CHENG-HONG YANG, CHENG-HUEI YANG, LI-YEH CHUANG AND CHING-HSING LUO Department of Electronic Engineering National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences Kaohsiung, 807 Taiwan Department of Telecommunication and Computer Engineering National Kaohsiung Institute of Marine Technology Kaohsiung, 811 Taiwan Department of Chemical Engineering I-Shou University Kaohsiung, 840 Taiwan Department of El...

1 School of Electronics and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK 2Simula Research Laboratory, Fornebu, 1325 Lysaker, Norway 3Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Bristol BS1 4ND, UK 4Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 70101, Taiwan 5School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang Universit...

In this paper, we present a fourth order method for computing simple roots of nonlinear equations by using suitable Taylor and weight function approximation. The method is based on Weerakoon-Fernando method [S. Weerakoon, G.I. Fernando, A variant of Newton's method with third-order convergence, Appl. Math. Lett. 17 (2000) 87-93]. The method is optimal, as it needs three evaluations per iterate,...

I develop an equilibrium model of housing and mortgage markets where house prices, mortgage interest rates, and leverage ratios are all determined endogenously. Agents are forward looking and have rational expectations. House prices adjust so that demand from new buyers clears with supply created by existing sellers. Housing demand is affected by the price and availability of contracts in the m...

Surface Roughening Using Size-Controllable SiO2 Nanotube Arrays Der-Ming Kuo, Shui-Jinn Wang, Kai-Ming Uang, Tron-Min Chen, Wei-Chi Lee, and Pei-Ren Wang Institute of Microelectronics, Dept. of Electrical Eng., National Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering, WuFeng Institute of Technology, Chia-yi, Taiwan *Phone: +886-6-2757575-62351, Fax: +886-6-2763882, E-mail:...