Cost and operation of inventory depends a great deal on what happens to demand when the system is out of stock. In real inventory systems, it is more reasonable to assume that part of the excess demand is backordered and the rest is lost. However, the amount of backorders (or lost sales) often incurs disturbance due to various uncertainties. To incorporate this reality, this article attempts to...

A map of a neuronal circuit in a marine worm reveals how simple networks of neurons can control behavior.

Discrete time chaos based true random number generators are lightweight cryptographic primitives that offer scalable performance for the emerging low power mobile applications. In this work, a novel design method for discrete time chaos based true random number generators is developed using skew tent map as a case study. Optimum parameter values yielding maximum randomness are calculated using ...

In this paper we discuss a four-dimensional autonomous circuit which includes one hysteresis element. This circuit is governed by two symmetric three dimensional linear equat ions which are connected to each other by hysteresis switchings. Then we can derive the two-dimensional return map and show the following novel results: 1) Fundamental bifurcation diagram from periodic attractor to hyperch...

Engineering an efficient biomolecular circuit often requires time-consuming iterations of optimization. Cell-free protein expression systems allow rapid testing of biocircuits in vitro, speeding the design-build-test cycle of synthetic biology. In this paper, we combine this with droplet microfluidics to densely scan a transcription-translation biocircuit space. Our system assays millions of pa...

An absolute value function was introduced for chaos construction, where hyperchaotic oscillation found with amplitude rescaling. The nonlinear term brings the convenience control. Two regimes of control including total and partial are discussed, attractor can be rescaled separately by two independent coefficients. Symmetrical pairs coexisting attractors captured corresponding initial conditions...

Abstrnd-Karnaugh map is an efficient method of minimization for conventional logic design. Unfortunately, it is usually used for 3 or 4 variables, at most 6 variables. In this paper, we modify the Karnaugh map and propose a set of reduction rules for quantum Boolean circuit optimization. By applying these rules, we can efficiently simplify a quantum Boolean circuit that has an arbitrary number ...

The Argument Interchange Format (AIF) has been devised in order to support the interchange of ideas and data between different projects and applications in the area of computational argumentation. In order to support such interchange, an abstract ontology for argumentation is presented, which serves as an interlingua between various more concrete argumentation languages. In this paper, we aim t...