Preface: Advances in Mathematical and Computational
Methods: Addressing Modern Challenges of Science,
Technology, and Society
Ilias Kotsireas, Roderick Melnik, and Brian West ............. 1
MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS IN PHYSICAL SCIENCES
AND ENGINEERING (PSE)
A mixed finite element method with time relaxation for
recirculating flows: The slip with friction boundary condition
Monika Neda and Pengtao Sun .................................. 5
On conformal mappings of spherical domains
Andrei Bourchtein and Ludmila Bourchtein ..................... 9
Numerical solution of the Dirac equation and applications in
laser-matter interaction
Francois Fillion-Gourdeau, Emmanuel Lorin de la
Grandmaison, and André D. Bandrauk .......................... 13
Effects of pressure stress work and viscous dissipation in
mixed convection flow along a vertical flat plate
A.S. Bhuiyan and M.R. Biswas ................................ 17
The use of the Fourier transform for solving linear
elasticity problems
Tomas Kozubek and Lukas Мосек ............................... 21
Controllability and observability of linear time-varying
impulsive systems on time scales
Kexue Zhang and Xinzhi Liu .................................. 25
Effect of flow oscillation on dispersion of a solute in a
tube
P. Nagarani and В.T. Sebastian .............................. 29
Numerical bifurcation study of natural convection in a layer
of fluid subject to spatially distributed heating
A. Asgarian, M.Z. Hossain, and J.M. Floryan ................. 33
Numerical experiments on existence and non-uniqueness of
solutions of the thermistor problem with Helmholtz term
Tim Kröger .................................................. 37
Analysis and numerical approximation of viscosity solutions
with shocks: Application to the plasma equation
Susana Serna ................................................ 41
Parallel FEM simulation of electromechanics in the heart
Henian Xia, Kwai Wong, and Xiaopeng Zhao .................... 45
Designing a Stochastic Adaptive Impulsive Observer for
stochastic linear and nonlinear impulsive systems
Moosa Ayati, Mohamad Alwan, Xinzhi Liu, and Hamid
Khaloozadeh ................................................. 49
Observer for singularly perturbed switched linear time-
varying systems
Moosa Ayati, Mohamad Alwan, Xinzhi Liu, and Hamid
Khaloozadeh ................................................. 53
Mean square stability of nonlinear stochastic impulsive
systems with time delay
Mohamad Alwan, Xinzhi Liu, and Wei-Chau Xie ................. 57
Thermally-robust asymmetric resonators for energy harvesting
applications
Pezhman A. Hassanpour, Patricia M. Nieva, and Amir
Khajepour ................................................... 61
Cell-centered finite difference methodology for solving
partial differential equations on an unstructured mesh
J.J. Situ, R.M. Barron, and M. Higgins ...................... 65
A cell-based finite difference method for the numerical
solution of PDEs
Ali Salih, R.M. Barron, and J. Freidl ....................... 69
Solving Fokker-Planck equation by two-dimensional
differential transform
Ümmügülsüm Cansu and Ozan Özkan ............................. 73
Stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems using
state-dependent switching control and impulsive control
Peter Stechlinski and Xinzhi Liu ............................ 77
Analysis and modelling towards hybrid piezo-electromagnetic
vibrating energy harvesting devices
Torsten Reuschel and Armaghan Salehian ...................... 81
Bulk properties of α-PbO from first-principle self-consistent
calculations
O. Rubel and A. Potvin ...................................... 85
A regression algorithm for model reduction of large-scale
multi-dimensional problems
Ehsan Rasekh ................................................ 89
Large-eddy simulation of streamwise rotating turbulent
thermal flows based on advanced subgrid-scale models
Ye Zhang and Bing-Chen Wang ................................. 93
Symmetry-based design and fabrication of novel sensor systems
A. Palacios, Huy Vu, Visarath In, and Patrick Longhini ...... 97
Takens-Bogdanov bifurcation analysis in indirect field-
oriented control
Fernando Verduzco and Francisco A. Carrillo ................ 101
High-order method for modeling of aerodynamics of flapping
wings: Airfoil-gust interaction
Harish Gopalan and Alex Povitsky ........................... 105
Efficient methods for analysis of flows in grooved annuli
H. Vafadar Moradi and J.M. Floryan ......................... 109
Mathematical results for some a models of turbulence with
critical and subcritical regularizations
Hani Ali ................................................... 113
Inhomogeneous plane symmetric cosmological model in scale
invariant theory
B. Mishra .................................................. 117
One dimensional model of semiconductor laser based on
quantum well using non-equilibrium Green's functions method
J.M. Miloszewski and M.S. Wartak ........................... 121
A linear programming network analysis of phosphorus
reduction strategies for the Lake Simcoe watershed
James MacLellan, Martin Bunch, and Kaz Higuchi ............. 125
MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS IN LIFE SCIENCES (LS)
Faster short DNA sequence alignment with parallel BVV A
D. Peters, K. Qiu, and P. Liang ............................ 131
Protein flexibility of dimers: Do symmetric motions play
a role in allosteric interactions?
Bernd Schulze, Adnan Sljoka, and Walter Whiteley ........... 135
Computational graph theoretical model of the zebrafish
sensorimotor pathway
Joshua M. Peterson, Michael Stobb, Bori Mazzag, and Ethan
Gahtan ..................................................... 139
Qualitative analysis of nutrient-pbytoplankton models
Qinghua Cai, Zakaria Mohamad, and Yuan Yuan ................ 143
Towards inter- and intra- cellular protein interaction
analysis: Applying the betweenness centrality graph measure
for node importance
Alan J. Barton and Arsalan S. Haqqani ...................... 147
Stability of stochastic switched SIRS models
Xiaoying Meng, Xinzhi Liu, and Feiqi Deng .................. 151
A Turing reaction-diffusion model for human cortical folding
patterns and cortical pattern malformations
Monica K. Hurdal and Deborah A. Striegel ................... 155
Modeling the effect of topical oxygen therapy on wound
healing
Ephraim Agyingi, David Ross, and Sophia Maggelakis ......... 159
Identification of transposon insertion polymorphisms by
computational comparative analysis of next generation
personal genome data
Xuemei Luo, Frank Dehne, and Ping Liang .................... 163
Predicting protein hinge motions and allostery using
rigidity theory
Adnan Sljoka and Alexandr Bezginov ......................... 167
The dynamics of a delayed predator-prey model with state
dependent feedback control
Anuraj Singh and Sunita Gakkhar ............................ 171
Modeling the effects of lipid composition on stratum corneum
bilayers using molecular dynamics simulations
J. Torin Huzil, Siv Sivaloganathan, Mohammad Kohandel,
and Marianna Foldvari ...................................... 175
Radiotherapy dose fractionation under parameter uncertainty
Matt Davison, Daero Kim, and Harald Keller ................. 179
MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS IN ECONOMICS, FINANCE,
OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (EFSS)
An integrated model for supplier selection for a high-tech
manufacturer
Amy H.I. Lee, He-Yau Kang, and Chun-Yu Lin ................. 185
New product development for green and low-carbon products -
A case study of Taiwan's TFT-LCD manufacturer
Chun-Yu Lin and Amy H.I. Lee ............................... 189
Worst case analysis for deterministic online algorithm in
capacitated lot-sizing problem
Ekaterina Kaganova ......................................... 193
Pickup and delivery problem with stochastic travel times for
semiconductor supply chains
Chun-Mei Lai ............................................... 197
The Augmented Lagrangian method applied to unsolvable power
flows
Mario C. Zambaldi, Juliano B. Francisco, and Luciano
V. Barboza ................................................. 201
Multi-objective programming for lot-sizing with quantity
discount
He-Yau Kang, Amy H.I. Lee, Chun-Mei Lai, Mei-Sung Kang ..... 205
Game theory and social psychology: Conformity games
Danielle Alessio and D. Marc Kilgour ....................... 209
A procedure for fair division of indivisible, identical
objects with entitlements
Andrew Kabbes, D. Marc Kilgour, and Ross Cressman .......... 213
A hybrid modeling approach for option pricing
Ehsan Hajizadeh and Abbas Seifi ............................ 217
Analysis of tax-deductible interest payments for
re-advanceable Canadian mortgages
Almas Naseem and Mark Reesor ............................... 221
Stochastic multi-commodity facility location based on a new
scenario generation technique
M. Mahootchi, M. Fattahi, and E. Khakbazan ................. 225
Efficient variance reduction methods for Asian option
pricing under exponential jump-diffusion models
Yongzeng Lai, Yan Zeng, and Xiaojing Xi .................... 229
NUMERICAL METHODS, ALGORITHMS, AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN
SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (NMAA)
Pointwise numerical index determination of unstructured DAEs
Rene Lamour ................................................ 235
A stability and cost study of explicit super and dyadic time
stepping for stiff nonsymmetric problems
K.F. Gurski ................................................ 239
A time splitting semi-implicit scheme for atmospheric
modeling
Andrei Bourchtein and Ludmila Bourchtein ................... 243
Sextic B-spline collocation algorithm for the modified equal
width equation
Saleh M. Hassan and D.G. Alamery ........................... 247
Hadamard factorization of stable polynomials
Carlos Arturo Loredo-Villalobos and Baltazar Aguirre-
Hernández .................................................. 251
Steiner tree for fast data distribution
Hongbing Fan and Yue-Ang Chen .............................. 255
Complexity and performance results for non FFT-based
univariate polynomial multiplication
Muhammad F.I. Chowdhury, Marc Moreno Maza, Wei Pan, and
Eric Schost ................................................ 259
Solving bivariate polynomial systems on a GPU
Marc Moreno Maza and Wei Pan ............................... 263
Sparsity preserving computation for spectral projectors
E. Fatih Yetkin and Hasan Dağ .............................. 267
On Hurwitz and Schur connecting-curves and dense
trajectories
J.A. López Renteria, В. Aguirre-Hernández, and
F. Verduzco González ....................................... 271
Strong-stability-preserving Hermite-Birkhoff
time-discretizations of order 4 to 12
Truong Nguyen-Ba, Huong Nguyen-Thu, and Remi
Vaillancourt ............................................... 275
Domain decomposition strategies with black box subdomain
solvers
Silvia Bertoluzza .......................................... 279
Pryce structural analysis adapted to Hermite-Birkhoff-Taylor
DAE solvers
Truong Nguyen-Ba, Hemza Yagoub, and Rémi Vaillancourt ...... 283
OTHER APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS,
STATISTICAL METHODS, SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING (OA)
Optimal and robust designs for full and reduced Fourier
regression models
Xiaojian Xu and Xiaoli Shang ............................... 289
Two maps and worldwide Ipod interest
Reason L. Machete .......................................... 293
Posterior density estimation for a class of on-line quality
control models
Chang C.Y. Dorea and Walter B. Santos ...................... 297
Analysis of monotonic discretizations for ODE parameter
estimation
Allan R. Willms and Emily K. Szusz ......................... 301
Exploiting domain knowledge to forecast heating oil
consumption
George F. Corliss, Tsuginosuke Sakauchi, Steven
R. Vitullo, and Ronald H. Brown ............................ 305
Generating space-time auto-correlated fields on the sphere
Martin Charron and Lubos Spacek ............................ 309
Robust designs for three commonly used nonlinear models
Xiaoj ian Xu and Arnold Chen ............................... 313
Parallel univariate real root isolation on multicore
processors
Changbo Chen, Marc Moreno Maza, and Yuzhen Xie ............. 317
Perceptual normalized information distance for image
distortion analysis based on Kolmogorov complexity
Nima Nikvand and Zhou Wang ................................. 321
Pipelined processing of x-ray microdiffraction data on
multicores
Michael A. Bauer, Alain Biem, Stewart Mclntyre, and
Yuzhen Xie ................................................. 325
Counting vectors for orthogonal fractional factorial design
generation
Roberto Fontana ............................................ 327
Author Index .................................................. 331
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