The theory of monotone dynamical systems has been found very useful in the modeling of some gene, protein, and signaling networks. In monotone systems, every net feedback loop is positive. On the other hand, negative feedback loops are important features of many systems, since they are required for adaptation and precision. This paper shows that, provided that these negative loops act at a comp...

Mixed monotone systems form an important class of nonlinear systems that have recently received attention in the abstraction-based control design area. Slightly different definitions exist in the literature, and it remains a challenge to verify mixed monotonicity of a system in general. In this paper, we first clarify the relation between different existing definitions of mixed monotone systems...

In this paper connectedness is studied in weaker (monotone, quasi-directed) spaces and we examine sets having the ending property (e.p.). 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 54A99, 54C05

A square matrix is said to have property n if there exists a positive integer w such that Aw nonnegative. In this paper, we study the core-EP monotonicity for property-n matrices. Some necessary and sufficient conditions be monotone are given. Moreover, condition real nonnegative inverse also presented.

A coordinate cone in R n is an intersection of some coordinate hy-perplanes and open coordinate half-spaces. A semi-monotone set is an open bounded subset of R n , definable in an o-minimal structure over the reals, such that its intersection with any translation of any coordinate cone is connected. This can be viewed as a generalization of the convexity property. Semi-monotone sets have a numb...

The Jordan decomposition states that a function f : R → R is of bounded variation if and only if it can be written as the difference of two monotone increasing functions. In this paper we generalize this property to real valued BV functions of many variables, extending naturally the concept of monotone function. Our result is an extension of a result obtained by Alberti, Bianchini and Crippa. A...

Fuzzy interpolation property is among the most important properties of fuzzy inference systems. It has been showed that the normality plus Ruspini condition applying to the antecedent fuzzy sets is a sufficient condition with a high practical impact. Another important property is the monotone behavior of the resulting control function (after a defuzzification) derived from a monotone fuzzy rule...

We introduce a new concept of general $G$-$eta$-monotone operator generalizing the general $(H,eta)$-monotone operator cite{arvar2, arvar1}, general $H-$ monotone operator cite{xiahuang} in Banach spaces, and also generalizing $G$-$eta$-monotone operator cite{zhang}, $(A, eta)$-monotone operator cite{verma2}, $A$-monotone operator cite{verma0}, $(H, eta)$-monotone operator cite{fanghuang}...

For a Boolean function f, let D(f) denote its deterministic decision tree complexity, i.e., minimum number of (adaptive) queries required in worst case in order to determine f. In a classic paper, Rivest and Vuillemin [19] show that any non-constant monotone property P : {0, 1}( n 2) → {0, 1} of n-vertex graphs has D(P) = Ω(n). We extend their result to 3-uniform hypergraphs. In particular, we ...