Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 173

Volume 173, Number 1, February 2006

• Caidi Zhao:
  Algorithm and mechanization to Cauchy problem of wave equation with linear damping and source terms. 1-8
  
• Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh, Faezeh Toutounian:
  New approaches for solving large Sylvester equations. 9-18
  
• T. Özis, S. Özer:
  A simple similarity-transformation-iterative scheme applied to Korteweg-de Vries equation. 19-32
  
• Sheng Chen, Zhaohui Liu, Baochang Shi, Chuguang Zheng:
  Computation of gas-solid flows by finite difference Boltzmann equation. 33-49
  
• Sharat C. Prasad, K. R. Rajagopal:
  Flow of a fluid with pressure dependent viscosity due to a boundary that is being stretched. 50-68
  
• Tibor K. Pogány, Hari M. Srivastava, Zivorad Tomovski:
  Some families of Mathieu a-series and alternating Mathieu a-series. 69-108
  
• Henryk Gzyl, Pierluigi Novi Inverardi, Aldo Tagliani, Minaya Villasana:
  Maxentropic solution of fractional moment problems. 109-125
  
• Alice Gorguis:
  A comparison between Cole-Hopf transformation and the decomposition method for solving Burgers' equations. 126-136
  
• Amir Azaron, Hideki Katagiri, Kosuke Kato, Masatoshi Sakawa:
  Reliability evaluation of multi-component cold-standby redundant systems. 137-149
  
• Abdul-Majid Wazwaz:
  The sine-cosine and the tanh methods: Reliable tools for analytic treatment of nonlinear dispersive equations. 150-164
  
• Abdul-Majid Wazwaz:
  The modified decomposition method for analytic treatment of differential equations. 165-176
  
• Ravi P. Agarwal, Alexander Domoshnitsky:
  Non-oscillation of the first-order differential equations with unbounded memory for stabilization by control signal. 177-195
  
• Haiyun Zhou, Li Wei, Yeol Je Cho:
  Strong convergence theorems on an iterative method for a family of finite nonexpansive mappings in reflexive Banach spaces. 196-212
  
• Abdul-Majid Wazwaz:
  Explicit travelling wave solutions of variants of the K(n, n) and the ZK(n, n) equations with compact and noncompact structures. 213-230
  
• Youbing Yin, Ke-Qin Zhu:
  Oscillating flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a pipe with the fractional Maxwell model. 231-242
  
• Bo-Qing Dong, Zhi-Min Chen:
  Asymptotic stability of non-Newtonian flows with large perturbation in R². 243-250
  
• Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Blanca Pérez-Gladish, Mar Arenas Parra, Maria Victoria Rodríguez Uría:
  Fuzzy compromise programming for portfolio selection. 251-264
  
• Alexandros Leontitsis, Dimitris Kontogiorgos, Jenny Pagge:
  Repel the swarm to the optimum! 265-272
  
• K. Subramani, Dejan Desovski:
  On contrasting vertex contraction with relaxation-based approaches for negative cost cycle detection. 273-305
  
• Marco Papi, Simone Sbaraglia:
  Optimal asset-liability management with constraints: A dynamic programming approach. 306-349
  
• Jih-Jeng Huang, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, Chorng-Shyong Ong:
  A novel algorithm for uncertain portfolio selection. 350-359
  
• Zhen-Jun Shi, Jie Shen:
  On step-size estimation of line search methods. 360-371
  
• Mustafa Inç:
  On numerical Jacobi elliptic function solutions of the (1+1)-dimensional dispersive long wave equation by the decomposition method. 372-382
  
• Tzong-Mou Wu:
  Solving the nonlinear equations by the Newton-homotopy continuation method with adjustable auxiliary homotopy function. 383-388
  
• A. S. Ismail:
  On the numerical solution of two-dimensional singular integral equation. 389-393
  
• Hui-Min Li, Ke-Cun Zhang:
  A decomposition algorithm for solving large-scale quadratic programming problems. 394-403
  
• M. T. Darvishi, R. Khosro-Aghdam:
  Symmetric successive overrelaxation methods for rank deficient linear systems. 404-420
  
• M. T. Darvishi, M. Javidi:
  A numerical solution of Burgers' equation by pseudospectral method and Darvishi's preconditioning. 421-429
  
• Eyüp Çetin:
  Determining the optimal duration of an advertising campaign using diffusion of information. 430-442
  
• Attila R. Imre:
  Artificial fractal dimension obtained by using perimeter-area relationship on digitalized images. 443-449
  
• Miquel Grau-Sánchez, José Luis Díaz-Barrero:
  An improvement to Ostrowski root-finding method. 450-456
  
• J. M. Soriano:
  Existence and computation of zeros of perturbed mappings. 457-467
  
• Mário Basto, Viriato Semião, Francisco L. Calheiros:
  A new iterative method to compute nonlinear equations. 468-483
  
• Yong-Bin Li:
  An alternative algorithm for computing the pseudo-remainder of multivariate polynomials. 484-492
  
• Saeid Abbasbandy:
  Numerical solutions of the integral equations: Homotopy perturbation method and Adomian's decomposition method. 493-500
  
• Yongjian Yang, Youlin Shang:
  A new filled function method for unconstrained global optimization. 501-512
  
• Ye-hui Peng, Shengbao Yao:
  A feasible trust-region algorithm for inequality constrained optimization. 513-522
  
• Xitao Yang:
  Uniform persistence for a predator-prey system with delays. 523-534
  
• Xing Tao Wang:
  Numerical solution of delay systems containing inverse time by hybrid functions. 535-546
  
• G. C. Greubel:
  On some generating functions for the extended generalized Hermite polynomials. 547-553
  
• Idris Dag, Dursun Irk, Mustafa Tombul:
  Least-squares finite element method for the advection-diffusion equation. 554-565
  
• Gongsheng Li:
  Data compatibility and conditional stability for an inverse source problem in the heat equation. 566-581
  
• J. Biazar, M. Ilie, A. Khoshkenar:
  An improvement to an alternate algorithm for computing Adomian polynomials in special cases. 582-592
  
• David O. Olagunju:
  Local similarity solutions for boundary layer flow of a FENE-P fluid. 593-602
  
• Suresh Kumar, Mohamed Khaled Omar:
  Stochastic re-entrant line modeling for an environment stress testing in a semiconductor assembly industry. 603-615
  
• Ruo-Xia Yao, Zhi-Bin Li:
  CONSLAW: A Maple package to construct the conservation laws for nonlinear evolution equations. 616-635
  
• E. Çelebi, S. Firat, I. Çankaya:
  The evaluation of impedance functions in the analysis of foundations vibrations using boundary element method. 636-667
  
• S. G. Ahmed:
  A numerical method for oxygen diffusion and absorption in a sike cell. 668-682
  

Volume 173, Number 2, February 2006

• Mustafa Gülsu, Mehmet Sezer, Zekeriya Güney:
  Approximate solution of general high-order linear nonhomogeneous difference equations by means of Taylor collocation method. 683-693
  
• Fengde Chen:
  Permanence in nonautonomous multi-species predator-prey system with feedback controls. 694-709
  
• Majid Jaberi Douraki, Mehdi Dehghan, Mohsen Razzaghi:
  On the higher order rational recursive sequence x_n=(A/n_n-k) + (B/x_n-3k). 710-723
  
• Akbar Hashemi Borzabadi, Ali Vahidian Kamyad, Hamed Hashemi Mehne:
  A different approach for solving the nonlinear Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. 724-735
  
• Mortaza Gachpazan, Akbar Hashemi Borzabadi, Ali Vahidian Kamyad:
  A measure-theoretical approach for solving discrete optimal control problems. 736-752
  
• Emin Kahya:
  Comment on titled "An improvement on Fibonacci search method in optimization theory". 753-756
  
• Fengmin Xu, Chengxian Xu, Honggang Xue:
  A multiple penalty function method for solving Max-Bisection problems. 757-766
  
• Andrei Bourchtein, Ludmila Bourchtein:
  On generation of orthogonal grids. 767-781
  
• Maged George Iskander:
  Exponential membership function in stochastic fuzzy goal programming. 782-791
  
• Xiaofan Yang, Yaoxin Liu, Sen Bai:
  A numerical solution of second-order linear partial differential equations by differential transform. 792-802
  
• Seyhan Firat, Mehmet Saribiyik, Erkan Çelebi:
  Lateral load estimation from visco-plastic mud-flow around cylindrical row of piles. 803-821
  
• H. M. Youssef:
  Generalized magneto-thermoelasticity in a conducting medium with variable material properties. 822-833
  
• Dursun Irk, Idris Dag, Bülent Saka:
  A small time solutions for the Korteweg-de Vries equation using spline approximation. 834-846
  
• Alireza Amirteimoori, Mahmoud Shafiei:
  Measuring the efficiency of interdependent decision making sub-units in DEA. 847-855
  
• Abd El Hakeem Abd El Naby, A. E. M. El Misiery, Ibrahim I. El Shamy:
  Hydromagnetic flow of generalized Newtonian fluid through a uniform tube with peristalsis. 856-871
  
• Esmaile Khorram, Amin Ghodousian:
  Linear objective function optimization with fuzzy relation equation constraints regarding max-av composition. 872-886
  
• Madhu Jain, Sandhya Maheshwari:
  Discounted costs for repairable units under hybrid warranty. 887-901
  
• Ying-Ming Wang, Ying Luo:
  DEA efficiency assessment using ideal and anti-ideal decision making units. 902-915
  
• F. S. Ibrahem, I. A. Hassanien, A. A. Bakr:
  Thermal effects in Stokes' second problem for unsteady micropolar fluids flow. 916-937
  
• Y. H. Gu, Z. Y. Wu:
  A new filled function method for nonlinear integer programming problem. 938-950
  
• Bing Zheng, Ke Wang:
  On accelerate overrelaxation methods for rank deficient linear systems. 951-959
  
• Othmar Koch, Wolfgang Kreuzer, Armin Scrinzi:
  Approximation of the time-dependent electronic Schrödinger equation by MCTDHF. 960-976
  
• Hou-Biao Li, Ting-Zhu Huang, Hong Li:
  An improvement on a new upper bound for moduli of eigenvalues of iterative matrices. 977-984
  
• Ying-Ming Wang:
  On lexicographic goal programming method for generating weights from inconsistent interval comparison matrices. 985-991
  
• Mohamed A. Ramadan, Naglaa M. El-Shazly:
  On the matrix equation x + A^T root(2ⁿ, X^-1)A = 1. 992-1013
  
• Z. W. Chen:
  A penalty-free-type nonmonotone trust-region method for nonlinear constrained optimization. 1014-1046
  
• Cem Kadilar, Hulya Cingi:
  Ratio estimators for the population variance in simple and stratified random sampling. 1047-1059
  
• Xinlong Feng, Yinnian He:
  Parametric iterative methods of second-order for solving nonlinear equation. 1060-1067
  
• Aiguo Xiao, Yifa Tang:
  Equilibrium attractive properties of a class of multistep Runge-Kutta methods. 1068-1081
  
• Fengde Chen:
  Permanence and global stability of nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra system with predator-prey and deviating arguments. 1082-1100
  
• J. Biazar:
  Solution of the epidemic model by Adomian decomposition method. 1101-1106
  
• Xining Cui, Quanyi Lü:
  A parallel algorithm for block-tridiagonal linear systems. 1107-1114
  
• Danfu Han, Jingfen Zhu:
  Convergence and error estimate of a deformed Newton method. 1115-1123
  
• Yadong Shang:
  New solitary wave solutions with compact support for the KdV-like K(m, n) equations with fully nonlinear dispersion. 1124-1136
  
• Yadong Shang:
  New exact special solutions with solitary patterns for Boussinesq-like B(m, n) equations with fully nonlinear dispersion. 1137-1148
  
• Weiming Wang:
  Mechanical algorithm for solving the second kind of Volterra integral equation. 1149-1162
  
• Yong Chen, Qi Wang:
  A new elliptic equation rational expansion method and its application to the shallow long wave approximate equations. 1163-1182
  
• Khaled M. El-Said, M. Salah El-Sherbeny:
  Comparing of reliability characteristics between two different systems. 1183-1199
  
• Hamed R. Tareghian, Hassan Taheri:
  An application of randomized minimum cut to the project time/cost tradeoff problem. 1200-1207
  
• Siraj-Ul-Islam, Syed Ikram A. Tirmizi:
  Nonpolynomial spline approach to the solution of a system of second-order boundary-value problems. 1208-1218
  
• Y. G. Sun, S. H. Saker:
  Forced oscillation of higher-order nonlinear differential equations. 1219-1226
  
• Bingxing Wang:
  Unbiased estimations for the exponential distribution based on step-stress accelerated life-testing data. 1227-1237
  
• F. D. Zaman, Khalid Masood:
  Investigation of the direct and inverse solutions for torsional waves propagating in a cylinder. 1238-1245
  
• Chia Hung Wang, Ru Yang:
  A numerical study for slip flow heat transfer. 1246-1264
  
• Xiang-Tuan Xiong, Chu-Li Fu, Hong-Fang Li:
  Central difference method of a non-standard inverse heat conduction problem for determining surface heat flux from interior observations. 1265-1287
  
• Y. Narasimha Murty:
  Effect of throughflow and magnetic field on Marangoni convection in micro-polar fluids. 1288-1299
  
• Hasan Erbay:
  Subspace tracking in low-rank real-time systems. 1300-1309
  
• Arjun K. Gupta, Saralees Nadarajah:
  Sums and ratios for beta Stacy distribution. 1310-1322
  
• Coskun Hamzaçebi, Fevzi Kutay:
  A heuristic approach for finding the global minimum: Adaptive random search technique. 1323-1333
  
• Arjun K. Gupta, Saralees Nadarajah:
  Sums, products, and ratios for Freund's bivariate exponential distribution. 1334-1349
  
• Yan Ping Bai, Ying Jie Lei:
  The model of impact waves in a circular elastic bar and application in measuring dynamic characteristic of microstructure. 1350-1356