Existing verification and validation methodologies can detect software violations very effectively but fail to provide any mechanism for correcting faults once they are detected. Detection of faults, their diagnosis and corrective actions are all essential components of any software rectification framework. In this paper, we propose a framework for correction of violations in software systems e...

Aiming to unify known results about clustering mixtures of distributions under separation conditions, Kumar and Kannan [KK10] introduced a deterministic condition for clustering datasets. They showed that this single deterministic condition encompasses many previously studied clustering assumptions. More specifically, their proximity condition requires that in the target k-clustering, the proje...

In this paper we generalize some results of fixed point theory to partial metric spaces by using methods in the context a new extension Ekeland?s variational principle. We provide corollaries unify our with other existing literature along same vein. Then, show that require existence assumptions weaker than those for well-known contractive maps, including ones sense Banach, Ciric, Song, Kannan a...

Abstract. Sampling points from the uniform distribution on a polytope is a well-studied problem, and is an important ingredient in several computational tasks involving polytopes, such as volume estimation. This is achieved by setting up a random walk inside the polytope, with its stationary distribution being uniform in the interior of the polytope. Kannan-Narayanan [6] and Narayanan [9] propo...

In this editorial accompanying the special section on Marketing Science in Emerging Markets (MSEM), we describe how research on emerging markets can contribute to richer theoretical and substantive understanding of markets and marketing. Such research can also aid in providing managerial guidance on how to operate in emerging markets. We conclude with a description of the selection and review p...

We introduced a general class of contraction maps on a metric space, called Acontractions (that includes the contractions originally studied by R. Kannan, M. S. Khan at el, R. Bianchini, and S. Reich), and extended some common fixed point theorems on M. S. Khan’s contractions to general self maps of a metric space satisfying certain A-contraction type condition; in this paper, we prove exact an...

Specific and robust targeting of pathogenic cells would represent a major advance in treatment eye diseases including diabetic retinopathy. In article number 2000181 Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, Elia J. Duh co-workers use the corticosteroid triamcinolone conjugated to surface PAMAM-dendrimers, which are tree-like branching polymeric nanoparticles. This dendrimer-triamcinolone conjugate selectively...