Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Volume 79

Volume 79, Number 1, October 2008

• Neli Regina Siqueira Ortega, Eduardo Massad, Cláudio José Struchiner:
  A Bayesian approach to fuzzy hypotheses testing for the estimation of optimal age for vaccination against measles. 1-13
  
• Zhanji Gui, Xiao-Song Yang, Weigao Ge:
  Existence and global exponential stability of periodic solutions of recurrent cellular neural networks with impulses and delays. 14-29
  
• Hooi-Hooi Lean, Wing-Keung Wong, Xibin Zhang:
  The sizes and powers of some stochastic dominance tests: A Monte Carlo study for correlated and heteroskedastic distributions. 30-48
  
• Mahmoud H. Alrefaei, Houssam M. Abdul-Rahman:
  An adaptive Monte Carlo integration algorithm with general division approach. 49-59
  
• Y. L. Hsu, T. I. Lin, C. F. Lee:
  Constant elasticity of variance (CEV) option pricing model: Integration and detailed derivation. 60-71
  
• Guoping Pang, Lansun Chen:
  Dynamic analysis of a pest-epidemic model with impulsive control. 72-84
  
• Chien-Chiang Lee, Chun-Ping Chang, Pei-Fen Chen:
  Money demand function versus monetary integration: Revisiting panel cointegration among GCC countries. 85-93
  
• Özgür Kisi:
  Constructing neural network sediment estimation models using a data-driven algorithm. 94-103
  

Volume 79, Number 2, November 2008

• R. Pulch:
  Initial-boundary value problems of warped MPDAEs including minimisation criteria. 117-132
  
• George Moustris, Spyros G. Tzafestas:
  Reducing a class of polygonal path tracking to straight line tracking via nonlinear strip-wise affine transformation. 133-148
  
• Liangqiang Zhou, Fangqi Chen:
  Stability and bifurcation analysis for a model of a nonlinear coupled pitch-roll ship. 149-166
  
• Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh, Faezeh Toutounian, Hamed Shariat Yazdi:
  A procedure with stepsize control for solving n one-dimensional IVPs. 167-176
  
• Xiao-Li Feng, Zhi Qian, Chu-Li Fu:
  Numerical approximation of solution of nonhomogeneous backward heat conduction problem in bounded region. 177-188
  
• Mustafa Inç:
  Application of homotopy analysis method for fin efficiency of convective straight fins with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. 189-200
  
• Pavel V. Kuptsov, Razvan A. Satnoianu:
  Flow and diffusion distributed structures with noise at the inlet. 201-218
  

Volume 79, Number 3, December 2008

• Hassan Salarieh, Aria Alasty:
  Adaptive chaos synchronization in Chua's systems with noisy parameters. 233-241
  
• M. F. El-Sayed:
  Nonlinear stability, excitation and soliton solutions in electrified dispersive systems. 242-257
  
• Maria M. Cerimele, Daniela Mansutti, Francesca Pistella:
  Study of Europa's crust via a Stefan model with convection. 258-268
  
• Li-Hua Feng, Xing-Cai Zhang, Gao-Yuan Luo:
  Application of system dynamics in analyzing the carrying capacity of water resources in Yiwu City, China. 269-278
  
• M. E. Ghitany, D. K. Al-Mutairi, S. Nadarajah:
  Zero-truncated Poisson-Lindley distribution and its application. 279-287
  
• M. Patrício, R. Mattheij, G. de With:
  Homogenisation with application to layered materials. 288-305
  
• Mike K. P. So, C. Y. Choi:
  A multivariate threshold stochastic volatility model. 306-317
  
• Zhen Li, Zhengjia He, Yanyang Zi, XueFeng Chen:
  Bearing condition monitoring based on shock pulse method and improved redundant lifting scheme. 318-338
  
• W. A. Kinney, G. B. Smith:
  The potential for aircraft noise reduction through active suppression from a ground-based system. 339-351
  
• Chia-Lin Chang, Stéphane Robin:
  Public policy, innovation and total factor productivity: An application to Taiwan's manufacturing industry. 352-367
  
• Jock Lawrie, John Hearne:
  A method for aggregating state variables in large ecosystem models. 368-378
  
• Paul J. Atzberger, Peter R. Kramer:
  Error analysis of a stochastic immersed boundary method incorporating thermal fluctuations. 379-408
  
• Qishui Zhong, Jingfu Bao, Yongbin Yu, Xiaofeng Liao:
  Impulsive control for T-S fuzzy model-based chaotic systems. 409-415
  
• Andreas Gross, Hermann F. Fasel:
  Multi-block Poisson grid generator for cascade simulations. 416-428
  
• An-Sing Chen, Hung-Gay Fung, Erin H. C. Kao:
  The dynamic relations among return volatility, trading imbalance, and trading volume in futures markets. 429-436
  
• Maria M. Cerimele, Francesca Pistella, Rosa Maria Spitaleri:
  Numerical simulations of acoustic fields on boundary-fitted grids. 437-448
  
• Manfeng Hu, Yongqing Yang, Zhenyuan Xu, Liuxiao Guo:
  Hybrid projective synchronization in a chaotic complex nonlinear system. 449-457
  
• Yung-Lieh Yang, Chia-Lin Chang:
  A double-threshold GARCH model of stock market and currency shocks on stock returns. 458-474
  
• Saralees Nadarajah:
  Compound growth distributions. 475-488
  
• Cathy W. S. Chen, Richard Gerlach, Amanda P. J. Tai:
  Testing for nonlinearity in mean and volatility for heteroskedastic models. 489-499
  
• Zhong Zhao, Lansun Chen, Xinyu Song:
  Impulsive vaccination of SEIR epidemic model with time delay and nonlinear incidence rate. 500-510
  
• Ming-Yuan Leon Li:
  Clarifying the dynamics of the relationship between option and stock markets using the threshold vector error correction model. 511-520
  
• Klaus Schittkowski:
  Parameter identification and model verification in systems of partial differential equations applied to transdermal drug delivery. 521-538
  
• S. R. Singh:
  A computational method of forecasting based on fuzzy time series. 539-554
  
• Kazuhiko Hayakawa, Eiji Kurozumi:
  The role of "leads" in the dynamic OLS estimation of cointegrating regression models. 555-560
  
• Marcin L. Witek, Joao Teixeira, Piotr J. Flatau:
  On stable and explicit numerical methods for the advection-diffusion equation. 561-570
  
• Y. Xu, J. J. Zhao:
  Stability of Runge-Kutta methods for neutral delay-integro-differential-algebraic system. 571-583
  
• Jan Mandel, Lynn S. Bennethum, Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice L. Coen, Craig C. Douglas, Minjeong Kim, Anthony Vodacek:
  A wildland fire model with data assimilation. 584-606
  
• Tingchun Wang, Tao Nie, Luming Zhang, Fangqi Chen:
  Numerical simulation of a nonlinearly coupled Schrödinger system: A linearly uncoupled finite difference scheme. 607-621
  
• Lucas Jódar, Rafael J. Villanueva, Abraham J. Arenas, Gilberto C. González:
  Nonstandard numerical methods for a mathematical model for influenza disease. 622-633
  
• S. K. Basu, Naveen Kumar:
  Mathematical model and computer simulation for release of nutrients from coated fertilizer granules. 634-646
  
• Steven Cook:
  Further analysis of spurious causality. 647-651
  
• Angelines Alberto, Jesús Benet, Enrique Arias, David Cebrián, Tomás Rojo, Fernando Cuartero:
  A high performance tool for the simulation of the dynamic pantograph-catenary interaction. 652-667
  
• Lino J. Alvarez-Vázquez, Eva Balsa-Canto, Aurea Martínez:
  Optimal design and operation of a wastewater purification system. 668-682
  
• Mehdi Dehghan, Akbar Mohebbi:
  High-order compact boundary value method for the solution of unsteady convection-diffusion problems. 683-699
  
• Mehdi Dehghan, Ali Shokri:
  A numerical method for solution of the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation using the radial basis functions. 700-715
  
• Zhengjie Zhu, C. A. Dorao, H. A. Jakobsen:
  A least-squares method with direct minimization for the solution of the breakage-coalescence population balance equation. 716-727
  
• M. Vasudeva Kumar, A. Kienle, K. P. Zeyer, S. Pushpavanam:
  Nonlinear analysis of the effect of maintenance in continuous cell cultures. 728-748
  
• J. G. Zheng, T. S. Lee, S. H. Winoto:
  Numerical simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability driven by imploding shocks. 749-762
  
• Vinh Phu Nguyen, Timon Rabczuk, Stéphane Bordas, Marc Duflot:
  Meshless methods: A review and computer implementation aspects. 763-813
  

Volume 79, Number 4, December 2008

• Inge Troch, Felix Breitenecker:
  Editorial. 827-828
  
• K. Schlacher:
  Mathematical modeling for nonlinear control: a Hamiltonian approach. 829-849
  
• Peter Schwarz:
  Simulation of systems with dynamically varying model structure. 850-863
  
• S. Tagesen:
  Modeling energy dependent nuclear reaction probabilities from pointwise measurements including full covariance information. 864-873
  
• Reinhard Viertl:
  Fuzzy models for precision measurements. 874-878
  
• Leon Zlajpah:
  Simulation in robotics. 879-897
  
• Anton Arnold, Maike Schulte:
  Transparent boundary conditions for quantum-waveguide simulations. 898-905
  
• R. Callies, S. Fronz:
  Recursive modeling and control of multi-link manipulators with vacuum grippers. 906-916
  
• Y. Ermoliev, T. Ermolieva, G. Fischer, M. Makowski, S. Nilsson, M. Obersteiner:
  Discounting, catastrophic risks management and vulnerability modeling. 917-924
  
• Matthias Gerdts:
  A nonsmooth Newton's method for control-state constrained optimal control problems. 925-936
  
• Marco Ghirardi, Giuseppe Menga, Nicola Sacco:
  An optimisation-oriented model of distributed supply-chain. 937-946
  
• D. M. Carrillo, J. A. Lopez-Orozco, J. M. Giron-Sierra:
  Simulation environment for the investigation of automatized cooperation of marine crafts. 947-954
  
• Ophélie Gomes, Catherine Combes, Alain Dussauchoy:
  Parameter estimation of the generalized gamma distribution. 955-963
  
• M. Gyimesi:
  Web Services with generic simulation models for discrete event simulation. 964-971
  
• G. Karlowatz, W. Wessner, H. Kosina:
  Effect of band structure discretization on the performance of full-band Monte Carlo simulation. 972-979
  
• Natalia Kryvinska:
  An analytical approach for the modeling of real-time services over IP network. 980-990
  
• S. Noack, A. Wahl, Marc Daniel Haunschild, Ermir Qeli, Bernd Freisleben, Wolfgang Wiechert:
  Visualizing regulatory interdependencies and parameter sensitivities in biochemical network models. 991-998
  
• Irene Otero-Muras, Gábor Szederkényi, Katalin M. Hangos, Antonio A. Alonso:
  Dynamic analysis and control of biochemical reaction networks. 999-1009
  
• Morten Gram Pedersen, Alberto M. Bersani, Enrico Bersani, Giuliana Cortese:
  The total quasi-steady-state approximation for complex enzyme reactions. 1010-1019
  
• Matthias Gerdts, Günter Greif, Hans Josef Pesch:
  Numerical optimal control of the wave equation: optimal boundary control of a string to rest in finite time. 1020-1032
  
• C. Popa:
  On numerical solution of arbitrary symmetric linear systems by approximate orthogonalization. 1033-1038
  
• Michael Hessinger, Andreas Holzinger, Daniel Leitner, Siegfried Wassertheurer:
  Hemodynamic models for education in physiology. 1039-1047
  
• Yiming Li, Juncheng Cao, Pavel Dyshlovenko, Tatsuya Ezaki, Tor A. Fjeldly, Hans Kosina, Todd McKenzie, Hiroshi Mizuta, Laurence Tianruo Yang:
  Preface. 1049-1050
  
• Mahdi Pourfath, Hans Kosina, Siegfried Selberherr:
  Numerical study of quantum transport in carbon nanotube transistors. 1051-1059
  
• Mincheol Shin:
  Three-dimensional quantum simulation of multigate nanowire field effect transistors. 1060-1070
  
• Enzo Ungersboeck, W. Gös, S. Dhar, Hans Kosina, Siegfried Selberherr:
  The effect of uniaxial stress on band structure and electron mobility of silicon. 1071-1077
  
• Franck Assous, Patrick Ciarlet Jr.:
  Solving Vlasov-Maxwell equations in singular geometries. 1078-1085
  
• Alexander I. Fedoseyev, Marek Turowski, Michael L. Alles, Robert A. Weller:
  Accurate numerical models for simulation of radiation events in nano-scale semiconductor devices. 1086-1095
  
• Tatsuya Ezaki, Dondee Navarro, Youichi Takeda, Norio Sadachika, G. Suzuki, Mitiko Miura-Mattausch, Hans Jürgen Mattausch, Tatsuya Ohguro, Takahiro Iizuka, Masahiko Taguchi, Shigetaka Kumashiro, Shunsuke Miyamoto:
  Non-quasi-static approach with surface-potential-based MOSFET model HiSIM for RF circuit simulations. 1096-1106
  
• S. Kolberg, H. Børli, Tor A. Fjeldly:
  Modeling, verification and comparison of short-channel double gate and gate-all-around MOSFETs. 1107-1115
  
• Hedley C. Morris, Alfonso Limon:
  A compact model for the I-V characteristics of an undoped double-gate MOSFET. 1116-1125
  
• M. Avci:
  Neural network-based design approach for submicron MOS integrated circuits. 1126-1136
  
• Yiming Li, Shao-Ming Yu, Yih-Lang Li:
  Electronic design automation using a unified optimization framework. 1137-1152
  
• Chia-Chi Chu, Ming-Hong Lai, Wu-Shiung Feng:
  Model-order reductions for MIMO systems using global Krylov subspace methods. 1153-1164
  
• Yiming Li, Yih-Lang Li, Shao-Ming Yu:
  Design optimization of a current mirror amplifier integrated circuit using a computational statistics technique. 1165-1177
  
• Naixue Xiong, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Yan Yang, Xavier Défago, Yanxiang He:
  A novel numerical algorithm based on self-tuning controller to support TCP flows. 1178-1188
  
• Jun-Cheol Jeon, Kee-Young Yoo:
  Montgomery exponent architecture based on programmable cellular automata. 1189-1196
  
• Jun-Cheol Jeon, Kee-Young Yoo:
  Elliptic curve based hardware architecture using cellular automata. 1197-1203
  
• Ji-Gang Wu, Thambipillai Srikanthan, Chengbin Yan:
  Algorithmic aspects for power-efficient hardware/software partitioning. 1204-1215
  
• Muhammad Kamran, Feng Shi, Yumin Xie, Yizhuo Wang:
  An efficient layered data compression scheme with constraint analysis. 1216-1232
  
• Nicoletta Del Buono:
  Structural dynamical systems: Computational aspects. 1233-1234
  
• L. Dieci, C. Elia:
  SVD algorithms to approximate spectra of dynamical systems. 1235-1254
  
• Luca Dieci, Alessandro Pugliese:
  Singular values of two-parameter matrices: an algorithm to accurately find their intersections. 1255-1269
  
• Marlis Hochbruck, Jörg Niehoff:
  Approximation of matrix operators applied to multiple vectors. 1270-1283
  
• Nicoletta Del Buono, Luciano Lopez, Tiziano Politi:
  Computation of functions of Hamiltonian and skew-symmetric matrices. 1284-1297
  
• Elena Celledoni, Simone Fiori:
  Descent methods for optimization on homogeneous manifolds. 1298-1323
  
• Markus Baumann, Uwe Helmke:
  A time-varying Newton algorithm for adaptive subspace tracking. 1324-1345
  
• Achim Nonnenmacher, Christian Lubich:
  Dynamical low-rank approximation: applications and numerical experiments. 1346-1357
  
• Luciano Galeone, Roberto Garrappa:
  Fractional Adams-Moulton methods. 1358-1367
  
• Marcio Gameiro, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Konstantin Mischaikow:
  Validated continuation over large parameter ranges for equilibria of PDEs. 1368-1382
  
• R. Beardmore, K. Webster:
  A Hopf bifurcation theorem for singular differential-algebraic equations. 1383-1395
  
• Tassilo Küpper:
  Invariant cones for non-smooth dynamical systems. 1396-1408
  

Volume 79, Number 5, January 2009

• Nadia Hamani, Nathalie Dangoumau, Etienne Craye:
  Reactive mode handling of flexible manufacturing systems. 1421-1439
  
• Maria Cristina C. Cunha, Fábio Antonio Dorini:
  Statistical moments of the solution of the random Burgers-Riemann problem. 1440-1451
  
• C. Ramos, M. Martínez, Javier Sanchis, J. V. Salcedo:
  Robust constrained receding-horizon predictive control via bounded data uncertainties. 1452-1471
  
• Biing-Wen Huang, Meng-Gu Chen, Chia-Lin Chang, Michael McAleer:
  Modelling risk in agricultural finance: Application to the poultry industry in Taiwan. 1472-1487
  
• S. Suresh, V. Mani, S. N. Omkar, H. J. Kim, Narasimhan Sundararajan:
  A new load distribution strategy for linear network with communication delays. 1488-1501
  
• Chen Peng, Dong Yue, Zhou Gu, Feng Xia:
  Sampling period scheduling of networked control systems with multiple-control loops. 1502-1511
  
• Shin Harase:
  Maximally equidistributed pseudorandom number generators via linear output transformations. 1512-1519
  
• M. Fernandino, K. Beronov, T. Ytrehus:
  Large eddy simulation of turbulent open duct flow using a lattice Boltzmann approach. 1520-1526
  
• Shengshuang Chen, Weirui Zhao, Yong Xu:
  New criteria for globally exponential stability of delayed Cohen-Grossberg neural network. 1527-1543
  
• Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Panlop Zeephongsekul, Colin Arrowsmith:
  Modelling spatio-temporal movement of tourists using finite Markov chains. 1544-1553
  
• Guangwu Yan, Jianying Zhang:
  A higher-order moment method of the lattice Boltzmann model for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. 1554-1565
  
• Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei, Mohammad Haeri:
  A note on the stability of fractional order systems. 1566-1576
  
• T. T. M. Onyango, David B. Ingham, Daniel Lesnic, Marián Slodicka:
  Determination of a time-dependent heat transfer coefficient from non-standard boundary measurements. 1577-1584
  
• Magnus Strömgren, Michael Hanke:
  On the numerical approximation of a degenerated hyperbolic system. 1585-1602
  
• Hongyong Zhao, Zisen Mao:
  Boundedness and stability of nonautonomous cellular neural networks with reaction-diffusion terms. 1603-1617
  
• Syn Kiat Tan, Sheng Uei Guan:
  Randomness quality of permuted pseudorandom binary sequences. 1618-1626
  
• Hang-Hong Kuo, Yi-You Hou, Jun-Juh Yan, Teh-Lu Liao:
  Reliable synchronization of nonlinear chaotic systems. 1627-1635
  
• F. Jiménez, P. Jodrá:
  On the computer generation of the Erlang and negative binomial distributions with shape parameter equal to two. 1636-1640
  
• M. V. Kulikova:
  Maximum likelihood estimation via the extended covariance and combined square-root filters. 1641-1657
  
• A. Tocino:
  Multiple stochastic integrals with Mathematica. 1658-1667
  
• Xiang-Tuan Xiong, Chu-Li Fu, Jin Cheng:
  Spectral regularization methods for solving a sideways parabolic equation within the framework of regularization theory. 1668-1678
  
• Degang Yang, Xiaofeng Liao, Chunyan Hu, Yong Wang:
  New delay-dependent exponential stability criteria of BAM neural networks with time delays. 1679-1697
  
• Xiaohu Wang, Qingyi Guo, Daoyi Xu:
  Exponential p-stability of impulsive stochastic Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with mixed delays. 1698-1710
  
• Kosei Fukuda:
  Distribution switching in financial time series. 1711-1720
  
• Saralees Nadarajah:
  An alternative inverse Gaussian distribution. 1721-1729
  
• Chia-Lin Chang, Songsak Sriboonchitta, Aree Wiboonpongse:
  Modelling and forecasting tourism from East Asia to Thailand under temporal and spatial aggregation. 1730-1744
  
• Dan Wang, Jialiang Huang, Weiyao Lan, Xiaoqiang Li:
  Neural network-based robust adaptive control of nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics. 1745-1753
  
• Daiki Maki:
  Some properties of a unit root test with multiple level shifts in the presence of Markov level shifts. 1754-1760
  
• José D. Bermúdez, Ana Corberán-Vallet, Enriqueta Vercher:
  Multivariate exponential smoothing: A Bayesian forecast approach based on simulation. 1761-1769
  
• Lichun Wang, Xuan Wang:
  The life-span prediction of a system connected in series. 1770-1777