Source: COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION Volume: 19 Issue: 5 Pages: 1496-1506 DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.09.021 Published: MAY 2014

Title: FRACTIONAL ORDER OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS WITH FREE TERMINAL TIME

Author(s): Pooseh, Shakoor; Almeida, Ricardo; Torres, Delfim F. M.

Source: JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Pages: 363-381 DOI: 10.3934/jimo.2014.10.363 Published: APR 2014

Title: Periodic bifurcation of Duffing-van der Pol oscillators having fractional derivatives and time delay

Author(s): Leung, A. Y. T.; Yang, H. X.; Zhu, P.

Source: COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION Volume: 19 Issue: 4 Pages: 1142-1155 DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.08.020 Published: APR 2014

Title: Continuous random walks and fractional powers of operators

Author(s): D'Ovidio, Mirko

Source: JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS Volume: 411 Issue: 1 Pages: 362-371 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2013.09.048 Published: MAR 1 2014

Title: Application of the collocation method for solving nonlinear fractional integro-differential equations

Author(s): Eslahchi, M. R.; Dehghan, Mehdi; Parvizi, M.

Source: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS Volume: 257 Pages: 105-128 DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2013.07.044 Published: FEB 2014

Title: An approximate solution method for ordinary fractional differential equations with the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives

Author(s): Lukashchuk, S. Yu.

Source: COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION Volume: 19 Issue: 2 Special Issue: SI Pages: 390-400 DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.06.021 Published: FEB 2014

Title: Fractional ultrafast laser-induced magneto-thermoelastic behavior in perfect conducting metal films

Author(s): Ezzat, Magdy A.; El-Karamany, Ahmed S.; El-Bary, A. A.; et al.

Source: JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Pages: 64-82 DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2013.855616 Published: JAN 2 2014

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Conference

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International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (ICFDA’14)

University of Catania, Catania, Italy from June 23^rd to June 25^th 2014.



    EXTENDED DEADLINE---January 7^th 2014

Dear colleague,

The organizing committee has the pleasure to invite you to participate at the 1^st 2014 International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications, ICFDA4.

ICFDA14 will take place at the University of Catania, Catania, Italy from June 23^rd to June 25^th 2014.

We welcome our colleagues worldwide to contribute at ICFDA14.

Please note the following important dates related to ICFDA14:

Invited session submission: December 5th, 2013

Regular and invited paper submission: January 7th, 2014

Notification of acceptance March 5th, 2014

Final submission April 10th, 2014

Conference June 23th - 25th, 2014

Early registration April 20th, 2014

Topics:

Major topics include but are not limited to fractional differentiation in: Acoustic Dissipation, Anomalous diffusion, Applications of fractional systems, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Fractional Derivative Equations, Continuous Time Random Walk, Control, Creep, Filters, Fractal Derivative and Fractals, Fractional Brownian Motion, Geophysics, History dependent Process, History of Fractional Calculus, Levy Statistics, Modeling and identification, Non-Fourier Heat Conduction, Nonlocal Phenomena, Phase-Locked Loops, Porous Media, Power Law, Relaxation, Rheology, Riesz Potential, Signal and Imaging Processing, Singularities Analysis and Integral Representations for Fractional Differential Systems, Soft Matter Mechanics, Special Functions and Integral Transforms Related to Fractional Calculus, Stretched Gaussian, Variational Principles, Vibration, Viscoelasticity.

Previous events

- 2013, FDA'13,The Sixth IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications, Grenoble, France.

- 2012, FDA'12, The Fifth Symposium on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications Nanjing, China

- 2010, FDA'10, The Fourth IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Badajoz, Spain

- 2008, FDA'08, The Third IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Ankara, Turkey.

- 2006, FDA'06, The Second IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Porto, Portugal.

- 2004 FDA'04, The First IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Bordeaux, France.

Website Please visit the conference site (http://www.icfda14.dieei.unict.it) for further and updated information.

Selected papers from ICFDA14 will be further considered for possible publication in special issue journals (see the Conference website).

Please forward this to anyone who might be interested to attend.

We look forward to seeing you in Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Best Regards,

Organizing committee ICFDA14

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Books

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New Models of the Cell Nucleus: Crowding, Entropic Forces, Phase Separation, and Fractals

Ronald Hancock , Kwang W. Jeon

Book Description

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology--both plant and animal. Articles address structure and control of gene expression, nucleocytoplasmic interactions, control of cell development and differentiation, and cell transformation and growth.

Ideas from the fields of biophysics, physical chemistry, of polymer and colloid, and soft matter science have helped clarify the structure and functions of the cell nucleus. The development of powerful methods for modeling conformations and interactions of macromolecules has also contributed. The book aims to encourage cell and molecular biologists to become more familiar with and understand these new concepts and methods, and the crucial contributions they are making to our perception of the nucleus.

More information on this book can be found by the following link: http://www.elsevier.com/books/new-models-of-the-cell-nucleus-crowding-entropic-forces-phase-separation-and-fractals/hancock/978-0-12-800046-5

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Essentials of Econophysics Modelling

Frantisek Slanina

Book Description

This is the first volume to present a comprehensive review of New Models of the Cell Nucleus.

This book is a course in methods and models rooted in physics and used in modelling economic and social phenomena. It covers the discipline of econophysics, which creates an interface between physics and economics. Besides the main theme, it touches on the theory of complex networks and simulations of social phenomena in general.

After a brief historical introduction, the book starts with a list of basic empirical data and proceeds to thorough investigation of mathematical and computer models. Many of the models are based on hypotheses of the behaviour of simplified agents. These comprise strategic thinking, imitation, herding, and the gem of econophysics, the so-called minority game. At the same time, many other models view the economic processes as interactions of inanimate particles. Here, the methods of physics are especially useful. Examples of systems modelled in such a way include books of stock-market orders, and redistribution of wealth among individuals. Network effects are investigated in the interaction of economic agents. The book also describes how to model phenomena like cooperation and emergence of consensus.

The book will be of benefit to graduate students and researchers in both Physics and Economics.

More information on this book can be found by the following link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199299683.do

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Journals

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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volume 396

Stochastic resonance in an RF SQUID with shunted ScS junction

O.G. Turutanov, V.A. Golovanevskiy, V.Yu. Lyakhno, V.I. Shnyrkov

An effective field theory study of layering transitions in Blume–Capel thin films in the presence of quenched random crystal fields

Yusuf Yüksel

Influence of geometry on stratification and segregation phenomena in bidimensional piles

J.G. Benito, R.O. Uñac, A.M. Vidales, I. Ippolito

Soliton excitations in a three-spine alpha-helical protein chain with quintic non-linearity

S. Saravana Veni, M.M. Latha

Global temperatures and sunspot numbers. Are they related?

Luis A. Gil-Alana, OlaOluwa S. Yaya, Olanrewaju I. Shittu

Partition function zeros of the antiferromagnetic spin-0.5 Ising–Heisenberg model on a diamond chain
N.S. Ananikian, V.V. Hovhannisyan, R. Kenna

Entropy generation: Minimum inside and maximum outside
Umberto Lucia

Collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm based on user preference derived from item domain features

Jing Zhang, Qinke Peng, Shiquan Sun, Che Liu

Nonlinear analysis of the optimal velocity difference model with reaction-time delay
Jie Zhou, Zhong-Ke Shi, Jin-Liang Cao

Entropy and entropy production in some applications

Yong-Jun Zhang

Unzipping of DNA under the influence of external fields

A.E. Bergues-Pupo, J.M. Bergues, F. Falo

Gause’s principle in interspecific competition of the cyclic predator–prey system

Qiuhui Pan, Haoying Wang, Luyi Chen, Zhong Huang, Mingfeng He

Modeling record-breaking stock prices

Gregor Wergen

Long range dependence in the high frequency USD/INR exchange rate

Dilip Kumar

Multifractal parameters as an indication of different physiological and pathological states of the human brain

Srimonti Dutta, Dipak Ghosh, Shukla Samanta, Santanu Dey

Propagating properties of traffic flow on a ring road without ramp

T.Q. Tang, J. He, Y.H. Wu, L. Caccetta

The spread of computer viruses over a reduced scale-free network

Lu-Xing Yang, Xiaofan Yang

Unfolding of the spectrum for chaotic and mixed systems

Ashraf A. Abul-Magd, Adel Y. Abul-Magd

Information filtering via collaborative user clustering modeling

Chu-Xu Zhang, Zi-Ke Zhang, Lu Yu, Chuang Liu, Hao Liu, Xiao-Yong Yan

Correlation analysis of different vulnerability metrics on power grids

Min Ouyang, Zhezhe Pan, Liu Hong, Lijing Zhao

Lévy walk in complex networks: An efficient way of mobility

Yi Zhao, Tongfeng Weng, Defeng (David) Huang

Sampling from complex networks using distributed learning automata

Alireza Rezvanian, Mohammad Rahmati, Mohammad Reza Meybodi

An analysis of the sectorial influence of CSI300 stocks within the directed network

Yong Mai, Huan Chen, Lei Meng

Hierarchical coefficient of a multifractal based network

Darlan A. Moreira, Liacir dos Santos Lucena, Gilberto Corso

Power grid complex network evolutions for the smart grid

Giuliano Andrea Pagani, Marco Aiello

Wave function symmetry, symmetry holes, interaction and statistical correlation in the Moshinsky atom

Humberto G. Laguna, Robin P. Sagar

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Paper Highlight

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Modelling heat transfer in heterogeneous media using fractional calculus

Dominik Sierociuk, Andrzej Dzieliński, Grzegorz Sarwas, Ivo Petras, Igor Podlubny and Tomas Skovranek

Publication information: Dominik Sierociuk, Andrzej Dzieliński, Grzegorz Sarwas, Ivo Petras, Igor Podlubny and Tomas Skovranek. Modelling heat transfer in heterogeneous media using fractional calculus. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A13 May 2013 vol. 371 no. 199020120146.
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1990/20120146.short

Abstract
This paper presents the results of modelling the heat transfer process in heterogeneous media with the assumption that part of the heat flux is dispersed in the air around the beam. The heat transfer process in a solid material (beam) can be described by an integer order partial differential equation. However, in heterogeneous media, it can be described by a sub- or hyperdiffusion equation which results in a fractional order partial differential equation. Taking into consideration that part of the heat flux is dispersed into the neighbouring environment we additionally modify the main relation between heat flux and the temperature, and we obtain in this case the heat transfer equation in a new form. This leads to the transfer function that describes the dependency between the heat flux at the beginning of the beam and the temperature at a given distance. This article also presents the experimental results of modelling real plant in the frequency domain based on the obtained transfer function.
　

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Fractional Sturm–Liouville eigen-problems: Theory and numerical approximation

Mohsen Zayernouri, George Em Karniadakis

Publication information: Mohsen Zayernouri, George Em Karniadakis. Fractional Sturm–Liouville eigen-problems: Theory and numerical approximation. Journal of Computational Physics, 252 (2013) 495–517.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999111002373

Abstract
We first consider a regular fractional Sturm–Liouville problem of two kinds RFSLP-I and RFSLP-II of order u ∈(0, 2). The corresponding fractional differential operators in these problems are both of Riemann–Liouville and Caputo type, of the same fractional order m= u /2 ∈(0, 1). We obtain the analytical eigensolutions to RFSLP-I & -II as nonpolynomial functions, which we define as Jacobi poly-fractonomials. These eigenfunctions are orthogonal with respect to the weight function associated with RFSLP-I & -II. Subsequently, we extend the fractional operators to a new family of singular fractional Sturm–Liouville problems of two kinds, SFSLP-I and SFSLP-II. We show that the primary regular boundary-value problems RFSLP-I & -II are indeed asymptotic cases for the singular counterparts SFSLP-I & -II. Furthermore, we prove that the eigenvalues of the singular problems are real-valued and the corresponding eigenfunctions are orthogonal. In addition, we obtain the eigen-solutions to SFSLP-I & -II analytically, also as nonpolynomial functions, hence completing the whole family of the Jacobi poly-fractonomials. In numerical examples, we employ the new poly-fractonomial bases to demonstrate the exponential convergence of the approximation in agreement with the theoretical results.

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