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A new algorithm for approximating the least concave majorant

Martin Franců, Ron Kerman, Gord Sinnamon (2017)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

The least concave majorant, F ^ , of a continuous function F on a closed interval, I , is defined by F ^ ( x ) = inf { G ( x ) : G F , G concave } , x I . We present an algorithm, in the spirit of the Jarvis March, to approximate the least concave majorant of a differentiable piecewise polynomial function of degree at most three on I . Given any function F 𝒞 4 ( I ) , it can be well-approximated on I by a clamped cubic spline S . We show that S ^ is then a good approximation to F ^ . We give two examples, one to illustrate, the other to apply our algorithm.

A new application of the homotopy analysis method in solving the fractional Volterra's population system

Mehdi Ghasemi, Mojtaba Fardi, Reza Khoshsiar Ghaziani (2014)

Applications of Mathematics

This paper considers a Volterra's population system of fractional order and describes a bi-parametric homotopy analysis method for solving this system. The homotopy method offers a possibility to increase the convergence region of the series solution. Two examples are presented to illustrate the convergence and accuracy of the method to the solution. Further, we define the averaged residual error to show that the obtained results have reasonable accuracy.

A New Approach to Fuzzy Arithmetic

Popov, Antony (2010)

Serdica Journal of Computing

This work shows an application of a generalized approach for constructing dilation-erosion adjunctions on fuzzy sets. More precisely, operations on fuzzy quantities and fuzzy numbers are considered. By the generalized approach an analogy with the well known interval computations could be drawn and thus we can define outer and inner operations on fuzzy objects. These operations are found to be useful in the control of bioprocesses, ecology and other domains where data uncertainties exist.* This work...

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