Nacrtak This paper describes a program for optimizing forest road alignments using the Dijkstra shortest path method and a cubic spline function. We previously developed a method for optimizing forest road alignments once a series of intersection points (IPs) were selected manually using Tabu Search. The application of the program to a part of Capitol State Forest in Washington State, USA indic...

The non-polynomial spline method is proposed to solve a singular boundary value problems. Some model problems are solved and the numerical results are compared with B-spline approximation and the exact solution. Results obtained by the method indicate the method is simple and effective. Key–Words: Singular point; Singular two-point boundary value problems; Cubic spline

Quartic non-polynomial spline function approximation in off step points is developed, for the solution of fourth-order boundary value problems. Using consistency relation of such spline and suitable choice of parameter,we have obtained second, fourth and sixth orders methods. Convergence analysis of sixth order method has been given. The methods are illustrated by some examples, to verify the or...

In this article, a fourth order quintic spline method has been developed to obtain numerical solutions for second order boundary value problems with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The developments of the quintic spline method and convergence analysis were presented. Three test problems have been considered for comparison purposes. The numerical results showed that the quintic spline method is m...

Smoothing splines with generalized cross-validation parameter selection (GCV-spline) provide a method to find an optimal smoother for an fMRI time series. The purpose of this study was to compare the variance of parameter estimates and the bias of the variance estimator for a linear regression model smoothed with GCV-spline and the low-pass filter in SPM99 (SPM-HRF). The mean bias with the SPM-...

The Hybrid Spline method (H-spline) is a method of density estimation which involves regression splines and smoothing splines methods. Using basis functions (B-splines), this method is much faster than Smoothing Spline Density Estimation approach (Gu, 1993). Simulations suggest that with more structured data (e.g., several modes) H-spline method estimates the modes as well as Logspline (Kooperb...

As a rule, an energy method is widely adopted for b-spline curve smoothing, but this method has the disadvantages such as massive calculation, computation complexity and low efficiency. Compared with the energy method, multi-resolution smoothing approaches nicely overcome these obstacles. Presently, some researches have been conducted on multi-resolution smoothing, but these efforts mainly aime...

O. Ismail, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract— This paper presents an efficient method for degree elevation of interval B-spline curves. The four fixed Kharitonov's polynomials (four fixed B-spline curves) associated with the original interval B-spline curve are obtained. The method is based on the matrix identity. The B-spline basis functions are represented as linear combinations of the B-splines o...