uncertain Activity Durations

Zheng Zheng, Lin Shumin, Guo Ze, Zhu Yueni
Pages: 530 - 547
Resource-constraint multi-project scheduling is one of the most important topic in the field of project management. Most current works solve this problem based on an idea that multiple projects can be simply emerged into a super-project in a deterministic environment, regardless of the project priority...

Chemical Reaction Optimization for Feature Combination in Bio-inspired Visual Attention

Lu Gan, Haibin Duan
Pages: 530 - 538
Bio-inspired visual attention models human visual system to detect the most salient part of a visual field. In the existing diversified computational models, bottom-up visual attention that works out a saliency map to indicate the conspicuity of visual stimuli in an image has gained much popularity....

Laplacians on Lattices

Wojtek J. Zakrzewski
Pages: 530 - 538
We consider some lattices and look at discrete Laplacians on these lattices. In partiular we look at solutions of the equation (1) = (2)Z, where (1) and (2) denote two such Laplacians on the same lattice. We show that, in one dimension, when (i), i = 1, 2, denote (1) = (i + 1) + (i - 1) - 2(i) and (2)Z...

On the Bilinear Equations for Fredholm Determinants Appearing in Random Matrices

J. Harnad
Pages: 530 - 550
It is shown how the bilinear differential equations satisfied by Fredholm determinants of integral operators appearing as spectral distribution functions for random matrices may be deduced from the associated systems of nonautonomous Hamiltonian equations satisfied by auxiliary canonical phase space...

An Enhanced MOGWW for the bi-objective Quadratic Assignment Problem

Everardo Gutierrez, Carlos Brizuela
Pages: 530 - 549
This paper proposes an enhanced Multi-objective Go with the Winners (MOGWW) algorithm to solve multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. The original MOGWW algorithm is equipped with the well known Pareto Local Search (PLS) procedure. In order to assess the performance of the hybridization,...

A Decomposition-Based Multiobjective Chemical Reaction Optimization Algorithm for Community Detection in Complex Networks

Hongye Li, Wei Gan
Pages: 524 - 537
Community detection structure is very important for understanding the organization of the complex networks. This problem is NP-hard, which is modeled as a seriously nonlinear optimization problem. Recently, different intelligence algorithm has shown promising results for this problem. The chemical reaction...

Exact Solutions to Lattice Boussinesq-Type Equations

Wei Feng, Song-Lin Zhao, Da-Jun Zhang
Pages: 524 - 538
In this paper several kinds of exact solutions to lattice Boussinesq-type equations are constructed by means of generalized Cauchy matrix approach, including soliton solutions and mixed solutions. The introduction of the general condition equation set yields that all solutions contain two kinds of plane-wave...

On Pollard's wave solution at the Equator

Delia Ionescu-Kruse
Pages: 523 - 530
In this paper we present a dynamical study of the exact nonlinear Pollard wave solution to the geophysical water-wave problem in the f-plane approximation. We deduce an exact dispersion relation and we discuss some properties of this solution.

New solutions of a higher order wave equation of the KdV type

Vangelis Marinakis
Pages: 527 - 533
In this paper we use the Painlev ́e analysis and study a special case of a water wave equation of the KdV type. More specifically, we use the Pickering algorithm [9] and obtain a new kind of solutions, which constitute of both algebraic and trigonometric (or hyperbolic) functions.

Combination Replicas Placements Strategy for Data sets from Cost-effective View in the Cloud*

Xiuguo Wu
Pages: 521 - 539
In the cloud storage system, data sets replicas technology can efficiently enhance data availability and thereby increase the system reliability by replicating commonly used data sets in geographically different data centers. Most current approaches largely focus on system performance improvement by...

On the hierarchies of the fully nonlinear Möbius-invariant and symmetry-integrable evolution equations of order three

Marianna Euler, Norbert Euler
Pages: 521 - 528
This is a follow-up paper to the results published in Studies in Applied Mathematics 143, 139–156 (2019), where we reported a classification of 3rd- and 5th-order semi-linear symmetry-integrable evolution equations that are invariant under the Möbius transformation, which includes a list of fully nonlinear...

Integration of some examples of geodesic flows via solvable structures

Diego Catalano Ferraioli, Paola Morando
Pages: 521 - 532
Solvable structures are particularly useful in the integration by quadratures of ordinary differential equations. Nevertheless, for a given equation, it is not always possible to compute a solvable structure. In practice, the simplest solvable structures are those adapted to an already known system of...

Soliton Solutions of the N = 2 Supersymmetric KP Equation

Sasanka Ghosh, Debojit Sarma
Pages: 526 - 538
The N = 2 super-KP equation associated with nonstandard flows is bilinearized using the Hirota method and soliton solutions are obtained. The bilinearization has been done for component fields and its KdV limit is discussed by comparing the soliton solutions obtained by this procedure with those found...

f-Majorization with Applications to Stochastic Comparison of Extreme Order Statistics

Esmaeil Bashkar, Hamzeh Torabi, Ali Dolati, Félix Belzunce
Pages: 520 - 536
In this paper, we use a new partial order, called f-majorization order. The new order includes as special cases the majorization, the reciprocal majorization and the p-larger orders. We provide a comprehensive account of the mathematical properties of the f-majorization order and give applications of...

Constructing discrete Painlevé equations: from E8(1) to A1(1) and back

A. Ramani, B. Grammaticos, R. Willox, T. Tamizhmani
Pages: 520 - 535
The ‘restoration method’ is a novel method we recently introduced for systematically deriving discrete Painlevé equations. In this method we start from a given Painlevé equation, typically with E8(1) symmetry, obtain its autonomous limit and construct all possible QRT-canonical forms of mappings that...

Mining Frequent Synchronous Patterns based on Item Cover Similarity

Salatiel Ezennaya-Gomez, Christian Borgelt
Pages: 525 - 539
In previous work we presented CoCoNAD (Continuous-time Closed Neuron Assembly Detection), a method to find significant synchronous patterns in parallel point processes with the goal to analyze parallel neural spike trains in neurobiology3,9. A drawback of CoCoNAD and its accompanying methodology of pattern...

New Product Launching with Pricing, Free Replacement, Rework, and Warranty Policies via Genetic Algorithmic Approach

Vijay Kumar, Biswajit Sarkar, Alok Nath Sharma, Mandeep Mittal
Pages: 519 - 529
New products are appearing in the marketplace at an ever-increasing step. Their launching is either market driven, or technology driven. Pricing and warranty policies play a vital role in launching of a new product, consequently growth of a company. In this paper a decision model is proposed to determine...

Generalization of an Invertible Transformation and Examples of its Applications

M. Bruschi, F. Calogero, F. Leyvraz, M. Sommacal
Pages: 519 - 540
Recently we highlighted the remarkable nature of an explicitly invertible transformation, we reported some generalizations of it and examples of its expediency in several mathematical contexts: algebraic and Diophantine equations, dynamical systems (with continuous and discrete time), nonlinear PDEs,...

Induced Atanassov's interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid Choquet integral operators and their application in decision making

Fanyong Meng, Hao Cheng, Qiang Zhang
Pages: 524 - 542
Based on the Choquet integral and the generalized Shapley function, two new induced Atanassov's interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid aggregation operators are defined, which are named as the induced generalized Shapley Atanassov's interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid Choquet arithmetical...