*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, 824, Taiwan Abstract In this paper, we first establish some new existence theorems of coincidence points and common fixed points forMT -functions. By applying our results, we obtain some generalizations of Mizoguchi-Takahashi’s fixed point theorem, Nadler’s fixed point theorem a...

The purpose of this survey is to prove that the fixed point results for various multiplicative contractions are in fact equivalent to the corresponding fixed point results in (standard) metric spaces. For example, such are recent results established by He et al. (Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2014:48, 2014), Mongkolkeha and Sintunavarat (J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 8:1134-1140, 2015) and Abdou (J. Nonli...

To automatically construct a three-dimensional (3-D) object model, it is necessary to merge a set of range images acquired from different views. The iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm has been widely used to find the transformation parameters between a pair of images. In this paper, a fast ICP algorithm is proposed by restricting the search space to one-dimensional (1-D) orthogonal lines t...

The dimensioning of telecommunication networks that carry elastic traffic requires the fulfillment of two conflicting goals: maximizing the total network throughput and providing fairness to all flows. Fairness in telecommunication network design is usually provided using the so-called max-min fairness (MMF) approach. However, this approach maximizes the performance of the worst (most expensive...

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The identification of crucial knowledge to be capitalized and especially crucial tacit knowledge is a complex process because knowledge cannot be measured quantitatively. In this paper, we propose a methodology based on multi-criteria decision aid for evaluating knowledge that needs to be capitalized using a non compensatory aggregation procedure based on reference point model. Our method allow...

Fingerprint matching is one of the most important problems in Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). In this paper a new method of the reference point alignment has been presented. A new approach of reference point localization is based on so-called identification masks which have been composed on the basis of analysis of biometric characteristic of human finger. Construction of such masks h...

An experiment was conducted to test a rational principle of decision making called dynamic consistency. Decision makers were presented with a sequence of two gambles, and they were asked to make two decisions. Before the first gamble was played, they made a plan for the second gamble contingent on the outcome of the first gamble; then they played the first gamble and were asked to make a final ...

This paper presents a multiple reference point approach for multi-objective optimization problems of discrete and combinatorial nature. When approximating the Pareto Frontier, multiple reference points can be used instead of traditional techniques. These multiple reference points can easily be implemented in a parallel algorithmic framework. The reference points can be uniformly distributed wit...

We investigate different ways of generating approximate solutions to the inverse Ising problem (IIP). Our approach consists in to take as a starting point for further perturbation procedures, a Bethe mean-field solution obtained with a maximum spanning tree (MST) of pairwise mutual information which we refer to as the Bethe reference point. We consider three different ways of following this ide...