Error estimates for the finite element solution of elliptic problems with nonlinear newton boundary conditions

The paper is concerned with the study of an elliptic boundary value problem with a nonlinear Newton boundary condition. The existence and uniqueness of the solution of the continuous pioblem is a consequence of the monotone operator theory. The main attention is paid to the investigation of the finite element approximation using numeriral integration for the evaluation of boundary integrals. The error estimates for the solution of the discrete finite element problem are derived     

一类具有备用部件的可修人机系统解的渐近稳定性

运用泛函分析的方法 ,通过分析系统主算子的谱特征 ,给出一类具有备用部件的可修人机系统解的渐近稳定性证明 .     

New approach to a generalized fractional integral

The paper presents a new fractional integration, which generalizes the Riemann-Liouville and Hadamard fractional integrals into a single form. Conditions are given for such a fractional integration operator to be bounded in an extended Lebesgue measurable space. Semigroup property for the above operator is also proved. We give a general definition of the fractional derivatives and give some examples.     

Two-particle wave function as an integral operator and the random field approach to quantum correlations

We propose a new interpretation of the wave function Ψ (x, y) of a two-particle quantum system, interpreting it not as an element of the functional space L ₂ of square-integrable functions, i.e., as a vector, but as the kernel of an integral (Hilbert-Schmidt) operator. The first part of the paper is devoted to expressing quantum averages including the correlations in two-particle systems using the wave-function operator. This is a new mathematical representation in the framework of conventional quantum mechanics. But the new interpretation of the wave function not only generates a new mathematical formalism for quantum mechanics but also allows going beyond quantum mechanics, i.e., representing quantum correlations (including those in entangled systems) as correlations of (Gaussian) random fields.     

Domain decomposition approaches for accelerating contour integration eigenvalue solvers for symmetric eigenvalue problems

This paper discusses techniques for computing a few selected eigenvalue–eigenvector pairs of large and sparse symmetric matrices. A recently developed class of techniques to solve this type of problems is based on integrating the matrix resolvent operator along a complex contour that encloses the interval containing the eigenvalues of interest. This paper considers such contour integration techniques from a domain decomposition viewpoint and proposes two schemes. The first scheme can be seen as an extension of domain decomposition linear system solvers in the framework of contour integration methods for eigenvalue problems, such as FEAST. The second scheme focuses on integrating the resolvent operator primarily along the interface region defined by adjacent subdomains. A parallel implementation of the proposed schemes is described, and results on distributed computing environments are reported. These results show that domain decomposition approaches can lead to reduced run times and improved scalability.     

基于级差最大化组合赋权TOPSIS灰关联投影法的区域碳效率动态评价

针对传统碳效率评价多为单一经济产出的静态评价的不足,从经济、福利及人口等角度构建碳效率综合评价指标体系;通过把TOPSIS、灰色关联理论和矢量投影法引入到碳效率评价中,在传统加法合成和乘法合成组合赋权的基础上利用级差最大化法对评价指标赋权;并进一步引入时间变量对时间序列赋权,利用时序算术平均算子对前后两次加权进行集成,提出一种基于级差最大化组合赋权的TOPSIS灰关联投影动态评价模型。以泛长三角区域为例进行实证研究显示:该区域碳效率水平存在明显差异,产业发展不均衡。研究认为,应充分挖掘该区域的战略优势和发展潜力,协同发展,实现低碳经济。     

Tactical supply chain planning models with inherent flexibility: definition and review

Supply chains (SCs) can be managed at many levels. The use of tactical SC planning models with multiple flexibility options can help manage the usual operations efficiently and effectively, whilst improve the SC resiliency in response to inherent environmental uncertainties. This paper defines tactical SC flexibility and identifies tactical flexibility measures and options for development of flexible SC planning models. A classification of the existing literature of SC planning is introduced that highlights the characteristics of published flexibility inclusive models. Additional classifications from the reviewed literature are presented based on the integration of flexibility options used, solution methods utilized, and real world applications presented. These classifications are helpful for identifying research gaps in the current literature and provide insights for future modeling and research efforts in the field.     

Integration of the human operator into responsive discrete production management systems

The need for production systems that can react or respond to dynamic changes is continuously increasing because of the reduction of product life cycle time and the rise of competition. To improve responsiveness, we show that integrating the intelligence of the human operator into the system helps to face complexity. However, little work has been done about the optimization of such integration considering production system constraints (real time decision making, observability, etc.) and human operator constraints (mental workload, trust in management system, self-confidence, etc.). This paper aims at discussing ways to take account of the cognitive abilities of the human operator and offers some advice on how to take accurately into account the integration of the human operator by the proposal of a set of global specifications. To illustrate how it is possible to contribute to the optimized design of a system based upon such specifications, we propose the concept of “distributed production management system”. We first address the specific interface issue. A classical example of “advanced display” designed for continuous systems, that is, the Ecological Interface Design (EID) approach, is applied to discrete production systems. We show that such an approach is coherent with parts of the introduced specifications but can be adapted to large complex and discrete systems with difficulty. To solve this issue, we propose the development of a distributed DSS where each local DSS integrates an advanced display and manages a set of production resources in cooperation with an operator, which reduces the global complexity.     

A composite collocation method for the nonlinear mixed Volterra–Fredholm–Hammerstein integral equations

This paper presents a computational technique for the solution of the nonlinear mixed Volterra–Fredholm–Hammerstein integral equations. The method is based on the composite collocation method. The properties of hybrid of block-pulse functions and Lagrange polynomials are discussed and utilized to define the composite interpolation operator. The estimates for the errors are given. The composite interpolation operator together with the Gaussian integration formula are then used to transform the nonlinear mixed Volterra–Fredholm–Hammerstein integral equations into a system of nonlinear equations. The efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method is illustrated by four numerical examples.     

A supervisory control paradigm for real-time control of flexible manufacturing systems

Most of the current academic flexible manufacturing system (FMS) scheduling research has focused on the derivation of algorithms or knowledge-based techniques for efficient FMS real-time control. Here, the limitations of this view are outlined with respect to effective control of actual real-time FMS operation. A more realistic paradigm for real-time FMS control is presented, based on explicit engineering of human and automated control functions and system interfaces. To illustrate design principles within the conceptual model, an example of algorithmic and operator function models for a specific real-time FMS control problem are developed.Portions of this paper have appeared in: Proc. 2nd ORSA/TIMS Conf. on Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Operations Research Models and Applications, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 12–15, 1986, and Proc. 1986 Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Atlanta, Georgia, October 14–17, 1986.This research was supported in part by the New Faculty Research Program of the Georgia Institute of Technology.     

Approximate source conditions in Tikhonov–Phillips regularization and consequences for inverse problems with multiplication operators

The object of this paper is threefold. First, we investigate in a Hilbert space setting the utility of approximate source conditions in the method of Tikhonov–Phillips regularization for linear ill‐posed operator equations. We introduce distance functions measuring the violation of canonical source conditions and derive convergence rates for regularized solutions based on those functions. Moreover, such distance functions are verified for simple multiplication operators in L²(0, 1). The second aim of this paper is to emphasize that multiplication operators play some interesting role in inverse problem theory. In this context, we give examples of non‐linear inverse problems in natural sciences and stochastic finance that can be written as non‐linear operator equations in L²(0, 1), for which the forward operator is a composition of a linear integration operator and a non‐linear superposition operator. The Fréchet derivative of such a forward operator is a composition of a compact integration and a non‐compact multiplication operator. If the multiplier function defining the multiplication operator has zeros, then for the linearization an additional ill‐posedness factor arises. By considering the structure of canonical source conditions for the linearized problem it could be expected that different decay rates of multiplier functions near a zero, for example the decay as a power or as an exponential function, would lead to completely different ill‐posedness situations. As third we apply the results on approximate source conditions to such composite linear problems in L²(0, 1) and indicate that only integrals of multiplier functions and not the specific character of the decay of multiplier functions in a neighbourhood of a zero determine the convergence behaviour of regularized solutions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一种积分数据的函数重构及其误差估计

本文考虑了一种基于函数积分平均值的函数重构方法,在定义了一个插值算子之后建立了误差估计.从理论分析结果可以看出这种方法得到的解是适定的,因此我们不需要选择正则化参数,这样就简化了算法,而且最后一系列的数值结果很好的验证了这种方法的有效性.     

Interaction of intelligent and autonomous systems – part II: realization of cognitive technical systems

In this study, the application of a meta-modelling technique to structure complex environments is demonstrated with two examples. A special situation-operator model developed to model the human-machine-interaction is applied to automated supervision within the HMI context and to realize flexible and situated interaction of autonomous systems. A concept to automated monitoring of human operators is introduced to illustrate the structuring of complex environments as the first example. In the second example, this modelling technique is applied to a mobile robot to autonomously build and update a mental model of the interaction with the environment as an example of a cognitive technical system.     

Operator theory in the Hardy space over the bidisk (II)

This paper is a continuation of a project of developing a systematic operator theory inH ²(D ²). A large part of it is devoted to a study ofevaluation operator which is a very useful tool in the theory. A number of elementary properties of the evaluation operator are exhibited, and these properties are used to derive results in other topics such as interpretation of characteristic opertor function inH ²(D ²), spectral equivalence, compactness, compressions of shift operators, etc., Even though some results reflect the two variable nature ofH ²(D ²), the goal of this paper is to manifest a close tie between the operator theory inH ²(D ²) and classical single operator theory. The unilateral shift of a finite multiplicity and the Bergman shift will be used as examples to illustrate some of the results.Research in this paper is partially supported by a grant from the national science foundation DMS 9970932.     

A derivative concept with respect to an arbitrary kernel and applications to fractional calculus

In this paper, we propose a new concept of derivative with respect to an arbitrary kernel function. Several properties related to this new operator, like inversion rules and integration by parts, are studied. In particular, we introduce the notion of conjugate kernels, which will be useful to guaranty that the proposed derivative operator admits a right inverse. The proposed concept includes as special cases Riemann‐Liouville fractional derivatives, Hadamard fractional derivatives, and many other fractional operators. Moreover, using our concept, new fractional operators involving certain special functions are introduced, and some of their properties are studied. Finally, an existence result for a boundary value problem involving the introduced derivative operator is proved.     

Smooth boundary integration method in a linear two-dimensional problem of incompressible fluid and solid

This paper presents a new application of a theoretical and computational method of smooth boundary integration which belongs to the methods of boundary integral equations. Smooth integration is not a method of approximation. In its final analytical form, a smooth-kernel integral equation is computerized easily and accurately.

Smooth integration is associated with a “pressure-vorticity” formulation which covers linear problems in elasticity and fluid mechanics. The solution presented herein is essentially the same as that reported in an earlier paper for regular elasticity. The constraint of incompressibility does not cause difficulties in the pressure-vorticity formulation.

The linear fluid mechanics problem formulated and solved in this paper covers Stokes' problem of a slow viscous flow, and has a wider interpretation. The translational inertia forces are incorporated in the linear problem, as in Euler's dynamic theory of inviscid flow. The centrifugal inertia forces are left for the non-linear problem. The linear problem is perceived as a step in solution of the non-linear problems.     

Unconditional Bases, the Matrix Muckenhoupt Condition, and Carleson Series in a Spectrum

Two families of functions constructed by a system of n scalar Muckenhoupt weights are studied. Criteria are given under which these families are unconditional bases. From the point of view of the spectral operator theory, the problem is reduced to the study of the structure of n-dimensional perturbations of the integration operator. Weighted estimates for the Hilbert transform in the spaces of vector-functions are applied to construct an operator mapping functions of the studied families to vector-valued rational functions. The concept of the Carleson series is used in the study of the following problem: when do vector-valued rational functions form an unconditional basis? Bibliography: 8 titles.     

Nassrallah-Rahman积分的一个新证明

应用关于ｑ－微分算子的Ｌｅｉｂｎｉｚ公式证明了关于ｑ－微分算子的两个恒等式．利用这些恒等式及ｑ－级数的一些求和公式给出了Ｎａｓｒａｌａｈ－Ｒａｈｍａｎ积分的一个新证明，进而给出了关于ｑ－级数８Φ７的积分表示的一个简易推导     

A unique grid spectral solver of the nD Cartesian unsteady Strokes system. Illustrative numerical results

A pseudospectral solver of the Cartesian 2D/3D unsteady Strokes problem is presented, based on a unique grid procedure which allows for a spectrally accurate evaluation of the solenoidal velocity field and of the pressure. The explicit and implicit time integration schemes are compared as far as the pressure operator and the corresponding operations counts are concerned. The numerical performances are illustrated with the 2D/3D regularized driven cavity.     

Reduction principle for a certain class of kernel-type operators

The classical Hardy–Littlewood inequality asserts that the integral of a product of two functions is always majorized by that of their non-increasing rearrangements. One of the pivotal applications of this result is the fact that the boundedness of an integral operator acting near zero is equivalent to the boundedness of the same operator restricted to the cone of positive non-increasing functions. It is well known that an analogous inequality for integration away from zero is not true. We will show in this paper that, nevertheless, the equivalence of the two inequalities is still preserved for certain rather general class of kernel-type operators under a mild restriction and regardless of the measure of the underlying integration domain.