Analysis, Modelling, Optimization, and Numerical Techniques

Tentative TOC: 1. Applied Analysis, Geometry and Mathematical Physics Applications of contractive-like mapping principles to the existence of solutions of fuzzy differential equations with generalized derivative Vladimir Angulo, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia; vladimir_angulo01@hotmail.com Generalizing least square problems on Grassmann manifolds Fatima Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal; fleite@mat.uc.pt On a new type of Pythagorean-Hodograph curves and their use in applications Gudrun Albrecht, Universite de Valenciennes, France; gudrun.albrecht@univ-valenciennes.fr Quasisymmertic singularity spectrum Istvan Prause, University of Helsinki, Finland, istvan.prause@helsinki.fi 2. Applied probability, statistics and stochastic processes Approximations to various renewal functions Alagar Rangan, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey, alagarrangan@yahoo.co.in A stochastic model for length dependent telomere shortening Viswanathan Arunachalam and Liliana Blanco-Castaneda, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; varunachalam@unal.edu.co, lblancoc@unal.edu.co Comparison of methods based on covariance and partial least squares estimation of a structural equation model applied to study service quality Martha L. Corrales, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia; martha.corrales@usa.edu.co Event-related potential recognition by hidden Markov models Alvaro Corvalan and Romina Cardo, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina; acorvala@ungs.edu.ar, rcardo@ungs.edu.ar 3. Mathematical models and methods applied to earth and life sciences Advanced multivariate inversion techniques for 3D geophysical modeling: recent developments and future challenges Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; mmaceira@lanl.gov Algal colonization and competition in Antarctic environments: consequences of global warming Fernando Momo, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina; fmomo@ungs.edu.ar A mathematical model on the bacterial resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics Eduardo Ibarguen, Universidad de Narino, Colombia; edbargun@yahoo.es 4. Ordinary and partial differential equations with applications A hybrid mimetic formulation for elliptic equations Juan M. Guevara-Jordan, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela; jmguevarajordan@gmail.com Analyzing the equations of cellular communities with regulatory mechanisms Maxruy Saydaliyeva, Tashkent University of Informational Technologies, Uzbekistan; regulatorika@yahoo.com Diffusion dynamics on multiplex networks Jesus Gomez-Gardenes, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; gardenes@unizar.es Economic cooperation between two societies: a Filippov system approach 5. Operations research, optimization methods and applications A global optimization approach for a special class of multiplicative programming problems Alireza Mohebi, Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana, Brazil; armashtiani@gmail.com A hybrid optimization approach for subset problems Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile; broderick.crawford@ucv.cl 6. Numerical methods and software tools Accurate solution of structured least squares problems via rank-revealing decompositions Johan Ceballos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; jaceballosc@gmail.com A design algorithm of two-dimensional non-separable wavelets filters Mohamed A. Hajji, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates; mahajji@uaeu.ac.ae A matrix approach for solving KdV equations Rafael Gonzalez-Campos, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico; rcampos@umich.mx