‎A natural algorithm with an optimal order of convergence is proposed for numerical solution of a class of cordial weakly singular Volterra integral equations‎. ‎The equations of this class appear in heat conduction problems with mixed boundary conditions‎. ‎The algorithm is based on a representation of the solution and compound Gaussian quadrature rules with graded meshes‎. ‎A comparative stud...

Here‎, ‎we aim to develop a new algorithm for solving a multiobjective linear programming problem‎. ‎The algorithm is to obtain a solution which approximately meets the decision maker's preferences‎. ‎It is proved that the proposed algorithm always converges to a weak efficient solution and at times converges to an efficient solution‎. ‎Numerical examples and a simulation study are used to illu...

The estimation of the price of different kinds of options plays a very important role in the development of strategies on financial and stock markets. There many books and various papers which are devoted to the exist mathematical theory of option pricing. Merton and Scholes became winners of a Nobel Prize in economy who described the basic concepts of the mathematical theory development. In th...

Background: Chlorotoxin is a 36-amino acid peptide found in the venom of the Leiurus quinquestriatus which blocks small-conductance chloride channels. Chlorotoxin binds preferentially to glioma cells that allow development of new methods for the treatment and diagnosis of several types of cancer. Thus chlorotoxin derivative was labeled with 131I for further investigation. Materials and...

What happens if the Xi ’s take values in a (real) Banach space (B, ‖ · ‖)? In such cases, in particular when the square of the norm ‖ · ‖ is not given by an inner product, we are aiming at inequalities of the following type: Let X1, X2, . . . , Xn be independent random vectors with values in (B, ‖ · ‖) with EXi = 0 and E‖Xi‖2 < ∞. With Sn := ∑n i=1 Xi we want to show that E‖Sn‖ ≤ K n ∑ i=1 E‖Xi...

In important papers on cake-cutting – one of the key areas in fair division and resource allocation – the measuretheoretical fundamentals are not fully correctly given. It is not clear (i) which family of sets should be taken for the pieces of cake, (ii) which set-functions should be used for evaluating the pieces, and (iii) which is the relationship between various continuity properties appear...

Abst rac t . We give an overview of the LEDA platform for combinatorial and geometric computing and an account of its development. We discuss our motivation for building LEDA and to what extent we have reached our goals. We also discuss some recent theoretical developments. This paper contains no new technical material. It is intended as a guide to existing publications about the system. We ref...