In the Input-Output Analytic framework, production (X) is related to final demand (C) through the B [while B= INV(I-A), where A is the technical coefficients matrix and INV(.) means inverted (.)], such that X=BC. Generally, the elements of A and C are considered to be non-stochastic and...

Ricardo Chacoacute;n generalized Johan Gielis's superformula by introducing elliptic functions in place of trigonometric functions. In this paper an attempt has been made to fit the Chacoacute;n-Gielis curves (modified by various functions) to simulated data. Estimation has been done by the...

This paper introduces the problem of global optimization of the complicated multimodal nonlinear objective functions by stochastic population-based methods, such as Genetic algorithms, classical and generalized simulated annealing (GSA), and differential evolution (DE) in general, and the...

Pena's method of construction of a synthetic indicator is very sensitive to the order in which the constituent variables (whose linear aggregation yields the synthetic indicator) are arranged. Due to this, Pena's method can at present give only an arbitrary synthetic indicator whose...

This paper proposes a novel method of global optimization based on host-parasite co-evolution. It also develops a Fortran-77 code for the algorithm. The algorithm has been tested on 100 benchmark functions (of which the results of 32 relatively harder problems have been reported). In its search...

Rank-ordering of individuals or objects on multiple criteria has many important practical applications. A reasonably representative composite rank ordering of multi-attribute objects/individuals or multi-dimensional points is often obtained by the Principal Component Analysis, although much...

In the economics of joint production one often distinguishes between the two cases: the one in which a firm produces multiple products each produced under separate production process, and the other "true joint production" where a number of outputs are produced from a single production process,...

Logarithmic spirals are abundantly observed in nature. Gastropods/cephalopods (such as nautilus, cowie, grove snail, thatcher, etc.) in the mollusca phylum have spiral shells, mostly exhibiting logarithmic spirals vividly. Spider webs show a similar pattern. The low-pressure area over Iceland...

In this paper we compare the performance of the Differential Evolution (DE) and the Repulsive Particle Swarm (RPS) methods of global optimization. To this end, seventy test functions have been chosen. Among these test functions, some are new while others are well known in the literature; some are...