This paper gives a new, simple, monotonically convergent, algorithm for the Fermat-Weber location problem, with extensions covering more general cost functions.

Conjugate gradient methods are efficient methods for minimizing differentiable objective functions in large dimension spaces. However, converging line search strategies are usually not easy to choose, nor to implement. Sun and colleagues (Ann. Oper. Res. 103:161–173, 2001; J. Comput. Appl. Math. 146:37–45, 2002) introduced a simple stepsize formula. However, the associated convergence domain ha...

variational iteration method using he's polynomials can be used to construct solitary solution and  compacton-like solution for nonlinear dispersive equatioons. the chosen initial solution can be determined in compacton-like form or in solitary form with some compacton-like or solitary forms with some unknown parameters, which can be determined in the solution procedure. the compacton-like solu...

In this paper the damage location in beam like-structure is determined using static and dynamic data obtained using finite volume method. The change of static and dynamic displacement due to damage is used to establish an indicator for determining the damage location. In order to assess the robustness of the proposed method for structural damage detection, three test examples including a static...

Differential transform method has been applied to solve many functional equations so far. In this article, we have used this method to solve wave-like equations. Differential transform method is capable of reducing the size of computational work. Exact solutions can also be achieved by the known forms of the series solutions. Some examples are prepared to show theefficiency and simplicity of th...

We present a novel approach to federated learning that endows its aggregation process with greater robustness potential poisoning of local data or model parameters participating devices. The proposed approach, Robust Federated Aggregation (RFA), relies on the updates using geometric median, which can be computed efficiently Weiszfeld-type algorithm. RFA is agnostic level corruption and aggregat...