Abstract. In this paper, the chaotic dynamics of a three-dimensional fractional-order chaotic system is investigated. The lowest order for exhibiting chaos in the fractional-order system is obtained. Adaptive schemes are proposed for control and synchronization of the fractional-order chaotic system based on the stability theory of fractional-order dynamic systems. The presented schemes, which ...

Inspired by the pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and motion picture projection by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878 and by the high speed films of Harold Edgerton by the middle of the 20th century, the use of video has rapidly emerged nowadays as a powerful tool to teach physics at schools and universities, capturing what the human eye could not distinguish. To highlight the advantage...

Particle-polymer nanocomposites often exhibit mechanical properties described poorly by micromechanical models that include only the particle and matrix phases. Existence of an interfacial region between the particle and matrix, or interphase, has been posited and indirectly demonstrated to account for this effect. Here, we present a straightforward analytical approach to estimate effective ela...

We present an approach for the quantification of directional relations in multiple time series exhibiting significant zero-lag interactions. To overcome the limitations of the traditional multivariate autoregressive (MVAR) modelling of multiple series, we introduce an extended MVAR (eMVAR) framework allowing either exclusive consideration of time-lagged effects according to the classic notion o...

Object-orientated frameworks, software architectures, generators, and domain analysis are all technologies that claim to make reuse possible. In this position paper, we argue that in order to achieve a higher level of reuse, all these technologies should be combined into a single development framework using the concept of domain-speciic software architectures. We will examine the elements of a ...

No one has yet developed a generally acceptable model of reusable software that fully captures the nature of software parts and how they should be used to construct new systems. This paper discusses developing a model of reusable subsystems, where a subsystem can vary in grain size from large scale generic architectures to single module components. It draws on previous work from wisr'91 to desc...

A recent measurement of the differential cross sections for elastic K+p and K-p scattering is discussed within the framework of a dual absorptive model which was proposed earlier. The non-Pomeron part of the elastic scattering amplitude is shown to be strongly dominated by the most peripheral partial waves within the interaction radius, namely by the B N gr partial waves. (Submitted to Physics ...

In the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax letters, researchers have been exploring ways to predict the production environment of unknown-source microorganisms. Culture medium, presence of agar, culturing temperature, and drying method are just some of the broad spectrum of characteristics an investigator might like to infer. The effects of many of these factors on microorganisms are not well underst...

In this paper, based on low-rank representation and eigenface extraction, we present an improvement to the well known Sparse Representation based Classification (SRC). Firstly, the low-rank images of the face images of each individual in training subset are extracted by the Robust Principal Component Analysis (Robust PCA) to alleviate the influence of noises (e.g., illumination difference and o...

A coarse-grained representation of neuronal network dynamics is developed in terms of kinetic equations, which are derived by a moment closure, directly from the original large-scale integrate-and-fire (I&F) network. This powerful kinetic theory captures the full dynamic range of neuronal networks, from the mean-driven limit (a limit such as the number of neurons N --> infinity, in which the fl...