AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | JANUARY 2007| 25 PB AFFILIATIONS: LEVY—Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland; PINKER—Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park...

In this paper vibration of ferromagnetic rectangular plates which are subjected to an inclined magnetic field is investigated based on classical plate theory and Maxwell equations. Levy type solution and Finite element method using Comsol software are used to obtain the frequency of the plate subjected to different boundary conditions, good agreements is obtained when computed results are compa...

In this article, stress analysis and energy estimation during cold-roll forming of symmetrical channel sections have been discussed. Geometry of sheet strip is pre-estimated by a shape function. Then longitudinal, transversal and shear strains have been calculated. Using both the Levy-Mises and the Prandtl Reuss equations, and also considering the Bauschinger effect, stress distributions have b...

Data clustering is the process of partitioning a set of data objects into meaning clusters or groups. Due to the vast usage of clustering algorithms in many fields, a lot of research is still going on to find the best and efficient clustering algorithm. K-means is simple and easy to implement, but it suffers from initialization of cluster center and hence trapped in local optimum. In this paper...

In this paper we present a parametric estimation method for certain multi-parameter heavy-tailed Levy-driven moving averages. The theory relies on recent multivariate central limit theorems obtained in [3] via Malliavin calculus Poisson spaces. Our minimal contrast approach is related to the papers [14, 15], which propose use marginal empirical characteristic function estimate one-dimensional p...

Nonhomogenous random fields are known to be well adapted to modeling a wide class of images. Their computational complexity generally causes their lack of appeal, we propose a more efficient model capable of capturing textures, shapes, as well as jumps typically encountered in infra-red images. The so-called Levy Random fields as we show, can indeed represent a very well adapted alternative for...

The Generalized Lotka-Volterra (GLV) model: wi(t+ 1) = λwi(t) + aw̄(t)− cw̄(t)wi(t) , i = 1, ......, N provides a general method to simulate, analyze and understand a wide class of phenomena that are characterized by power-law probability distributions: P (w)dw ∼ wdw (α ≥ 1) and truncated Levy flights fluctuations Lα(w̄).

We conduct a statistical study of human mobility using over 1000 hours of GPS traces of human walks involving 44 participants in five different locations, two university campuses, state fair, New York City, and Disney World. Our data reveals statistical features similar to those in what physicists have long called Levy random walks (or Levy walks). These features include heavy-tail distribution...