The present paper focuses on determining the most important factors affecting urban growth in large cities of Iran through modeling and comparing the common and diverse points of urban growth obtained from other studies. For this purpose, by reviewing the theoretical concepts associated with urban growth, quantities and measurable variables are developed as proper frameworks to study the influe...

BACKGROUND The rising number of novel pathogens threatening the human population has motivated the application of mathematical modeling for forecasting the trajectory and size of epidemics. MATERIALS AND METHODS We summarize the real-time forecasting results of the logistic equation during the 2015 Ebola challenge focused on predicting synthetic data derived from a detailed individual-based m...

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL WITH LOGISTIC TESTING-EFFORT FUNCTION CONSIDERING LOG-LOGISTIC TESTING-EFFORT AND IMPERFECT DEBUGGING O. Naga Raju1 and Ch. Satyanaraya2 1Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Acharya Nagarjuna University, A.P., India. 2Department of Computer Science & Engineering, JNT University, Kakinda, India. E-mail: [email protected] In this paper, we investigate...