This paper is concerned with the dynamical stability analysis for almost periodic solution of memristive neural networks with time-varying delays. Under the framework of Filippov solutions, by applying the inequality analysis techniques, the existence and asymptotically almost periodic behavior of solutions are discussed. Based on the differential inclusions theory and Lyapunov functional appro...

This paper presents a conceptual model to allow communities self-detecting fake and inappropriate news on social network sites based on collective intelligence and inspired by Viable Systems Approach. The model is grounded on an extension of the Gruber model (on which Collective Knowlegde Systems are based) which incorporates a Consensus Method typically used in the Group Decision Making.

This paper describes the dynamic window approach to reactive collision avoidance for mobile robots equipped with synchro-drives. The approach is derived directly from the motion dynamics of the robot and is therefore particularly well-suited for robots operating at high speed. It di ers from previous approaches in that the search for commands controlling the translational and rotational velocit...

We show existence and uniqueness of a stationary state for a kinetic Fokker-Planck equation modeling the fibre lay-down process in the production of non-woven textiles. Following a micromacro decomposition, we use hypocoercivity techniques to show exponential convergence to equilibrium with an explicit rate assuming the conveyor belt moves slow enough. This work is an extention of [2], where th...

This paper is an attempt to test PENTA, an articulatory-functional model, on Persian focus prosody. The test was done on a corpus consisting of utterances with different focus conditions using PENTAtrainer2, a trainable prosody synthesizer that optimizes categorical pitch targets each corresponding to multiple communicative functions. The evaluation was done by comparing the F0 contours generat...

ion, encapsulation, and information hiding. These can be difficult concepts to apply, especially for those accustomed to a structured or functional approach. The guidelines can be especially helpful for those who begin using Ada with no experience in design or those with only programming experience in assembler languages. The guidelines can also be used as an important part of design and code r...

This paper presents improvements over the Dynamic Window Approach (I-DWA), used for computing in real time autonomous robot navigation. A novel objective function that includes Lyapunov stability criteria is proposed. It allows to guarantee a global and asymptotic convergence to the goal avoiding collisions and resulting in a more simple and self-contained approach. Experimental results with si...

The distribution of an electrolyte solution close to a charge macroion is investigated theoretically. A local density functional form based on one component plasma theory is proposed to incorporate the correlations between the microions into Poisson–Boltzmann theory. Our results are compared with those obtained by the mean-field approximation.

We employ a functional approach to investigate the confinement problem in quenched Landau gauge QCD. We demonstrate analytically that a linear rising potential between massive quarks is generated by infrared singularities in the dressed quark-gluon vertex. The selfconsistent mechanism that generates these singularities is driven by the scalar Dirac amplitudes of the full vertex and the quark pr...