We study a stochastic particle system which models the time evolution of the ranking of books by online bookstores (e.g., Amazon). In this system, particles are lined in a queue. Each particle jumps at random jump times to the top of the queue, and otherwise stays in the queue, being pushed toward the tail every time another particle jumps to the top. In an infinite particle limit, the random m...

Continuous time random walks impose random waiting times between particle jumps. This paper computes the fractal dimensions of their process limits, which represent particle traces in anomalous diffusion.

Existing face recognition methods utilize particle swarm optimizer (PSO) and opposition based particle swarm optimizer (OPSO) to optimize the parameters of SVM. However, the utilization of random values in the velocity calculation decreases the performance of these techniques; that is, during the velocity computation, we normally use random values for the acceleration coefficients and this crea...

A Monte Carlo method based on a density-of-states sampling is proposed for study of arbitrary statistical mechanical ensembles in a continuum. A random walk in the two-dimensional space of particle number and energy is used to estimate the density of states of the system; this density of states is continuously updated as the random walk visits individual states. The validity and usefulness of t...

Particle swarm optimization comes under lot of changes after James Kennedy and Russell Eberhart first proposes the idea in 1995. The changes has been done mainly on Inertia parameters in velocity updating equation so that the convergence rate will be higher. We are proposing a novel approach where particle’s movement will not be depend on its velocity rather it will be decided by constrained bi...

In this paper we study the robustness of linear pulses, solitons, and dispersionmanaged solitons, under the influence of random perturbations. First, we address the problem of the estimation of the outage probability due to polarization-mode dispersion. Second, we compare the pulse broadening due to random fluctuations of the group-velocity dispersion. We use an original interacting particle sy...