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Volume 135, Number 2--3, March 10, 2003
Volume 139, Number 1, July 1, 2003
Volume 139, Number 2--3, July 15, 2003
Volume 142, Number 2--3, October 10, 2003
Volume 143, Number 2--3, November 10, 2003
Volume 145, Number 2--3, December 25, 2003
Volume 146, Number 2--3, December 31, 2003
Volume 147, Number 1, January 5, 2004
Volume 147, Number 3, January 16, 2004
Volume 148, Number 3, January 30, 2004
Volume 151, Number 3, April 15, 2004
Volume 152, Number 1, April 26, 2004
Volume 152, Number 3, May 13, 2004
Volume 156, Number 1, August 25, 2004
Volume 157, Number 1, September 27, 2004
Volume 160, Number 1, January 5, 2005
Volume 160, Number 2, January 14, 2005
Volume 160, Number 3, January 27, 2005
Volume 161, Number 1, February 4, 2005
Volume 161, Number 2, February 15, 2005
Volume 161, Number 3, February 25, 2005
Volume 162, Number 1, March 4, 2005
Volume 162, Number 2, March 15, 2005
Volume 162, Number 3, March 25, 2005
Volume 163, Number 1, April 5, 2005
Volume 163, Number 2, April 15, 2005
Volume 163, Number 3, April 25, 2005
Volume 164, Number 1, May 5, 2005
Volume 164, Number 2, May 16, 2005
Volume 164, Number 3, May 25, 2005
Volume 165, Number 1, June 6, 2005
Volume 165, Number 2, June 15, 2005
Volume 165, Number 3, June 27, 2005
Volume 166, Number 1, July 6, 2005
Volume 166, Number 2, July 15, 2005
Volume 166, Number 3, July 26, 2005
Volume 167, Number 1, August 5, 2005
Volume 167, Number 2, August 15, 2005
Volume 168, Number 1, September 1, 2005
Volume 168, Number 2, September 15, 2005
Volume 169, Number 1, October 1, 2005
Volume 169, Number 2, October 15, 2005
Volume 170, Number 1, November 1, 2005
Volume 170, Number 2, November 15, 2005
Volume 171, Number 1, December 1, 2005
Volume 171, Number 2, December 15, 2005
Volume 172, Number 1, January 1, 2006
Volume 172, Number 2, January 15, 2006
Volume 173, Number 1, February 1, 2006
Volume 173, Number 2, February 15, 2006
Volume 174, Number 1, March 1, 2006
Volume 174, Number 2, March 15, 2006
Volume 175, Number 1, April 1, 2006
Volume 175, Number 2, April 15, 2006
Volume 176, Number 1, May 1, 2006
Volume 176, Number 2, May 15, 2006
Volume 177, Number 1, June 1, 2006
Volume 177, Number 2, June 15, 2006
Volume 178, Number 1, July 1, 2006
Volume 178, Number 2, July 15, 2006
Volume 179, Number 1, August 1, 2006
Volume 179, Number 2, August 15, 2006
Volume 180, Number 1, September 1, 2006
Volume 180, Number 2, September 15, 2006
Volume 181, Number 1, October 1, 2006
Volume 181, Number 2, October 15, 2006
Volume 182, Number 1, November 1, 2006
Volume 182, Number 2, November 15, 2006
Volume 183, Number 1, December 1, 2006
Volume 183, Number 2, December 15, 2006
Volume 184, Number 1, January 1, 2007
Volume 184, Number 2, January 15, 2007
Volume 185, Number 1, February 1, 2007
Volume 185, Number 2, February 15, 2007
Volume 186, Number 1, March 1, 2007
Volume 186, Number 2, March 15, 2007
Volume 187, Number 1, April 1, 2007
Volume 187, Number 2, April 15, 2007
Volume 188, Number 1, May 1, 2007
Volume 188, Number 2, May 15, 2007
Volume 189, Number 1, June 1, 2007
Volume 189, Number 2, June 15, 2007
Volume 190, Number 1, July 1, 2007
Volume 190, Number 2, July 15, 2007
Volume 191, Number 1, August 1, 2007
Volume 191, Number 2, August 15, 2007
Volume 192, Number 1, September 1, 2007
Volume 192, Number 2, September 15, 2007
Volume 193, Number 1, October 1, 2007
Volume 193, Number 2, November 1, 2007
Volume 194, Number 1, December 1, 2007
Volume 194, Number 2, December 15, 2007
Volume 195, Number 1, January 15, 2008
Volume 195, Number 2, February 1, 2008
Volume 196, Number 1, February 15, 2008
Volume 196, Number 2, March 1, 2008
Volume 197, Number 1, March 15, 2008
Volume 197, Number 2, April 1, 2008
Volume 198, Number 1, April 15, 2008
Volume 198, Number 2, May 1, 2008
Volume 199, Number 1, May 15, 2008
Volume 199, Number 2, June 1, 2008
Volume 200, Number 1, June 15, 2008
Volume 200, Number 2, July 1, 2008
Volume 201, Number 1--2, July 15, 2008
Volume 202, Number 1, August 1, 2008
Volume 202, Number 2, August 15, 2008
Volume 203, Number 1, September 1, 2008
Volume 203, Number 2, September 15, 2008
Volume 204, Number 1, October 1, 2008
Volume 204, Number 2, October 15, 2008
Volume 205, Number 1, November 1, 2008
Volume 205, Number 2, November 15, 2008
Volume 206, Number 1, December 1, 2008
Volume 206, Number 2, December 15, 2008
Volume 207, Number 1, January 1, 2009
Volume 207, Number 2, January 15, 2009
Volume 208, Number 1, February 1, 2009
Volume 208, Number 2, February 15, 2009
Volume 209, Number 1, March 1, 2009
Volume 209, Number 2, March 15, 2009
Volume 210, Number 1, April 1, 2009
Volume 210, Number 2, April 15, 2009
Volume 211, Number 1, May 1, 2009
Volume 211, Number 2, May 15, 2009
Volume 212, Number 1, June 1, 2009
Volume 212, Number 2, June 15, 2009
Volume 213, Number 1, July 1, 2009
Volume 213, Number 2, July 15, 2009
Volume 214, Number 1, August 1, 2009
Volume 214, Number 2, August 15, 2009
Volume 215, Number 1, September 1, 2009
Volume 215, Number 2, September 15, 2009
Volume 215, Number 3, October 1, 2009
Volume 215, Number 4, October 15, 2009
Volume 215, Number 5, November 1, 2009
Volume 215, Number 6, November 15, 2009
Volume 215, Number 7, December 1, 2009
Volume 215, Number 8, December 15, 2009
Volume 215, Number 9, January 1, 2010
Volume 215, Number 11, February 1, 2010
Volume 216, Number 2, March 15, 2010
Volume 217, Number 1, September 1, 2010
Volume 217, Number 2, September 15, 2010
Volume 217, Number 8, December 15, 2010
Volume 217, Number 12, February 15, 2011
Volume 217, Number 13, March 1, 2011
Volume 217, Number 17, May 1, 2011
Volume 218, Number 1, September 1, 2011
Volume 218, Number 6, November 15, 2011
Volume 218, Number 9, January 1, 2012
Volume 218, Number 19, June 1, 2012
Volume 219, Number 9, January 1, 2013
Volume 219, Number 11, February 1, 2013
Volume 248, Number ??, December 1, 2014
Volume 430, Number ??, October 1, 2022


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 135, Number 2--3, March 10, 2003

               H. El-Owaidy and   
                  H. Y. Mohamed   On the periodic solutions for an $n$th
                                  order difference equations . . . . . . . 383--390


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 139, Number 1, July 1, 2003

         Kerem Yamaç and   
                  Durmu Bozkurt   An algorithm for stability of
                                  discrete-time interval matrices  . . . . 121--131

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 139, Number 2--3, July 15, 2003

             Moawwad El-Mikkawy   A note on a three-term recurrence for a
                                  tridiagonal matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 503--511


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 142, Number 2--3, October 10, 2003

                    Manoj Kumar   A second order spline finite difference
                                  method for singular two-point boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--290


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 143, Number 2--3, November 10, 2003

       Bünyamin Yildiz and   
                Erdal Karaduman   On Fibonacci search method with
                                  $k$-Lucas numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . 523--531


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 145, Number 2--3, December 25, 2003

          N. C. A. da Costa and   
                    F. A. Doria   Consequences of an exotic definition for
                                  P $=$ NP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--665


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 146, Number 2--3, December 31, 2003

                  Yimin Wei and   
              Guanglin Wang and   
                   Dingkun Wang   Condition number of Drazin inverse and
                                  their condition numbers of singular
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--467


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 147, Number 1, January 5, 2004

        Nassar H. Abdel-All and   
       Rashad A. Abdel-Baky and   
               Fathi M. Hamdoon   Ruled surfaces with timelike rulings . . 241--253

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 147, Number 3, January 16, 2004

               Murat Subasi and   
         Necmettin Yildirim and   
           Bünyamin Yildiz   An improvement on Fibonacci search
                                  method in optimization theory  . . . . . 893--901


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 148, Number 3, January 30, 2004

                   T. Hayat and   
               Naseer Ahmad and   
                  F. M. Mahomed   On solution of non-linear differential
                                  equation arising in gliding motion of
                                  bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--752


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 151, Number 3, April 15, 2004

                   Tunay Bilgin   Lacunary strong $A$-convergence with
                                  respect to a sequence of modulus
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--600


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 152, Number 1, April 26, 2004

         Kerem Yamaç and   
               Durmu\cs Bozkurt   On stability of discrete-time interval
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--167

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 152, Number 3, May 13, 2004

               N. T. Eldabe and   
              A. G. El-Saka and   
                   Ashraf Fouad   Thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo
                                  effects on mixed free-forced convection
                                  and mass transfer boundary layer flow
                                  for non-Newtonian fluid with temperature
                                  dependent viscosity  . . . . . . . . . . 867--883


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 156, Number 1, August 25, 2004

         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
            A. Hadi Vencheh and   
             A. A. Foroughi and   
                R. Kazemi Matin   Inputs/outputs estimation in DEA when
                                  some factors are undesirable . . . . . . 19--32


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 157, Number 1, September 27, 2004

                       Lei Wang   A new algorithm for solving classical
                                  Blasius equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 160, Number 1, January 5, 2005

                M. A. Abdou and   
             W. G. El-Sayed and   
                    E. I. Deebs   A solution of a nonlinear integral
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                   A. El-Gohary   Optimal control of stochastic lattice of
                                  prey--predator models  . . . . . . . . . 15--28
          Awad I. El-Gohary and   
                Ammar M. Sarhan   Estimations of the parameters in a three
                                  non-independent component series system
                                  subjected to sources of shocks . . . . . 29--40
           Rashad A. Abdel-Baky   The Backlund's theorem in Minkowski
                                  $3$-space $R^3_1$  . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
        Abdul-Fattah K. Bukhari   On dynamic problem and integral equation 51--63
               Abdulkadir Dogan   Application of Galerkin's method to
                                  equal width wave equation  . . . . . . . 65--76
                    Qi Wang and   
                  Yong Chen and   
                    Biao Li and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   New exact travelling wave solutions for
                                  the shallow long wave approximate
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
                  Greg Woodbury   Sufficient conditions for equilibrium in
                                  dynamical systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 89--92
                       Lin Wang   Stability of Cohen--Grossberg neural
                                  networks with distributed delays . . . . 93--110
                   E. Ammar and   
                  H. A. Khalifa   Characterization of optimal solutions of
                                  uncertainty investment problem . . . . . 111--124
            Süleyman Solak   On the norms of circulant matrices with
                                  the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers  . . . . 125--132
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  five- and nine-point cubes . . . . . . . 133--140
   Ahmet Küçük   The fundamental group of an oriented
                                  surface of genus $n$ with $k$ boundary
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--145
             A. Gökhan and   
                R. Çolak   Double sequence space $\ell_2^\infty(p)$ 147--153
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
               A. Memariani and   
            F. Hosseinzadeh and   
                       N. Shoja   A feasible interval for weights in data
                                  envelopment analysis . . . . . . . . . . 155--168
               Chenggen Shi and   
            Guangquan Zhang and   
                         Jie Lu   On the definition of linear bilevel
                                  programming solution . . . . . . . . . . 169--176
       Konstantin B. Blyuss and   
             Yuliya N. Kyrychko   On a basic model of a two-disease
                                  epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187
                 Mustafa Bayram   Derivation of conservation relationships
                                  for catalytic cycles using MAPLE . . . . 189--195
         William Y. C. Chen and   
                Xueliang Li and   
                      Jie Zheng   Matrix method for linear sequential
                                  dynamical systems on digraphs  . . . . . 197--212
                Ahmed E. Radwan   Hydromagnetic stability of gravitational
                                  streaming coaxial cylinders with double
                                  perturbed interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 213--244
               Chih-Yin Lin and   
              Tzong-Chen Wu and   
              Fangguo Zhang and   
                Jing-Jang Hwang   New identity-based society oriented
                                  signature schemes from pairings on
                                  elliptic curves  . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--260
          Adel A. S. Abo Seleim   Electromagnetic field of transient
                                  signals above a dielectric layer . . . . 261--267
              Shin-Shin Kao and   
                  Lih-Hsing Hsu   Spider web networks: a family of
                                  optimal, fault tolerant, Hamiltonian
                                  bipartite graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--282
                Ahmed E. Radwan   Instability of a compressible annular
                                  magnetized fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--301
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 160, Number 2, January 14, 2005

           Walid Abu-Dayyeh and   
               Kailash C. Madan   The admissibility of the LRT for the
                                  exponential family model . . . . . . . . 303--308
               Tzong-Mou Wu and   
                Chao-Kuang Chen   Mathematical model and its simulation of
                                  exactly mechanism synthesis with
                                  adjustable link  . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--316
                  A. Chakib and   
                    A. Nachaoui   Nonlinear programming approach for a
                                  transient free boundary flow problem . . 317--328
             Kailash C. Patidar   Dispersion induced by the pollution for
                                  the wave equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 329--341
              Mahir Rasulov and   
                Zafer Aslan and   
                   Ozkan Pakdil   Finite differences method for shallow
                                  water equations in a class of
                                  discontinuous functions  . . . . . . . . 343--353
                     Ju H. Park   LMI optimization approach to asymptotic
                                  stability of certain neutral delay
                                  differential equation with time-varying
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--361
            Ali Emrouznejad and   
          Emmanuel Thanassoulis   A mathematical model for dynamic
                                  efficiency using data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
              Abedallah Rababah   Distances with rational triangular Bézier
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--386
                   A. Arcos and   
                   M. Rueda and   
      M. D. Martínez and   
         S. González and   
                Y. Román   Incorporating the auxiliary information
                                  available in variance estimation . . . . 387--399
         \.Ibrahim Çelik   Approximate calculation of eigenvalues
                                  with the method of weighted
                                  residuals--collocation method  . . . . . 401--410
                Li-Qun Chen and   
                   Wei-Jia Zhao   A numerical method for simulating
                                  transverse vibrations of an axially
                                  moving string  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--422
         M. R. Abd El-Salam and   
                  M. H. Shehata   The numerical solution for
                                  reaction--diffusion combustion with fuel
                                  consumption  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435
               N. T. Eldabe and   
           E. F. Elshehawey and   
    Elsayed M. E. Elbarbary and   
             Nasser S. Elgazery   Chebyshev finite difference method for
                                  MHD flow of a micropolar fluid past a
                                  stretching sheet with heat transfer  . . 437--450
              M. E. Khalifa and   
                Mahmoud Elgamal   A numerical solution to Klein--Gordon
                                  equation with Dirichlet boundary
                                  condition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--475
                   Dongjin Yuan   On the convergence of parallel
                                  multisplitting asynchronous GAOR method
                                  for $H$-matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--485
        Elsayed M. E. Elbarbary   Chebyshev finite difference method for
                                  the solution of boundary-layer equations 487--498
              Michael K. Ng and   
                 Wilson C. Kwan   Image restoration by cosine
                                  transform-based iterative regularization 499--515
                   B. Asady and   
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
            A. Hadi Vencheh and   
                     A. Heydari   Solving second kind integral equations
                                  with hybrid Fourier and block-pulse
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--522
                Y. B. Mahdy and   
                  A. Younes and   
              M. A. Soliman and   
                 M. H. Abdellha   A modified algorithm for computing the
                                  upper-bound reliabilty of computer
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--538
                   M. Cakir and   
               G. M. Amiraliyev   A finite difference method for the
                                  singularly perturbed problem with
                                  nonlocal boundary condition  . . . . . . 539--549
            Shan-Qing Zhang and   
               Gui-Xu Zhang and   
                     Zhi-Bin Li   ICS: a package for computing involutive
                                  characteristic set of algebraic partial
                                  differential equation systems  . . . . . 551--577
              K. Maleknejad and   
                     F. Mirzaee   Using rationalized Haar wavelet for
                                  solving linear integral equations  . . . 579--587
                    Junseok Kim   A diffuse-interface model for
                                  axisymmetric immiscible two-phase flow   589--606

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 160, Number 3, January 27, 2005

        J. C. Cortés and   
            L. Jódar and   
                    R. Sala and   
               P. Sevilla-Peris   Exact and numerical solution of
                                  Black--Scholes matrix equation . . . . . 607--613
                 Mini Ghosh and   
            Peeyush Chandra and   
               Prawal Sinha and   
                   J. B. Shukla   Modelling the spread of bacterial
                                  disease: effect of service providers
                                  from an environmentally degraded region  615--647
                Lingyun Wei and   
                       Mei Zhao   A niche hybrid genetic algorithm for
                                  global optimization of continuous
                                  multimodal functions . . . . . . . . . . 649--661
    A. Refik Bahadìr and   
               Mustafa Sa\uglam   A mixed finite difference and boundary
                                  element approach to one-dimensional
                                  Burgers' equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 663--673
        A. Refik Bahadìr   Exponential finite-difference method
                                  applied to Korteweg--de Vries equation
                                  for small times  . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--682
         A. E. M. El-Mesiry and   
          A. M. A. El-Sayed and   
               H. A. A. El-Saka   Numerical methods for multi-term
                                  fractional (arbitrary) orders
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 683--699
                  Wen-Chuan Lee   Inventory model involving controllable
                                  backorder rate and variable lead time
                                  demand with the mixtures of distribution 701--717
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                      M. Moradi   A DEA approach for fair allocation of
                                  common revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--724
                 Bing Zheng and   
                   Guorong Wang   Leverrier's algorithm and
                                  Cayley--Hamilton theorem for $2$-D
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--738
        B. V. Rathish Kumar and   
                    Bipin Kumar   On the development of parallel sparse
                                  CGM solver for CFD computations on
                                  Anu-cluster  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--761
                Ya-Xin Peng and   
                  Xi-Yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   An iteration method for the symmetric
                                  solutions and the optimal approximation
                                  solution of the matrix equation $AXB =
                                  C$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--777
                E. Babolian and   
            M. Masjed Jamei and   
                 M. R. Eslahchi   On numerical improvement of
                                  Gauss--Legendre quadrature rules . . . . 779--789
             Torsten Linß   On a convection--diffusion problem with
                                  a weak layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--795
                      Fahuai Yi   Global classical solution of
                                  quasi-stationary Stefan free boundary
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--817
               Feng Cheng Chang   Function of a square matrix with
                                  repeated eigenvalues . . . . . . . . . . 819--849
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
              Vivek K. Aggarwal   Numerical solution of singular boundary
                                  value problems via Chebyshev polynomial
                                  and B-spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--863
                Kamel Al-Khaled   Numerical approximations for population
                                  growth models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--873
               Xi-qiang Liu and   
                     Song Jiang   Exact solutions of multi-component
                                  nonlinear Schrödinger and Klein--Gordon
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--880
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
           Xiang-Tuan Xiong and   
               Hong-Fang Li and   
                    You-Bin Zhu   Wavelet and spectral regularization
                                  methods for a sideways parabolic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--908
           Kailash C. Madan and   
            Mohammad Al-Rawwash   On the $M^x / G / 1$ queue with feedback
                                  and optional server vacations based on a
                                  single vacation policy . . . . . . . . . 909--919
              Abdelouahed Hamdi   Two-level primal--dual proximal
                                  decomposition technique to solve large
                                  scale optimization problems  . . . . . . 921--938
                   B. Bulos and   
                Suheil A. Khuri   On the modified Taylor's approximation
                                  for the solution of linear and nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--953
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume 160 . . . . . . . 955--959
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volumes 151--160 . . . . 961--999


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 161, Number 1, February 4, 2005

                 J. B. Mena and   
                  J. A. Malpica   Color image segmentation based on three
                                  levels of texture statistical evaluation 1--17
               I. A. Ismail and   
                  G. Ismail and   
                    A. M. Sedqi   A computational method for solving the
                                  branched channel flow problem  . . . . . 19--34
                M. El-Tawil and   
                W. El-Tahan and   
                     A. Hussein   A proposed technique of SFEM on solving
                                  ordinary random differential equation    35--47
                  Li-Hua Li and   
          Shiang-Feng Tzeng and   
               Min-Shiang Hwang   Improvement of signature scheme based on
                                  factoring and discrete logarithms  . . . 49--54
                   Jing-Bo Chen   Multisymplectic geometry, local
                                  conservation laws and Fourier
                                  pseudospectral discretization for the
                                  ``good'' Boussinesq equation . . . . . . 55--67
          Miglena N. Koleva and   
                Lubin G. Vulkov   On the blow-up of finite difference
                                  solutions to the heat-diffusion equation
                                  with semilinear dynamical boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--91
                    Ayoung Sohn   Stokes problem of the cornered domain in
                                  the plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--99
              Fangguo Zhang and   
                    Kwangjo Kim   Cryptanalysis of Lee--Hwang--Li's key
                                  authentication scheme  . . . . . . . . . 101--107
                    Jungho Yoon   Improved accuracy of $L_p$-approximation
                                  to derivatives by radial basis function
                                  interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
                       Yukun An   Maximum principles for a coupled system
                                  of second and fourth order elliptic
                                  equations and an application . . . . . . 121--127
          Messaoud Boulbrachene   Pointwise error estimates for a class of
                                  elliptic quasi-variational inequalities
                                  with nonlinear source terms  . . . . . . 129--138
                  Zhimin He and   
                     Jianshe Yu   On the existence of positive solutions
                                  of fourth-order difference equations . . 139--148
                    T. Khan and   
                    A. Smirnova   $1$D inverse problem in diffusion based
                                  optical tomography using iteratively
                                  regularized Gauss--Newton algorithm  . . 149--170
                Ching-Ter Chang   An approximate approach for fractional
                                  programming with absolute-value
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--179
            Chin-Chen Chang and   
                   Yeu-Pong Lai   A fast modular square computing method
                                  based on the generalized Chinese
                                  remainder theorem for prime moduli . . . 181--194
                    Leevan Ling   Multivariate quasi-interpolation schemes
                                  for dimension-splitting multiquadric . . 195--209
               Ya-Fen Chang and   
            Chin-Chen Chang and   
                 Hui-Feng Huang   Digital signature with message recovery
                                  using self-certified public keys without
                                  trustworthy system authority . . . . . . 211--227
         Orhan Aydìn and   
                     Ahmet Kaya   Laminar boundary layer flow over a
                                  horizontal permeable flat plate  . . . . 229--240
                  Jun Zhang and   
               Jennifer J. Zhao   Truncation error and oscillation
                                  property of the combined compact
                                  difference scheme  . . . . . . . . . . . 241--251
              S. M. Shakhno and   
                O. P. Gnatyshyn   On an iterative algorithm of order
                                  $1.839\ldots{}$ for solving the
                                  nonlinear least squares problems . . . . 253--264
            Mustapha Yebdri and   
     Sidi Mohammed Bouguima and   
                    Ovide Arino   An iterative method for functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 265--269
            Adel K. Ibrahim and   
                Medhat A. Rakha   Numerical computations of infinite
                                  products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--283
             I. I. Guseinov and   
                  B. A. Mamedov   Calculation of the generalized Hubbell
                                  rectangular source integrals using
                                  binomial coefficients  . . . . . . . . . 285--292
                     Fuyong Lin   Multi-solution theory of signal
                                  processing based on finite element
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--310
                    Qi Duan and   
                 Liqiu Wang and   
                  E. H. Twizell   A new $C^2$ rational interpolation based
                                  on function values and constrained
                                  control of the interpolant curves  . . . 311--322
     Fayçal Ben Adda and   
                  Jacky Cresson   Fractional differential equations and
                                  the Schrödinger equation  . . . . . . . . 323--345
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 161, Number 2, February 15, 2005

            M. Grendar, Jr. and   
                     M. Grendar   Maximum probability/entropy translating
                                  of contiguous categorical observations
                                  into frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--351
                    Zhou Wenhui   Analysis of a single-server retrial
                                  queue with FCFS orbit and Bernoulli
                                  vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--364
               Jianwei Shen and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                        Yong Xu   Travelling wave solutions in the
                                  generalized Hirota--Satsuma coupled KdV
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--383
                Yuming Shen and   
                 Jinxi Zhao and   
                    Hongjun Fan   Properties and computations of matrix
                                  pseudospectra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--393
                Guang Zhang and   
                    Lijie Zhang   Periodicity and attractivity of a
                                  nonlinear higher order difference
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--401
              S. A. Elwakil and   
            S. K. El-Labany and   
               M. A. Zahran and   
                       R. Sabry   Modified extended tanh-function method
                                  and its applications to nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
                     Ju H. Park   Novel robust stability criterion for a
                                  class of neutral systems with mixed
                                  delays and nonlinear perturbations . . . 413--421
                     Ju H. Park   On design of dynamic output feedback
                                  controller for GCS of large-scale
                                  systems with delays in interconnections:
                                  LMI optimization approach  . . . . . . . 423--432
            Ravi P. Agarwal and   
                  Donal O'Regan   A multiplicity result for second order
                                  impulsive differential equations via the
                                  Leggett Williams fixed point theorem . . 433--439
               Daqing Jiang and   
              Donal O'Regan and   
                  R. P. Agarwal   Optimal existence theory for single and
                                  multiple positive periodic solutions to
                                  functional difference equations  . . . . 441--462
           Lawrence J. De Chant   The venerable $1/7$th power law
                                  turbulent velocity profile: a classical
                                  nonlinear boundary value problem
                                  solution and its relationship to
                                  stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 463--474
         Joan-Josep Climent and   
               Carmen Perea and   
            Leandro Tortosa and   
                 Antonio Zamora   An overlapped two-way method for solving
                                  tridiagonal linear systems in a BSP
                                  computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--500
                    J. I. Ramos   A piecewise-analytical method for
                                  singularly perturbed parabolic problems  501--512
                    J. I. Ramos   An exponentially-fitted method for
                                  singularly perturbed, one-dimensional,
                                  parabolic problems . . . . . . . . . . . 513--523
                    J. I. Ramos   Linearization techniques for singular
                                  initial-value problems of ordinary
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 525--542
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Adomian decomposition method for a
                                  reliable treatment of the Emden--Fowler
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--560
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Compactons, solitons and periodic
                                  solutions for variants of the KdV and
                                  the KP equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--575
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Nonlinear dispersive special type of the
                                  Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation
                                  $\mathrm{ZK(n,n)}$ with compact and
                                  noncompact structures  . . . . . . . . . 577--590
                   John P. Boyd   Fourier embedded domain methods:
                                  extending a function defined on an
                                  irregular region to a rectangle so that
                                  the extension is spatially periodic and
                                  $C^\infty$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--597
                    Prasada Rao   Numerical modeling of open channel flows
                                  using a multiple grid ENO scheme . . . . 599--610
                   S. Saati and   
                   A. Memariani   Reducing weight flexibility in fuzzy DEA 611--622
              A. A. Soliman and   
                  M. H. Hussien   Collocation solution for RLW equation
                                  with septic spline . . . . . . . . . . . 623--636
                     Rui Xu and   
          M. A. J. Chaplain and   
                 F. A. Davidson   Periodic solutions for a predator--prey
                                  model with Holling-type functional
                                  response and time delays . . . . . . . . 637--654
                   Jin Zhou and   
                    Shu Sun and   
                   Zengrong Liu   Periodic solutions of forced Liénard-type
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--666
                Wen-ming He and   
                    Jun-zhi Cui   Asymptotic expansion method for the two
                                  point boundary value problem with small
                                  periodic structure . . . . . . . . . . . 667--678
                Sergio Amat and   
             Sonia Busquier and   
                   Sergio Plaza   Constructing attracting periodic orbits
                                  of three third-order iterative methods   679--690
            M. E. A. El-Mikkawy   A new computational algorithm for
                                  solving periodic tri-diagonal linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--696

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 161, Number 3, February 25, 2005

              Soraya Labidi and   
            Nasser-eddine Tatar   Unboundedness for the Euler--Bernoulli
                                  beam equation with a fractional boundary
                                  dissipation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--706
      Müjgan Sagir Ozdemir   Validity and inconsistency in the
                                  analytic hierarchy process . . . . . . . 707--720
                Nuri Özalp   A computational method for hypersurfaces
                                  in terms of gamma function . . . . . . . 721--732
                E. Babolian and   
         H. Sadeghi Goghary and   
                  S. Abbasbandy   Numerical solution of linear Fredholm
                                  fuzzy integral equations of the second
                                  kind by Adomian method . . . . . . . . . 733--744
         H. Sadeghi Goghary and   
                 Sh. Javadi and   
                    E. Babolian   Restarted Adomian method for system of
                                  nonlinear Volterra integral equations    745--751
               Zhen-Jun Shi and   
                       Jie Shen   A new descent algorithm with curve
                                  search rule  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--768
                 La-di Wang and   
                   Jian-quan Li   Global stability of an epidemic model
                                  with nonlinear incidence rate and
                                  differential infectivity . . . . . . . . 769--778
 Begoña Cantó and   
                Carmen Coll and   
           Elena Sánchez   On positive behaviour of periodic
                                  control systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--786
                 Pu-yan Nie and   
                    Jin-yan Fan   A derivative-free filter method for
                                  solving nonlinear complementarity
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--797
            Eric Jui-Lin Lu and   
           Min-Shiang Hwang and   
               Cheng-Jian Huang   A new proxy signature scheme with
                                  revocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--806
               Narn-Yih Lee and   
                  Ming-Feng Lee   The security of a strong proxy signature
                                  scheme with proxy signer privacy
                                  protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--812
         F. A. Abd El-Salam and   
                M. K. Ahmed and   
                      M. Radwan   The post-Newtonian effects in the
                                  critical inclination problem in
                                  artificial satellite theory  . . . . . . 813--823
         F. A. Abd El-Salam and   
                    M. K. Ahmed   Canonical solution of the critical
                                  inclination problem taking into account
                                  PN-corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--841
                      Jijun Liu   Determination of Dirichlet-to-Neumann
                                  map for a mixed boundary problem . . . . 843--864
              Chuan-li Zhao and   
                 Heng-yong Tang   Single machine scheduling problems with
                                  deteriorating jobs . . . . . . . . . . . 865--874
                     Detong Zhu   Nonmonotone backtracking inexact
                                  quasi-Newton algorithms for solving
                                  smooth nonlinear equations . . . . . . . 875--895
                 S. Kutluay and   
                        A. Esen   Finite element solution of the
                                  thermistor problem with a ramp
                                  electrical conductivity  . . . . . . . . 897--913
              K. Maleknejad and   
                   N. Aghazadeh   Numerical solution of Volterra integral
                                  equations of the second kind with
                                  convolution kernel by using
                                  Taylor-series expansion method . . . . . 915--922
                    Tzu-Li Tien   A research on the prediction of
                                  machining accuracy by the deterministic
                                  grey dynamic model
                                  $\mathrm{DGDM}(1,1,1)$ . . . . . . . . . 923--945
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                       M. Shams   Shifting algorithms with Maple and
                                  implicit shift in the QR algorithm . . . 947--962
      Raquel P. F. Guiné   Development of an algorithm based on
                                  space refinement to solve a system of
                                  parabolic PDE's  . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--972
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
              Vivek K. Aggarwal   Fitted mesh B-spline collocation method
                                  for solving self-adjoint singularly
                                  perturbed boundary value problems  . . . 973--987
                   J. Farto and   
              C. Vázquez   Numerical techniques for pricing
                                  callable bonds with notice . . . . . . . 989--1013
               Do\ugan Kaya and   
                Ibrahim E. Inan   A convergence analysis of the ADM and an
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1025
                     Dogan Kaya   An experience using different
                                  synchronisation mechanisms on a shared
                                  memory multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . 1027--1036
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of
                                  tridiagonal matrices . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1040
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume 161 . . . . . . . 1041--1046


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 162, Number 1, March 4, 2005

Ahmet Küçük and   
                 Mustafa Bayram   Automatic calculation of the fundamental
                                  group of an oriented surface of genus
                                  $n$ with $k$ boundary surfaces . . . . . 1--6
                 M. M. Hosseini   Numerical solution of linear
                                  differential-algebraic equations . . . . 7--14
             Costanza Conti and   
            Rossana Morandi and   
           Rosa Maria Spitaleri   An algebraic--elliptic algorithm for
                                  boundary orthogonal grid generation  . . 15--27
                 Vasilios Katos   A randomness test for block ciphers  . . 29--35
               Zhanwen Yang and   
                Mingzhu Liu and   
                   Minghui Song   Stability of Runge--Kutta methods in the
                                  numerical solution of equation
                                  $u^\prime(t) = au(t) + a_0 u([t]) + a_1
                                  u([t-1])$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50
               Chenggen Shi and   
                     Jie Lu and   
                Guangquan Zhang   An extended Kuhn--Tucker approach for
                                  linear bilevel programming . . . . . . . 51--63
                S. Nakamori and   
 R. Caballero-Águila and   
          A. Hermoso-Carazo and   
        J. Linares-Pérez   Recursive estimators of signals from
                                  measurements with stochastic delays
                                  using covariance information . . . . . . 65--79
                     Xiaoke Cui   Bounds on condition number of a singular
                                  matrix and its applications  . . . . . . 81--93
                         Kui Du   The iterative methods for computing the
                                  polar decomposition of rank-deficient
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
           Francisco Alhama and   
              Antonio Campo and   
           Joaquín Zueco   Numerical solution of the heat
                                  conduction equation with the
                                  electro-thermal analogy and the code
                                  PSPICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--113
            Eugene V. Dulov and   
          Alexander V. Sinitsyn   A numerical modelling of the limit
                                  problem for the magnetically
                                  noninsulated diode . . . . . . . . . . . 115--154
              A. S. Mohamed and   
                     H. A. Atia   Separation of the general second order
                                  elliptic differential operator with an
                                  operator potential in the weighted
                                  Hilbert spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--163
               Rong Xing Lu and   
                Zhen Fu Cao and   
                      Yuan Zhou   Threshold undeniable signature scheme
                                  based on conic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--177
             Young Ju Choie and   
             Eunkyung Jeong and   
                   Eunjeong Lee   Efficient identity-based authenticated
                                  key agreement protocol from pairings . . 179--188
           Tofigh Allahviranloo   Successive over relaxation iterative
                                  method for fuzzy system of linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--196
                 Daoud S. Daoud   On the numerical solution of
                                  multi-dimensional parabolic problem by
                                  the additive splitting up method . . . . 197--210
             Chou-Chen Yang and   
                 Ren-Chiun Wang   Cryptanalysis of improved authenticated
                                  multiple-key agreement protocol without
                                  using conventional one-way function  . . 211--214
         Onur Kìymaz and   
        \cSeref Mirasyedio\uglu   A new symbolic computation for formal
                                  integration with exact power series  . . 215--224
               Ahmet Bilgil and   
                Baki Ozturk and   
                   Halis Bilgil   A numerical approach to determine
                                  viscosity-dependent segregation in fresh
                                  concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--241
       Mahmoud A. Abo-Sinna and   
                   Azza H. Amer   Extensions of TOPSIS for multi-objective
                                  large-scale nonlinear programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--256
                 Pedro M. Reyes   A mathematical example of the
                                  two-echelon inventory model with
                                  asymmetric market information  . . . . . 257--264
                   Roy Danchick   A ranked linear assignment approach to
                                  Bayesian classification  . . . . . . . . 265--281
                  Zheng Xie and   
                Hong-Qing Zhang   Symbolic computation and construction of
                                  soliton-like solutions for a $(2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional breaking soliton
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291
              Abdelouahed Hamdi   A primal-dual proximal point algorithm
                                  for constrained convex programs  . . . . 293--303
                Li-Qun Chen and   
                   Wei-Jia Zhao   A computation method for nonlinear
                                  vibration of axially accelerating
                                  viscoelastic strings . . . . . . . . . . 305--310
             Moawwad El-Mikkawy   A note on the reducibility of special
                                  infinite series  . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--315
                  Yong Duan and   
                    Yong-ji Tan   Meshless Galerkin method based on
                                  regions partitioned into subdomains  . . 317--327
               Guorong Wang and   
                   Zhaoliang Xu   Solving a kind of restricted matrix
                                  equations and Cramer rule  . . . . . . . 329--338
           Tzer-Shyong Chen and   
                  Jen-Yan Huang   A novel key management scheme for
                                  dynamic access control in a user
                                  hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--351
                   Peiping Shen   Linearization method of global
                                  optimization for generalized geometric
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--370
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
            H. Zhiani Rezai and   
                  F. Rezai Balf   Using Monte Carlo method for ranking
                                  efficient DMUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--379
              QuanFang Wang and   
                  DaiZhan Cheng   Numerical solution of damped nonlinear
                                  Klein--Gordon equations using
                                  variational method and finite element
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--401
                    Mei Qin and   
                  Guanglin Wang   Displacement structure of $W$-weighted
                                  Drazin inverse $A_{d,W}$ and its
                                  perturbation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--419
              Hsiang-An Wen and   
              Kuo-Chang Lee and   
             Sheng-Yu Hwang and   
                 Tzonelih Hwang   On the traceability on RSA-based
                                  partially signature with low computation 421--425
       Gyurhan H. Nedzhibov and   
                Milko G. Petkov   On a family of iterative methods for
                                  simultaneous extraction of all roots of
                                  algebraic polynomial . . . . . . . . . . 427--433
               Guorong Wang and   
                        Chao Gu   Condition number related with
                                  $W$-weighted Drazin inverse and singular
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--446
        B. V. Rathish Kumar and   
                     Mani Mehra   Time-accurate solutions of Korteweg--de
                                  Vries equation using wavelet Galerkin
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--460
            De-Shuang Huang and   
                    Wen-Bo Zhao   Determining the centers of radial basis
                                  probabilistic neural networks by
                                  recursive orthogonal least square
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473
                 S. Kutluay and   
                        A. Esen   Numerical solutions of the thermistor
                                  problem by spline finite elements  . . . 475--489
 Muhammet Yürüsoy and   
Hüseyin Bayrakçeken   Numerical method in the analysis of
                                  slider bearing with Power-law fluid  . . 491--501
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 162, Number 2, March 15, 2005

          R. Farzipoor Saen and   
               A. Memariani and   
          F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi   The effect of correlation coefficient
                                  among multiple input vectors on the
                                  efficiency mean in data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--521
       Dobromir T. Dimitrov and   
           Hristo V. Kojouharov   Complete mathematical analysis of
                                  predator--prey models with linear prey
                                  growth and Beddington--DeAngelis
                                  functional response  . . . . . . . . . . 523--538
                     Xinyuan Wu   Recursive algorithm without extra
                                  function evaluations for the Jacobian
                                  matrix of Viéta's polynomial system with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--548
                  R. K. Mohanty   An operator splitting technique for an
                                  unconditionally stable difference method
                                  for a linear three space dimensional
                                  hyperbolic equation with variable
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--557
            Shiuh-Jeng Wang and   
               Cheng-Hsing Yang   Hierarchy-oriented searching algorithms
                                  using alternative duplicate codewords
                                  for vector quantization mechanism  . . . 559--576
       Ljiljana Cvetkovi\'c and   
           Sanja Rapajiç   How to improve MAOR method convergence
                                  area for linear complementarity problems 577--584
                 Yongzhong Song   On parallel multisplitting iterative
                                  methods for singular linear systems  . . 585--604
               Mei-Qin Chen and   
                    Xiezhang Li   The superiority of a new type
                                  $(2,2)$-step iterative method over the
                                  related Chebyshev method . . . . . . . . 605--625
                 Ju H. Park and   
                        O. Kwon   On new stability criterion for
                                  delay-differential systems of neutral
                                  type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--637
      Svetlana V. Simakhina and   
                   Charles Tier   Computing the stability regions of
                                  Hill's equation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--660
                 Whye-Teong Ang   A time-stepping dual-reciprocity
                                  boundary element method for anisotropic
                                  heat diffusion subject to specification
                                  of energy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--678
                Qiang Zhang and   
               Xiaopeng Wei and   
                         Jin Xu   On global exponential stability of
                                  delayed cellular neural networks with
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 679--686
                A. Soufyane and   
                    M. Boulmalf   Solution of linear and nonlinear
                                  parabolic equations by the decomposition
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--693
            Alexander Pudmenzky   Teleonomic entropy: measuring the
                                  phase-space of end-directed systems  . . 695--705
              R. C. Chiroux and   
          W. A. Foster, Jr. and   
              C. E. Johnson and   
                S. A. Shoop and   
                    R. L. Raper   Three-dimensional finite element
                                  analysis of soil interaction with a
                                  rigid wheel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--722
                     Fuyong Lin   Orthogonal bases of $3$-B-spline and its
                                  application in bending problem of plate
                                  and beam system  . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--733
     Winfred A. Foster, Jr. and   
        Clarence E. Johnson and   
          Robert C. Chiroux and   
                     Tom R. Way   Finite element simulation of cone
                                  penetration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--749
               Farhan A. Faruqi   On the algebraic structure of quadratic
                                  and bilinear dynamical systems . . . . . 751--797
                  Xie Ping Ding   Iterative algorithm of solutions for
                                  generalized mixed implicit
                                  equilibrium-like problems  . . . . . . . 799--809
              Tarik Berroug and   
                   Hua Ding and   
               Rabah Labbas and   
       Boubaker-Khaled Sadallah   On a degenerate parabolic problem in
                                  Hölder spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--833
             A. F. El-Bassiouny   Effect of non-linearities in elastomeric
                                  material dampers on torsional
                                  oscillation control  . . . . . . . . . . 835--854
                 I. Atencia and   
                      P. Moreno   A single-server retrial queue with
                                  general retrial times and Bernoulli
                                  schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--880
        Emad M. Abo-Eldahab and   
             Mohamed A. El Aziz   Flow and heat transfer in a micropolar
                                  fluid past a stretching surface embedded
                                  in a non-Darcian porous medium with
                                  uniform free stream  . . . . . . . . . . 881--899
                Cem Kadilar and   
                    Hulya Cingi   A new estimator using two auxiliary
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--908
                 Juan Zhang and   
                    Jie Lou and   
                   Zhien Ma and   
                    Jianhong Wu   A compartmental model for the analysis
                                  of SARS transmission patterns and
                                  outbreak control measures in China . . . 909--924
                  Hilmi Demiray   Complex travelling wave solutions to the
                                  KdV and Burgers equations  . . . . . . . 925--930
           H. M. Srivastava and   
               R. K. Saxena and   
                      Chena Ram   A unified presentation of the Gamma-type
                                  functions occurring in diffraction
                                  theory and associated probability
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--947
               Weiming Wang and   
                     Xinze Lian   A new algorithm for symbolic integral
                                  with application . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--968
               Seungtaik Oh and   
                   Jin-Whan Yim   Optimal finite element mesh for elliptic
                                  equation of divergence form  . . . . . . 969--989
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
                 A. A. Foroughi   Efficiency analysis, generating an
                                  efficient extreme point for an MOLP, and
                                  some comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1005

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 162, Number 3, March 25, 2005

             Wen-Liang Hung and   
                    Jong-Wuu Wu   A note on determining the number of
                                  outliers in a normal sample with unequal
                                  variances by least squares procedure . . 1007--1012
                     F. Faghihi   Numerical minimization procedures of the
                                  adiabatic approximation wavefunction . . 1013--1021
               G. M. Amiraliyev   The convergence of a finite difference
                                  method on layer-adapted mesh for a
                                  singularly perturbed system  . . . . . . 1023--1034
                 Haiming Gu and   
                     Xiaonan wu   Alternating-direction iterative
                                  technique for mixed finite element
                                  methods for Stokes equations . . . . . . 1035--1047
              Sung-Woon Lee and   
              Hyun-Sung Kim and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Improvement of Lee and Lee's
                                  authenticated key agreement scheme . . . 1049--1053
            Hassan N. A. Ismail   On the convergence of the restrictive
                                  Padé approximation to the exact solutions
                                  of IBVP of parabolic and hyperbolic
                                  types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1064
                   Jin-Bao Jian   A new feasible descent algorithm
                                  combining SQP with generalized
                                  projection for optimization problems
                                  without strict complementarity . . . . . 1065--1081
                         R. Eid   Higher order isoparametric finite
                                  element solution of Stokes flow  . . . . 1083--1101
          F. Talay Akyildiz and   
                  Hamid Bellout   Chaos in the thermal convection of a
                                  Newtonian fluid with a temperature
                                  dependent viscosity  . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1118
               Tzer-Shyong Chen   A threshold signature scheme based on
                                  the elliptic curve cryptosystem  . . . . 1119--1134
               Chung-Ki Cho and   
               Taekkeun Kim and   
                  YongHoon Kwon   Estimation of local volatilities in a
                                  generalized Black--Scholes model . . . . 1135--1149
         Gülay Tohumo\uglu   Analysis of periodically time-varying
                                  discrete-time systems in spectral domain 1151--1165
                 Ju H. Park and   
                        O. Kwon   On robust stabilization for neutral
                                  delay-differential systems with
                                  parametric uncertainties and its
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1182
            De-Shuang Huang and   
            H. S. Ip Horace and   
              C. K. Law Ken and   
                  Zheru Chi and   
                     H. S. Wong   A new partitioning neural network model
                                  for recursively finding arbitrary roots
                                  of higher order arbitrary polynomials    1183--1200
             Chien-Lung Hsu and   
               Tzong-Sun Wu and   
                     Wei-Hua He   New proxy multi-signature scheme . . . . 1201--1206
              Fenghong Yang and   
                    Miao He and   
                   Yun Tang and   
                       Ming Rao   Inexact block Newton methods for solving
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1218
                Emine Can Baran   Numerical procedures for determining of
                                  an unknown parameter in parabolic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219--1226
            Rong-Kun Zhuang and   
                     Hong-Wu Wu   Sturm comparison theorem of solution for
                                  second order nonlinear differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1235
                Zheng-Hai Huang   Global Lipschitzian error bounds for
                                  semidefinite complementarity problems
                                  with emphasis on NCPs  . . . . . . . . . 1237--1258
                  Wei-Kuei Chen   Efficient on-line electronic checks  . . 1259--1263
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
             Sohrab Kordrostami   Multi-component efficiency measurement
                                  with imprecise data  . . . . . . . . . . 1265--1277
                    Fengde Chen   Positive periodic solutions of neutral
                                  Lotka--Volterra system with feedback
                                  control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1302
                     P. Ossipov   Heuristic optimization of sequence of
                                  customer orders  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1313
              Sung-Woon Lee and   
              Hyun-Sung Kim and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Improvement of HWWM-authenticated key
                                  agreement protocol . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1320
                     Emin Kahya   Comment on titled ``On Fibonacci search
                                  method with $k$-Lucas numbers''  . . . . 1321--1324
                          Li Yu   An LMI approach to reliable guaranteed
                                  cost control of discrete-time systems
                                  with actuator failure  . . . . . . . . . 1325--1331
               Hai-Feng Huo and   
                    Wan-Tong Li   Existence and global stability of
                                  periodic solutions of a discrete
                                  ratio-dependent food chain model with
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333--1349
              Shaher Momani and   
                Kamel Al-Khaled   Numerical solutions for systems of
                                  fractional differential equations by the
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 1351--1365
      Afet Golayoglu Fatullayev   Numerical procedure for the simultaneous
                                  determination of unknown coefficients in
                                  a parabolic equation . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1375
                  Zhen-Yun Peng   The inverse eigenvalue problem for
                                  Hermitian anti-reflexive matrices and
                                  its approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . 1377--1389
             Chou-Chen Yang and   
             Ren-Chiun Wang and   
                  Ting-Yi Chang   An improvement of the Yang-Shieh
                                  password authentication schemes  . . . . 1391--1396
               Changfeng Ma and   
                      Tong Kang   A Jacobian smoothing method for box
                                  constrained variational inequality
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1429
         F. A. Abd El-Salam and   
                      L. Sehnal   The effects of the terrestrial infrared
                                  radiation pressure on the Earth's
                                  artificial satellite dynamics  . . . . . 1431--1451
                Li-Qun Chen and   
                Chang-Jun Cheng   Instability of nonlinear viscoelastic
                                  plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1463
               Muhammed I. Syam   Adomian decomposition method for
                                  approximating the solution of the
                                  Korteweg--de Vries equation  . . . . . . 1465--1473
                Zhang Zhang and   
             Shunsuke Araki and   
                   Guozhen Xiao   Improvement of Tseng et al.'s
                                  authenticated encryption scheme with
                                  message linkages . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1483
               Xiaofan Yang and   
                 Weifeng Su and   
                  Bill Chen and   
           Graham M. Megson and   
                 David J. Evans   On the recursive sequence $x_n =
                                  (ax_{n-1} + bx_{n-2}) / (c +
                                  dx_{n-1}x_{n-2})$  . . . . . . . . . . . 1485--1497
      D. Khojasteh Salkuyeh and   
                  F. Toutounian   A block version algorithm to approximate
                                  inverse factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499--1509
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume 162 . . . . . . . ??


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 163, Number 1, April 5, 2005

            Jeff S. McGough and   
                  Kyle L. Riley   A priori bounds for reaction--diffusion
                                  systems arising in chemical and
                                  biological dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
               Jianhua Yang and   
                   Danping Yang   Additive Schwarz methods for parabolic
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28
              Fikri Akdeniz and   
         Fikri Öztürk   The distribution of stochastic shrinkage
                                  biasing parameters of the Liu type
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--38
                   Bashir Ahmad   Sub Mach-$1$ sound due to an arbitrary
                                  time dependent source near an absorbing
                                  half plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
                   B. Mehri and   
                 M. A. Niksirat   Some computable results on the existence
                                  of periodic solutions for singular
                                  non-autonomous third order systems . . . 51--60
Semih Küçükarslan   An exact truncation boundary condition
                                  for incompressible--unbounded infinite
                                  fluid domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--69
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
                A. Hadi Vencheh   Solving second kind integral equations
                                  with Hybrid Chebyshev and Block--Pulse
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
                   Serdal Pamuk   The decomposition method for continuous
                                  population models for single and
                                  interacting species  . . . . . . . . . . 79--88
                   Serdal Pamuk   An application for linear and nonlinear
                                  heat equations by Adomian's
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 89--96
              K. Maleknejad and   
                     F. Mirzaee   Numerical solution of stochastic linear
                                  heat conduction problem by using new
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--106
             A. A. Foroughi and   
                D. F. Jones and   
                       M. Tamiz   A selection method for a preferential
                                  election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
                  Chun Zhao and   
               Miansen Wang and   
                      Ping Zhao   Optimal harvesting problems for
                                  age-dependent interacting species with
                                  diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--129
         Turgut Özi\cs and   
                  Ya\csar Aslan   The semi-approximate approach for
                                  solving Burgers' equation with high
                                  Reynolds number  . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--145
                 S. Kutluay and   
                        A. Esen   Finite element approaches to the PTC
                                  thermistor problem . . . . . . . . . . . 147--162
                   E. Ahmed and   
               A. S. Hegazi and   
                 A. S. Elgazzar   On some variants of prisoner's dilemma
                                  dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
              Ting-Yi Chang and   
           Min-Shiang Hwang and   
                  Wei-Pang Yang   An improvement on the Lin--Wu $(t,n)$
                                  threshold verifiable multi-secret
                                  sharing scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
                 Dogan Kaya and   
                     Ken Wright   Parallel algorithms for LU decomposition
                                  on a shared memory multiprocessor  . . . 179--191
                Kee-Won Kim and   
              Eun-Kyung Ryu and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Cryptanalysis of Lee--Lee authenticated
                                  key agreement scheme . . . . . . . . . . 193--198
              \.Idris Da\ug and   
                 Dursun Irk and   
               Bülent Saka   A numerical solution of the Burgers'
                                  equation using cubic B-splines . . . . . 199--211
                   Do\ugan Kaya   The symmetric tridiagonal eigenproblem
                                  on a shared memory multiprocessor: Part
                                  II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--244
   Mohammad Mehdi Nasrabadi and   
          Ebrahim Nasrabadi and   
             Ali Reza Nasrabady   Fuzzy linear regression analysis: a
                                  multi-objective programming approach . . 245--251
       Kshitij Kulshreshtha and   
              Neela Nataraj and   
                   Michael Jung   A parallel mixed finite element
                                  implementation of fourth-order plate
                                  bending problems in distributed memory
                                  environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--274
           Ismael Velazquez and   
               David Kaplan and   
 Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez and   
            Sergio A. Navarrete   Multistability in an open recruitment
                                  food web model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--294
                 Rais Ahmad and   
              A. H. Siddiqi and   
                    Zubair Khan   Proximal point algorithm for generalized
                                  multivalued nonlinear
                                  quasi-variational-like inclusions in
                                  Banach spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--308
              Yong-Lin Chen and   
                   Xue-Yuan Tan   Computing generalized inverses of
                                  matrices by iterative methods based on
                                  splittings of matrices . . . . . . . . . 309--325
                Hazem Ali Attia   Numerical study of flow and heat
                                  transfer of a non-Newtonian fluid on a
                                  rotating porous disk . . . . . . . . . . 327--342
                   Luming Zhang   Convergence of a conservative difference
                                  scheme for a class of
                                  Klein--Gordon--Schrödinger equations in
                                  one space dimension  . . . . . . . . . . 343--355
             J. A. Boguslavskiy   The algorithms of the organized search
                                  for identification of parameters of
                                  models of nonlinear dynamic system . . . 357--372
                 M. M. Hosseini   Numerical solution of ordinary
                                  differential equations with impulse
                                  solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--381
                      D. Li and   
                      M. Z. Liu   Runge--Kutta methods for the
                                  multi-pantograph delay equation  . . . . 383--395
          Thomas K. DeLillo and   
             Alan R. Elcrat and   
                    Chenglie Hu   Computation of the Helmholtz--Kirchhoff
                                  and reentrant jet flows using Fourier
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--422
             H. M. Moustafa and   
                  S. G. Ramadan   Errors of misclassification and their
                                  probability distributions when the
                                  parent populations are Gompertz  . . . . 423--442
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
                     Huei-Yi Yu   Statistical inference about the shape
                                  parameter of the Burr type XII
                                  distribution under the failure-censored
                                  sampling plan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--482
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
               M. Zohrehbandian   Finding the piecewise linear frontier
                                  production function in data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--488
                  Jinhua Fu and   
                      Wenyu Sun   Nonmonotone adaptive trust-region method
                                  for unconstrained optimization problems  489--504
              Necdet Bildik and   
           Sevil Özlü   On the numerical solution of Helmholtz
                                  equation by alternating group explicit
                                  (AGE) methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--518
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 163, Number 2, April 15, 2005

              Necdet Bildik and   
              Hatice Bayramoglu   The solution of two dimensional
                                  nonlinear differential equation by the
                                  Adomian decomposition method . . . . . . 519--524
                 Roberto Barrio   Performance of the Taylor series method
                                  for ODEs/DAEs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--545
            A. Hadi Vencheh and   
            R. Kazemi Matin and   
            M. Tavassoli Kajani   Undesirable factors in efficiency
                                  measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--552
           Tofigh Allahviranloo   The Adomian decomposition method for
                                  fuzzy system of linear equations . . . . 553--563
             Young Ju Choie and   
            Eun Kyung Jeong and   
                  Eun Jeong Lee   Supersingular hyperelliptic curves of
                                  genus $2$ over finite fields . . . . . . 565--576
                Wan-Tong Li and   
                   Hong-Rui Sun   Dynamics of a rational difference
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--591
               Xiaolin Zhou and   
                     Yinnian He   Using divergence free wavelets for the
                                  numerical solution of the $2$-D
                                  stationary Navier--Stokes equations  . . 593--607
                  Jin Liang and   
                  James Liu and   
                    Ti-Jun Xiao   Hyperbolic singular perturbations for
                                  integrodifferential equations  . . . . . 609--620
              Desheng Shang and   
                      Maoan Han   The existence of homoclinic orbits to
                                  saddle-focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--631
                  J. Biazar and   
                    H. Ebrahimi   An approximation to the solution of
                                  hyperbolic equations by Adomian
                                  decomposition method and comparison with
                                  characteristics method . . . . . . . . . 633--638
                  Ayman Baklizi   Preliminary test estimation in the two
                                  parameter exponential distribution with
                                  time censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 639--643
              Iliya A. Brayanov   Uniformly convergent finite volume
                                  difference scheme for $2$D
                                  convection-dominated problem with
                                  discontinuous coefficients . . . . . . . 645--665
                   Z.-M. Ge and   
                      J.-K. Lee   Chaos synchronization and parameter
                                  identification for gyroscope system  . . 667--682
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
             Sohrab Kordrostami   Efficient surfaces and an efficiency
                                  index in DEA: a constant returns to
                                  scale  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--691
                    Joe Hlomuka   On the existence, uniqueness and the
                                  stability of a solution to a cooling
                                  problem, for an isotropic $3$-D solid    693--703
               Zahra Naji Azimi   Hybrid heuristics for Examination
                                  Timetabling problem  . . . . . . . . . . 705--733
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
             Sohrab Kordrostami   DEA-like models for multi-component
                                  performance measurement  . . . . . . . . 735--743
                     Zhibin Zhu   A feasible interior-point algorithm for
                                  nonconvex nonlinear programming  . . . . 745--753
                M. S. Osman and   
            M. A. Abo-Sinna and   
                    A. A. Mousa   An effective genetic algorithm approach
                                  to multiobjective resource allocation
                                  problems (MORAPs)  . . . . . . . . . . . 755--768
                M. S. Osman and   
            M. A. Abo-Sinna and   
                    A. A. Mousa   An effective genetic algorithm approach
                                  to multiobjective routing problems
                                  (MORPs)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--781
                L. W. White and   
                     Y. Luo and   
                          T. Xu   Carbon sequestration: inversion of FACE
                                  data and prediction  . . . . . . . . . . 783--800
            A. Abd El-Shafy and   
                 Mamdouh Elkady   On existence of unique solution to
                                  non-linear integral equations of the
                                  second kind  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--809
                 Weixing Wu and   
                 Yongxiang Wang   Investment with restricted stock and the
                                  value of information . . . . . . . . . . 811--824
                 Heng Liang and   
               Fengshan Bai and   
                     Leyuan Shi   Computing the optimal partition of
                                  variables in multi-homogeneous homotopy
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--840
                  J. Biazar and   
                   R. Montazeri   A computational method for solution of
                                  the prey and predator problem  . . . . . 841--847
       Bosko S. Jovanovi\'c and   
                Lubin G. Vulkov   Stability of difference schemes for
                                  parabolic equations with dynamical
                                  boundary conditions and conditions on
                                  conjugation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--868
                 Yu-Yi Chen and   
                Jinn-Ke Jan and   
                 Chin-Ling Chen   A novel proxy deposit protocol for
                                  e-cash systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--877
               Agus Kartono and   
                Toto Winata and   
                        Sukirno   Applications of non-orthogonal Laguerre
                                  function basis in helium atom  . . . . . 879--893
             Daoqiang Zhang and   
               Songcan Chen and   
                   Zhi-Hua Zhou   A new face recognition method based on
                                  SVD perturbation for single example
                                  image per person . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--907
                  Y. G. Sun and   
                    S. H. Saker   Oscillation for second-order nonlinear
                                  neutral delay difference equations . . . 909--918
    Mehdi Sohrabi Haghighat and   
                Esmaile Khorram   The maximum and minimum number of
                                  efficient units in DEA with interval
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--930
                   Raied Salman   Neural networks of adaptive inverse
                                  control systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--939
                  K. J. Bai and   
                 S. M. Choo and   
                S. K. Chung and   
                      D. Y. Kim   Numerical solutions for nonlinear free
                                  surface flows by finite element methods  941--959
                   Xian-Fang Li   Two perfectly-bonded dissimilar
                                  orthotropic strips with an interfacial
                                  crack normal to the boundaries . . . . . 961--975
                M. Modarres and   
               E. Nasrabadi and   
                M. M. Nasrabadi   Fuzzy linear regression models with
                                  least square errors  . . . . . . . . . . 977--989
                   E. N. Chukwu   Cooperation and competition in modeling
                                  the dynamics of gross-domestic products
                                  of nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1021

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 163, Number 3, April 25, 2005

              A. Belmiloudi and   
                     G. Le Meur   Mathematical and numerical analysis of
                                  dehydratation of gypsum plasterboards
                                  exposed to fire  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1041
               Shu-Shiang Huang   Stochastic adsorption--desorption
                                  problem for mass-spring systems in the
                                  nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1054
                  A. A. Soliman   On practical stability of perturbed
                                  differential systems . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1060
                  A. A. Soliman   On Lipschitz stability for comparison
                                  systems of differential equations via
                                  limiting equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1067
                  A. A. Soliman   On cone perturbing Liapunov function for
                                  impulsive differential systems . . . . . 1069--1079
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   A reliable treatment of the physical
                                  structure for the nonlinear equation
                                  $K(m,n)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1095
          S. Sivaloganathan and   
                 M. Stastna and   
                   G. Tenti and   
                    J. M. Drake   A viscoelastic approach to the modelling
                                  of hydrocephalus . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1107
              Damian Clancy and   
           Alexei B. Piunovskiy   An explicit optimal isolation policy for
                                  a deterministic epidemic model . . . . . 1109--1121
                    J. I. Ramos   A smooth locally-analytical technique
                                  for singularly perturbed two-point
                                  boundary-value problems  . . . . . . . . 1123--1142
                    J. I. Ramos   Linearization techniques for
                                  singularly-perturbed initial-value
                                  problems of ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1163
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   New compact and noncompact solutions for
                                  two variants of a modified Camassa--Holm
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1179
       João Luiz Martins   Approximate analytical formulas for
                                  Kirchhoff migration operator . . . . . . 1181--1195
                      Sunil and   
                    Anupama and   
                   R. C. Sharma   The effect of magnetic field dependent
                                  viscosity on thermosolutal convection in
                                  ferromagnetic fluid  . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1214
                C. P. Katti and   
                    Rama Kumari   Efficient parallel algorithm for quasi
                                  pentadiagonal systems on a hypercube . . 1215--1223
   Zahir Muradoglu Seyidmamedov   Computational modeling of elastoplastic
                                  behaviour of homogeneous materials under
                                  indentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1241
        B. V. Rathish Kumar and   
                    Bipin Kumar   Parallel preconditioners for heat
                                  transfer applications on ANU-cluster . . 1243--1263
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                 M. T. Darvishi   A numerical solution of Burgers'
                                  equation by modified Adomian method  . . 1265--1272
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume . . . . . . . . . 1273--1278


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 164, Number 1, May 5, 2005

                  Hilmi Demiray   The modified reductive perturbation
                                  method as applied to Boussinesq
                                  equation: strongly dispersive case . . . 1--9
                Chen Wenbin and   
                 Shen Yifan and   
                       Xia Qing   A mortar finite element approximation
                                  for the linear Poisson--Boltzmann
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--23
             J. A. Boguslavskiy   Algorithms of a linear estimation of a
                                  poorly worded matrix and errors of
                                  observations --- uncertain functions of
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--44
                  Gyeong-Mi Cho   Log-barrier method for two-stage
                                  quadratic stochastic programming . . . . 45--69
               Weiming Wang and   
                 Changsheng Lin   A new algorithm for integral of
                                  trigonometric functions with
                                  mechanization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--82
                  Yuan Zhou and   
                 ZhenFu Cao and   
                    RongXing Lu   Provably secure proxy-protected
                                  signature schemes based on factoring . . 83--98
                Shiuh-Jeng Wang   Steganography of capacity required using
                                  modulo operator for embedding secret
                                  image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--116
                 Gao Yuelin and   
               Xu Chengxian and   
                Wang Yanjun and   
                 Zhang Lianshen   A new two-level linear relaxed bound
                                  method for geometric programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--131
        E. Loli Piccolomini and   
                   G. Landi and   
                        F. Zama   A B-spline parametric model for high
                                  resolution dynamic magnetic resonance
                                  imaging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--148
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order tridiagonal matrices with zero
                                  row--I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--154
         M. Morhá\vc and   
                  V. Matou\vsek   Exact algorithm of multidimensional
                                  circulant deconvolution  . . . . . . . . 155--166
              Magdy A. El-Tawil   The approximate solutions of some
                                  stochastic differential equations using
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--178
                RongXing Lu and   
                 ZhenFu Cao and   
                      Yuan Zhou   Proxy blind multi-signature scheme
                                  without a secure channel . . . . . . . . 179--187
         Mohamed A. Ramadan and   
         Talaat S. El-Danaf and   
            Naglaa M. El-Shazly   Iterative positive definite solutions of
                                  the two nonlinear matrix equations $X
                                  \pm A^T X^{-2} A = I$  . . . . . . . . . 189--200
             Chien-Lung Hsu and   
                   Tzong-Sun Wu   Self-certified threshold proxy signature
                                  schemes with message recovery,
                                  nonrepudiation, and traceability . . . . 201--225
           M. S. Petkovi\'c and   
                  L. Ran\vci\'c   A new fourth-order family of
                                  simultaneous methods for finding
                                  polynomial zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--248
                M. M. Rueda and   
         S. González and   
                       A. Arcos   Indirect methods of imputation of
                                  missing data based on available units    249--261
              M.-P. Zorzano and   
               A. M. Mancho and   
              L. Vázquez   Numerical integration of the
                                  discrete-ordinate radiative transfer
                                  equation in strongly non-homogeneous
                                  media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--274
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 164, Number 2, May 16, 2005

                  F. E. Udwadia   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
               V. Laksmikantham   Set differential equations versus fuzzy
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 277--294
                   A. Miele and   
                    T. Wang and   
                 P. N. Williams   On feasibility of launch vehicle designs 295--312
             Firdaus E. Udwadia   On constrained motion  . . . . . . . . . 313--320
             A. V. Balakrishnan   Superstability of systems  . . . . . . . 321--326
             Firdaus E. Udwadia   Boundary control, quiet boundaries,
                                  super-stability and super-instability    327--349
             Marianna A. Shubov   Bending-torsion vibration model with
                                  two-end energy dissipation . . . . . . . 351--372
             On-Uma Kheowan and   
          Stefan C. Müller   Control of spiral waves in excitable
                                  media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--390
               Rui Dilão   Turing instabilities and patterns near a
                                  Hopf bifurcation . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--414
               F. L. Chernousko   Modelling of snake-like locomotion . . . 415--434
                 Richard H. Day   Adaptive economizing and financial
                                  feedback in pure competition . . . . . . 435--451
                 Frank Lehn and   
              Eberhard P. Hofer   A time-delay approach for modeling
                                  chronic radiation injury dynamics  . . . 453--466
              P. Parmananda and   
                  M. Rivera and   
                B. J. Green and   
                   J. L. Hudson   Controlling complexity using forcing:
                                  simulations and experiments  . . . . . . 467--491
J. J. de Espìñdola and   
João M. da Silva Neto and   
            Eduardo M. O. Lopes   A generalised fractional derivative
                                  approach to viscoelastic material
                                  properties measurement . . . . . . . . . 493--506
                M. Sugisaka and   
               A. Loukianov and   
               F. Xiongfeng and   
                   T. Kubik and   
                    K. B. Kubik   Development of an artificial brain for
                                  LifeRobot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--521
          V. Lakshmikantham and   
                  A. S. Vatsala   Generalized quasilinearization versus
                                  Newton's method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--530
          A. I. Ze\vcevi\'c and   
                 D. D. \vSiljak   Control of large-scale systems in a
                                  multiprocessor environment . . . . . . . 531--543
                       S. Leela   A unified topological concept of
                                  stability in terms of two measures . . . 545--553
             Taih-Shyun Lee and   
                Ye-Hwa Chen and   
             Jason C.-H. Chuang   Robust control design of fuzzy dynamical
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--572
      Helio Mitio Morishita and   
                  Yng Bolognani   Dynamics and control of a two-body
                                  floating system under realistic
                                  environmental loads  . . . . . . . . . . 573--590
             Petia Manolova and   
           Charles Lai Tong and   
         Christophe Deissenberg   Real taxation and production in a
                                  monetary economy with spatially
                                  differentiated agents  . . . . . . . . . 591--603
       Débora Belato and   
              Hans I. Weber and   
       José M. Balthazar   Using transient and steady state
                                  considerations to investigate the
                                  mechanism of loss of stability of a
                                  dynamical system . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--613
   José M. Balthazar and   
    Jorge L. Palacios Felix and   
          Reyolando MLRF Brasil   Some comments on the numerical
                                  simulation of self-synchronization of
                                  four non-ideal exciters  . . . . . . . . 615--625
                    K. D. Mease   Multiple time-scales in nonlinear flight
                                  mechanics: diagnosis and modeling  . . . 627--648
Jessé Rebello de Souza, Jr. and   
        Claudio Gomes Fernandes   Nonlinear dynamics of an archetypal
                                  model of ships motions in tandem . . . . 649--665

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 164, Number 3, May 25, 2005

        Mohammad Reza Alirezaee   The overall assurance interval for the
                                  non-Archimedean Epsilon in DEA models; a
                                  partition base algorithm . . . . . . . . 667--674
                 Da-Zhi Sun and   
                Zhen-Fu Cao and   
                         Yu Sun   Comment: cryptanalysis of
                                  Lee--Hwang--Li's key authentication
                                  scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--678
              Ming-Chih Lai and   
                    Hsi-Chi Liu   Fast direct solver for the biharmonic
                                  equation on a disk and its application
                                  to incompressible flows  . . . . . . . . 679--695
      Afet Golayoglu Fatullayev   Numerical procedure for the simultaneous
                                  determination of unknown coefficients in
                                  a parabolic equation . . . . . . . . . . 697--705
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                    E. Babolian   On numerical improvement of
                                  Gauss--Lobatto quadrature rules  . . . . 707--717
            E. Yépez and   
                 J. R. Soto and   
               J. J. Castro and   
                      A. Calles   A simple algorithm for the group
                                  theoretical classification of quantum
                                  states II. The case of molecular
                                  electronic states  . . . . . . . . . . . 719--729
             Kourosh H. Shirazi   Synthesis of linkages with four points
                                  of accuracy using Maple-V  . . . . . . . 731--755
               Pin-Chang Su and   
      Henry Ker-Chang Chang and   
                    Erl-Huei Lu   ID-based threshold digital signature
                                  schemes on the elliptic curve discrete
                                  logarithm problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 757--772
                  Jinwu Gao and   
                         Mei Lu   Fuzzy quadratic minimum spanning tree
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--788
               S. Özer and   
                     S. Kutluay   An analytical--numerical method for
                                  solving the Korteweg--de Vries equation  789--797
              Hsiang-An Wen and   
             Sheng-Yu Hwang and   
                 Tzonelih Hwang   On the unlinkability of
                                  randomization-enhanced Chaum's blind
                                  signature scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--803
                Kuo-Chi Liu and   
              Chien-Nan Lin and   
                 Jiun-Shen Wang   Numerical solutions for the hyperbolic
                                  heat conduction problems in a layered
                                  solid cylinder with radiation surface    805--820
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
                       Cheng Li   An iterative algorithm for searching a
                                  scaling matrix for diagonal dominance    821--828
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of
                                  tridiagonal matrices of even order . . . 829--835
              Cheng-Chi Lee and   
           Min-Shiang Hwang and   
                  Wei-Pang Yang   A new blind signature based on the
                                  discrete logarithm problem for
                                  untraceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--841
               Chenggen Shi and   
                     Jie Lu and   
                Guangquan Zhang   An extended $K$th-best approach for
                                  linear bilevel programming . . . . . . . 843--855
               Do\ugan Kaya and   
                     Asif Yokus   A decomposition method for finding
                                  solitary and periodic solutions for a
                                  coupled higher-dimensional Burgers
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--864
             M. Alper Tunga and   
                 Metin Demiralp   A factorized high dimensional model
                                  representation on the nodes of a finite
                                  hyperprismatic regular grid  . . . . . . 865--883
          Chorng-Shyong Ong and   
             Jih-Jeng Huang and   
              Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng   Model identification of ARIMA family
                                  using genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . 885--912
          Bratislav Tasi\'c and   
          Robert M. M. Mattheij   Explicitly solving vectorial ODEs  . . . 913--933
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume 164 . . . . . . . 935--939


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 165, Number 1, June 6, 2005

                 Shin-Jia Hwang   Improvement of Tseng et al.'s
                                  authenticated encryption scheme  . . . . 1--4
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                 M. Dehghan and   
                M. Masjed-Jamei   On numerical improvement of the first
                                  kind Gauss--Chebyshev quadrature rules   5--21
              Salah M. El-Sayed   A direct method for solving circulant
                                  tridiagonal block systems of linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
                   Tzong-Mou Wu   A modified formula of ancient Chinese
                                  algorithm by the homotopy continuation
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
                    Qinghong Li   On the stability of a two-step method
                                  for solving periodic IVPs  . . . . . . . 37--44
            Kuo-Hsiung Wang and   
             Tsung-Yin Wang and   
                  Wen-Lea Pearn   Maximum entropy analysis to the $N$
                                  policy $M / G / 1$ queueing system with
                                  server breakdowns and general startup
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--61
                    Bor-Lih Kuo   Application of the differential
                                  transformation method to the solutions
                                  of the free convection problem . . . . . 63--79
                  A. A. El-Bary   Exponential solution of a problem of
                                  two-dimensional motion of micropolar
                                  fluid in a half-plane  . . . . . . . . . 81--93
           Tzer-Shyong Chen and   
              Jen-Yan Huang and   
                 Tzer-Long Chen   An efficient undeniable group-oriented
                                  signature scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
                 Andy C. Ho and   
                  Michael K. Ng   Iterative methods for Robbins problems   103--125
       Rossella Cancelliere and   
                 Angela Slavova   Dynamics and stability of generalized
                                  cellular nonlinear network model . . . . 127--136
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  symmetric circulant matrices--I  . . . . 137--141
                    Gao Jia and   
             Ying-Qing Song and   
                       Qiong Li   Calculation of eigenvalues for a class
                                  of crosswise vibration equation of the
                                  beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--154
                    Yanbin Tang   Numerical simulations of periodic
                                  travelling waves to a generalized
                                  Ginzburg--Landau equation  . . . . . . . 155--161
                 A. Shidfar and   
                   M. Garshasbi   Numerical study of in-cylinder pressure
                                  in an internal combustion engine . . . . 163--170
                Shun-Fu Pon and   
                Erl-Huei Lu and   
                 Albert B. Jeng   Meta-He digital signatures based on
                                  factoring and discrete logarithms  . . . 171--176
               A. S. Farrag and   
                    S. E. Abbas   Computer programming for construction
                                  and enumeration of all regular
                                  topologies and equivalence relations on
                                  finite sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
               Tiangang Lei and   
                  Yimin Wei and   
                  Ching-Wah Woo   Condition numbers and structured
                                  perturbation of the $W$-weighted Drazin
                                  inverse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--194
                    D. Kaya and   
                      K. Wright   Parallel algorithms for reduction of a
                                  general matrix to upper Hessenberg form
                                  on a shared memory multiprocessor  . . . 195--212
                  S. Asghar and   
         M. Mudassar Gulzar and   
                       T. Hayat   Rotating flow of a third grade fluid by
                                  homotopy analysis method . . . . . . . . 213--221
                E. Babolian and   
                      A. Davari   Numerical implementation of Adomian
                                  decomposition method for linear Volterra
                                  integral equations of the second kind    223--227
                  R. K. Mohanty   An unconditionally stable finite
                                  difference formula for a linear second
                                  order one space dimensional hyperbolic
                                  equation with variable coefficients  . . 229--236
               T. Özis and   
                    A. Esen and   
                     S. Kutluay   Numerical solution of Burgers' equation
                                  by quadratic B-spline finite elements    237--249
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 165, Number 2, June 15, 2005

                 M. Dehghan and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                 M. R. Eslahchi   On numerical improvement of closed
                                  Newton--Cotes quadrature rules . . . . . 251--260
              Marco Caliari and   
          Stefano De Marchi and   
                 Marco Vianello   Bivariate polynomial interpolation on
                                  the square at new nodal sets . . . . . . 261--274
        Sashikumaar Ganesan and   
                    Volker John   Pressure separation --- a technique for
                                  improving the velocity error in finite
                                  element discretisations of the
                                  Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 275--290
               Xue Honggang and   
                   Xu Chengxian   A branch and bound algorithm for solving
                                  a class of D-C programming . . . . . . . 291--302
                   Do\ugan Kaya   On experimental results and explicit
                                  exact solutions for the generalized
                                  Boussinesq type equation . . . . . . . . 303--311
        Reza Farzipoor Saen and   
        Azizollah Memariani and   
      Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi   Determining relative efficiency of
                                  slightly non-homogeneous decision making
                                  units by data envelopment analysis: a
                                  case study in IROST  . . . . . . . . . . 313--328
               Fuat Gürcan   Streamline topologies near a stationary
                                  wall of Stokes flow in a cavity  . . . . 329--345
                Shiguang Li and   
                  Gang Zhou and   
                     Dayue Chen   The WZ algorithm for the eigenvalue
                                  problem of complex matrix  . . . . . . . 347--353
                    Liviu Marin   A meshless method for the numerical
                                  solution of the Cauchy problem
                                  associated with three-dimensional
                                  Helmholtz-type equations . . . . . . . . 355--374
                   Lianwen Wang   Convergence of discrete approximations
                                  to optimization problems of neutral
                                  functional--differential inclusions  . . 375--391
                 Ju H. Park and   
                        O. Kwon   On guaranteed cost control of neutral
                                  systems by retarded integral state
                                  feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--404
                Xin-guo Liu and   
                     Ze-xi Wang   A note on the backward errors for
                                  Hermite eigenvalue problems  . . . . . . 405--417
              Xin-qiang Qin and   
                     Yi-chen Ma   Two-grid scheme for characteristics
                                  finite-element solution of nonlinear
                                  convection diffusion problems  . . . . . 419--431
                   Wei Ding and   
                 Junrong Mi and   
                      Maoan Han   Periodic boundary value problems for the
                                  first order impulsive functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 433--446
              C. A. Dartora and   
              K. Z. Nobrega and   
       H. E. Hernandez-Figueroa   New analytical approximations for the
                                  Mathieu functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 447--458
                  Shaher Momani   Analytical approximate solution for
                                  fractional heat-like and wave-like
                                  equations with variable coefficients
                                  using the decomposition method . . . . . 459--472
            Kamel Al-Khaled and   
                  Shaher Momani   An approximate solution for a fractional
                                  diffusion-wave equation using the
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 473--483
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   A class of nonlinear fourth order
                                  variant of a generalized Camassa--Holm
                                  equation with compact and noncompact
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--501

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 165, Number 3, June 27, 2005

         Agamali Agamaliyev and   
                   Anar Nabiyev   On eigenvalues of some boundary value
                                  problems for a polynomial pencil of
                                  Sturm--Liouville equation  . . . . . . . 503--515
              A. Ashyralyev and   
                H. A. Yurtsever   A note on the second order of accuracy
                                  difference schemes for
                                  hyperbolic--parabolic equations  . . . . 517--537
           T. Gnana Bhaskar and   
             J. Vasundhara Devi   Set differential systems and vector
                                  Lyapunov functions . . . . . . . . . . . 539--548
                    J. I. Ramos   An exponentially-fitted method for
                                  singularly-perturbed ordinary
                                  differential equations with turning
                                  points and parabolic problems  . . . . . 549--564
                  Eric Kincanon   A method to construct reflectionless
                                  potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--569
            Michael M. Kostreva   A mathematical model of a concurrent
                                  vehicle development system: estimating
                                  lead time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--586
            Haishen Lü and   
              Donal O'Regan and   
                Ravi P. Agarwal   Positive solutions for singular
                                  $p$-Laplacian equations with sign
                                  changing nonlinearities using inequality
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--597
            Ravi P. Agarwal and   
               Shengfu Deng and   
                  Weinian Zhang   Generalization of a retarded
                                  Gronwall-like inequality and its
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--612
                    Yi Ling and   
                   Fengshan Liu   The Choi--Saigo--Srivastava integral
                                  operator and a class of analytic
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--621
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                    Sergey Lvin   Monotonicity of failure rate and mean
                                  residual life function of a gamma-type
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--633
         Okey Oseloka Onyejekwe   An efficient Green element algorithm for
                                  radial flow  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--645
                   Igor Boglaev   Schwarz alternating algorithms for a
                                  convection--diffusion problem  . . . . . 647--668
            Jordan Stoyanov and   
                 Leonid Tolmatz   Method for constructing Stieltjes
                                  classes for $M$-indeterminate
                                  probability distributions  . . . . . . . 669--685
          S. Sivaloganathan and   
                 M. Stastna and   
                   G. Tenti and   
                    J. M. Drake   A viscoelastic model of the brain
                                  parenchyma with pulsatile ventricular
                                  pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--698
            De-Shuang Huang and   
                  Zheru Chi and   
                    Wan-Chi Siu   A case study for constrained learning
                                  neural root finders  . . . . . . . . . . 699--718
                  S. Effati and   
                     M. Baymani   A new nonlinear neural network for
                                  solving quadratic programming problems   719--729
           Seiichi Nakamori and   
 R. Caballero-Águila and   
          A. Hermoso-Carazo and   
        J. Linares-Pérez   Design of recursive Wiener fixed-point
                                  smoothers based on innovations approach
                                  in linear discrete-time stochastic
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--747
                Minggen Cui and   
                     Zhong Chen   All solutions of system of ill-posed
                                  operator equations of the first kind . . 749--758
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume . . . . . . . . . 759--763


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 166, Number 1, July 6, 2005

              Chao-Wen Chan and   
                Chin-Chen Chang   A scheme for threshold multi-secret
                                  sharing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
              K. Maleknejad and   
              M. Shahrezaee and   
                     H. Khatami   Numerical solution of integral equations
                                  system of the second kind by
                                  Block--Pulse functions . . . . . . . . . 15--24
               Qiu-Liang Xu and   
               Tzer-Shyong Chen   An efficient threshold RSA digital
                                  signature scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
                RongXing Lu and   
                 ZhenFu Cao and   
                     HaoJin Zhu   A robust $(k,n) + 1$ threshold proxy
                                  signature scheme based on factoring  . . 35--45
               Eun-Jun Yoon and   
              Eun-Kyung Ryu and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Fixing problems in Lin et al.'s OSPA
                                  protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--57
                 Jiqiang Lv and   
                Xinmei Wang and   
                    Kwangjo Kim   Security of a multisignature scheme for
                                  specified group of verifiers . . . . . . 58--63
                       H. Demir   Numerical modelling of viscoelastic
                                  cavity driven flow using finite
                                  difference simulations . . . . . . . . . 64--83
                Yurong Chen and   
                   Jiachang Sun   An irregular grid for the numerical
                                  solution of linear elliptic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 84--94
                    Zong-Yi Lee   Hybrid numerical method applied to $3$-D
                                  multilayered hollow cylinder with
                                  periodic loading conditions  . . . . . . 95--117
          Chwei-Shyong Tsai and   
               Shu-Chen Lin and   
               Min-Shiang Hwang   Cryptanalysis of an authenticated
                                  encryption scheme using self-certified
                                  public keys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--122
              K. Maleknejad and   
                      M. Karami   Using the WPG method for solving
                                  integral equations of the second kind    123--130
                     Detong Zhu   An affine scaling projective reduced
                                  Hessian algorithm for minimum
                                  optimization with nonlinear equality and
                                  linear inequality constraints  . . . . . 131--163
                K. R. Kazmi and   
                     M. I. Bhat   Convergence and stability of iterative
                                  algorithms of generalized set-valued
                                  variational-like inclusions in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--180
        M. E. A. El-Mikkawy and   
                    G.-S. Cheon   Combinatorial and hypergeometric
                                  identities via the Legendre polynomials
                                  --- A computational approach . . . . . . 181--195
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  cubes and cubic coefficients . . . . . . 196--203
                   Aylin Bayrak   Numerical solution of mixed boundary
                                  value problem for some nonlinear
                                  elliptic equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 204--212
                 Shuzi Zhou and   
                     Dehua Wang   Domain decomposition method for a
                                  parabolic variational inequality . . . . 213--223
                 Jinwen Luo and   
                     Yijing Liu   Fast computation of the target signal
                                  phase in noisy environments  . . . . . . 224--232
  Dragana S. Cvetkovi\'c-Ili\'c   On a problem of N. Thome and Y. Wei  . . 233--236
                   Xian-Fang Li   Erratum to: ``Two perfectly-bonded
                                  dissimilar orthotropic strips with an
                                  interfacial crack normal to the
                                  boundaries'' [Applied Mathematics and
                                  Computation 163 (2005) 961--975] . . . . 237--239
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 166, Number 2, July 15, 2005

                E. E. Ammar and   
                  E. A. Youness   Study on multiobjective transportation
                                  problem with fuzzy numbers . . . . . . . 241--253
                Eisa A. Al-Said   Quartic splines solutions for a system
                                  of second order boundary value problems  254--264
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
               A. Memariani and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                    H. Z. Rezai   A note on some of DEA models and finding
                                  efficiency and complete ranking using
                                  common set of weights  . . . . . . . . . 265--281
          Josef A. Boguslavskiy   Estimation of a matrix of intensities
                                  for model of Markov process  . . . . . . 282--290
              Daisuke Takahashi   An algorithm for multiple-precision
                                  floating-point multiplication  . . . . . 291--298
                     Xinyuan Wu   Improved Muller method and Bisection
                                  method with global and asymptotic
                                  superlinear convergence of both point
                                  and interval for solving nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--311
        B. V. Rathish Kumar and   
                     Mani Mehra   Wavelet multilayer Taylor Galerkin
                                  schemes for hyperbolic and parabolic
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--323
             J. A. Boguslavskiy   Integrated method of the numerical
                                  decision of the algebraic equations  . . 324--338
           Tofigh Allahviranloo   Newton Cot's [sic] methods for
                                  integration of fuzzy functions . . . . . 339--348
                Zhaoxia Liu and   
                 Qianshun Chang   Numerical analysis of the model of image
                                  processing with time-delay
                                  regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--372
                  Yong Duan and   
                    Yong-ji Tan   Meshless collocation method based on
                                  Dirichlet--Neumann substructure
                                  iteration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--384
                  Zhizhang Shen   A study of a generalization of a card
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--410
              Necdet Bildik and   
               Gülhan Avci   On the solution of Poisson equation by
                                  alternating group explicit iterative
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--425
                   Do\ugan Kaya   An implementation of the ADM for
                                  generalized one-dimensional
                                  Klein--Gordon equation . . . . . . . . . 426--433
                       Lei Tang   Upwind and central WENO schemes  . . . . 434--448
           S. A. MirHassani and   
                M. R. Alirezaee   An efficient approach for computing
                                  non-Archimedean $\epsilon$ in DEA based
                                  on integrated models . . . . . . . . . . 449--456
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  four- and five-point cubes . . . . . . . 457--463
                   Alfred Huber   Solitary solutions of some nonlinear
                                  evolution equations  . . . . . . . . . . 464--474
               Jinting Wang and   
                 Raj Srinivasan   Unreliable production-inventory systems
                                  with hyper-exponential renewal demand
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--488

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 166, Number 3, July 26, 2005

                   Zhiyue Zhang   The finite element numerical analysis
                                  for a class nonlinear evolution
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
               Haifeng Qian and   
                 ZhenFu Cao and   
                    Haiyong Bao   Cryptanalysis of Li--Tzeng--Hwang's
                                  improved signature schemes based on
                                  factoring and discrete logarithms  . . . 501--505
              \.Idris Da\ug and   
           Bülent Saka and   
                      Ahmet Boz   B-spline Galerkin methods for numerical
                                  solutions of the Burgers' equation . . . 506--522
               Kyungah Shim and   
                    Sungsik Woo   Weakness in ID-based one round
                                  authenticated tripartite multiple-key
                                  agreement protocol with pairings . . . . 523--530
      D. Rostamy Varnos Fadrony   Hybrid preconditioned algorithms for
                                  boundary hypersingular integral
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--550
                 Zaihui Gan and   
                     Jian Zhang   Standing waves for nonlinear
                                  Klein--Gordon equations with nonnegative
                                  potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--570
                     Zhenya Yan   Approximate Jacobi elliptic function
                                  solutions of the modified KdV equation
                                  via the decomposition method . . . . . . 571--583
             Daoud S. Daoud and   
                      D. Subasi   A splitting up algorithm for the
                                  determination of the control parameter
                                  in multi dimensional parabolic problem   584--595
                Li-Qun Chen and   
               Wei-Jia Zhao and   
                     Jean W. Zu   Simulations of transverse vibrations of
                                  an axially moving string: a modified
                                  difference approach  . . . . . . . . . . 596--607
                Yushun Wang and   
                       Bin Wang   High-order multi-symplectic schemes for
                                  the nonlinear Klein--Gordon equation . . 608--632
                      Mamta and   
                  V. Kanwar and   
              V. K. Kukreja and   
                  Sukhjit Singh   On a class of quadratically convergent
                                  iteration formulae . . . . . . . . . . . 633--637
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Analytical solution for the
                                  time-dependent Emden--Fowler type of
                                  equations by Adomian decomposition
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638--651
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Adomian decomposition method for a
                                  reliable treatment of the Bratu-type
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--663
   Pierluigi Novi Inverardi and   
              Alberto Petri and   
           Giorgio Pontuale and   
                  Aldo Tagliani   Stieltjes moment problem via fractional
                                  moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--677
               Paul Covello and   
                 Garry Rodrigue   Solving the Eikonal equation on an
                                  adaptive mesh  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--695
               S. A. Belbas and   
                  W. H. Schmidt   Optimal control of Volterra equations
                                  with impulses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--723
Cevza Melek Kazezyìlmaz-Alhan and   
      Miguel A. Medina, Jr. and   
                    Prasada Rao   On numerical modeling of overland flow   724--740
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume . . . . . . . . . ??


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 167, Number 1, August 5, 2005

                Prasada Rao and   
          Miguel A. Medina, Jr.   A multiple domain algorithm for modeling
                                  one-dimensional transient contaminant
                                  transport flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
      Rafael Álvarez and   
         Joan-Josep Climent and   
            Leandro Tortosa and   
                 Antonio Zamora   An efficient binary sequence generator
                                  with cryptographic applications  . . . . 16--27
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Numerical approximations for solving a
                                  time-dependent partial differential
                                  equation with non-classical
                                  specification on four boundaries . . . . 28--45
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Quasi-implicit and two-level explicit
                                  finite-difference procedures for solving
                                  the one-dimensional advection equation   46--67
            Dariush Shadman and   
                   Bahman Mehri   A non-homogeneous Hill's equation  . . . 68--75
                  G. A. Afrouzi   On positive mountain pass solutions for
                                  a semilinear elliptic boundary value
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--80
                  Yong Ding and   
               Kwok-wo Wong and   
                    Yu-min Wang   A $w$-NNAF method for the efficient
                                  computation of scalar multiplication in
                                  elliptic curve cryptography  . . . . . . 81--93
               Zhen-Jun Shi and   
                       Jie Shen   Convergence of descent method without
                                  line search  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--107
              Wu-Chuan Yang and   
                 D. J. Guan and   
                  Chi-Sung Laih   Algorithm of asynchronous binary
                                  signed-digit recoding on fast
                                  multiexponentiation  . . . . . . . . . . 108--117
            Ming-Hsin Chang and   
                  Yi-Shiung Yeh   Improving Lamport one-time signature
                                  scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--124
                  R. Barrio and   
              J. M. Peña   Evaluation of the derivative of a
                                  polynomial in Bernstein form . . . . . . 125--142
                     Zuhua Shao   A new key authentication scheme for
                                  cryptosystems based on discrete
                                  logarithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
                 Tariq Aziz and   
                Arshad Khan and   
               Jalil Rashidinia   Spline methods for the solution of
                                  fourth-order parabolic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 153--166
                    E. E. Ammar   On computational solution of vector
                                  maximum problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--178
                    S. H. Saker   Oscillation of continuous and discrete
                                  diffusive delay Nicholson's blowflies
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
                   A. Malek and   
                        A. Yari   Primal--dual solution for the linear
                                  programming problems using neural
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--211
                  Z. Merdan and   
       M. Bayìrlì   The effect of the increase of linear
                                  dimensions on exponents obtained by
                                  finite-size scaling relations for the
                                  six-dimensional Ising model on the
                                  Creutz cellular automaton  . . . . . . . 212--224
                 Rajesh K. Bawa   Spline based computational technique for
                                  linear singularly perturbed boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--236
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
             S. Kordrostami and   
                M. Esmaeilzadeh   Computational Quartic c $^3$-spline and
                                  Quintic c $^2$-spline algorithms for
                                  solving second-order initial value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251
             Ying-Ming Wang and   
               Jian-Bo Yang and   
                   Dong-Ling Xu   Interval weight generation approaches
                                  based on consistency test and interval
                                  comparison matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 252--273
               Eun-Jun Yoon and   
              Eun-Kyung Ryu and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Improvement of Fan et al.'s deniable
                                  authentication protocol based on
                                  Diffie--Hellman algorithm  . . . . . . . 274--280
             Shin-Jia Hwang and   
                  Hao-Chih Liao   Security of Hsu--Wu's authenticated
                                  encryption scheme with ( t n ) shared
                                  verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--285
             Dragan Juki\'c and   
               Rudolf Scitovski   Least squares fitting Gaussian type
                                  curve  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--298
         Mohammad Y. Al-Rawwash   Covariance matrix estimation using
                                  repeated measurements when data are
                                  incomplete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--315
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
                   B. Asady and   
                A. Hadi Vencheh   An iterative method for solving dual
                                  fuzzy nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . 316--323
                 Yongkun Li and   
                    Linghong Lu   Positive periodic solutions of discrete
                                  $n$-species food-chain systems . . . . . 324--344
       Andrés Barrea and   
                Cristina Turner   A numerical analysis of a model of
                                  growth tumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--354
              Sung-Woon Lee and   
              Hyun-Sung Kim and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Efficient nonce-based remote user
                                  authentication scheme using smart cards  355--361
               Yuan-Lung Yu and   
               Tzer-Shyong Chen   An efficient threshold group signature
                                  scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--371
               Teresa Diogo and   
            John T. Edwards and   
            Neville J. Ford and   
                Sophy M. Thomas   Numerical analysis of a singular
                                  integral equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 372--382
                  Shan Zhao and   
                      G. W. Wei   Option valuation by using discrete
                                  singular convolution . . . . . . . . . . 383--418
            Luther W. White and   
                       Yiqi Luo   Model-based data assessment for
                                  terrestrial carbon processes:
                                  implications for sampling strategy in
                                  FACE experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--434
              Saffet Ayasun and   
           Chika O. Nwankpa and   
                Harry G. Kwatny   An efficient method to compute
                                  singularity induced bifurcations of
                                  decoupled parameter-dependent
                                  differential-algebraic power system
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--453
             Zhong-hua Yang and   
                       Qian Guo   Bifurcation analysis of delayed logistic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--476
Blanca Pérez Gladish and   
           Mar Arenas Parra and   
        Amelia Bilbao Terol and   
M. Victoria Rodríuez Uría   Management of surgical waiting lists
                                  through a Possibilistic Linear
                                  Multiobjective Programming problem . . . 477--495
            Mahmoud H. Alrefaei   A simulated annealing applied for
                                  optimizing a voice-multihop radio
                                  network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--507
                Ching-Ter Chang   Fractional programming with
                                  absolute-value functions: a fuzzy goal
                                  programming approach . . . . . . . . . . 508--515
                 R. M. Faye and   
                S. Sawadogo and   
                 F. Mora-Camino   Flexible management of water resource
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--527
        M. Fernández and   
                 D. P. Atherton   Analysis of insulin sensitivity
                                  estimates from linear models of glucose
                                  disappearance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--538
            George E. Tsekouras   A fuzzy vector quantization approach to
                                  image compression  . . . . . . . . . . . 539--560
                S. Saha Ray and   
                     R. K. Bera   An approximate solution of a nonlinear
                                  fractional differential equation by
                                  Adomian decomposition method . . . . . . 561--571
                 Da-Zhi Sun and   
                Zhen-Fu Cao and   
                         Yu Sun   Remarks on a new key authentication
                                  scheme based on discrete logarithms  . . 572--575
                    Lihong Feng   Review of model order reduction methods
                                  for numerical simulation of nonlinear
                                  circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--591
        Tadeusz P\latkowski and   
     Joanna Stachowska-Pi\ketka   ESSs in $n$-player mixed games . . . . . 592--606
               Ming Gen Cui and   
                   Li Hong Yang   The exact solutions of a kind of
                                  nonlinear operator equations . . . . . . 607--615
                   E. Ahmed and   
                     M. El-Alem   On multiobjective optimization in
                                  portfolio management . . . . . . . . . . 616--621
                    Zong-Yi Lee   Applying the double side method of
                                  weighted residual to the solution of
                                  shell deformation problem  . . . . . . . 622--634
      Patricia Mariela Morillas   Dykstra's algorithm with strategies for
                                  projecting onto certain polyhedral cones 635--649
               Kyungsoo Kim and   
                 Dokkyun Yi and   
                    Sungyun Lee   Mortar method for nonconforming finite
                                  elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--669
                Erdal Karaduman   On determinants of matrices with general
                                  Fibonacci numbers entries  . . . . . . . 670--676
                     Pu-yan Nie   A filter method for solving nonlinear
                                  complementarity problems . . . . . . . . 677--694
Nurullah Ankaralìo\uglu and   
  Hüseyin Aydìn and   
             Inci Gültekin   Computation of abstract groups $S((d +
                                  1) / 2, d)$ and torus knots $K(d, 2)$    695--710
               Eun-Jun Yoon and   
              Eun-Kyung Ryu and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Improvement of Chien--Jan's
                                  authenticated multiple-key agreement
                                  protocol without using conventional
                                  one-way function . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--715
                Shaohua Pan and   
                      Xingsi Li   An efficient algorithm for the Euclidean
                                  $r$-centrum location problem . . . . . . 716--728
              Yuh-Dauh Lyuu and   
                   Ming-Luen Wu   Cryptanalysis of and improvement on the
                                  Hwang--Chen multi-proxy multi-signature
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--739

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 167, Number 2, August 15, 2005

                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
              Sheau-Chiann Chen   Prediction intervals of future
                                  observation from one-parameter
                                  exponential distribution based on
                                  multiply type II censored samples  . . . 741--806
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Chin-Chuan Wu and   
                  Mei-Huei Tsai   Optimal parameter estimation of the
                                  two-parameter bathtub-shaped lifetime
                                  distribution based on a type II right
                                  censored sample  . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--819
               Ya-Fen Chang and   
                Chin-Chen Chang   Authentication schemes with no
                                  verification table . . . . . . . . . . . 820--832
              Eun-Kyung Ryu and   
                Jae-Yuel Im and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Security of Tseng--Jan's conference key
                                  distribution system  . . . . . . . . . . 833--839
              Liao-Jun Pang and   
                    Yu-Min Wang   A new ( t n ) multi-secret sharing
                                  scheme based on Shamir's secret sharing  840--848
        Hassan N. A. Ismail and   
            Kamal R. Raslan and   
          Ghada S. E. Salem and   
            Aziza A. Abd Rabboh   Comparison study between restrictive
                                  Taylor, restrictive Padé approximations
                                  and Adomian decomposition method for the
                                  solitary wave solution of the General
                                  KdV equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--869
             Ren-Junn Hwang and   
               Chih-Hua Lai and   
                     Feng-Fu Su   An efficient signcryption scheme with
                                  forward secrecy based on elliptic curve  870--881
                 Chien-Lung Hsu   Cryptanalysis and improvement of the
                                  Tzeng--Hwang authenticated encryption
                                  scheme based on elliptic curve discrete
                                  logarithm problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 882--890
                  Tseng-Kuei Li   Cycle embedding in star graphs with edge
                                  faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--900
                Li-hong Cui and   
               Zheng-xing Cheng   A method of construction for
                                  biorthogonal multiwavelets system with
                                  $2 r$ multiplicity . . . . . . . . . . . 901--918
                  Yong Chen and   
                        Qi Wang   A new general algebraic method with
                                  symbolic computation to construct new
                                  doubly-periodic solutions of the $(2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional dispersive long wave
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--929
              Yong-Lin Chen and   
                   Xue-Yuan Tan   Semiconvergence criteria of iterations
                                  and extrapolated iterations and
                                  constructive methods of semiconvergent
                                  iteration matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 930--956
                     Caidi Zhao   Algorithmization formula and
                                  mechanization to Cauchy problem of high
                                  dimensional wave equation  . . . . . . . 957--963
         Afrah Saad Mahmood and   
        Luis Casasús and   
               Waleed Al-Hayani   The decomposition method for stiff
                                  systems of ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964--975
              Din-Yuen Chan and   
                  Cheng-Yuan Ku   Finite-precision arithmetic coding via
                                  index-splitting and probability-fitting  976--995
              Sung-Woon Lee and   
              Hyun-Sung Kim and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Efficient verifier-based key agreement
                                  protocol for three parties without
                                  server's public key  . . . . . . . . . . 996--1003
                     Yi-Qin Lin   Implicitly restarted global FOM and
                                  GMRES for nonsymmetric matrix equations
                                  and Sylvester equations  . . . . . . . . 1004--1025
               Xianfu Zhang and   
                  Zhaolin Cheng   Output feedback stabilization of
                                  nonlinear systems with delays in the
                                  input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026--1040
        Ali Vahidian Kamyad and   
        Hamed Hashemi Mehne and   
        Akbar Hashemi Borzabadi   The best linear approximation for
                                  nonlinear systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1061
                 J. J. Zhao and   
                      Y. Xu and   
                      M. Z. Liu   Stability analysis of numerical methods
                                  for linear neutral Volterra
                                  delay-integro-differential system  . . . 1062--1079
                 A. Shidfar and   
              M. Djalalvand and   
                   M. Garshasbi   A numerical scheme for solving special
                                  class of nonlinear diffusion--convection
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080--1089
               M. Hadizadeh and   
                      M. Asgary   An efficient numerical approximation for
                                  the linear class of mixed integral
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090--1100
                   K. R. Raslan   A computational method for the
                                  regularized long wave (RLW) equation . . 1101--1118
                    Y. Mahmoudi   Wavelet Galerkin method for numerical
                                  solution of nonlinear integral equation  1119--1129
                 Jinlin Shi and   
                 Aizhi Weng and   
                    Jiyang Chen   The calculation for characteristic
                                  multiplier of Hill's equation in case
                                  $q(t) < 0$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1130--1149
                E. Babolian and   
               A. R. Vahidi and   
           Gh. Asadi Cordshooli   Solving differential equations by
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 1150--1155
                Abdalah A. Badr   Numerical solution of Fredholm--Volterra
                                  integral equation in one dimension with
                                  time dependent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1156--1161
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Generalized Boussinesq type of equations
                                  with compactons, solitons and periodic
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1162--1178
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The tanh and the sine--cosine methods
                                  for compact and noncompact solutions of
                                  the nonlinear Klein--Gordon equation . . 1179--1195
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The tanh method: exact solutions of the
                                  sine-Gordon and the sinh-Gordon
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1196--1210
           Khaled M. Furati and   
            Nasser-eddine Tatar   Uniform boundedness and stability for a
                                  viscoelastic problem . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1220
            Mohamed Medjden and   
            Nasser-eddine Tatar   Asymptotic behavior for a viscoelastic
                                  problem with not necessarily decreasing
                                  kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1235
            Ravi P. Agarwal and   
              Donal O'Regan and   
          V. Lakshmikantham and   
                       S. Leela   Nonresonant singular boundary value
                                  problems with sign changing
                                  nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236--1248
                  Mahir Rasulov   Numerical solution of one dimensional
                                  filtration of three phase compressible
                                  fluid through porous medium in a class
                                  of discontinuous functions . . . . . . . 1249--1266
                  T. Candan and   
                   R. S. Dahiya   Oscillation behavior of higher order
                                  neutral differential equations . . . . . 1267--1280
                 K. L. Boey and   
            Patricia J. Y. Wong   Two-point right focal eigenvalue
                                  problems on time scales  . . . . . . . . 1281--1303
                  M. Kirane and   
                      Y. Laskri   Nonexistence of global solutions to a
                                  hyperbolic equation with a space--time
                                  fractional damping . . . . . . . . . . . 1304--1310
                    J. I. Ramos   Exponentially-fitted methods on
                                  layer-adapted meshes . . . . . . . . . . 1311--1330
                    J. I. Ramos   Equivalence of $C^0$ and $C^1$ methods
                                  for ODE's  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1338
          Salah M. El-Sayed and   
                   Do\ugan Kaya   Exact and numerical traveling wave
                                  solutions of Whitham--Broer--Kaup
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339--1349
                   Weiming Wang   An algorithm for solving DAEs with
                                  mechanization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350--1372
             Jianhong Zhang and   
                     Yumin Wang   On the security of Miyaji et al. group
                                  signature scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1382
                 Haibo Zhao and   
             Chuguang Zheng and   
                     Minghou Xu   Multi-Monte Carlo method for particle
                                  coagulation: description and validation  1383--1399
                 Rais Ahmad and   
Fabián Flores Bazán   An iterative algorithm for random
                                  generalized nonlinear mixed variational
                                  inclusions for random fuzzy mappings . . 1400--1411
             Ebrahim A. Youness   Level set algorithm for solving convex
                                  multiplicative programming problems  . . 1412--1417
                   S. Shahmorad   Numerical solution of the general form
                                  linear Fredholm--Volterra
                                  integro-differential equations by the
                                  Tau method with an error estimation  . . 1418--1429
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
                 G. Moslehi and   
                   M. Vasei and   
                      A. Azaron   Optimal scheduling for a single machine
                                  to minimize the sum of maximum earliness
                                  and tardiness considering idle insert    1430--1450
               Iwan Duursma and   
                 Hyang-Sook Lee   A group key agreement protocol from
                                  pairings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451--1456
        Pradeep Kumar Gudla and   
                 Ranjan Ganguli   An automated hybrid genetic-conjugate
                                  gradient algorithm for multimodal
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 1457--1474


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 168, Number 1, September 1, 2005

                Jinbao Jian and   
               Haiyan Zheng and   
                 Qingjie Hu and   
                  Chunming Tang   A new norm-relaxed method of strongly
                                  sub-feasible direction for inequality
                                  constrained optimization . . . . . . . . 1--28
              Jianzhou Wang and   
                  Zhixin Ma and   
                        Lian Li   Detection, mining and forecasting of
                                  impact load in power load forecasting    29--39
               Pin-Chang Su and   
                Erl-Huei Lu and   
          Henry Ker-Chang Chang   A knapsack public-key cryptosystem based
                                  on elliptic curve discrete logarithm . . 40--46
               Yingjie Wang and   
                   J. H. Li and   
                         L. Tie   Security analysis and improvement of a
                                  user-friendly remote authentication
                                  protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--50
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                     M. Dehghan   On numerical improvement of Gauss--Radau
                                  quadrature rules . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64
        Mahmoud M. El-Borai and   
    Khairia El-said El-Nadi and   
           Osama L. Mostafa and   
                 Hamdy M. Ahmed   Numerical methods for some nonlinear
                                  stochastic differential equations  . . . 65--75
         Mustafa Gülsu and   
                   Mehmet Sezer   The approximate solution of high-order
                                  linear difference equations with
                                  variable coefficients in terms of Taylor
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--88
                Wang Yanjun and   
               Shen Peiping and   
                    Liang Zhian   A branch-and-bound algorithm to globally
                                  solve the sum of several linear ratios   89--101
              K. Maleknejad and   
                      M. Karami   Numerical solution of non-linear
                                  Fredholm integral equations by using
                                  multiwavelets in the Petrov--Galerkin
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--110
              K. Maleknejad and   
                       T. Lotfi   Numerical expansion methods for solving
                                  integral equations by interpolation and
                                  Gauss quadrature rules . . . . . . . . . 111--124
         \.Ibrahim Çelik   Approximate computation of eigenvalues
                                  with Chebyshev collocation method  . . . 125--134
                   Jun Shao and   
                     Zhenfu Cao   A new efficient ( t n ) verifiable
                                  multi-secret sharing (VMSS) based on YCH
                                  scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--140
              K. Maleknejad and   
                  M. Karami and   
                   N. Aghazadeh   Numerical solution of Hammerstein
                                  equations via an interpolation method    141--145
                Ze-Mao Zhao and   
                    Feng-Yu Liu   Method of constructing elliptic curve
                                  authenticated encryption scheme  . . . . 146--151
             Siraj-ul-Islam and   
         Muhammad Azam Khan and   
           Ikram A. Tirmizi and   
                  E. H. Twizell   Non polynomial spline approach to the
                                  solution of a system of third-order
                                  boundary-value problems  . . . . . . . . 152--163
               Sang-Keon Oh and   
              Min-Soeng Kim and   
                Tae-Dok Eom and   
                    Ju-Jang Lee   Heterogeneous local model networks for
                                  time series prediction . . . . . . . . . 164--177
      André L. Moura and   
     José R. Camacho and   
Sebastião C. Guimarães, Jr. and   
              Carlos H. Salerno   A functional language to implement the
                                  divide-and-conquer Delaunay
                                  triangulation algorithm  . . . . . . . . 178--191
                     Hasan Akin   On the ergodic properties of certain
                                  additive cellular automata over Z $_{ m
                                  }$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--197
            H. M. El-Hawary and   
               E. A. Zanaty and   
                  E. El-Sanousy   RETRACTED: Quartic spline collocation
                                  methods for elliptic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 198--221
                     Zuhua Shao   Improvement of efficient proxy signature
                                  schemes using self-certified public keys 222--234
                Weidong Qiu and   
                     Kefei Chen   Identity oriented signature scheme based
                                  on quadratic residues  . . . . . . . . . 235--242
           Abubakr Muhammad and   
               Magnus Egerstedt   Connectivity graphs as models of local
                                  interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--269
                        A. Esen   A numerical solution of the equal width
                                  wave equation by a lumped Galerkin
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--282
            M. S. Abou-Dina and   
                   F. M. Hassan   Approximate determination of the
                                  transmission and reflection coefficients
                                  for water-wave flow over a topography    283--304
             Chien-Lung Hsu and   
                   Tzong-Sun Wu   Efficient nonrepudiable threshold proxy
                                  signature scheme with known signers
                                  against the collusion attack . . . . . . 305--319
           Gyurhan H. Nedzhibov   An acceleration of iterative processes
                                  for solving nonlinear equations  . . . . 320--332
              B. A. Mamedov and   
                R. Tapramaz and   
                      Z. Merdan   Calculation of generalized elliptic type
                                  integrals using the binomial expansion
                                  theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--341
                     Hua Ke and   
                    Baoding Liu   Project scheduling problem with
                                  stochastic activity duration times . . . 342--353
             Andreas U. Schmidt   A model for prejudiced learning in noisy
                                  environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--379
               Xiaofan Yang and   
             David J. Evans and   
               Graham M. Megson   On a non-autonomous difference equation  380--388
             Mohamad Radwan and   
                M. K. Ahmed and   
             F. A. Abd El-Salam   The problem of close approach of two
                                  small masses in the field of massive
                                  oblate primary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--397
                S. Saha Ray and   
                     R. K. Bera   Analytical solution of the Bagley Torvik
                                  equation by Adomian decomposition method 398--410
      Nivaor Rodolfo Rigozo and   
             Ezequiel Echer and   
Daniel Jean Roger Nordemann and   
Luís Eduardo Antunes Vieira and   
        Heloisa Helena de Faria   Comparative study between four classical
                                  spectral analysis methods  . . . . . . . 411--430
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                 M. R. Eslahchi   On numerical improvement of the second
                                  kind of Gauss--Chebyshev quadrature
                                  rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--446
               Woei-Jiunn Tsaur   Several security schemes constructed
                                  using ECC-based self-certified public
                                  key cryptosystems  . . . . . . . . . . . 447--464
            J. Pour-Mahmoud and   
      M. Y. Rahimi-Ardabili and   
                   S. Shahmorad   Numerical solution of the system of
                                  Fredholm integro-differential equations
                                  by the Tau method  . . . . . . . . . . . 465--478
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                M. Masjed-Jamei   The first kind Chebyshev--Newton--Cotes
                                  quadrature rules (closed type) and its
                                  numerical improvement  . . . . . . . . . 479--495
                   P. K. Mishra   Optimal systolic array algorithms for
                                  tensor product . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--518
                     Zhibin Zhu   A globally and superlinearly convergent
                                  feasible QP-free method for nonlinear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--539
                 A. Shidfar and   
                 G. R. Karamali   Numerical solution of inverse heat
                                  conduction problem with nonstationary
                                  measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--548
      Vildan Gülkaç   On the finite differences schemes for
                                  the numerical solution of
                                  two-dimensional moving boundary problem  549--556
                 Rafael Cortell   A note on magnetohydrodynamic flow of a
                                  power-law fluid over a stretching sheet  557--566
                 Quan-Fang Wang   Numerical solution for series
                                  sine-Gordon equations using variational
                                  method and finite element approximation  567--599
                     Li Cai and   
               Jian-Hu Feng and   
                   Wen-Xian Xie   A CWENO-type central-upwind scheme for
                                  ideal MHD equations  . . . . . . . . . . 600--612
              Alberto d'Onofrio   Vaccination policies and nonlinear force
                                  of infection: generalization of an
                                  observation by Alexander and Moghadas
                                  (2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--622
              Fabio Dercole and   
                  Stefano Maggi   Detection and continuation of a border
                                  collision bifurcation in a forest fire
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--635
               Lin Yingzhen and   
                Cui Minggen and   
                       Zheng Yi   Representation of the exact solution for
                                  infinite system of linear equations  . . 636--650
           Silvia Bonettini and   
         Emanuele Galligani and   
               Valeria Ruggiero   An inexact Newton method combined with
                                  Hestenes multipliers' scheme for the
                                  solution of Karush--Kuhn--Tucker systems 651--676
                       Ling Zhu   On the convergent condition of
                                  Newton-like method in parallel circular
                                  iteration for simultaneously finding all
                                  multiple zeros of a polynomial, II . . . 677--685
             N. M. Apaolaza and   
                 J. R. Artalejo   On the time to reach a certain orbit
                                  level in multi-server retrial queues . . 686--703
              R. K. Mohanty and   
                     Navnit Jha   A class of variable mesh spline in
                                  compression methods for singularly
                                  perturbed two point singular boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--716
             Shin-Jia Hwang and   
                  Hao-Chih Liao   Security of Tzeng--Hwang's authenticated
                                  encryption scheme based on elliptic
                                  curve discrete logarithm problems  . . . 717--721
                Yanjun Wang and   
                    Zhian Liang   A deterministic global optimization
                                  algorithm for generalized geometric
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--737

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 168, Number 2, September 15, 2005

               Peiping Shen and   
                    Yanjun Wang   A new pruning test for finding all
                                  global minimizers of nonsmooth functions 739--755
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
       Majid Jaberi Douraki and   
          Marjan Jaberi Douraki   Dynamics of a rational difference
                                  equation using both theoretical and
                                  computational approaches . . . . . . . . 756--775
                         Qi Xie   Improvement of Tzeng et al.'s
                                  nonrepudiable threshold proxy signature
                                  scheme with known signers  . . . . . . . 776--782
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of symmetric
                                  tridiagonal matrices of even order . . . 783--787
               Eun-Jun Yoon and   
              Eun-Kyung Ryu and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Cryptanalysis and further improvement of
                                  Peinado's improved LHL-key
                                  authentication scheme  . . . . . . . . . 788--794
                   K. R. Raslan   Collocation method using quartic
                                  B-spline for the equal width (EW)
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--805
              J. Rashidinia and   
                    M. Zarebnia   Numerical solution of linear integral
                                  equations by using Sinc--collocation
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806--822
             Deng Shan Wang and   
                Yi Fang Liu and   
                Hong-Qing Zhang   Symbolic computation and families of
                                  Jacobi elliptic function solutions of
                                  the (2 + 1)-dimensional
                                  Nizhnik--Novikov--Veselov equation . . . 823--847
                     P. Ossipov   Simple heuristic algorithm for profile
                                  reduction of arbitrary sparse matrix . . 848--857
             Jeoung Ok Kwon and   
            Jung Yeon Hwang and   
              Changwook Kim and   
                  Dong Hoon Lee   Cryptanalysis of Lee--Kim--Yoo
                                  password-based key agreement scheme  . . 858--865
           Tofigh Allahviranloo   Romberg integration for fuzzy functions  866--876
                  S. Effati and   
                   A. R. Nazemi   A new method for solving a system of the
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 877--894
         Sherman S. M. Chow and   
            Lucas C. K. Hui and   
                  S. M. Yiu and   
                     K. P. Chow   Forward-secure multisignature and blind
                                  signature schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . 895--908
                 Ji-Huan He and   
                       Jie Tang   Rebuild of King Fang 40 BC musical
                                  scales by He's inequality  . . . . . . . 909--914
               Do\ugan Kaya and   
                Ibrahim E. Inan   A numerical application of the
                                  decomposition method for the combined
                                  KdV--MKdV equation . . . . . . . . . . . 915--926
                 Da-Zhi Sun and   
                    Zhen-Fu Cao   Improved public key authentication
                                  scheme for non-repudiation . . . . . . . 927--932
      Henry Ker-Chang Chang and   
                Erl-Huei Lu and   
                   Pin-Chang Su   Design of traceable security system  . . 933--944
              Alberto d'Onofrio   Periodically varying antiviral
                                  therapies: conditions for global
                                  stability of the virus free state  . . . 945--953
                Rongxing Lu and   
                     Zhenfu Cao   A new deniable authentication protocol
                                  from bilinear pairings . . . . . . . . . 954--961
                   Luming Zhang   A finite difference scheme for
                                  generalized regularized long-wave
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962--972
                 S. J. Yang and   
                     B. Shi and   
                D. C. Zhang and   
                      M. J. Gai   Counterexamples to the article
                                  ``Oscillation and global attractivity in
                                  hematopoiesis model with delay time''    973--980
                 You-Hui Su and   
                    Wan-Tong Li   Global asymptotic stability of a
                                  second-order nonlinear difference
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--989
                    Qi Duan and   
                 Liqiu Wang and   
                  E. H. Twizell   A new weighted rational cubic
                                  interpolation and its approximation  . . 990--1003
                 A. Agouzal and   
                  K. Allali and   
                       K. Najib   Non-conforming finite element
                                  discretisations of a class of
                                  non-Newtonian flows  . . . . . . . . . . 1004--1019
                     Fuyong Lin   A new multi-resolution theory based on
                                  orthogonal spline  . . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1030
                 Liping Wen and   
                      Shoufu Li   Nonlinear stability of linear multistep
                                  methods for stiff delay differential
                                  equations in Banach spaces . . . . . . . 1031--1044
           Woei-Jiunn Tsaur and   
                   Chih-Ho Chou   Efficient algorithms for speeding up the
                                  computations of elliptic curve
                                  cryptosystems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1064
                     Zhenya Yan   Numerical doubly periodic solution of
                                  the KdV equation with the initial
                                  condition via the decomposition method   1065--1078
            Ming-Heng Zhang and   
               Qian-Sheng Cheng   An approach to VaR for capital markets
                                  with Gaussian mixture  . . . . . . . . . 1079--1085
                  Y. G. Sun and   
                    S. H. Saker   Existence of positive periodic solutions
                                  of nonlinear discrete model exhibiting
                                  the Allee effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086--1097
            A. Sjöberg and   
                  F. M. Mahomed   The association of non-local symmetries
                                  with conservation laws: applications to
                                  the heat and Burger's equations  . . . . 1098--1108
                 C. Clavero and   
                   J. L. Gracia   High order methods for elliptic and time
                                  dependent reaction--diffusion singularly
                                  perturbed problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1127
                 J. J. Zhao and   
                      Y. Xu and   
                 S. Y. Dong and   
                      M. Z. Liu   Stability of the Rosenbrock methods for
                                  the neutral delay differential-algebraic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128--1144
             Aytac Arikoglu and   
                  Ibrahim Ozkol   Solution of boundary value problems for
                                  integro-differential equations by using
                                  differential transform method  . . . . . 1145--1158
                     S. Kutluay   Numerical schemes for one-dimensional
                                  Stefan-like problems with a forcing term 1159--1168
                   Tzong-Mou Wu   A study of convergence on the
                                  Newton-homotopy continuation method  . . 1169--1174
               Tzong-Mou Wu and   
               Cha'o-Kuang Chen   Computer-aided curvature analyses of
                                  planar four-bar linkage mechanism  . . . 1175--1188
                  Yong Chen and   
                        Qi Wang   A new general algebraic method with
                                  symbolic computation to construct new
                                  travelling wave solution for the $(1 +
                                  1)$-dimensional dispersive long wave
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1204
                  Y. G. Sun and   
                    S. H. Saker   Oscillatory and asymptotic behavior of
                                  positive periodic solutions of nonlinear
                                  discrete model exhibiting the Allee
                                  effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1218
                       Ruyun Ma   Existence of positive solutions of a
                                  fourth-order boundary value problem  . . 1219--1231
                      J. Biazar   Solution of systems of
                                  integral--differential equations by
                                  Adomian decomposition method . . . . . . 1232--1238
                     Zhenya Yan   Controlling hyperchaos in the new
                                  hyperchaotic Chen system . . . . . . . . 1239--1250
                 M. El-kady and   
                A. Abd El-Shafy   Error estimation problem of nonlinear
                                  integral equations in the space $L_p (p
                                  \geq 1)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1257
                H. H. Mehne and   
               M. H. Farahi and   
                 J. A. Esfahani   Slot nozzle design with specified
                                  pressure in a given subregion by using
                                  embedding method . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258--1272
                  Shaher Momani   A numerical scheme for the solution of
                                  Sivashinsky equation . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1280
        Robert K. McCormack and   
              Linda J. S. Allen   Disease emergence in deterministic and
                                  stochastic models for host and pathogen  1281--1305
                Basem S. Attili   The Adomian decomposition method for
                                  computing eigenelements of
                                  Sturm--Liouville two point boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306--1316
                Amir Azaron and   
              Cahit Perkgoz and   
               Masatoshi Sakawa   A genetic algorithm approach for the
                                  time-cost trade-off in PERT networks . . 1317--1339
           Vejdi I. Hasanov and   
                 Ivan G. Ivanov   On the matrix equation $X - A^* X^{-n} A
                                  = I$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340--1356
                  Ling Wang and   
                Ling-Lai Li and   
                      Fang Tang   Optimal reduction of models using a
                                  hybrid searching strategy  . . . . . . . 1357--1369
                  S. Effati and   
                     M. Baymani   A new nonlinear neural network for
                                  solving convex nonlinear programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1370--1379
                 Metin Demiralp   Critical value calculations for the
                                  screening parameter of Hulthen potential 1380--1399
                 A. Shidfar and   
                   R. Pourgholi   Application of finite difference method
                                  to analysis an ill-posed problem . . . . 1400--1408
                 Yuelin Gao and   
               Honggang Xue and   
                   Peiping Shen   A new rectangle branch-and-reduce
                                  approach for solving nonconvex quadratic
                                  programming problems . . . . . . . . . . 1409--1418
                 Pedro M. Reyes   Logistics networks: a game theory
                                  application for solving the
                                  transshipment problem  . . . . . . . . . 1419--1431
      Predrag M. Rajkovi\'c and   
   Sladjana D. Marinkovi\'c and   
          Miomir S. Stankovi\'c   On $q$-Newton--Kantorovich method for
                                  solving systems of equations . . . . . . 1432--1448
            Hakan F. Öztop   Numerical study of flow and heat
                                  transfer in curvilinear ducts:
                                  applications of elliptic grid generation 1449--1460
                 Emin Kasap and   
           \.Ismail Aydemir and   
                Nuri Kuruo\uglu   Erratum to: ``Ruled surfaces with
                                  timelike rulings'' [Appl. Math. Comput.
                                  \bf 147 (2004) 241--248] . . . . . . . . 1461--1468
                K. Yamaç   Erratum to ``An algorithm for stability
                                  of discrete-time interval matrices'' . . 1469--1469


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 169, Number 1, October 1, 2005

               Eun-Jun Yoon and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   On the security of Wu--Lin's robust key
                                  authentication scheme  . . . . . . . . . 1--7
               Naimin Zhang and   
                      Yimin Wei   A note on solving EP inconsistent linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--15
           T. Allahviranloo and   
                      T. Hajari   Numerical methods for approximation of
                                  fuzzy data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--33
                   B. Asady and   
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                       M. Alavi   Fuzzy general linear systems . . . . . . 34--40
             Zhengtao Jiang and   
                     Xi Sun and   
                     Yumin Wang   Security analysis and improvement of a
                                  double-trapdoor encryption scheme  . . . 41--50
             Zhengtao Jiang and   
              Mingsen Xiang and   
                     Yumin Wang   A research on new public-key encryption
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61
               Kyungah Shim and   
                  Young-Ran Lee   Security flaws in authentication and key
                                  establishment protocols for mobile
                                  communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--74
              Chu-Hsing Lin and   
               Ruei-Hau Hsu and   
                      Lein Harn   Improved DSA variant for batch
                                  verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
                   N.-Y. Ma and   
                     R. P. King   Fitting distribution-like data to
                                  exponential sums with genetic algorithms 82--95
              Hiroyuki Kano and   
             Hiroaki Nakata and   
                Clyde F. Martin   Optimal curve fitting and smoothing
                                  using normalized uniform B-splines: a
                                  tool for studying complex systems  . . . 96--128
                    Wenxing Zhu   A class of filled functions for box
                                  constrained continuous global
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--145
             Turabi Geyikli and   
                   Do\ugan Kaya   Comparison of the solutions obtained by
                                  B-spline FEM and ADM of KdV equation . . 146--156
                  Zhizhang Shen   The impact of the apex node on routing
                                  inside a pyramid structure . . . . . . . 157--178
                       Ling Zhu   On the convergent condition of
                                  Durand--Kerner method in parallel
                                  circular iteration of multi-step . . . . 179--191
               Je Hong Park and   
             Bo Gyeong Kang and   
                    Jae Woo Han   Cryptanalysis of Zhou et al.'s
                                  proxy-protected signature schemes  . . . 192--197
                Wann-Yih Wu and   
                  Shuo-Pei Chen   A prediction method using the grey model
                                  $GMC(1,n)$ combined with the grey
                                  relational analysis: a case study on
                                  Internet access population forecast  . . 198--217
              Abdelouahed Hamdi   Decomposition for structured convex
                                  programs with smooth multiplier methods  218--241
                   J. R. Sharma   A composite third order
                                  Newton--Steffensen method for solving
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 242--246
         D. G. Sotiropoulos and   
                   T. N. Grapsa   Optimal centers in branch-and-prune
                                  algorithms for univariate global
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--277
               Qi-min Zhang and   
                 Chong-zhao Han   Numerical analysis for stochastic
                                  age-dependent population equations . . . 278--294
               Eun-Jun Yoon and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Weakness and solution of Yang et al.'s
                                  protected password changing scheme . . . 295--304
                   Bing Liu and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                   Yujuan Zhang   The dynamics of a prey-dependent
                                  consumption model concerning impulsive
                                  control strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--320
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The tanh method for generalized forms of
                                  nonlinear heat conduction and
                                  Burgers--Fisher equations  . . . . . . . 321--338
          Gülten Torun and   
           \.Ibrahim Ethem Anar   The electromagnetic scattering problem:
                                  the case of TE polarized waves . . . . . 339--354
                      Qiang Sun   Solving the Klein--Gordon equation by
                                  means of the homotopy analysis method    355--365
                 Y. C. Chen and   
                     L. Y. Tsai   Blow-up solutions of nonlinear
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 366--387
              Xinzhen Zhang and   
                Fengming Ma and   
                      Yiju Wang   A Newton-type algorithm for generalized
                                  linear complementarity problem over a
                                  polyhedral cone  . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--401
                Yonggui Zhu and   
             Qianshun Chang and   
                  Shengchang Wu   A new algorithm for calculating Adomian
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--416
           M. S. Petkovi\'c and   
               D. Milo\vsevi\'c   Improved Halley-like methods for the
                                  inclusion of polynomial zeros  . . . . . 417--436
                Xiangxue Li and   
                     Kefei Chen   ID-based multi-proxy signature, proxy
                                  multi-signature and multi-proxy
                                  multi-signature schemes from bilinear
                                  pairings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--450
                   A. Malek and   
                   H. G. Oskoei   Numerical solutions for constrained
                                  quadratic problems using
                                  high-performance neural networks . . . . 451--471
               Je Hong Park and   
                 Seongtaek Chee   A note on digital signature scheme using
                                  a self-pairing map . . . . . . . . . . . 472--475
                 Caixia Gao and   
                 Enmin Feng and   
               Zongtao Wang and   
                    Zhilong Xiu   Parameters identification problem of the
                                  nonlinear dynamical system in microbial
                                  continuous cultures  . . . . . . . . . . 476--484
         Miltiades Elliotis and   
          Georgios Georgiou and   
           Christos Xenophontos   Solving Laplacian problems with boundary
                                  singularities: a comparison of a
                                  singular function boundary integral
                                  method with the p/hp version of the
                                  finite element method  . . . . . . . . . 485--499
        Emad M. Abo-Eldahab and   
               Ahmed F. Ghonaim   Radiation effect on heat transfer of a
                                  micropolar fluid through a porous medium 500--510
                   Kyungah Shim   Off-line password-guessing attacks on
                                  the generalized key agreement and
                                  password authentication protocol . . . . 511--515
            Chien-Yuan Chen and   
              Cheng-Yuan Ku and   
                   David C. Yen   Cryptanalysis of large RSA exponent by
                                  using the LLL algorithm  . . . . . . . . 516--525
           E. F. Elshehawey and   
     Abd El-Rahman El-Saman and   
          Mostafa El-Shahed and   
                 Mohamed Dagher   Peristaltic transport of a compressible
                                  viscous liquid through a tapered pore    526--543
                   Du Qikui and   
                    Tang Minxia   Exact and approximate artificial
                                  boundary conditions for the hyperbolic
                                  problems in unbounded domains  . . . . . 544--562
             G. M. Abd El-Latif   An approximate solution treatment for
                                  non-linear problems  . . . . . . . . . . 563--575
             G. M. Abd El-Latif   A homotopy technique and a perturbation
                                  technique for non-linear problems  . . . 576--588
               Jian-qin Mei and   
                Hong-qing Zhang   New soliton-like and periodic-like
                                  solutions for the KdV equation . . . . . 589--599
                    L. Kula and   
                       Y. Yayli   On slant helix and its spherical
                                  indicatrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--607
              Wei-Guo Zhang and   
                    Zan-Kan Nie   On admissible efficient portfolio
                                  selection policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--623
                Kokou Abalo and   
               Michael Kostreva   Berge equilibrium: some recent results
                                  from fixed-point theorems  . . . . . . . 624--638
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Travelling wave solutions of generalized
                                  forms of Burgers, Burgers--KdV and
                                  Burgers--Huxley equations  . . . . . . . 639--656
                   Gong-Nong Li   Analysis for a homotopy path of
                                  complementarity problems based on
                                  $\mu$-exceptional family . . . . . . . . 657--670
                S. K. Tomar and   
                  Jaswant Singh   Transmission of longitudinal waves
                                  through a plane interface between two
                                  dissimilar porous elastic solid
                                  half-spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--688
                    Zhongdi Cen   A hybrid difference scheme for a
                                  singularly perturbed
                                  convection-diffusion problem with
                                  discontinuous convection coefficient . . 689--699
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Exact solutions of compact and
                                  noncompact structures for the KP--BBM
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--712
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Compact and noncompact physical
                                  structures for the ZK--BBM equation  . . 713--725
               K. Vajravelu and   
                S. Sreenadh and   
                 V. Ramesh Babu   Peristaltic pumping of a
                                  Herschel--Bulkley fluid in a channel . . 726--735

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 169, Number 2, October 15, 2005

                  A. R. Mugdadi   The least squares type estimation of the
                                  parameters in the power hazard function  737--748
             M. M. Awartani and   
                   M. H. Hamdan   Fully developed flow through a porous
                                  channel bounded by flat plates . . . . . 749--757
             M. M. Awartani and   
                 R. A. Ford and   
                   M. H. Hamdan   Computational complexities and
                                  streamfunction coordinates . . . . . . . 758--777
               Ming-Han Lin and   
                  Chin-Tai Chen   Study on the formation of Goertler
                                  vortices in natural convection flow over
                                  a rotating concave surface . . . . . . . 778--796
           Shui-Ching Chang and   
                     Tze Fen Li   Estimation of component mean lifetimes
                                  of a masked system using unclassified
                                  system life data . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--805
        Emad M. Abo-Eldahab and   
                 Ahmed M. Salem   MHD free-convection flow of a
                                  non-Newtonian power-law fluid at a
                                  stretching surface with a uniform
                                  free-stream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806--818
          M. Jaberi Douraki and   
                 M. Dehghan and   
                      A. Razavi   On the global behavior of higher order
                                  recursive sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 819--831
                      Sunil and   
                      Divya and   
                   R. C. Sharma   Effect of dust particles on a
                                  ferromagnetic fluid heated and soluted
                                  from below saturating a porous medium    832--853
                 Shuicai Li and   
                   Shi-Jun Liao   An analytic approach to solve multiple
                                  solutions of a strongly nonlinear
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854--865
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                   N. Shoja and   
                  G. Tohidi and   
                    S. Razavyan   The identification of nondominated and
                                  efficient paths on a network . . . . . . 866--873
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
            F. Hosseinzadeh and   
                   N. Shoja and   
                      G. Tohidi   A method for generating all efficient
                                  solutions of 0-1 multi-objective linear
                                  programming problem  . . . . . . . . . . 874--886
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                   N. Shoja and   
                  G. Tohidi and   
                    S. Razavyan   A one-model approach to classification
                                  and sensitivity analysis in DEA  . . . . 887--896
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
            F. Hosseinzadeh and   
                   N. Shoja and   
                   M. Sanei and   
                      G. Tohidi   Sensitivity and stability analysis in
                                  DEA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--904
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                   N. Shoja and   
                  G. Tohidi and   
                    S. Razavyan   Sensitivity of efficiency
                                  classifications in the inverse DEA
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--916
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                   N. Shoja and   
                  G. Tohidi and   
                    S. Razavyan   Undesirable inputs and outputs in DEA
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--925
     M. A. Hernández and   
                M. J. Rubio and   
                 J. A. Ezquerro   Solving a special case of conservative
                                  problems by Secant-like methods  . . . . 926--942
               Y. Ben Nakhi and   
                    S. L. Kalla   On a generalized mixture distribution    943--952
                Chengri Jin and   
                    Mingzhu Liu   A new modification of Adomian
                                  decomposition method for solving a kind
                                  of evolution equation  . . . . . . . . . 953--962
                   Tzong-Mou Wu   One-to-one mapping matrix  . . . . . . . 963--970
             Turabi Geyikli and   
                   Do\ugan Kaya   An application for a modified KdV
                                  equation by the decomposition method and
                                  finite element method  . . . . . . . . . 971--981
             Yen-Cheng Chen and   
                     Lo-Yao Yeh   An efficient nonce-based authentication
                                  scheme with key agreement  . . . . . . . 982--994
                   Weiming Wang   An algorithm for solving nonlinear
                                  singular perturbation problems with
                                  mechanization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1009
               Je Hong Park and   
                 Bo Gyeong Kang   Security of Lu et al.'s proxy-protected
                                  signature scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010--1015
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  symmetric circulant matrices. II . . . . 1016--1027
                Zhenqing Li and   
                   Weiming Wang   Mechanization for solving SPP by
                                  reducing order method  . . . . . . . . . 1028--1037
                     Caidi Zhao   Algorithm and mechanization to Cauchy
                                  problem of parabolic equation  . . . . . 1038--1044
                   Do\ugan Kaya   Parallel algorithms for reduction of a
                                  symmetric matrix to tridiagonal form on
                                  a shared memory multiprocessor . . . . . 1045--1062
             Jianhong Zhang and   
                     Yumin Wang   On the security of a convertible
                                  authenticated encryption . . . . . . . . 1063--1069
             Tzung-Her Chen and   
                Wei-Bin Lee and   
                   Gwoboa Horng   Remarks on some signature schemes based
                                  on factoring and discrete logarithms . . 1070--1075
              Xing-Yang Guo and   
                 Chao-Jing Tang   Identity based designated
                                  multi-confirmer signature: a new type
                                  signature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076--1085
         Noël Bonneuil and   
           Patrick Saint-Pierre   Population viability in three
                                  trophic-level food chains  . . . . . . . 1086--1105
              S. R.-J. Jang and   
                     J. Baglama   Droop models of nutrient--plankton
                                  interaction with intratrophic predation  1106--1128
                Shiyou Weng and   
                 Haiyin Gao and   
               Renzhao Chen and   
                   Xuezhang Hou   Penalty shifting method on calculation
                                  of optimal linewise control of
                                  dam-detouring osimotic system for
                                  concrete dams with heterogemous  . . . . 1129--1141
             Kourosh H. Shirazi   Five points of accuracy synthesis of
                                  motion generator linkages using Maple-V  1142--1171
                Judong Shen and   
             Shing I. Chang and   
             E. Stanley Lee and   
               Youping Deng and   
                 Susan J. Brown   Determination of cluster number in
                                  clustering microarray data . . . . . . . 1172--1185
                    Shijun Liao   Comparison between the homotopy analysis
                                  method and homotopy perturbation method  1186--1194
          Chorng-Shyong Ong and   
             Jih-Jeng Huang and   
              Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng   A novel hybrid model for portfolio
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195--1210
             Jianhong Zhang and   
                     Yumin Wang   Two provably secure $k$-out-of-$n$
                                  oblivious transfer schemes . . . . . . . 1211--1220
                  Yimin Wei and   
                 Yanhua Cao and   
                      Hua Xiang   A note on the componentwise perturbation
                                  bounds of matrix inverse and linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1236
                Rongxing Lu and   
                     Zhenfu Cao   Designated verifier proxy signature
                                  scheme with message recovery . . . . . . 1237--1246
          M. Zubaer Hossain and   
              S. Reaz Ahmed and   
                M. Wahhaj Uddin   Generalized mathematical model for the
                                  solution of mixed-boundary-value elastic
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1275
           Min-Shiang Hwang and   
             Kuo-Feng Hwang and   
                Chin-Chen Chang   A time-stamping protocol for digital
                                  watermarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276--1284
                 Jiqiang Lv and   
                Xinmei Wang and   
                    Kwangjo Kim   Practical convertible authenticated
                                  encryption schemes using self-certified
                                  public keys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285--1297
                    M. A. Ahmed   A characterization of the convergence of
                                  Picard iteration to a fixed point for a
                                  continuous mapping and an application    1298--1304
                 Bing Zheng and   
                        Ke Wang   Symmetric successive overrelaxation
                                  methods for solving the rank deficient
                                  linear least squares problem . . . . . . 1305--1323
      Henry Ker-Chang Chang and   
                Erl-Huei Lu and   
                   Pin-Chang Su   Fail-stop blind signature scheme design
                                  based on pairings  . . . . . . . . . . . 1324--1331
              Zhong-Yun Liu and   
               Han-Dong Cao and   
                 Hui-Jiong Chen   A note on computing matrix--vector
                                  products with generalized
                                  centrosymmetric (centrohermitian)
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332--1345
                    Wei Sun and   
                  Yao-Lin Jiang   Runge--Kutta methods of dynamic
                                  iteration for index-2
                                  differential--algebraic equations  . . . 1346--1363
               Gui-qiong Xu and   
                     Zhi-bin Li   PDEPtest: a package for the Painlevé test
                                  of nonlinear partial differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364--1379
                Haiyong Bao and   
                 Zhenfu Cao and   
                    Rongxing Lu   Proxy signature scheme using
                                  self-certified public keys . . . . . . . 1380--1389
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  tridiagonal matrices with zero row. I    1390--1394
               Weiming Wang and   
                    Zhenqing Li   The distribution models of grazing
                                  animals between two grassland resource
                                  points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395--1404
         Okey Oseloka Onyejekwe   A simplified Green element method
                                  solution for a the biharmonic equation
                                  and its application to Stokes flows  . . 1405--1418
                Haiyong Bao and   
                 Zhenfu Cao and   
                  Shengbao Wang   Improvement on Tzeng et al.'s
                                  nonrepudiable threshold multi-proxy
                                  multi-signature scheme with shared
                                  verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419--1430
             Chou-Chen Yang and   
            Yuan-Liang Tang and   
             Ren-Chiun Wang and   
                  Hung-Wen Yang   A secure and efficient authentication
                                  protocol for anonymous channel in
                                  wireless communications  . . . . . . . . 1431--1439
            Reza Farzipoor Saen   Developing a nondiscretionary model of
                                  slacks-based measure in data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1440--1447
              Xing-Yang Guo and   
                 Chao-Jing Tang   Identity based group-oriented undeniable
                                  signature scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 1448--1457
              Tian-Shyr Dai and   
          Guan-Shieng Huang and   
                  Yuh-Dauh Lyuu   An efficient convergent lattice
                                  algorithm for European Asian options . . 1458--1471


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 170, Number 1, November 1, 2005

               Zhen-Jun Shi and   
                       Jie Shen   A new super-memory gradient method with
                                  curve search rule  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
                   Hanquan Wang   Numerical studies on the split-step
                                  finite difference method for nonlinear
                                  Schrödinger equations . . . . . . . . . . 17--35
                  H. Arsham and   
               G. Cimperman and   
                   N. Damij and   
                   T. Damij and   
                        J. Grad   A computer implementation of the
                                  Push-and-Pull algorithm and its
                                  computational comparison with LP simplex
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--63
              Saleh M. Al-Harbi   Numerical study of natural convection
                                  heat transfer with variable viscosity
                                  and thermal radiation from a cone and
                                  wedge in porous media  . . . . . . . . . 64--75
                    Mustafa Inc   On numerical solutions of
                                  one-dimensional nonlinear Burgers'
                                  equation and convergence of the
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
                      Luis Lara   A numerical method for solving a system
                                  of nonautonomous linear ordinary
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 86--94
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                 M. T. Darvishi   A numerical solution of Burgers'
                                  equation by time discretization of
                                  Adomian's decomposition method . . . . . 95--102
             Zhenfeng Zhang and   
                   Dengguo Feng   Cryptanalysis of some signature schemes
                                  with message recovery  . . . . . . . . . 103--114
                 M. M. Hosseini   Pseudospectral method for numerical
                                  solution of DAEs with an error
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124
              Alberto d'Onofrio   Biomathematical analysis and extension
                                  of the new class of epidemic models
                                  proposed by Satsuma et al. (2004)  . . . 125--134
                 Chien-Lung Hsu   A user friendly remote authentication
                                  scheme with smart cards against
                                  impersonation attacks  . . . . . . . . . 135--143
              Fatma Tiryaki and   
             Mehmet Ahlatcioglu   Fuzzy stock selection using a new fuzzy
                                  ranking and weighting algorithm  . . . . 144--157
                 Rafael Cortell   Numerical analysis of dynamic problems:
                                  an alternative integration . . . . . . . 158--171
      Nasser M. El-Maghraby and   
                Hamdy M. Yossef   A two-dimensional thermoelasticity
                                  problem for thermomechanical shock with
                                  two relaxation times . . . . . . . . . . 172--184
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
                   F. Jolai and   
                  F. Vaziri and   
                P. K. Ahmed and   
                      A. Azaron   A hybrid method for solving stochastic
                                  job shop scheduling problems . . . . . . 185--206
                Kee-Won Kim and   
             Jun-Cheol Jeon and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   An improvement on Yang et al.'s password
                                  authentication schemes . . . . . . . . . 207--215
                   Omar M. Saad   An iterative goal programming approach
                                  for solving fuzzy multiobjective integer
                                  linear programming problems  . . . . . . 216--225
               Eun-Jun Yoon and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Cryptanalysis of Zhang--Xiao's
                                  multisignature scheme for specified
                                  group of verifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 226--229
                Nuran Guzel and   
                 Mustafa Bayram   On the numerical solution of stiff
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--236
               Weiming Wang and   
                     Xinze Lian   Computations of multi-resultant with
                                  mechanization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--257
           Woei-Jiunn Tsaur and   
               Chia-Chun Wu and   
                    Wei-Bin Lee   An enhanced user authentication scheme
                                  for multi-server Internet services . . . 258--266
            H. M. El-Hawary and   
             E. O. Abdel-Rahman   Numerical solution of the generalized
                                  Burger's equation via spectral/spline
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--279
               Keon-Jik Lee and   
                 Byeong-Jik Lee   Cryptanalysis of the modified
                                  authenticated key agreement scheme . . . 280--284
     \.Ibrahim Çelik and   
                   Guzin Gokmen   Approximate solution of periodic
                                  Sturm--Liouville problems with Chebyshev
                                  collocation method . . . . . . . . . . . 285--295
               Wen-Xian Xie and   
                     Li Cai and   
               Jian-Hu Feng and   
                         Wei Xu   Computations of shallow water equations
                                  with high-order central-upwind schemes
                                  on triangular meshes . . . . . . . . . . 296--313
            J. Pour-Mahmoud and   
      M. Y. Rahimi-Ardabili and   
                   S. Shahmorad   Numerical solution of Volterra
                                  integro-differential equations by the
                                  Tau method with the Chebyshev and
                                  Legendre bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--338
                     Hasan Akin   On the directional entropy of
                                  $\mathbb{Z}^2$-actions generated by
                                  additive cellular automata . . . . . . . 339--346
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The Camassa--Holm--KP equations with
                                  compact and noncompact travelling wave
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--360
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The $\tanh$ method for a reliable
                                  treatment of the $K(n, n)$ and the
                                  $KP(n,n)$ equations and its variants . . 361--379
                    J. I. Ramos   Exponential methods for one-dimensional
                                  reaction--diffusion equations  . . . . . 380--398
              Junesang Choi and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Certain families of series associated
                                  with the Hurwitz--Lerch Zeta function    399--409
           Lawrence J. De Chant   A high velocity plate penetration hole
                                  diameter relationship based on late time
                                  stagnation point flow concepts . . . . . 410--424
                   S. A. Belbas   New hysteresis operators with
                                  applications to counterterrorism . . . . 425--439
              Brian J. McCartin   The method of angled derivatives . . . . 440--461
                  Tong Kang and   
                   Kwang Ik Kim   An $E$-based splitting method with a
                                  non-matching grid for eddy current
                                  equations with discontinuous
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--484
       Majid Jaberi Douraki and   
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                Mohsen Razzaghi   The qualitative behavior of solutions of
                                  a nonlinear difference equation  . . . . 485--502
                      Xiaoyu Ji   Models and algorithm for stochastic
                                  shortest path problem  . . . . . . . . . 503--514
          Pham Huu Anh Ngoc and   
                  Byung Soo Lee   Some sufficient conditions for
                                  exponential stability of linear neutral
                                  functional differential equations  . . . 515--530
         George Stephanides and   
         Nicolae Constantinescu   The GN-authenticated key agreement . . . 531--544
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                   Fan Wei Meng   Oscillation results for matrix
                                  differential systems with damping  . . . 545--555
             L. F. Shampine and   
                S. Thompson and   
            J. A. Kierzenka and   
                    G. D. Byrne   Non-negative solutions of ODEs . . . . . 556--569
                   Xing-Guo Luo   A two-step Adomian decomposition method  570--583
        Ahmet Ali Öcal and   
                 Naim Tuglu and   
              Ercan Altini\csik   On the representation of $k$-generalized
                                  Fibonacci and Lucas numbers  . . . . . . 584--596
              Shin-Shin Kao and   
                  Lih-Hsing Hsu   The globally bi-3* and hyper bi-3*
                                  connectedness of the spider web networks 597--610
                      Steven Li   A new formula for computing implied
                                  volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--625
               Shiying Wang and   
                    Aiming Yang   DNA solution of integer linear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--632
               A. Eisinberg and   
                      G. Fedele   Vandermonde systems on Gauss--Lobatto
                                  Chebyshev nodes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--647
                  S. Abbasbandy   Extended Newton's method for a system of
                                  nonlinear equations by modified Adomian
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 648--656
                    Weidong Qiu   Converting normal DLP-based signatures
                                  into blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--665
                Shun-Fu Pon and   
                Erl-Huei Lu and   
                 Albert B. Jeng   One private-key for all DL-based
                                  cryptosystems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--672
            L. Jódar and   
            L. A. Caudillo-Mata   A low computational cost numerical
                                  method for solving mixed diffusion
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--685
                Jinhai Chen and   
                      Weiguo Li   Convergence of Gauss--Newton's method
                                  and uniqueness of the solution . . . . . 686--705
                 Rafael Cortell   Numerical solutions of the classical
                                  Blasius flat-plate problem . . . . . . . 706--710
                  Zhen-yun Peng   An iterative method for the least
                                  squares symmetric solution of the linear
                                  matrix equation AXB = C  . . . . . . . . 711--723
               Haifeng Qian and   
                 Zhenfu Cao and   
                    Haiyong Bao   Security of Pon--Lu--Jeng's Meta-He
                                  digital signature schemes  . . . . . . . 724--730
                       K. Yamac   Erratum to ``On stability of
                                  discrete-time interval matrices''
                                  [Applied Mathematics and Computation 152
                                  (1) (2004) 163--167] . . . . . . . . . . 731--732

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 170, Number 2, November 15, 2005

        A. S. V. Ravi Kanth and   
                    Y. N. Reddy   Cubic spline for a class of singular
                                  two-point boundary value problems  . . . 733--740
         M. R. Mokhtarzadeh and   
               A. Golbabaee and   
                R. Mokhtary and   
                  N. G. Chegini   Suitable iterative methods for solving
                                  the linear system arising in the three
                                  fields domain decomposition method . . . 741--751
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  Cubic equations for nine-point prismatic
                                  arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--760
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
           M. B. Aryanezhad and   
                  N. Safaei and   
                      A. Azaron   Solving a dynamic cell formation problem
                                  using metaheuristics . . . . . . . . . . 761--780
            I. A. Hassanien and   
               A. A. Salama and   
                   H. A. Hosham   Fourth-order finite difference method
                                  for solving Burgers' equation  . . . . . 781--800
                  A. A. El-Bary   Computational treatment of free
                                  convection effects on perfectly
                                  conducting viscoelastic fluid  . . . . . 801--820
                M. S. Osman and   
       Mahmoud A. Abo-Sinna and   
                    A. A. Mousa   A combined genetic algorithm-fuzzy logic
                                  controller (GA--FLC) in nonlinear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--840
                   Lin Chen and   
              Xiaoqin Huang and   
                    Jinyuan You   Group signature schemes with forward
                                  secure properties  . . . . . . . . . . . 841--849
               Shu Min Yang and   
              Dong Guo Shao and   
                   Yang Jie Luo   A novel evolution strategy for
                                  multiobjective optimization problem  . . 850--873
           T. Allahviranloo and   
                       M. Otadi   Gaussian quadratures for approximate of
                                  fuzzy integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--885
                    Samir Karaa   An accurate LOD scheme for
                                  two-dimensional parabolic problems . . . 886--894
                    E. N. Aksan   A numerical solution of Burgers'
                                  equation by finite element method
                                  constructed on the method of
                                  discretization in time . . . . . . . . . 895--904
             Jianhong Zhang and   
                     Yumin Wang   An improved signature scheme without
                                  using one-way Hash functions . . . . . . 905--908
Hernán A. González and   
               Nelson O. Moraga   On predicting unsteady non-Newtonian
                                  blood flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--923
                 Farhad Kianfar   A numerical method to approximate
                                  optimal production and maintenance plan
                                  in a flexible manufacturing system . . . 924--940
             Shin-Jia Hwang and   
                 Chia-Wei Huang   Improvement on Hwang et al.'s
                                  generalization of proxy signature
                                  schemes based on elliptic curves . . . . 941--947
             Mustafa Bayram and   
             Necmettin Yildirim   Metabolic control analysis of trio
                                  enzymes system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948--957
               Liu Jing-mei and   
               Wei Bao-dian and   
            Cheng Xiang-guo and   
                   Wang Xin-mei   Cryptanalysis of Rijndael S-box and
                                  improvement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958--975
                     Zuhua Shao   Security of meta-He digital signature
                                  scheme based on factoring and discrete
                                  logarithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976--984
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
               M. Zohrehbandian   Finding the efficiency score and RTS
                                  characteristic of DMUs by means of
                                  identifying the efficient frontier in
                                  DEA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--993
               Fengying Wei and   
                        Ke Wang   Uniform persistence of asymptotically
                                  periodic multispecies competition
                                  predator--prey systems with Holling.
                                  III. type functional response  . . . . . 994--998
                    Ting Wu and   
                  Jin-Rong Wang   Comment: a new blind signature based on
                                  the discrete logarithm problem for
                                  untraceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1005
                 Wenbin Lin and   
            Narayan Kovvali and   
                 Lawrence Carin   Direct algorithm for computation of
                                  derivatives of the Daubechies basis
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1013
                     Jianwei Ma   Towards artifact-free characterization
                                  of surface topography using complex
                                  wavelets and total variation
                                  minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014--1030
                   M. Rueda and   
                   A. Arcos and   
S. González-Aguilera and   
M. D. Martínez-Miranda and   
            Y. Román and   
     S. Martínez-Puertas   Ratio methods to the mean estimation
                                  with known quantiles . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1044
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
           Majid Jaberi Douraki   On the recursive sequence $x_{n + 1} =
                                  (\alpha + \beta x_{n-k+1} + \gamma
                                  x_{n-2k+1}) / (B x_{n-k+1} + C x_{n - 2k
                                  + 1})$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1066
                 Amer Kaebi and   
         Asghar Kerayechian and   
              Faezeh Toutounian   Approximate inverse preconditioner by
                                  computing approximate solution of
                                  Sylvester equation . . . . . . . . . . . 1067--1076
             George E. Antoniou   $n$-Order linear state space systems:
                                  Computing the transfer function using
                                  the DFT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1084
           Muhammed I. Syam and   
                Basem S. Attili   Numerical solution of singularly
                                  perturbed fifth order two point boundary
                                  value problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1094
                  Yuan Gong Sun   Oscillation and non-oscillation for
                                  second-order linear difference equations 1095--1103
               Muhammed I. Syam   Nonlinear optimization exclusion tests
                                  for finding all solutions of nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104--1116
             Mahmoud E. M. Ouaf   Exact solution of thermal radiation on
                                  MHD flow over a stretching porous sheet  1117--1125
                  Shaher Momani   Analytic and approximate solutions of
                                  the space- and time-fractional telegraph
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126--1134
               Feng Cheng Chang   Matrix formulation of vector operations  1135--1165
              Fangguo Zhang and   
      Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and   
                   Willy Susilo   Attack on Han et al.'s ID-based
                                  confirmer (undeniable) signature at
                                  ACM-EC'03  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166--1169
                 Yuying Shi and   
                 Qianshun Chang   Remark on convergence of algebraic
                                  multigrid in the form of matrix
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170--1184
                 Da-Zhi Sun and   
              Ji-Dong Zhong and   
                         Yu Sun   Weakness and improvement on
                                  Wang--Li--Tie's user-friendly remote
                                  authentication scheme  . . . . . . . . . 1185--1193
                    Hai-Ping Hu   Mixed convection turbulent film
                                  condensation on a sphere . . . . . . . . 1194--1208
               Denis M. Filatov   Splitting as an approach to constructing
                                  local exact artificial boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1242
              Sanjeet Singh and   
               Pankaj Gupta and   
                Davinder Bhatia   Multiparametric sensitivity analysis of
                                  the constraint matrix in
                                  linear-plus-linear fractional
                                  programming problem  . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1260
                   F. S. Felber   New exact solutions of differential
                                  equations derived by fractional calculus 1261--1270
                Kamel Al-Khaled   Numerical solutions of the Laplace's
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1283
                  Hung-Yu Chien   Comments on ID-based multi-signature
                                  with distinguished signing authorities   1284--1289
          Victor R. L. Shen and   
           Tzer-Shyong Chen and   
                  Kai-Quan Shai   A novel cryptosystem based on grey
                                  system theory and genetic algorithm  . . 1290--1302
             F. A. Abd El-Salam   Optimization out-of-orbit plane changes
                                  using aeroassisted maneuvers . . . . . . 1303--1313
                  Damodar Maity   A novel far-boundary condition for the
                                  finite element analysis of infinite
                                  reservoir  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314--1328
                      Ling Wang   A hybrid genetic algorithm--neural
                                  network strategy for simulation
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329--1343
               Lin-Chuan Wu and   
                  Yi-Shiung Yeh   Comment on traceability on RSA-based
                                  partially signature with low computation 1344--1348
                   Wen-Hui Zhou   Performance analysis of discrete-time
                                  queue GI / G / 1 with negative arrivals  1349--1355
   A. Martín del Rey and   
          J. Pereira Mateus and   
G. Rodríguez Sánchez   A secret sharing scheme based on
                                  cellular automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 1356--1364
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
               K. K. Sharma and   
                     A. Awasthi   A parameter-uniform implicit difference
                                  scheme for solving time-dependent
                                  Burgers' equations . . . . . . . . . . . 1365--1393
                   Jing-Bo Chen   A multisymplectic integrator for the
                                  periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equation   1394--1417
            A. H. Borzabadi and   
               A. V. Kamyad and   
               M. H. Farahi and   
                    H. H. Mehne   Solving some optimal path planning
                                  problems using an approach based on
                                  measure theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1418--1435
                Ching-Ter Chang   On the mixed integer signomial
                                  programming problems . . . . . . . . . . 1436--1451
                    Fengde Chen   Global asymptotic stability in
                                  $n$-species non-autonomous
                                  Lotka--Volterra competitive systems with
                                  infinite delays and feedback control . . 1452--1468
                      Anonymous   Author index to Volumes 161--170 . . . . 1469--1476


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 171, Number 1, December 1, 2005

                      H. Xu and   
                   C. Zhang and   
                      R. Barron   A new numerical approach to solve an
                                  elliptic equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
               Luther White and   
                   Alan Shapiro   Optimization of wind field retrieval
                                  procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--52
                G. Mavrotas and   
                  D. Diakoulaki   Multi-criteria branch and bound: a
                                  vector maximization algorithm for Mixed
                                  $0$--$1$ Multiple Objective Linear
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--71
             Norikazu Saito and   
                 Takashi Suzuki   Notes on finite difference schemes to a
                                  parabolic-elliptic system modelling
                                  chemotaxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--90
                     Rui Xu and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                    Feilong Hao   Periodic solutions of a discrete time
                                  Lotka--Volterra type food-chain model
                                  with delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--103
                  V. Kanwar and   
               J. R. Sharma and   
                          Mamta   A new family of Secant-like method with
                                  super-linear convergence . . . . . . . . 104--107
               Xiaofan Yang and   
               Chuandong Li and   
              Xiaofeng Liao and   
             David J. Evans and   
               Graham M. Megson   Global exponential periodicity of a
                                  class of bidirectional associative
                                  memory networks with finite distributed
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--121
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
    Gholamreza Jahanshahloo and   
             Sohrab Kordrostami   Ranking of decision making units in data
                                  envelopment analysis: a distance-based
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--135
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
             Sohrab Kordrostami   Allocating fixed costs and target
                                  setting: a dea-based approach  . . . . . 136--151
               Sumeet Singh and   
                    M. P. Singh   Prediction of missed number from pin
                                  code of ATM card with back propagation
                                  method of artificial neural network  . . 152--162
                     Emin Kahya   A new unidimensional search method for
                                  optimization: The $5 / 9$ method . . . . 163--179
        B. V. Rathish Kumar and   
                        Shalini   Double diffusive natural convection in a
                                  doubly stratified wavy porous enclosure  180--202
        B. V. Rathish Kumar and   
                     Mani Mehra   Wavelet based preconditioners for sparse
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--224
            James Braselton and   
               Martha Abell and   
             Lorraine Braselton   Selective mating in a continuous model
                                  of epistasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--241
               Jianwei Shen and   
                   Jibin Li and   
                         Wei Xu   Bifurcations of travelling wave
                                  solutions in a model of the
                                  hydrogen-bonded systems  . . . . . . . . 242--271
                      Mamta and   
                  V. Kanwar and   
              V. K. Kukreja and   
                  Sukhjit Singh   On some third-order iterative methods
                                  for solving nonlinear equations  . . . . 272--280
            Kamel Al-Khaled and   
              Shaher Momani and   
                  Ahmed Alawneh   Approximate wave solutions for
                                  generalized
                                  Benjamin--Bona--Mahony--Burgers
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292
                     Rui Xu and   
          M. A. J. Chaplain and   
                 F. A. Davidson   Global stability of a stage-structured
                                  predator-prey model with prey dispersal  293--314
               Xi-Qiang Liu and   
               Han-Lin Chen and   
             Yong-Qiang Lü   Explicit solutions of the generalized
                                  KdV equations with higher order
                                  nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
           Jennifer J. Zhao and   
                  Jun Zhang and   
                  Ning Kang and   
                    Fuqian Yang   A two level finite difference scheme for
                                  one dimensional Pennes' bioheat equation 320--331
               Mehmet Sezer and   
             Mustafa Gülsu   A new polynomial approach for solving
                                  difference and Fredholm
                                  integro-difference equations with mixed
                                  argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--344
                  Xingde Ye and   
                Xiaoliang Cheng   The Fourier spectral method for the
                                  Cahn--Hilliard equation  . . . . . . . . 345--357
               Shelly Arora and   
             S. S. Dhaliwal and   
                  V. K. Kukreja   Solution of two point boundary value
                                  problems using orthogonal collocation on
                                  finite elements  . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--370
                Jiangtao Mo and   
                Kecun Zhang and   
                    Zengxin Wei   A nonmonotone trust region method for
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 371--384
                 A. Kirsche and   
               C. Böckmann   Rational approximations for
                                  ill-conditioned equation systems . . . . 385--397
                  Baljeet Singh   On the theory of generalized
                                  thermoelasticity for piezoelectric
                                  materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--405
                      JiJun Liu   On uniqueness and linearization of an
                                  inverse electromagnetic scattering
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--419
                Sang-Uk Ryu and   
                   Atsushi Yagi   Optimal control for an adsorbate-induced
                                  phase transition model . . . . . . . . . 420--432
                Zhongli Wei and   
                   Changci Pang   Positive solutions of some singular
                                  $m$-point boundary value problems at
                                  non-resonance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--449
        C. Garrido-del Solo and   
                 J. M. Yago and   
    M. García-Moreno and   
             B. H. Havsteen and   
F. García-Cánovas and   
                R. Varón   The kinetic effect of the inactivation
                                  of the enzyme--substrate complex in an
                                  enzymatic reaction with slow-binding
                                  inhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--463
                Jiangtao Mo and   
                   Liqun Qi and   
                    Zengxin Wei   A manufacturing supply chain
                                  optimization model for distilling
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--485
                  J. Biazar and   
                    M. Ilie and   
                  A. Khoshkenar   A new approach to the solution of the
                                  prey and predator problem and comparison
                                  of the results with the Adomian method   486--491
                    Fengde Chen   On a periodic multi-species ecological
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--510
                     Rui Xu and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                    Feilong Hao   Periodic solutions of an $n$-species
                                  Lotka--Volterra type food-chain model
                                  with time delays . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--530
                   Ling Bai and   
                        Ke Wang   Gilpin--Ayala model with spatial
                                  diffusion and its optimal harvesting
                                  policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--546
             Kailash C. Patidar   High order fitted operator numerical
                                  method for self-adjoint singular
                                  perturbation problems  . . . . . . . . . 547--566
                Ching-Ter Chang   A modified goal programming approach for
                                  the mean-absolute deviation portfolio
                                  optimization model . . . . . . . . . . . 567--572
               Narn-Yih Lee and   
                    Shu-Ya Yang   The design of integrating subliminal
                                  channel with access control  . . . . . . 573--580
             Saralees Nadarajah   Products, and ratios for a bivariate
                                  gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 581--595
                 M. M. Hosseini   An index reduction method for linear
                                  Hessenberg systems . . . . . . . . . . . 596--603
           Dhiranuch Bunnag and   
                        Min Sun   Genetic algorithm for constrained global
                                  optimization in continuous variables . . 604--636
                Jen-Ho Yang and   
            Chin-Chen Chang and   
                 Chih-Hung Wang   An iterative modular multiplication
                                  algorithm in RNS . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--645
                     Avram Sidi   Numerical integration over smooth
                                  surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ via class
                                  $\mathcal{S}_m$ variable
                                  transformations. Part I: Smooth
                                  integrands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--674

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 171, Number 2, December 15, 2005

            Mohammed Haroon and   
             Moustafa El-Shahed   Comment on: ``On solution of non-linear
                                  differential equation arising in gliding
                                  motion of bacteria'', Applied
                                  Mathematics and Computation 148 (2004)
                                  743--752 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--676
               Jianwei Shen and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                     Yanfei Jin   Bifurcation method and traveling wave
                                  solution to Whitham--Broer--Kaup
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--702
                  WeiGuo Xu and   
                 DaiPing Hu and   
                AiZhong Lei and   
                     Qin Shu Li   Single spiral wave induced by noise  . . 703--709
                   Joocheol Kim   Estimation of optimality gap using
                                  stratified sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 710--720
         Sohrab Kordrostami and   
           Alireza Amirteimoori   Un-desirable factors in multi-component
                                  performance measurement  . . . . . . . . 721--729
              Zhenkun Huang and   
                    Shuili Chen   Optimal fuzzy control of a
                                  poisoning-pest model . . . . . . . . . . 730--737
                  J. Biazar and   
             A. R. Amirtaimoori   An analytic approximation to the
                                  solution of heat equation by Adomian
                                  decomposition method and restrictions of
                                  the method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--745
            Yen-Chang Chang and   
                 Wen-Liang Hung   Software release policies on a
                                  shot-noise process model . . . . . . . . 746--759
                    Fengde Chen   Periodic solutions and almost periodic
                                  solutions for a delay multispecies
                                  Logarithmic population model . . . . . . 760--770
              Ting-Yi Chang and   
             Chou-Chan Yang and   
                    Ya-Wen Yang   Cryptanalysis of the improved
                                  authenticated key agreement protocol . . 771--774
              Xiao-Yun Wang and   
                  Yao-Lin Jiang   A general method for solving singular
                                  perturbed impulsive differential
                                  equations with two-point boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--806
                   Changfeng Ma   A new smoothing quasi-Newton method for
                                  nonlinear complementarity problems . . . 807--823
                Aizhong Lei and   
                 DaiPing Hu and   
                  WeiGuo Xu and   
                    Qian Shu Li   Noise enhanced the preponderant
                                  oscillation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--831
          Kristian Jönsson   Using panel data to increase the power
                                  of modified unit root tests in the
                                  presence of structural breaks  . . . . . 832--842
                Qingzhen Xu and   
                    Xiaonan Luo   Numerical solution of a two-dimensional
                                  simulation on heat and mass transfer
                                  through cloth  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--852
               Xiaofan Yang and   
                 Yaoxin Liu and   
                        Sen Bai   On the system of high order rational
                                  difference equations $x_n = a /
                                  y_{n-p}$, $y_n = b y_{n-p} / (x_{n-q}
                                  y_{n-q})$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--856
                   Xiaofan Yang   On the global asymptotic stability of
                                  the difference equation $x_n =
                                  (x_{n-1}x_{n-2} + x_{n-3} + a) /
                                  (x_{n-1} + x_{n-2}x_{n-3} + a)$  . . . . 857--861
                   M. Saleh and   
                    M. Aloqeili   On the rational difference equation
                                  $y_{n+1} = A + y_{n-k} / y_n$  . . . . . 862--869
                  W. X. Xie and   
                      W. Xu and   
                         L. Cai   Path integration of the
                                  Duffing--Rayleigh oscillator subject to
                                  harmonic and stochastic excitations  . . 870--884
                Xiaoli Yang and   
                     Wei Xu and   
               Zhongkui Sun and   
                        Yong Xu   Responses of strongly non-linear
                                  oscillator parametrically excited by
                                  random narrow-band noise . . . . . . . . 885--899
             Zhengtao Jiang and   
                  Yang Zhan and   
                   Dan Chen and   
                     Yumin Wang   Two methods of directly constructing
                                  probabilistic public-key encryption
                                  primitives based on third-order LFSR
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900--911
                     Emin Kahya   A new unidimensional search method for
                                  optimization: Linear interpolation
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--926
        Tidarut Plienpanich and   
           Piyapong Niamsup and   
              Yongwimon Lenbury   Controllability and stability of the
                                  perturbed Chen chaotic dynamical system  927--947
         F. A. Abd El-Salam and   
                      L. Sehnal   Analytical second-order drag theory with
                                  application for lifetime determination
                                  of artificial satellites in low Earth
                                  orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948--971
                    Yu Long and   
                 Zhenfu Cao and   
                     Kefei Chen   A dynamic threshold commercial key
                                  escrow scheme based on conic . . . . . . 972--982
                Arshad Khan and   
                 Islam Khan and   
                     Tariq Aziz   A survey on parametric spline function
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--1003
              Yun-Xin Zhang and   
                    Yong-Ji Tan   Solving partial differential equations
                                  by BKM combined with DDM . . . . . . . . 1004--1015
           Abdollah Shidfar and   
                     Ali Zakeri   A numerical technique for backward
                                  inverse heat conduction problems in
                                  one-dimensional space  . . . . . . . . . 1016--1024
              Hans Van de Vyver   Modified explicit Runge--Kutta methods
                                  for the numerical solution of the
                                  Schrödinger equation  . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1036
                M. Farhloul and   
             A. Serghini Mounim   A mixed-hybrid finite element method for
                                  convection--diffusion problems . . . . . 1037--1047
                  Emre Sermutlu   Comparison of Newton--Cotes and Gaussian
                                  methods of quadrature  . . . . . . . . . 1048--1057
            Harry G. Kwatny and   
                 Bor-Chin Chang   Symbolic computing of nonlinear
                                  observable and observer forms  . . . . . 1058--1080
             Shangyou Zhang and   
              David O. Olagunju   Axisymmetric finite element solution of
                                  non-isothermal parallel-plate flow . . . 1081--1094
               Do\ugan Kaya and   
              Salah M. El-Sayed   A numerical implementation of the
                                  decomposition method for the Lienard
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1103
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   The first kind Chebyshev--Lobatto
                                  quadrature rule and its numerical
                                  improvement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104--1118
                   Qing Tao and   
                    Xin Liu and   
                     Xunxue Cui   A linear optimization neural network for
                                  associative memory . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1128
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                 M. R. Eslahchi   The semi-open Newton--Cotes quadrature
                                  rule and its numerical improvement . . . 1129--1140
                  Ling Wang and   
                  Fang Tang and   
                         Hao Wu   Hybrid genetic algorithm based on
                                  quantum computing for numerical
                                  optimization and parameter estimation    1141--1156
                      Jichun Li   High-order finite difference schemes for
                                  differential equations containing higher
                                  derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1176
                   Xing-Guo Luo   A note on the new iteration method for
                                  solving algebraic equations  . . . . . . 1177--1183
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                A. Jafarian and   
                      R. Ezzati   Conjugate gradient method for fuzzy
                                  symmetric positive definite system of
                                  linear equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1191
         Mustafa Gülsu and   
             Turgut Özi\cs   Numerical solution of Burgers' equation
                                  with restrictive Taylor approximation    1192--1200
              Eun-Kyung Ryu and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   On the security of efficient user
                                  identification scheme  . . . . . . . . . 1201--1205
                 Emin Kasap and   
             Mustafa Yapici and   
              F. Talay Akyildiz   A numerical study for computation of
                                  geodesic curves  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206--1213
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of symmetric
                                  tridiagonal matrices of odd order. I . . 1214--1217
         Onur Kìymaz and   
        \cSeref Mirasyedio\uglu   A new symbolic computational approach to
                                  singular initial value problems in the
                                  second-order ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218--1225
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
       M. Soleimani-damaneh and   
         M. Rostamy-malkhalifeh   An enhanced procedure for estimating
                                  returns-to-scale in DEA  . . . . . . . . 1226--1238
                Qinghong Li and   
                     Xinyuan Wu   A class of two-step explicit methods for
                                  periodic IVPs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1252
              Amr A. Sharaf and   
                  H. O. Bakodah   A good spatial discretisation in the
                                  method of lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1263
               Yunong Zhang and   
                 W. E. Leithead   Exploiting Hessian matrix and
                                  trust-region algorithm in
                                  hyperparameters estimation of Gaussian
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1281
              J. C. Jimenez and   
                   F. Carbonell   Rate of convergence of local
                                  linearization schemes for initial-value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282--1295
              J. Rashidinia and   
                   A. Golbabaee   Convergence of numerical solution of a
                                  fourth-order boundary value problem  . . 1296--1305
              Mostafa Nasri and   
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
           Majid Jaberi Douraki   Study of a system of non-linear
                                  difference equations arising in a
                                  deterministic model for HIV infection    1306--1330
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                M. Masjed-Jamei   The equal coefficients quadrature rules
                                  and their numerical improvement  . . . . 1331--1351


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 172, Number 1, January 1, 2006

                   Weiming Wang   An algorithm for solving the high-order
                                  nonlinear Volterra--Fredholm
                                  integro-differential equation with
                                  mechanization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
                Xueqin Zhao and   
                Hongyan Zhi and   
                  Yaxuan Yu and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A new Riccati equation expansion method
                                  with symbolic computation to construct
                                  new travelling wave solution of
                                  nonlinear differential equations . . . . 24--39
                   E. Ahmed and   
                M. F. Elettreby   On combinatorial optimization motivated
                                  by biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--48
                Shaohua Pan and   
                      Xingsi Li   An efficient algorithm for the smallest
                                  enclosing ball problem in high
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--61
                     O. E. Emam   A fuzzy approach for bi-level integer
                                  non-linear programming problem . . . . . 62--71
                         M. Inc   On numerical soliton solution of the
                                  Kaup--Kupershmidt equation and
                                  convergence analysis of the
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 72--85
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order symmetric circulant matrices. I    86--90
                  M. Bhatti and   
                     P. Bracken   The calculation of integrals involving
                                  B-splines by means of recursion
                                  relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100
              Wang Xingyuan and   
                        Liu Wei   The Julia set of Newton's method for
                                  multiple root  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
                  Qiang Zhu and   
                Jun-Ming Xu and   
                         Min Lv   Edge fault tolerance analysis of a class
                                  of interconnection networks  . . . . . . 111--121
               Hailing Wang and   
                 Shouming Zhong   Asymptotic behavior of solutions in
                                  nonautonomous predator--prey patchy
                                  system with beddington-type functional
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--140
                  Yong Duan and   
                    Yong-ji Tan   On condition number of meshless
                                  collocation method using radial basis
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--147
              R. K. Mohanty and   
                  Noopur Khosla   Application of TAGE iterative algorithms
                                  to an efficient third order arithmetic
                                  average variable mesh discretization for
                                  two-point non-linear boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--162
                  Xiaoyu Ji and   
                      Zhen Shao   Model and algorithm for bilevel newsboy
                                  problem with fuzzy demands and discounts 163--174
           T. Allahviranloo and   
                       M. Otadi   Gaussian quadratures for approximate of
                                  fuzzy multiple integrals . . . . . . . . 175--187
                Xiaoyan Lin and   
                 Andong Liu and   
                    Yude Li and   
                      Pengju Wu   A MATLAB programming for simulation of
                                  X-ray capillaries  . . . . . . . . . . . 188--197
        Ahmad Jafari Samimi and   
          Sohrabali Yousefi and   
        Amir Mansor Tehranchian   An application of optimal control theory
                                  in economics: optimal fiscal and
                                  monetary policies in Iran  . . . . . . . 198--209
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   The second kind Chebyshev quadrature
                                  rules of semi-open type and its
                                  numerical improvement  . . . . . . . . . 210--221
                  Z. B. Zhu and   
                    K. C. Zhang   A superlinearly convergent SQP algorithm
                                  for mathematical programs with linear
                                  complementarity constraints  . . . . . . 222--244
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of symmetric
                                  tridiagonal matrices of even order. II   245--251
                 V. Shanthi and   
                   N. Ramanujam   Asymptotic numerical method for boundary
                                  value problems for singularly perturbed
                                  fourth-order ordinary differential
                                  equations with a weak interior layer . . 252--266
                Zhenqing Li and   
                   Weiming Wang   Computer aided solving the high-order
                                  transition probability matrix of the
                                  finite Markov chain  . . . . . . . . . . 267--285
                Hazem Ali Attia   Computational dynamics of
                                  three-dimensional closed-chains of rigid
                                  bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--304
                  S. Effati and   
                   A. R. Nazemi   Neural network models and its
                                  application for solving linear and
                                  quadratic programming problems . . . . . 305--331
                   Xinlong Zhou   Estimates for the joint spectral radius  332--348
            Chun-Sheng Chen and   
             Chin-Ping Fung and   
                 Rean-Der Chien   A further study on nonlinear vibration
                                  of initially stressed plates . . . . . . 349--367
            Chin-Chen Chang and   
                   Yeu-Pong Lai   A division algorithm for residue numbers 368--378
              Minghui Jiang and   
                    Yi Shen and   
                   Xiaoxin Liao   Boundedness and global exponential
                                  stability for generalized
                                  Cohen--Grossberg neural networks with
                                  variable delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--393
             Saralees Nadarajah   Information matrix for the bivariate
                                  Gumbel distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 394--405
                     B. Han and   
                 G. F. Feng and   
                      J. Q. Liu   A widely convergent generalized
                                  pulse-spectrum technique for the
                                  inversion of two-dimensional acoustic
                                  wave equation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--420
                    Mustafa Inc   On numerical doubly periodic wave
                                  solutions of the coupled
                                  Drinfel'd--Sokolov--Wilson equation by
                                  the decomposition method . . . . . . . . 421--430
                  S. Abbasbandy   Modified homotopy perturbation method
                                  for nonlinear equations and comparison
                                  with Adomian decomposition method  . . . 431--438
  Paulo Roberto Bergamaschi and   
Antônio Carlos Nogueira and   
Sezimária de Fátima Pereira Saramago   Design and optimization of 3R
                                  manipulators using the workspace
                                  features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--463
        Zdravko Dimitrov Slavov   Scalarization techniques or relationship
                                  between a social welfare function and a
                                  Pareto optimality concept  . . . . . . . 464--471
               Ronghua Chen and   
                     Zongmin Wu   Applying multiquadric
                                  quasi-interpolation to solve Burgers'
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--484
                  S. Abbasbandy   Homotopy perturbation method for
                                  quadratic Riccati differential equation
                                  and comparison with Adomian's
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 485--490
                  Jiyeon Oh and   
               Donald A. French   Error analysis of a specialized
                                  numerical method for mathematical models
                                  from neuroscience  . . . . . . . . . . . 491--507
  Predrag S. Stanimirovi\'c and   
            Marko D. Petkovi\'c   Computing generalized inverse of
                                  polynomial matrices by interpolation . . 508--523
                   E. Ahmed and   
                   A. S. Hegazi   On dynamical multi-team and signaling
                                  games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--530
              R. K. Mohanty and   
                  Urvashi Arora   A family of non-uniform mesh tension
                                  spline methods for singularly perturbed
                                  two-point singular boundary value
                                  problems with significant first
                                  derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--544
              Ahmad Pourdarvish   A reliable symbolic implementation of
                                  algorithm for calculating Adomian
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--550
              Necdet Bildik and   
               Ali Konuralp and   
Funda Orakçì Bek and   
Semih Küçükarslan   Solution of different type of the
                                  partial differential equation by
                                  differential transform method and
                                  Adomian's decomposition method . . . . . 551--567
               Weiming Wang and   
                    Zhenqing Li   A mechanical algorithm for solving
                                  ordinary differential equation . . . . . 568--583
                 Li Ronghua and   
              Meng Hongbing and   
                   Dai Yonghong   Convergence of numerical solutions to
                                  stochastic delay differential equations
                                  with jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--602
             Wen Dong Zhang and   
               Yan Ping Bai and   
                   Hong Ping Hu   The incorporation of an efficient
                                  initialization method and parameter
                                  adaptation using self-organizing maps to
                                  solve the TSP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--623
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                M. Amirfakhrian   The nearest approximation of a fuzzy
                                  quantity in parametric form  . . . . . . 624--632
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                  R. Ezzati and   
                    A. Jafarian   LU decomposition method for solving
                                  fuzzy system of linear equations . . . . 633--643
                   Xuewu Du and   
            Liansheng Zhang and   
                     Yuelin Gao   A class of augmented Lagrangians for
                                  equality constraints in nonlinear
                                  programming problems . . . . . . . . . . 644--663
                Xiaoyu Jiao and   
                Hong-Qing Zhang   An extended method and its application
                                  to Whitham--Broer--Kaup equation and
                                  two-dimensional perturbed KdV equation   664--677

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 172, Number 2, January 15, 2006

              Zhong-Zhi Bai and   
               Wai-Ki Ching and   
                  Michael K. Ng   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--681
                 Zheng-jian Bai   Inexact Newton methods for inverse
                                  eigenvalue problems  . . . . . . . . . . 682--689
            Raymond H. Chan and   
                 Ka-Chun Ma and   
                   Wai-Ki Ching   Boundary value methods for solving
                                  transient solutions of Markovian
                                  queueing networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 690--700
                  Xiao-qing Jin   $M$-preconditioner for $M$-matrices  . . 701--707
                 Heng Liang and   
               Songqi Huang and   
                   Fengshan Bai   A hybrid algorithm for computing
                                  permanents of sparse matrices  . . . . . 708--716
                   Tony Lin and   
                 Shufang Xu and   
                Qingyun Shi and   
                    Pengwei Hao   An algebraic construction of orthonormal
                                  $M$-band wavelets with perfect
                                  reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--730
                Chun-Ho Liu and   
              Chat-Ming Woo and   
             Dennis Y. C. Leung   Performance analysis of a parallel
                                  finite element solution to the direct
                                  numerical simulation of fluid turbulence
                                  on Linux PC clusters . . . . . . . . . . 731--743
               Xingping Liu and   
               Tongxiang Gu and   
                Xudeng Hang and   
                 Zhiqiang Sheng   A parallel version of QMRCGSTAB method
                                  for large linear systems in distributed
                                  parallel environments  . . . . . . . . . 744--752
                Linzhang Lu and   
                  Michael K. Ng   Effects of a parameter on a nonsymmetric
                                  algebraic Riccati equation . . . . . . . 753--761
                Jian-Yu Pan and   
              Michael K. Ng and   
                  Zhong-Zhi Bai   New preconditioners for saddle point
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--771
                   Jiachang Sun   Approximate eigen-decomposition
                                  preconditioners for solving numerical
                                  PDE problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--787
                   Bin Wang and   
                Yangfeng Su and   
                    Zhaojun Bai   The second-order biorthogonalization
                                  procedure and its application to
                                  quadratic eigenvalue problems  . . . . . 788--796
                  Jing Wang and   
                  Zhong-Zhi Bai   Convergence analysis of two-stage
                                  waveform relaxation method for the
                                  initial value problems . . . . . . . . . 797--808
                  Yimin Wei and   
                Huaian Diao and   
                  Michael K. Ng   On Drazin inverse of singular Toeplitz
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--817
                       Qiang Ye   An iterated shift-and-invert Arnoldi
                                  algorithm for quadratic matrix
                                  eigenvalue problems  . . . . . . . . . . 818--827
              K. Maleknejad and   
                  M. Karami and   
                     M. Rabbani   Using the Petrov--Galerkin elements for
                                  solving Hammerstein integral equations   831--845
              K. Maleknejad and   
                      H. Derili   The collocation method for Hammerstein
                                  equations by Daubechies wavelets . . . . 846--864
                    E. E. Ammar   On solutions and duality of nonlinear
                                  nonsmooth fractional programs  . . . . . 865--875
                    Haydar Eren   Numerical study of unsteady interacting
                                  compressible jet flows using finite
                                  difference method for small Reynolds
                                  numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876--891
                     Pu-yan Nie   CDT like approaches for the system of
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 892--902
                   Tzong-Mou Wu   A new formula of solving nonlinear
                                  equations by Adomian and homotopy
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--907
              R. P. K. Chan and   
                 Hongyu Liu and   
                       Geng Sun   Efficient symplectic Runge--Kutta
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--924
                Zhenqing Li and   
                   Weiming Wang   Distribution models of grazing animals
                                  around a grassland resource point  . . . 925--937
                Hongyan Zhi and   
                Xueqin Zhao and   
             Zhongyuan Yang and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A modified hyperbolic function method
                                  and its application to the Toda lattice  938--945
                   Weiming Wang   A new mechanical algorithm for solving
                                  the second kind of Fredholm integral
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946--962
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids: The
                                  four-point cube  . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--970
               A. Eisinberg and   
                  G. Fedele and   
                    C. Imbrogno   Vandermonde systems on equidistant nodes
                                  in $[0,1]$: accurate computation . . . . 971--984
       Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh   CG-type algorithms to solve symmetric
                                  matrix equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--999
                 Pu-yan Nie and   
                  Chang-feng Ma   A trust region filter method for general
                                  non-linear programming . . . . . . . . . 1000--1017
                    Xueming Liu   Fast methods for solving nonlinearly
                                  coupled equations describing fiber
                                  amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018--1035
             D. E. Devadoss and   
                  V. A. Volpert   Mathematical modeling of radially
                                  propagating polymerization waves with
                                  the gel effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036--1053
           S. Mehdi Hashemi and   
                Maryam Tahmasbi   A better heuristic for area-compaction
                                  of orthogonal representations  . . . . . 1054--1066
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                     Ju H. Park   Robust stabilization of uncertain
                                  systems with delays in control input: a
                                  matrix inequality approach . . . . . . . 1067--1077
             M. F. El-Sayed and   
              A. A. Mohamed and   
               T. M. N. Metwaly   Effect of general applied electric field
                                  on conducting liquid jets instabilities
                                  in the presence of heat and mass
                                  transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1102
               Lin-Lin Wang and   
              Yong-Hong Fan and   
                    Wan-Tong Li   Multiple bifurcations in a
                                  predator--prey system with monotonic
                                  functional response  . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1120
                   Qian Liu and   
                Yuqian Zhou and   
                     Jian Zhang   Upper and lower bound of the blow-up
                                  rate for nonlinear Schrödinger equation
                                  with a harmonic potential  . . . . . . . 1121--1132
             F. Gürcan and   
         A. Delìceo\uglu   Saddle connections near degenerate
                                  critical points in Stokes flow within
                                  cavities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1144
                   M. de la Sen   Robust stable pole-placement adaptive
                                  control of linear systems with
                                  multiestimation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145--1174
                 Hongli Shi and   
                 Yuanli Cai and   
                     Zulian Qiu   On design of multiwavelet prefilters . . 1175--1187
                  WeiGuo Xu and   
                 DaiPing Hu and   
              HuiZhang Shen and   
                      Mengyu Li   Explicit internal signal stochastic
                                  resonance in a chemical oscillator . . . 1188--1194
                   Feng Bao and   
              Cheng-Chi Lee and   
               Min-Shiang Hwang   Cryptanalysis and improvement on batch
                                  verifying multiple RSA digital
                                  signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195--1200
                    Wei Sun and   
                  Yao-Lin Jiang   A note on discrete dynamic iterations of
                                  stiff index-2 DAE's  . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1211
                  W. X. Xie and   
                      W. Xu and   
                         L. Cai   Study of the Duffing--Rayleigh
                                  oscillator subject to harmonic and
                                  stochastic excitations by path
                                  integration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212--1224
                     Yinnian He   Stokes coupling method for the exterior
                                  flow Part IV: stabilized finite element
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1238
            Kuo-Hsiung Wang and   
                 Liang-Wei Chiu   Cost benefit analysis of availability
                                  systems with warm standby units and
                                  imperfect coverage . . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1256
         V. S. S. Yadavalli and   
        C. De W. Van Schoor and   
               S. Udayabaskaran   A substitutable two-product inventory
                                  system with joint-ordering policy and
                                  common demand  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257--1271
                     Detong Zhu   An affine scaling interior trust-region
                                  method for LC $^1$ minimization subject
                                  to bounds on variables . . . . . . . . . 1272--1302
                Yasuhito Tanaka   On the equivalence of the Arrow
                                  impossibility theorem and the Brouwer
                                  fixed point theorem  . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1314
          Salah M. El-Sayed and   
                   Do\ugan Kaya   A numerical solution and an exact
                                  explicit solution of the NLS equation    1315--1322
                   Weiming Wang   A mechanical algorithm for solving the
                                  Volterra integral equation . . . . . . . 1323--1341
               Rajeev Verma and   
               Niranjan Roy and   
                 Ranjan Ganguli   Gas turbine diagnostics using a soft
                                  computing approach . . . . . . . . . . . 1342--1363
          N. C. A. da Costa and   
                    F. A. Doria   Addendum to ``Consequences of an exotic
                                  formulation for P = NP'' [Appl. Math.
                                  Comput. \bf 145 (2--3) (2003) 655--665]  1364--1367


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 173, Number 1, February 1, 2006

                     Caidi Zhao   Algorithm and mechanization to Cauchy
                                  problem of wave equation with linear
                                  damping and source terms . . . . . . . . 1--8
   Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh and   
              Faezeh Toutounian   New approaches for solving large
                                  Sylvester equations  . . . . . . . . . . 9--18
             T. Özi\cs and   
                   S. Özer   A simple
                                  similarity-transformation-iterative
                                  scheme applied to Korteweg--de Vries
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32
                 Sheng Chen and   
                Zhaohui Liu and   
               Baochang Shi and   
                 Chuguang Zheng   Computation of gas--solid flows by
                                  finite difference Boltzmann equation . . 33--49
           Sharat C. Prasad and   
                K. R. Rajagopal   Flow of a fluid with pressure dependent
                                  viscosity due to a boundary that is
                                  being stretched  . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--68
     Tibor K. Pogány and   
           H. M. Srivastava and   
             \vZivorad Tomovski   Some families of Mathieu $a$-series and
                                  alternating Mathieu $a$-series . . . . . 69--108
                Henryk Gzyl and   
  Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi and   
              Aldo Tagliani and   
               Minaya Villasana   Maxentropic solution of fractional
                                  moment problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--125
                  Alice Gorguis   A comparison between Cole--Hopf
                                  transformation and the decomposition
                                  method for solving Burgers' equations    126--136
                Amir Azaron and   
            Hideki Katagiri and   
                Kosuke Kato and   
               Masatoshi Sakawa   Reliability evaluation of
                                  multi-component cold-standby redundant
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--149
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The sine--cosine and the tanh methods:
                                  Reliable tools for analytic treatment of
                                  nonlinear dispersive equations . . . . . 150--164
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The modified decomposition method for
                                  analytic treatment of differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--176
            Ravi P. Agarwal and   
         Alexander Domoshnitsky   Non-oscillation of the first-order
                                  differential equations with unbounded
                                  memory for stabilization by control
                                  signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--195
                Haiyun Zhou and   
                     Li Wei and   
                    Yeol Je Cho   Strong convergence theorems on an
                                  iterative method for a family of finite
                                  nonexpansive mappings in reflexive
                                  Banach spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--212
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Explicit travelling wave solutions of
                                  variants of the $K(n, n)$ and the
                                  $ZK(n,n)$ equations with compact and
                                  noncompact structures  . . . . . . . . . 213--230
                Youbing Yin and   
                     Ke-Qin Zhu   Oscillating flow of a viscoelastic fluid
                                  in a pipe with the fractional Maxwell
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--242
               Bo-Qing Dong and   
                   Zhi-Min Chen   Asymptotic stability of non-Newtonian
                                  flows with large perturbation in $R^2$   243--250
        Amelia Bilbao-Terol and   
Blanca Pérez-Gladish and   
           Mar Arenas-Parra and   
Maria Victoria Rodríguez-Uría   Fuzzy compromise programming for
                                  portfolio selection  . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
      Alexandros Leontitsis and   
      Dimitris Kontogiorgos and   
                    Jenny Pagge   Repel the swarm to the optimum!  . . . . 265--272
               K. Subramani and   
                    D. Desovski   On contrasting vertex contraction with
                                  relaxation-based approaches for negative
                                  cost cycle detection . . . . . . . . . . 273--305
                 Marco Papi and   
               Simone Sbaraglia   Optimal asset--liability management with
                                  constraints: A dynamic programming
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--349
             Jih-Jeng Huang and   
          Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng and   
              Chorng-Shyong Ong   A novel algorithm for uncertain
                                  portfolio selection  . . . . . . . . . . 350--359
               Zhen-Jun Shi and   
                       Jie Shen   On step-size estimation of line search
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--371
                    Mustafa Inc   On numerical Jacobi elliptic function
                                  solutions of the (1 + 1)-dimensional
                                  dispersive long wave equation by the
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 372--382
                   Tzong-Mou Wu   Solving the nonlinear equations by the
                                  Newton-homotopy continuation method with
                                  adjustable auxiliary homotopy function   383--388
                   A. S. Ismail   On the numerical solution of
                                  two-dimensional singular integral
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--393
                 Hui-Min Li and   
                   Ke-Cun Zhang   A decomposition algorithm for solving
                                  large-scale quadratic programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--403
             M. T. Darvishi and   
               R. Khosro-Aghdam   Symmetric successive overrelaxation
                                  methods for rank deficient linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--420
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                      M. Javidi   A numerical solution of Burgers'
                                  equation by pseudospectral method and
                                  Darvishi's preconditioning . . . . . . . 421--429
         Eyüp Çetin   Determining the optimal duration of an
                                  advertising campaign using diffusion of
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--442
                 Attila R. Imre   Artificial fractal dimension obtained by
                                  using perimeter--area relationship on
                                  digitalized images . . . . . . . . . . . 443--449
                Miquel Grau and   
José Luis Díaz-Barrero   An improvement to Ostrowski root-finding
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--456
                  J. M. Soriano   Existence and computation of zeros of
                                  perturbed mappings . . . . . . . . . . . 457--467
         Mário Basto and   
             Viriato Semiao and   
         Francisco L. Calheiros   A new iterative method to compute
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 468--483
                    Yong-Bin Li   An alternative algorithm for computing
                                  the pseudo-remainder of multivariate
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--492
                  S. Abbasbandy   Numerical solutions of the integral
                                  equations: Homotopy perturbation method
                                  and Adomian's decomposition method . . . 493--500
              Yongjian Yang and   
                   Youlin Shang   A new filled function method for
                                  unconstrained global optimization  . . . 501--512
                Ye-hui Peng and   
                   Shengbao Yao   A feasible trust-region algorithm for
                                  inequality constrained optimization  . . 513--522
                     Xitao Yang   Uniform persistence for a predator--prey
                                  system with delays . . . . . . . . . . . 523--534
                  Xing Tao Wang   Numerical solution of delay systems
                                  containing inverse time by hybrid
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--546
                  G. C. Greubel   On some generating functions for the
                                  extended generalized Hermite polynomials 547--553
              \.Idris Da\ug and   
                 Dursun Irk and   
                 Mustafa Tombul   Least-squares finite element method for
                                  the advection--diffusion equation  . . . 554--565
                   Gongsheng Li   Data compatibility and conditional
                                  stability for an inverse source problem
                                  in the heat equation . . . . . . . . . . 566--581
                  J. Biazar and   
                    M. Ilie and   
                  A. Khoshkenar   An improvement to an alternate algorithm
                                  for computing Adomian polynomials in
                                  special cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--592
              David O. Olagunju   Local similarity solutions for boundary
                                  layer flow of a FENE-P fluid . . . . . . 593--602
               Suresh Kumar and   
            Mohamed Khaled Omar   Stochastic re-entrant line modeling for
                                  an environment stress testing in a
                                  semiconductor assembly industry  . . . . 603--615
                Ruo-Xia Yao and   
                     Zhi-Bin Li   CONSLAW: a Maple package to construct
                                  the conservation laws for nonlinear
                                  evolution equations  . . . . . . . . . . 616--635
           E. Çelebi and   
            S. Fìrat and   
            \.I. Çankaya   The evaluation of impedance functions in
                                  the analysis of foundations vibrations
                                  using boundary element method  . . . . . 636--667
                    S. G. Ahmed   A numerical method for oxygen diffusion
                                  and absorption in a sike cell  . . . . . 668--682

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 173, Number 2, February 15, 2006

         Mustafa Gülsu and   
               Mehmet Sezer and   
            Zekeriya Güney   Approximate solution of general
                                  high-order linear nonhomogeneous
                                  difference equations by means of Taylor
                                  collocation method . . . . . . . . . . . 683--693
                    Fengde Chen   Permanence in nonautonomous
                                  multi-species predator--prey system with
                                  feedback controls  . . . . . . . . . . . 694--709
       Majid Jaberi Douraki and   
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                Mohsen Razzaghi   On the higher order rational recursive
                                  sequence $x_n = A / x_{n-k} + B / x_{n -
                                  3k}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--723
    Akbar Hashemi Borzabadi and   
        Ali Vahidian Kamyad and   
            Hamed Hashemi Mehne   A different approach for solving the
                                  nonlinear Fredholm integral equations of
                                  the second kind  . . . . . . . . . . . . 724--735
          Mortaza Gachpazan and   
    Akbar Hashemi Borzabadi and   
            Ali Vahidian Kamyad   A measure-theoretical approach for
                                  solving discrete optimal control
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736--752
                     Emin Kahya   Comment on titled ``An improvement on
                                  Fibonacci search method in optimization
                                  theory'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--756
                 Fengmin Xu and   
               Chengxian Xu and   
                   Honggang Xue   A multiple penalty function method for
                                  solving Max-Bisection problems . . . . . 757--766
          Andrei Bourchtein and   
             Ludmila Bourchtein   On generation of orthogonal grids  . . . 767--781
          Maged George Iskander   Exponential membership function in
                                  stochastic fuzzy goal programming  . . . 782--791
               Xiaofan Yang and   
                 Yaoxin Liu and   
                        Sen Bai   A numerical solution of second-order
                                  linear partial differential equations by
                                  differential transform . . . . . . . . . 792--802
        Seyhan Fìrat and   
Mehmet Sarìbìyìk and   
            Erkan Çelebi   Lateral load estimation from
                                  visco-plastic mud-flow around
                                  cylindrical row of piles . . . . . . . . 803--821
                  H. M. Youssef   Generalized magneto-thermoelasticity in
                                  a conducting medium with variable
                                  material properties  . . . . . . . . . . 822--833
                 Dursun Irk and   
              \.Idris Da\ug and   
               Bülent Saka   A small time solutions for the
                                  Korteweg--de Vries equation using spline
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834--846
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
                Mahmoud Shafiei   Measuring the efficiency of
                                  interdependent decision making sub-units
                                  in DEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--855
  Abd El Hakeem Abd El Naby and   
        A. E. M. El Misiery and   
               Ibrahim El Shamy   Hydromagnetic flow of generalized
                                  Newtonian fluid through a uniform tube
                                  with peristalsis . . . . . . . . . . . . 856--871
                 E. Khorram and   
                  A. Ghodousian   Linear objective function optimization
                                  with fuzzy relation equation constraints
                                  regarding max--av composition  . . . . . 872--886
                 Madhu Jain and   
             Sandhya Maheshwari   Discounted costs for repairable units
                                  under hybrid warranty  . . . . . . . . . 887--901
             Ying-Ming Wang and   
                       Ying Luo   DEA efficiency assessment using ideal
                                  and anti-ideal decision making units . . 902--915
              F. S. Ibrahem and   
            I. A. Hassanien and   
                     A. A. Bakr   Thermal effects in Stokes' second
                                  problem for unsteady micropolar fluids
                                  flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916--937
                   Y. H. Gu and   
                       Z. Y. Wu   A new filled function method for
                                  nonlinear integer programming problem    938--950
                 Bing Zheng and   
                        Ke Wang   On accelerate overrelaxation methods for
                                  rank deficient linear systems  . . . . . 951--959
                Othmar Koch and   
           Wolfgang Kreuzer and   
                  Armin Scrinzi   Approximation of the time-dependent
                                  electronic Schrödinger equation by MCTDHF 960--976
                Hou-Biao Li and   
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
                        Hong Li   An improvement on a new upper bound for
                                  moduli of eigenvalues of iterative
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--984
                 Ying-Ming Wang   On lexicographic goal programming method
                                  for generating weights from inconsistent
                                  interval comparison matrices . . . . . . 985--991
         Mohamed A. Ramadan and   
            Naglaa M. El-Shazly   On the matrix equation $X + A^2 +
                                  \sqrt[2^n]{X^{-1}A} = I$ . . . . . . . . 992--1013
                     Z. W. Chen   A penalty-free-type nonmonotone
                                  trust-region method for nonlinear
                                  constrained optimization . . . . . . . . 1014--1046
                Cem Kadilar and   
                    Hulya Cingi   Ratio estimators for the population
                                  variance in simple and stratified random
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1059
               Xinlong Feng and   
                     Yinnian He   Parametric iterative methods of
                                  second-order for solving nonlinear
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060--1067
                 Aiguo Xiao and   
                      Yifa Tang   Equilibrium attractive properties of a
                                  class of multistep Runge--Kutta methods  1068--1081
                    Fengde Chen   Permanence and global stability of
                                  nonautonomous Lotka--Volterra system
                                  with predator--prey and deviating
                                  arguments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1082--1100
                      J. Biazar   Solution of the epidemic model by
                                  Adomian decomposition method . . . . . . 1101--1106
                 Xining Cui and   
                 Quanyi Lü   A parallel algorithm for
                                  block-tridiagonal linear systems . . . . 1107--1114
                  Danfu Han and   
                    Jingfen Zhu   Convergence and error estimate of a
                                  deformed Newton method . . . . . . . . . 1115--1123
                   Yadong Shang   New solitary wave solutions with compact
                                  support for the KdV-like K ( m n )
                                  equations with fully nonlinear
                                  dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124--1136
                   Yadong Shang   New exact special solutions with
                                  solitary patterns for Boussinesq-like B
                                  ( m n ) equations with fully nonlinear
                                  dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1148
                   Weiming Wang   Mechanical algorithm for solving the
                                  second kind of Volterra integral
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1162
                  Yong Chen and   
                        Qi Wang   A new elliptic equation rational
                                  expansion method and its application to
                                  the shallow long wave approximate
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1182
          Khaled M. El-Said and   
           M. Salah El-Sherbeny   Comparing of reliability characteristics
                                  between two different systems  . . . . . 1183--1199
         Hamed R. Tareghian and   
                  Hassan Taheri   An application of randomized minimum cut
                                  to the project time/cost tradeoff
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200--1207
             Siraj-ul-Islam and   
               Ikram A. Tirmizi   Nonpolynomial spline approach to the
                                  solution of a system of second-order
                                  boundary-value problems  . . . . . . . . 1208--1218
                  Y. G. Sun and   
                    S. H. Saker   Forced oscillation of higher-order
                                  nonlinear differential equations . . . . 1219--1226
                  Bingxing Wang   Unbiased estimations for the exponential
                                  distribution based on step-stress
                                  accelerated life-testing data  . . . . . 1227--1237
                F. D. Zaman and   
                  Khalid Masood   Investigation of the direct and inverse
                                  solutions for torsional waves
                                  propagating in a cylinder  . . . . . . . 1238--1245
             Chia Hung Wang and   
                        Ru Yang   A numerical study for slip flow heat
                                  transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246--1264
           Xiang-Tuan Xiong and   
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
                   Hong-Fang Li   Central difference method of a
                                  non-standard inverse heat conduction
                                  problem for determining surface heat
                                  flux from interior observations  . . . . 1265--1287
             Y. Narasimha Murty   Effect of throughflow and magnetic field
                                  on Marangoni convection in micro-polar
                                  fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288--1299
                    Hasan Erbay   Subspace tracking in low-rank real-time
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300--1309
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Sums and ratios for beta Stacy
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310--1322
  Co\cskun Hamzaçebi and   
                    Fevzi Kutay   A heuristic approach for finding the
                                  global minimum: Adaptive random search
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1333
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Sums, products, and ratios for Freund's
                                  bivariate exponential distribution . . . 1334--1349
               Yan Ping Bai and   
                   Ying Jie Lei   The model of impact waves in a circular
                                  elastic bar and application in measuring
                                  dynamic characteristic of microstructure 1350--1356


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 174, Number 1, March 1, 2006

              Hong-Gang Xue and   
              Cheng-Xian Xu and   
                 Zong-Xian Feng   Mean--variance portfolio optimal problem
                                  under concave transaction cost . . . . . 1--12
                Ching-Ter Chang   Reformulation of the modified goal
                                  programming for logarithmic piecewise
                                  linear function  . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--23
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                    Hongmin Ren   Convergence ball of a modified secant
                                  method for finding zero of derivatives   24--33
                    Fei Han and   
                De-Shuang Huang   Improved constrained learning algorithms
                                  by incorporating additional functional
                                  constraints into neural networks . . . . 34--50
             Ferenc Hartung and   
     Tamás Insperger and   
Gábor Stépán and   
                     Janos Turi   Approximate stability charts for milling
                                  processes using semi-discretization  . . 51--73
               Jin Yun Yuan and   
              Plamen Y. Yalamov   A method for constructing diagonally
                                  dominant preconditioners based on Jacobi
                                  rotations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
       Phailaung Phohomsiri and   
                   Byungrin Han   An alternative proof for the recursive
                                  formulae for computing the
                                  Moore--Penrose $M$-inverse of a matrix   81--97
                  Bingji Xu and   
                 Xinzhi Liu and   
                   Xiaoxin Liao   Global exponential stability of high
                                  order Hopfield type neural networks  . . 98--116
                Prasada Rao and   
          Miguel A. Medina, Jr.   A multiple domain algorithm for modeling
                                  two dimensional contaminant transport
                                  flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--133
             Ying-Jun Jiang and   
                  Jin-Ping Zeng   An $L^\infty$-error estimate for finite
                                  element solution of nonlinear elliptic
                                  problem with a source term . . . . . . . 134--149
         Joan-Josep Climent and   
 Francisco Ferrández and   
José-Francisco Vicent and   
                 Antonio Zamora   A nonlinear elliptic curve cryptosystem
                                  based on matrices  . . . . . . . . . . . 150--164
                D. Bahuguna and   
                      M. Muslim   Approximation of solutions to non-local
                                  history-valued retarded differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--179
            Eisa A. Al-Said and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
        Themistocles M. Rassias   Cubic splines method for solving
                                  fourth-order obstacle problems . . . . . 180--187
                   Ali Hajjafar   Controlled over-relaxation method and
                                  the general extrapolation method . . . . 188--198
                Wen-ming He and   
            Chang-sheng Lin and   
                    Jun-zhi Cui   Finite element approximations of Green
                                  function $G^{\epsilon}_{x_0}$ based on
                                  the method of multiscale asymptotic
                                  expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--222
                Hongping Wu and   
                   Guofen Zhang   Bayesian estimation of the parameters in
                                  $n$ non-independent and non-identical
                                  series system  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--235
                    J. Ding and   
                     N. H. Rhee   A modified piecewise linear Markov
                                  approximation of Markov operators  . . . 236--251
  N. Castro-González and   
                  E. Dopazo and   
                      J. Robles   Formulas for the Drazin inverse of
                                  special block matrices . . . . . . . . . 252--270
                 Xinzhi Liu and   
                      Qing Wang   Stability of nontrivial solution of
                                  delay differential equations with
                                  state-dependent impulses . . . . . . . . 271--288
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Analytic study of the fifth order
                                  integrable nonlinear evolution equations
                                  by using the tanh method . . . . . . . . 289--299
                    Wen-ming He   A new superconvergence and extrapolation
                                  for second order triangular element  . . 300--315
                  Ram Avtar and   
              Rashmi Srivastava   Aqueous outflow in Schlemm's canal . . . 316--328
                S. Saha Ray and   
                     R. K. Bera   Analytical solution of a fractional
                                  diffusion equation by Adomian
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 329--336
          Al-Seedy Ragab Omarah   A transient solution of queues with
                                  variable channel considering balking
                                  concept when ${S} = 2$ and $\sigma = 1$  337--344
                Mohammad Javidi   Spectral collocation method for the
                                  solution of the generalized
                                  Burger--Fisher equation  . . . . . . . . 345--352
           M. A. El-Gebeily and   
               M. B. M. Elgindi   Convergence and the optimal choice of
                                  the relaxation parameter for a class of
                                  iterative methods  . . . . . . . . . . . 353--364
    Mohammed Al-Haj Ebrahem and   
               James J. Higgins   Non-parametric analysis of a
                                  proportional wearout model for
                                  accelerated degradation data . . . . . . 365--373
                  Shih-Pin Chen   A mathematical programming approach to
                                  the machine interference problem with
                                  fuzzy parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--387
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
                 G. Moslehi and   
                   M. Vasei and   
                      A. Azaron   A branch-and-bound algorithm for a
                                  single machine sequencing to minimize
                                  the sum of maximum earliness and
                                  tardiness with idle insert . . . . . . . 388--408
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
             Sohrab Kordrostami   Prioritization method for frontier DMUs:
                                  a slack-based measure  . . . . . . . . . 409--418
                Xiaoli Wang and   
                   Guobiao Zhou   A new filled function for unconstrained
                                  global optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
                   M. H. Xu and   
          William H. K. Lam and   
                    H. Shao and   
                     G. F. Luan   A heuristic algorithm for network
                                  equilibration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--446
                      R. Caimmi   A necessary condition for best fitting
                                  analytical to simulated density profiles
                                  in dark matter haloes  . . . . . . . . . 447--482
                   Atin Das and   
                     Pritha Das   Does composite index of NYSE represents
                                  chaos in the long time scale?  . . . . . 483--489
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  tridiagonal matrices with zero row. II   490--499
          Luis David Garcia and   
         Abdul Salam Jarrah and   
          Reinhard Laubenbacher   Sequential dynamical systems over words  500--510
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order symmetric circulant matrices. II   511--523
                 Fengjie Wu and   
                     Jie Lu and   
                Guangquan Zhang   A new approximate algorithm for solving
                                  multiple objective linear programming
                                  problems with fuzzy parameters . . . . . 524--544
               A. Golbabaee and   
         M. R. Mokhtarzadeh and   
              N. G. Chegini and   
                    R. Mokhtary   Wavelet preconditioning for the three
                                  fields formulation: Numerical results in
                                  conforming decomposition . . . . . . . . 545--565
               Zhongyun Liu and   
                Zhaolu Tian and   
                   Yanxiang Tan   Computing the least-square solutions for
                                  centrohermitian matrix problems  . . . . 566--577
                Weihua Miao and   
                  Wenyu Sun and   
                Chuangying Dang   A practical penalty trust-region method
                                  for equality-constrained optimization
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578--587
                Huaian Diao and   
                    Mei Qin and   
                      Yimin Wei   Condition numbers for the outer inverse
                                  and constrained singular linear system   588--612
                  A. A. Karawia   A computational algorithm for solving
                                  periodic penta-diagonal linear systems   613--618
A. Akyüz-Da\cscìo\uglu and   
        H. Çerdik Yaslan   An approximation method for the solution
                                  of nonlinear integral equations  . . . . 619--629
                    Zhi-Hao Cao   Comparison of performance of iterative
                                  methods for singular and nonsingular
                                  saddle point linear systems arising from
                                  Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 630--642
            G. S. Mahapatra and   
                      T. K. Roy   Fuzzy multi-objective mathematical
                                  programming on reliability optimization
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--659
           Tzung-Nan Chuang and   
                 Jung-Yuan Kung   A new algorithm for the discrete fuzzy
                                  shortest path problem in a network . . . 660--668
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                    A. Jafarian   Steepest descent method for solving
                                  fuzzy nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . 669--675
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of symmetric
                                  tridiagonal matrices of odd order. II    676--683
       Mahmoud A. Abo-Sinna and   
                 A. H. Amer and   
               Hend H. El Sayed   An interactive algorithm for decomposing
                                  the parametric space in fuzzy
                                  multiobjective dynamic programming
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684--699
              Yun-Xin Zhang and   
                    Yong-Ji Tan   Solve partial differential equations by
                                  meshless subdomains method combined with
                                  RBFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--709
                  Ning Gong and   
                         Tao Li   Role of index bonds in an optimal
                                  dynamic asset allocation model with real
                                  subsistence consumption  . . . . . . . . 710--731
              Michele L. Joyner   A numerical study of the POD method in
                                  NDE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732--754
                 Huijun Sun and   
                     Jianjun Wu   A new approach for ranking fuzzy numbers
                                  based on fuzzy simulation analysis
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--767
        A. S. V. Ravi Kanth and   
            Vishnu Bhattacharya   Cubic spline for a class of non-linear
                                  singular boundary value problems arising
                                  in physiology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--774

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 174, Number 2, March 15, 2006

        Paulo F. A. Mancera and   
                    Roland Hunt   Some experiments with high order compact
                                  methods using a computer algebra
                                  software---Part I  . . . . . . . . . . . 775--794
            Narcisse Zahibo and   
            Efim Pelinovsky and   
           Tatiana Talipova and   
            Andrey Kozelkov and   
                  Andrey Kurkin   Analytical and numerical study of
                                  nonlinear effects at tsunami modeling    795--809
           E. M. E. Mostafa and   
                   A. Hamdi and   
                  A. Aboutahoun   A proximal-point SQP trust region method
                                  for solving some special class of
                                  nonlinear semi-definite programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810--832
                    A. Esen and   
                     S. Kutluay   Application of a lumped Galerkin method
                                  to the regularized long wave equation    833--845
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   Efficient continuation Newton-like
                                  method for solving systems of non-linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846--853
                 Mei-xia Li and   
                  Chang-yu Wang   Convergence property of gradient-type
                                  methods with non-monotone line search in
                                  the presence of perturbations  . . . . . 854--868
                E. A. Rawashdeh   Numerical solution of semidifferential
                                  equations by collocation method  . . . . 869--876
                A. Golbabai and   
                  S. Seifollahi   Numerical solution of the second kind
                                  integral equations using radial basis
                                  function networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 877--883
                    E. N. Aksan   Quadratic B-spline finite element method
                                  for numerical solution of the Burgers'
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884--896
             Zhongsheng Hua and   
                   Feihua Huang   An effective genetic algorithm approach
                                  to large scale mixed integer programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--909
         \.Ibrahim Çelik   Collocation method and residual
                                  correction using Chebyshev series  . . . 910--920
                    Wenxing Zhu   Unsolvability of some optimization
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--926
                 Shiang-Tai Liu   Fuzzy total transportation cost measures
                                  for fuzzy solid transportation problem   927--941
                Lihong Yang and   
                    Minggen Cui   New algorithm for a class of nonlinear
                                  integro-differential equations in the
                                  reproducing kernel space . . . . . . . . 942--960
                Yasuhito Tanaka   A topological approach to the Arrow
                                  impossibility theorem when individual
                                  preferences are weak orders  . . . . . . 961--981
                 Z.-M. Chen and   
                K. Djidjeli and   
                    W. G. Price   Computing Lyapunov exponents based on
                                  the solution expression of the
                                  variational system . . . . . . . . . . . 982--996
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order skew-symmetric tridiagonal
                                  matrices with eigenvalues on imaginary
                                  axis-. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1000
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                M. Amirfakhrian   Numerical approximation of fuzzy
                                  functions by fuzzy polynomials . . . . . 1001--1006
                         Kui Du   A note on properties and computations of
                                  matrix pseudospectra . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1019
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                M. Masjed-Jamei   The first kind Chebyshev--Newton--Cotes
                                  quadrature rules (semi-open type) and
                                  its numerical improvement  . . . . . . . 1020--1032
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  Five-point cubes and curvature
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1038
             Jih-Jeng Huang and   
          Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng and   
              Chorng-Shyong Ong   Two-stage genetic programming (2SGP) for
                                  the credit scoring model . . . . . . . . 1039--1053
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
              L. Pourkarimi and   
                  M. Zarepisheh   Modified MAJ model for ranking decision
                                  making units in data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054--1059
               Xian-Fang Li and   
                Xiang-Yang Duan   An interfacially-cracked orthotropic
                                  rectangular bi-material subjected to
                                  antiplane shear loading  . . . . . . . . 1060--1079
                 Yong Liang and   
                Kwong-Sak Leung   Evolution strategies with
                                  exclusion-based selection operators and
                                  a Fourier series auxiliary function  . . 1080--1109
       Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh   A new approach to compute sparse
                                  approximate inverse factors of a matrix  1110--1121
     Aleksander A. Stanislavsky   Nonlinear reaction with fractional
                                  dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122--1134
                Xiaonan Luo and   
                    Qingzhen Xu   A new numerical implementation on $2$D
                                  heat and moisture transfer through
                                  fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1150
               Nawel Gharbi and   
               Malika Ioualalen   GSPN analysis of retrial systems with
                                  servers breakdowns and repairs . . . . . 1151--1168
             Siraj-ul-Islam and   
           Ikram A. Tirmizi and   
                  Saadat Ashraf   A class of methods based on
                                  non-polynomial spline functions for the
                                  solution of a special fourth-order
                                  boundary-value problems with engineering
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1180
              N. M. Bujurke and   
                R. B. Kudenatti   Surface roughness effects on squeeze
                                  film poroelastic bearings  . . . . . . . 1181--1195
         M. R. Mokhtarzadeh and   
                R. Mokhtary and   
                  N. G. Chegini   Bi-CG: an effective solver for three
                                  fields domain decomposition method in
                                  parallel environments  . . . . . . . . . 1196--1205
 Ülkü Dinlemez Ate\cs   Properties of the far field operator for
                                  time harmonic acoustic waves . . . . . . 1206--1215
             Aytac Arikoglu and   
                  Ibrahim Ozkol   Solution of difference equations by
                                  using differential transform method  . . 1216--1228
               Linzhong Liu and   
                     Yinzhen Li   The fuzzy quadratic assignment problem
                                  with penalty: New models and genetic
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229--1244
                     Ji-Bo Wang   Single machine scheduling with common
                                  due date and controllable processing
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1254
          Dambaru D. Bhatta and   
             Muhammad I. Bhatti   Numerical solution of KdV equation using
                                  modified Bernstein polynomials . . . . . 1255--1268
                   M. A. Sharaf   Computations of the cosmic distance
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269--1278
                Nuran Guzel and   
                 Mustafa Bayram   Numerical solution of
                                  differential--algebraic equations with
                                  index-2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1289
                M. Fashandi and   
                      J. Ahmadi   Series approximations for the means of
                                  $k$-records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290--1301
                 Li Ronghua and   
              Meng Hongbing and   
                      Chang Qin   Exponential stability of numerical
                                  solutions to SDDEs with Markovian
                                  switching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302--1313
                E. Babolian and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   On numerical integration methods with
                                  $T$-distribution weight function . . . . 1314--1320
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                E. Babolian and   
                      M. Allame   Numerical solution of fuzzy max--min
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321--1328
                  Ling Wang and   
                    Liang Zhang   Stochastic optimization using simulated
                                  annealing with hypothesis test . . . . . 1329--1342
             Quan-Fang Wang and   
             Shin-ichi Nakagiri   Numerical solutions of distributed
                                  diffusion Hopfield neural network
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1362
            Chien-Yuan Chen and   
               Chih-Cheng Hsueh   Quantum factorization algorithm by NMR
                                  ensemble computers . . . . . . . . . . . 1363--1369
             Riccardo Fazio and   
            Alessandra Jannelli   Mathematical and numerical modeling for
                                  a bio-chemical aquarium  . . . . . . . . 1370--1383
               A. Eisinberg and   
                      G. Fedele   On the inversion of the Vandermonde
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1397
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  Interpolation of data in prismatic array
                                  and the estimation of a missing datum    1398--1407
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                   S. Khademloo   A numerical method to find positive
                                  solution of semilinear elliptic
                                  Dirichlet problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1408--1415
                 Nenad Ujevi\'c   A method for solving nonlinear equations 1416--1426
              Hasan Akìn   The topological entropy of n th
                                  iteration of an additive cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1427--1437
              Peng-Yeng Yin and   
                   Jing-Yu Wang   Ant colony optimization for the
                                  nonlinear resource allocation problem    1438--1453
              J. S. C. Prentice   Comments on numerically improved
                                  Gauss--Legendre quadrature . . . . . . . 1454--1459
                 Feng Huang and   
                     Xian Zhang   An improved Newton iteration for the
                                  weighted Moore--Penrose inverse  . . . . 1460--1486
             Horng-Twu Liaw and   
            Wen-Shenq Juang and   
                    Chi-Kai Lin   An electronic online bidding auction
                                  protocol with both security and
                                  efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1487--1497
                U. C. Gupta and   
                  Karabi Sikdar   Computing queue length distributions in
                                  MAP / G / 1 / N queue under single and
                                  multiple vacation  . . . . . . . . . . . 1498--1525
               Mehmet Sezer and   
Ay\csegül Akyüz-Da\cscìo\uglu   Taylor polynomial solutions of general
                                  linear differential--difference
                                  equations with variable coefficients . . 1526--1538
            R. J. Hartfield and   
           J. E. Burkhalter and   
                  R. M. Jenkins   Scramjet missile design using genetic
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1539--1563
                C. Wafo Soh and   
                 O. J. Ilegbusi   Semi-analytical solution of a
                                  constrained fourth-order
                                  integro-differential equation of steady
                                  flow--structure interaction in a model
                                  collapsible tube . . . . . . . . . . . . 1564--1575
       Célestin Wafo Soh   Non-perturbative semi-analytical
                                  source-type solutions of thin-film
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576--1585
                    J. I. Ramos   Iterative and non-iterative, full and
                                  approximate factorization methods for
                                  multidimensional reaction--diffusion
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1586--1608
                    J. I. Ramos   Linearly-implicit, approximate
                                  factorization, exponential methods for
                                  multi-dimensional reaction--diffusion
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609--1633
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                   Fan Wei Meng   Note on the paper of D\vzurina and
                                  Stavroulakis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1634--1641
                   John P. Boyd   Computing real roots of a polynomial in
                                  Chebyshev series form through
                                  subdivision with linear testing and
                                  cubic solves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1642--1658
                   G. L. Silver   Erratum to: ``Analysis of
                                  three-dimensional grids: Cubes and cubic
                                  coefficients'' [Applied Mathematics and
                                  Computation 166 (2005) 196--203] . . . . 1659--1659
                 Emin Kasap and   
           \.Ismail Aydemir and   
                Nuri Kuruo\uglu   Erratum to: ``Ruled surfaces with time
                                  like rulings'' [Appl. Math. Comput. \bf
                                  147 (2004) 241--253] . . . . . . . . . . 1660--1667


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 175, Number 1, April 1, 2006

             Hossein Jafari and   
         Varsha Daftardar-Gejji   Revised Adomian decomposition method for
                                  solving a system of nonlinear equations  1--7
              Hossein Behforooz   Approximation by integro cubic splines   8--15
                 Steven G. From   Lower bounds and approximations of the
                                  locations of movable singularities of
                                  some nonlinear differential equations
                                  using parameterized bounded operators    16--37
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
           Majid Jaberi Douraki   The oscillatory character of the
                                  recursive sequence $x_n = (\alpha +
                                  \beta x_{n-k+1}) / (A + B x_{n-2k+1})$   38--48
              A. Ashyralyev and   
                       N. Altay   A note on the well-posedness of the
                                  nonlocal boundary value problem for
                                  elliptic difference equations  . . . . . 49--60
                    Hong Li and   
               Shaorong Sun and   
                       Jibin Li   Bifurcations of travelling wave
                                  solutions for the Boussinesq equations   61--71
              Hikmet Caglar and   
               Nazan Caglar and   
               Khaled Elfaituri   B-spline interpolation compared with
                                  finite difference, finite element and
                                  finite volume methods which applied to
                                  two-point boundary value problems  . . . 72--79
                  O. D. Makinde   Laminar falling liquid film with
                                  variable viscosity along an inclined
                                  heated plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--88
           G. M. Amiraliyev and   
               Mustafa Kudu and   
                     Hakki Duru   Uniform difference method for a
                                  parameterized singular perturbation
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
                  Liping Wu and   
                  Chunping Pang   Travelling wave solutions for the
                                  generalized coupled Hirota--Satsuma KdV
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--118
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Some results associated with the longest
                                  run statistic in a sequence of Markov
                                  dependent trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
                M. M. Rueda and   
         S. González and   
                       A. Arcos   A general class of estimators with
                                  auxiliary information based on available
                                  units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--148
              Naji Qatanani and   
                  Monika Schulz   Analytical and numerical investigation
                                  of the Fredholm integral equation for
                                  the heat radiation problem . . . . . . . 149--170
                Alev Taskin and   
                Ali Fuat Guneri   Economic analysis of risky projects by
                                  ANNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--181
              Biaosong Chen and   
                Liyong Tong and   
                    Yuanxian Gu   Precise time integration for linear
                                  two-point boundary value problems  . . . 182--211
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                   Fan Wei Meng   Oscillation results for matrix
                                  differential systems with damping  . . . 212--220
                M. M. Selim and   
                    M. K. Ahmed   Plane strain deformation of an initially
                                  stressed orthotropic elastic medium  . . 221--237
              Stefan Maksay and   
                Diana M. Stoica   Considerations on modeling some
                                  distribution laws  . . . . . . . . . . . 238--246
                  S. Effati and   
                  H. Roohparvar   Iterative dynamic programming for
                                  solving linear and nonlinear
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 247--257
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
            Guang-Hui Cheng and   
                  Xiao-Yu Cheng   Modified SOR-type iterative method for
                                  $Z$-matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--268
              Masoud Allame and   
             Behnaz Vatankhahan   Iteration algorithm for solving Ax = b
                                  in max--min algebra  . . . . . . . . . . 269--276
                   Takanori Ide   Some energy preserving finite element
                                  schemes based on the discrete
                                  variational derivative method  . . . . . 277--296
                 Lakhdar Chiter   A new sampling method in the DIRECT
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--306
               Dao-Qing Dai and   
                     P. C. Yuen   Wavelet based discriminant analysis for
                                  face recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--318
              Zhong-Yun Liu and   
             Hui-Jiong Chen and   
                   Han-Dong Cao   The computation of the principal square
                                  roots of centrosymmetric H-matrices  . . 319--329
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
                Chuen-Horng Lin   Fuzzy analysis of queueing systems with
                                  an unreliable server: a nonlinear
                                  programming approach . . . . . . . . . . 330--346
              K. Maleknejad and   
                       T. Lotfi   Expansion method for linear integral
                                  equations by cardinal B-spline wavelet
                                  and Shannon wavelet as bases for obtain
                                  Galerkin system  . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--355
                A. Aghajani and   
                   A. Moradifam   Nonexistence of limit cycles in two
                                  classes of predator--prey systems  . . . 356--365
Seyed Hamid Reza Pasandideh and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Multi-response simulation optimization
                                  using genetic algorithm within
                                  desirability function framework  . . . . 366--382
              Mohammed Sea\"\id   Stable numerical methods for
                                  conservation laws with discontinuous
                                  flux function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--400
           Godfrey Saldanha and   
               Sujatha D. Achar   Symmetric multistep methods with zero
                                  phase-lag for periodic initial value
                                  problems of second order differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--412
                 Yanren Hou and   
                      Kaitai Li   Tangent space correction method for the
                                  Galerkin approximation based on two-grid
                                  finite element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--429
                 Dokkyun Yi and   
                    Sungyun Lee   Fourth-order partial differential
                                  equations for image enhancement  . . . . 430--440
                 Xiang Wang and   
                    Linzhang Lu   A fast algorithm for solving linear
                                  systems of the Pascal type . . . . . . . 441--451
       Hasan Ghasabi-Oskoei and   
            Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri   An efficient simplified neural network
                                  for solving linear and quadratic
                                  programming problems . . . . . . . . . . 452--464
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                   S. Khademloo   Some numerical results on a convex
                                  nonlinear elliptic problem . . . . . . . 465--471
               Jieyong Zhou and   
                      Yimin Wei   A two-step algorithm for solving
                                  singular linear systems with index one   472--485
               Tahir Rehman and   
                  Carlos Romero   Formulating generalised `goal games'
                                  against nature: An illustration from
                                  decision-making under uncertainty in
                                  agriculture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--496
              Su-Ying Zhang and   
                   Zi-Chen Deng   Group preserving schemes for nonlinear
                                  dynamic system based on RKMK methods . . 497--507
               Jin-You Xiao and   
                 Li-Hua Wen and   
                      Duo Zhang   Solving second kind Fredholm integral
                                  equations by periodic wavelet Galerkin
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--518
           T. Allahviranloo and   
              M. Afshar Kermani   Solution of a fuzzy system of linear
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--531
       Ahmet Ya\csar Özban   New methods for approximating square
                                  roots  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--540
                 S. K. Peer and   
           Dinesh K. Sharma and   
            K. Ravindranath and   
                    M. M. Naidu   Computation of arc length in the
                                  presence of barriers in networks . . . . 541--556
                  Liang Bao and   
                  Yiqin Lin and   
                      Yimin Wei   Krylov subspace methods for the
                                  generalized Sylvester equation . . . . . 557--573
             Sohrab Ali Yousefi   Numerical solution of Abel's integral
                                  equation by using Legendre wavelets  . . 574--580
                  S. Abbasbandy   Iterated He's homotopy perturbation
                                  method for quadratic Riccati
                                  differential equation  . . . . . . . . . 581--589
                   E. Ahmed and   
                   A. S. Hegazi   On different aspects of portfolio
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--596
            Zhengsheng Wang and   
                        Hua Dai   On the construction of a real symmetric
                                  five-diagonal matrix from its three
                                  eigenpairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--608
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
                  Wen-Chuan Lee   Computational algorithm of least
                                  absolute deviation method for
                                  determining number of outliers under
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--617
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                 M. R. Eslahchi   On numerical improvement of open
                                  Newton--Cotes quadrature rules . . . . . 618--627
        R. Gutiérrez and   
R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez and   
                      A. Nafidi   The Stochastic Rayleigh diffusion model:
                                  Statistical inference and computational
                                  aspects. Applications to modelling of
                                  real cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--644
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                 Behnam Hashemi   Iterative solution of fuzzy linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--674
   Salih Yalçinba\cs and   
                   Mehmet Sezer   A Taylor collocation method for the
                                  approximate solution of general linear
                                  Fredholm--Volterra integro-difference
                                  equations with mixed argument  . . . . . 675--690
              Anas N. Al-Rabadi   Qudits representations and computations
                                  of $n$-player many-valued quantum games  691--714
                   G. Landi and   
                        F. Zama   The active-set method for nonnegative
                                  regularization of linear ill-posed
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--729
               Bülent Saka   A finite element method for equal width
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--747
 Celso José Cordeiro and   
                   Jin Yun Yuan   Row-wise algorithms of ST decomposition  748--761
                Fujian Duan and   
                    Kecun Zhang   An algorithm of diagonal transformation
                                  for Perron root of nonnegative
                                  irreducible matrices . . . . . . . . . . 762--772
               Zhigang Lian and   
               Xingsheng Gu and   
                       Bin Jiao   A similar particle swarm optimization
                                  algorithm for permutation flowshop
                                  scheduling to minimize makespan  . . . . 773--785
                 Yi-chen Ma and   
             Zhi-peng Zhang and   
                  Chen-feng Ren   Local and parallel finite element
                                  algorithms based on two-grid
                                  discretization for the stream function
                                  form of Navier--Stokes equations . . . . 786--813
               S. A. MirHassani   A computational approach to enhancing
                                  course timetabling with integer
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814--822
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                    A. Jafarian   Steepest descent method for system of
                                  fuzzy linear equations . . . . . . . . . 823--833
                  Li ShuJin and   
                   Li ShengHong   Pricing American interest rate option on
                                  zero-coupon bond numerically . . . . . . 834--850
                  Wei Zhang and   
                    Li-Qun Chen   Vibration control of an axially moving
                                  string system: Wave cancellation method  851--863
         Kailash C. Patidar and   
                Kapil K. Sharma   $\epsilon$-Uniformly convergent
                                  non-standard finite difference methods
                                  for singularly perturbed differential
                                  difference equations with small delay    864--890

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 175, Number 2, April 15, 2006

                    Ke Wang and   
                     Bing Zheng   Symmetric successive overrelaxation
                                  methods for fuzzy linear systems . . . . 891--901
              Orhan Dönmez   Numerical simulation of rotating
                                  accretion disk around the Schwarzschild
                                  black hole using GRH code  . . . . . . . 902--922
              Shaher Momani and   
               Khaled Moadi and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Decomposition method for solving a
                                  system of fourth-order obstacle boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--931
                   R. Qesmi and   
              M. Ait Babram and   
                     M. L. Hbid   A Maple program for computing a terms of
                                  a center manifold, and element of
                                  bifurcations for a class of retarded
                                  functional differential equations with
                                  Hopf singularity . . . . . . . . . . . . 932--968
                 Whye-Teong Ang   Numerical solution of a non-classical
                                  parabolic problem: an
                                  integro-differential approach  . . . . . 969--979
             M. P. Ramachandran   Two-axis Euler rotation determination    980--983
                         Rui Xu   A reaction--diffusion predator--prey
                                  model with stage structure and nonlocal
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984--1006
              Xingyuan Wang and   
                   Peijun Chang   Research on fractal structure of
                                  generalized M--J sets utilized Lyapunov
                                  exponents and periodic scanning
                                  techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1025
                Basem S. Attili   Continuation method for computing
                                  certain singular points for index-1
                                  differential algebraic equations . . . . 1026--1038
                 Xuegui Zhu and   
                    Yi Wang and   
               Jianming Zan and   
                   Chuanbing Li   Application of fractal theory in
                                  generation and refinement of finite
                                  element mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1045
                    S. Saha Ray   A numerical solution of the coupled
                                  sine-Gordon equation using the modified
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 1046--1054
              Sharmishtha Mitra   A wavelet filtering based analysis of
                                  macroeconomic indicators: the Indian
                                  evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1079
                 Li Ronghua and   
                    Hou Yingmin   Convergence and stability of numerical
                                  solutions to SDDEs with Markovian
                                  switching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080--1091
                K. S. Leung and   
                    I. King and   
                     Y. B. Wong   A probabilistic cooperative--competitive
                                  hierarchical model for global
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092--1124
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
                    Jye-Wei Hsu   Computational algorithm for inventory
                                  model with a service level constraint,
                                  lead time demand with the mixture of
                                  distributions and controllable negative
                                  exponential backorder rate . . . . . . . 1125--1138
               Chi-Ming Lin and   
             Jih-Jeng Huang and   
                 Mitsuo Gen and   
              Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng   Recurrent neural network for dynamic
                                  portfolio selection  . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1146
               Tiegang Fang and   
                   Fang Guo and   
                Chia-fon F. Lee   A new iteration method with cubic
                                  convergence to solve nonlinear algebraic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1155
                Zengxin Wei and   
                  Guoyin Li and   
                       Liqun Qi   New quasi-Newton methods for
                                  unconstrained optimization problems  . . 1156--1188
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                      R. Ezzati   Newton's method for solving a system of
                                  fuzzy nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . 1189--1199
           S. Mehdi Hashemi and   
               Mehdi Ghatee and   
              Ebrahim Nasrabadi   Combinatorial algorithms for the minimum
                                  interval cost flow problem . . . . . . . 1200--1216
           T. Allahviranloo and   
                  E. Ahmady and   
                  N. Ahmady and   
             Kh. Shams Alketaby   Block Jacobi two-stage method with
                                  Gauss--Sidel inner iterations for fuzzy
                                  system of linear equations . . . . . . . 1217--1228
              K. Maleknejad and   
               N. Aghazadeh and   
                     M. Rabbani   Numerical solution of second kind
                                  Fredholm integral equations system by
                                  using a Taylor-series expansion method   1229--1234
              K. Maleknejad and   
                      H. Derili   Numerical solution of integral equations
                                  by using combination of
                                  Spline-collocation method and Lagrange
                                  interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235--1244
             Mustafa Gülsu   A finite difference approach for
                                  solution of Burgers' equation  . . . . . 1245--1255
                E. N. Aksan and   
                A. Özde\cs   Numerical solution of Korteweg--de Vries
                                  equation by Galerkin B-spline finite
                                  element method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256--1265
     Eyüp Çetin and   
                Seda Tolun Esen   A weapon--target assignment approach to
                                  media allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1266--1275
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                    H. Ghazvini   Weighted restarting method in the
                                  weighted Arnoldi algorithm for computing
                                  the eigenvalues of a nonsymmetric matrix 1276--1287
             Jih-Jeng Huang and   
          Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng and   
              Chorng-Shyong Ong   A novel algorithm for dynamic factor
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288--1297
                 Ming Yuchi and   
                  Jong-Hwan Kim   Evolutionary algorithm using
                                  feasibility-based grouping for numerical
                                  constrained optimization problems  . . . 1298--1319
                Nuran Guzel and   
                 Mustafa Bayram   On the numerical solution of
                                  differential-algebraic equations with
                                  index-3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320--1331
         Christian-Oliver Ewald   The Malliavin gradient method for the
                                  calibration of stochastic dynamical
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332--1352
               Zhi-Bin Zeng and   
                     Yan Li and   
                    Wenxing Zhu   Partner selection with a due date
                                  constraint in virtual enterprises  . . . 1353--1365
                 A. Shidfar and   
                   R. Pourgholi   Numerical approximation of solution of
                                  an inverse heat conduction problem based
                                  on Legendre polynomials  . . . . . . . . 1366--1374
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                   M. Izadikhah   An algorithmic method to extend TOPSIS
                                  for decision-making problems with
                                  interval data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375--1384
                    Kuo-Chi Liu   Numerical simulation for non-linear
                                  thermal wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385--1399
              R. K. Mohanty and   
                    Swarn Singh   A new fourth order discretization for
                                  singularly perturbed two dimensional
                                  non-linear elliptic boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1400--1414
                  S. Effati and   
                  H. Roohparvar   The minimization of the fuel costs in
                                  the train transportation . . . . . . . . 1415--1431
                  Yiqin Lin and   
                     Yanhua Cao   A new nonlinear Uzawa algorithm for
                                  generalized saddle point problems  . . . 1432--1454
              Zhenkun Huang and   
                Fengde Chen and   
                   Xinghua Wang   A Predator--Prey system with viral
                                  infection and anorexia response  . . . . 1455--1483
                  Wang Xingyuan   The generalized $M$ sets from a class
                                  complex mapping system . . . . . . . . . 1484--1494
            Bing-Quan Zhang and   
               Qing-Biao Wu and   
                   Xing-Guo Luo   Experimentation with two-step Adomian
                                  decomposition method to solve evolution
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1495--1502
          Gülten Torun and   
Ülkü (Dinlemez) Ate\cs   Properties of the far field operator in
                                  the inverse conductive scattering
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503--1514
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                   Yueqing Zhao   Third-order convergence theorem by using
                                  majorizing function for a modified
                                  Newton method in Banach space  . . . . . 1515--1524
           Ahmed A. El-Enna and   
             M. K. M. Ahmed and   
             F. A. Abd El-Salam   Analytical treatment of the relativistic
                                  and solar radiation pressure effects on
                                  an artificial satellite  . . . . . . . . 1525--1542
                  Juan Peng and   
                  Xi-Yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   A kind of inverse eigenvalue problems of
                                  Jacobi matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1543--1555
           M. K. Kadalbajoo and   
                   Ritesh Kumar   A high resolution total variation
                                  diminishing scheme for hyperbolic
                                  conservation law and related problems    1556--1573
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Solution of fifth order boundary value
                                  problems using nonpolynomial spline
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574--1581
              Carlos Lizama and   
                 Humberto Prado   Singular perturbations of
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 1582--1595
                    Zhen Wu and   
                    Liyan Zhang   The corporate optimal portfolio and
                                  consumption choice problem in the real
                                  project with borrowing rate higher than
                                  deposit rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1596--1608
                   M. A. Tawhid   On strictly semi-monotone
                                  (semi-monotone) properties in nonsmooth
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609--1618
                      M. Javidi   A numerical solution of the generalized
                                  Burger's--Huxley equation by
                                  pseudospectral method and Darvishi's
                                  preconditioning  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1619--1628
         Meral Çetin and   
              Aydìn Erar   A simulation study on classic and robust
                                  variable selection in linear regression  1629--1643
                    Jeehyun Lee   An optimization-based domain
                                  decomposition method for parabolic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1644--1656
           Onur Köksoy and   
                Tankut Yalcinoz   Mean square error criteria to
                                  multiresponse process optimization by a
                                  new genetic algorithm  . . . . . . . . . 1657--1674
              David W. Weyburne   A mathematical description of the fluid
                                  boundary layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1675--1684
                 M. M. Hosseini   Adomian decomposition method with
                                  Chebyshev polynomials  . . . . . . . . . 1685--1693
           Luca Bergamaschi and   
Ángeles Martínez and   
                   Giorgio Pini   Parallel preconditioned conjugate
                                  gradient optimization of the Rayleigh
                                  quotient for the solution of sparse
                                  eigenproblems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694--1715
               Onur Köksoy   Multiresponse robust design: Mean square
                                  error (MSE) criterion  . . . . . . . . . 1716--1729
                     Vu N. Phat   Global stabilization for linear
                                  continuous time-varying systems  . . . . 1730--1743
                     T. Wei and   
                          M. Li   High order numerical derivatives for
                                  one-dimensional scattered noisy data . . 1744--1759
              Xiaoshan Zhao and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                  Shuang Li and   
                   Jianwei Shen   Bifurcations of traveling wave solutions
                                  for a class of the generalized
                                  Benjamin--Bona--Mahony equation  . . . . 1760--1774


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 176, Number 1, May 1, 2006

                E. A. Rawashdeh   Numerical solution of fractional
                                  integro-differential equations by
                                  collocation method . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
              Zhen-yu Zhang and   
                Hui-sheng Zhang   Calculation of eigenvalue and
                                  eigenvector derivatives of a defective
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--26
               Mehdi Ghiyasvand   A new approach for computing a most
                                  positive cut using the minimum flow
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  Alternative methods for five- and
                                  nine-point cubes . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--43
              A. A. Tharwat and   
                       M. Saleh   A comprehensive numerical algorithm for
                                  solving service points location problems 44--57
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Minimizing the error function of
                                  Gauss--Jacobi quadrature rule with
                                  respect to parameters $\alpha$ and
                                  $\beta$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--64
    \cSeref Mirasyedio\uglu and   
               Tolga Güyer   A symbolic and algebraic computation
                                  based Lambda-Boolean reduction machine
                                  via PROLOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--75
                  Avanish Kumar   A modified method for solving the
                                  unbalanced assignment problems . . . . . 76--82
                Yasuhito Tanaka   A topological proof of Eliaz's unified
                                  theorem of social choice theory  . . . . 83--90
       Jorge H. B. Sampaio, Jr.   An iterative procedure for perpendicular
                                  offsets linear least squares fitting
                                  with extension to multiple linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98
                   A. Aoufi and   
                     G. Damamme   An implicit finite volume discretization
                                  for the multidimensional numerical
                                  simulation of TiC combustion synthesis   99--116
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Determination of nodes in numerical
                                  integration rules using difference
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--122
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   On modified Newton methods with cubic
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                     P. Hessari   On convergence of the generalized AOR
                                  method for linear systems with
                                  diagonally dominant coefficient matrices 128--133
               Zhong-Xi Gao and   
                 Ting-Zhu Huang   Convergence of AOR method  . . . . . . . 134--140
           Dinesh K. Sharma and   
              Debasis Ghosh and   
                Julius A. Alade   A fuzzy goal programming approach for
                                  regional rural development planning  . . 141--149
               Jae Heon Yun and   
                  Sang Wook Kim   Parallel relaxed multisplitting methods
                                  for a symmetric positive definite matrix 150--165
             Giorgio Corani and   
                   Marino Gatto   VC-dimension and structural risk
                                  minimization for the analysis of
                                  nonlinear ecological models  . . . . . . 166--176
           F. N. M. Al-Showaikh   Numerical solution of an autocatalytic
                                  bio-chemical system  . . . . . . . . . . 177--193
                   K. Amini and   
                 M. R. Peyghami   Complexity analysis of interior-point
                                  methods for linear optimization based on
                                  some conditions on kernel function . . . 194--207
              Wei-Guo Zhang and   
                 Wen-An Liu and   
                  Ying-Luo Wang   On admissible efficient portfolio
                                  selection: Models and algorithms . . . . 208--218
              Pei-Ping Shen and   
                 Chun-Feng Wang   Global optimization for sum of linear
                                  ratios problem with coefficients . . . . 219--229
  Mervat Mohamed Kamel ElShafei   Interactive stability of multiobjective
                                  integer nonlinear programming problems   230--236
                    Chao Gu and   
               Guorong Wang and   
                   Zhaoliang Xu   PCR algorithm for the parallel
                                  computation of the solution of a class
                                  of singular linear systems . . . . . . . 237--244
                  Feng Ding and   
               Peter X. Liu and   
                       Yang Shi   Convergence analysis of estimation
                                  algorithms for dual-rate stochastic
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--261
                   Kosei Fukuda   Differentiating between coefficient
                                  break and volatility break . . . . . . . 262--269
                E. N. Aksan and   
            A. Özde\cs and   
                 T. Özi\cs   A numerical solution of Burgers'
                                  equation based on least squares
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--279
                 Da-Zhi Sun and   
                Zhen-Fu Cao and   
                         Yu Sun   How to compute modular exponentiation
                                  with large operators based on the
                                  right-to-left binary algorithm . . . . . 280--292
               Jieyong Zhou and   
                      Yimin Wei   The analysis of restart DGMRES for
                                  solving singular linear systems  . . . . 293--301
               D. Constales and   
                     J. Ka\vcur   Computation and sensitivity analysis of
                                  the pricing of American call options . . 302--307
               M. Duran Toksari   Ant colony optimization for finding the
                                  global minimum . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--316
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
                  Chi-Chin Yang   Computational comparison for ML
                                  estimator of quadratic functions of the
                                  Bernoulli parameter in IS and FSS
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--323
                 Ülo Lepik   Haar wavelet method for nonlinear
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 324--333
                      M. Javidi   Pseudospectral method and Darvishi's
                                  preconditioning for solving system of
                                  time dependent partial differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--340
                  Hong Zang and   
              Tonghua Zhang and   
                      Maoan Han   Bifurcations of limit cycles in a cubic
                                  system with cubic perturbations  . . . . 341--358
                   M. Saleh and   
                    M. Aloqeili   On the difference equation $y_{n + 1} =
                                  A + y_n / y{n-k}$ with $A < 0$  . . . . . 359--363
              Jaswant Singh and   
                    S. K. Tomar   Reflection and transmission of
                                  transverse waves at a plane interface
                                  between two different porous elastic
                                  solid half-spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . 364--378
                  V. Kanwar and   
              Sukhjit Singh and   
                 R. K. Guha and   
                          Mamta   On method of osculating circle for
                                  solving nonlinear equations  . . . . . . 379--382
           Martin L. Bailon and   
              David J. Horntrop   On the calculation of convolutions with
                                  Gaussian Kernels . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--387
                     Rui Xu and   
          M. A. J. Chaplain and   
                 F. A. Davidson   Global convergence of a
                                  reaction--diffusion predator--prey model
                                  with stage structure for the predator    388--401

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                   Yu Zhang and   
               Xiaofan Yang and   
           Graham M. Megson and   
                 David J. Evans   On the system of rational difference
                                  equations $x_n = A + 1 / y_{n-p}$, $y_n
                                  = A + y_{n-1} / (x_{n-r} y_{n-s})$ . . . 403--408
                      V. Kanwar   A family of third-order multipoint
                                  methods for solving nonlinear equations  409--413
         Mustafa Gülsu and   
                   Mehmet Sezer   On the solution of the Riccati equation
                                  by the Taylor matrix method  . . . . . . 414--421
               Xiaofan Yang and   
             David J. Evans and   
               Graham M. Megson   On two rational difference equations . . 422--430
                    Fengde Chen   Periodic solutions and almost periodic
                                  solutions of a neutral multispecies
                                  Logarithmic population model . . . . . . 431--441
       Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh   Comments on ``A note on a three-term
                                  recurrence for a tridiagonal matrix''    442--444
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
                  N. Safaei and   
                   Y. Gholipour   A hybrid simulated annealing for
                                  capacitated vehicle routing problems
                                  with the independent route length  . . . 445--454
                F. D. Zaman and   
              Khalid Masood and   
                   Z. Muhiameed   Inverse scattering in multilayer inverse
                                  problem in the presence of damping . . . 455--461
     Fermín Dalmagro and   
        Juan Jiménez and   
 Raúl Jiménez and   
             Haydée Lugo   Bounded-rational-prisoners' dilemma: On
                                  critical phenomena of cooperation  . . . 462--469
                 M. M. Hosseini   A modified pseudospectral method for
                                  numerical solution of ordinary
                                  differential equations systems . . . . . 470--475
            Reza Farzipoor Saen   Technologies ranking in the presence of
                                  both cardinal and ordinal data . . . . . 476--487
     Maria Giuseppina Bruno and   
          Emanuela Camerini and   
               Angelo Manna and   
              Alvaro Tomassetti   A new method for evaluating the
                                  distribution of aggregate claims . . . . 488--505
                      H. Xu and   
                   C. Zhang and   
                      R. Barron   Numerical simulation of cavity flows
                                  based on transformed equations . . . . . 506--515
          Selmer Bringsjord and   
               Owen Kellett and   
           Andrew Shilliday and   
              Joshua Taylor and   
           Bram van Heuveln and   
               Yingrui Yang and   
             Jeffrey Baumes and   
                      Kyle Ross   A new Gödelian argument for
                                  hypercomputing minds based on the busy
                                  beaver problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--530
              Sahidul Islam and   
                Tapan Kumar Roy   A fuzzy EPQ model with flexibility and
                                  reliability consideration and demand
                                  dependent unit production cost under a
                                  space constraint: a fuzzy geometric
                                  programming approach . . . . . . . . . . 531--544
                   I. Ahmad and   
                      Z. Husain   Duality in nondifferentiable minimax
                                  fractional programming with generalized
                                  convexity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--551
                   Mi-Young Kim   Long-time stability of numerical
                                  solutions to Gurtin--MacCamy equations
                                  by method of characteristics . . . . . . 552--562
              Saffet Ayasun and   
               Yiqiao Liang and   
               Chika O. Nwankpa   A sensitivity approach for computation
                                  of the probability density function of
                                  critical clearing time and probability
                                  of stability in power system transient
                                  stability analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 563--576
                Youshan Tao and   
                       Qian Guo   Analysis and simulation of a model for
                                  intracellular drug accumulation in
                                  tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--593
              Yu-Ching Yang and   
                  Win-Jin Chang   Simultaneous inverse estimation for
                                  boundary heat and moisture fluxes of a
                                  double-layer annular cylinder with
                                  interface resistance . . . . . . . . . . 594--608
                Amir Azaron and   
                 Farhad Kianfar   A multi-objective lead time control
                                  problem in multistage assembly systems
                                  using an interactive method  . . . . . . 609--620
                   Changfeng Ma   A method for solving time-dependent
                                  Maxwell's equations  . . . . . . . . . . 621--631
                Xiaoping Li and   
                 Yuehua Liu and   
                    Tiejun Zhou   The existence of positive solution and
                                  bounded oscillation for even-order
                                  neutral differential equations with
                                  unstable type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--641
                S. Nakamori and   
 R. Caballero-Águila and   
          A. Hermoso-Carazo and   
J. Jiménez-López and   
        J. Linares-Pérez   Least-squares $\nu$th-order polynomial
                                  estimation of signals from observations
                                  affected by non-independent uncertainty  642--653
           Gerson Francisco and   
           André Fonseca   Homoclinic bifurcations in reversible
                                  Hamiltonian systems  . . . . . . . . . . 654--661
                S. Nakamori and   
 M. J. García-Ligero and   
          A. Hermoso-Carazo and   
        J. Linares-Pérez   Derivation of fixed-interval smoothing
                                  algorithm using covariance information
                                  in distributed parameter systems . . . . 662--672
           Yongshuang Zheng and   
                    Baoding Liu   Fuzzy vehicle routing model with
                                  credibility measure and its hybrid
                                  intelligent algorithm  . . . . . . . . . 673--683
    Mohamed Abdalla Darwish and   
                  A. A. El-Bary   Existence of fractional integral
                                  equation with hysteresis . . . . . . . . 684--687
                 Ju-liang Zhang   A robust trust region method for
                                  nonlinear optimization with inequality
                                  constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--699
                   Ishak Hashim   Comments on ``A new algorithm for
                                  solving classical Blasius equation'' by
                                  L. Wang  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--703
           Muhammed I. Syam and   
              Abdelrahem Hamdan   An efficient method for solving Bratu
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--713
             Xinguang Zhang and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                     Congxin Wu   Nontrivial solution of third-order
                                  nonlinear eigenvalue problems  . . . . . 714--721
        Mohamed Abdalla Darwish   Solvability of Urysohn and
                                  Urysohn--Volterra equations with
                                  hysteresis in weighted spaces  . . . . . 722--726
   Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh and   
              Faezeh Toutounian   Numerical accuracy of a certain class of
                                  iterative methods for solving linear
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--738
                   J. Miret and   
                  R. Moreno and   
                D. Sadornil and   
                    J. Tena and   
                       M. Valls   An algorithm to compute volcanoes of
                                  2-isogenies of elliptic curves over
                                  finite fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--750
           Hakan S. Kutoglu and   
                    Tevfik Ayan   The role of common point distribution in
                                  obtaining reliable parameters for
                                  coordinate transformation  . . . . . . . 751--758
              Xin-Yuan Liao and   
                Hui-Yan Zhu and   
                   Feng-de Chen   On asymptotic stability of
                                  delay-difference systems . . . . . . . . 759--767
                Marwan Aloqeili   Dynamics of a rational difference
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--774
           Muhammed I. Syam and   
                Basem S. Attili   Weighted residual method for obtaining
                                  positive solutions of two-point
                                  nonlinear boundary value problems  . . . 775--784
                 Y. Q. Song and   
                Y. C. Zhang and   
                   H. Y. Xu and   
                       B. H. Lu   Magneto-thermoviscoelastic wave
                                  propagation at the interface between two
                                  micropolar viscoelastic media  . . . . . 785--802


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Volume 177, Number 1, June 1, 2006

          Yannis G. Smirlis and   
           Elias K. Maragos and   
           Dimitris K. Despotis   Data envelopment analysis with missing
                                  values: an interval DEA approach . . . . 1--10
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
               Reza A. Nashtaei   The role of time in multi-component
                                  efficiency analysis: an application  . . 11--17
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
                Mahmoud Shafiei   Characterizing an equitable omission of
                                  shared resources: a DEA-based approach   18--23
                 Leo G. Rebholz   A multiscale $V$--$P$ discretization for
                                  flow problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--35
                Qinghong Li and   
             Yongzhong Song and   
                    Yushun Wang   On multi-symplectic partitioned
                                  Runge--Kutta methods for Hamiltonian
                                  wave equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
              L. P. Gimenes and   
                    M. Federson   Existence and impulsive stability for
                                  second order retarded differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--62
               Zhichun Yang and   
                       Daoyi Xu   Impulsive effects on stability of
                                  Cohen--Grossberg neural networks with
                                  variable delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--78
                    P. Zhou and   
                  L. W. Fan and   
                     H. W. Tang   On stability analysis of multiple
                                  objective dynamic input--output model    79--84
                  Yong Chen and   
                     Zhenya Yan   Weierstrass semi-rational expansion
                                  method and new doubly periodic solutions
                                  of the generalized Hirota--Satsuma
                                  coupled KdV system . . . . . . . . . . . 85--91
               I. Franji\'c and   
                 I. Peri\'c and   
                 J. Pe\vcari\'c   General Euler--Ostrowski formulae and
                                  applications to quadratures  . . . . . . 92--98
            Bing-Quan Zhang and   
               Xing-Guo Luo and   
                   Qing-Biao Wu   The restrictions and improvement of the
                                  Adomian decomposition method . . . . . . 99--104
               Fan-Liang Li and   
                  Xi-Yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   Left and right inverse eigenpairs
                                  problem of skew-centrosymmetric matrices 105--110
                    G. Koloskov   Closed natural splines: an effective
                                  solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
                Fengde Chen and   
              Xiangdong Xie and   
                  Xiaoxing Chen   Permanence and global attractivity of a
                                  delayed periodic logistic equation . . . 118--127
                  Sung-Dae Yang   Shooting methods for numerical solutions
                                  of exact controllability problems
                                  constrained by linear and semilinear
                                  wave equations with local distributed
                                  controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--148
            Reza Farzipoor Saen   A decision model for selecting slightly
                                  non-homogeneous technologies . . . . . . 149--158
                Cheng-jing Wang   Dogleg paths and trust region methods
                                  with back tracking technique for
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 159--169
              Baljeet Singh and   
                 Ajay Kumar and   
                  Jagdish Singh   Reflection of generalized thermoelastic
                                  waves from a solid half-space under
                                  hydrostatic initial stress . . . . . . . 170--177
                     Weifu Fang   Reconstruction of permittivity profile
                                  from boundary capacitance data . . . . . 178--188
                   M. Saleh and   
                    M. Aloqeili   On the rational difference equation
                                  $y_{n+1} = A + y_n / y_{n - k}$  . . . . 189--193
                    Chen Wu and   
                 Jiong Ruan and   
                        Wei Lin   On the existence and stability of the
                                  periodic solution in the
                                  Cohen--Grossberg neural network with
                                  time delay and high-order terms  . . . . 194--210
                 Cheng Wang and   
               Ziping Huang and   
                      Likang Li   Two-grid nonconforming finite element
                                  method for second order elliptic
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
                  J. Biazar and   
                   M. Tango and   
                       R. Islam   Ozone decomposition of the second order
                                  in aqueous solutions . . . . . . . . . . 220--225
               Jing-Bo Chen and   
               Han-Ying Guo and   
                          Ke Wu   Discrete total variation calculus and
                                  Lee's discrete mechanics . . . . . . . . 226--234
               Ganesh C. Gorain   Exponential energy decay estimates for
                                  the solutions of $n$-dimensional
                                  Kirchhoff type wave equation . . . . . . 235--242
              Zhenkun Huang and   
                Shuili Chen and   
                    Yonghui Xia   Incorporate intelligence into an
                                  ecological system: An adaptive fuzzy
                                  control approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--250
                 Huan-Jyh Shyur   COTS evaluation using modified TOPSIS
                                  and ANP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--259
                 Emin Kasap and   
              F. Talay Akyildiz   Surfaces with common geodesic in
                                  Minkowski 3-space  . . . . . . . . . . . 260--270
                Jichao Zhao and   
              Robert M. Corless   Compact finite difference method for
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 271--288
                   John P. Boyd   Fourier pseudospectral method with
                                  Kepler mapping for travelling waves with
                                  discontinuous slope: Application to
                                  corner waves of the Ostrovsky--Hunter
                                  equation and equatorial Kelvin waves in
                                  the four-mode approximation  . . . . . . 289--299
              Mahmut D. Mat and   
                    Kemal Aldas   Experimental and numerical investigation
                                  of effect of particle size on particle
                                  distribution in particulate metal matrix
                                  composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--307
                 Hazem A. Attia   Unsteady MHD Couette flow and heat
                                  transfer of dusty fluid with variable
                                  physical properties  . . . . . . . . . . 308--318
                   Qi Zhang and   
                     Yirong Liu   A cubic polynomial system with seven
                                  limit cycles at infinity . . . . . . . . 319--329
            Zheng-Hai Huang and   
                       Hui Wang   Smoothing-type algorithm for solving
                                  linear programs by using an augmented
                                  complementarity problem  . . . . . . . . 330--345
               Z. AbdulHadi and   
             Y. Abu Muhanna and   
                       S. Khuri   On some properties of solutions of the
                                  biharmonic equation  . . . . . . . . . . 346--351
                Younbae Jun and   
                   Tsun-Zee Mai   IPIC domain decomposition algorithm for
                                  parabolic problems . . . . . . . . . . . 352--364
                      K. Jbilou   Low rank approximate solutions to large
                                  Sylvester matrix equations . . . . . . . 365--376
                     Wei Lu and   
                 Hongtao Lu and   
                   Fu-Lai Chung   Feature based watermarking using
                                  watermark template match . . . . . . . . 377--386
              Peiguang Wang and   
                   Hairong Lian   Stability in terms of two measures of
                                  impulsive integro-differential equations
                                  via variation of the Lyapunov method . . 387--395
                  Yong Chen and   
                        Qi Wang   A unified rational expansion method to
                                  construct a series of explicit exact
                                  solutions to nonlinear evolution
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--409
                Fengde Chen and   
                  Xiangdong Xie   Permanence and extinction in nonlinear
                                  single and multiple species system with
                                  diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--426
             Xiang-Ping Yan and   
                    Wan-Tong Li   Hopf bifurcation and global periodic
                                  solutions in a delayed predator--prey
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--445
             Jian-Qiang Sun and   
                Zhong-Qi Ma and   
                    Wei Hua and   
                  Meng-Zhao Qin   New conservation schemes for the
                                  nonlinear Schrödinger equation  . . . . . 446--451

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Volume 177, Number 2, June 15, 2006

                   Pao-Tung Hsu   Estimating the boundary condition in a
                                  $3$D inverse hyperbolic heat conduction
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--464
              Y-Chuang Chen and   
              Lih-Hsing Hsu and   
                Jimmy J. M. Tan   A recursively construction scheme for
                                  super fault-tolerant Hamiltonian graphs  465--481
                   Qian Liu and   
                Yuqian Zhou and   
                 Jian Zhang and   
                  Weinian Zhang   Sharp condition of global existence for
                                  nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a
                                  harmonic potential . . . . . . . . . . . 482--487
              Shaher Momani and   
                    Zaid Odibat   Analytical solution of a time-fractional
                                  Navier--Stokes equation by Adomian
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 488--494
                Yuqian Zhou and   
                   Qian Liu and   
                 Jian Zhang and   
                  Weinian Zhang   Exact solution for (2 + 1)-dimension
                                  nonlinear dispersive long wave equation  495--499
                  Xiaoxia Huang   Fuzzy chance-constrained portfolio
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--507
           Hakan S. Kutoglu and   
                Tevfik Ayan and   
                Ç. Mekik   Integrating GPS with national networks
                                  by collocation method  . . . . . . . . . 508--514
       Mahmoud A. Abo-Sinna and   
      Tarek H. M. Abou-El-Enien   An interactive algorithm for large scale
                                  multiple objective programming problems
                                  with fuzzy parameters through TOPSIS
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--527
                M. Derouich and   
                    A. Boutayeb   Dengue fever: Mathematical modelling and
                                  computer simulation  . . . . . . . . . . 528--544
                Lazhar Bougoffa   Adomian method for a class of hyperbolic
                                  equations with an integral condition . . 545--552
            Lazhar Bougoffa and   
                Smail Bougouffa   Adomian method for solving some coupled
                                  systems of two equations . . . . . . . . 553--560
               N. T. Eldabe and   
             Mahmoud E. M. Ouaf   Chebyshev finite difference method for
                                  heat and mass transfer in a
                                  hydromagnetic flow of a micropolar fluid
                                  past a stretching surface with Ohmic
                                  heating and viscous dissipation  . . . . 561--571
Elçin Yusufo\uglu (Agadjanov)   Numerical solution of Duffing equation
                                  by the Laplace decomposition algorithm   572--580
                   Zuodong Yang   Existence of explosive positive
                                  solutions of quasilinear elliptic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--588
            Shengqiang Tang and   
                        Ming Li   Bifurcations of travelling wave
                                  solutions in a class of generalized KdV
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--596
          Roy J. Hartfield, Jr.   Interpretation of spectroscopic data
                                  from the iodine molecule using a genetic
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--605
                Honghui Yin and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Some new results on the existence of
                                  bounded positive entire solutions for
                                  quasilinear elliptic equations . . . . . 606--613
                      Sunil and   
                 Anu Sharma and   
                  R. G. Shandil   Effect of rotation on a ferromagnetic
                                  fluid heated and soluted from below in
                                  the presence dust particles  . . . . . . 614--628
  Jean-Sebastien Le Brizaut and   
                      Marc Pogu   An optimization method to determine an
                                  entropy parameter in gas dynamics  . . . 629--634
              Yew-Wen Liang and   
                Der-Cherng Liaw   Common stabilizers for linear control
                                  systems in the presence of actuators
                                  outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--643
                 Tze Fen Li and   
           Shui-Ching Chang and   
                  Chung-Bow Lee   A simple statistical speech recognition
                                  of Mandarin monosyllables  . . . . . . . 644--651
                Chaochun Qu and   
                      Ping Wang   Optimization in production quota problem
                                  with convex cost function  . . . . . . . 652--658
                F. M. Allan and   
                M. T. Kamel and   
             T. A. Mughrabi and   
                   M. H. Hamdan   Infiltration of oil into porous
                                  sediments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--664
              Brian J. McCartin   The exponential method of angled
                                  derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--685
      Mohamed A. El-Gebeily and   
              Faisal Fairag and   
              Rajai Alassar and   
               M. B. M. Elgindi   $H^2$ solutions for the stream function
                                  and vorticity formulation of the
                                  Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 686--696
                  M. Saleem and   
              A. H. Sadiyal and   
               Prasetyo Edi and   
                    P. R. Arora   Evolutionarily stable strategies for
                                  defensive switching  . . . . . . . . . . 697--713
              Ivanka M. Stamova   Lyapunov method for boundedness of
                                  solutions of nonlinear impulsive
                                  functional differential equations  . . . 714--719
                   Xinmin Xiang   The large time error estimation of
                                  Chebyshev pseudospectral approximation
                                  for a class of semilinear parabolic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--728
             S. A. El-Wakil and   
                M. A. Abdou and   
                   A. Elhanbaly   Adomian decomposition method for solving
                                  the diffusion--convection--reaction
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--736
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The modified decomposition method and
                                  Padé approximants for a boundary layer
                                  equation in unbounded domain . . . . . . 737--744
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The variable separated ODE and the tanh
                                  methods for solving the combined and the
                                  double combined sinh--cosh-Gordon
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--754
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Travelling wave solutions for combined
                                  and double combined sine--cosine-Gordon
                                  equations by the variable separated ODE
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--760
               Benedetta Lisena   Competitive exclusion in a periodic
                                  Lotka--Volterra system . . . . . . . . . 761--768
               P. K. Parida and   
                    D. K. Gupta   An improved regula-falsi method for
                                  enclosing simple zeros of nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--776
                 C. Y. Chan and   
                     W. Y. Chan   Complete blow-up of solutions for
                                  degenerate semilinear parabolic first
                                  initial-boundary value problems  . . . . 777--784
            M. S. Abou-Dina and   
                   F. M. Hassan   Generation and propagation of nonlinear
                                  tsunamis in shallow water by a moving
                                  topography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--806
              J. Karrakchou and   
                  M. Rachik and   
                     S. Gourari   Optimal control and infectiology:
                                  Application to an HIV/AIDS model . . . . 807--818
                Sergio Amat and   
                 Sonia Busquier   On a Steffensen's type method and its
                                  behavior for semismooth equations  . . . 819--823
                  A. Chakib and   
                    A. Nachaoui   Simulation of a free boundary problem
                                  using boundary element method and
                                  restarted re-analysis technique  . . . . 824--838
           Krzysztof Piejko and   
           Janusz Sokó\l   On the Dziok--Srivastava operator under
                                  multivalent analytic functions . . . . . 839--843
               Mehmet Sezer and   
             Mustafa Gülsu   Approximate solution of complex
                                  differential equations for a rectangular
                                  domain with Taylor collocation method    844--851
                  S. Karimi and   
                  F. Toutounian   The block least squares method for
                                  solving nonsymmetric linear systems with
                                  multiple right-hand sides  . . . . . . . 852--862


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 178, Number 1, July 1, 2006

    Francisco Antonio Doria and   
 José Félix Costa   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  hypercomputation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                   Martin Davis   Why there is no such discipline as
                                  hypercomputation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
                  Mike Stannett   The case for hypercomputation  . . . . . 8--24
                E. J. Beggs and   
                   J. V. Tucker   Embedding infinitely parallel
                                  computation in Newtonian kinematics  . . 25--43
                  Udi Boker and   
              Nachum Dershowitz   A hypercomputational alien . . . . . . . 44--57
                Olivier Bournez   How much can analog and hybrid systems
                                  be proved (super-)Turing . . . . . . . . 58--71
                S. Barry Cooper   Definability as hypercomputational
                                  effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--82
          N. C. A. da Costa and   
                    F. A. Doria   Some thoughts on hypercomputation  . . . 83--92
                  Antony Galton   The Church--Turing thesis: Still valid
                                  after all these years? . . . . . . . . . 93--102
                    Jerzy Mycka   Analog computation beyond the Turing
                                  limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--117
István Németi and   
             Gyula Dávid   Relativistic computers and the Turing
                                  barrier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--142
                       Toby Ord   The many forms of hypercomputation . . . 143--153
                Warren D. Smith   Church's thesis meets the $N$-body
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--183
                Warren D. Smith   Three counterexamples refuting Kieu's
                                  plan for ``quantum adiabatic
                                  hypercomputation''; and some
                                  uncomputable quantum mechanical tasks    184--193

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 178, Number 2, July 15, 2006

             Saralees Nadarajah   Fisher information for the elliptically
                                  symmetric Pearson distributions  . . . . 195--206
        A. E. M. El-Misiery and   
                       E. Ahmed   On a fractional model for earthquakes    207--211
             Ju-liang Zhang and   
                 Xiangsun Zhang   A smoothing Levenberg--Marquardt method
                                  for NCP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--228
            Basem S. Attili and   
              Khalid Furati and   
               Muhammed I. Syam   An efficient implicit Runge--Kutta
                                  method for second order systems  . . . . 229--238
              Jianfeng Wang and   
                     Gao Ge and   
                   Yubo Fan and   
                 Lilin Chen and   
               Shengxue Liu and   
                   Yali Jin and   
                      Jinguo Yu   The estimation of sample size in
                                  multi-stage sampling and its application
                                  in medical survey  . . . . . . . . . . . 239--249
      Reza Mazrooei-Sebdani and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Dynamics of a non-linear difference
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--261
                 Ram Naresh and   
             Agraj Tripathi and   
                    Sandip Omar   Modelling the spread of AIDS epidemic
                                  with vertical transmission . . . . . . . 262--272
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
          Reza Mazrooei-Sebdani   On the recursive sequence $x_{n + 1} =
                                  (\alpha + \beta x_{n-k+1}) / (A + B
                                  x_{n-k+1} + C x_{n-2k+1})$ . . . . . . . 273--286
                    H. H. Mehne   A numerical method for solving linear
                                  non-autonomous systems based on linear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294
                 Peng Jiang and   
                      Geng Yang   Performance analysis of preconditioners
                                  based on Broyden method  . . . . . . . . 295--308
              N. M. Bujurke and   
            Ramesh B. Kudenatti   An analysis of rough poroelastic
                                  bearings with reference to lubrication
                                  mechanism of synovial joints . . . . . . 309--320
                 Hong-Wu Wu and   
            Rong-Kun Zhuang and   
              Ronald M. Mathsen   Oscillation criteria for second-order
                                  nonlinear neutral variable delay dynamic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--331
                 Jiping Sun and   
                  Lingfei Cheng   Equivalent analysis method of
                                  electromagnetic waves propagation in
                                  arched tunnel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--337
                      M. Javidi   A numerical solution of the generalized
                                  Burger's--Huxley equation by spectral
                                  collocation method . . . . . . . . . . . 338--344
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
          Reza Mazrooei-Sebdani   Dynamics of a higher-order rational
                                  difference equation  . . . . . . . . . . 345--354
               Li-ning Xing and   
               Ying-wu Chen and   
                  Huai-ping Cai   An intelligent genetic algorithm
                                  designed for global optimization of
                                  multi-minima functions . . . . . . . . . 355--371
              Xiaofeng Ling and   
                     Xiaozhe Hu   On the iterative algorithm for large
                                  sparse saddle point problems . . . . . . 372--379
                Zhaoxia Liu and   
                     Boling Guo   New numerical algorithms for the
                                  nonlinear diffusion model of image
                                  denoising and segmentation . . . . . . . 380--389
             Chen-Chung Liu and   
                  Wen-Yuan Chen   Screw pitch precision measurement using
                                  simple linear regression and image
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--404
                 Ruihong Li and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                      Shuang Li   Chaos controlling of extended nonlinear
                                  Liénard system based on the Melnikov
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--414
                  Changbum Chun   A new iterative method for solving
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 415--422
                  J. Biazar and   
                L. Farrokhi and   
                    M. R. Islam   Modeling the pollution of a system of
                                  lakes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--430
                  Wang Zhen and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A symbolic computational method for
                                  constructing exact solutions to
                                  difference-differential equations  . . . 431--440
                Ya-ping Liu and   
                    Lü Tao   High accuracy combination algorithm and
                                  a posteriori error estimation for
                                  solving the first kind Abel integral
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--451
              F. Toutounian and   
                      S. Karimi   Global least squares method (Gl-LSQR)
                                  for solving general linear systems with
                                  several right-hand sides . . . . . . . . 452--460
              Wang Xingyuan and   
                         Liu Bo   Julia sets of the Schröder iteration
                                  functions of a class of one-parameter
                                  polynomials with high degree . . . . . . 461--473
                    Fengde Chen   Global stability of a single species
                                  model with feedback control and
                                  distributed time delay . . . . . . . . . 474--479
                    Nevin Pamuk   Series solution for porous medium
                                  equation with a source term by Adomian's
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 480--485
                    B. Nine and   
              O. Haif-Khaif and   
                     A. Zerarka   The eigenenergies of the wave function
                                  through the non-variational
                                  Galerkin--B-spline approach  . . . . . . 486--492
              Yen-Liang Yeh and   
              Ming-Jyi Jang and   
                 Cheng Chi Wang   Analyzing the free vibrations of a plate
                                  using finite difference and differential
                                  transformation method  . . . . . . . . . 493--501
            Amin Ghodousian and   
                Esmaile Khorram   An algorithm for optimizing the linear
                                  function with fuzzy relation equation
                                  constraints regarding max-prod
                                  composition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--509
                Qu Shaojian and   
                Yin Hongyou and   
                    Zhang Kecun   A global optimization algorithm using
                                  linear relaxation  . . . . . . . . . . . 510--518
                  Yuan Gong Sun   Oscillation of second order functional
                                  differential equations with damping  . . 519--526
                    Zaid Odibat   Approximations of fractional integrals
                                  and Caputo fractional derivatives  . . . 527--533


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 179, Number 1, August 1, 2006

             M. Anwar Kamal and   
            Muhammad Ashraf and   
                     K. S. Syed   Numerical solution of steady viscous
                                  flow of a micropolar fluid driven by
                                  injection between two porous disks . . . 1--10
                  Z. Y. Lee and   
                 C. C. Wang and   
                       C. Y. Hu   Hybrid numerical method applied to
                                  multilayered hollow cylinder with vapor
                                  flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--29
                 Liping Wen and   
                  Yuexin Yu and   
                      Shoufu Li   The test problem class of Volterra
                                  functional differential equations in
                                  Banach space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--38
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                   Yueqing Zhao   A Newton--Kantorovich convergence
                                  theorem for the inverse-free Jarratt
                                  method in Banach space . . . . . . . . . 39--46
               Xiaofan Yang and   
           Graham M. Megson and   
                Jianqiu Cao and   
                        Jun Luo   A lower bound on the size of
                                  $k$-neighborhood in generalized cubes    47--54
                    Fengde Chen   Permanence of a delayed non-autonomous
                                  Gilpin--Ayala competition model  . . . . 55--66
                    Zhongli Wei   A necessary and sufficient condition for
                                  the existence of positive solutions of
                                  singular super-linear $m$-point boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78
       Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh   On the finite difference approximation
                                  to the convection--diffusion equation    79--86
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   On some statistical integral equations   87--91
                 Zaid M. Odibat   Rectangular decomposition method for
                                  fractional diffusion-wave equations  . . 92--97
      Reza Mazrooei-Sebdani and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   The study of a class of rational
                                  difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 98--107
                   Jie Wang and   
               Weijun Zhong and   
                      Jun Zhang   High order compact computation and
                                  nonuniform grids for streamfunction
                                  vorticity equations  . . . . . . . . . . 108--120
                 Yuying Shi and   
                 Qianshun Chang   New time dependent model for image
                                  restoration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--134
                Ling-lai Li and   
                  Ling Wang and   
                    Li-heng Liu   An effective hybrid PSOSA strategy for
                                  optimization and its application to
                                  parameter estimation . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
                     Xinyuan Wu   The recursions of order conditions for
                                  some Runge--Kutta-like methods . . . . . 147--152
             Siraj-ul-Islam and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
           Ikram A. Tirmizi and   
             Muhammad Azam Khan   Quadratic non-polynomial spline approach
                                  to the solution of a system of
                                  second-order boundary-value problems . . 153--160
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
       Majid Jaberi Douraki and   
                Mohsen Razzaghi   Global stability of a higher order
                                  rational recursive sequence  . . . . . . 161--174
          M. Jaberi Douraki and   
                 M. Dehghan and   
                    M. Razzaghi   Oscillation and asymptotic behavior of a
                                  class of higher order nonlinear
                                  recursive sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 175--189
                    Qi Duan and   
              Yunfeng Zhang and   
                  E. H. Twizell   A bivariate rational interpolation and
                                  the properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--199
                    Lili Du and   
                  Zhaoyin Xiang   A further blow-up analysis for a
                                  localized porous medium equation . . . . 200--208
                      E. Celebi   Three-dimensional modelling of
                                  train-track and sub-soil analysis for
                                  surface vibrations due to moving loads   209--230
                 Mehmet Cem Ece   Free convection flow about a vertical
                                  spinning cone under a magnetic field . . 231--242
              Rui-Sheng Ran and   
                 Ting-Zhu Huang   The inverses of block tridiagonal
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--247
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
             Kailash C. Patidar   $\epsilon$-Uniformly convergent fitted
                                  mesh finite difference methods for
                                  general singular perturbation problems   248--266
        S. K. Roy Choudhuri and   
            Nupur Bandyopadhyay   Radially symmetric thermo-elastic wave
                                  propagation without energy dissipation
                                  in an infinitely extended thin plate
                                  with a circular hole . . . . . . . . . . 267--281
                 Ram Naresh and   
               Shyam Sundar and   
                   J. B. Shukla   Modeling the removal of primary and
                                  secondary pollutants from the atmosphere
                                  of a city by rain  . . . . . . . . . . . 282--295
                Kou Jisheng and   
                  Li Yitian and   
                    Wang Xiuhua   A uniparametric Chebyshev-type method
                                  free from second derivatives . . . . . . 296--300
             Sunita Gakkhar and   
                   Kuldeep Negi   A mathematical model for viral infection
                                  in toxin producing phytoplankton and
                                  zooplankton system . . . . . . . . . . . 301--313
               Luai Hamouda and   
            D. Marc Kilgour and   
                 Keith W. Hipel   Strength of preference in graph models
                                  for multiple-decision-maker conflicts    314--327
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
             Behnam Hashemi and   
                   Mehdi Ghatee   Computational methods for solving fully
                                  fuzzy linear systems . . . . . . . . . . 328--343
Fábio Henrique Pereira and   
Sérgio Luís Lopes Verardi and   
            Silvio Ikuyo Nabeta   A fast algebraic multigrid
                                  preconditioned conjugate gradient solver 344--351
              K. Maleknejad and   
               N. Aghazadeh and   
                R. Mollapourasl   Numerical solution of Fredholm integral
                                  equation of the first kind with
                                  collocation method and estimation of
                                  error bound  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--359
             K. Vela Velupillai   Algorithmic foundations of computable
                                  general equilibrium theory . . . . . . . 360--369
           Xiang-Tuan Xiong and   
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
                       Zhi Qian   Two numerical methods for solving a
                                  backward heat conduction problem . . . . 370--377
                 Tamer Eren and   
               Ertan Güner   A bicriteria scheduling with
                                  sequence-dependent setup times . . . . . 378--385
                Michael Nwogugu   Decision-making, risk and corporate
                                  governance: New dynamic
                                  models/algorithms and optimization for
                                  bankruptcy decisions . . . . . . . . . . 386--401
                     Emin Kasap   Erratum to: ``Ruled surfaces with
                                  timelike rulings'' [Appl. Math. Comput.
                                  \bf 147 (2004) 241--253] . . . . . . . . 402--405

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 179, Number 2, August 15, 2006

                Zengxin Wei and   
                  Guoyin Li and   
                       Liqun Qi   New nonlinear conjugate gradient
                                  formulas for large-scale unconstrained
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 407--430
              Bablu Samanta and   
           Sanat Kumar Majumder   Entropy based transportation problem use
                                  geometric programming method . . . . . . 431--439
                Michael Nwogugu   Regret minimization,
                                  willingness-to-accept-losses and framing 440--450
                Michael Nwogugu   A further critique of cumulative
                                  prospect theory and related approaches   451--465
                Necat Polat and   
               Do\ugan Kaya and   
               H. Ilhan Tutalar   A analytic and numerical solution to a
                                  modified Kawahara equation and a
                                  convergence analysis of the method . . . 466--472
                     Liquan Mei   Multigrid algorithms for solving
                                  multigroup neutron transport equations   473--483
              Din-Yuen Chan and   
              Cheng-Yuan Ku and   
                   Ming-Chai Li   A method to improve integer linear
                                  programming problem with
                                  branch-and-bound procedure . . . . . . . 484--493
                 Yuelin Gao and   
               Chengxian Xu and   
                  Yongjian Yang   An outcome-space finite algorithm for
                                  solving linear multiplicative
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--505
           S. Mehdi Hashemi and   
               Mehdi Ghatee and   
                 Behnam Hashemi   Fuzzy goal programming: Complementary
                                  slackness conditions and computational
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--522
                   M. Cenci and   
                   F. Filippini   Portfolio selection: a linear approach
                                  with dual expected utility . . . . . . . 523--534
            Raymond H. Chan and   
               Chi-Yan Wong and   
                 Kit-Ming Yeung   Pricing multi-asset American-style
                                  options by memory reduction Monte Carlo
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--544
                  Xin Zhang and   
                  Hong Peng and   
                       Guiwu Hu   A high order iteration formula for the
                                  simultaneous inclusion of polynomial
                                  zeros  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--552
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids: The
                                  cube and the octahedron  . . . . . . . . 553--558
                   Zhen-hua Bao   The expected discounted penalty at ruin
                                  in the risk process with random income   559--566
  Afet Golayoglu Fatullayev and   
                  Emine Can and   
                 Nizami Gasilov   Comparing numerical methods for inverse
                                  coefficient problem in parabolic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--571
               Jin-you Xiao and   
                 Li-hua Wen and   
                      Duo Zhang   Gauss quadrature rules for partial
                                  support and logarithmic singular
                                  integrals with compactly supported
                                  wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--580
             Paolo Gastaldo and   
             Sandro Ridella and   
                 Rodolfo Zunino   Prospects of quantum-classical
                                  optimization for digital design  . . . . 581--595
                  Zhenli Xu and   
                Jingsong He and   
                      Houde Han   Semi-implicit operator splitting Padé
                                  method for higher-order nonlinear
                                  Schrödinger equations . . . . . . . . . . 596--605
                K. C. Gupta and   
                   Vinay Kanwar   Multipoint iterative method with cubic
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--611
                   M. de la Sen   Parameter dependent Lyapunov functions
                                  for robust stability of time-varying
                                  linear systems under point delays  . . . 612--621
                    J. I. Ramos   Explicit finite difference methods for
                                  the EW and RLW equations . . . . . . . . 622--638
                   Changfeng Ma   A scheme for $3$D eddy current model
                                  based on ungauged electromagnetic
                                  potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--653
            Esmaile Khorram and   
            Amin Ghodousian and   
               Ali Abbasi Molai   Solving linear optimization problems
                                  with max-star composition equation
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654--661
               Pankaj Gupta and   
                  Sanjeet Singh   Approximate multiparametric sensitivity
                                  analysis of the constraint matrix in
                                  linear-plus-linear fractional
                                  programming problem  . . . . . . . . . . 662--671
           Saadet Özer and   
          Erdo\ugan S. \cSuhubi   Flow of a second grade fluid through a
                                  cylindrical permeable tube . . . . . . . 672--687
             Jian Jun Zhang and   
                Wen Bin Liu and   
              Tai Yong Chen and   
                 Hui Xing Zhang   Solvability of $p$-Laplace equations
                                  subject to three-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--695
                    Qian Yu and   
            Chongchao Huang and   
                   Xianjia Wang   A combined homotopy interior point
                                  method for the linear complementarity
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--701
               S. A. MirHassani   Improving paper spread in examination
                                  timetables using integer programming . . 702--706
                E. Babolian and   
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                 M. R. Eslahchi   Application of Gauss quadrature rule in
                                  finding bounds for solution of linear
                                  systems of equations . . . . . . . . . . 707--713
            Saleh H. Al-Sharaeh   Dynamic rate-based borrowing scheme for
                                  QoS provisioning in high speed
                                  multimedia wireless cellular networks    714--724
                 Nenad Ujevi\'c   A new iterative method for solving
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--730
           G. M. Amiraliyev and   
            Sebaheddin \cSevgin   Uniform difference method for singularly
                                  perturbed Volterra integro-differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--741
                 Lakhdar Chiter   DIRECT algorithm: a new definition of
                                  potentially optimal hyperrectangles  . . 742--749
                      Yong Duan   Meshless Galerkin method using radial
                                  basis functions based on domain
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--762
                 Zai-En Hou and   
               Ke-Cun Zhang and   
                   Yan-Jun Wang   The model and algorithm for the
                                  optimization of the granularity
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--771
                      X.-M. Liu   Hybrid numerical methods for exponential
                                  models of growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--778
                    Zong-Yi Lee   Method of bilaterally bounded to
                                  solution Blasius equation using particle
                                  swarm optimization . . . . . . . . . . . 779--786
              Hongyong Zhao and   
                       Lei Wang   Stability and bifurcation for
                                  discrete-time Cohen--Grossberg neural
                                  network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--798
                   Huan Sun and   
                      Yimin Wei   A note on the PageRank algorithm . . . . 799--806


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 180, Number 1, September 1, 2006

              Mehdi Dehghan and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                 M. R. Eslahchi   Weighted quadrature rules with weight
                                  function $x^{-p} e^{-1/x}$ on
                                  $[0,\infty)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
                  Zhen Shao and   
                      Xiaoyu Ji   Fuzzy multi-product constraint newsboy
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--15
               Lotfi Admane and   
           Karima Benatchba and   
             Mouloud Koudil and   
                 Lamri Siad and   
                     Said Maziz   AntPart: an algorithm for the
                                  unsupervised classification problem
                                  using ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--28
       I. H. Abdel-Halim Hassan   The asymptotic expansion and numerical
                                  verification method for linear and
                                  nonlinear initial value problem  . . . . 29--37
               Sebastian Sitarz   Hybrid methods in multi-criteria dynamic
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
              Chang-yu Wang and   
             Yuan-yuan Chen and   
                  Shou-qiang Du   Further insight into the Shamanskii
                                  modification of Newton method  . . . . . 46--52
                Yi-Chung Hu and   
                   Jung-Fa Tsai   Backpropagation multi-layer perceptron
                                  for incomplete pairwise comparison
                                  matrices in analytic hierarchy process   53--62
                 Rachung Yu and   
              Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng   A soft computing method for
                                  multi-criteria decision making with
                                  dependence and feedback  . . . . . . . . 63--75
               Xin-Sheng Ge and   
                    Li-Qun Chen   Optimal motion planning for nonholonomic
                                  systems using genetic algorithm with
                                  wavelet approximation  . . . . . . . . . 76--85
              A. Ihsan Hascelik   Gauss quadrature rules for a generalized
                                  Hermite weight function  . . . . . . . . 86--96
                  He-Sheng Wang   Numerical solutions of Hamiltonian DAE's
                                  and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110
                 M. Zandieh and   
      S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi and   
         S. M. Moattar Husseini   An immune algorithm approach to hybrid
                                  flow shops scheduling with
                                  sequence-dependent setup times . . . . . 111--127
              K. Maleknejad and   
                     M. Rabbani   Numerical solution for the Fredholm
                                  integral equation of the second kind
                                  with Toeplitz kernels by using
                                  preconditioners  . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--133
              Hong-Xing Yao and   
                        Feng Xu   Complex dynamics analysis for a duopoly
                                  advertising model with nonlinear cost    134--145
               Babak Abbasi and   
           Shahram Shadrokh and   
                    Jamal Arkat   Bi-objective resource-constrained
                                  project scheduling with robustness and
                                  makespan criteria  . . . . . . . . . . . 146--152
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   A note on equal coefficient quadrature
                                  rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
                     Xinyuan Wu   An effective predictor--corrector
                                  process for large scale linear system of
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--166
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                   Faizan Ahmad   Numerical comparison of iterative
                                  methods for solving nonlinear equations  167--172
                Manoj Kumar and   
                     Tariq Aziz   A uniform mesh finite difference method
                                  for a class of singular two-point
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 173--177
               Yen-Zen Wang and   
                   Tzong-Mou Wu   Some mathematical models for deciding
                                  the number of examination questions on
                                  computerized adaptive tests  . . . . . . 178--184
                 Ji-Bo Wang and   
            C. T. Daniel Ng and   
             T. C. E. Cheng and   
                      Li-Li Liu   Minimizing total completion time in a
                                  two-machine flow shop with deteriorating
                                  jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--193
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Numerical integration using the
                                  derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--199
   A. Emimal Kanaga Pushpam and   
         D. Paul Dhayabaran and   
         E. C. Henry Amirtharaj   Numerical solution of higher order
                                  systems of IVPs using generalized STWS
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--205
           N. Mahdavi-Amiri and   
                  S. H. Nasseri   Duality in fuzzy number linear
                                  programming by use of a certain linear
                                  ranking function . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--216
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
               Hsin-I Huang and   
                Chuen-Horng Lin   Parametric programming approach for
                                  batch arrival queues with vacation
                                  policies and fuzzy parameters  . . . . . 217--232
        Paulo F. A. Mancera and   
                        R. Hunt   Some experiments with high order compact
                                  methods using a computer algebra
                                  software---Part II (non-uniform grid)    233--241
                Jinhai Chen and   
                      Weiguo Li   On new exponential quadratically
                                  convergent iterative formulae  . . . . . 242--246
     Ayalew Getachew Mersha and   
                  Stephan Dempe   Linear bilevel programming with upper
                                  level constraints depending on the lower
                                  level solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
             Yunn-Kuang Chu and   
                   Jau-Chuan Ke   Confidence intervals of mean response
                                  time for an M / G / 1 queueing system:
                                  Bootstrap simulation . . . . . . . . . . 255--263
                Asai Asaithambi   A shooting method for nonlinear heat
                                  transfer using automatic differentiation 264--269
                   Feng Gao and   
                   Chun-Mei Chi   Solving third-order obstacle problems
                                  with quartic B-splines . . . . . . . . . 270--274
               Yisheng Song and   
                    Rudong Chen   Strong convergence theorems on an
                                  iterative method for a family of finite
                                  nonexpansive mappings  . . . . . . . . . 275--287
               Zhi-lian Yan and   
                   Xi-qiang Liu   Symmetry and similarity solutions of
                                  variable coefficients generalized
                                  Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation . . . . . . 288--294
               Sining Zheng and   
                         Han Su   A quasilinear reaction-diffusion system
                                  coupled via nonlocal sources . . . . . . 295--308
               Sining Zheng and   
                       Lan Qiao   Non-simultaneous blow-up in a
                                  reaction-diffusion system  . . . . . . . 309--317
                Liqun Jiang and   
                      Zhan Zhou   Existence of nontrivial solutions for
                                  discrete nonlinear two point boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--329
           Ana-Maria Croicu and   
            M. Yousuff Hussaini   On the expected optimal value and the
                                  optimal expected value . . . . . . . . . 330--341
            Ziyad AlSharawi and   
                  James Angelos   On the periodic logistic equation  . . . 342--352
                  Y. G. Sun and   
                    S. H. Saker   Positive periodic solutions of discrete
                                  three-level food-chain model of Holling
                                  type II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--365
                    Fengde Chen   On the periodic solutions of periodic
                                  multi-species Kolmogorov type
                                  competitive system with delays and
                                  feedback controls  . . . . . . . . . . . 366--373
                Haihong Liu and   
                        Ning Su   A note on a trivial assumption on kernel
                                  and model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
                Fengde Chen and   
                   Chunling Shi   Global attractivity in an almost
                                  periodic multi-species nonlinear
                                  ecological model . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--392
           Xiao-liang Cheng and   
             Abdul Wasim Shaikh   Iterative methods for the Poisson
                                  equation in L-shape domain based on
                                  domain decomposition method  . . . . . . 393--400
                 Xinyu Song and   
                    Yongfeng Li   Global stability and periodic solution
                                  of a model for HTLV-I infection and ATL
                                  progression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--410
              A. Ghodousian and   
                     E. Khorram   Solving a linear programming problem
                                  with the convex combination of the
                                  max--min and the max-average fuzzy
                                  relation equations . . . . . . . . . . . 411--418

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 180, Number 2, September 15, 2006

              Xinming Zhang and   
                  Ke'an Liu and   
                      Jiaqi Liu   The wavelet multiscale method for
                                  inversion of porosity in the
                                  fluid-saturated porous media . . . . . . 419--427
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                  Long Wang and   
                  Guangming Xie   Delay-dependent robust stability and
                                  stabilization for discrete-time switched
                                  systems with mode-dependent time-varying
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--435
                   Y. Ordokhani   Solution of nonlinear
                                  Volterra--Fredholm--Hammerstein integral
                                  equations via rationalized Haar
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--443
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
         Sohrab Kordrostami and   
               Maryam Sarparast   Modeling undesirable factors in data
                                  envelopment analysis . . . . . . . . . . 444--452
                   Zhi Qian and   
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
               Xiang-Tuan Xiong   A modified method for a non-standard
                                  inverse heat conduction problem  . . . . 453--468
                    S. Basu and   
                D. DasGupta and   
             S. Chakraborty and   
                      M. Walker   Towards a more efficient dynamic mesh
                                  adaptation methodology for continuum
                                  discretization in complex engineering
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--487
             Hossein Jafari and   
         Varsha Daftardar-Gejji   Solving linear and nonlinear fractional
                                  diffusion and wave equations by Adomian
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--497
                 Stefan Engblom   Computing the moments of high
                                  dimensional solutions of the master
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--515
               Shelly Arora and   
             S. S. Dhaliwal and   
                  V. K. Kukreja   Application of orthogonal collocation on
                                  finite elements for solving non-linear
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 516--523
                 Huaying Li and   
                      Yucui Guo   New exact solutions to the
                                  Fitzhugh--Nagumo equation  . . . . . . . 524--528
               Chenggen Shi and   
                     Jie Lu and   
            Guangquan Zhang and   
                      Hong Zhou   An extended branch and bound algorithm
                                  for linear bilevel programming . . . . . 529--537
              R. K. Mohanty and   
                  Urvashi Arora   A TAGE iterative method for the solution
                                  of non-linear singular two point
                                  boundary value problems using a sixth
                                  order discretization . . . . . . . . . . 538--548
                   Chi-Ming Lin   Multicriteria--multistage planning for
                                  the optimal path selection using hybrid
                                  genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 549--558
                 Mingnan Qi and   
                    Sanyang Liu   Selecting two different defective coins  559--568
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
                 M. Ghasemi and   
                    E. Babolian   Numerical solution of linear
                                  integro-differential equation by using
                                  sine--cosine wavelets  . . . . . . . . . 569--574
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                  Akbar Mohebbi   Multigrid solution of high order
                                  discretisation for three-dimensional
                                  biharmonic equation with Dirichlet
                                  boundary conditions of second kind . . . 575--593
               Wei Fengying and   
                        Wang Ke   Permanence of variable coefficients
                                  predator--prey system with stage
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--598
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                   S. Khademloo   Numerical results for positive solutions
                                  of a superlinear elliptic equation . . . 599--604
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
             M. R. Eslahchi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   The second kind Chebyshev--Newton--Cotes
                                  quadrature rule (open type) and its
                                  numerical improvement  . . . . . . . . . 605--613
                  Khaled Omrani   The convergence of fully discrete
                                  Galerkin approximations for the
                                  Benjamin--Bona--Mahony (BBM) equation    614--621
                    Hui Guo and   
                   Hongxing Rui   Crank--Nicolson least-squares Galerkin
                                  procedures for parabolic
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 622--634
                   A. Abdollahi   The polynomial numerical hull of a
                                  matrix and algorithms for computing the
                                  numerical range  . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--640
               Zhenyu Huang and   
                  Fanwei Bu and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   On the equivalence of the convergence
                                  criteria between modified Mann--Ishikawa
                                  and multi-step iterations with errors
                                  for successively strongly
                                  pseudo-contractive operators . . . . . . 641--647
                 A. Kirsche and   
               C. Böckmann   Padé iteration method for regularization  648--663
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   New exact solutions of the Broer--Kaup
                                  equations in (2 + 1)-dimensional spaces  664--675
               Xiaohong Shi and   
                   LuoLiang and   
                    Yan Wan and   
                         Jin Xu   A finding maximal clique algorithm for
                                  predicting loop of protein structure . . 676--682
           E. Çelebi and   
            S. Fìrat and   
            \.I. Çankaya   The effectiveness of wave barriers on
                                  the dynamic stiffness coefficients of
                                  foundations using boundary element
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--699
             Hossein Jafari and   
         Varsha Daftardar-Gejji   Positive solutions of nonlinear
                                  fractional boundary value problems using
                                  Adomian decomposition method . . . . . . 700--706
                A. D. Banik and   
                U. C. Gupta and   
                   S. S. Pathak   BMAP / G / 1 / N queue with vacations
                                  and limited service discipline . . . . . 707--721
                      Anonymous   Author index to volumes 171--180 . . . . 722--725
                      Anonymous   Author index to volumes 171--180 . . . . 726--763


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 181, Number 1, October 1, 2006

               Xiaofan Yang and   
              Xiaofeng Liao and   
                   Chuandong Li   On a difference equation with maximum    1--5
         F. A. Abd El-Salam and   
            I. A. El-Tohamy and   
                M. K. Ahmed and   
               W. A. Rahoma and   
                   M. A. Rassem   Invariant relative orbits for satellite
                                  constellations: a second order theory    6--20
           Alireza Amirteimoori   Data envelopment analysis in dynamic
                                  framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
                 Chi-Chang Wang   Use residual correction method to
                                  calculate the upper and lower solutions
                                  of initial value problem . . . . . . . . 29--39
                 Cui Xining and   
                 Lü Quanyi   A parallel algorithm for band linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
                    Qi Wang and   
                      Yong Chen   Generalized $Q$--$S$ (lag, anticipated
                                  and complete) synchronization in
                                  modified Chua's circuit and
                                  Hindmarsh--Rose systems  . . . . . . . . 48--56
                Subuhi Khan and   
             Babita Agrawal and   
                   M. A. Pathan   Some connections between generalized
                                  Voigt functions with the different
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
                    Wei Zhu and   
                   Daoyi Xu and   
                   Zhichun Yang   Global exponential stability of
                                  impulsive delay difference equation  . . 65--72
                   M. de la Sen   Robust stabilization of a class of
                                  polytopic linear time-varying continuous
                                  systems under point delays and
                                  saturating controls  . . . . . . . . . . 73--83
                   M. Saleh and   
                    S. Abu-Baha   Dynamics of a higher order rational
                                  difference equation  . . . . . . . . . . 84--102
Ay\csegül Akyüz-Da\cscìo\uglu   A Chebyshev polynomial approach for
                                  linear Fredholm--Volterra
                                  integro-differential equations in the
                                  most general form  . . . . . . . . . . . 103--112
              Xingyuan Wang and   
                       Chao Luo   Generalized Julia sets from a
                                  non-analytic complex mapping . . . . . . 113--122
                    J. I. Ramos   Piecewise-linearized methods for
                                  initial-value problems with oscillating
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--146
                        Qi Wang   An application of the modified Adomian
                                  decomposition method for $(N +
                                  1)$-dimensional sine-Gordon field  . . . 147--152
             Aytac Arikoglu and   
                  Ibrahim Ozkol   Solution of differential--difference
                                  equations by using differential
                                  transform method . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162
                Amir Azaron and   
       Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam   A multi-objective resource allocation
                                  problem in dynamic PERT networks . . . . 163--174
           Mehrzad Ghorbani and   
               Ali Reza Soheili   Corrected fundamental solution for
                                  numerical solution of elliptic PDEs  . . 175--184
                    M. M. Selim   Orthotropic elastic medium under the
                                  effect of initial and couple stresses    185--192
                Necat Polat and   
               Do\ugan Kaya and   
               H. Ilhan Tutalar   A analytic and numerical solution to a
                                  modified Kawahara equation and a
                                  convergence analysis of the method . . . 193--199
                     Ju H. Park   A new stability analysis of delayed
                                  cellular neural networks . . . . . . . . 200--205
                      D. Lesnic   The decomposition method for initial
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--213
           Muhammad El-Taha and   
                  Musa J. Jafar   Characterization of the departure
                                  process in a closed fork--join
                                  synchronization network  . . . . . . . . 214--219
                   R. Qesmi and   
              M. Ait Babram and   
                     M. L. Hbid   Center manifolds and normal forms for a
                                  class of retarded functional
                                  differential equations with parameter
                                  associated with Fold-Hopf singularity    220--246
                    Qi Wang and   
                  Yong Chen and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Generalized algebraic method and new
                                  exact traveling wave solutions for (2 +
                                  1)-dimensional dispersive long wave
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--255
              Orhan Dönmez   Solving $1$-D special relativistic
                                  hydrodynamics (SRH) equations using
                                  different numerical methods and results
                                  from different test problems . . . . . . 256--270
          Desheng (Dash) Wu and   
               Zijiang Yang and   
                    Liang Liang   Efficiency analysis of cross-region bank
                                  branches using fuzzy data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281
                 Fengli Ren and   
                      Jinde Cao   Novel $\alpha$-stability criterion of
                                  linear systems with multiple time delays 282--290
                     Avram Sidi   Numerical integration over smooth
                                  surfaces in $\mathcal{R}^3$ via class
                                  $\mathcal{S}_m$ variable
                                  transformations. Part II: Singular
                                  integrands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--309
          Abedallah Rababah and   
             Byung-Gook Lee and   
                    Jaechil Yoo   A simple matrix form for degree
                                  reduction of Bézier curves using
                                  Chebyshev--Bernstein basis
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--318
                Sheng Zhang and   
                   Tiecheng Xia   Symbolic computation and new families of
                                  exact non-travelling wave solutions to
                                  (3 + 1)-dimensional
                                  Kadomstev--Petviashvili equation . . . . 319--331
                  Yongfu Su and   
                      Suhong Li   Strong convergence theorems on two
                                  iterative method for non-expansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--341
               Linghua Kong and   
                  Ruxun Liu and   
                      Zhenli Xu   Numerical simulation of interaction
                                  between Schrödinger field and
                                  Klein--Gordon field by multisymplectic
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--350
              Charles Audet and   
                Jean Haddad and   
                  Gilles Savard   A note on the definition of a linear
                                  bilevel programming solution . . . . . . 351--355
             Siraj-ul-Islam and   
             Muhammad Azam Khan   A numerical method based on polynomial
                                  sextic spline functions for the solution
                                  of special fifth-order boundary-value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--361
               Yang Shouzhi and   
                  Wang Hongyong   High-order balanced multiwavelets with
                                  dilation factor $a$  . . . . . . . . . . 362--369
                Cheng-jing Wang   Some remarks on conjugate gradient
                                  methods without line search  . . . . . . 370--379
             Fariborz Jolai and   
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
                 M. Rabbani and   
               M. R. Sadoughian   An economic production lot size model
                                  with deteriorating items,
                                  stock-dependent demand, inflation, and
                                  partial backlogging  . . . . . . . . . . 380--389
                 C. C. Tsai and   
                D. L. Young and   
               J. H. Chiang and   
                       D. C. Lo   The method of fundamental solutions for
                                  solving options pricing models . . . . . 390--401
 Miquel Grau-Sánchez and   
José Luis Díaz-Barrero   On computational efficiency for
                                  multi-precision zero-finding methods . . 402--412
                  Yiqin Lin and   
                      Liang Bao   Block second-order Krylov subspace
                                  methods for large-scale quadratic
                                  eigenvalue problems  . . . . . . . . . . 413--422
               Zhen-Jun Shi and   
                       Jie Shen   Convergence of PRP method with new
                                  nonmonotone line search  . . . . . . . . 423--431
                Arshad Khan and   
                 Islam Khan and   
                     Tariq Aziz   Sextic spline solution of a singularly
                                  perturbed boundary-value problems  . . . 432--439
            Hassan Shavandi and   
                Hashem Mahlooji   A fuzzy queuing location model with a
                                  genetic algorithm for congested systems  440--456
             J. Dréo and   
                      P. Siarry   An ant colony algorithm aimed at dynamic
                                  continuous optimization  . . . . . . . . 457--467
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                 P. Hessari and   
                     J. Y. Yuan   On convergence of the generalized
                                  accelerated overrelaxation method  . . . 468--477
                Narisa Zhao and   
               Tang Huanwen and   
                     Luo Xiaona   Research on non-linear input--output
                                  model based on production function
                                  theory and a new method to update IO
                                  coefficients matrix  . . . . . . . . . . 478--486
                      Yiqin Lin   Minimal residual methods augmented with
                                  eigenvectors for solving Sylvester
                                  equations and generalized Sylvester
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--499
         P. S. Rama Chandra Rao   Special multistep methods based on
                                  numerical differentiation for solving
                                  the initial value problem  . . . . . . . 500--510
                   E. Kilic and   
             B. Altunkaynak and   
                       D. Tasci   On the computing of the generalized
                                  order-$k$ Pell numbers in log time . . . 511--515
                     R. Thukral   Introduction to the determinantal
                                  formulae for the Levin-type algorithms   516--526
                 LiYing Liu and   
                 XueSheng Zhang   Generalized pattern search methods for
                                  linearly equality constrained
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 527--535
                Maitree Podisuk   Open formula of Runge--Kutta method for
                                  solving autonomous ordinary differential
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--542
               Wen-Hui Zhou and   
                    Yong-Jun Li   A discrete-time queueing model of EMD
                                  policy in high-speed networks  . . . . . 543--551
                Michael Nwogugu   Employee-stock-options,
                                  production/service functions and game
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--562
                  S. Effati and   
                 M. M. Moghadam   Conversion of some classes of fractional
                                  programming to second-order cone
                                  programming and solving it by potential
                                  reduction interior point method  . . . . 563--578
             Emanuele Galligani   The Arithmetic Mean method for solving
                                  systems of nonlinear equations in finite
                                  differences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--597
             Hossein Jafari and   
         Varsha Daftardar-Gejji   Revised Adomian decomposition method for
                                  solving systems of ordinary and
                                  fractional differential equations  . . . 598--608
               K. Vajravelu and   
                   J. R. Cannon   Fluid flow over a nonlinearly stretching
                                  sheet  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--618
                      H. Xu and   
                  R. Barron and   
                       C. Zhang   A new numerical algorithm based on
                                  transformed equations and its
                                  applications to very low Re fluid flows  619--633
              Xiaoshan Zhao and   
              Hongxian Zhou and   
                Yaning Tang and   
                    Huabing Jia   Travelling wave solutions for modified
                                  Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation . . . . . . 634--648
            P. S. M. Santos and   
                  S. Scheimberg   A projection algorithm for general
                                  variational inequalities with perturbed
                                  constraint sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--661
               Linzhong Liu and   
                 Yinzhen Li and   
                    Lixing Yang   The maximum fuzzy weighted matching
                                  models and hybrid genetic algorithm  . . 662--674
           Xiang-Tuan Xiong and   
                      Chu-Li Fu   Central difference regularization method
                                  for the Cauchy problem of the Laplace's
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--684
                    Fengde Chen   Almost periodic solution of the
                                  non-autonomous two-species competitive
                                  model with stage structure . . . . . . . 685--693
          Pawe\l Karczmarek and   
               Dorota Pylak and   
             Michail A. Sheshko   Application of Jacobi polynomials to
                                  approximate solution of a singular
                                  integral equation with Cauchy kernel . . 694--707
              Ghazala Akram and   
              Shahid S. Siddiqi   Solution of sixth order boundary value
                                  problems using non-polynomial spline
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--720
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Predictor--corrector methods for
                                  multi-valued hemiequilibrium problems    721--731
                  Ning Ruan and   
                   Xiaoling Sun   An exact algorithm for cost minimization
                                  in series reliability systems with
                                  multiple component choices . . . . . . . 732--741
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
                Xiao-Qing Zhang   An improved iterative algorithm for
                                  generalized diagonally dominant matrices 742--746
                   Qi Zhang and   
                 Yirong Liu and   
                     Haibo Chen   Bifurcation at the equator for a class
                                  of quintic polynomial differential
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--755
               K. K. Sharma and   
                 Aditya Kaushik   A solution of the discrepancy occurs due
                                  to using the fitted mesh approach rather
                                  than to the fitted operator for solving
                                  singularly perturbed differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--766
             Zaid M. Odibat and   
                  Shaher Momani   Approximate solutions for boundary value
                                  problems of time-fractional wave
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--774
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
         Sohrab Kordrostami and   
            Aliakbar Rezaitabar   An improvement to the cost efficiency
                                  interval: a DEA-based approach . . . . . 775--781
   Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh and   
               Saeed Karimi and   
              Faezeh Toutounian   A parallel algorithm to approximate
                                  inverse factors of a matrix via
                                  sparse--sparse iterations  . . . . . . . 782--792
                   Yunxin Zhang   Solve partial differential equations by
                                  two or more radial basis functions . . . 793--801

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 181, Number 2, October 15, 2006

                Fengde Chen and   
               Xinyuan Liao and   
                  Zhenkun Huang   The dynamic behavior of $N$-species
                                  cooperation system with continuous time
                                  delays and feedback controls . . . . . . 803--815
              Wang Xingyuan and   
                    Shi Qijiang   The generalized Mandelbort--Julia sets
                                  from a class of complex exponential map  816--825
                     Hua Su and   
                Zhongli Wei and   
                        Fuyi Xu   The existence of positive solutions for
                                  nonlinear singular boundary value system
                                  with $p$-Laplacian . . . . . . . . . . . 826--836
                 J. M. Yago and   
   F. García Sevilla and   
        C. Garrido del Solo and   
             R. G. Duggleby and   
                R. Varón   A Windows program for the derivation of
                                  steady-state equations in enzyme systems 837--852
            J. Manojlovi\'c and   
                Y. Shoukaku and   
                T. Tanigawa and   
                     N. Yoshida   Oscillation criteria for second order
                                  differential equations with positive and
                                  negative coefficients  . . . . . . . . . 853--863
               Luther White and   
              Frances White and   
                   Yiqi Luo and   
                         Tao Xu   Estimation of parameters in carbon
                                  sequestration models from net ecosystem
                                  exchange data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864--879
                   Ishak Hashim   Comparing numerical methods for the
                                  solutions of two-dimensional diffusion
                                  with an integral condition . . . . . . . 880--885
                     Wei Lu and   
                 Hongtao Lu and   
                   Fu-Lai Chung   Robust digital image watermarking based
                                  on subsampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886--893
               Wen-Jing Yan and   
                     Yi-Chen Ma   The application of domain derivative for
                                  heat conduction with mixed condition in
                                  shape reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . 894--902
                A. Golbabai and   
                  S. Seifollahi   An iterative solution for the second
                                  kind integral equations using radial
                                  basis functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--907
                    Hui Pan and   
                  Ling Wang and   
                         Bo Liu   Particle swarm optimization for function
                                  optimization in noisy environment  . . . 908--919
              Chang-yu Wang and   
                   Shu-jun Lian   Global convergence properties of the two
                                  new dependent Fletcher--Reeves conjugate
                                  gradient methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 920--931
               Jianwen Feng and   
                    Shihua Chen   Four periodic solutions of a generalized
                                  delayed predator--prey system  . . . . . 932--939
                   Zhi Qian and   
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
           Xiang-Tuan Xiong and   
                       Ting Wei   Fourier truncation method for high order
                                  numerical derivatives  . . . . . . . . . 940--948
                     R. P. Kane   Some methods of spectral analysis:
                                  Comparison with MEM--MRA combination . . 949--957
                 Xiaomei Yu and   
                   Baochang Shi   A lattice Boltzmann model for reaction
                                  dynamical systems with time delay  . . . 958--965
              O. D. Makinde and   
                    P. Y. Mhone   Hermite--Padé approximation approach to
                                  MHD Jeffery--Hamel flows . . . . . . . . 966--972
                    Ke Wang and   
                     Bing Zheng   Inconsistent fuzzy linear systems  . . . 973--981
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   On a family of second-derivative-free
                                  variants of Chebyshev's method . . . . . 982--987
              Zhuo-hua Peng and   
                  Xi-yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   An efficient algorithm for the
                                  least-squares reflexive solution of the
                                  matrix equation A $_1$ XB $_1$ = C $_1$,
                                  A $_2$ XB $_2$ = C $_2$  . . . . . . . . 988--999
              K. Maleknejad and   
            R. Mollapourasl and   
                       K. Nouri   Convergence of numerical solution of the
                                  Fredholm integral equation of the first
                                  kind with degenerate kernel  . . . . . . 1000--1007
            Mohamed K. Omar and   
                    Siew C. Teo   Minimizing the sum of
                                  earliness/tardiness in identical
                                  parallel machines schedule with
                                  incompatible job families: an improved
                                  MIP approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008--1017
             M. T. Darvishi and   
               R. Khosro-Aghdam   Determination of the optimal value of
                                  relaxation parameter in symmetric SOR
                                  method for rectangular coefficient
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018--1025
        Weerayuth Nilsrakoo and   
                  Satit Saejung   A new three-step fixed point iteration
                                  scheme for asymptotically nonexpansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026--1034
             Zhongsheng Hua and   
                      Bin Zhang   A hybrid support vector machines and
                                  logistic regression approach for
                                  forecasting intermittent demand of spare
                                  parts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1048
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
               A. R. Saremi and   
                    M. S. Ziaee   A memetic algorithm for a vehicle
                                  routing problem with backhauls . . . . . 1049--1060
               Fusheng Wang and   
                Kecun Zhang and   
                   Xiaolong Tan   A fractional programming algorithm based
                                  on conic quasi-Newton trust region
                                  method for unconstrained minimization    1061--1067
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
               Faizan Ahmad and   
                Shumaila Javeed   Two-step iterative methods for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068--1075
                    Yu Yang and   
              Wencheng Chen and   
                   Cuimei Zhang   Existence of periodic solutions of a
                                  delayed predator--prey system with
                                  general functional response  . . . . . . 1076--1083
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                       M. Otadi   Numerical solution of fuzzy polynomials
                                  by fuzzy neural network  . . . . . . . . 1084--1089
                Zhiming Gao and   
                      Yichen Ma   Shape sensitivity analysis for a Robin
                                  problem via minimax differentiability    1090--1105
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   A modification of Newton method with
                                  third-order convergence  . . . . . . . . 1106--1111
      D. Rostamy Varnos Fadrani   A new aspect for choosing collocation
                                  points for solving biharmonic equations  1112--1119
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order skew-symmetric tridiagonal
                                  matrices with eigenvalues on imaginary
                                  axis. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1120--1125
           Rudolf Scitovski and   
             Gordana Kralik and   
              Kristian Sabo and   
                  Tatjana Jelen   A mathematical model of controlling the
                                  growth of tissue in pigs . . . . . . . . 1126--1138
               Yuh-Wen Chen and   
                  Hung-En Hsieh   Fuzzy multi-stage De-Novo programming
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1147
                 Tony Huang and   
      Ananda Sanagavarapu Mohan   Micro-particle swarm optimizer for
                                  solving high dimensional optimization
                                  problems ($\mu$PSO for high dimensional
                                  optimization problems) . . . . . . . . . 1148--1154
          Alberto d'Onofrio and   
               Alberto Gandolfi   The response to antiangiogenic
                                  anticancer drugs that inhibit
                                  endothelial cell proliferation . . . . . 1155--1162
                         Min Li   The charges on the paths . . . . . . . . 1163--1169
                 J. J. Zhao and   
                      Y. Xu and   
                 H. X. Wang and   
                      M. Z. Liu   Stability of a class of Runge--Kutta
                                  methods for a family of pantograph
                                  equations of neutral type  . . . . . . . 1170--1181
                 Xiaozhe Hu and   
                  Xiaofeng Ling   Preconditioners for elliptic problems
                                  via non-uniform meshes . . . . . . . . . 1182--1198
       M. Soleimani-damaneh and   
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
                  S. Abbasbandy   Computational and theoretical pitfalls
                                  in some current performance measurement
                                  techniques; and a new approach . . . . . 1199--1207
                   A. Kaabi and   
              F. Toutounian and   
                 A. Kerayechian   Preconditioned Galerkin and minimal
                                  residual methods for solving Sylvester
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1208--1214
                 M. Heyouni and   
                      K. Jbilou   Matrix Krylov subspace methods for large
                                  scale model reduction problems . . . . . 1215--1228
                Fuzheng Gao and   
                    Yirang Yuan   The upwind finite volume element method
                                  based on straight triangular prism
                                  partition for nonlinear
                                  convection-diffusion problem . . . . . . 1229--1242
               Guoliang Shi and   
                   Xianrui Meng   Monotone iterative for fourth-order
                                  $p$-Laplacian boundary value problems
                                  with impulsive effects . . . . . . . . . 1243--1248
                      M. Salman   Generalized elliptic-type integrals and
                                  their representations  . . . . . . . . . 1249--1256
             Ying-Ming Wang and   
                 Kwai-Sang Chin   An eigenvector method for generating
                                  normalized interval and fuzzy weights    1257--1275
                 Bing Zheng and   
                        Ke Wang   General fuzzy linear systems . . . . . . 1276--1286
                   S. A. Belbas   On series solutions of Volterra
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287--1304
         Hamed R. Tareghian and   
           Seyyed Hassan Taheri   On the discrete time, cost and quality
                                  trade-off problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1312
               Eugene Demidenko   Separable Laplace equation, magic
                                  Toeplitz matrix, and generalized Ohm's
                                  law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1327
                Marwan Aloqeili   Dynamics of a k th order rational
                                  difference equation  . . . . . . . . . . 1328--1335
                  Ram Avtar and   
              Rashmi Srivastava   Modelling the flow of aqueous humor in
                                  anterior chamber of the eye  . . . . . . 1336--1348
                     Emin Kahya   Modified Secant-type methods for
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 1349--1356
                 Qiong Tang and   
            Chuan-miao Chen and   
                    Luo-hua Liu   Energy conservation and symplectic
                                  properties of continuous finite element
                                  methods for Hamiltonian systems  . . . . 1357--1368
                   Hong Liu and   
                 Yongzhong Song   On a regularization of index 3
                                  differential-algebraic equations . . . . 1369--1378
          Rohallah Tavakoli and   
                  Parviz Davami   New stable group explicit finite
                                  difference method for solution of
                                  diffusion equation . . . . . . . . . . . 1379--1386
                  I. Ozturk and   
                 F. Bozkurt and   
                        S. Ozen   On the difference equation $y_{n + 1} =
                                  (\alpha + \beta \exp(y_n)) / (\gamma +
                                  y_{n - 1})$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1393
               Jae Ug Jeong and   
                   Soo Hwan Kim   Weak and strong convergence of the
                                  Ishikawa iteration process with errors
                                  for two asymptotically nonexpansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1394--1401
                   Chi-Ming Lin   Multiobjective fuzzy competence set
                                  expansion problem by multistage
                                  decision-based hybrid genetic algorithms 1402--1416
             Sohrab Ali Yousefi   Legendre wavelets method for solving
                                  differential equations of Lane--Emden
                                  type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1422
              Urvashi Arora and   
                Samir Karaa and   
                  R. K. Mohanty   A new stable variable mesh method for
                                  $1$-D non-linear parabolic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1423--1430
                 Haibo Chen and   
                    Haihua Wang   Global attractivity of the difference
                                  equation $x_{n + 1} = (x_n + \alpha x_{n
                                  - 1}) / (\beta + x_n)$ . . . . . . . . . 1431--1438
                  I. Hashim and   
           M. S. M. Noorani and   
                      B. Batiha   A note on the Adomian decomposition
                                  method for the generalized Huxley
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1439--1445
              Xiaoxing Chen and   
                    Chen Fengde   Stable periodic solution of a discrete
                                  periodic Lotka--Volterra competition
                                  system with a feedback control . . . . . 1446--1454
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                    H. Ghazvini   A modification on minimum restarting
                                  method in the Arnoldi algorithm for
                                  computing the eigenvalues of a
                                  nonsymmetric matrix  . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1461
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
              Sheau-Chiann Chen   Computational comparison for weighted
                                  moments estimators and BLUE of the scale
                                  parameter of a Pareto distribution with
                                  known shape parameter under type II
                                  multiply censored sample . . . . . . . . 1462--1470
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
             A. R. Rahimi-Vahed   Multi-criteria sequencing problem for a
                                  mixed-model assembly line in a JIT
                                  production system  . . . . . . . . . . . 1471--1481
               S. A. Ashour and   
                    H. M. Ahmed   Derivation of the errors involved in
                                  Hermite interpolation and their
                                  applications to quadrature formulae  . . 1482--1489
                Yasuhito Tanaka   On the topological equivalence of the
                                  Arrow impossibility theorem and Amartya
                                  Sen's liberal paradox  . . . . . . . . . 1490--1498
                  Liang Bao and   
                  Yiqin Lin and   
                      Yimin Wei   A modified simple iterative method for
                                  nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equations
                                  arising in transport theory  . . . . . . 1499--1504
                  S. Effati and   
                 M. Janfada and   
                M. Esmaeili and   
                  H. Roohparvar   Solving of optimal control problem of
                                  parabolic PDEs in exploitation of oil by
                                  iterative dynamic programming  . . . . . 1505--1512
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                   S. Khademloo   A numerical method for finding positive
                                  solutions of a superlinear Dirichlet
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1513--1518
                    Jinhai Chen   Some new iterative methods with
                                  three-order convergence  . . . . . . . . 1519--1522
                  Zhizhang Shen   A bypassing path based routing algorithm
                                  for the pyramid structures . . . . . . . 1523--1543
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                   M. Izadikhah   Extension of the TOPSIS method for
                                  decision-making problems with fuzzy data 1544--1551
             Cevriye Gencer and   
               \.Ismail Top and   
         Emel Kizilkaya Aydogan   A new intuitional algorithm for solving
                                  heterogeneous fixed fleet routing
                                  problems: Passenger pickup algorithm . . 1552--1567
                      Sonia and   
                     M. C. Puri   On critical capacity of arcs in a
                                  directed network . . . . . . . . . . . . 1568--1576
             Zhiguang Xiong and   
                 Chuanmiao Chen   Superconvergence of rectangular finite
                                  element with interpolated coefficients
                                  for semilinear elliptic problem  . . . . 1577--1584
                 Xinyuan Wu and   
                    Jianlin Xia   Some substantial modifications and
                                  improvements for derivative-free
                                  iterative methods and derivative-free
                                  transformation for multiple zeros  . . . 1585--1599
            Reza Farzipoor Saen   A decision model for technology
                                  selection in the existence of both
                                  cardinal and ordinal data  . . . . . . . 1600--1608
            Reza Farzipoor Saen   A decision model for selecting
                                  technology suppliers in the presence of
                                  nondiscretionary factors . . . . . . . . 1609--1615
            Reza Farzipoor Saen   An algorithm for ranking technology
                                  suppliers in the presence of
                                  nondiscretionary factors . . . . . . . . 1616--1623
              Carlos Lizama and   
                 Humberto Prado   Singular perturbation for Volterra
                                  equations of convolution type  . . . . . 1624--1634
               Mohamed El-Gamel   A Wavelet-Galerkin method for a
                                  singularly perturbed
                                  convection-dominated diffusion equation  1635--1644
                   Rachid Oujja   A new method for cavitations
                                  approximation in some general
                                  lubrication devices  . . . . . . . . . . 1645--1656
              Chin-Chuan Wu and   
                 Shu-Fei Wu and   
                  Huang-Yu Chan   MLE and the estimated expected test time
                                  for the two-parameter Gompertz
                                  distribution under progressive censoring
                                  with binomial removals . . . . . . . . . 1657--1670
              Lorie M. Liebrock   Problem solving with well posedness
                                  analysis: Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671--1682
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Solitary wave solutions and periodic
                                  solutions for higher-order nonlinear
                                  evolution equations  . . . . . . . . . . 1683--1692
                  N. Safaei and   
              S. J. Sadjadi and   
                   M. Babakhani   An efficient genetic algorithm for
                                  determining the optimal price
                                  discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1693--1702
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   A comparison study between the modified
                                  decomposition method and the traditional
                                  methods for solving nonlinear integral
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1712
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Travelling wave solutions for the
                                  MKdV-sine-Gordon and the
                                  MKdV-sinh-Gordon equations by using a
                                  variable separated ODE method  . . . . . 1713--1719
           Roy J. Hartfield and   
         Rhonald M. Jenkins and   
             John E. Burkhalter   Optimizing a solid rocket motor boosted
                                  ramjet powered missile using a genetic
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1720--1736
                 M. M. Hosseini   Adomian decomposition method for
                                  solution of nonlinear differential
                                  algebraic equations  . . . . . . . . . . 1737--1744
                Yongli Song and   
                    Yahong Peng   Stability and bifurcation analysis on a
                                  Logistic model with discrete and
                                  distributed delays . . . . . . . . . . . 1745--1757


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 182, Number 1, November 1, 2006

               A. Pantokratoras   Comment on ``Laminar boundary layer flow
                                  over a horizontal permeable flat plate'' 1--2
                    Fengde Chen   Permanence and global attractivity of a
                                  discrete multispecies Lotka--Volterra
                                  competition predator--prey systems . . . 3--12
            J. V. Goncalves and   
                Angelo Roncalli   Boundary blow-up solutions for a class
                                  of elliptic equations on a bounded
                                  domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--23
                    Jian Li and   
                 Liquan Mei and   
                     Yinnian He   A pressure-Poisson stabilized finite
                                  element method for the non-stationary
                                  Stokes equations to circumvent the
                                  inf--sup condition . . . . . . . . . . . 24--35
             Yongkuan Cheng and   
                     Jifa Jiang   The Field--Noyes model with periodic
                                  orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--40
                Hongmin Ren and   
                Shijun Yang and   
                    Qingbiao Wu   A new semilocal convergence theorem for
                                  the Secant method under Hölder continuous
                                  divided differences  . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
                   Zhu Wang and   
                        Bing Hu   Research of combined hybrid method
                                  applied in the Reissner--Mindlin plate
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--66
                    Yuehui Peng   Global asymptotic stability for
                                  nonlinear difference equations . . . . . 67--72
                Nurcan Kurt and   
                   Mehmet Sezer   Solution of Dirichlet problem for a
                                  triangle region in terms of elliptic
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81
                      Sunil and   
             Anupama Sharma and   
                  Pardeep Kumar   Effect of magnetic field dependent
                                  viscosity and rotation on
                                  ferroconvection in the presence of dust
                                  particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--88
            Ching-Ter Chang and   
             Chen-Lung Chin and   
                   Mei-Feng Lin   On the single item multi-supplier system
                                  with variable lead-time, price-quantity
                                  discount, and resource constraints . . . 89--97
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                S. Kheybari and   
                       F. Khani   A numerical solution of the Korteweg--de
                                  Vries equation by pseudospectral method
                                  using Darvishi's preconditionings  . . . 98--105
                Qingzhen Xu and   
                    Xiaonan Luo   Dynamic thermal comfort numerical
                                  simulation model on $3$D garment CAD . . 106--118
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
         Kailash C. Patidar and   
                Kapil K. Sharma   $\epsilon$-Uniformly convergent fitted
                                  methods for the numerical solution of
                                  the problems arising from singularly
                                  perturbed general DDEs . . . . . . . . . 119--139
           E. F. Elshehawey and   
               N. T. Eldabe and   
              E. M. Elghazy and   
                       A. Ebaid   Peristaltic transport in an asymmetric
                                  channel through a porous medium  . . . . 140--150
                 Ram Naresh and   
               Shyam Sundar and   
                   J. B. Shukla   Modeling the effect of an intermediate
                                  toxic product formed by uptake of a
                                  toxicant on plant biomass  . . . . . . . 151--160
               Wei Fengying and   
                        Wang Ke   Global stability and asymptotically
                                  periodic solution for nonautonomous
                                  cooperative Lotka--Volterra diffusion
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--165
               John P. Boyd and   
               Robert M. Visser   Rootfinding through global Newton
                                  iteration and Chebyshev polynomials for
                                  the amplitude of an electronic
                                  oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--174
              Chih-Chia Yao and   
                      Pao-Ta Yu   Fuzzy regression based on asymmetric
                                  support vector machines  . . . . . . . . 175--193
               Kamal Aghigh and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   A symmetric sequence of orthogonal
                                  polynomials associated with the
                                  Stieltjes--Wigert polynomials  . . . . . 194--199
       P. L. Novi Inverardi and   
                    A. Tagliani   Discrete distributions from moment
                                  generating function  . . . . . . . . . . 200--209
        Christopher J. Bose and   
                     Rua Murray   Dynamical conditions for convergence of
                                  a maximum entropy method for
                                  Frobenius--Perron operator equations . . 210--212
               Esra Erku\cs and   
                Oktay Duman and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Statistical approximation of certain
                                  positive linear operators constructed by
                                  means of the Chan--Chyan--Srivastava
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--222
           H. M. Srivastava and   
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Some generalizations of the Laplace
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--231
              Nilanjan Saha and   
            Layne T. Watson and   
              Karen Kafadar and   
            Alexey Onufriev and   
         Naren Ramakrishnan and   
    Cecilia Vasquez-Robinet and   
             Jonathan Watkinson   A general probabilistic model of the PCR
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--243
               Igor Boglaev and   
                    Sophie Pack   A uniformly convergent method for a
                                  singularly perturbed semilinear
                                  reaction--diffusion problem with
                                  discontinuous data . . . . . . . . . . . 244--257
                  Jianli Li and   
                   Jianhua Shen   Multiple positive solutions for a
                                  second-order three-point boundary value
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--268
               Jeong Ho Chu and   
                Hi Jun Choe and   
                    Man-Hoe Kim   Spectral method for linear elasticity    269--282
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Abundant solitons solutions for several
                                  forms of the fifth-order KdV equation by
                                  using the tanh method  . . . . . . . . . 283--300
               A. Elhanbaly and   
                    M. A. Abdou   New application of Adomian decomposition
                                  method on Fokker--Planck equation  . . . 301--312
             S. A. El-Wakil and   
               A. Elhanbaly and   
                    M. A. Abdou   Adomian decomposition method for solving
                                  fractional nonlinear differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--324
               R. K. Saxena and   
                    S. L. Kalla   On a unified mixture distribution  . . . 325--332
          Ö. Köse and   
    C. C. Sarìo\uglu and   
                 B. Karabey and   
\.I. Karakìlìç   Kinematic differential geometry of a
                                  rigid body in spatial motion using dual
                                  vector calculus: Part II . . . . . . . . 333--358
                   T. Hayat and   
                     N. Ali and   
                  S. Asghar and   
                 A. M. Siddiqui   Exact peristaltic flow in tubes with an
                                  endoscope  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--368
                    Prasada Rao   Numerical modeling of open channel flows
                                  with moving fronts using a variable
                                  boundary formulation . . . . . . . . . . 369--382
                Lazhar Bougoffa   Solvability of the predator and prey
                                  system with variable coefficients and
                                  comparison of the results with modified
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--387
             Hideaki Kaneko and   
                 Kim S. Bey and   
                 Gene J. W. Hou   Discontinuous Galerkin finite element
                                  method for parabolic problems  . . . . . 388--402
                  S.-H. Lee and   
                       N.-Y. Su   Estimating the size of a closed
                                  population from a single mark--recapture
                                  regime by using a diffusion probability
                                  of marked individuals  . . . . . . . . . 403--411
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Peakons, kinks, compactons and solitary
                                  patterns solutions for a family of
                                  Camassa--Holm equations by using new
                                  hyperbolic schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 412--424
           Shui-Ching Chang and   
                     Tze Fen Li   Empirical Bayes decision rule for
                                  classification on defective items in
                                  Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 425--433
                    Amir Azaron   Bicriteria shortest path in networks of
                                  queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--442
            Jens Köplinger   Dirac equation on hyperbolic octonions   443--446
            Matthias Dehmer and   
        Frank Emmert-Streib and   
             Jürgen Kilian   A similarity measure for graphs with low
                                  computational complexity . . . . . . . . 447--459
       M. Mokarram Shahraki and   
           S. Mohammad Hosseini   Comparison of a higher order method and
                                  the simple upwind and non-monotone
                                  methods for singularly perturbed
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 460--473
                    Peng Wu and   
                      Danfu Han   A family of iterative methods with
                                  higher-order convergence . . . . . . . . 474--477
               Hong-Rui Sun and   
                    Wan-Tong Li   Multiple positive solutions for
                                  $p$-Laplacian $m$-point boundary value
                                  problems on time scales  . . . . . . . . 478--491
             Young Hee Geum and   
               Young Ik Kim and   
                  Min Surp Rhee   High-order convergence of the $k$-fold
                                  pseudo-Newton's irrational method
                                  locating a simple real zero  . . . . . . 492--497
               Mehmet Sezer and   
         Mustafa Gülsu and   
                    Bekir Tanay   A Taylor collocation method for the
                                  numerical solution of complex
                                  differential equations with mixed
                                  conditions in elliptic domains . . . . . 498--508
              Minghui Jiang and   
                    Yi Shen and   
                   Xiaoxin Liao   Global stability of periodic solution
                                  for bidirectional associative memory
                                  neural networks with varying-time delay  509--520
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
          Reza Mazrooei-Sebdani   The characteristics of a higher-order
                                  rational difference equation . . . . . . 521--528
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Compactons and solitary wave solutions
                                  for the Boussinesq wave equation and its
                                  generalized form . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--535
             M. M. Hosseini and   
                  H. Nasabzadeh   On the convergence of Adomian
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 536--543
                S. Saha Ray and   
            K. S. Chaudhuri and   
                     R. K. Bera   Analytical approximate solution of
                                  nonlinear dynamic system containing
                                  fractional derivative by modified
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 544--552
               Bo-Qing Dong and   
                   Zhi-Min Chen   Remarks on upper and lower bounds of
                                  solutions to the Navier--Stokes
                                  equations in $R^2$ . . . . . . . . . . . 553--558
                   H. Saidi and   
                  N. Khelil and   
                S. Hassouni and   
                     A. Zerarka   Energy spectra of the Schrödinger
                                  equation and the differential quadrature
                                  method: Improvement of the solution
                                  using particle swarm optimization  . . . 559--566
               Jafar Biazar and   
           Alireza Amirteimoori   An improvement to the fixed point
                                  iterative method . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--571
                   Luther White   A reduced three-dimensional dynamic
                                  structural model for structural health
                                  assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--588
                     Arif Rafiq   Modified Noor iterations for nonlinear
                                  equations in Banach spaces . . . . . . . 589--595
                 O. I. Kosmidou   Robust control with pole shifting via
                                  performance index modification . . . . . 596--606
                    J. I. Ramos   Damping characteristics of finite
                                  difference methods for one-dimensional
                                  reaction--diffusion equations  . . . . . 607--609
               Bo-Qing Dong and   
                   Zhi-Min Chen   Global attractors of two-dimensional
                                  micropolar fluid flows in some unbounded
                                  domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--620
      Reza Mazrooei-Sebdani and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Global stability of $y_{n + 1} = (p + q
                                  y_n + r y_{n - k}) / (1 + y_n)$  . . . . 621--630
              Iliya A. Brayanov   Numerical solution of a two-dimensional
                                  singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion
                                  problem with discontinuous coefficients  631--643
            A. Bilbao-Terol and   
    B. Pérez-Gladish and   
               J. Antomil-lbias   Selecting the optimum portfolio using
                                  fuzzy compromise programming and
                                  Sharpe's single-index model  . . . . . . 644--664
                 A. Zerarka and   
                   H. Saidi and   
                S. Hassouni and   
                    N. Bensalah   Evaluation of the bound states of a
                                  quantum system via the differential
                                  quadrature method: Extended to coupled
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 665--671
               Yunjin Huang and   
                Fengde Chen and   
                       Li Zhong   Stability analysis of a prey--predator
                                  model with Holling type III response
                                  function incorporating a prey refuge . . 672--683
                   Zhong Li and   
                    Fengde Chen   Extinction in two dimensional
                                  nonautonomous Lotka--Volterra systems
                                  with the effect of toxic substances  . . 684--690
Víctor Domínguez and   
         Francisco-Javier Sayas   A BEM--FEM overlapping algorithm for the
                                  Stokes equation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--710
              Liang-Ho Chen and   
               Liang-Yuh Ouyang   Fuzzy inventory model for deteriorating
                                  items with permissible delay in payment  711--726
        Stephen J. Sangwine and   
               Nicolas Le Bihan   Quaternion singular value decomposition
                                  based on bidiagonalization to a real or
                                  complex matrix using quaternion
                                  Householder transformations  . . . . . . 727--738
              Mapundi Banda and   
          Mohammed Sea\"\id and   
                   Ioan Teleaga   Discrete-velocity relaxation methods for
                                  large eddy simulation  . . . . . . . . . 739--753
              Shaher Momani and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Numerical methods for fourth-order
                                  fractional integro-differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--760
                  Shaher Momani   A numerical scheme for the solution of
                                  multi-order fractional differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--770
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Exact travelling wave solutions to
                                  seventh-order and ninth-order KdV-like
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--780
                 Zhaosheng Feng   Computations of soliton solutions and
                                  periodic solutions for the focusing
                                  branch of the nonlinear dispersive K ( n
                                  n ) equations in higher-dimensional
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--790
    Hossein Sadeghi Goghary and   
       Motahare Sadeghi Goghary   Two computational methods for solving
                                  linear Fredholm fuzzy integral equation
                                  of the second kind . . . . . . . . . . . 791--796
                     Run Xu and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Some new oscillation criteria for second
                                  order quasi-linear neutral delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 797--803
                 Ismet Altintas   Computer algebra and colored Jones
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--808
         Adriana C. Briozzo and   
              Domingo A. Tarzia   A one-phase Stefan problem for a
                                  non-classical heat equation with a heat
                                  flux condition on the fixed face . . . . 809--819
                   H. Adibi and   
                  Y. J. Cho and   
                 D. O`Regan and   
                     R. Saadati   Common fixed point theorems in
                                  $\mathcal{L}$-fuzzy metric spaces  . . . 820--828
              Ghazala Akram and   
              Shahid S. Siddiqi   Nonic spline solutions of eighth order
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 829--845
                 Yehui Peng and   
                    Zhenhai Liu   A derivative-free filter algorithm for
                                  nonlinear complementarity problem  . . . 846--853
               Jin-Bao Jian and   
               Qing-Juan Xu and   
                    Dao-Lan Han   A strongly convergent norm-relaxed
                                  method of strongly sub-feasible
                                  direction for optimization with
                                  nonlinear equality and inequality
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854--870
       Ibrahim Abu-Alshaikh and   
                      Ali Sahin   Two-point iterative methods for solving
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 871--878
           Tolga Güyer and   
        \cSeref Mirasyedio\uglu   A functional computation model for the
                                  duality of two-variable Lambda-Boolean
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--887
              K. Maleknejad and   
                     A. Arzhang   Numerical solution of the Fredholm
                                  singular integro-differential equation
                                  with Cauchy kernel by using
                                  Taylor-series expansion and Galerkin
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--897
                 V. Goswami and   
              J. R. Mohanty and   
                  S. K. Samanta   Discrete-time bulk-service queues with
                                  accessible and non-accessible batches    898--906
               Roy Danchick and   
               Mario L. Juncosa   Maximum polynomial degree
                                  Nordsieck--Gear ( k p ) methods:
                                  Existence, stability, consistency,
                                  refinement, convergence and
                                  computational examples . . . . . . . . . 907--933
                  E. Kaslik and   
                     St. Balint   Configurations of steady states for
                                  Hopfield-type neural networks  . . . . . 934--946
                 Ji-Bo Wang and   
                  Feng Shan and   
                   Bo Jiang and   
                    Li-Yan Wang   Permutation flow shop scheduling with
                                  dominant machines to minimize discounted
                                  total weighted completion time . . . . . 947--954

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 182, Number 2, November 15, 2006

               Jin-Bao Jian and   
              Hai-Yan Zheng and   
             Chun-Ming Tang and   
                    Qing-Jie Hu   A new superlinearly convergent
                                  norm-relaxed method of strongly
                                  sub-feasible direction for inequality
                                  constrained optimization . . . . . . . . 955--976
                  Wenxia Li and   
               Dongmei Xiao and   
                         Lin He   DNA ternary addition . . . . . . . . . . 977--986
                     Zhibin Zhu   A simple feasible SQP algorithm for
                                  inequality constrained optimization  . . 987--998
                 T. Achouri and   
                  N. Khiari and   
                      K. Omrani   On the convergence of difference schemes
                                  for the Benjamin--Bona--Mahony (BBM)
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1005
              K. Maleknejad and   
                   H. Mesgarani   Numerical method for a nonlinear
                                  boundary integral equation . . . . . . . 1006--1009
                   J. X. Li and   
                    H. W. Zhang   Partitioning group correction Cholesky
                                  techniques for large scale sparse
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 1010--1020
            F. H. Bellamine and   
                     A. Elkamel   Numerical characterization of
                                  distributed dynamic systems using tools
                                  of intelligent computing and generalized
                                  dimensional analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1039
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                   Airong Sheng   A note on finite difference method to
                                  analysis an ill-posed problem  . . . . . 1040--1047
                        Qi Wang   Numerical solutions for fractional
                                  KdV--Burgers equation by Adomian
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 1048--1055
                Qinghong Li and   
                 Yajuan Sun and   
                    Yushun Wang   On multisymplectic integrators based on
                                  Runge--Kutta--Nyström methods for
                                  Hamiltonian wave equations . . . . . . . 1056--1063
                M. M. Selim and   
                    M. K. Ahmed   Propagation and attenuation of seismic
                                  body waves in dissipative medium under
                                  initial and couple stresses  . . . . . . 1064--1074
              A. H. Bokhari and   
                 A. H. Kara and   
                    F. D. Zaman   Invariant solutions of certain nonlinear
                                  evolution type equations with small
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1082
              Shaher Momani and   
                Nabil Shawagfeh   Decomposition method for solving
                                  fractional Riccati differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1092
                 Shiang-Tai Liu   A geometric programming approach to
                                  profit maximization  . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1097
Fábio Henrique Pereira and   
Sérgio Luís Lopes Verardi and   
     Sílvio Ikuyo Nabeta   A wavelet-based algebraic multigrid
                                  preconditioner for sparse linear systems 1098--1107
                   Xin Chen and   
                  Yong-Lin Chen   A necessary and sufficient condition for
                                  semiconvergence and optimal parameter of
                                  the SSOR method for solving the rank
                                  deficient linear least squares problem   1108--1126
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   An optimal scheme for toll pricing
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1136
           Fawaz S. Al-Anzi and   
            Yuri N. Sotskov and   
             Ali Allahverdi and   
              George V. Andreev   Using mixed graph coloring to minimize
                                  total completion time in job shop
                                  scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1148
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                   Faizan Ahmad   Fourth-order convergent iterative method
                                  for nonlinear equation . . . . . . . . . 1149--1153
                Liu-yi Ling and   
                Liang Liang and   
                      Xu-jin Pu   ATC based coordination of distributed
                                  production planning and supplier
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154--1168
              Gyeong-Mi Cho and   
                  Min-Kyung Kim   A new large-update interior point
                                  algorithm for $P_*(\kappa)$ LCPs based
                                  on kernel functions  . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1183
               Kamal Aghigh and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   On numerical integration methods with
                                  the generalized Stieltjes weight
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1190
                   Zhi Qian and   
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
                   Xiao-Li Feng   A modified method for high order
                                  numerical derivatives  . . . . . . . . . 1191--1200
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  Alternative polynomial equations for the
                                  nine-point prismatic array . . . . . . . 1201--1207
            H. Khademi Zare and   
      S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi and   
                      B. Karimi   Developing a heuristic algorithm for
                                  order production planning using network
                                  models under uncertainty conditions  . . 1208--1218
        Nirmal Kumar Mandal and   
                Tapan Kumar Roy   Multi-item imperfect production lot size
                                  model with hybrid number cost parameters 1219--1230
               Changci Pang and   
                   Wei Dong and   
                    Zhongli Wei   Green's function and positive solutions
                                  of $n$th order $m$-point boundary value
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1239
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   On selection of the best coefficients in
                                  interpolatory quadrature rules . . . . . 1240--1246
               B. S. Attili and   
                      D. Lesnic   An efficient method for computing
                                  eigenelements of Sturm--Liouville
                                  fourth-order boundary value problems . . 1247--1254
                    Hongmin Ren   New sufficient convergence conditions of
                                  the Secant method for nondifferentiable
                                  operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255--1259
                     Run Xu and   
                  Yuan Gong Sun   On retarded integral inequalities in two
                                  independent variables and their
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1266
               Xiaofan Yang and   
              Yuan Yan Tang and   
                    Qing Lu and   
                      Zhenyu He   Optimal doublecast path in hexagonal
                                  honeycomb mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1279
                    Zhongli Wei   Positive solutions for 2 n th-order
                                  singular sub-linear $m$-point boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280--1295
          Orhan Dönmez and   
                   Refik Kayali   Simulation of astrophysical jet using
                                  the special relativistic hydrodynamics
                                  code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1308
              Peiguang Wang and   
               Shuhuan Tian and   
                      Ping Zhao   Stability in terms of two measures for
                                  difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 1309--1315
               P. Danumjaya and   
             A. K. Nandakumaran   Orthogonal cubic spline collocation
                                  method for the Cahn--Hilliard equation   1316--1329
                  Jing Wang and   
             Xiaoling Zhang and   
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A new general algebraic method with
                                  symbolic computation and its application
                                  to two nonlinear differential equations
                                  with nonlinear terms of any order  . . . 1330--1340
                Tiejun Zhou and   
                 Yirong Liu and   
                     Yuehua Liu   Existence and global exponential
                                  stability of periodic solution for
                                  discrete-time BAM neural networks  . . . 1341--1354
                Zhihua Wang and   
              Xiaofeng Chen and   
                        Bing Xu   Generalization of functional equation
                                  for the square root spiral . . . . . . . 1355--1360
                Ping-Qi Pan and   
               Jian-Feng Hu and   
                        Chen Li   Feasible region contraction interior
                                  point algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1368
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                   Yueqing Zhao   The convergence theorem for a family
                                  deformed Chebyshev method in Banach
                                  space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1376
                David Brown and   
              Ne\cse Dernek and   
             Osman Yürekli   Identities for the exponential integral
                                  and the complementary error transforms   1377--1384
           M. Bandyopadhyay and   
                Sandip Banerjee   A stage-structured prey--predator model
                                  with discrete time delay . . . . . . . . 1385--1398
             Juan Pablo Pinasco   Comparison of eigenvalues for the
                                  $p$-Laplacian with integral inequalities 1399--1404
             Hideaki Kaneko and   
                 Kim S. Bey and   
                 Gene J. W. Hou   A discontinuous Galerkin Method for
                                  parabolic problems with modified
                                  hp-finite element approximation
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405--1417
               Jianwei Shen and   
                         Wei Xu   Smooth and non-smooth travelling wave
                                  solutions of generalized
                                  Degasperis--Procesi equation . . . . . . 1418--1429
       Mohan. K. Kadalbajoo and   
                     A. Awasthi   A numerical method based on
                                  Crank--Nicolson scheme for Burgers'
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1430--1442
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Solutions of twelfth order boundary
                                  value problems using thirteen degree
                                  spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443--1453
                Jichao Zhao and   
                  Tie Zhang and   
              Robert M. Corless   Convergence of the compact finite
                                  difference method for second-order
                                  elliptic equations . . . . . . . . . . . 1454--1469
                        Jian Li   Investigations on two kinds of two-level
                                  stabilized finite element methods for
                                  the stationary Navier--Stokes equations  1470--1481
                     Ji Shu and   
                     Jian Zhang   Sharp criterion of global existence for
                                  a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equation
                                  with critical exponent . . . . . . . . . 1482--1487
               Ching-Yang Cheng   Non-Darcy natural convection heat and
                                  mass transfer from a vertical wavy
                                  surface in saturated porous media  . . . 1488--1500
                  Andrei Irimia   Combinatorial formulae for the
                                  derivatives of Lamé functions . . . . . . 1501--1508
               Nazan Caglar and   
                  Hikmet Caglar   B-spline solution of singular boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1509--1513
              Zhaowen Zheng and   
                   Shaozhu Chen   GKN theory for linear Hamiltonian
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1514--1527
                    J. I. Ramos   Exponential methods for singularly
                                  perturbed ordinary
                                  differential--difference equations . . . 1528--1541
                Xiaonan Luo and   
                    Qingzhen Xu   Fourth-order algorithm for solving $2$D
                                  transient heat and moisture transfer
                                  simulation through fabric  . . . . . . . 1542--1555
                  Ta-Cheng Chen   IAs based approach for reliability
                                  redundancy allocation problems . . . . . 1556--1567
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                 Behnam Hashemi   Solution of the fully fuzzy linear
                                  systems using the decomposition
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1568--1580
          Brian J. McCartin and   
             Matthew F. Causley   Angled derivative approximation of the
                                  hyperbolic heat conduction equations . . 1581--1607
                    Hong Du and   
                    Minggen Cui   Representation of the exact solution and
                                  a stability analysis on the Fredholm
                                  integral equation of the first kind in
                                  reproducing kernel space . . . . . . . . 1608--1614
 D. Cárdenas-Morales and   
               P. Garrancho and   
     F. J. Muñoz-Delgado   Shape preserving approximation by
                                  Bernstein-type operators which fix
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1615--1622
                   Mi-Young Kim   Stabilized discontinuous Galerkin
                                  methods for scalar linear hyperbolic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623--1628
               Mingming Liu and   
                        Yan Gao   An algorithm for portfolio selection in
                                  a frictional market  . . . . . . . . . . 1629--1638
                  Eric Kincanon   Error propagation in the
                                  Gel'Fand--Levitan equation . . . . . . . 1639--1641
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   New solitary wave solutions to the
                                  Kuramoto--Sivashinsky and the Kawahara
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1642--1650
                Sheng Zhang and   
                   TieCheng Xia   Further improved extended Fan
                                  sub-equation method and new exact
                                  solutions of the (2 + 1)-dimensional
                                  Broer--Kaup--Kupershmidt equations . . . 1651--1660
                     Ju H. Park   Further result on asymptotic stability
                                  criterion of cellular neural networks
                                  with time-varying discrete and
                                  distributed delays . . . . . . . . . . . 1661--1666
                 Wang Xiang and   
                    Lu Linzhang   Factorizations of confluent
                                  Cauchy--Vandermonde matrices . . . . . . 1667--1672
        Abdellah Bnouhachem and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   A new iterative method for variational
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1673--1682
                Younbae Jun and   
                   Tsun-Zee Mai   Domain decomposition method for
                                  parabolic problems with Neumann
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1683--1695
               Xiaofan Yang and   
                    Jun Luo and   
                  Shuangqing Li   Fault-tolerant Hamiltonicity in a class
                                  of faulty meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1696--1708
                 Bing Zheng and   
                        Ke Wang   Comments on ``Symmetric successive
                                  overrelaxation methods for rank
                                  deficient linear systems'': [Applied
                                  Mathematics and Computation 173 (2006)
                                  404--420]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1709--1713
             Helge I. Andersson   Comments on BVPs in non-Newtonian
                                  boundary-layer flow  . . . . . . . . . . 1714--1716
                   Shouzhi Yang   Biorthogonal two-direction refinable
                                  function and two-direction wavelet . . . 1717--1724
                Michael Nwogugu   Site selection in the US retailing
                                  industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725--1734
                Michael Nwogugu   Further critique of GARCH/ARMA/VAR/EVT
                                  Stochastic-Volatility models and related
                                  approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1735--1748
                Michael Nwogugu   Volatility, risk modeling and utility    1749--1754
              Qing-Wen Wang and   
             Zhong-Cheng Wu and   
                   Chun-Yan Lin   Extremal ranks of a quaternion matrix
                                  expression subject to consistent systems
                                  of quaternion matrix equations with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1764
                      Deren Han   Solving linear variational inequality
                                  problems by a self-adaptive projection
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1771
                   Yong-Hua Gao   Newton's method for the quadratic matrix
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1772--1779
             Ting-chun Wang and   
                  Lu-ming Zhang   Analysis of some new conservative
                                  schemes for nonlinear Schrödinger
                                  equation with wave operator  . . . . . . 1780--1794
                Minggen Cui and   
                        Hong Du   Representation of exact solution for the
                                  nonlinear Volterra--Fredholm integral
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1795--1802
               Ivana Djolovi\'c   On the space of bounded Euler difference
                                  sequences and some classes of compact
                                  operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803--1811
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Padé approximants and Adomian
                                  decomposition method for solving the
                                  Flierl--Petviashivili equation and its
                                  variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1812--1818
               Xing-Xue Yan and   
                Wan-Tong Li and   
                       Zhu Zhao   Global asymptotic stability for a higher
                                  order nonlinear rational difference
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819--1831
         P. Balasubramaniam and   
            J. Abdul Samath and   
               N. Kumaresan and   
        A. Vincent Antony Kumar   Solution of matrix Riccati differential
                                  equation for the linear quadratic
                                  singular system using neural networks    1832--1839
             Kokou Y. Abalo and   
            Michael M. Kostreva   Intersection theorems and their
                                  applications to Berge equilibria . . . . 1840--1848
                    Fengde Chen   Permanence of periodic Holling type
                                  predator--prey system with stage
                                  structure for prey . . . . . . . . . . . 1849--1860
                Xueqin Zhao and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Oscillation of second-order nonlinear
                                  ODE with damping . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861--1871
            Khalida Inayat Noor   Integral operators defined by
                                  convolution with hypergeometric
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1872--1881
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                     Ju H. Park   Erratum to ``Robust stabilization of
                                  uncertain systems with delays in control
                                  input: A matrix inequality approach''
                                  [Appl. Math. Comput. 172 (2) (2006)
                                  1067--1077]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1882--1882


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 183, Number 1, December 1, 2006

     Behrouz Fathi Vajargah and   
        Kianoush Fathi Vajargah   Parallel Monte Carlo computations for
                                  solving SLAE with minimum communications 1--9
                    Zhongdi Cen   Numerical study for a class of singular
                                  two-point boundary value problems using
                                  Green's functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 10--16
              Ö. Köse   Kinematic differential geometry of a
                                  rigid body in spatial motion using dual
                                  vector calculus: Part I  . . . . . . . . 17--29
              Wang Xingyuan and   
                       Luo Chao   Researches on chaos phenomenon of EEG
                                  dynamics model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--41
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
                     A. Awasthi   A parameter uniform difference scheme
                                  for singularly perturbed parabolic
                                  problem in one space dimension . . . . . 42--60
                Yan-ze Peng and   
                 Emmanuel Yomba   New applications of the singular
                                  manifold method to the (2 +
                                  1)-dimensional Burgers equations . . . . 61--67
                 Liping Wen and   
                  Yuexin Yu and   
                      Shoufu Li   Stability of explicit and diagonal
                                  implicit Runge--Kutta methods for
                                  nonlinear Volterra functional
                                  differential equations in Banach spaces  68--78
               Zhaocai Wang and   
               Dongmei Xiao and   
                  Wenxia Li and   
                         Lin He   A DNA procedure for solving the shortest
                                  path problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
               Babak Abbasi and   
Abdol Hamid Eshragh Jahromi and   
                Jamal Arkat and   
          Mehdi Hosseinkouchack   Estimating the parameters of Weibull
                                  distribution using simulated annealing
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
                    S. Sohraiee   Egoist's dilemma with interval data  . . 94--105
             Chin-Lang Tsai and   
                    Wei-Wen Kao   Constrained total least-square solution
                                  for GPS compass attitude determination   106--118
                     Zhixue Luo   Optimal harvesting control problem for
                                  an age-dependent competing system of n
                                  species  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
         Waseem Asghar Khan and   
                   Faizan Ahmad   On iterative methods for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--133
              K. Maleknejad and   
                     M. Yousefi   Numerical solution of the integral
                                  equation of the second kind by using
                                  wavelet bases of Hermite cubic splines   134--141
                    Yi-Kuei Lin   A two-commodity multistate flow network
                                  with capacity weight varying with edges,
                                  nodes and types of commodity . . . . . . 142--151
                 W. K. Pang and   
                 Li Ronghua and   
                       Liu Ming   Exponential stability of numerical
                                  solutions to stochastic age-dependent
                                  population equations . . . . . . . . . . 152--159
                Somayeh Moazeni   Fuzzy shortest path problem with finite
                                  fuzzy quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--169
              Mapundi Banda and   
        Mohammed Seaì\"d   Non-oscillatory methods for relaxation
                                  approximation of Hamilton--Jacobi
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--183
             Chin-Lang Tsai and   
                    Wei-Wen Kao   Ill-conditioned GPS compass attitude
                                  determination using regularization
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--198
                 A. Cordero and   
             Juan R. Torregrosa   Variants of Newton's method for
                                  functions of several variables . . . . . 199--208
                    G. A. Ashry   On globally convergent multi-objective
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--216
                    Ying Ji and   
               Shao-jian Qu and   
               Yan-jun Wang and   
                     Hui-min Li   A conic trust-region method for
                                  optimization with nonlinear equality and
                                  inequality constrains via active-set
                                  strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--231
              Peng-Yeng Yin and   
                   Jing-Yu Wang   A particle swarm optimization approach
                                  to the nonlinear resource allocation
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--242
                   A. A. Salama   Numerical methods based on extended
                                  one-step methods for solving optimal
                                  control problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--250
                 Mingjun Ji and   
                Zhihong Jin and   
                   Huanwen Tang   An improved simulated annealing for
                                  solving the linear constrained
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 251--259
                   A. Malek and   
           R. Shekari Beidokhti   Numerical solution for high order
                                  differential equations using a hybrid
                                  neural network---Optimization method . . 260--271
               Beong In Yun and   
              Hyun Chul Kim and   
                  Kyung Soo Rim   An averaging method for the Fourier
                                  approximation to discontinuous functions 272--284
                  D. Firsov and   
                      S. H. Lui   A fast deblurring algorithm  . . . . . . 285--291
             Xiangyun Zhang and   
                  Guoliang Chen   The computation of Drazin inverse and
                                  its application in Markov chains . . . . 292--300
                    Chao Gu and   
                   Guorong Wang   Condensed Cramer rule for solving
                                  restricted matrix equations  . . . . . . 301--306
                   Yunxin Zhang   Convergence of meshless Petrov--Galerkin
                                  method using radial basis functions  . . 307--321
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
            Khalida Inayat Noor   Three-step iterative methods for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
               Peiping Shen and   
                   Hongwei Jiao   Linearization method for a class of
                                  multiplicative programming with exponent 328--336
           Hamed Hasheminia and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   A genetic algorithm approach to find the
                                  best regression/econometric model among
                                  the candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--349
               M. Colebrook and   
                     J. Sicilia   An $O(mn)$ algorithm for the
                                  anti-cent-dian problem . . . . . . . . . 350--364
               Shaohong Zhu and   
                 Zhiling Yu and   
                  Jennifer Zhao   A high-order parallel finite difference
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--372
                M. S. Osman and   
       Mahmoud A. Abo-Sinna and   
                    A. A. Mousa   IT-CEMOP: an iterative co-evolutionary
                                  algorithm for multiobjective
                                  optimization problem with nonlinear
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--389
                    Li-ying Sun   A comparison theorem of the improving
                                  Gauss--Seidel method for $H$-matrix and
                                  its comparison matrix  . . . . . . . . . 390--393
                   Lev V. Utkin   Ranking procedures by pairwise
                                  comparison using random sets and the
                                  imprecise Dirichlet model  . . . . . . . 394--408
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                     P. Hessari   Symmetric SOR method for augmented
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--415
           Xiao-liang Cheng and   
                       Lian Xue   On the error estimate of finite
                                  difference method for the obstacle
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--422
                    Yu Yang and   
                  Wencheng Chen   Uniformly strong persistence of a
                                  nonlinear asymptotically periodic
                                  multispecies competition predator--prey
                                  system with general functional response  423--426
 Nihan Çetin Demirel and   
        M. Duran Toksarì   Optimization of the quadratic assignment
                                  problem using an ant colony algorithm    427--435
        Abdellah Bnouhachem and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                  Th.M. Rassias   Three-steps iterative algorithms for
                                  mixed variational inequalities . . . . . 436--446
                Wencheng Li and   
                Zichen Deng and   
                   Suying Zhang   Improved Newton iteration for nonlinear
                                  matrix equations on quadratic Lie groups 447--457
                 S. Yousefi and   
                  A. Banifatemi   Numerical solution of Fredholm integral
                                  equations by using CAS wavelets  . . . . 458--463
              Hongyong Zhao and   
                       Nan Ding   Dynamic analysis of stochastic
                                  Cohen--Grossberg neural networks with
                                  time delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--470
                    Yong-Bin Li   A new approach for constructing
                                  subresultants  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--476
                  R. K. Mohanty   A class of non-uniform mesh three point
                                  arithmetic average discretization for
                                  $y^\prime = f(x, y, y^\prime)$ and the
                                  estimates of $y^\prime$  . . . . . . . . 477--485
              Yu-Sheng Chen and   
               Gwoboa Horng and   
                 Chao-Liang Liu   Performance improvement for the
                                  GGM-construction of pseudorandom
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--490
           Miguel A. Salido and   
                Federico Barber   Distributed CSPs by graph partitioning   491--498
                 Shiang-Tai Liu   Computational method for the profit
                                  bounds of inventory model with interval
                                  demand and unit cost . . . . . . . . . . 499--507
               Hsin-I Huang and   
            Chuen-Horng Lin and   
                   Jau-Chuan Ke   Parametric nonlinear programming
                                  approach for a repairable system with
                                  switching failure and fuzzy parameters   508--517
                   Kosei Fukuda   BIC-based unit-root detection:
                                  Simulation-based evidence  . . . . . . . 518--521
                 Xian Zhang and   
               Jianfeng Cai and   
                      Yimin Wei   Interval iterative methods for computing
                                  Moore--Penrose inverse . . . . . . . . . 522--532
                  K. Maleknejad   A comparison of Fourier extrapolation
                                  methods for numerical solution of
                                  deconvolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--538
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                M. Shams Solary   Computational algorithms for computing
                                  the inverse of a square matrix,
                                  quasi-inverse of a non-square matrix and
                                  block matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--550
                   Roy Danchick   Accurate numerical partials with
                                  applications to optimization . . . . . . 551--558
              A. Hadjidimos and   
                   M. Lapidakis   Optimal Alternating Direction Implicit
                                  Preconditioners for Conjugate Gradient
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--574
              Xiaochuan Luo and   
                       Feng Chu   A branch and bound algorithm of the
                                  single machine schedule with sequence
                                  dependent setup times for minimizing
                                  total tardiness  . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--588
              K. Maleknejad and   
              M. R. Fadaei Yami   A computational method for system of
                                  Volterra--Fredholm integral equations    589--595
                     Xinyuan Wu   Note on predictor--corrector process for
                                  ill-conditioned linear system of
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--602
               Jianzhou Liu and   
                        Anqi He   A new algorithmic characterization of
                                  $H$-matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--609
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   A computational algorithm for sublinear
                                  elliptic partial differential equations  610--616
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  Sine-and-cosine equation for the
                                  nine-point prismatic array . . . . . . . 617--621
               Fusheng Wang and   
                    Kecun Zhang   The theoretical analysis and algorithm
                                  on a class of optimal curve fitting
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--633
                  B. Akrami and   
                  B. Karimi and   
         S. M. Moattar Hosseini   Two metaheuristic methods for the common
                                  cycle economic lot sizing and scheduling
                                  in flexible flow shops with limited
                                  intermediate buffers: The finite horizon
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634--645
              Maziar Salahi and   
            Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri   Polynomial time second order
                                  Mehrotra-type predictor--corrector
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--658
           D. K. R. Babajee and   
                   M. Z. Dauhoo   An analysis of the properties of the
                                  variants of Newton's method with third
                                  order convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . 659--684
                    Ting Wu and   
                    Linping Sun   A quasi-Newton based pattern search
                                  algorithm for unconstrained optimization 685--694
                   Chun-Chu Liu   An analysis of the factors affecting
                                  change in an industry's profit: The
                                  example of the Taiwan cement industry    695--703
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   Modified Halley's method free from
                                  second derivative  . . . . . . . . . . . 704--708
              J. S. C. Prentice   Erratum to ``Comments on numerically
                                  improved Gauss--Legendre quadrature''
                                  [Appl. Math. Comput. 174 (2) (2006)
                                  1454]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--709

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 183, Number 2, December 15, 2006

                 Xiang Wang and   
                    Zhou Jituan   A fast eigenvalue algorithm for Pascal
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--716
               Hongwei Jiao and   
                 Yunrui Guo and   
                   Peiping Shen   Global optimization of generalized
                                  linear fractional programming with
                                  nonlinear constraints  . . . . . . . . . 717--728
      Rafael Álvarez and   
 Francisco Ferrández and   
José-Francisco Vicent and   
                 Antonio Zamora   Applying quick exponentiation for block
                                  upper triangular matrices  . . . . . . . 729--737
        R. Gutiérrez and   
R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez and   
                  A. Nafidi and   
                       E. Ramos   A new stochastic Gompertz diffusion
                                  process with threshold parameter:
                                  Computational aspects and applications   738--747
               Zhen-Jun Shi and   
                       Jie Shen   A new class of supermemory gradient
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--760
                      L. Yilmaz   Chaos in the water resources system  . . 761--773
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
            Khalida Inayat Noor   Some iterative schemes for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774--779
                   J. Zhang and   
                   X. Q. Li and   
                X. T. Zhang and   
                      J. F. Gao   Rationality judge and optimization
                                  design of lottery scheme . . . . . . . . 780--786
         K. J. Kachiashvili and   
            D. I. Melikdzhanian   Parameter optimization algorithms of
                                  difference calculation schemes for
                                  improving the solution accuracy of
                                  diffusion equations describing the
                                  pollutants transport in rivers . . . . . 787--803
                   Jie Wang and   
               Weijun Zhong and   
                      Jun Zhang   A general meshsize fourth-order compact
                                  difference discretization scheme for
                                  $3$D Poisson equation  . . . . . . . . . 804--812
           Alfonso Bueno-Orovio   Fourier embedded domain methods:
                                  Periodic and $C^\infty$ extension of a
                                  function defined on an irregular region
                                  to a rectangle via convolution with
                                  Gaussian kernels . . . . . . . . . . . . 813--818
                     Desheng Wu   A note on DEA efficiency assessment
                                  using ideal point: an improvement of
                                  Wang and Luo's model . . . . . . . . . . 819--830
                     Chunjia Bi   Mortar upwind finite volume element
                                  method for convection diffusion problems 831--841
                       Yuji Liu   A study on quasi-periodic boundary value
                                  problems for nonlinear higher order
                                  impulsive differential equations . . . . 842--857
                Zhan-guo Li and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                 Xiao-yan Zhang   Analysis of chaotic behavior in the
                                  extended Duffing--van der Pol system
                                  subject to additive non-symmetry
                                  biharmonical excitation  . . . . . . . . 858--871
            Zhen-jiang Zhou and   
                Jing-zhi Fu and   
                     Zhi-bin Li   An implementation for the algorithm of
                                  Hirota bilinear form of PDE in the Maple
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--877
G. Çelik Kìzìlkan and   
                K. Aydìn   A new variable step size algorithm for
                                  Cauchy problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878--884
                Basem S. Attili   Superconvergence and the computation of
                                  generalized turning points for B.V.P.'s  885--889
                  Jianli Li and   
                   Jianhua Shen   Periodic boundary value problems for
                                  impulsive integro-differential equations
                                  of mixed type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890--902
                A. K. Maiti and   
               A. K. Bhunia and   
                       M. Maiti   An application of real-coded genetic
                                  algorithm (RCGA) for mixed integer
                                  non-linear programming in two-storage
                                  multi-item inventory model with discount
                                  policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--915
               Martha Abell and   
            James Braselton and   
             Lorraine Braselton   A model of allelopathy in the context of
                                  bacteriocin production . . . . . . . . . 916--931
                  Ai-Guo Wu and   
             Guang-Ren Duan and   
                     Hai-Hua Yu   On solutions of the matrix equations $XF
                                  - AX = C$ and $XF - A\bar{X} = C$  . . . 932--941
                Xuelin Yong and   
                      Yufu Chen   Direct reductions of a nonlinear partial
                                  differential system  . . . . . . . . . . 942--945
             Jian-Qiang Sun and   
                Zhong-Qi Ma and   
                  Meng-Zhao Qin   Simulation of envelope Rossby solitons
                                  in a pair of cubic Schrödinger equations  946--952
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                     P. Hessari   On convergence of the symmetric modified
                                  successive overrelaxation method for
                                  2-cyclic coefficient matrices  . . . . . 953--960
                 Yehui Peng and   
                    Zhenhai Liu   A variable metric method for nonsmooth
                                  convex constrained optimization  . . . . 961--971
                     Min Xu and   
               Xiao-Dong Hu and   
                      Qiang Zhu   Edge-bipancyclicity of star graphs under
                                  edge-fault tolerant  . . . . . . . . . . 972--979
             J. Leyva-Ramos and   
   J. A. Morales-Saldaña   Computation of delay intervals for
                                  stability of time-delay systems  . . . . 980--989
                      Sonia and   
                     M. C. Puri   Bilevel time minimizing assignment
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990--999
                 K. W. Wong and   
           Edward C. W. Lee and   
                L. M. Cheng and   
                  Xiaofeng Liao   Fast elliptic scalar multiplication
                                  using new double-base chain and point
                                  halving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000--1007
               Zhigang Lian and   
                   Bin Jiao and   
                   Xingsheng Gu   A similar particle swarm optimization
                                  algorithm for job-shop scheduling to
                                  minimize makespan  . . . . . . . . . . . 1008--1017
               Jianjun Jiao and   
                    Lansun Chen   A pest management SI model with periodic
                                  biological and chemical control concern  1018--1026
               Peiping Shen and   
                   Hongwei Jiao   A new rectangle branch-and-pruning
                                  approach for generalized geometric
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1038
            Lubor Bu\vri\vc and   
        Alois Klí\vc and   
           Lucie Purmová   Canard solutions and travelling waves in
                                  the spruce budworm population model  . . 1039--1051
             Onur Kìymaz   A symbolic algorithm for exact power
                                  series solutions of n th order linear
                                  homogeneous differential equations with
                                  polynomial coefficients near an ordinary
                                  point  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1056
          Amir Abbas Najafi and   
           Seyed Taghi A. Niaki   A genetic algorithm for resource
                                  investment problem with discounted cash
                                  flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1070
                  Jafar Fathali   A genetic algorithm for the $p$-median
                                  problem with pos/neg weights . . . . . . 1071--1083
                A. K. Maiti and   
                M. K. Maiti and   
                       M. Maiti   Two storage inventory model with random
                                  planning horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . 1084--1097
           Alvise Sommariva and   
                 Marco Vianello   Meshless cubature by Green's formula . . 1098--1107
                  Yiqin Lin and   
                      Yimin Wei   Corrected Uzawa methods for solving
                                  large nonsymmetric saddle point problems 1108--1120
     Mohamed Abd El-Hady Kassem   Symmetric and self duality in vector
                                  optimization problem . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1126
                Ya-Xin Peng and   
                  Xi-Yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   An iterative method for symmetric
                                  solutions and optimal approximation
                                  solution of the system of matrix
                                  equations A $_1$ XB $_1$ = C $_1$, A
                                  $_2$ XB $_2$ = C $_2$  . . . . . . . . . 1127--1137
              Marco Caliari and   
             Marco Vianello and   
          Stefano De Marchi and   
               Roberto Montagna   Hyper2d: a numerical code for
                                  hyperinterpolation on rectangles . . . . 1138--1147
            Andreas A. Albrecht   Stochastic local search for the Feature  1148--1164
                   Meng Gao and   
                      Zizhen Li   Asymptotical stability and spatial
                                  patterns of a spatial cyclic competitive
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1169
               Shelly Arora and   
             S. S. Dhaliwal and   
                  V. K. Kukreja   A computationally efficient technique
                                  for solving two point boundary value
                                  problems in porous media . . . . . . . . 1170--1180
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Kinks and solitons solutions for the
                                  generalized KdV equation with two power
                                  nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1189
                Sheng Zhang and   
                   TieCheng Xia   A generalized $F$-expansion method and
                                  new exact solutions of
                                  Konopelchenko--Dubrovsky equations . . . 1190--1200
              Yong Chan Kim and   
               H. M. Srivastava   The Hardy space for a certain subclass
                                  of Bazilevi\vc functions . . . . . . . . 1201--1207
                F. M. Allan and   
                   M. H. Hamdan   Fluid-particle model of flow through
                                  porous media: The case of uniform
                                  particle distribution and parallel
                                  velocity fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1208--1213
                     Ju H. Park   Global exponential stability of cellular
                                  neural networks with variable delays . . 1214--1219
                    L-L. Li and   
                      F. Li and   
                    F. B. Gross   A new polynomial approximation for
                                  $J_\nu$ Bessel functions . . . . . . . . 1220--1225
                 Zaid M. Odibat   A reliable modification of the
                                  rectangular decomposition method . . . . 1226--1234
       Panayotis D. Kourdis and   
           Alexander F. Vakakis   Some results on the dynamics of the
                                  linear parametric oscillator with
                                  general time-varying frequency . . . . . 1235--1248
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
    Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din and   
                   Asim Shabbir   An iterative method with cubic
                                  convergence for nonlinear equations  . . 1249--1255
                    K. Ivaz and   
                  H. Taghvafard   Comparison of the trapezoidal rule error
                                  with the spline rule error . . . . . . . 1256--1261
                  Yiqin Lin and   
                      Yong Duan   A corrected nonlinear Uzawa method for
                                  solving stabilized saddle point problems 1262--1269
                   H. S. Fu and   
                         B. Han   A homotopy method for nonlinear inverse
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270--1279
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
                 Yunn-Kuang Chu   Nonparametric and simulated analysis of
                                  intensity for a queueing system  . . . . 1280--1291
                 Tamer Eren and   
               Ertan Güner   A bicriteria flowshop scheduling problem
                                  with setup times . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292--1300
             Keumseong Bang and   
                      JaeGwi Go   The simulation of oxygen diffusion
                                  following occlusion  . . . . . . . . . . 1301--1309
            Kuo-Hsiung Wang and   
                Wen-Li Dong and   
                     Jyh-Bin Ke   Comparison of reliability and the
                                  availability between four systems with
                                  warm standby components and standby
                                  switching failures . . . . . . . . . . . 1310--1322
      Mohammad R. Alirezaee and   
                 Masoud Khalili   Recognizing the efficiency, weak
                                  efficiency and inefficiency of DMUs with
                                  an epsilon independent linear program    1323--1327
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
                Chuen-Horng Lin   Maximum entropy solutions for batch
                                  arrival queue with an un-reliable server
                                  and delaying vacations . . . . . . . . . 1328--1340
                Zengxin Wei and   
               Shengwei Yao and   
                     Liying Liu   The convergence properties of some new
                                  conjugate gradient methods . . . . . . . 1341--1350
              Shaher Momani and   
              Salah Abuasad and   
                    Zaid Odibat   Variational iteration method for solving
                                  nonlinear boundary value problems  . . . 1351--1358
                    Donghan Cai   A two-sector economic growth model with
                                  optimal labor and capital allocation . . 1359--1377
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  skew-symmetric tridiagonal matrices with
                                  eigenvalues on imaginary axis. I . . . . 1378--1380
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   A computational algorithm for finding
                                  positive solutions for a class of
                                  superlinear Dirichlet BVP  . . . . . . . 1381--1385
                  Yufei Cao and   
                   Hongxing Rui   On the accuracy of the mortar finite
                                  volume element method with Lagrange
                                  multipliers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1386--1398
          Jesus R. Artalejo and   
       Srinivas R. Chakravarthy   Computational analysis of the maximal
                                  queue length in the MAP / M / c retrial
                                  queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1399--1409
            Gilbert Laporte and   
    Reza Zanjirani Farahani and   
              Elnaz Miandoabchi   Designing an efficient method for tandem
                                  AGV network design problem using tabu
                                  search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1410--1421


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 184, Number 1, January 1, 2007

                T. E. Simos and   
                   G. Psihoyios   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                 J. Avellar and   
            L. G. S. Duarte and   
            S. E. S. Duarte and   
            L. A. C. P. da Mota   A semi-algorithm to find elementary
                                  first order invariants of rational
                                  second order ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
            L. Bayón and   
                 J. M. Grau and   
                 M. M. Ruiz and   
            P. M. Suárez   A Bolza problem in hydrothermal
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--22
              A. G. Bratsos and   
             I. Th. Famelis and   
                 A. Kollias and   
                  Ch. Tsitouras   Phase-fitted Numerov type methods  . . . 23--29
                Jaesang Cha and   
                  Chonghyun Lee   Application of binary
                                  zero-correlation-duration sequences to
                                  interference-cancelled WPAN system . . . 30--36
  J. J. del Coz Díaz and   
 L. Peñalver Lamarca and   
  P. J. García Nieto and   
Alfonso Lozano Martínez-Luengas and   
J. A. Vilán Vilán   Non-linear analysis of a reinforced
                                  concrete sheet cover (umbrella) of 40m
                                  diameter by the finite element method    37--51
         A. N. F. Klimowicz and   
             M. D. Mihajlovi\'c   Modelling $3$D semi-deformable tubes in
                                  real time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--62
              E. C. Laskari and   
             G. C. Meletiou and   
            Y. C. Stamatiou and   
                 M. N. Vrahatis   Applying evolutionary computation
                                  methods for the cryptanalysis of Feistel
                                  ciphers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--72
                      Yiming Li   A two-dimensional thin-film transistor
                                  simulation using adaptive computing
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--85
       Hector E. Nistazakis and   
             Athanassios Katsis   A flexible Bayesian algorithm for sample
                                  size calculations in misclassified data  86--92
             N. G. Pavlidis and   
             M. N. Vrahatis and   
                      P. Mossay   Existence and computation of short-run
                                  equilibria in economic geography . . . . 93--103
                   G. Psihoyios   Solving time dependent PDEs via an
                                  improved modified extended BDF scheme    104--115
  M. Reme\vsíková   Numerical solution of two-dimensional
                                  convection--diffusion--adsorption
                                  problems using an operator splitting
                                  scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--130
               Elena \cSendroiu   Sheaf tools for computation  . . . . . . 131--141

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 184, Number 2, January 15, 2007

          Miodrag S. Petkovi\'c   Comments on the Basto--Semiao--Calheiros
                                  root finding method  . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
         Eyüp Çetin   Handling organ motion in radiotherapy of
                                  cancer via Markov chains . . . . . . . . 149--155
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
Seyedeh Mahboubeh Molavi-Arabshahi   Comparison of preconditioning techniques
                                  for solving linear systems arising from
                                  the fourth order approximation of the
                                  three-dimensional elliptic equation  . . 156--172
              Yongjian Yang and   
                   Xuewu Du and   
                    Mingming Li   A integral filter algorithm for
                                  unconstrained global optimization  . . . 173--180
                     Detong Zhu   An affine scaling reduced preconditional
                                  conjugate gradient path method for
                                  linear constrained optimization  . . . . 181--198
Zülal Güngör and   
               Alper Ünler   $K$-harmonic means data clustering with
                                  simulated annealing heuristic  . . . . . 199--209
                   J. R. Sharma   A family of third-order methods to solve
                                  nonlinear equations by quadratic curves
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--215
             Nenad Ujevi\'c and   
                    Goran Erceg   A generalization of the corrected
                                  midpoint-trapezoid rule and error bounds 216--222
        Mohammad H. Koulaei and   
              Faezeh Toutounian   Factored sparse approximate inverse of
                                  block tridiagonal and block
                                  pentadiagonal matricies  . . . . . . . . 223--234
                  D. Shukla and   
           Surendra Gadewar and   
                   R. K. Pathak   A stochastic model for space-division
                                  switches in computer networks  . . . . . 235--269
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
            Khalida Inayat Noor   Improved iterative methods for solving
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 270--275
Bjòrn Fredrik Nielsen and   
         Tomas Syrstad Ruud and   
          Glenn Terje Lines and   
                   Aslak Tveito   Optimal monodomain approximations of the
                                  bidomain equations . . . . . . . . . . . 276--290
                    Yi-Chung Hu   Grey relational analysis and radial
                                  basis function network for determining
                                  costs in learning sequences  . . . . . . 291--299
             Maghsoud Amiri and   
           Farhad Ghassemi-Tari   A methodology for analyzing the
                                  transient availability and survivability
                                  of a system with repairable components   300--307
                 A. Shidfar and   
                M. Fakhraie and   
               R. Pourgholi and   
                    M. Ebrahimi   A numerical solution technique for a
                                  one-dimensional inverse nonlinear
                                  parabolic problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 308--315
              S. Ghazinoory and   
               A. Aliahmadi and   
          S. Namdarzangeneh and   
               S. H. Ghodsypour   Using AHP and L.P. for choosing the best
                                  alternatives based the gap analysis  . . 316--321
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
            Khalida Inayat Noor   Modified iterative methods with cubic
                                  convergence for solving nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--325
              Sahidul Islam and   
                Tapan Kumar Roy   Fuzzy multi-item economic production
                                  quantity model under space constraint: a
                                  geometric programming approach . . . . . 326--335
             Ching-Wen Hong and   
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
               Ching-Hsue Cheng   Computational procedure of performance
                                  assessment of lifetime index of
                                  businesses for the Pareto lifetime model
                                  with the right type II censored sample   336--350
           M. S. Petkovi\'c and   
               L. D. Petkovi\'c   Construction of zero-finding methods by
                                  Weierstrass functions  . . . . . . . . . 351--359
            Cheng-Kang Chen and   
                Ta-Wei Hung and   
                  Tzu-Chun Weng   A net present value approach in
                                  developing optimal replenishment
                                  policies for a product life cycle  . . . 360--373
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
              Sheau-Chiann Chen   Computational comparison of prediction
                                  future lifetime of electronic components
                                  with Pareto distribution based on
                                  multiply type II censored samples  . . . 374--406
              Peng-Yeng Yin and   
             Shiuh-Sheng Yu and   
               Pei-Pei Wang and   
                     Yi-Te Wang   Multi-objective task allocation in
                                  distributed computing systems by hybrid
                                  particle swarm optimization  . . . . . . 407--420
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                      A. Refahi   A new restarting method in the Lanczos
                                  algorithm for generalized eigenvalue
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--428
            Danny Fundinger and   
     Torsten Lindström and   
                George Osipenko   On the appearance of multiple attractors
                                  in discrete food-chains  . . . . . . . . 429--444
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   A numerical method to obtain positive
                                  solution for classes of sublinear
                                  semipositone problems  . . . . . . . . . 445--450
                 Li Ronghua and   
                Chang Zhaoguang   Convergence of numerical solution to
                                  stochastic delay differential equation
                                  with Poisson jump and Markovian
                                  switching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--463
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                Hongmin Ren and   
                     Weihong Bi   Convergence ball and error analysis of
                                  Müller's method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--470
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   A composite fourth-order iterative
                                  method for solving non-linear equations  471--475
              M. A. Ramadan and   
              I. F. Lashien and   
                    W. K. Zahra   Polynomial and nonpolynomial spline
                                  approaches to the numerical solution of
                                  second order boundary value problems . . 476--484
             Mohammad Al-Towaiq   Clustered Gauss--Huard algorithm for the
                                  solution of $ A x = b $  . . . . . . . . 485--495
               Suying Zhang and   
                Zichen Deng and   
                    Wencheng Li   A precise Runge--Kutta integration and
                                  its application for solving nonlinear
                                  dynamical systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 496--502
                  Peng-Yeng Yin   Multilevel minimum cross entropy
                                  threshold selection based on particle
                                  swarm optimization . . . . . . . . . . . 503--513
       Zanariah Abdul Majid and   
           Mohamed Bin Suleiman   Implementation of four-point fully
                                  implicit block method for solving
                                  ordinary differential equations  . . . . 514--522
                Xin-guo Liu and   
                          Ma Li   A note on the approximation of two-sided
                                  Rayleigh quotient to eigenvalues . . . . 523--535
         Stephen L. Keeling and   
                  Gundolf Haase   Geometric multigrid for high-order
                                  regularizations of early vision problems 536--556
              Wenyong Zhong and   
                    Wei Lin and   
                     Jiong Ruan   The generalized invariance principle for
                                  dynamic equations on time scales . . . . 557--565
                 Yakup Kara and   
                 Ugur Ozcan and   
                    Ahmet Peker   Balancing and sequencing mixed-model
                                  just-in-time U-lines with multiple
                                  objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--588
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
Seyedeh Mahboubeh Molavi-Arabshahi   A simple form for the fourth order
                                  difference method for $3$-D elliptic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--598
                 Xiao Manyu and   
                      Lu Quanyi   A parallel iterative method for solving
                                  periodical block-tridiagonal linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--607
                A. Sjöberg   Double reduction of PDEs from the
                                  association of symmetries with
                                  conservation laws with applications  . . 608--616
                 Shulin Sun and   
                    Lansun Chen   Existence of positive periodic solution
                                  of an impulsive delay Logistic model . . 617--623
               Yuanhong Zhi and   
                     Chunlai Mu   The quenching behavior of a nonlinear
                                  parabolic equation with nonlinear
                                  boundary outflux . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--630
                    Mustafa Inc   An approximate solitary wave solution
                                  with compact support for the modified
                                  KdV equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--637
                Shanling Li and   
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
                M. Khodabakhshi   A super-efficiency model for ranking
                                  efficient units in data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638--648
        Mehmet Horasanlì   A comparison of lattice based option
                                  pricing models on the rate of
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--658
                Dianchen Lu and   
                 Jianjun Gu and   
                  Xiaoming wang   Optimal harvesting problems for an
                                  age-dependent $n$-dimensional food chain
                                  model with diffusion . . . . . . . . . . 659--668
Ömer Faruk Gözükìzìl and   
                    Metin Yaman   Long-time behaviour of the solutions to
                                  inverse problems for parabolic equations 669--673
                   Jae Heon Yun   A note on the improving modified
                                  Gauss--Seidel (IMGS) method  . . . . . . 674--679
                     Hem Prabha   $H_J$ integrals and evaluation of
                                  rectangular source integral  . . . . . . 680--684
                  Manjun Ma and   
             Hengsheng Tang and   
                        Wei Luo   Periodic solutions for nonlinear
                                  second-order difference equations  . . . 685--694
                M. Khodabakhshi   A super-efficiency model based on
                                  improved outputs in data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--703
         Mehmet Akköse and   
       Süleyman Adanur and   
          Alemdar Bayraktar and   
    A. Aydìn Dumano\uglu   Stochastic seismic response of Keban dam
                                  by the finite element method . . . . . . 704--714
           E. Tlelo-Cuautle and   
 M. A. Duarte-Villaseñor   Designing Chua's circuit from the
                                  behavioral to the transistor level of
                                  abstraction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--720
     R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and   
                N. Javadian and   
                  B. Javadi and   
                      N. Safaei   Design of a facility layout problem in
                                  cellular manufacturing systems with
                                  stochastic demands . . . . . . . . . . . 721--728
                  K. Rezaie and   
                      B. Ostadi   A mathematical model for optimal and
                                  phased implementation of flexible
                                  manufacturing systems  . . . . . . . . . 729--736
              Rasool Naseri and   
            Azizollah Valinejad   An extended variant of Karmarkar's
                                  interior point algorithm . . . . . . . . 737--742
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids: The
                                  estimation of two missing data . . . . . 743--747
                   Hong Liu and   
                 Yongzhong Song   Differential transform method applied to
                                  high index differential--algebraic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--753
                  S. Kanaun and   
         S. Babaii Kochekseraii   A numerical method for the solution of
                                  $3$D-integral equations of
                                  electro-static theory based on Gaussian
                                  approximating functions  . . . . . . . . 754--768
                 Zhong Zhou and   
               Anthony Chen and   
                      Deren Han   An extended alternating direction method
                                  for variational inequality problems with
                                  linear equality and inequality
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--782
          Mehmet Pakdemirli and   
            Hakan Boyacì   Generation of root finding algorithms
                                  via perturbation theory and some
                                  formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--788
                 Limei Zhou and   
                     Yue Wu and   
                Liwei Zhang and   
                    Guang Zhang   Convergence analysis of a differential
                                  equation approach for solving nonlinear
                                  programming problems . . . . . . . . . . 789--797
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
                   Hui-Yin Tsai   Computational algorithmic procedure of
                                  optimal inventory policy involving a
                                  negative exponential crashing cost and
                                  variable lead time demand  . . . . . . . 798--808
                Fengde Chen and   
                    Aimei Huang   On a nonautonomous predator-prey model
                                  with prey dispersal  . . . . . . . . . . 809--822
            R. Varón and   
    M. García-Moreno and   
                  E. Valero and   
              M. E. Fuentes and   
               M. L. L. Amo and   
                   E. Arias and   
                 E. Arribas and   
       F. García-Sevilla   Optimized derivation of transfer
                                  functions and a software giving it.
                                  Application to biological systems  . . . 823--841
                  O. D. Makinde   Adomian decomposition approach to a SIR
                                  epidemic model with constant vaccination
                                  strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842--848
                  Xing Tao Wang   Numerical solutions of optimal control
                                  for time delay systems by hybrid of
                                  block-pulse functions and Legendre
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--856
               Zhen-hua Bao and   
                  Zhong-xing Ye   The Gerber--Shiu discounted penalty
                                  function in the delayed renewal risk
                                  process with random income . . . . . . . 857--863
                 Rafael Cortell   Viscous flow and heat transfer over a
                                  nonlinearly stretching sheet . . . . . . 864--873
        Michael M. Kostreva and   
              Latif Talybly and   
             Irina V. Viktorova   Modeling of fatigue fracture under
                                  stationary stochastic loading conditions 874--879
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   Fourth-order iterative methods free from
                                  second derivative  . . . . . . . . . . . 880--885
               Shao-Jian Qu and   
               Ke-Cun Zhang and   
                        Ying Ji   A new global optimization algorithm for
                                  signomial geometric programming via
                                  Lagrangian relaxation  . . . . . . . . . 886--894
               M. R. Ahmadi and   
                       H. Adibi   The Chebyshev Tau technique for the
                                  solution of Laplace's equation . . . . . 895--900
             Zhiguang Xiong and   
                 Chuanmiao Chen   Superconvergence of triangular quadratic
                                  finite element with interpolated
                                  coefficients for semilinear parabolic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--907
                     Zhijie Cai   Convergence and error estimates for
                                  meshless Galerkin methods  . . . . . . . 908--916
                        Li Wang   Equivalent conditions for the
                                  convergence of extrapolated method for
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--923
                  Feng Shan and   
               Li-Ping Pang and   
                   Zun-Quan Xia   An approximate $\mathcal{U}$-Lagrangian
                                  and algorithm to $\mathcal{U}
                                  \mathcal{V}$ decomposition . . . . . . . 924--930
                 Hong Zhang and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                   Rongping Zhu   Permanence and extinction of a periodic
                                  predator--prey delay system with
                                  functional response and stage structure
                                  for prey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--944
              MingBao Cheng and   
                 ShiJie Sun and   
                        Ying Yu   A note on flow shop scheduling problems
                                  with a learning effect on no-idle
                                  dominant machines  . . . . . . . . . . . 945--949
                M. Iranpoor and   
      S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi and   
                 A. Mohamadinia   Earliness tardiness production planning
                                  and scheduling in flexible flowshop
                                  systems under finite planning horizon    950--964
                    Jinhai Chen   New modified regula falsi method for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 965--971
                     B. Chanane   Computing the eigenvalues of singular
                                  Sturm--Liouville problems using the
                                  regularized sampling method  . . . . . . 972--978
                 G. Dattoli and   
           H. M. Srivastava and   
                   K. Zhukovsky   Operational methods and differential
                                  equations with applications to
                                  initial-value problems . . . . . . . . . 979--1001
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The extended tanh method for new
                                  solitons solutions for many forms of the
                                  fifth-order KdV equations  . . . . . . . 1002--1014
             Zhiqiang Sheng and   
              Guangwei Yuan and   
                    Xudeng Hang   Unconditional stability of parallel
                                  difference schemes with second order
                                  accuracy for parabolic equation  . . . . 1015--1031
               Changfeng Ma and   
                    Lihua Jiang   Some research on Levenberg--Marquardt
                                  method for the nonlinear equations . . . 1032--1040
               S. M. Debbal and   
              F. Bereksi-Reguig   Time-frequency analysis of the first and
                                  the second heartbeat sounds  . . . . . . 1041--1052
             Agraj Tripathi and   
                 Ram Naresh and   
                  Dileep Sharma   Modeling the effect of screening of
                                  unaware infectives on the spread of HIV
                                  infection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1068
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Information matrices for some bivariate
                                  Pareto distributions . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1079
                 Gordon G. Cash   The number of $n$-cycles in a graph  . . 1080--1083
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
              Sheau-Chiann Chen   Computational comparison of prediction
                                  intervals of future observation for
                                  two-parameter exponential distribution   1084--1117


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 185, Number 1, February 1, 2007

                 Ji-hong Li and   
                  Nai-shuo Tian   The discrete-time GI / Geo / 1 queue
                                  with working vacations and vacation
                                  interruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                 Erdal Erel and   
                   Jay B. Ghosh   Customer order scheduling on a single
                                  machine with family setup times:
                                  Complexity and algorithms  . . . . . . . 11--18
                   Xin Wang and   
                     Zhiping Li   A numerical iterative scheme for
                                  computing finite order rank-one convex
                                  envelopes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
             Der-Chyuan Lou and   
              Jui-Chang Lai and   
               Chia-Long Wu and   
                   Te-Jen Chang   An efficient Montgomery exponentiation
                                  algorithm by using signed-digit-recoding
                                  and folding techniques . . . . . . . . . 31--44
                C. A. Dorao and   
                 H. A. Jakobsen   A parallel time--space least-squares
                                  spectral element solver for
                                  incompressible flow problems . . . . . . 45--58
                 Heng Liang and   
                Linsong Shi and   
               Fengshan Bai and   
                    Xiaoyan Liu   Random path method with pivoting for
                                  computing permanents of matrices . . . . 59--71
                    Yi-Chung Hu   Sugeno fuzzy integral for finding fuzzy
                                  if--then classification rules  . . . . . 72--83
            Reza Farzipoor Saen   A new mathematical approach for
                                  suppliers selection: Accounting for
                                  non-homogeneity is important . . . . . . 84--95
                   Andrea Reese   A Quasi-shrinking rectangle algorithm
                                  for complex zeros of a function  . . . . 96--114
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Solutions of tenth-order boundary value
                                  problems using eleventh degree spline    115--127
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Solution of the system of fourth-order
                                  boundary value problems using
                                  non-polynomial spline technique  . . . . 128--135
                 Hsien-Chung Wu   Using fuzzy sets theory and
                                  Black--Scholes formula to generate
                                  pricing boundaries of European options   136--146
              J. Rashidinia and   
                    M. Zarebnia   New approach for numerical solution of
                                  Hammerstein integral equations . . . . . 147--154
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
            Abdellah Bnouhachem   On an iterative algorithm for general
                                  variational inequalities . . . . . . . . 155--168
            P. S. Kechagias and   
          Basil K. Papadopoulos   Computational method to evaluate fuzzy
                                  arithmetic operations  . . . . . . . . . 169--177
                Michael Nwogugu   Decision-making, risk and corporate
                                  governance: a critique of methodological
                                  issues in bankruptcy/recovery prediction
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--196
              H. De la Cruz and   
               R. J. Biscay and   
               F. Carbonell and   
                   T. Ozaki and   
                  J. C. Jimenez   A higher order local linearization
                                  method for solving ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--212
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   A numerical algorithm for finding
                                  solutions of $p$-Laplacian Dirichlet
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
               Mohsen Ziaee and   
                  S. J. Sadjadi   Mixed binary integer programming
                                  formulations for the flow shop
                                  scheduling problems. A case study: ISD
                                  projects scheduling  . . . . . . . . . . 218--228
                 Yusong Cao and   
                       Yi Zhang   Optimal reinsurance under the general
                                  mixture risk measures  . . . . . . . . . 229--239
            Ching-Jing Kung and   
                  Hui-Chin Tang   A revised forward and backward heuristic
                                  for two-term multiple recursive random
                                  number generators  . . . . . . . . . . . 240--246
                   M. H. Xu and   
                  Y. Q. Liu and   
                Q. L. Huang and   
                Y. X. Zhang and   
                     G. F. Luan   An improved Dijkstra's shortest path
                                  algorithm for sparse network . . . . . . 247--254
                   K. Amini and   
           N. Mahdavi-Amiri and   
                 M. R. Peyghami   Extended reduced rank two Abaffian
                                  update schemes in the ABS-type methods   255--265
                  Zhi-Ming Yang   The block smoothing method for
                                  estimating the spectral radius of a
                                  nonnegative matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 266--271
                Tingkai Sun and   
                   Songcan Chen   Class label versus sample label-based
                                  CCA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--283
                 Yuyang Qiu and   
              Zhenyue Zhang and   
                     Junfeng Lu   Matrix iterative solutions to the least
                                  squares problem of $BXA^T = F$ with some
                                  linear constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 284--300
                   Pei-wang Gao   An efficient bound-and-stopped algorithm
                                  for integer linear programs on the
                                  objective function hyperplane  . . . . . 301--311
              Sastra Wijaya and   
               Syn Kiat Tan and   
                 Sheng-Uei Guan   Permutation and sampling with maximum
                                  length CA or pseudorandom number
                                  generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--321
              Xianggang Yin and   
                     Weidong Yu   The virtual manufacturing model of the
                                  worsted yarn based on artificial neural
                                  networks and grey theory . . . . . . . . 322--332
                 S. K. Peer and   
           Dinesh K. Sharma and   
               Rakesh K. Sharma   Finding shortest path in the presence of
                                  barriers: An alternate approach  . . . . 333--345
           Gintare Leonaite and   
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  tridiagonal matrices with two zero rows
                                  and eigenvalues on imaginary axis-I  . . 346--349
                Yunhai Xiao and   
                    Zengxin Wei   A new subspace limited memory BFGS
                                  algorithm for large-scale bound
                                  constrained optimization . . . . . . . . 350--359
              J. Rashidinia and   
               R. Mohammadi and   
                    R. Jalilian   The numerical solution of non-linear
                                  singular boundary value problems arising
                                  in physiology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--367
     Ljiljana D. Petkovi\'c and   
          Miodrag S. Petkovi\'c   A note on some recent methods for
                                  solving nonlinear equations  . . . . . . 368--374
                   Ming-Miin Yu   The capacity productivity change and the
                                  variable input productivity change: a
                                  new decomposition of the Malmquist
                                  productivity index . . . . . . . . . . . 375--381
                    Ying Ji and   
               Ke-Cun Zhang and   
                   Shao-Jian Qu   A deterministic global optimization
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--387
                   Atin Das and   
                     Pritha Das   Chaotic analysis of the foreign exchange
                                  rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--396
                         Wei Li   Practical criteria for positive-definite
                                  matrix, $M$-matrix and Hurwitz matrix    397--401
                  Dahe Feng and   
                 Tianlan He and   
               Junliang Lü   Bifurcations of travelling wave
                                  solutions for (2 + 1)-dimensional
                                  Boussinesq-type equation . . . . . . . . 402--414
                   Jiu Ding and   
                  Guangming Yao   The eigenvalue problem of a specially
                                  updated matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--420
              Baljeet Singh and   
                 Rajneesh Kumar   Wave reflection at
                                  viscoelastic--micropolar elastic
                                  interface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--431
                  Wen-Yuan Chen   Color image steganography scheme using
                                  set partitioning in hierarchical trees
                                  coding, digital Fourier transform and
                                  adaptive phase modulation  . . . . . . . 432--448
                    Petro Babak   Nonlocal problems involving spatial
                                  structure for coupled reaction-diffusion
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--463
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
          Reza Mazrooei-Sebdani   Dynamics of $x_{n + 1} = x_{n - 2k + 1}
                                  / (x_{n - 2k + 1} + \alpha x_{n - 2t})$  464--472
               Li-Ning Xing and   
               Ying-Wu Chen and   
                   Xue-Shi Shen   Multiprogramming genetic algorithm for
                                  optimization problems with permutation
                                  property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--483
                   M. A. Tawhid   On minimizing the implicit Lagrangian
                                  for nonlinear complementarity problems
                                  under $H$-differentiability  . . . . . . 484--491
     H. Román-Flores and   
         A. Flores-Franulic and   
                 Y. Chalco-Cano   The fuzzy integral for monotone
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--498
               Hai-Feng Huo and   
                    Wan-Tong Li   Existence of positive periodic solution
                                  of a neutral impulsive delay
                                  predator--prey system  . . . . . . . . . 499--507
                   M. de la Sen   Quadratic stability and stabilization of
                                  switched dynamic systems with
                                  uncommensurate internal point delays . . 508--526
                Yongkui Zou and   
                 Qingwan Hu and   
                      Ran Zhang   On numerical studies of multi-point
                                  boundary value problem and its fold
                                  bifurcation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--537
               Habtu Zegeye and   
             Naseer Shahzad and   
                 Tefera Mekonen   Viscosity approximation methods for
                                  pseudocontractive mappings in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--546
               Wen-Jing Yan and   
                     Yi-Chen Ma   Finite element methods for the viscous
                                  incompressible fluid . . . . . . . . . . 547--553
             Hani I. Siyyam and   
             Mohamad A. Samarah   Finding special points using matrix-free
                                  predictor--corrector methods . . . . . . 554--563
                   Zhi Qian and   
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
                        Rui Shi   A modified method for a backward heat
                                  conduction problem . . . . . . . . . . . 564--573
           G. M. Amiraliyev and   
          I. G. Amiraliyeva and   
                   Mustafa Kudu   A numerical treatment for singularly
                                  perturbed differential equations with
                                  integral boundary condition  . . . . . . 574--582
                  Xiubin Xu and   
                 Yunlan Pan and   
                Robert D. Small   Nonlinear approximations to the
                                  derivative of delta function . . . . . . 583--593
               Teresa Faria and   
              Sergei Trofimchuk   Positive heteroclinics and traveling
                                  waves for scalar population models with
                                  a single delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--603
          Chiung-Chiou Tsai and   
                   Suh-Yuh Yang   Analysis of the $L^2$ least-squares
                                  finite element method for a
                                  velocity--vorticity problem arising in
                                  incompressible inviscid rotational flows 604--613
                   Yunxin Zhang   Solving partial differential equations
                                  by meshless methods using radial basis
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--627
             Xinguang Zhang and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Existence of positive solutions for
                                  second-order semipositone differential
                                  equations on the half-line . . . . . . . 628--635
         Mustafa Gülsu and   
                   Mehmet Sezer   Approximate solution to linear complex
                                  differential equation by a new
                                  approximate approach . . . . . . . . . . 636--645
               Mehmet Sezer and   
             Mustafa Gülsu   Polynomial solution of the most general
                                  linear Fredholm--Volterra
                                  integrodifferential-difference equations
                                  by means of Taylor collocation method    646--657
                   Jiu Ding and   
               Lawrence R. Mead   The maximum entropy method applied to
                                  stationary density computation . . . . . 658--666
              N. M. Bujurke and   
             C. S. Salimath and   
            R. B. Kudenatti and   
            S. C. Shiralashetti   A fast wavelet-multigrid method to solve
                                  elliptic partial differential equations  667--680
               Zhensheng Yu and   
               Weiguo Zhang and   
                     Baofeng Wu   Strong global convergence of an adaptive
                                  nonmonotone memory gradient method . . . 681--688
               Xinlong Feng and   
                   Zhinan Zhang   The rank of a random matrix  . . . . . . 689--694
                 Ülo Lepik   Numerical solution of evolution
                                  equations by the Haar wavelet method . . 695--704
                   Jun Long and   
               Changfeng Ma and   
                      Puyan Nie   A new filter method for solving
                                  nonlinear complementarity problems . . . 705--718
                    Fengde Chen   Permanence of a discrete $n$-species
                                  food-chain system with time delays . . . 719--726
        Claudianor O. Alves and   
Francisco J. S. A. Corrêa   On the existence of positive solution
                                  for a class of singular systems
                                  involving quasilinear operators  . . . . 727--736
     M. A. Hernández and   
                      N. Romero   Application of iterative processes of
                                  $R$-order at least three to operators
                                  with unbounded second derivative . . . . 737--747
                     Wei Xu and   
                  Liang Gao and   
                Yaning Tang and   
                   Jianwei Shen   A series of explicit and exact
                                  travelling wave solutions of the B ( m n
                                  ) equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--754
                   Tunay Bilgin   Corrigendum to ``Lacunary strong
                                  $A$-convergence with respect to a
                                  sequence of modulus functions'' [Appl.
                                  Math. Comput. 151 (3) (2004) 595--600]   755--755

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 185, Number 2, February 15, 2007

                De-Shuang Huang   Special issue on intelligent computing
                                  theory and methodology . . . . . . . . . 757--758
                 Chaolei Li and   
                    Jia Liu and   
                   Shanhong Xia   English sentence stress detection system
                                  based on HMM framework . . . . . . . . . 759--768
                 Lifeng Jia and   
                   Zhe Wang and   
                     Nan Lu and   
                 Xiujuan Xu and   
               Dongbin Zhou and   
                       Yan Wang   RFIMiner: a regression-based algorithm
                                  for recently frequent patterns in
                                  multiple time granularity data streams   769--783
                     Yan Wu and   
                    Ming Li and   
                  Guisheng Liao   Multiple features data fusion method in
                                  color texture analysis . . . . . . . . . 784--797
                  Yecai Guo and   
                    Wei Rao and   
                      Yinge Han   Extraction of higher-order coupling
                                  feature using three and one half
                                  dimension spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . 798--809
                      Li Yujian   An analytic solution for estimating
                                  two-dimensional hidden Markov models . . 810--822
                    Yi Wang and   
                 Jiankun Hu and   
                   Fengling Han   Enhanced gradient-based algorithm for
                                  the estimation of fingerprint
                                  orientation fields . . . . . . . . . . . 823--833
                Zejian Yuan and   
                  Yanyun Qu and   
                  Chao Yang and   
                      Yuehu Liu   A sequential subspace learning method
                                  and its application to dynamic texture
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834--843
                 Haiwei Pan and   
               Jianzhong Li and   
                      Wei Zhang   Incorporating domain knowledge into
                                  medical image clustering . . . . . . . . 844--856
              Xiaoyue Jiang and   
              Yinglei Cheng and   
                  Rong Xiao and   
                    Ying Li and   
                  Rongchun Zhao   Spherical harmonic based linear face
                                  de-lighting and compensation . . . . . . 857--868
               Shao-Hui Liu and   
               Hong-Xun Yao and   
                    Wen Gao and   
                 Yong-Liang Liu   An image fragile watermark scheme based
                                  on chaotic image pattern and pixel-pairs 869--882
                Ji-Xiang Du and   
             Xiao-Feng Wang and   
                  Guo-Jun Zhang   Leaf shape based plant species
                                  recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--893
              Zhongshi Wang and   
                     Wei Wu and   
                   Xinhe Xu and   
                     Dingyu Xue   Recognition and location of the internal
                                  corners of planar checkerboard
                                  calibration pattern image  . . . . . . . 894--906
                 Dengpan Ye and   
                Changfu Zou and   
                 Yuewei Dai and   
                   Zhiquan Wang   A new adaptive watermarking for
                                  real-time MPEG videos  . . . . . . . . . 907--918
                Zhengyu Zhu and   
              Xinghuan Chen and   
              Qingsheng Zhu and   
                     Qihong Xie   A GA-based query optimization method for
                                  web information retrieval  . . . . . . . 919--930
               Fengling Han and   
                 Jiankun Hu and   
                 Xinghuo Yu and   
                        Yi Wang   Fingerprint images encryption via
                                  multi-scroll chaotic attractors  . . . . 931--939
                Yiping Hong and   
               Jianqiang Yi and   
                   Dongbin Zhao   Improved mean shift segmentation
                                  approach for natural images  . . . . . . 940--952
                     Wei Li and   
                 Rong Zhang and   
               Zhengkai Liu and   
               Huijing Zhao and   
              Ryosuke Shibasaki   An approach of laser-based vehicle
                                  monitor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--962
                Junyong You and   
               Guizhong Liu and   
                   Hongliang Li   A novel attention model and its
                                  application in video analysis  . . . . . 963--975
               Jianqiang Yi and   
                  Qian Wang and   
               Dongbin Zhao and   
                    John T. Wen   BP neural network prediction-based
                                  variable-period sampling approach for
                                  networked control systems  . . . . . . . 976--988
                 Xinyu Wang and   
                 Junwei Lei and   
                  Changpeng Pan   Trigonometric RBF neural robust
                                  controller design for a class of
                                  nonlinear system with linear input
                                  unmodeled dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . 989--1002
                 Shujuan Li and   
                     Yan Li and   
                   Yong Liu and   
                      Yuefei Xu   A GA-based NN approach for makespan
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1014
            Michiharu Maeda and   
             Masaya Suenaga and   
                Hiromi Miyajima   Qubit neuron according to quantum
                                  circuit for XOR problem  . . . . . . . . 1015--1025
              Jing-Ru Zhang and   
                  Jun Zhang and   
               Tat-Ming Lok and   
                 Michael R. Lyu   A hybrid particle swarm
                                  optimization--back-propagation algorithm
                                  for feedforward neural network training  1026--1037
                   Jing Jie and   
              Jianchao Zeng and   
                  Chongzhao Han   An extended mind evolutionary
                                  computation model for optimizations  . . 1038--1049
                    Ben Niu and   
                Yunlong Zhu and   
                Xiaoxian He and   
                       Henry Wu   MCPSO: a multi-swarm cooperative
                                  particle swarm optimizer . . . . . . . . 1050--1062
              Jian-Xun Peng and   
                    Kang Li and   
             Steve Thompson and   
              Peter A. Wieringa   Distribution-based adaptive bounding
                                  genetic algorithm for continuous
                                  optimisation problems  . . . . . . . . . 1063--1077
            Tauqeer Hussain and   
              Mian M. Awais and   
                 Shafay Shamail   Applying fuzzy logic to measure
                                  completeness of a conceptual model . . . 1078--1086
                  Feng Wang and   
               Yuanxiang Li and   
                      Li Li and   
                    Kangshun Li   Automated analog circuit design using
                                  two-layer genetic programming  . . . . . 1087--1097
               Dun-Wei Gong and   
              Guo-Sheng Hao and   
                  Yong Zhou and   
                   Xiao-Yan Sun   Interactive genetic algorithms with
                                  multi-population adaptive hierarchy and
                                  their application in fashion design  . . 1098--1108
                  Xuan Zhao and   
              Shengjin Wang and   
                  Xiaoqing Ding   A dynamic generating graphical model for
                                  point-sets matching  . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1119
                Shaoming Li and   
                   Qian Yin and   
                   Ping Guo and   
                 Michael R. Lyu   A hierarchical mixture model for
                                  software reliability prediction  . . . . 1120--1130
                  Ming Fang and   
                Yantao Tian and   
                         Li Guo   Fault diagnosis of nonlinear system
                                  based on generalized observer  . . . . . 1131--1137
                Lisha Zhang and   
                  Zhengxing Sun   An experimental comparison of machine
                                  learning for adaptive sketch recognition 1138--1148
              Shengping Liu and   
                 Licheng Wu and   
                        Zhen Lu   Impact dynamics and control of a
                                  flexible dual-arm space robot capturing
                                  an object  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1159
                 Wanggen Li and   
                 Yongsheng Ding   A microfluidic systems-based DNA
                                  algorithm for solving special 0--1
                                  integer programming problem  . . . . . . 1160--1170
                    Hong Gu and   
                   Hongwei Wang   Fuzzy prediction of chaotic time series
                                  based on singular value decomposition    1171--1185


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 186, Number 1, March 1, 2007

                        Tao Yan   A class of smoothing methods for
                                  mathematical programs with
                                  complementarity constraints  . . . . . . 1--9
           Alireza Amirteimoori   DEA efficiency analysis: Efficient and
                                  anti-efficient frontier  . . . . . . . . 10--16
                  O. D. Makinde   Solving ratio-dependent predator--prey
                                  system with constant effort harvesting
                                  using Adomian decomposition method . . . 17--22
                    Fengde Chen   Permanence of a discrete $N$-species
                                  cooperation system with time delays and
                                  feedback controls  . . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
                Fengde Chen and   
                   Minsheng You   Permanence for an integrodifferential
                                  model of mutualism . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
                 Leda Galue and   
                S. L. Kalla and   
                B. N. Al-Saqabi   Fractional extensions of the temperature
                                  field problems in oil strata . . . . . . 35--44
                   Wei Ding and   
                Yepeng Xing and   
                      Maoan Han   Anti-periodic boundary value problems
                                  for first order impulsive functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 45--53
              N. M. Bujurke and   
                V. B. Awati and   
                   N. N. Katagi   Computer extended series solution for
                                  flow in a narrow channel of varying gap  54--69
            Nassar H. S. Haidar   On a symmetrized definite integration    70--73
                M. Sugisaka and   
                       D. Hazry   Development of a proportional control
                                  method for a mobile robot  . . . . . . . 74--82
              Jianqing Chen and   
                     Boling Guo   Blow up solutions for one class of
                                  system of Pekar--Choquard type nonlinear
                                  Schrödinger equation  . . . . . . . . . . 83--92
               Xinyuan Liao and   
               Zigen Ouyang and   
                  Shengfan Zhou   Permanence and stability of equilibrium
                                  for a two-prey one-predator discrete
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--100
                   S. A. Belbas   Optimal control of Goursat--Darboux
                                  systems with discontinuous co-state  . . 101--116
             M. M. Hosseini and   
                  H. Nasabzadeh   Modified Adomian decomposition method
                                  for specific second order ordinary
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 117--123
                   H. Kunze and   
                     K. Heidler   The collage coding method and its
                                  application to an inverse problem for
                                  the Lorenz system  . . . . . . . . . . . 124--129
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   New solitary wave solutions to the
                                  modified forms of Degasperis--Procesi
                                  and Camassa--Holm equations  . . . . . . 130--141
           J. Y. T. Mugisha and   
                      H. Ddumba   The dynamics of a fisheries model with
                                  feeding patterns and harvesting: \em
                                  Lates niloticus and \em Oreochromis
                                  niloticus in Lake Victoria . . . . . . . 142--158
                   Dah-Jing Jwo   Remarks on the Kalman filtering
                                  simulation and verification  . . . . . . 159--174
              J. Rashidinia and   
                  E. Jafarzadeh   Accelerated generalized successive
                                  overrelaxation method for least squares
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183
                  Feng Ding and   
                  Yongsong Xiao   A finite-data-window least squares
                                  algorithm with a forgetting factor for
                                  dynamical modeling . . . . . . . . . . . 184--192
              S. Hoya White and   
   A. Martín del Rey and   
G. Rodríguez Sánchez   Modeling epidemics using cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--202
           Azad A. Siddiqui and   
                  M. T. Mustafa   Wavelet optimized finite difference
                                  method with non-static re-gridding . . . 203--211
              K. Maleknejad and   
                   T. Lotfi and   
                     Y. Rostami   Numerical computational method in
                                  solving Fredholm integral equations of
                                  the second kind by using Coifman wavelet 212--218
                  R. K. Mohanty   An implicit high accuracy variable mesh
                                  scheme for $1$-D non-linear singular
                                  parabolic partial differential equations 219--229
                  M. Jenabi and   
      S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi and   
               S. A. Torabi and   
                      B. Karimi   Two hybrid meta-heuristics for the
                                  finite horizon ELSP in flexible flow
                                  lines with unrelated parallel machines   230--245
                   H. Adibi and   
                Jaafar Es'haghi   Numerical solution for biharmonic
                                  equation using multilevel radial basis
                                  functions and domain decomposition
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--255
             E. Yusufo\uglu and   
                       A. Bekir   A travelling wave solution to the
                                  Ostrovsky equation . . . . . . . . . . . 256--260
                   Jian Liu and   
                     Jianguo Si   Analytic solutions for a class of
                                  differential equation with delays
                                  depending on state . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270
                  Yongfu Su and   
                   Xiaolong Qin   General iteration algorithm and
                                  convergence rate optimal model for
                                  common fixed points of nonexpansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278
               Xinyuan Liao and   
              Shengfan Zhou and   
                    Yuming Chen   Permanence for a discrete time
                                  Lotka--Volterra type food-chain model
                                  with delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--285
             Zaid M. Odibat and   
             Nabil T. Shawagfeh   Generalized Taylor's formula . . . . . . 286--293
Eduardo Hernández M. and   
               Mark A. McKibben   On state-dependent delay partial neutral
                                  functional--differential equations . . . 294--301
                 G. Dattoli and   
              M. Migliorati and   
                    Subuhi Khan   Solutions of integro-differential
                                  equations and operational methods  . . . 302--308
                   T. Hayat and   
                     N. Ali and   
                      S. Asghar   Peristaltic motion of a Burger's fluid
                                  in a planar channel  . . . . . . . . . . 309--329
                    S. R. Singh   A simple method of forecasting based on
                                  fuzzy time series  . . . . . . . . . . . 330--339
              Fu-zhuo Huang and   
                  Ling Wang and   
                         Qie He   An effective co-evolutionary
                                  differential evolution for constrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--356
                 Hongwei Li and   
                      Kean Chen   Gauss quadrature rules for Cauchy
                                  principal value integrals with wavelets  357--364
                   J. X. Li and   
                    H. W. Zhang   On the convergence of partitioning group
                                  correction algorithms  . . . . . . . . . 365--378
                Yao-tang Li and   
                 Cui-xia Li and   
                   Shi-liang Wu   Improving AOR method for consistent
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--388
                 Zhijun Liu and   
                Ronghua Tan and   
                    Lansun Chen   Global stability in a periodic delayed
                                  predator--prey system  . . . . . . . . . 389--403
                Xinsheng Du and   
                   Zengqin Zhao   A necessary and sufficient condition for
                                  the existence of positive solutions to
                                  singular sublinear three-point boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--413
                Shu-zhi Wei and   
                  Zhong-xing Ye   Multi-period optimization portfolio with
                                  bankruptcy control in stochastic market  414--425
            Guang-Xin Huang and   
                       Feng Yin   Constrained inverse eigenproblem and
                                  associated approximation problem for
                                  anti-Hermitian $R$-symmetric matrices    426--434
               Chien-Chang Chou   A fuzzy MCDM method for solving marine
                                  transshipment container port selection
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--444
               R. R. Sarkar and   
            B. Mukhopadhyay and   
           R. Bhattacharyya and   
                Sandip Banerjee   Time lags can control algal bloom in two
                                  harmful phytoplankton--zooplankton
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--459
                  Xiao Wang and   
                    Zhixiang Li   Dynamics for a class of general
                                  hematopoiesis model with periodic
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--468
                  Zengji Du and   
                   Zhanbing Bai   Asymptotic solutions for a second-order
                                  differential equation with three-point
                                  boundary conditions  . . . . . . . . . . 469--473
                      Yu Yaxuan   Rational formal solutions of hybrid
                                  lattice equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--482
                  Houde Han and   
                      Zhenli Xu   Numerical solitons of generalized
                                  Korteweg--de Vries equations . . . . . . 483--489
            M. Bagheroskoui and   
           S. Mohammad Hosseini   Investigation of a preconditioner for
                                  the $P_2 - P_1$ finite element solution
                                  of Stokes problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 490--495
        Abdellah Bnouhachem and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Numerical comparison between
                                  prediction--correction methods for
                                  general variational inequalities . . . . 496--505
                    Sheng Zhong   An efficient algorithm for topology
                                  discovery of a blackbox communication
                                  network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--508
                Yasuhito Tanaka   Equivalence of the HEX game theorem and
                                  the Arrow impossibility theorem  . . . . 509--515
                Xinzhu Meng and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                  Huidong Cheng   Two profitless delays for the SEIRS
                                  epidemic disease model with nonlinear
                                  incidence and pulse vaccination  . . . . 516--529
                     Xinyuan Wu   Error analysis for the
                                  predictor--corrector process relating to
                                  ill-conditioned linear system of
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--534
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   A variant of super-Halley method with
                                  accelerated fourth-order convergence . . 535--539
                  Ram Avtar and   
                  Deepti Tandon   Modelling the transmural transport of
                                  oxygen to the retina . . . . . . . . . . 540--547
               Godfrey Saldanha   Single cell high order difference
                                  schemes for Poisson's equation in three
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--557
        Zarina Bibi Ibrahim and   
    Khairil Iskandar Othman and   
               Mohamed Suleiman   Implicit $r$-point block backward
                                  differentiation formula for solving
                                  first-order stiff ODEs . . . . . . . . . 558--565
                  M. Z. Liu and   
               Jianfang Gao and   
                     Z. W. Yang   Oscillation analysis of numerical
                                  solution in the $\theta$-methods for
                                  equation $x^\prime(t) + ax(t) + a_1 x([t
                                  - 1]) = 0$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--578
                  M. S. El-Azab   An approximation scheme for a nonlinear
                                  diffusion Fisher's equation  . . . . . . 579--588
         Anouar Ben Mabrouk and   
     Mohamed Lakdar Ben Mohamed   Nodal solutions for some nonlinear
                                  elliptic equations . . . . . . . . . . . 589--597
                    Jingtang Ma   Finite element methods for partial
                                  Volterra integro-differential equations
                                  on two-dimensional unbounded spatial
                                  domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--609
                 Guoyuan Li and   
               C. Rhett Jackson   Simple, accurate, and efficient
                                  revisions to MacCormack and Saulyev
                                  schemes: High Peclet numbers . . . . . . 610--622
               Shelly Arora and   
             S. S. Dhaliwal and   
                  V. K. Kukreja   Computationally efficient technique for
                                  weight functions and effect of
                                  orthogonal polynomials on the average    623--631
                    Qi Wang and   
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A new coupled sub-equations expansion
                                  method and novel complexiton solutions
                                  of (2 + 1)-dimensional Burgers equation  632--637
                   A. Kaabi and   
             A. Kerayechian and   
                  F. Toutounian   A new version of successive
                                  approximations method for solving
                                  Sylvester matrix equations . . . . . . . 638--645
        Gospava B. Djordjevi\'c   Mixed convolutions of the Jacobsthal
                                  type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--651
               Mohamed El-Gamel   Comparison of the solutions obtained by
                                  Adomian decomposition and
                                  wavelet-Galerkin methods of
                                  boundary-value problems  . . . . . . . . 652--664
               A. Aminataei and   
                 S. S. Hosseini   The comparison of the stability of
                                  Adomian decomposition method with
                                  numerical methods of equation solution   665--669
               Linghua Kong and   
                  Ruxun Liu and   
                 Xiaohong Zheng   A survey on symplectic and
                                  multi-symplectic algorithms  . . . . . . 670--684
               M. Keyanpour and   
                   M. H. Farahi   Wing drag minimization . . . . . . . . . 685--692
                  Zhen Wang and   
                Hong-Qing Zhang   Many new kinds exact solutions to (2 +
                                  1)-dimensional Burgers equation and
                                  Klein--Gordon equation used a new method
                                  with symbolic computation  . . . . . . . 693--704
            Xiao-Ling Zhang and   
                Hong-Qing Zhang   A new generalized Riccati equation
                                  rational expansion method to a class of
                                  nonlinear evolution equations with
                                  nonlinear terms of any order . . . . . . 705--714
               Zhongyun Liu and   
                Yulin Zhang and   
                      Rui Ralha   Computing the square roots of matrices
                                  with central symmetry  . . . . . . . . . 715--726
               Jianzhou Liu and   
                        Anqi He   An interleaved iterative criterion for
                                  $H$-matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--734
                 Xiaozhe Hu and   
              Lingxiao Zhao and   
             Abdul Wasim Shaikh   The boundary penalty method for the
                                  diffusion equation subject to the
                                  specification of mass  . . . . . . . . . 735--748
                     R. Thukral   Further development of the new
                                  algorithms for accelerating the
                                  convergence of functional-type sequences 749--762
               Shao-Jian Qu and   
               Ke-Cun Zhang and   
                        Ying Ji   A global optimization algorithm using
                                  parametric linearization relaxation  . . 763--771
             Yunn-Kuang Chu and   
                   Jau-Chuan Ke   Mean response time for a G / G / 1
                                  queueing system: Simulated computation   772--779
                  S. Effati and   
                 M. Hoseini and   
                   A. R. Nazemi   A new numerical method by revised
                                  measure theory for solving the nonlinear
                                  initial value problems . . . . . . . . . 780--788
                  Tao Xiang and   
               Kwok-wo Wong and   
                  Xiaofeng Liao   A novel particle swarm optimizer with
                                  time-delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789--793
              K. Maleknejad and   
                   T. Lotfi and   
                    K. Mahdiani   Numerical solution of first kind
                                  Fredholm integral equations with
                                  wavelets-Galerkin method (WGM) and
                                  wavelets precondition  . . . . . . . . . 794--800
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   Numerical methods for finding multiple
                                  solutions of a semilinear elliptic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--805
                 Shuzi Zhou and   
                   Zhanyong Zou   A relaxation scheme for
                                  Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations  . . 806--813
                  S. Effati and   
                  M. Jafarzadeh   A new nonlinear neural network for
                                  solving a class of constrained
                                  parametric optimization problems . . . . 814--819
                  B. Dugnol and   
        C. Fernández and   
                     G. Galiano   Wolf population counting by spectrogram
                                  image processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 820--830
               Serdal Pamuk and   
                     Arzu Erdem   The method of lines for the numerical
                                  solution of a mathematical model for
                                  capillary formation: The role of
                                  endothelial cells in the capillary . . . 831--835
              K. Maleknejad and   
                     S. Sohrabi   Numerical solution of Fredholm integral
                                  equations of the first kind by using
                                  Legendre wavelets  . . . . . . . . . . . 836--843
         Mohamed A. Ramadan and   
               Ehab A. El-Sayed   On the matrix equation $XH = HX$ and the
                                  associated controllability problem . . . 844--859
     P. Pramod Chakravarthy and   
              K. Phaneendra and   
                    Y. N. Reddy   A seventh order numerical method for
                                  singular perturbation problems . . . . . 860--871
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  skew-symmetric tridiagonal matrices with
                                  eigenvalues on imaginary axis-II . . . . 872--878
                   Markus Neher   Verified integration of linear n th
                                  order ODEs using large steps . . . . . . 879--890
                 Arzu Erdem and   
                   Serdal Pamuk   The method of lines for the numerical
                                  solution of a mathematical model for
                                  capillary formation: The role of tumor
                                  angiogenic factor in the extra-cellular
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--897
                Kemal Polat and   
             Salih Güne\cs   Detection of ECG Arrhythmia using a
                                  differential expert system approach
                                  based on principal component analysis
                                  and least square support vector machine  898--906
                  Joachim Mertz   The dragon war . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--914
             Jun-Cheol Jeon and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Programmable cellular automata based
                                  Montgomery hardware architecture . . . . 915--922
                  Heng-Hui Chen   Global synchronization of chaotic
                                  systems via linear balanced feedback
                                  control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--931
              Fengjian Yang and   
             Chaolong Zhang and   
                    Dongqing Wu   Global stability analysis of impulsive
                                  BAM type Cohen--Grossberg neural
                                  networks with delays . . . . . . . . . . 932--940

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 186, Number 2, March 15, 2007

                Jianren Che and   
                          Ke Su   A modified SQP method and its global
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--951
              Hikmet Caglar and   
                   Nazan Caglar   Solution of fifth order boundary value
                                  problems by using local polynomial
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952--956
                Rahmat Ali Khan   Approximations and rapid convergence of
                                  solutions of nonlinear three point
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 957--968
                   Bongsoo Jang   Exact solutions to one dimensional
                                  non-homogeneous parabolic problems by
                                  the homogeneous Adomian decomposition
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--979
                   Jun Zhou and   
                     Li Cai and   
               Jian-Hu Feng and   
                   Wen-Xian Xie   Numerical simulation for two-phase flows
                                  using hybrid scheme  . . . . . . . . . . 980--991
             G. B. Loghmani and   
                   M. Ahmadinia   Numerical solution of sixth order
                                  boundary value problems with sixth
                                  degree B-spline functions  . . . . . . . 992--999
                 Emin Kahya and   
                    Jinhai Chen   A modified Secant method for
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 1000--1004
 Miquel Grau-Sánchez and   
José Luis Díaz-Barrero   A weighted variant family of Newton's
                                  method with accelerated third-order
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1009
                     Emin Kahya   A class of exponential quadratically
                                  convergent iterative formulae for
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 1010--1017
                Michael Nwogugu   Some game theory and financial
                                  contracting issues in corporate
                                  transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018--1030
                Michael Nwogugu   Some issues in disintermediation and
                                  securitization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1039
                    C. Prax and   
                   H. Sadat and   
                    E. Dabboura   Evaluation of high order versions of the
                                  diffuse approximate meshless method  . . 1040--1053
                Michael Nwogugu   Issues in disintermediation in the real
                                  estate brokerage sector  . . . . . . . . 1054--1064
               Chia-Long Wu and   
             Der-Chyuan Lou and   
              Jui-Chang Lai and   
                   Te-Jen Chang   Fast modular multi-exponentiation using
                                  modified complex arithmetic  . . . . . . 1065--1074
                       G. Landi   A fast truncated Lagrange method for
                                  large-scale image restoration problems   1075--1082
                  Pramada Valli   Numerical and statistical modelling for
                                  stabilisation of landslides  . . . . . . 1083--1093
             Daoud S. Daoud and   
                      N. Gurbuz   Time lagging and explicit interface
                                  prediction for nonoverlapping domain
                                  decomposition with parallel additive
                                  splitting method for multi-dimensional
                                  parabolic problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 1094--1103
                 Shiang-Tai Liu   A computational method for the
                                  maximization of long-run and short-run
                                  profit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104--1112
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   A numerical method to obtain positive
                                  solution for classes of sublinear
                                  semipositone systems . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1119
               Yisheng Song and   
                    Rudong Chen   Viscosity approximative methods to
                                  Ces\`aro means for non-expansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1120--1128
                Haihua Wang and   
                     Haibo Chen   Positive solutions of a nonlinear
                                  second-order $n$-point boundary value
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1136
                Shan Wenrui and   
                 Niu Zhilei and   
                    Guo Yanping   The distribution of zeros of solutions
                                  for a class of neutral delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1137--1150
          Mohamed Ali Hajji and   
                Kamel Al-Khaled   Two reliable methods for solving
                                  nonlinear evolution equations  . . . . . 1151--1162
                 Lishan Liu and   
                Bingmei Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Positive solutions of singular boundary
                                  value problems for nonlinear
                                  differential systems . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1172
                  M. Rahman and   
              Z. Jackiewicz and   
                  B. D. Welfert   Stochastic approximations of perturbed
                                  Fredholm Volterra integro-differential
                                  equation arising in mathematical
                                  neurosciences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1182
                Huanmin Yao and   
                    Minggen Cui   A new algorithm for a class of singular
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 1183--1191
            Mevludin Glavic and   
           Fernando L. Alvarado   An extension of Newton--Raphson power
                                  flow problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192--1204
            V. Ebrahimipour and   
                  A. Azadeh and   
                  K. Rezaie and   
                      K. Suzuki   A GA--PCA approach for power sector
                                  performance ranking based on machine
                                  productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1215
                  A. Azadeh and   
              S. F. Ghaderi and   
           Y. Partovi Miran and   
            V. Ebrahimipour and   
                      K. Suzuki   An integrated framework for continuous
                                  assessment and improvement of
                                  manufacturing systems  . . . . . . . . . 1216--1233
                Qimin Zhang and   
                  Chongzhao Han   Convergence of numerical solutions to
                                  stochastic age-structured population
                                  system with diffusion  . . . . . . . . . 1234--1242
              Tong-xiang Gu and   
                Xian-yu Zuo and   
               Li-tao Zhang and   
              Wan-qin Zhang and   
                Zhi-qiang Sheng   An improved bi-conjugate residual
                                  algorithm suitable for distributed
                                  parallel computing . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1253
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for tridiagonal matrices
                                  with elements $1, 0, 0, \ldots{}, 0, 1$
                                  in principal and $1, 1, 1,\ldots{}, 1$
                                  in neighbouring diagonals. I . . . . . . 1254--1257
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   A family of fifth-order iterations
                                  composed of Newton and third-order
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258--1262
        J. I. Peláez and   
          J. M. Doña and   
        J. A. Gómez-Ruiz   Analysis of OWA operators in decision
                                  making for modelling the majority
                                  concept  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263--1275
                   Tian Min and   
                   Danping Yang   Parallel finite difference schemes for
                                  heat equation based upon overlapping
                                  domain decomposition . . . . . . . . . . 1276--1292
                  Zhizhang Shen   A generalized broadcasting schema for
                                  the mesh structures  . . . . . . . . . . 1293--1310
            Saleh H. Al-Sharaeh   On the Hamiltonian cycle mapping onto
                                  $3$-D torus interconnection network
                                  based on base-$b$ reflected Gray codes   1311--1321
                  B. Batiha and   
           M. S. M. Noorani and   
                      I. Hashim   Numerical simulation of the generalized
                                  Huxley equation by He's variational
                                  iteration method . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322--1325
        Frank Emmert-Streib and   
                Matthias Dehmer   Topological mappings between graphs,
                                  trees and generalized trees  . . . . . . 1326--1333
                     He Bin and   
                  Meng Qing and   
                   Long Yao and   
                     Rui Weiguo   New exact solutions of the double
                                  sine-Gordon equation using symbolic
                                  computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334--1346
         Fumihide Shiraishi and   
                     Yuji Hatoh   Dynamic sensitivities in chaotic
                                  dynamical systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1359
                    Huaning Liu   A note on local randomness in polynomial
                                  random number and random function
                                  generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360--1366
                    Xiaoxia Dai   Finite element approximation of the pure
                                  Neumann problem using the iterative
                                  penalty method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1373
            R. A. Thuraisingham   Enhancing Poincaré plot information via
                                  sampling rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1374--1378
                   G. L. Silver   Operational measures of central tendency 1379--1384
              Hans Van de Vyver   An adapted explicit hybrid method of
                                  Numerov-type for the numerical
                                  integration of perturbed oscillators . . 1385--1394
                    Mustafa Inc   An $L$-stable extended two-step method
                                  for the integration of ordinary
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1395--1401
                   J. R. Sharma   A one-parameter family of second-order
                                  iteration methods  . . . . . . . . . . . 1402--1406
                     Qie He and   
                      Ling Wang   A hybrid particle swarm optimization
                                  with a feasibility-based rule for
                                  constrained optimization . . . . . . . . 1407--1422
             Jun-Cheol Jeon and   
                  Kee Young Yoo   Role delegation on multiple-attractor
                                  cellular automata based on
                                  pseudo-exhaustive bit patterns . . . . . 1423--1428
                 Li Bingjie and   
                    Liu Sanyang   On gradient-type optimization method
                                  utilizing mixed finite element
                                  approximation for optimal boundary
                                  control problem governed by bi-harmonic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1429--1440
               G. Potgieter and   
              A. P. Engelbrecht   Genetic algorithms for the structural
                                  optimisation of learned polynomial
                                  expressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1466
                E. Babolian and   
                   T. Lotfi and   
                    M. Paripour   Wavelet moment method for solving
                                  Fredholm integral equations of the first
                                  kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467--1471
                 M. Achache and   
                 H. Roumili and   
                    A. Keraghel   A numerical study of an infeasible
                                  primal-dual path-following algorithm for
                                  linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 1472--1479
                   W. J. Lv and   
                 Z. W. Yang and   
                      M. Z. Liu   Stability of the Euler--Maclaurin
                                  methods for neutral differential
                                  equations with piecewise continuous
                                  arguments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1480--1487
                  Kang Deng and   
             Zhiguang Xiong and   
                  Yunqing Huang   The Galerkin continuous finite element
                                  method for delay-differential equation
                                  with a variable term . . . . . . . . . . 1488--1496
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   A numerical method for finding positive
                                  solution of logistic equation  . . . . . 1497--1501
               Ronghua Chen and   
                     Zongmin Wu   Solving partial differential equation by
                                  using multiquadric quasi-interpolation   1502--1510
                 Zai-En Hou and   
                   Fu-Jian Duan   The approximation algorithm for solving
                                  a sort of non-smooth programming . . . . 1511--1519
                  Yibing Lv and   
                 Tiesong Hu and   
                  Zhongping Wan   A penalty function method for solving
                                  weak price control problem . . . . . . . 1520--1525
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   A combinatorial approximation algorithm
                                  for supply chain network flow problem    1526--1536
           Gintare Leonaite and   
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of odd order
                                  tridiagonal matrices with two zero rows.
                                  I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537--1541
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
             Xue-Zhong Wang and   
                   Ying-Ding Fu   Improving Jacobi methods for nonnegative
                                  $H$-matrices linear systems  . . . . . . 1542--1550
               Yonghong Yao and   
                   Jen-Chih Yao   On modified iterative method for
                                  nonexpansive mappings and monotone
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1558
          Khristo N. Boyadzhiev   Evaluation of series with Hurwitz and
                                  Lerch zeta function coefficients by
                                  using Hankel contour integrals . . . . . 1559--1571
              J. Rashidinia and   
                R. Jalilian and   
                   R. Mohammadi   Comment on the paper ``A class of
                                  methods based on non-polynomial spline
                                  functions for the solution of a special
                                  fourth-order boundary-value problems
                                  with engineering applications''  . . . . 1572--1580
          Abedallah Rababah and   
             Mohammad Al-Natour   The weighted dual functionals for the
                                  univariate Bernstein basis . . . . . . . 1581--1590
        Mehmet Bayramo\uglu and   
    Hülya \cSahintürk   Higher order regularized trace formula
                                  for the regular Sturm--Liouville
                                  equation contained spectral parameter in
                                  the boundary condition . . . . . . . . . 1591--1599
            M. R. Alirezaee and   
                   M. Afsharian   Model improvement for computational
                                  difficulties of DEA technique in the
                                  presence of special DMUs . . . . . . . . 1600--1611
                   Jing-Bo Chen   A multisymplectic pseudospectral method
                                  for seismic modeling . . . . . . . . . . 1612--1616
               Xinlong Feng and   
                     Yinnian He   High order iterative methods without
                                  derivatives for solving nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1617--1623
                      C. V. Pao   Monotone iterative methods for numerical
                                  solutions of nonlinear integro-elliptic
                                  boundary problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1624--1642
                S. Jayanthi and   
                      M. Kumari   Effect of variable viscosity on
                                  non-Darcy free or mixed convection flow
                                  on a vertical surface in a non-Newtonian
                                  fluid saturated porous medium  . . . . . 1643--1659
           Shinn-Horng Chen and   
                 Jyh-Horng Chou   Robust eigenvalue-clustering in a
                                  specified circular region for linear
                                  uncertain discrete singular systems with
                                  state delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1660--1670
               S. A. Ashour and   
                    H. M. Ahmed   A Gauss quadrature rule for
                                  hypersingular integrals  . . . . . . . . 1671--1682
           K. A. Ariyawansa and   
                     Yuntao Zhu   A class of volumetric barrier
                                  decomposition algorithms for stochastic
                                  quadratic programming  . . . . . . . . . 1683--1693
                   G. L. Silver   Analysis of three-dimensional grids:
                                  Interpolating the nine-point prism. The
                                  shifting operator as an analytical
                                  instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694--1700
                   M. Rafei and   
                 H. Daniali and   
                    D. D. Ganji   Variational iteration method for solving
                                  the epidemic model and the prey and
                                  predator problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 1701--1709
             Mouloud Koudil and   
           Karima Benatchba and   
              Amina Tarabet and   
             El Batoul Sahraoui   Using artificial bees to solve
                                  partitioning and scheduling problems in
                                  codesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1710--1722
                   A. Sadegheih   Sequence optimization and design of
                                  allocation using GA and SA . . . . . . . 1723--1730
                  A. Azadeh and   
              S. F. Ghaderi and   
              S. Tarverdian and   
                      M. Saberi   Integration of artificial neural
                                  networks and genetic algorithm to
                                  predict electrical energy consumption    1731--1741
                     Zhixue Luo   Optimal harvesting problem for an
                                  age-dependent $n$-dimensional food chain
                                  diffusion model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1742--1752
                  A. Azadeh and   
              S. F. Ghaderi and   
                 S. Sohrabkhani   Forecasting electrical consumption by
                                  integration of Neural Network, time
                                  series and ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . 1753--1761
               Li-Ping Pang and   
                   Jie Shen and   
                       Wei Wang   Two parallel distribution algorithms for
                                  convex constrained minimization problems 1762--1771


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 187, Number 1, April 1, 2007

           H. M. Srivastava and   
             Shigeyoshi Owa and   
                Tadayuki Sekine   Analytic function theory, fractional
                                  calculus and their applications  . . . . 1--2
                 V. S. Adamchik   On the Hurwitz function for rational
                                  arguments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
                R. Aghalary and   
                S. B. Joshi and   
            R. N. Mohapatra and   
                V. Ravichandran   Subordinations for analytic functions
                                  defined by the Dziok--Srivastava linear
                                  operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--19
              M. A. Aguirre and   
                       C. K. Li   The distributional products of
                                  particular distributions . . . . . . . . 20--26
               Hyo-Sung Ahn and   
              YangQuan Chen and   
                  Igor Podlubny   Robust stability test of a class of
                                  linear time-invariant interval
                                  fractional-order system using Lyapunov
                                  inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--34
             Rosihan M. Ali and   
            V. Ravichandran and   
                N. Seenivasagan   Coefficient bounds for $p$-valent
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46
        Osman Altìnta\cs   Neighborhoods of certain $p$-valently
                                  analytic functions with negative
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
                     M. K. Aouf   The quasi-Hadamard products of certain
                                  subclasses of analytic $p$-valent
                                  functions with negative coefficients . . 54--61
                   A. A. Attiya   On a generalization class of bounded
                                  starlike functions of complex order  . . 62--67
                 B. Bonilla and   
                  M. Rivero and   
                 J. J. Trujillo   On systems of linear fractional
                                  differential equations with constant
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--78
                 B. Bonilla and   
                  M. Rivero and   
L. Rodríguez-Germá and   
                 J. J. Trujillo   Fractional differential equations as
                                  alternative models to nonlinear
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 79--88
           Gabriella Bretti and   
                 Paolo E. Ricci   Laguerre-type special functions and
                                  population dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
                 Yu.A. Brychkov   On some new series of special functions  101--104
              Y. Ben Cheikh and   
                       M. Gaied   Characterization of the Dunkl-classical
                                  symmetric orthogonal polynomials . . . . 105--114
                Nak Eun Cho and   
                     In Hwa Kim   Inclusion properties of certain classes
                                  of meromorphic functions associated with
                                  the generalized hypergeometric function  115--121
                  Junesang Choi   Some mathematical constants  . . . . . . 122--140
                    E. Elizalde   Some analytic continuations of the
                                  Barnes zeta function in two and higher
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--152
               Keiko Fujita and   
           Yoshitsugu Takei and   
             Akira Morimoto and   
                 Ryuichi Ashino   Mathematical view of a blind source
                                  separation on a time frequency space . . 153--162
          Maria E. Gageonea and   
             Shigeyoshi Owa and   
              Radu N. Pascu and   
                 Mihai N. Pascu   A maximum modulus principle for
                                  non-analytic functions defined in the
                                  unit disk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--169
                         Ji Gao   On characterization of Euclidean spaces  170--175
                Chun-Yi Gao and   
                 Shi-Qiong Zhou   Certain subclass of starlike functions   176--182
    P. González-Vera and   
         H. Martínez and   
                 J. J. Trujillo   An application of Szeg\Ho quadratures to
                                  the computation of the Fourier transform 183--194
              Anvar Hasanov and   
                Mamasali Turaev   Decomposition formulas for the double
                                  hypergeometric functions G $_1$ and G
                                  $_2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
                   N. Hayek and   
      B. J. González and   
                   E. R. Negrin   A variant of the Stieltjes transform on
                                  distributions of compact support . . . . 202--206
             Hüseyin Irmak   Some applications of Hadamard
                                  convolution to multivalently analytic
                                  and multivalently meromorphic functions  207--214
               Jay M. Jahangiri   Generalized bounded boundary turning
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
                C. M. Joshi and   
              Yashoverdhan Vyas   Extensions of two $q$-series expansions
                                  with applications to biorthogonal
                                  rational functions . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
               Soon-Mo Jung and   
        Themistocles M. Rassias   Ulam's problem for approximate
                                  homomorphisms in connection with
                                  Bernoulli's differential equation  . . . 223--227
                Boris Khots and   
                  Dmitriy Khots   Observer's mathematics --- mathematics
                                  of relativity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--238
               A. A. Kilbas and   
                  M. Rivero and   
L. Rodríguez-Germá and   
                 J. J. Trujillo   $\alpha$-Analytic solutions of some
                                  linear fractional differential equations
                                  with variable coefficients . . . . . . . 239--249
              Adem Kilicman and   
      Zeyad Abdel Aziz Al Zhour   Kronecker operational matrices for
                                  fractional calculus and some
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--265
                    Taekyun Kim   Lebesgue--Radon--Nikodym theorem with
                                  respect to $q$-Volkenborn distribution
                                  on $\mu_q$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--271
                  Yong Chan Kim   Mapping properties of differential
                                  inequalities related to univalent
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--279
                Shy-Der Lin and   
             Yen-Shung Tsai and   
                    Pin-Yu Wang   Explicit solutions of a certain class of
                                  associated Legendre equations by means
                                  of fractional calculus . . . . . . . . . 280--289
                    Jin-Lin Liu   Further properties of a certain subclass
                                  of analytic and multivalent functions    290--294
         Francesco Mainardi and   
             Gianni Pagnini and   
                Rudolf Gorenflo   Some aspects of fractional diffusion
                                  equations of single and distributed
                                  order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--305
               Bahman Mehri and   
                   Sadegh Jokar   Lebesgue function for multivariate
                                  interpolation by radial basis functions  306--314
             S. P. Mirevski and   
               L. Boyadjiev and   
                     R. Scherer   On the Riemann--Liouville fractional
                                  calculus, $g$-Jacobi functions and
                                  $F$-Gauss functions  . . . . . . . . . . 315--325
           Madan Lal Mittal and   
                Uaday Singh and   
               Vishnu N. Mishra   On the strong Nörlund summability of
                                  conjugate Fourier series . . . . . . . . 326--331
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Some bivariate Bessel distributions  . . 332--339
            Katsuyuki Nishimoto   $N$-Fractional calculus of products of
                                  some power functions and some doubly
                                  infinite sums  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--349
          Junichi Nishiwaki and   
                 Shigeyoshi Owa   Certain classes of analytic functions
                                  concerned with uniformly starlike and
                                  convex functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--355
             Shigeyoshi Owa and   
            Tadayuki Sekine and   
                 Rikuo Yamakawa   On Sakaguchi type functions  . . . . . . 356--361
          Öznur Özkan   Some subordination results on the
                                  classes starlike and convex functions of
                                  complex order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--368
                   J. Patel and   
                      N. E. Cho   On certain sufficient conditions for
                                  close-to-convexity . . . . . . . . . . . 369--378
    Á. Pintér and   
                   Cs. Rakaczki   On the zeros of shifted Bernoulli
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--383
         Tibor K. Pogány   Whittaker-type derivative sampling
                                  reconstruction of stochastic
                                  $L^\alpha(\Omega)$-processes . . . . . . 384--394
                   Asghar Qadir   The generalization of special functions  395--402
                R. K. Raina and   
                   D. K. Bansal   Some properties of a certain class of
                                  rational functions . . . . . . . . . . . 403--407
                 Hitoshi Saitoh   Geometric properties of solutions of a
                                  class of ordinary linear differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--416
                  Ekrem Sava\cs   On some new double sequence spaces
                                  defined by a modulus . . . . . . . . . . 417--424
            Tadayuki Sekine and   
             Shigeyoshi Owa and   
               Kazuyuki Tsurumi   Integral means of certain analytic
                                  functions for fractional calculus  . . . 425--432
                T. N. Shanmugam   Hypergeometric functions in the
                                  geometric function theory  . . . . . . . 433--444
            T. N. Shanmugam and   
                 A. Singaravelu   Differential sandwich theorems for some
                                  subclasses of analytic functions
                                  associated with linear operator  . . . . 445--454
                   A. I. Shtern   Stability of the van der Waerden theorem
                                  on the continuity of homomorphisms of
                                  compact semisimple Lie groups  . . . . . 455--465
                  Yilmaz Simsek   On twisted $q$-Hurwitz zeta function and
                                  $q$-two-variable $L$-function  . . . . . 466--473
             Bhaskar Srivastava   Some theta-function identities . . . . . 474--478
            Rich Stankewitz and   
                    Hiroki Sumi   Structure of Julia sets of polynomial
                                  semigroups with bounded finite
                                  postcritical set . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--488
                    Hiroki Sumi   Random dynamics of polynomials and
                                  devil's-staircase-like functions in the
                                  complex plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
                  Katsuo Takano   On Laplace transforms of some
                                  probability densities  . . . . . . . . . 501--506
                R. Tremblay and   
                 B.-J. Fug\`ere   The use of fractional derivatives to
                                  expand analytical functions in terms of
                                  quadratic functions with applications to
                                  special functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 507--529
                Luis Verde-Star   Symmetric multivariate Chebyshev
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--534
                   Ram U. Verma   Proximal point algorithms and
                                  generalized nonlinear variational
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--543
                Pin-Yu Wang and   
                Shy-Der Lin and   
                   Shih-Tong Tu   A survey of fractional-calculus
                                  approaches to the solutions of the
                                  Bessel differential equation of general
                                  order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--555
                   Sheldon Yang   A further expansion of the Riemann
                                  $\zeta$-function . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--558
                O. Yürekli   Identities on fractional integrals and
                                  various integral transforms  . . . . . . 559--566

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 187, Number 2, April 15, 2007

                    Yan Xia and   
                   Guofen Zhang   Reliability equivalence factors in Gamma
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--573
               Chi-Ming Lin and   
                     Mitsuo Gen   Multiobjective resource allocation
                                  problem by multistage decision-based
                                  hybrid genetic algorithm . . . . . . . . 574--583
                  A. Azadeh and   
              S. F. Ghaderi and   
                  M. Anvari and   
                  M. Saberi and   
                  H. Izadbakhsh   An integrated artificial neural network
                                  and fuzzy clustering algorithm for
                                  performance assessment of decision
                                  making units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--599
            Biswajit Mondal and   
         Asoke Kumar Bhunia and   
               Manoranjan Maiti   Optimal two-species harvesting policy
                                  with price and size (biomass) of the
                                  fish population dependent catch rate
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--608
                Kwan Pyo Ko and   
             Byung-Gook Lee and   
                 Gang Joon Yoon   A study on the mask of interpolatory
                                  symmetric subdivision schemes  . . . . . 609--621
               Minghui Wang and   
               Xuehan Cheng and   
                    Musheng Wei   Iterative algorithms for solving the
                                  matrix equation $AXB + CX^T D = E$ . . . 622--629
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                      A. Barati   A third-order Newton-type method to
                                  solve systems of nonlinear equations . . 630--635
                 Gaohang Yu and   
                Yanlin Zhao and   
                    Zengxin Wei   A descent nonlinear conjugate gradient
                                  method for large-scale unconstrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--643
                   Ying Wan and   
                  Lina Song and   
                      LiYin and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Generalized method and new exact wave
                                  solutions for (2 + 1)-dimensional
                                  Broer--Kaup--Kupershmidt system  . . . . 644--657
                  Feng Ding and   
                 Huibo Chen and   
                        Ming Li   Multi-innovation least squares
                                  identification methods based on the
                                  auxiliary model for MISO systems . . . . 658--668
          Kamonrat Nammanee and   
                 Suthep Suantai   The modified Noor iterations with errors
                                  for non-Lipschitzian mappings in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--679
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                   Zhenyu Huang   Three-step methods for nonexpansive
                                  mappings and variational inequalities    680--685
              Hongxian Zhou and   
                     Wei Xu and   
              Xiaoshan Zhao and   
                 Bingchang Zhou   Bifurcations of limit cycles for a
                                  perturbed quintic Hamiltonian system
                                  with four infinite singular points . . . 686--700
               Zhi-lian Yan and   
               Xi-qiang Liu and   
                      Ling Wang   The direct symmetry method and its
                                  application in variable coefficients
                                  Schrödinger equation  . . . . . . . . . . 701--707
          A. Hermoso-Carazo and   
        J. Linares-Pérez   Different approaches for state filtering
                                  in nonlinear systems with uncertain
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--724
            Luis F. Cordero and   
          René Escalante   Segmented Tau approximation for test
                                  neutral functional differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--740
             Emiko Ishiwata and   
                Yoshiaki Muroya   Rational approximation method for delay
                                  differential equations with proportional
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--747
                 Huifeng Gu and   
                     Zhi-bin Li   A modified Adomian method for system of
                                  nonlinear differential equations . . . . 748--755
  N. Castro-González and   
     J. Y. Vélez-Cerrada   The weighted Drazin inverse of perturbed
                                  matrices with related support
                                  idempotents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--764
             Qing-Hua Zhang and   
              Shuiming Chen and   
                    Jian Ma and   
                    Yuanyuan Qu   Solutions of linear ordinary
                                  differential equations with non-singular
                                  varying coefficients by using the
                                  corrected Fourier series . . . . . . . . 765--776
                Changpin Li and   
                    Weihua Deng   Remarks on fractional derivatives  . . . 777--784
                Tomohiro Sogabe   On a two-term recurrence for the
                                  determinant of a general matrix  . . . . 785--788
                K. R. Kazmi and   
                     F. A. Khan   Auxiliary problems and algorithm for a
                                  system of generalized variational-like
                                  inequality problems  . . . . . . . . . . 789--796
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
                   V. P. Ramesh   Hybrid method for numerical solution of
                                  singularly perturbed delay differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--814
               Jizhong Wang and   
                Fanwei Meng and   
                    Sanyang Liu   Integral average method for oscillation
                                  of second order partial differential
                                  equations with delays  . . . . . . . . . 815--823
        Ivanka Tr. Angelova and   
                Lubin G. Vulkov   High-order finite difference schemes for
                                  elliptic problems with intersecting
                                  interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--843
                Fanwei Meng and   
                      Cuiqin Ma   Oscillation results for linear second
                                  order matrix differential systems with
                                  damping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844--855
                M. El-Tawil and   
                W. El-Tahan and   
                     A. Hussein   Using FEM--RVT technique for solving a
                                  randomly excited ordinary differential
                                  equation with a random operator  . . . . 856--867
                  Y. G. Sun and   
                    S. H. Saker   Forced oscillation of higher order
                                  nonlinear difference equations . . . . . 868--872
                   Ling Bai and   
                        Ke Wang   A diffusive single-species model with
                                  periodic coefficients and its optimal
                                  harvesting policy  . . . . . . . . . . . 873--882
               Yonghong Yao and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Convergence of three-step iterations for
                                  asymptotically nonexpansive mappings . . 883--892
                  Junyu Tan and   
                    Yong Wu and   
                   Linhua Zhang   Two-dimensional multiple non-homogeneous
                                  harmonic equation and its boundary
                                  integral equations . . . . . . . . . . . 893--901
                Zhaolu Tian and   
                   Chuanqing Gu   The iterative methods for
                                  centrosymmetric matrices . . . . . . . . 902--911
     Fábio A. Dorini and   
           M. Cristina C. Cunha   A finite volume method for the mean of
                                  the solution of the random transport
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--921
               Ali Tavakoli and   
             Asghar Kerayechian   Improvement of the rate of convergence
                                  estimates for multigrid algorithm  . . . 922--928
         Bimal Kumar Mishra and   
                   Dinesh Saini   Mathematical models on computer viruses  929--936
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   New iterative schemes for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--943
                  B. Ostadi and   
                D. Moazzami and   
                      K. Rezaie   A non-linear programming model for
                                  optimization of the electrical energy
                                  consumption in typical factory . . . . . 944--950
                  Changbum Chun   A family of composite fourth-order
                                  iterative methods for solving nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--956
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   A numerical method for finding positive
                                  solution of elliptic systems with
                                  nonlinear diffusion in population
                                  dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957--961
                     Xinyuan Wu   A note on computational algorithm for
                                  the inverse of a square matrix . . . . . 962--964
                   E. Ahmed and   
                   A. S. Hegazi   A dynamic model for e-commerce taxation  965--967
                    Yi-Kuei Lin   System performance of a two-commodity
                                  stochastic-flow network with cost
                                  attributes in terms of minimal cuts  . . 968--976
              Binh Quang Do and   
               Lan Phuoc Nguyen   Application of a genetic algorithm to
                                  the fuel reload optimization for a
                                  research reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--988
                J. Heinonen and   
                  F. Pettersson   Hybrid ant colony optimization and
                                  visibility studies applied to a job-shop
                                  scheduling problem . . . . . . . . . . . 989--998
           Ljiljana Gaji\'c and   
         Vladimir Rako\vcevi\'c   Pair of non-self-mappings and common
                                  fixed points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1006
         Anouar Ben Mabrouk and   
 Mohamed Lakdar Ben Mohamed and   
                  Khaled Omrani   Finite difference approximate solutions
                                  for a mixed sub-superlinear equation . . 1007--1016
                Kemal Polat and   
             Salih Güne\cs   Classification of epileptiform EEG using
                                  a hybrid system based on decision tree
                                  classifier and fast Fourier transform    1017--1026
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   Modified Chebyshev's method free from
                                  second derivative for non-linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1032
          Majid Darehmiraki and   
            Hasan Mishmast Nehi   Molecular solution to the 0--1 knapsack
                                  problem based on DNA computing . . . . . 1033--1037
                  Kejun Zhu and   
                  Shiwei Yu and   
                   Fengqin Diao   Soft computing applications to estimate
                                  the quantitative contribution of
                                  education on economic growth . . . . . . 1038--1055
                   M. Rafei and   
                D. D. Ganji and   
                     H. Daniali   Solution of the epidemic model by
                                  homotopy perturbation method . . . . . . 1056--1062
                     X. Lai and   
                    Yuan Yirang   Galerkin alternating-direction methods
                                  for a kind of nonlinear hyperbolic
                                  equations on nonrectangular regions  . . 1063--1075
    Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei and   
                 Mohammad Haeri   Comparison of different one-dimensional
                                  maps as chaotic search pattern in chaos
                                  optimization algorithms  . . . . . . . . 1076--1085
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   A globally convergent iterative scheme
                                  for toll design network with signal
                                  settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086--1099
        Jean Marie Ntaganda and   
          Benjamin Mampassi and   
                   Djibril Seck   Modelling blood partial pressures of the
                                  human cardiovascular/respiratory system  1100--1108
               Changyong Xu and   
                   Meijuan Wang   Permanence for a delayed discrete
                                  three-level food-chain model with
                                  Beddington--DeAngelis functional
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1119
                M. Fakhraie and   
                 A. Shidfar and   
                   M. Garshasbi   A computational procedure for estimation
                                  of an unknown coefficient in an inverse
                                  boundary value problem . . . . . . . . . 1120--1125
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   A numerical algorithm for finding
                                  positive solutions for classes of
                                  $p$-Laplacian equations  . . . . . . . . 1126--1130
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The extended tanh method for abundant
                                  solitary wave solutions of nonlinear
                                  wave equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1142
                 M. Rabbani and   
              K. Maleknejad and   
                   N. Aghazadeh   Numerical computational solution of the
                                  Volterra integral equations system of
                                  the second kind by using an expansion
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1146
          Jean M.-S. Lubuma and   
             Kailash C. Patidar   Non-standard methods for singularly
                                  perturbed problems possessing
                                  oscillatory/layer solutions  . . . . . . 1147--1160
              Zheng-Ming Ge and   
                   An-Ray Zhang   Anticontrol of chaos of the fractional
                                  order modified van der Pol systems . . . 1161--1172
                Kangshun Li and   
                 Xuezhi Yue and   
                Lishan Kang and   
                  Zhangxin Chen   A particle gradient evolutionary
                                  algorithm for solving multi-objective
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1186
                    Guojian Lin   Periodic solutions for van der Pol
                                  equation with time delay . . . . . . . . 1187--1198
                   M. De la Sen   Stability criteria for linear
                                  time-invariant systems with point delays
                                  based on one-dimensional Routh--Hurwitz
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1207
                   Fajun Yu and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Constructing a multi-function equation
                                  hierarchy and its integrable coupling
                                  system with MAPLE  . . . . . . . . . . . 1208--1218
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Solution of the system of fourth order
                                  boundary value problems using cubic
                                  spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219--1227
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                  Long Wang and   
                  Guangming Xie   Delay-dependent robust stability and
                                  $H_\infty$ control for uncertain
                                  discrete-time switched systems with
                                  mode-dependent time delays . . . . . . . 1228--1237
              Donal O'Regan and   
                Miros\lawa Zima   Leggett--Williams norm-type fixed point
                                  theorems for multivalued mappings  . . . 1238--1249
                  Yuan Gong Sun   Remark on the paper of Park  . . . . . . 1250--1255
                  Yujun Cui and   
                      Yumei Zou   Nontrivial solutions of singular
                                  superlinear $m$-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256--1264
           Nicolas Le Bihan and   
            Stephen J. Sangwine   Jacobi method for quaternion matrix
                                  singular value decomposition . . . . . . 1265--1271
                   Feng Gao and   
                    Chunmei Chi   Unconditionally stable difference
                                  schemes for a one-space-dimensional
                                  linear hyperbolic equation . . . . . . . 1272--1276
             Quanyi Lü and   
                 Manyu Xiao and   
                       Min Zhou   A parallel algorithm based on Galerkin
                                  theory for block-tridiagonal linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1285
                   Yadong Shang   Bäcklund transformation, Lax pairs and
                                  explicit exact solutions for the shallow
                                  water waves equation . . . . . . . . . . 1286--1297
                Seifedine Kadry   Analysis of a non-linear system by a new
                                  technique based on the Continuation
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298--1307
                 Hongxia Wu and   
                    Tianyou Fan   Nonlinear dispersive $ZK(n, n)$
                                  equations: New compacton solutions and
                                  solitary pattern solutions . . . . . . . 1308--1314
                  Dehong Ji and   
                      Weigao Ge   Multiple positive solutions for some
                                  $p$-Laplacian boundary value problems    1315--1325
             Zhengrong Zhao and   
                   Wei Wang and   
                       Bin Yang   Delay and its time-derivative dependent
                                  robust stability of neutral control
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326--1332
               E. Demetriou and   
             M. A. Christou and   
                 C. Sophocleous   On the classification of similarity
                                  solutions of a two-dimensional
                                  diffusion--advection equation  . . . . . 1333--1350
             C. Xenophontos and   
              L. Oberbroeckling   A numerical study on the finite element
                                  solution of singularly perturbed systems
                                  of reaction--diffusion problems  . . . . 1351--1367
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A new Korteweg--de Vries equation-based
                                  sub-equation method and its application
                                  to the (2 + 1)-dimensional Korteweg--de
                                  Vries equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1368--1372
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   New exact solutions for the
                                  Konopelchenko--Dubrovsky equation using
                                  an extended Riccati equation rational
                                  expansion method and symbolic
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1388
                  Yuexin Yu and   
                 Liping Wen and   
                      Shoufu Li   Stability analysis of general linear
                                  methods for nonlinear neutral delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1389--1398
                Guoliang He and   
                 Yong Zhang and   
                  Huang Xiaoqin   The locally stabilized finite volume
                                  method for incompressible flow . . . . . 1399--1409
              Shouyuan Yang and   
                   Xingwei Zhou   A note on irregular wavelet frames . . . 1410--1416
               Mohamed El-Gamel   Sinc and the numerical solution of
                                  fifth-order boundary value problems  . . 1417--1433
                Guo Konghua and   
                   Xiyan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   A new iteration method for the matrix
                                  equation AX = B  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1434--1441
            Zizhong J. Wang and   
            Huiqing H. Yang and   
                       Jiu Ding   Web graphics for the computation of
                                  invariant measures . . . . . . . . . . . 1442--1452
                Jin-Lin Liu and   
            Khalida Inayat Noor   On subordinations for certain analytic
                                  functions associated with Noor integral
                                  operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1460
               A. V. Kamyad and   
               M. Keyanpour and   
                   M. H. Farahi   A new approach for solving of optimal
                                  nonlinear control problems . . . . . . . 1461--1471
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for tridiagonal matrices
                                  with elements $1, 0, 0, \ldots{}, 0, 1$
                                  in principal and $1, 1, 1,\ldots{}, 1$
                                  in neighbouring diagonals. II  . . . . . 1472--1475
                      Nilam and   
        Murray E. Alexander and   
               Ruchi Mathur and   
          Seyed M. Moghadas and   
           Pappur N. Shivakumar   Modelling the effect of CSII on the
                                  control of glucose concentration in type
                                  1 diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1476--1483
                Jinhai Chen and   
                      Zuhe Shen   Regularized conjugate gradient method
                                  for skew-symmetric indefinite system of
                                  linear equations and applications  . . . 1484--1494
          Mostafa A. Khalik and   
                  M. Sherif and   
                  S. Saraya and   
                       F. Areed   Parameter identification problem:
                                  Real-coded GA approach . . . . . . . . . 1495--1501
                     R. Thukral   A new method for accelerating
                                  convergence of alternating series  . . . 1502--1510
           K. P. Badakhshan and   
                   A. V. Kamyad   Numerical solution of nonlinear optimal
                                  control problems using nonlinear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1519
      Mohammad Masjed-Jamei and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   A probabilistic model for quadrature
                                  rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1520--1526
                   Markus Neher   A note on a sum associated with the
                                  generalized hypergeometric function  . . 1527--1534


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 188, Number 1, May 1, 2007

                    Sheng Zhang   A generalized auxiliary equation method
                                  and its application to the (2 +
                                  1)-dimensional KdV equations . . . . . . 1--6
                 Yaotang Li and   
                    Pingfan Dai   Generalized AOR methods for linear
                                  complementarity problem  . . . . . . . . 7--18
                M. Alanelli and   
                  A. Hadjidimos   On iterative criteria for $H$- and
                                  non-$H$-matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Serap Ulusam Seçkiner and   
                   Mustafa Kurt   A simulated annealing approach to the
                                  solution of job rotation scheduling
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--45
                   Yang Yueting   The iterative method for solving
                                  nonlinear matrix equation $X^s + A^*
                                  X^{-t} A = Q$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
            Kuo-Liang Chung and   
              Wei-Ning Yang and   
            Yong-Huai Huang and   
               Shih-Tung Wu and   
                   Yu-Chiao Hsu   On SVD-based watermarking algorithm  . . 54--57
              J. Rashidinia and   
                Z. Mahmoodi and   
                     M. Ghasemi   Parametric spline method for a class of
                                  singular two-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
               Yintzer Shih and   
                Thomas R. Lucas   New implementation of Elliptic Systems
                                  Method for time dependent diffusion
                                  tomography with back reflected and
                                  transmitted boundary data  . . . . . . . 64--74
               Tamara Kogan and   
                 Luba Sapir and   
                     Amir Sapir   A nonstationary iterative second-order
                                  method for solving nonlinear equations   75--82
          Sharmishtha Mitra and   
                Basab Nandi and   
                     Amit Mitra   Study of dynamic relationships between
                                  financial and real sectors of economies
                                  with wavelets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
               Weibing Wang and   
                   Jianhua Shen   Positive solutions to a multi-point
                                  boundary value problem with delay  . . . 96--102
              Hiroaki Mukaidani   Newton's method for solving
                                  cross-coupled sign-indefinite algebraic
                                  Riccati equations for weakly coupled
                                  large-scale systems  . . . . . . . . . . 103--115
               Iraj Mahdavi and   
                     Namjae Cho   Dynamic link structure analysis using
                                  flow movement of customers in a
                                  cybermall  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--122
              K. Maleknejad and   
                 S. Sohrabi and   
                     Y. Rostami   Numerical solution of nonlinear Volterra
                                  integral equations of the second kind by
                                  using Chebyshev polynomials  . . . . . . 123--128
             P. S. Shelokar and   
             Patrick Siarry and   
            V. K. Jayaraman and   
                 B. D. Kulkarni   Particle swarm and ant colony algorithms
                                  hybridized for improved continuous
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--142
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   The improvements of Chebyshev--Halley
                                  methods with fifth-order convergence . . 143--147
          S. H. Sabzpoushan and   
              A. Ayatollahi and   
                   D. Noble and   
                    P. J. Noble   A survey on linear relations between
                                  main electrical components during action
                                  potential in ventricular cell  . . . . . 148--153
          Mohammad Masjed-Jamei   A new type of weighted quadrature rules
                                  and its relation with orthogonal
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--165
              Guangmin Wang and   
               Xianjia Wang and   
              Zhongping Wan and   
                      Yibing Lv   A globally convergent algorithm for a
                                  class of bilevel nonlinear programming
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--172
                Fu Quan Xia and   
                  Xie Ping Ding   Predictor--corrector algorithms for
                                  solving generalized mixed implicit
                                  quasi-equilibrium problems . . . . . . . 173--179
                    S. Ozen and   
                  I. Ozturk and   
                     F. Bozkurt   On the recursive sequence $y_{n + 1} =
                                  (\alpha + y_{n - 1}) / (\beta + y_n) +
                                  y_{n - 1} / y_n$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--188
                     Junfeng Lu   A note on the iterative algorithm for
                                  large sparse saddle point problems . . . 189--193
                  Geng Yang and   
                     Peng Jiang   SSOR and ASSOR preconditioners for
                                  Block--Broyden method  . . . . . . . . . 194--205
                   Jianhua Yang   Schwarz type algorithms for parabolic
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--213
               Chao-rong Ye and   
                  Zhi-zhong Sun   On the stability and convergence of a
                                  difference scheme for an one-dimensional
                                  parabolic inverse problem  . . . . . . . 214--225
                Judith A. Vogel   Flexible BiCG and flexible Bi-CGSTAB for
                                  nonsymmetric linear systems  . . . . . . 226--233
              Wang Xingyuan and   
                     Yu Xuejing   Visualizing generalized $3 x + 1$
                                  function dynamics based on fractal . . . 234--243
               Karel Zimmermann   A note on a paper by E. Khorram and A.
                                  Ghodousian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
                Jinhua Zhou and   
                   Guorong Wang   Block idempotent matrices and
                                  generalized Schur complement . . . . . . 246--256
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                      A. Barati   A fourth-order method from quadrature
                                  formulae to solve systems of nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
               Babak Abbasi and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Monitoring high-yields processes with
                                  defects count in nonconforming items by
                                  artificial neural network  . . . . . . . 262--270
                  Changbum Chun   A note on some iterative schemes for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
             Guosheng Zhang and   
                      Yifu Wang   Minimal wave speed in a diffusive
                                  epidemic model with temporal delay . . . 275--280
                Hongmin Ren and   
                    Qingbiao Wu   Convergence ball of a modified secant
                                  method with convergence order
                                  1.839\ldots  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--285
                H. M. Habib and   
                 E. R. El-Zahar   An algorithm for solving singular
                                  perturbation problems with mechanization 286--302
                Yasuhito Tanaka   On the equivalence of the HEX game
                                  theorem and the Duggan--Schwartz theorem
                                  for strategy-proof social choice
                                  correspondences  . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--313
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   Numerical methods for finding multiple
                                  solutions of a logistic equation . . . . 314--321
          Manas Kumar Maiti and   
               Manoranjan Maiti   Determination of withdrawal schedule in
                                  single-species cultivation via genetic
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--331
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
                 Yunn-Kuang Chu   Comparative analysis of availability for
                                  a redundant repairable system  . . . . . 332--338
      Miodrag S. Petkovi\'c and   
         Ljiljana D. Petkovi\'c   A one parameter square root family of
                                  two-step root-finders  . . . . . . . . . 339--344
             Hani M. Samawi and   
           Mohammad F. Al-Saleh   On the approximation of multiple
                                  integrals using multivariate ranked
                                  simulated sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 345--352
         Srinivasan Natesan and   
               Briti Sundar Deb   A Robust computational method for
                                  singularly perturbed coupled system of
                                  reaction--diffusion boundary-value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--364
                Xinzhu Meng and   
                 Weijian Xu and   
                    Lansun Chen   Profitless delays for a nonautonomous
                                  Lotka--Volterra predator--prey almost
                                  periodic system with dispersion  . . . . 365--378
               Junkang Tian and   
             Shouming Zhong and   
                 Lianglin Xiong   Delay-dependent absolute stability of
                                  Lurie control systems with multiple
                                  time-delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--384
                Hongyan Zhi and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Applications of the combined tanh
                                  function method with symmetry method to
                                  the nonlinear evolution equations  . . . 385--393
                Hongjun Gao and   
                     Charles Bu   Neumann inhomogeneous boundary value
                                  problem for the $n + 1$ complex
                                  Ginzburg--Landau equation  . . . . . . . 394--398
                Zhoujin Cui and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Positive singular rupture solutions to a
                                  class for quasilinear elliptic equations 399--405
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
            Khalida Inayat Noor   Fifth-order iterative methods for
                                  solving nonlinear equations  . . . . . . 406--410
                     Da-Zhi Sun   A note on Chang--Lai's modular square
                                  algorithm based on the generalized
                                  Chinese remainder theorem  . . . . . . . 411--416
                E. Babolian and   
                 F. Fattahzadeh   Numerical solution of differential
                                  equations by using Chebyshev wavelet
                                  operational matrix of integration  . . . 417--426
                A. Golbabai and   
                  S. Seifollahi   Radial basis function networks in the
                                  numerical solution of linear
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 427--432
                     Xinyuan Wu   Newton-like method with some remarks . . 433--439
                   G. L. Silver   Operational discretization . . . . . . . 440--445
                 M. Ghasemi and   
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
                    E. Babolian   Numerical solutions of the nonlinear
                                  Volterra--Fredholm integral equations by
                                  using homotopy perturbation method . . . 446--449
                 M. Ghasemi and   
        M. Tavassoli kajani and   
                    E. Babolian   Numerical solutions of the nonlinear
                                  integro-differential equations:
                                  Wavelet-Galerkin method and homotopy
                                  perturbation method  . . . . . . . . . . 450--455
          Maged George Iskander   Using the weighted max--min approach for
                                  stochastic fuzzy goal programming: a
                                  case of fuzzy weights  . . . . . . . . . 456--461
                  C. Qualls and   
                    D. A. Cicci   Preliminary orbit determination of a
                                  tethered satellite . . . . . . . . . . . 462--471
                    S. R. Singh   A robust method of forecasting based on
                                  fuzzy time series  . . . . . . . . . . . 472--484
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The variational iteration method for
                                  solving two forms of Blasius equation on
                                  a half-infinite domain . . . . . . . . . 485--491
               Zuodong Yang and   
                    Bing Xu and   
                     Mingzhu Wu   Existence of positive boundary blow-up
                                  solutions for quasilinear elliptic
                                  equations via sub and supersolutions . . 492--498
                   Yuan Lei and   
                   An-ping Liao   A minimal residual algorithm for the
                                  inconsistent matrix equation AXB = C
                                  over symmetric matrices  . . . . . . . . 499--513
                Jinhai Chen and   
                      Zuhe Shen   Convergence analysis of the secant type
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--524
                     P. Pal and   
               A. K. Bhunia and   
                    S. K. Goyal   On optimal partially integrated
                                  production and marketing policy with
                                  variable demand under flexibility and
                                  reliability considerations via Genetic
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--537
                 M. Ghasemi and   
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
                    E. Babolian   Application of He's homotopy
                                  perturbation method to nonlinear
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 538--548
       Jafar Saberi-Nadjafi and   
                  Mahdi Heidari   A quadrature method with variable step
                                  for solving linear Volterra integral
                                  equations of the second kind . . . . . . 549--554
               Mehdi Ghatee and   
               S. Mehdi Hashemi   Descent direction algorithm with
                                  multicommodity flow problem for signal
                                  optimization and traffic assignment
                                  jointly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--566
               D. S. Sankar and   
                   K. Hemalatha   Non-linear mathematical models for blood
                                  flow through tapered tubes . . . . . . . 567--582
       Hebert Montegranario and   
                 Jairo Espinosa   A regularization approach for surface
                                  reconstruction from point clouds . . . . 583--595
                 Hossein Arsham   A hybrid gradient and feasible direction
                                  pivotal solution algorithm for general
                                  linear programs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--611
                 Yong Zhang and   
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
                  Xing-Ping Liu   Gauss type preconditioning techniques
                                  for linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . 612--633
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for tridiagonal matrices
                                  with elements $-1, 0, 0, \ldots{}, 0, 1$
                                  in principal and $1, 1, 1, \ldots{}, 1$
                                  in neighbouring diagonals. I . . . . . . 634--637
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
       M. Soleimani-damaneh and   
                   A. Mostafaee   On the computational complexity of cost
                                  efficiency analysis models . . . . . . . 638--640
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                      A. Refahi   FOM-inverse vector iteration method for
                                  computing a few smallest (largest)
                                  eigenvalues of pair ( A B )  . . . . . . 641--647
               Yonghong Yao and   
           Yeong-Cheng Liou and   
                   Jen-Chih Yao   An iterative algorithm for approximating
                                  convex minimization problem  . . . . . . 648--656
                 P. Darania and   
                    Ali Ebadian   A method for the numerical solution of
                                  the integro-differential equations . . . 657--668
              Yong-Jun Wang and   
                Jiang-She Zhang   Global optimization by an improved
                                  differential evolutionary algorithm  . . 669--680
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   Modified Chebyshev--Halley methods with
                                  sixth-order convergence  . . . . . . . . 681--685
           S. A. El-Shehawy and   
                  A. A. Karawia   An alternative computational algorithm
                                  for calculating the nonlinearity of
                                  regression models with two parameters    686--692
               Luther White and   
                   Alan Shapiro   Optimization of radar scanning
                                  strategies using an ensemble relative
                                  error criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--712
          Rohallah Tavakoli and   
                  Parviz Davami   A new parallel Gauss--Seidel method
                                  based on alternating group explicit
                                  method and domain decomposition method   713--719
             Kailash C. Patidar   High order parameter uniform numerical
                                  method for singular perturbation
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--733
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
         Sohrab Kordrostami and   
          Omme Habibe Azmayande   Data envelopment analysis with selective
                                  convexity and integer-valued factors . . 734--738
                    J. I. Ramos   A finite volume method for
                                  one-dimensional reaction--diffusion
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--748
     S. Chandra Sekhara Rao and   
                   Mukesh Kumar   Optimal B-spline collocation method for
                                  self-adjoint singularly perturbed
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 749--761
             Deng-Shan Wang and   
                     Hong-Bo Li   Elliptic equation's new solutions and
                                  their applications to two nonlinear
                                  partial differential equations . . . . . 762--771
                  Fu-Ti Liu and   
                 Ting-Zhu Huang   An error bound for the preconditioned
                                  simultaneous displacement method . . . . 772--778
                    Mustafa Inc   New $L$-stable method for numerical
                                  solutions of ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--785
               E. Roghanian and   
              S. J. Sadjadi and   
               M. B. Aryanezhad   A probabilistic bi-level linear
                                  multi-objective programming problem to
                                  supply chain planning  . . . . . . . . . 786--800
             Hossein Arsham and   
                 Janez Grad and   
              Ga\vsper Jakli\vc   Perturbed matrix inversion with
                                  application to LP simplex method . . . . 801--807
                  Yibing Lv and   
                 Tiesong Hu and   
              Guangmin Wang and   
                  Zhongping Wan   A penalty function method based on
                                  Kuhn--Tucker condition for solving
                                  linear bilevel programming . . . . . . . 808--813
            Khalida Inayat Noor   On some applications of certain integral
                                  operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814--823
                    Wen-ming He   Error estimates of finite element method
                                  about elliptic problems with singular
                                  righthand side . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--832
       Ahmet Ya\csar Özban   On the system of rational difference
                                  equations $x_ n = a / y_{n - 3}$, $y_n =
                                  by_{n - 3} / (x_{n - q}y_{n - q})$ . . . 833--837
          Keitarou Ishikawa and   
               Takehiro Inohara   A method to compare influence of
                                  coalitions on group decision other than
                                  desirability relation  . . . . . . . . . 838--849
                     Ju H. Park   Further note on global exponential
                                  stability of uncertain cellular neural
                                  networks with variable delays  . . . . . 850--854
                 Long Zhang and   
                   Zhidong Teng   Permanence for a class of periodic
                                  time-dependent competitive system with
                                  delays and dispersal in a
                                  patchy-environment . . . . . . . . . . . 855--864
               H. T. Rathod and   
             K. V. Nagaraja and   
                 B. Venkatesudu   Symmetric Gauss Legendre quadrature
                                  formulas for composite numerical
                                  integration over a triangular surface    865--876
        Nikolaos L. Tsitsas and   
    Emmanouil G. Alivizatos and   
    Grigorios H. Kalogeropoulos   A recursive algorithm for the inversion
                                  of matrices with circulant blocks  . . . 877--894
                 Kusum Deep and   
                   Manoj Thakur   A new crossover operator for real coded
                                  genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 895--911
                 Ching-Liang Su   Finger extraction, finger image
                                  automatic registration, and finger
                                  identification by image phase matching   912--923
                  Changbum Chun   Some third-order families of iterative
                                  methods for solving nonlinear equations  924--933
             Hongjiong Tian and   
                Liqiang Fan and   
                 Jiaxiang Xiang   Numerical dissipativity of multistep
                                  methods for delay differential equations 934--941
            Jens Köplinger   Signature of gravity in conic sedenions  942--947
            Jens Köplinger   Gravity and electromagnetism on conic
                                  sedenions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948--953
            Jens Köplinger   Hypernumbers and relativity  . . . . . . 954--969
               Pankaj Dutta and   
        Debjani Chakraborty and   
                      A. R. Roy   Continuous review inventory model in
                                  mixed fuzzy and stochastic environment   970--980
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   Two numerical methods for finding
                                  multiple solutions of a superlinear
                                  Dirichlet problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 981--988
            Hung-Chang Liao and   
                   Ju-Hsin Tsai   Data mining for DNA viruses with breast
                                  cancer, fibroadenoma, and normal mammary
                                  tissue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989--1000
           Jason S. H. Tsai and   
              Tzong J. Tsai and   
                    Shu-Mei Guo   Observer with
                                  evolutionary-programming-based optimal
                                  digital tracker for analog neutral
                                  multiple time-delay systems  . . . . . . 1001--1015
                E. Babolian and   
                 F. Fattahzadeh   Numerical computation method in solving
                                  integral equations by using Chebyshev
                                  wavelet operational matrix of
                                  integration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016--1022
       Farhad Ghassemi-Tari and   
               Eshagh Jahangiri   Development of a hybrid dynamic
                                  programming approach for solving
                                  discrete nonlinear knapsack problems . . 1023--1030
                Jisheng Kou and   
                  Yitian Li and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   A family of fourth-order methods for
                                  solving non-linear equations . . . . . . 1031--1036
   Kiran Kumar Sundararajan and   
            Soubhik Chakraborty   A new sorting algorithm  . . . . . . . . 1037--1041
                   G. L. Silver   Operational center points  . . . . . . . 1042--1048
                C. H. Hsiao and   
                       S. P. Wu   Numerical solution of time-varying
                                  functional differential equations via
                                  Haar wavelets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1058
          Murat Suba\csì   Reply to the Comment of E. Kahya on ``An
                                  improvement on Fibonacci search method
                                  in optimization theory'' by Murat
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Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 188, Number 2, May 15, 2007

                 M. R. Pinheiro   Medium worlds theories I . . . . . . . . 1061--1070
          El Bekkaye Mermri and   
            Hideki Katagiri and   
           Masatoshi Sakawa and   
                    Kosuke Kato   Remarks on the application of genetic
                                  algorithm and tabu search method to
                                  nonlinear spanning tree problems . . . . 1071--1086
                M. Anjidani and   
                      S. Effati   A new numerical method for solving the
                                  general form of the second order partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1087--1093
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   An efficient computation algorithm for
                                  area traffic control problem with link
                                  capacity expansions  . . . . . . . . . . 1094--1102
                  S. Effati and   
                A. Ghomashi and   
                   A. R. Nazemi   Application of projection neural network
                                  in solving convex programming problems   1103--1114
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   A generalized iterative scheme for
                                  network design problem . . . . . . . . . 1115--1123
              J. Rashidinia and   
                    M. Zarebnia   The numerical solution of
                                  integro-differential equation by means
                                  of the Sinc method . . . . . . . . . . . 1124--1130
                  Ying Wang and   
                     Chunlai Mu   Blow-up and scattering of solution for a
                                  generalized Boussinesq equation  . . . . 1131--1141
              Shao-Mou Yuan and   
                   Zai-Ming Liu   Some properties of $\alpha$-convex and
                                  $\alpha$-quasiconvex functions with
                                  respect to $n$-symmetric points  . . . . 1142--1150
                  Gang Wang and   
                 Enmin Feng and   
                    Zhilong Xiu   Vector measure for explicit nonlinear
                                  impulsive system of glycerol
                                  bioconversion in fed-batch cultures and
                                  its parameter identification . . . . . . 1151--1160
              La-sheng Wang and   
                       Hong Xue   Convergence of numerical solutions to
                                  stochastic differential delay equations
                                  with Poisson jump and Markovian
                                  switching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161--1172
              Hiroaki Mukaidani   Efficient numerical procedures for
                                  solving closed-loop Stackelberg
                                  strategies with small singular
                                  perturbation parameter . . . . . . . . . 1173--1183
          Rohallah Tavakoli and   
                  Parviz Davami   $2$D parallel and stable group explicit
                                  finite difference method for solution of
                                  diffusion equation . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1192
                   Hee-Dae Kwon   Optimal treatment strategies derived
                                  from a HIV model with drug-resistant
                                  mutants  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1204
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   New solitons and kinks solutions to the
                                  Sharma--Tasso--Olver equation  . . . . . 1205--1213
                       J. Dziok   On the convex combination of the
                                  Dziok--Srivastava operator . . . . . . . 1214--1220
                    J. I. Ramos   Piecewise-quasilinearization techniques
                                  for singularly perturbed Volterra
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 1221--1233
                     Hua Su and   
                Zhongli Wei and   
              Xiaoyan Zhang and   
                       Jian Liu   Positive solutions of $n$-order and
                                  $m$-order multi-point singular boundary
                                  value system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234--1243
                P. Donald Ariel   On computation of the three-dimensional
                                  flow past a stretching sheet . . . . . . 1244--1250
                  A. Cabada and   
               S. Heikkilä   Existence results for discontinuous
                                  functional differential systems  . . . . 1251--1259
                E. Babolian and   
                M. Bromilow and   
                 R. England and   
                      M. Saravi   A modification of pseudo-spectral method
                                  for solving a linear ODEs with
                                  singularity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1266
              O. D. Makinde and   
            R. J. Moitsheki and   
                      B. A. Tau   Similarity reductions of equations for
                                  river pollution  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1273
                    M. M. Selim   Static deformation of an irregular
                                  initially stressed medium  . . . . . . . 1274--1284
               Luther White and   
                   Alan Shapiro   Radar network scanning coordination
                                  based on ensemble transform Kalman
                                  filtering variance optimization  . . . . 1285--1309
                    J. I. Ramos   Asymptotic analysis of channel flows
                                  with slip lengths that depend on the
                                  pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310--1318
              Enrique Arias and   
   Vicente Hernández and   
Jacinto Javier Ibáñez and   
           Jesús Peinado   A fixed point-based BDF method for
                                  solving differential Riccati equations   1319--1333
                     Li Jin and   
               Li-Wei Zhang and   
                  Xian-Tao Xiao   Two differential equation systems for
                                  inequality constrained optimization  . . 1334--1343
              Yong-Hong Ren and   
               Li-Wei Zhang and   
                  Xian-Tao Xiao   A nonlinear Lagrangian based on
                                  Fischer-Burmeister NCP function  . . . . 1344--1363
                     Run Xu and   
                    Fanwei Meng   New Kamenev-type oscillation criteria
                                  for second order neutral nonlinear
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1364--1370
Seyedeh Mahboubeh Molavi-Arabshahi and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Preconditioned techniques for solving
                                  large sparse linear systems arising from
                                  the discretization of the elliptic
                                  partial differential equations . . . . . 1371--1388
                Minggen Cui and   
                    Fazhan Geng   A computational method for solving
                                  one-dimensional variable-coefficient
                                  Burgers equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389--1401
                    Jichao Zhao   Highly accurate compact mixed methods
                                  for two point boundary value problems    1402--1418
                   M. Rafei and   
                 H. Daniali and   
                D. D. Ganji and   
                     H. Pashaei   Solution of the prey and predator
                                  problem by homotopy perturbation method  1419--1425
                   Kostas Zotos   Performance comparison of Maple and
                                  Mathematica  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1426--1429
                   Kostas Zotos   Object-oriented design principles in
                                  mathematics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1430--1436
           Mladen Me\vstrovi\'c   The modified decomposition method for
                                  eighth-order boundary value problems . . 1437--1444
              Omid Rezaifar and   
                 Hossein Rezaee   A new approach for finding the
                                  determinant of matrices  . . . . . . . . 1445--1454
               Gautam Choudhury   A two phase batch arrival retrial
                                  queueing system with Bernoulli vacation
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         Bimal Kumar Mishra and   
             Dinesh Kumar Saini   SEIRS epidemic model with delay for
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               Doghonay Arjmand   A note on the Taylor's decomposition on
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                   T. Hayat and   
                         N. Ali   A mathematical description of
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              Martin Bohner and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Asymptotic behavior of second-order
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               Yixiang Geng and   
                 Tianlan He and   
                       Jibin Li   Exact travelling wave solutions for the
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                   J. Wauer and   
               D. Schwarzer and   
                  G. Q. Cai and   
                      Y. K. Lin   Dynamical models of love with
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                      H. Arsham   A computationally stable solution
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                 M. Mahdavi and   
              M. Fesanghary and   
                    E. Damangir   An improved harmony search algorithm for
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      M. Y. Rahimi-Ardabili and   
                   S. Shahmorad   Numerical solution of the nonlinear
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        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Predictor--corrector Halley method for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1591
                Jinhai Chen and   
                      Zuhe Shen   On third-order convergent regula falsi
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    Sándor Kovács   Dynamics of an HIV/AIDS model --- The
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     Shenggui Zhang Huiling Lin   Algorithms for symmetric groups of
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                 Rekha Bali and   
                   Usha Awasthi   Effect of a magnetic field on the
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    Khairil Iskandar Othman and   
        Zarina Bibi Ibrahim and   
           Mohamed Suleiman and   
                 Zanariah Majid   Automatic intervalwise block
                                  partitioning using Adams type method and
                                  backward differentiation formula for
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                   M. H. Xu and   
                     G. F. Luan   A rapid algorithm for a class of linear
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               Seiichi Nakamori   Chandrasekhar-type recursive Wiener
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                      Ali Sever   A linearization-based solution to an
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                   Hang Shi and   
                        Yu Yang   A computational model of visual
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             M. T. Darvishi and   
                      A. Barati   Super cubic iterative methods to solve
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               Chenggen Shi and   
                  Hong Zhou and   
                     Jie Lu and   
            Guangquan Zhang and   
                 Zhongwei Zhang   The $K$th-best approach for linear
                                  bilevel multifollower programming with
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            Matthias Dehmer and   
            Frank Emmert-Streib   Comparing large graphs efficiently by
                                  margins of feature vectors . . . . . . . 1699--1710
              Kuan-Wen Chen and   
                  Yuh-Dauh Lyuu   Accurate pricing formulas for Asian
                                  options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1711--1724
                     B. Chanane   Eigenvalues of Sturm--Liouville problems
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                       Jin Wang   On the accuracy of a numerical method
                                  for linear interfacial motion  . . . . . 1733--1741
                 Huiyan Zhu and   
                   Lihong Huang   Stability and bifurcation in a
                                  tri-neuron network model with discrete
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                  Yuquan Ye and   
               Chi Kin Chan and   
                 B. P. K. Leung   Some optimality conditions of
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                     Bo Sun and   
                      WeiGao Ge   Successive iteration and positive
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                   John P. Boyd   A test, based on conversion to the
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                Qingbiao Wu and   
                    Hongmin Ren   A note on some new iterative methods
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              S. Abbasbandy and   
                     Y. Tan and   
                     S. J. Liao   Newton-homotopy analysis method for
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             Yong Hyun Shin and   
              Byung Hwa Lim and   
                     U Jin Choi   Optimal consumption and portfolio
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               Hongwei Jiao and   
                   Peiping Shen   A note on the paper global optimization
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        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
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              Y-Chuang Chen and   
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        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
                    Vivek Kumar   B-spline method for a class of singular
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              Jaume Giné   On the number of algebraically
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                Rahmat Ali Khan   Generalized approximations and rapid
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              Graham Horgan and   
             Ilya Molchanov and   
          Vadim Shcherbakov and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Approximate models for bacteria leaching
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       Belkacem Said-Houari and   
            Nasser-eddine Tatar   Global existence and asymptotic behavior
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              J. Rashidinia and   
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          Majid Darehmiraki and   
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Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 189, Number 1, June 1, 2007

                  Suh-Wen Chiou   Optimal design of signal-controlled road
                                  network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
           Vasilios N. Katsikis   Computational methods in portfolio
                                  insurance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--22
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   A numerical method for finding positive
                                  solution of elliptic equation with
                                  Neumann boundary condition . . . . . . . 23--26
           K. P. Badakhshan and   
               A. V. Kamyad and   
                       A. Azemi   Using AVK method to solve nonlinear
                                  problems with uncertain parameters . . . 27--34
                Ahmad Makui and   
                 Alireza Madadi   The bullwhip effect and Lyapunov
                                  exponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
               Qingming Xie and   
                    Anqi He and   
                   Jianzhou Liu   On the iterative method for $H$-matrices 41--48
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   Some variants of Chebyshev--Halley
                                  methods with fifth-order convergence . . 49--54
                  Changbum Chun   A one-parameter family of quadratically
                                  convergent iteration formulae  . . . . . 55--58
               Chuanqing Gu and   
                   Zhenxin Yang   Global SCD algorithm for real positive
                                  definite linear systems with multiple
                                  right-hand sides . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
             R. Uthayakumar and   
                P. Paramanathan   Fractal dimension of irregular
                                  digitalized curves by divider method . . 68--71
              J. Rashidinia and   
                 M. Ghasemi and   
                    Z. Mahmoodi   Spline approach to the solution of a
                                  singularly-perturbed boundary-value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--78
               Suying Zhang and   
              Minzhen Zhang and   
                Zichen Deng and   
                    Wencheng Li   Solution of nonlinear dynamic
                                  differential equations based on
                                  numerical Laplace transform inversion    79--86
                   Jae Heon Yun   Convergence of two-stage and
                                  multisplitting methods using various
                                  types of splittings  . . . . . . . . . . 87--100
         Dragan S. Djordjevi\'c   Iterative methods for computing
                                  generalized inverses . . . . . . . . . . 101--104
       Marián Slodi\vcka   Estimation of the Michaelis--Menten
                                  parameters for reductive dechlorination
                                  of chlorinated solvents  . . . . . . . . 105--115
                 Ching-Liang Su   Face recognition by using characteristic
                                  matrix and ring rotation invariant
                                  transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--125
                  Changbum Chun   A one-parameter family of third-order
                                  methods to solve nonlinear equations . . 126--130
               H. T. Rathod and   
             B. Venkatesudu and   
                 K. V. Nagaraja   On the application of two
                                  Gauss--Legendre quadrature rules for
                                  composite numerical integration over a
                                  tetrahedral region . . . . . . . . . . . 131--162
         Vasilis P. Koutras and   
          Agapios N. Platis and   
            George A. Gravvanis   Software rejuvenation for resource
                                  optimization based on explicit
                                  approximate inverse preconditioning  . . 163--177
               Yonglei Fang and   
                     Xinyuan Wu   A trigonometrically fitted explicit
                                  hybrid method for the numerical
                                  integration of orbital problems  . . . . 178--185
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
                  Chia-Ling Lei   Computational algorithmic procedure for
                                  optimal inventory policy involving
                                  ordering cost reduction and back-order
                                  discounts when lead time demand is
                                  controllable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--200
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   Two numerical algorithms for finding
                                  solutions of multiparameter semipositone
                                  Dirichlet problems . . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
                   Jing Gao and   
                  Yao-Lin Jiang   An adaptive wavelet method for nonlinear
                                  differential-algebraic equations . . . . 208--220
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Iterative methods with fourth-order
                                  convergence for nonlinear equations  . . 221--227
              M. Ebrahimian and   
               R. Pourgholi and   
                M. Emamjome and   
                     P. Reihani   A numerical solution of an inverse
                                  parabolic problem with unknown boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--234
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   A uniparametric LU-SGS method for
                                  systems of nonlinear equations . . . . . 235--240
              Ming-Shin Kuo and   
                 Jer-Wei Wu and   
                        Lie Pei   A soft computing method for selecting
                                  evaluation criteria of service quality   241--254
              Hiroaki Mukaidani   A numerical algorithm for finding
                                  solution of sign-indefinite algebraic
                                  Riccati equations for general
                                  multiparameter singularly perturbed
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--270
                  Dahe Feng and   
           Junliang Lü and   
                   Jibin Li and   
                     Tianlan He   Bifurcation studies on travelling wave
                                  solutions for nonlinear intensity
                                  Klein--Gordon equation . . . . . . . . . 271--284
              Sung-Ming Yen and   
              Wei-Chih Lien and   
                   SangJae Moon   Inefficiency of common-multiplicand
                                  multiplication and exponentiation
                                  algorithms by performing binary
                                  complements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--290
                  A. A. Karawia   Two algorithms for solving comrade
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--297
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   On scaling algorithm for finding
                                  positive solution of elliptic equation   298--301
             Chun-ming Tang and   
               Zeng-xin Wei and   
                     Guo-yin Li   A new version of the Liu--Storey
                                  conjugate gradient method  . . . . . . . 302--313
                  Robins George   Robs algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--325
        Soubhik Chakraborty and   
       Kiran Kumar Sundararajan   A simple empirical formula for
                                  categorizing computing operations  . . . 326--340
                 M. Ghasemi and   
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
                      A. Davari   Numerical solution of two-dimensional
                                  nonlinear differential equation by
                                  homotopy perturbation method . . . . . . 341--345
              A. K. Khalifa and   
               K. R. Raslan and   
                H. M. Alzubaidi   A finite difference scheme for the MRLW
                                  and solitary wave interactions . . . . . 346--354
             Alicia Herrero and   
     Antonio Ramírez and   
                   Nestor Thome   An algorithm to check the nonnegativity
                                  of singular systems  . . . . . . . . . . 355--365
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   A family of modified super-Halley
                                  methods with fourth-order convergence    366--370
            Gintaras Palubeckis   Iterated tabu search for the maximum
                                  diversity problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 371--383
        Soubhik Chakraborty and   
        Suman Kumar Sourabh and   
               Mausumi Bose and   
                  Kumar Sushant   Replacement sort revisited: The ``gold
                                  standard'' unearthed!  . . . . . . . . . 384--394
             Chao-Liang Liu and   
               Gwoboa Horng and   
                     Te-Yu Chen   Further refinement of pairing
                                  computation based on Miller's algorithm  395--409
               A. Eisinberg and   
                      G. Fedele   Accurate floating-point summation: a new
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--424
                    Hui Guo and   
                   Hongxing Rui   Least-squares Galerkin procedures for
                                  pseudohyperbolic equations . . . . . . . 425--439
                   Chun-Chu Liu   An extended method for key factors in
                                  reducing CO $_2$ emissions . . . . . . . 440--451
                E. Sermutlu and   
              H. T. Eyyubo\uglu   A new quadrature routine for improper
                                  and oscillatory integrals  . . . . . . . 452--461
          F. Talay Akyildiz and   
                   K. Vajravelu   Orthogonal cubic spline collocation
                                  method for the nonlinear parabolic
                                  equation arising in non-Newtonian fluid
                                  flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--471
                    Hongmin Ren   An improved convergence theorem for a
                                  class of Secant-like methods . . . . . . 472--481
            Guang-Xin Huang and   
                       Feng Yin   Matrix inverse problem and its optimal
                                  approximation problem for $R$-symmetric
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--489
                 Ying Zheng and   
             Yuanyuan Zhang and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Generalized Riccati equation rational
                                  expansion method and its application . . 490--499
               Xinlong Feng and   
                 Liquan Mei and   
                    Guoliang He   An efficient algorithm for solving
                                  Troesch's problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 500--507
                    Mustafa Inc   New exact solutions for the ZK-MEW
                                  equation by using symbolic computation   508--513
              Roman Witu\la and   
                  Damian S\lota   On computing the determinants and
                                  inverses of some special type of
                                  tridiagonal and constant-diagonals
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--527
                    Mustafa Inc   New compact and noncompact structures of
                                  the nonlinearly dispersive Boussinesq
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--540
     Varsha Daftardar-Gejji and   
                 Hossein Jafari   Solving a multi-order fractional
                                  differential equation using Adomian
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--548
              Zhaoyin Xiang and   
                 Qiong Chen and   
                     Chunlai Mu   Critical curves for degenerate parabolic
                                  equations coupled via non-linear
                                  boundary flux  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--559
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A new variable coefficient Korteweg--de
                                  Vries equation-based sub-equation method
                                  and its application to the (3 +
                                  1)-dimensional potential-YTSF equation   560--566
                  S. Effati and   
                  M. Jafarzadeh   Nonlinear neural networks for solving
                                  the shortest path problem  . . . . . . . 567--574
                 Jaemin Ahn and   
                     Minsu Song   Convergence of the trinomial tree method
                                  for pricing European/American options    575--582
          Morteza Pourakbar and   
    Reza Zanjirani Farahani and   
                  Nasrin Asgari   A joint economic lot-size model for an
                                  integrated supply network using genetic
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--596
                  Changbum Chun   Certain improvements of
                                  Chebyshev--Halley methods with
                                  accelerated fourth-order convergence . . 597--601
                    Jisheng Kou   The improvements of modified Newton's
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--609
              Changbum Chun and   
                    YoonMee Ham   A one-parameter fourth-order family of
                                  iterative methods for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--614
           Milan B. Tasi\'c and   
  Predrag S. Stanimirovi\'c and   
            Marko D. Petkovi\'c   Symbolic computation of weighted
                                  Moore--Penrose inverse using
                                  partitioning method  . . . . . . . . . . 615--640
                E. Babolian and   
             F. Fattahzadeh and   
               E. Golpar Raboky   A Chebyshev approximation for solving
                                  nonlinear integral equations of
                                  Hammerstein type . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--646
                    Jisheng Kou   Some new sixth-order methods for solving
                                  non-linear equations . . . . . . . . . . 647--651
                    H. Gzyl and   
       P. L. Novi Inverardi and   
                    A. Tagliani   In search of the best approximant  . . . 652--661
                  Changbum Chun   Construction of third-order
                                  modifications of Newton's method . . . . 662--668
                 Jialan Liu and   
                     Aiguo Xiao   Convergence results of two-step
                                  $W$-methods for two-parameter singular
                                  perturbation problems  . . . . . . . . . 669--681
       Allaberen Ashyralyev and   
      Abdullah Said Erdogan and   
                Nurullah Arslan   On the numerical solution of the
                                  diffusion equation with variable space
                                  operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--689
         Oluwole Daniel Makinde   Thermal stability of a reactive third
                                  grade fluid in a cylindrical pipe: an
                                  exploitation of Hermite--Padé
                                  approximation technique  . . . . . . . . 690--697
                  Baljeet Singh   Wave propagation in a generalized
                                  thermoelastic material with voids  . . . 698--709
                  Higinio Ramos   A non-standard explicit integration
                                  scheme for initial-value problems  . . . 710--718
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
                    M. Esmaeili   An alternative approach in the
                                  estimation of returns to scale under
                                  weight restrictions  . . . . . . . . . . 719--724
                    Yude Ji and   
                Yanping Guo and   
                   Jiehua Zhang   Positive solutions for second-order
                                  quasilinear multi-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--731
             Saralees Nadarajah   On the distribution of Ma and King . . . 732--733
                  Ram Avtar and   
              Rashmi Srivastava   Modelling aqueous humor outflow through
                                  trabecular meshwork  . . . . . . . . . . 734--745
                 Zaid M. Odibat   A new modification of the homotopy
                                  perturbation method for linear and
                                  nonlinear operators  . . . . . . . . . . 746--753
             Xing-yuan Wang and   
              Pei-jun Chang and   
                       Ni-ni Gu   Additive perturbed generalized
                                  Mandelbrot--Julia sets . . . . . . . . . 754--765
     Prashanta Kumar Mandal and   
     Santabrata Chakravarty and   
            Arabinda Mandal and   
              Norsarahaida Amin   Effect of body acceleration on unsteady
                                  pulsatile flow of non-Newtonian fluid
                                  through a stenosed artery  . . . . . . . 766--779
                    J. I. Ramos   Propagation and interaction of moving
                                  fronts in polymer crystallization  . . . 780--795
                    Fang Lu and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Oscillation theorems for superlinear
                                  second-order damped differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796--804
         Marcus P. C. Rocha and   
     Lourenildo W. B. Leite and   
         Mauro de L. Santos and   
          Valcir J.da C. Farias   Attenuation of multiple in reflection
                                  seismic data using Kalman--Bucy filter   805--815
Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou and   
      André Ronveaux and   
                    Komi Sodoga   Factorization of some confluent Heun's
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 816--820
                   Yongxiang Li   On the existence of positive solutions
                                  for the bending elastic beam equations   821--827
                   Qian Liu and   
                    Yuqian Zhou   Construction of solutions with exactly k
                                  blow-up points for nonlinear Schrödinger
                                  equation with a harmonic potential . . . 828--835
                Sheng Zhang and   
                   Tiecheng Xia   A generalized $F$-expansion method with
                                  symbolic computation exactly solving
                                  Broer--Kaup equations  . . . . . . . . . 836--843
             J. V. Suvorova and   
                I. V. Viktorova   The nonlinear hereditary-type
                                  stress--strain relations for metals with
                                  temperature effects  . . . . . . . . . . 844--851
                   M. De la Sen   About the positivity of a class of
                                  hybrid dynamic linear systems  . . . . . 852--868
                      Zengji Du   Singularly perturbed third-order
                                  boundary value problem for nonlinear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--877
                   Dan Wang and   
                 Weiwei Sun and   
                Cuicui Kong and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   New extended rational expansion method
                                  and exact solutions of Boussinesq
                                  equation and Jimbo--Miwa equations . . . 878--886
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
              Ghazala Akram and   
                   Saima Nazeer   Quintic spline solution of linear
                                  sixth-order boundary value problems  . . 887--892
                   Yunxin Zhang   Reconstruct multiscale functions using
                                  different RBFs in different subdomains   893--901
               Wei Fengying and   
                        Wang Ke   Persistence of some stage structured
                                  ecosystems with finite and infinite
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902--909
       Mehmet Zeki Sarikaya and   
          Hüseyin Yildirim   On the weak solutions of the compound
                                  Bessel ultra-hyperbolic equation . . . . 910--917
               Xiaofan Yang and   
                    Yi Yang and   
                        Jun Luo   On the difference equation $x_n = (p +
                                  x_{n - 1}) / (q x_{n - 1} + x_{n - 1})$  918--926
               Mongi Benhamadou   Preconditioners for the resolution of
                                  the linear systems $Ax = b$  . . . . . . 927--942
                Asai Asaithambi   Numerical solution of Stefan problems
                                  using automatic differentiation  . . . . 943--948
                  Khaled Omrani   Numerical methods and error analysis for
                                  the nonlinear Sivashinsky equation . . . 949--962
                 Young Hee Geum   The asymptotic error constant of
                                  leap-frogging Newton's method locating a
                                  simple real zero . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--969
                Yuqian Zhou and   
                       Qian Liu   Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions
                                  for a $(2 + 1)$-dimensional nonlinear
                                  dispersive long wave equation  . . . . . 970--979
       Jafar Saberi-Nadjafi and   
                  Mahdi Heidari   Solving linear integral equations of the
                                  second kind with repeated modified
                                  trapezoid quadrature method  . . . . . . 980--985
                 Zhihu Zhou and   
                    Zhihui Yang   Periodic solutions in higher-dimensional
                                  Lotka--Volterra neutral competition
                                  systems with state-dependent delays  . . 986--995
                Zhihui Yang and   
                     Zhihu Zhou   Periodic solutions of a class of neutral
                                  differential models with feedback
                                  control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996--1009
                      Anonymous   Retraction notice  . . . . . . . . . . . 1010--1010

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 189, Number 2, June 15, 2007

      Romulus-Catalin Damaceanu   Implementation of simulation model of
                                  world economy using LSD  . . . . . . . . 1011--1033
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
               Asgar Hamidi and   
           Mohammad Shakourifar   The solution of coupled Burgers'
                                  equations using Adomian--Padé technique   1034--1047
             S. U. Siddiqui and   
                Shailesh Mishra   A study of modified Casson's fluid in
                                  modelled normal and stenotic
                                  capillary-tissue diffusion phenomena . . 1048--1057
             Naseer Shahzad and   
                   Habtu Zegeye   Strong convergence of an implicit
                                  iteration process for a finite family of
                                  generalized asymptotically
                                  quasi-nonexpansive maps  . . . . . . . . 1058--1065
       Cesar A. Gómez S.   Special forms of the fifth-order KdV
                                  equation with new periodic and soliton
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066--1077
           K. G. Terry Hollands   A simplification to Fredholm's solution
                                  to the Fredholm integral equation of the
                                  second kind  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1086
                  Dehong Ji and   
                  Weigao Ge and   
                     Yitao Yang   The existence of symmetric positive
                                  solutions for Sturm--Liouville-like
                                  four-point boundary value problem with a
                                  $p$-Laplacian operator . . . . . . . . . 1087--1098
       William Wei-Yuan Hsu and   
                  Yuh-Dauh Lyuu   A convergent quadratic-time lattice
                                  algorithm for pricing European-style
                                  Asian options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1123
                    B. Wang and   
                    S. M. Zhong   On novel stability criterion of neutral
                                  system with time-varying delay . . . . . 1124--1130
               Guangwa Wang and   
                Mingru Zhou and   
                         Li Sun   Existence of solutions of boundary value
                                  problem for 3rd order nonlinear system   1131--1138
Graciela Adriana González   On-line parameter estimator derived from
                                  modified matrix pseudoinverse  . . . . . 1139--1145
         Eberhard Malkowsky and   
         Vladimir Rako\vcevi\'c   On matrix domains of triangles . . . . . 1146--1163
                     Rui Xu and   
                        ZhienMa   The effect of stage-structure on the
                                  permanence of a predator--prey system
                                  with time delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164--1177
                 Yuying Shi and   
             Qianshun Chang and   
                        Jing Xu   Convergence of fixed point iteration for
                                  deblurring and denoising problem . . . . 1178--1185
              Xingyuan Wang and   
                     Xuejing Yu   Julia sets for the standard Newton's
                                  method, Halley's method, and Schröder's
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186--1195
                   Z. Y. Wu and   
                M. Mammadov and   
                  F. S. Bai and   
                     Y. J. Yang   A filled function method for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1196--1204
               Xueming Yang and   
                Jinsha Yuan and   
               Jiangye Yuan and   
                      Huina Mao   A modified particle swarm optimizer with
                                  dynamic adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1213
                Khalid M. Hosny   Exact and fast computation of geometric
                                  moments for gray level images  . . . . . 1214--1222
          N. C. A. da Costa and   
                F. A. Doria and   
                         E. Bir   On the metamathematics of the P vs. NP
                                  question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223--1240
                  Hai Huang and   
                Zengxin Wei and   
                   Yao Shengwei   The proof of the sufficient descent
                                  condition of the Wei--Yao--Liu conjugate
                                  gradient method under the strong
                                  Wolfe--Powell line search  . . . . . . . 1241--1245
               Somna Mishra and   
              V. K. Katiyar and   
                       V. Arora   Mathematical modeling of chemotherapy
                                  strategies in vascular tumor growth
                                  using nanoparticles  . . . . . . . . . . 1246--1254
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   On optimal scaling algorithm for finding
                                  positive solution of elliptic equation   1255--1259
                 Arif Rafiq and   
              Sifat Hussain and   
               Farooq Ahmad and   
                 Muhammad Awais   New iterative methods  . . . . . . . . . 1260--1267
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
         Waseem Asghar Khan and   
                 Akhtar Hussain   A new modified Halley method without
                                  second derivatives for nonlinear
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268--1273
             Shiang-Tai Liu and   
                  Rong-Tsu Wang   A numerical solution method to interval
                                  quadratic programming  . . . . . . . . . 1274--1281
                Kemal Polat and   
             Salih Güne\cs   Prediction of hepatitis disease based on
                                  principal component analysis and
                                  artificial immune recognition system . . 1282--1291
                 Mani Mehra and   
                    Vivek Kumar   Fast wavelet-Taylor Galerkin method for
                                  linear and non-linear wave problems  . . 1292--1299
                K. C. Sivakumar   Generalized inverses of tridiagonal
                                  operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300--1303
                     X. Lai and   
                    Yirang Yuan   Galerkin alternating-direction method
                                  for a kind of second-order quasi-linear
                                  hyperbolic problems  . . . . . . . . . . 1304--1319
                    Hao Liu and   
                        Hua Dai   Inverse problems for nonsymmetric
                                  matrices with a submatrix constraint . . 1320--1330
                   Xia Wang and   
                     Xinyu Song   Global stability and periodic solution
                                  of a model for HIV infection of CD4 $^+$
                                  T cells  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1340
            S. M. Sajadifar and   
                        R. Haji   Optimal solution for a two-level
                                  inventory system with information
                                  exchange leading to a more
                                  computationally efficient search . . . . 1341--1349
             Xingping Sheng and   
                  Guoliang Chen   A finite iterative method for solving a
                                  pair of linear matrix equations $(AXB,
                                  CXD) = (E, F)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350--1358
             Xinguang Zhang and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Huichao Zou   Positive solutions of fourth-order
                                  singular three point eigenvalue problems 1359--1367
                Shaohua Pan and   
                 Jein-Shan Chen   Two unconstrained optimization
                                  approaches for the Euclidean
                                  $\kappa$-centrum location problem  . . . 1368--1383
                  Changbum Chun   On the construction of iterative methods
                                  with at least cubic convergence  . . . . 1384--1392
                     Min Xu and   
               Xiao-Dong Hu and   
                    Jun-Ming Xu   Edge-pancyclicity and Hamiltonian
                                  laceability of the balanced hypercubes   1393--1401
              Baodong Zheng and   
                     Yang Zhang   On additive transformations preserving a
                                  multiplicative matrix function . . . . . 1402--1409
                Guangjun Xu and   
                Erfang Shan and   
                Liying Kang and   
                 T. C. E. Cheng   The algorithmic complexity of the minus
                                  clique-transversal problem . . . . . . . 1410--1418
              Kaizhong Guan and   
                   Jianhua Shen   On first-order neutral differential
                                  equations of Euler form with unbounded
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419--1427
                 Yuyang Qiu and   
              Zhenyue Zhang and   
                     Junfeng Lu   The matrix equations $AX = B$, $XC = D$
                                  with $PX = sXP$ constraint . . . . . . . 1428--1434
                      H. Arsham   Construction of the largest sensitivity
                                  region for general linear programs . . . 1435--1447
               Jianjun Jiao and   
                Xinzhu Meng and   
                    Lansun Chen   A stage-structured Holling mass defence
                                  predator--prey model with impulsive
                                  perturbations on predators . . . . . . . 1448--1458
                     R. Thukral   Development of the Overholt
                                  transformation for accelerating the
                                  convergence of sequences . . . . . . . . 1459--1466
                   G. L. Silver   Center points and grid equations from
                                  sub-grid equations . . . . . . . . . . . 1467--1475
                     Xinyuan Wu   Note on the improvement of Newton's
                                  method for system of nonlinear equations 1476--1479
                 Jiuwen Cao and   
             Shouming Zhong and   
                    Yuanyuan Hu   Global stability analysis for a class of
                                  neural networks with varying delays and
                                  control input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1480--1490
  Alysson Kennerly Colaciti and   
Luis Miguel Valdés López and   
Hélio Aparecido Navarro and   
     Luben Cabezas-Gómez   Numerical simulation of a radial
                                  diffuser turbulent airflow . . . . . . . 1491--1504
                   Chao Sun and   
             Jing-Yang Yang and   
                  Sheng-Hong Li   On barrier option pricing in binomial
                                  market with transaction costs  . . . . . 1505--1516
              Qing-Wen Wang and   
            Guang-Jing Song and   
                   Chun-Yan Lin   Extreme ranks of the solution to a
                                  consistent system of linear quaternion
                                  matrix equations with an application . . 1517--1532
                H. Chaggara and   
                      I. Lamiri   Linearization coefficients for
                                  Boas--Buck polynomial sets . . . . . . . 1533--1549
            M. R. Alirezaee and   
                   M. Afsharian   A complete ranking of DMUs using
                                  restrictions in DEA models . . . . . . . 1550--1559
                    M. Vynnycky   On the modelling of two-phase flow in
                                  the cathode gas diffusion layer of a
                                  polymer electrolyte fuel cell  . . . . . 1560--1575
                   M. Sajid and   
                       T. Hayat   Non-similar series solution for boundary
                                  layer flow of a third-order fluid over a
                                  stretching sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576--1585
               Xiao-Ling Fu and   
            Abdellah Bnouhachem   An self-adaptive LQP method for
                                  constrained variational inequalities . . 1586--1600
Hélio Aparecido Navarro and   
 Luben Cabezas-Gómez and   
Renato César da Silva and   
        Arlindo Neto Montagnoli   A generalized alternating-direction
                                  implicit scheme for incompressible
                                  magnetohydrodynamic viscous flows at low
                                  magnetic Reynolds number . . . . . . . . 1601--1613
                  Wei-Guo Zhang   Possibilistic mean--standard deviation
                                  models to portfolio selection for
                                  bounded assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1614--1623
               Shao-Jian Qu and   
               Ke-Cun Zhang and   
                   Jia-Kun Zhao   An efficient algorithm for globally
                                  minimizing sum of quadratic ratios
                                  problem with nonconvex quadratic
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1624--1636
                Yanli Huang and   
                 Yongzhong Song   Semiconvergence of block AOR method for
                                  singular $p$-cyclic matrices . . . . . . 1637--1647
                      Sunil and   
              Prakash Chand and   
             Pavan Kumar Bharti   Double-diffusive convection in a
                                  micropolar ferromagnetic fluid . . . . . 1648--1661
    Celia A. Zorzo Barcelos and   
Marcos Aurélio Batista and   
         Adriana M. Martins and   
        Antonio Carlos Nogueira   Geodesic path based digital inpainting   1662--1674
                       Qin Deng   On univalent functions with negative
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1675--1682
                Yunfeng Jia and   
                     Jianhua Wu   Asymptotic behavior of solutions of a
                                  periodic reaction--diffusion system of a
                                  three-species of competition model . . . 1683--1693
              Minghui Jiang and   
                    Yi Shen and   
                Haigeng Luo and   
                   Xiaoxin Liao   Nonlinear behavior of the parameterized
                                  Logistic differential systems  . . . . . 1694--1704
          Nata\vsa Kreji\'c and   
           Zorana Lu\vzanin and   
                   Ivana Radeka   Newton-like method for nonlinear banded
                                  block diagonal system  . . . . . . . . . 1705--1711
                  Tsung-fang Wu   Multiple positive solutions for
                                  semilinear elliptic systems with
                                  nonlinear boundary condition . . . . . . 1712--1722
  Silvia Martorano Raimundo and   
               Hyun Mo Yang and   
             Alejandro B. Engel   Modelling the effects of temporary
                                  immune protection and vaccination
                                  against infectious diseases  . . . . . . 1723--1736
                 Yong Zhang and   
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
              Xing-Ping Liu and   
                  Tong-Xiang Gu   A class of preconditioners based on the
                                  $(I + S(\alpha))$-type preconditioning
                                  matrices for solving linear systems  . . 1737--1748
                 Wenbin Guo and   
                Musheng Wei and   
                    Zhao Jianli   Forward order law for $g$-inverses of
                                  the product of two matrices  . . . . . . 1749--1754
                  Yuhui Tao and   
                 Heng Liang and   
                   Fengshan Bai   A hybrid algorithm for multi-homogeneous
                                  Bézout number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1764
          Tanfer Tanriverdi and   
              John Bryce Mcleod   Generalization of the eigenvalues by
                                  contour integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1773
            Shengqiang Tang and   
                   Wentao Huang   Bifurcations of travelling wave
                                  solutions for the generalized double
                                  sinh-Gordon equation . . . . . . . . . . 1774--1781
L. Hernández Encinas and   
       A. Martín del Rey   Inverse rules of ECA with rule number
                                  150  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1782--1786
        Soubhik Chakraborty and   
            Suman Kumar Sourabh   How robust are average complexity
                                  measures? A statistical case study . . . 1787--1797
         Behrouz Fathi Vajargah   New advantages to obtain accurate matrix
                                  inversion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1798--1804
                  Changbum Chun   A note on fifth-order iterative methods
                                  for solving nonlinear equations  . . . . 1805--1807
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   An iterative scheme for signal settings
                                  and network flows  . . . . . . . . . . . 1808--1815
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   An improvement of the Jarratt method . . 1816--1821
                  Changbum Chun   A two-parameter third-order family of
                                  methods for solving nonlinear equations  1822--1827
              K. Maleknejad and   
                 M. Yousefi and   
                       K. Nouri   Computational methods for integrals
                                  involving functions and Daubechies
                                  wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828--1840
         Behrouz Fathi Vajargah   Different stochastic algorithms to
                                  obtain matrix inversion  . . . . . . . . 1841--1846
            Farzad Didehvar and   
               Changiz Eslahchi   An algorithm for rank aggregation
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1858
                   R. Brits and   
          A. P. Engelbrecht and   
               F. van den Bergh   Locating multiple optima using particle
                                  swarm optimization . . . . . . . . . . . 1859--1883
            Soubhik Chakraborty   Can a randomized binary search have an
                                  O(1) complexity at least in practice?    1884--1888
                Jamal Arkat and   
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
                   Babak Abbasi   Artificial neural networks in applying
                                  MCUSUM residuals charts for AR(1)
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889--1901
                   S. A. Belbas   A new method for optimal control of
                                  Volterra integral equations  . . . . . . 1902--1915
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order tridiagonal matrices with
                                  eigenvalues on imaginary axis. I . . . . 1916--1920
                  M. Javidi and   
                    A. Golbabai   A numerical solution for solving system
                                  of Fredholm integral equations by using
                                  homotopy perturbation method . . . . . . 1921--1928
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
        Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din   Variational iteration technique for
                                  solving higher order boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1929--1942
                 Xuxin Yang and   
                   Jianhua Shen   Nonlinear boundary value problems for
                                  first order impulsive functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1943--1952
                J. Tumwiine and   
           J. Y. T. Mugisha and   
                  L. S. Luboobi   A mathematical model for the dynamics of
                                  malaria in a human host and mosquito
                                  vector with temporary immunity . . . . . 1953--1965
         Hassan Hassanzadeh and   
         Mehran Pooladi-Darvish   Comparison of different numerical
                                  Laplace inversion methods for
                                  engineering applications . . . . . . . . 1966--1981
                         Wei Gu   A probabilistic method for numerical
                                  solution of quasi-linear parabolic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982--1992
                Subuhi Khan and   
             Babita Agrawal and   
               M. A. Pathan and   
                 Fahim Mohammad   Evaluations of certain Euler type
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993--2003
                 Arif Rafiq and   
             Muhammad Awais and   
                     Fiza Zafar   Modified efficient variant of
                                  super-Halley method  . . . . . . . . . . 2004--2010
                Yousry S. Hanna   On the solutions of tridiagonal linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011--2016
            A. S. V. Ravi Kanth   Cubic spline polynomial for non-linear
                                  singular two-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2017--2022
       Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh   Erratum to: ``A numerical solution
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Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 190, Number 1, July 1, 2007

                    Anqi He and   
                   Jianzhou Liu   A parallel iterative criterion for
                                  $H$-matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
                 Fathi M. Allan   Derivation of the Adomian decomposition
                                  method using the homotopy analysis
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--14
        Soubhik Chakraborty and   
       Kiran Kumar Sundararajan   Winograd's algorithm statistically
                                  revisited: It pays to weigh than to
                                  count! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--20
               H. T. Rathod and   
             K. V. Nagaraja and   
                 B. Venkatesudu   On the application of two symmetric
                                  Gauss Legendre quadrature rules for
                                  composite numerical integration over a
                                  triangular surface . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
             Anchala Kumari and   
            Soubhik Chakraborty   Software complexity: a statistical case
                                  study through insertion sort . . . . . . 40--50
         P. Balasubramaniam and   
                 E. Karthikeyan   Elliptic curve scalar multiplication
                                  algorithm using complementary recoding   51--56
                  Changbum Chun   Some variants of King's fourth-order
                                  family of methods for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
                J. A. Reyes and   
    F. García-Alonso and   
     J. M. Ferrándiz and   
                 J. Vigo-Aguiar   Numeric multistep variable methods for
                                  perturbed linear system integration  . . 63--79
             J. Vigo-Aguiar and   
       J. Martín-Vaquero   Exponential fitting BDF algorithms and
                                  their properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--110
               J. R. Sharma and   
                     R. K. Guha   A family of modified Ostrowski methods
                                  with accelerated sixth order convergence 111--115
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
               Hsiu-Mei Lee and   
                  Chia-Ling Lei   Computational testing algorithmic
                                  procedure of assessment for lifetime
                                  performance index of products with
                                  two-parameter exponential distribution   116--125
                    Jisheng Kou   On Chebyshev--Halley methods with
                                  sixth-order convergence for solving
                                  non-linear equations . . . . . . . . . . 126--131
            Kuo-Liang Chung and   
                Yong-Huai Huang   Speed up the computation of randomized
                                  algorithms for detecting lines, circles,
                                  and ellipses using novel tuning- and
                                  LUT-based voting platform  . . . . . . . 132--149
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
              Sheau-Chiann Chen   Computational comparison of the
                                  prediction intervals of future
                                  observation for three-parameter Pareto
                                  distribution with known shape parameter  150--178
                A. Golbabai and   
                      M. Javidi   A numerical solution for non-classical
                                  parabolic problem based on Chebyshev
                                  spectral collocation method  . . . . . . 179--185
               H. T. Rathod and   
             B. Venkatesudu and   
             K. V. Nagaraja and   
             Md. Shafiqul Islam   Gauss Legendre--Gauss Jacobi quadrature
                                  rules over a tetrahedral region  . . . . 186--194
        Soubhik Chakraborty and   
            Suman Kumar Sourabh   On why an algorithmic time complexity
                                  measure can be system invariant rather
                                  than system independent  . . . . . . . . 195--204
              Lu-Chuan Ceng and   
                   Jen-Chih Yao   An extragradient-like approximation
                                  method for variational inequality
                                  problems and fixed point problems  . . . 205--215
                M. Yashtini and   
                       A. Malek   Solving complementarity and variational
                                  inequalities problems using neural
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--230
                 A. Shidfar and   
                J. Damirchi and   
                     P. Reihani   An stable numerical algorithm for
                                  identifying the solution of an inverse
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--236
           Janusz Sokó\l   On sufficient condition to be in a
                                  certain subclass of starlike functions
                                  defined by subordination . . . . . . . . 237--241
                Junxiang Li and   
                          Bo Yu   Truncated partitioning group correction
                                  algorithms for large-scale sparse
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 242--254
        George A. Gravvanis and   
        Victor N. Epitropou and   
   Konstantinos M. Giannoutakis   On the performance of parallel
                                  approximate inverse preconditioning
                                  using Java multithreading techniques . . 255--270
                   Jun Long and   
                   Changfeng Ma   A filter method for solving nonlinear
                                  complementarity problems based on
                                  derivative-free line search  . . . . . . 271--286
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   A numerical algorithm for finding
                                  solution of multiparameter semipositone
                                  Dirichlet problems . . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
                 Ming Yuchi and   
              Jong-Hwan Kim and   
                         Jun Jo   A population ecology inspired parent
                                  selection strategy for numerical
                                  constrained optimization problems  . . . 292--304
             R. Uthayakumar and   
                P. Paramanathan   An algorithm for computing fractal
                                  dimension of rectifiable irregular
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--308
                Shieh-Shing Lin   An efficient graph technique based
                                  dual-type algorithm for NMNF problems
                                  with large capacity constraints  . . . . 309--320
                  R. K. Mohanty   The smart-BLAGE algorithm for singularly
                                  perturbed $2$D elliptic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 321--331
            Eisa A. Al-Said and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Numerical solutions of third-order
                                  system of boundary value problems  . . . 332--338
                    Jisheng Kou   Second-derivative-free variants of
                                  Cauchy's method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--344
              I. K. Youssef and   
               H. A. El-Arabawy   Picard iteration algorithm combined with
                                  Gauss--Seidel technique for initial
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--355
               Zhenyu Huang and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   An explicit projection method for a
                                  system of nonlinear variational
                                  inequalities with different $(\gamma,
                                  r)$-cocoercive mappings  . . . . . . . . 356--361
    Maria Cristina C. Cunha and   
    Fábio Antonio Dorini   A numerical scheme for the variance of
                                  the solution of the random transport
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--369
             Chaolong Zhang and   
               Weizhen Feng and   
                  Fengjian Yang   Oscillations of higher order nonlinear
                                  functional differential equations with
                                  impulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--381
                   M. de la Sen   On positivity of singular regular linear
                                  time-delay time-invariant systems
                                  subject to multiple internal and
                                  external incommensurate point delays . . 382--401
                John O. Adeyeye   A Newton--Cotes method for quantum
                                  stochastic differential equations  . . . 402--409
                  Barun Das and   
               Manoranjan Maiti   An application of bi-level newsboy
                                  problem in two substitutable items under
                                  capital cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--422
                   Jie Zhou and   
               Zuodong Yang and   
                  Jianqing Zhao   Existence of singular positive solutions
                                  for a class quasilinear elliptic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--431
                  N. A. Mir and   
                    Naila Rafiq   Third-order and fourth-order iterative
                                  methods for finding multiple and
                                  distinct zeros of non-linear equations   432--440
                Honghui Yin and   
                   Zuodong Yang   New results on the existence of bounded
                                  positive entire solutions for
                                  quasilinear elliptic systems . . . . . . 441--448
           H. M. Srivastava and   
        Zoltán Finta and   
                    Vijay Gupta   Direct results for a certain family of
                                  summation--integral type operators . . . 449--457
                Fanwei Meng and   
                         Run Xu   Oscillation criteria for certain even
                                  order quasi-linear neutral differential
                                  equations with deviating arguments . . . 458--464
            Chun-Sheng Chen and   
                   Chun-Yao Hsu   Imperfection sensitivity in the
                                  nonlinear vibration oscillations of
                                  initially stressed plates  . . . . . . . 465--475
               Kwangsoo Kim and   
                  Hong Seo Ryoo   Data separation via a finite number of
                                  discriminant functions: a global
                                  optimization approach  . . . . . . . . . 476--489
              Hongxian Zhou and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                  Shuang Li and   
                     Ying Zhang   On the number of limit cycles of a cubic
                                  polynomials Hamiltonian system under
                                  quintic perturbation . . . . . . . . . . 490--499
               Xinyuan Liao and   
              Shengfan Zhou and   
                    Yuming Chen   On permanence and global stability in a
                                  general Gilpin--Ayala competition
                                  predator--prey discrete system . . . . . 500--509
                    Sheng Zhang   A generalized new auxiliary equation
                                  method and its application to the (2 +
                                  1)-dimensional breaking soliton
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--516
                      Yijun Lou   Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions
                                  in generalized phi-four equation . . . . 517--525
                     Yongkun Li   Positive periodic solutions of discrete
                                  Lotka--Volterra competition systems with
                                  state dependent and distributed delays   526--531
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
              Ghazala Akram and   
                Salman A. Malik   Nonpolynomial sextic spline method for
                                  the solution along with convergence of
                                  linear special case fifth-order
                                  two-point boundary value problems  . . . 532--541
                Xinsheng Du and   
                   Zengqin Zhao   On existence theorems of positive
                                  solutions to nonlinear singular
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 542--552
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   New family of iterative methods for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 553--558
                     Baoguo Jia   Bounds of the Hausdorff measure of the
                                  Koch curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--565
                Yanbin Sang and   
                         Hua Su   Several sufficient conditions of
                                  solvability for a nonlinear higher order
                                  three-point boundary value problem on
                                  time scales  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--575
                   H. S. Fu and   
                     B. Han and   
                      G. Q. Gai   A wavelet multiscale--homotopy method
                                  for the inverse problem of
                                  two-dimensional acoustic wave equation   576--582
                 Cuihua Guo and   
                   Shangbin Cui   Well-posedness of Cauchy problem of
                                  fourth-order Schrödinger equations in
                                  anisotropic Sobolev space  . . . . . . . 583--589
         Djurdje Cvijovi\'c and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Summation of a family of finite secant
                                  sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--598
                M. A. Helal and   
                  M. S. Mehanna   The tanh method and Adomian
                                  decomposition method for solving the
                                  foam drainage equation . . . . . . . . . 599--609
                     B. Chanane   Sturm--Liouville problems with impulse
                                  effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--626
                  Xinhua Hu and   
                   Zhongxing Ye   Valuing credit derivatives in a
                                  jump-diffusion model . . . . . . . . . . 627--632
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the KP
                                  equation by Hirota's bilinear method and
                                  by the tanh--coth method . . . . . . . . 633--640
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Solution of 10th-order boundary value
                                  problems using non-polynomial spline
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--651
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Numerical solution of a system of fourth
                                  order boundary value problems using
                                  cubic non-polynomial spline method . . . 652--661
               Iraj Mahdavi and   
               Babak Javadi and   
       Kaveh Fallah-Alipour and   
                   Jannes Slomp   Designing a new mathematical model for
                                  cellular manufacturing system based on
                                  cell utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--670
                  S. M. Lee and   
                     Ju H. Park   Output feedback model predictive control
                                  for LPV systems using
                                  parameter-dependent Lyapunov function    671--676
                Lingyu Song and   
                 Yinnian He and   
                      Zhihao Ge   Stability and bifurcation for a kind of
                                  nonlinear delayed differential equations 677--685
                 A. Cordero and   
             Juan R. Torregrosa   Variants of Newton's Method using
                                  fifth-order quadrature formulas  . . . . 686--698
                    Yan Sun and   
                  Maoan Han and   
               Lokenath Debnath   Existence of positive periodic solutions
                                  for a class of functional differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--704
               Mridula Garg and   
                   Alka Rao and   
                    S. L. Kalla   On a generalized finite Hankel transform 705--711
               Wen-Lih Chen and   
              Yu-Ching Yang and   
                   Haw-Long Lee   Estimating the absorptivity in laser
                                  processing by inverse methodology  . . . 712--721
                    J. I. Ramos   Numerical methods for nonlinear
                                  second-order hyperbolic partial
                                  differential equations. I.
                                  Time-linearized finite difference
                                  methods for $1$-D problems . . . . . . . 722--756
              M. S. El-Azab and   
               Mohamed El-Gamel   A numerical algorithm for the solution
                                  of telegraph equations . . . . . . . . . 757--764
        M. C. Olguín and   
               M. A. Medina and   
              M. C. Sanziel and   
                   D. A. Tarzia   Behavior of the solution of a Stefan
                                  problem by changing thermal coefficients
                                  of the substance . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--780
                Changho Kim and   
              Sang Dong Kim and   
                    Jungho Yoon   Generalized Clenshaw--Curtis quadrature
                                  rule with application to a collocation
                                  least-squares method . . . . . . . . . . 781--789
             Paul Georgescu and   
            Gheorghe Moro\csanu   Pest regulation by means of impulsive
                                  controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--803
                    J. I. Ramos   Numerical methods for nonlinear
                                  second-order hyperbolic partial
                                  differential equations. II. Rothe's
                                  techniques for $1$-D problems  . . . . . 804--832
             Serena Matucci and   
           Pavel \vRehák   Nonoscillatory solutions of a
                                  second-order nonlinear discrete system   833--845
              Gergely Röst   On the global attractivity controversy
                                  for a delay model of hematopoiesis . . . 846--850
       I. Barranco-Chamorro and   
  A. Enguix-González and   
       J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and   
    J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo   Local influence on the ratio and
                                  Horvitz--Thompson estimators through the
                                  second order approach  . . . . . . . . . 851--865
            Luis F. Cordero and   
          René Escalante   Segmented Tau approximation for a
                                  parametric nonlinear neutral
                                  differential equation  . . . . . . . . . 866--881
              J. Rashidinia and   
                R. Jalilian and   
                      V. Kazemi   Spline methods for the solutions of
                                  hyperbolic equations . . . . . . . . . . 882--886
                 Yong Liang and   
            Kwong-Sak Leung and   
                    Zong-Ben Xu   A novel splicing/decomposable binary
                                  encoding and its operators for genetic
                                  and evolutionary algorithms  . . . . . . 887--904
                  Y. G. Sun and   
               A. B. Mingarelli   Oscillation of higher-order forced
                                  nonlinear differential equations . . . . 905--911
       Juan Carlos Ceballos and   
  Mauricio Sepúlveda and   
Octavio Paulo Vera Villagrán   The Korteweg--de Vries--Kawahara
                                  equation in a bounded domain and some
                                  numerical results  . . . . . . . . . . . 912--936
          Diana Doli\'canin and   
  Gradimir V. Milovanovi\'c and   
           Valery G. Romanovski   Linearizability conditions for a cubic
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--945
             Daoud S. Daoud and   
             Jürgen Geiser   Overlapping Schwarz wave form relaxation
                                  for the solution of coupled and
                                  decoupled system of convection diffusion
                                  reaction equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 946--964
           Balwant Singh Thakur   Weak and strong convergence of composite
                                  implicit iteration process . . . . . . . 965--973
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   New complexiton solutions of the
                                  nonlinear evolution equations using a
                                  generalized rational expansion method
                                  with symbolic computation  . . . . . . . 974--986
             Saralees Nadarajah   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 987--987
                    M. A. Abdou   The extended tanh method and its
                                  applications for solving nonlinear
                                  physical models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 988--996
                    K. Uslu and   
                   A. Nalli and   
                         M. Sen   Erratum to ``On the norms of circulant
                                  matrices with the Fibonacci and Lucas
                                  numbers'' [Appl. Math. Comput. 160 (1)
                                  (2005) 125--132] . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--998

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 190, Number 2, July 15, 2007

         Firdaus E. Udwadia and   
           Phailaung Phohomsiri   Generalized $LM$-inverse of a matrix
                                  augmented by a column vector . . . . . . 999--1006
             Ying-Jun Jiang and   
                  Jin-Ping Zeng   Additive Schwarz algorithm for the
                                  nonlinear complementarity problem with
                                  $M$-function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1019
                 Yongjun Li and   
                 Chengkui Zhong   Pullback attractors for the norm-to-weak
                                  continuous process and application to
                                  the nonautonomous reaction--diffusion
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1029
                     Li Jin and   
               Li-Wei Zhang and   
                  Xian-Tao Xiao   Two differential equation systems for
                                  equality-constrained optimization  . . . 1030--1039
               Changfeng Ma and   
                    Lihua Jiang   Lower-dimensional linear complementarity
                                  problem approaches to the solution of a
                                  bi-obstacle problem  . . . . . . . . . . 1040--1049
                G. Casciola and   
           L. B. Montefusco and   
                      S. Morigi   The regularizing properties of
                                  anisotropic radial basis functions . . . 1050--1062
              Tingchun Wang and   
               Luming Zhang and   
                    Fangqi Chen   Conservative schemes for the symmetric
                                  Regularized Long Wave equations  . . . . 1063--1080
               Lingyun Wang and   
                  Feng Ding and   
                   Peter X. Liu   Convergence of HLS estimation algorithms
                                  for multivariable ARX-like systems . . . 1081--1093
               Feng Cheng Chang   Complete sets of solutions to
                                  partition--distribution equations  . . . 1094--1107
         Akbar H. Borzabadi and   
              Mortaza Gachpazan   Approximate solutions for a class of
                                  first order nonlinear difference
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108--1115
                  Xiao Wang and   
                    Zhixiang Li   Globally dynamical behaviors for a class
                                  of nonlinear functional difference
                                  equation with almost periodic
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116--1124
        Gökhan Apaydin and   
                Selim Seker and   
                     Niyazi Ari   Weighted extended B-splines for
                                  one-dimensional electromagnetic problems 1125--1135
         Hamed R. Tareghian and   
           Seyyed Hassan Taheri   A solution procedure for the discrete
                                  time, cost and quality tradeoff problem
                                  using electromagnetic scatter search . . 1136--1145
              Yen-Liang Yeh and   
             Cheng Chi Wang and   
                  Ming-Jyi Jang   Using finite difference and differential
                                  transformation method to analyze of
                                  large deflections of orthotropic
                                  rectangular plate problem  . . . . . . . 1146--1156
           Janusz Sokó\l   Starlikeness of Hadamard product of
                                  certain analytic functions . . . . . . . 1157--1160
           Ali Abbasi Molai and   
                Esmaile Khorram   A modified algorithm for solving the
                                  proposed models by Ghodousian and
                                  Khorram and Khorram and Ghodousian . . . 1161--1167
       Abdelkader Boucherif and   
                 Nawal Al-Malki   Nonlinear three-point third-order
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 1168--1177
       A. Flores-Franuli\vc and   
         H. Román-Flores   A Chebyshev type inequality for fuzzy
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178--1184
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
                    M. Esmaeili   Sensitivity analysis of efficient units
                                  in the presence of non-discretionary
                                  inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185--1197
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-front solutions for the Burgers
                                  equation and the coupled Burgers
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198--1206
         Bimal Kumar Mishra and   
                     Navnit Jha   Fixed period of temporary immunity after
                                  run of anti-malicious software on
                                  computer nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1212
             Xinsheng Xiong and   
                 Zhengqiu Zhang   Existence and global attractivity of a
                                  periodic solution for a prey--predator
                                  model with sex-structure . . . . . . . . 1213--1224
                 Ying Zhang and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                      Tong Fang   Stochastic Hopf bifurcation and chaos of
                                  stochastic Bonhoeffer--van der Pol
                                  system via Chebyshev polynomial
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1236
               Haixing Wang and   
                  Jinsheng Shen   Heuristic approaches for solving transit
                                  vehicle scheduling problem with route
                                  and fueling time constraints . . . . . . 1237--1249
                Yingjie Wei and   
                     Wenjie Gao   Existence and uniqueness of local
                                  solutions to a class of quasilinear
                                  degenerate parabolic systems . . . . . . 1250--1257
               Yuping Zhang and   
                 Xinzhi Liu and   
                   Hong Zhu and   
                 Shouming Zhong   Stability analysis and control synthesis
                                  for a class of switched neutral systems  1258--1266
                 Shihui Zhu and   
                   Xiaoguang Li   Sharp upper and lower bounds on the
                                  blow-up rate for nonlinear Schrödinger
                                  equation with potential  . . . . . . . . 1267--1272
               Changfeng Ma and   
                   Desheng Wang   A method for time-dependent Maxwell's
                                  equations based on
                                  explicit-magnetic-field scheme . . . . . 1273--1283
                Seifedine Kadry   On the generalization of probabilistic
                                  transformation method  . . . . . . . . . 1284--1289
            Octavian G. Mustafa   On oscillatory solutions of certain
                                  first order ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290--1295
                Guojian Lin and   
                   Yiguang Hong   Delay induced oscillation in
                                  predator--prey system with
                                  Beddington--DeAngelis functional
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1311
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                   Yonghong Yao   Three-step iterations for variational
                                  inequalities and nonexpansive mappings   1312--1321
                 Lin-Xia Hu and   
                    Wan-Tong Li   Global stability of a rational
                                  difference equation  . . . . . . . . . . 1322--1327
                   Han Wang and   
                Hui-sheng Zhang   Boundary element method for simulating
                                  the coupled motion of a fluid and a
                                  three-dimensional body . . . . . . . . . 1328--1343
    Ibrahim Abouelfarag Ibrahim   Solvability of mixed type operator
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1344--1352
       Malik Zawwar Hussain and   
                  Maria Hussain   Visualization of data preserving
                                  monotonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353--1364
               Li Gongsheng and   
                  Cheng Jin and   
                     Yao De and   
              Liu Hongliang and   
                      Liu Jijun   One-dimensional equilibrium model and
                                  source parameter determination for
                                  soil-column experiment . . . . . . . . . 1365--1374
          A. Hermoso-Carazo and   
        J. Linares-Pérez   Extended and unscented filtering
                                  algorithms using one-step randomly
                                  delayed observations . . . . . . . . . . 1375--1393
               Jianhua Shen and   
                    Ruixi Liang   Periodic solutions for a kind of second
                                  order neutral functional differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1394--1401
                Fanwei Meng and   
                         Run Xu   Kamenev-type oscillation criteria for
                                  even order neutral differential
                                  equations with deviating arguments . . . 1402--1408
                A. Golbabai and   
                      M. Javidi   Application of He's homotopy
                                  perturbation method for n th-order
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 1409--1416
            Mingchuan Zhang and   
                    Zhongli Wei   Existence of positive solutions for
                                  fourth-order $m$-point boundary value
                                  problem with variable parameters . . . . 1417--1431
                  Changbum Chun   Some improvements of Jarratt's method
                                  with sixth-order convergence . . . . . . 1432--1437
            Maitree Podisuk and   
           Ungsana Chundang and   
           Wannaporn Sanprasert   Single step formulas and multi-step
                                  formulas of the integration method for
                                  solving the initial value problem of
                                  ordinary differential equation . . . . . 1438--1444
               Po-Chih Chen and   
              Chia-Ou Chang and   
              W. T. Chang Chien   An alternative proof for the explicit
                                  equations of motion for mechanical
                                  systems with independent non-ideal
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445--1449
     Christian-Oliver Ewald and   
              John McNamara and   
               Alasdair Houston   Parental care as a differential game: a
                                  dynamic extension of the Houston--Davies
                                  game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1450--1465
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order tridiagonal matrices with
                                  eigenvalues on imaginary axis. II  . . . 1466--1471
        Weerayuth Nilsrakoo and   
                  Satit Saejung   A reconsideration on convergence of
                                  three-step iterations for asymptotically
                                  nonexpansive mappings  . . . . . . . . . 1472--1478
                M. Zamirian and   
               M. H. Farahi and   
                   A. R. Nazemi   An applicable method for solving the
                                  shortest path problems . . . . . . . . . 1479--1486
                 Gordon G. Cash   An algorithm for calculating the
                                  independence and vertex-cover
                                  polynomials of a graph . . . . . . . . . 1487--1491
                  K. Rezaie and   
              M. S. Amalnik and   
                  A. Gereie and   
                  B. Ostadi and   
                M. Shakhseniaee   Using extended Monte Carlo simulation
                                  method for the improvement of risk
                                  management: Consideration of
                                  relationships between uncertainties  . . 1492--1501
           Mohammad Fathian and   
                Babak Amiri and   
                    Ali Maroosi   Application of honey-bee mating
                                  optimization algorithm on clustering . . 1502--1513
             Afsaneh Fatemi and   
           Kamran Zamanifar and   
              Naser NematBakhsh   A new genetic approach to construct
                                  near-optimal binary search trees . . . . 1514--1525
           E. Tlelo-Cuautle and   
Jesús M. Muñoz-Pacheco   Simulation of Chua's circuit by
                                  automatic control of step-size . . . . . 1526--1533
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                  Shaher Momani   Modified Householder iterative method
                                  for nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . 1534--1539
                    Yi-Kuei Lin   MC-based Algorithm for a
                                  telecommunication network under node and
                                  budget constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 1540--1550
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
              Mahmood-ul-Hassan   Third-order iterative methods free from
                                  second derivatives for nonlinear
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1556
              K. Maleknejad and   
                      H. Derili   Numerical solution of Hammerstein
                                  integral equations by using combination
                                  of spline-collocation method and
                                  Lagrange interpolation . . . . . . . . . 1557--1562
                Kwan Pyo Ko and   
             Byung-Gook Lee and   
                 Gang Joon Yoon   A ternary 4-point approximating
                                  subdivision scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 1563--1573
                Kemal Polat and   
             Salih Güne\cs   A novel approach to estimation of E.
                                  coli promoter gene sequences: Combining
                                  feature selection and least square
                                  support vector machine (FS\_LSSVM) . . . 1574--1582
                 Ching-Liang Su   Finger shape expansion and recognition
                                  by wavelet transform . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1592
                R. Farnoosh and   
                    M. Ebrahimi   Monte Carlo method via a numerical
                                  algorithm to solve a parabolic problem   1593--1601
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   Reserve capacity of signal-controlled
                                  road network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1602--1611
                  J. Amador and   
                 J. R. Artalejo   On the distribution of the successful
                                  and blocked events in the M / M / c
                                  retrial queue: a computational approach  1612--1626
            C. Ramachandran and   
            T. N. Shanmugam and   
           H. M. Srivastava and   
                 A. Swaminathan   A unified class of $k$-uniformly convex
                                  functions defined by the
                                  Dziok--Srivastava linear operator  . . . 1627--1636
                  Tao Xiang and   
              Xiaofeng Liao and   
                   Kwok-wo Wong   An improved particle swarm optimization
                                  algorithm combined with piecewise linear
                                  chaotic map  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1637--1645
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
                 Devendra Kumar   Geometric mesh FDM for self-adjoint
                                  singular perturbation boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1646--1656
           S. Mehdi Hashemi and   
            Mohsen Rezapour and   
                   Ahmad Moradi   Two new algorithms for the Min-Power
                                  Broadcast problem in static ad hoc
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1657--1668
              J. Rashidinia and   
                R. Jalilian and   
               R. Mohammadi and   
                     M. Ghasemi   Sextic spline method for the solution of
                                  a system of obstacle problems  . . . . . 1669--1674
                  A. Dang Quang   Iterative method for solving a nonlinear
                                  boundary value problem . . . . . . . . . 1675--1682
                  R. K. Mohanty   Stability interval for explicit
                                  difference schemes for multi-dimensional
                                  second-order hyperbolic equations with
                                  significant first-order space derivative
                                  terms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1683--1690
        Abdellah Bnouhachem and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
              Mohamed Khalfaoui   Modified descent-projection method for
                                  solving variational inequalities . . . . 1691--1700
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                    Vijay Gupta   Modified Householder iterative method
                                  free from second derivatives for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 1701--1706
               B. N. Mandal and   
            Subhra Bhattacharya   Numerical solution of some classes of
                                  integral equations using Bernstein
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707--1716
                A. Golbabai and   
                      M. Javidi   A new family of iterative methods for
                                  solving system of nonlinear algebric
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1722
                 Shiang-Tai Liu   Profit maximization with quantity
                                  discount: an application of geometric
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1723--1729
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   A numerical method for finding positive
                                  solution of diffusive logistic equation  1730--1734
                  Mohamed Saleh   Estimating market shares in each market
                                  segment using the information entropy
                                  concept  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1735--1739
                  Maziar Salahi   A finite termination Mehrotra-type
                                  predictor--corrector algorithm . . . . . 1740--1746
                Peter Knoll and   
             Siroos Mirzaei and   
                Horst Köhn   Numerical simulation of dynamic sand
                                  dunes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747--1753
             Amjad Alipanah and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Numerical solution of the nonlinear
                                  Fredholm integral equations by positive
                                  definite functions . . . . . . . . . . . 1754--1761
              J. Rashidinia and   
               R. Mohammadi and   
                     M. Ghasemi   Cubic spline solution of singularly
                                  perturbed boundary value problems with
                                  significant first derivatives  . . . . . 1762--1766
             Andargie Awoke and   
                    Y. N. Reddy   An exponentially fitted special
                                  second-order finite difference method
                                  for solving singular perturbation
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1782
        Frank Emmert-Streib and   
                Matthias Dehmer   Information theoretic measures of UHG
                                  graphs with low computational complexity 1783--1794
                        Qi Wang   Homotopy perturbation method for
                                  fractional KdV equation  . . . . . . . . 1795--1802
      Raed Ali Al-Khasawneh and   
             Fudziah Ismail and   
               Mohamed Suleiman   Embedded diagonally implicit
                                  Runge--Kutta--Nystrom 4(3) pair for
                                  solving special second-order IVPs  . . . 1803--1814
 Miquel Grau-Sánchez and   
             Josep M. Peris and   
José M. Gutiérrez   Accelerated iterative methods for
                                  finding solutions of a system of
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 1815--1823
                Roland R. Benke   Analytical and numerical solutions of
                                  the expected number of occurrences for
                                  combinations of event sequences due to
                                  variability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824--1838
                Jisheng Kou and   
                    Xiuhua Wang   Sixth-order variants of
                                  Chebyshev--Halley methods for solving
                                  non-linear equations . . . . . . . . . . 1839--1843
         Tibor K. Pogány   Convergence of generalized Kapteyn
                                  expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844--1847
                 Da-Zhi Sun and   
              Jin-Peng Huai and   
                Ji-Zhou Sun and   
                  Jia-Wan Zhang   Computational efficiency analysis of Wu
                                  et al.'s fast modular
                                  multi-exponentiation algorithm . . . . . 1848--1854
            Süleyman Solak   Erratum to ``On the norms of circulant
                                  matrices with the Fibonacci and Lucas
                                  numbers'' [Appl. Math. Comput. 160
                                  (2005) 125--132] . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1856
                      Anonymous   Master index: Vols 181--190  . . . . . . i--ix


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 191, Number 1, August 1, 2007

               S. Hemavathi and   
            T. Bhuvaneswari and   
              S. Valarmathi and   
                J. J. H. Miller   A parameter uniform numerical method for
                                  a system of singularly perturbed
                                  ordinary differential equations  . . . . 1--11
                     F. Liu and   
                  P. Zhuang and   
                     V. Anh and   
                  I. Turner and   
                     K. Burrage   Stability and convergence of the
                                  difference methods for the space--time
                                  fractional advection--diffusion equation 12--20
                M. M. Awais and   
             Shafay Shamail and   
                    Nisar Ahmed   Dimensionally reduced Krylov subspace
                                  model reduction for large scale systems  21--30
                      Jian Wang   A note on multisymplectic Fourier
                                  pseudospectral discretization for the
                                  nonlinear Schrödinger equation  . . . . . 31--41
                 Y. J. Feng and   
                      L. Yu and   
                    G. L. Zhang   Ant colony pattern search algorithms for
                                  unconstrained and bound constrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--56
                  M. Z. Liu and   
                   S. F. Ma and   
                     Z. W. Yang   Stability analysis of Runge--Kutta
                                  methods for unbounded retarded
                                  differential equations with piecewise
                                  continuous arguments . . . . . . . . . . 57--66
                  Yingjun Jiang   Adaptive collocation methods for
                                  Volterra integral and
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 67--78
               S. H. Taheri and   
                H. Ghazvini and   
          J. Saberi-Nadjafi and   
                      J. Biazar   A hybrid of the restarted Arnoldi and
                                  electromagnetism meta-heuristic methods
                                  for calculating eigenvalues and
                                  eigenvectors of a non-symmetric matrix   79--88
                Lubin G. Vulkov   Blow up for some quasilinear equations
                                  with dynamical boundary conditions of
                                  parabolic type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
               Samuel Jator and   
              Zachariah Sinkala   A high order B-spline collocation method
                                  for linear boundary value problems . . . 100--116
                    Jisheng Kou   A third-order modification of Newton
                                  method for systems of non-linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--121
                A. Golbabai and   
                      M. Javidi   New iterative methods for nonlinear
                                  equations by modified HPM  . . . . . . . 122--127
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   New classes of iterative methods for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
               Chia-Long Wu and   
             Der-Chyuan Lou and   
                   Te-Jen Chang   Fast binary multiplication by performing
                                  dot counting and complement recoding . . 132--139
                 M. Rabbani and   
              K. Maleknejad and   
               N. Aghazadeh and   
                R. Mollapourasl   Computational projection methods for
                                  solving Fredholm integral equation . . . 140--143
                  Wu-Sheng Wang   A generalized retarded Gronwall-like
                                  inequality in two variables and
                                  applications to BVP  . . . . . . . . . . 144--154
               Habtu Zegeye and   
                 Naseer Shahzad   Viscosity approximation methods for a
                                  common fixed point of finite family of
                                  nonexpansive mappings  . . . . . . . . . 155--163
                      Shujin Wu   The Euler scheme for random impulsive
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 164--175
              You-lin Shang and   
                Ding-guo Pu and   
                  Ai-ping Jiang   Finding global minimizer with
                                  one-parameter filled function on
                                  unconstrained global optimization  . . . 176--182
                   Ebru Ozbilge   An analysis of conservative finite
                                  difference schemes for differential
                                  equations with discontinuous
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--192
                  Changbum Chun   Some variants of Chebyshev--Halley
                                  methods free from second derivative  . . 193--198
                A. Golbabai and   
                      M. Javidi   A third-order Newton type method for
                                  nonlinear equations based on modified
                                  homotopy perturbation method . . . . . . 199--205
                E. Babolian and   
                R. Mokhtari and   
                     M. Salmani   Using direct method for solving
                                  variational problems via triangular
                                  orthogonal functions . . . . . . . . . . 206--217
              Shaher Momani and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Numerical comparison of methods for
                                  solving a special fourth-order boundary
                                  value problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--224
         Behrouz Fathi Vajargah   A way to obtain Monte Carlo matrix
                                  inversion with minimal error . . . . . . 225--233
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
                 S. Mahdavi and   
                  Z. Naghizadeh   A numerical method for finding positive
                                  solution of diffusive logistic equation
                                  with constant yield harvesting . . . . . 234--238
                 U Jin Choi and   
              Bong-Gyu Jang and   
                 Hyeng-Keun Koo   An algorithm for optimal portfolio
                                  selection problem with transaction costs
                                  and random lifetimes . . . . . . . . . . 239--252
                    Aihua Zhang   A secret to create a complete market
                                  from an incomplete market  . . . . . . . 253--262
 Miquel Grau-Sánchez and   
José-Luis Díaz-Barrero   A Hummel & Seebeck family of iterative
                                  methods with improved convergence and
                                  efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--271
                Chia-Nan Ko and   
             Ying-Pin Chang and   
                     Chia-Ju Wu   An orthogonal-array-based particle swarm
                                  optimizer with nonlinear time-varying
                                  evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--279
         Behrouz Fathi Vajargah   A new algorithm with maximal rate
                                  convergence to obtain inverse matrix . . 280--286
                  J. Biazar and   
                    H. Ghazvini   He's variational iteration method for
                                  solving linear and non-linear systems of
                                  ordinary differential equations  . . . . 287--297
       Devrim Çakmak and   
           Aydìn Tiryaki   Comment on the paper ``Oscillation of
                                  second-order nonlinear ODE with
                                  damping''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 191, Number 2, August 15, 2007

                     John Casti   Note from the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
                  A. Garadzhaev   A note on the spectral theory of
                                  problems on normal oscillation of an
                                  ideal compressible fluid in rotating
                                  elastic shell  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--307
            R. J. Moitsheki and   
                  O. D. Makinde   Some invariant solutions for a microwave
                                  heating model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--313
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
                 Jung-Yiau Shiu   Cycle embedding of augmented cubes . . . 314--319
          Mohamed Ali Hajji and   
                Kamel Al-Khaled   Analytic studies and numerical
                                  simulations of the generalized
                                  Boussinesq equation  . . . . . . . . . . 320--333
                A. Golbabai and   
                      M. Javidi   Application of homotopy perturbation
                                  method for solving eighth-order boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--346
                Junliang Lu and   
                 Tianlan He and   
                      Dahe Feng   Persistence of travelling waves for a
                                  coupled nonlinear wave system  . . . . . 347--352
                 Bruno Loff and   
José Félix Costa and   
                    Jerzy Mycka   Computability on reals, infinite limits
                                  and differential equations . . . . . . . 353--371
             A. Ramesh Babu and   
                   N. Ramanujam   An asymptotic finite element method for
                                  singularly perturbed third and fourth
                                  order ordinary differential equations
                                  with discontinuous source term . . . . . 372--380
               Yao Shengwei and   
                Zengxin Wei and   
                      Hai Huang   A note about WYL's conjugate gradient
                                  method and its applications  . . . . . . 381--388
                   G. Landi and   
            E. Loli Piccolomini   Fast methods for MR spectroscopic
                                  imaging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--396
               H. T. Rathod and   
             K. V. Nagaraja and   
                 B. Venkatesudu   Numerical integration of some functions
                                  over an arbitrary linear tetrahedra in
                                  Euclidean three-dimensional space  . . . 397--409
                  Changbum Chun   Some second-derivative-free variants of
                                  Chebyshev--Halley methods  . . . . . . . 410--414
        Yehia A. Abdel-Aziz and   
             F. A. Abd El-Salam   An efficient algorithm for orbital
                                  evolution of artificial satellite  . . . 415--428
                  B. Llanas and   
             S. Lantarón   Hermite interpolation by neural networks 429--439
               Xufeng Shang and   
                      Danfu Han   Numerical solution of Fredholm integral
                                  equations of the first kind by using
                                  linear Legendre multi-wavelets . . . . . 440--444
                      Geir Dahl   A note on a parameter relating traffic
                                  equilibria and system optimal routing    445--450
        Mohammad R. Ranjbar and   
              Fereydoon Kianfar   Solving the discrete time/resource
                                  trade-off problem in project scheduling
                                  with genetic algorithms  . . . . . . . . 451--456
                 Hongxia Wu and   
                    Tianyou Fan   New explicit solutions of the nonlinear
                                  wave equations with damping term . . . . 457--465
                   Bongsoo Jang   Solutions to the non-homogeneous
                                  parabolic problems by the extended HADM  466--483
               Muhammad Ali and   
              Mahmood-ul-Hassan   A different approach to exact solutions
                                  in non-Newtonian second-grade of
                                  creeping fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--489
              Hongxian Zhou and   
                     Wei Xu and   
              Xiaoshan Zhao and   
                      Shuang Li   Detection function method and its
                                  application to a class of quintic
                                  Hamiltonian systems with quintic
                                  perturbations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--503
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                   Zhenyu Huang   Wiener--Hopf equation technique for
                                  variational inequalities and
                                  nonexpansive mappings  . . . . . . . . . 504--510
                 O. I. Kosmidou   Generalized Riccati equations associated
                                  with guaranteed cost control: an
                                  overview of solutions and features . . . 511--520
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
              F. Rezai Balf and   
                H. Zhiani Rezai   Discriminant analysis of interval data
                                  using Monte Carlo method in assessment
                                  of overlap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--532
  Norhashidah Hj. Mohd. Ali and   
                 Lee Siaw Chong   Group accelerated OverRelaxation methods
                                  on rotated grid  . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--542
                  Yuexin Yu and   
                 Liping Wen and   
                      Shoufu Li   Nonlinear stability of Runge--Kutta
                                  methods for neutral delay
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 543--549
                Hongmei Guo and   
                 Shouming Zhong   Synchronization criteria of time-delay
                                  feedback control system with
                                  sector-bounded nonlinearity  . . . . . . 550--559
Amir Hossein A. E. Tabatabaei and   
              Elham Shakour and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   Some implicit methods for the numerical
                                  solution of Burgers' equation  . . . . . 560--570
             G. B. Loghmani and   
               S. R. Alavizadeh   Numerical solution of fourth-order
                                  problems with separated boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--581
                Haihua Wang and   
                     Haibo Chen   Boundary value problem for second-order
                                  impulsive functional differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--591
                A. Bayramov and   
   S. Öztürk Uslu and   
S. Kizilbudak Çali\cskan   Computation of eigenvalues and
                                  eigenfunctions of a discontinuous
                                  boundary value problem with retarded
                                  argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592--600


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 192, Number 1, September 1, 2007

               Xinchao Zhao and   
              Xiao-Shan Gao and   
                     Ze-Chun Hu   Evolutionary programming based on
                                  non-uniform mutation . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                Jian-guo Du and   
                  Tingwen Huang   New results on stable region of Nash
                                  equilibrium of output game model . . . . 12--19
                  V. Kanwar and   
                    S. K. Tomar   Modified families of Newton, Halley and
                                  Chebyshev methods  . . . . . . . . . . . 20--26
                   A. Malek and   
                     M. Alipour   Numerical solution for linear and
                                  quadratic programming problems using a
                                  recurrent neural network . . . . . . . . 27--39
         Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi and   
                  Sohrab Effati   Eigenvalue spread criteria in the
                                  particle swarm optimization algorithm
                                  for solving of constraint parametric
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--50
  Elcin Yusufo\uglu (Agadjanov)   An efficient algorithm for solving
                                  integro-differential equations system    51--55
              M. Ghazanfari and   
                S. Alizadeh and   
                 M. Fathian and   
             D. E. Koulouriotis   Comparing simulated annealing and
                                  genetic algorithm in learning FCM  . . . 56--68
      R. P. F. Guiné and   
            A. E. Rodrigues and   
               M. M. Figueiredo   Modelling and simulation of pear drying  69--77
    A. Vincent Antony Kumar and   
             P. Balasubramaniam   Optimal control for linear singular
                                  system using genetic programming . . . . 78--89
             Awoke Andargie and   
                    Y. N. Reddy   Fitted fourth-order tridiagonal finite
                                  difference method for singular
                                  perturbation problems  . . . . . . . . . 90--100
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Some iterative methods free from second
                                  derivatives for nonlinear equations  . . 101--106
              J. Rashidinia and   
                R. Jalilian and   
                   K. Farajeyan   Spline approximate solution of
                                  fifth-order boundary-value problem . . . 107--112
                    Jisheng Kou   Fourth-order variants of Cauchy's method
                                  for solving non-linear equations . . . . 113--119
José Romildo Malaquias and   
           Carlos Roberto Lopes   Implementing a computer algebra system
                                  in Haskell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--134
              M. J. Richard and   
               J. J. McPhee and   
                 R. J. Anderson   Computerized generation of motion
                                  equations using variational
                                  graph-theoretic methods  . . . . . . . . 135--156
              S. H. Hashemi and   
    H. R. Mohammadi Daniali and   
                    D. D. Ganji   Numerical simulation of the generalized
                                  Huxley equation by He's homotopy
                                  perturbation method  . . . . . . . . . . 157--161
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   A family of new Newton-like methods  . . 162--167
                Yasuhito Tanaka   Type two computability of social choice
                                  functions and the Gibbard--Satterthwaite
                                  theorem in an infinite society . . . . . 168--174
                    Manoj Kumar   Higher order method for singular
                                  boundary-value problems by using spline
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--179
              Stefano De Marchi   Mathematics and wine . . . . . . . . . . 180--190
           E. A. Jonckheere and   
            P. Lohsoonthorn and   
                      F. Ariaei   Upper bound on scaled Gromov-hyperbolic
                                  $\delta$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--204
                  M. S. El-Azab   Solution of nonlinear
                                  transport--diffusion problems by
                                  linearization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--215
                     Run Xu and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Oscillation criteria for second order
                                  quasi-linear neutral delay differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--222
                 Lishan Liu and   
             Xinguang Zhang and   
                    Yonghong Wu   On existence of positive solutions of a
                                  two-point boundary value problem for a
                                  nonlinear singular semipositone system   223--232
                  Meijie Ma and   
                Guizhen Liu and   
                  Xiangfeng Pan   Path embedding in faulty hypercubes  . . 233--238
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                  A. Refahi and   
                      M. Akbari   Weighted FOM-inverse vector iteration
                                  method for computing a few smallest
                                  (largest) eigenvalues of pair ( A B )    239--246
                   Kostas Zotos   Improving numerical software . . . . . . 247--251
                  Xuewen Mu and   
               Yaling Zhang and   
                    Sanyang Liu   A new branch and bound method with
                                  pretreatment for the binary quadratic
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--259
               T. Narayaninsamy   A method to construct irregular fractal
                                  curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--273
               T. Narayaninsamy   Fractional iterates for piecewise
                                  differentiable maps  . . . . . . . . . . 274--279
                     Arif Rafiq   A note on ``New family of iterative
                                  methods for nonlinear equations''  . . . 280--282
              Miguel Romera and   
              Michael Small and   
                Marius-F. Danca   Deterministic and random synthesis of
                                  discrete chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--297

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 192, Number 2, September 15, 2007

      Francisco A. Ocaña   An approximation problem in computing
                                  electoral volatility . . . . . . . . . . 299--310
             Nenad Ujevi\'c and   
                Goran Erceg and   
                   Ivan Leki\'c   A family of methods for solving
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 311--318
              J. Rashidinia and   
               R. Mohammadi and   
                R. Jalilian and   
                     M. Ghasemi   Convergence of cubic-spline approach to
                                  the solution of a system of
                                  boundary-value problems  . . . . . . . . 319--331
            S. M. Hashemiparast   Numerical integration using local Taylor
                                  expansions in nodes  . . . . . . . . . . 332--336
                 B. Jarboui and   
                  M. Cheikh and   
                  P. Siarry and   
                       A. Rebai   Combinatorial particle swarm
                                  optimization (CPSO) for partitional
                                  clustering problem . . . . . . . . . . . 337--345
                  M. Z. Liu and   
                  Hui Liang and   
                     Z. W. Yang   Stability of Runge--Kutta methods in the
                                  numerical solution of linear impulsive
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 346--357
                Fengde Chen and   
                     Jinlin Shi   On a delayed nonautonomous
                                  ratio-dependent predator--prey model
                                  with Holling type functional response
                                  and diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--369
               Changfeng Ma and   
                   Jia Tang and   
                  Xiaohong Chen   A globally convergent
                                  Levenberg--Marquardt method for solving
                                  nonlinear complementarity problem  . . . 370--381
                          Yi Li   An effective algorithm of computing
                                  symbolic determinants with multivariate
                                  polynomial entries . . . . . . . . . . . 382--388
                Fazhan Geng and   
                    Minggen Cui   Solving singular nonlinear second-order
                                  periodic boundary value problems in the
                                  reproducing kernel space . . . . . . . . 389--398
         P. Balasubramaniam and   
                 E. Karthikeyan   Fast simultaneous scalar multiplication  399--404
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                   Yueqing Zhao   Newton--Kantorovich type convergence
                                  theorem for a family of new deformed
                                  Chebyshev method . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--412
        S. Raja Balachandar and   
                      K. Kannan   Randomized gravitational emulation
                                  search algorithm for symmetric traveling
                                  salesman problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--421
                 Shan-He Wu and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Some improvements and generalizations of
                                  Steffensen's integral inequality . . . . 422--428
    Hassan Salehi Fathabadi and   
               Mehdi Ghiyasvand   A new algorithm for solving the
                                  feasibility problem of a network flow    429--438
                Carmen Coll and   
       Elena Sánchez and   
            Néstor Thome   An algorithm for normalizing variable
                                  control systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--445
     Mohamed Abd El-Hady Kassem   Interactive stability cutting-plane
                                  algorithm for multiobjective nonlinear
                                  programming problems . . . . . . . . . . 446--456
                    Jinhai Chen   Pre-symmetric approach and applications
                                  to indefinite non-symmetric problems . . 457--465
                R. K. Gupta and   
               A. K. Bhunia and   
                    S. K. Goyal   An application of genetic algorithm in a
                                  marketing oriented inventory model with
                                  interval valued inventory costs and
                                  three-component demand rate dependent on
                                  displayed stock level  . . . . . . . . . 466--478
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the
                                  Boussinesq equation  . . . . . . . . . . 479--486
               Hsia-Hung Ou and   
           Min-Shiang Hwang and   
                    Jinn-Ke Jan   A simple mobile communication billing
                                  system among charged parties . . . . . . 487--495
                  Qing Miao and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Entire positive solution to the system
                                  of quasilinear elliptic equations  . . . 496--506
              Xiaoshan Zhao and   
                         Wei Xu   Travelling wave solutions for a class of
                                  the generalized Benjamin--Bona--Mahoney
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--519
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   An optimization model for area traffic
                                  control with link tolls  . . . . . . . . 520--532
               Chunlian Liu and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Existence of large solutions for
                                  quasilinear elliptic problems with a
                                  gradient term  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--545
                A. Golbabai and   
                      M. Javidi   Newton-like iterative methods for
                                  solving system of non-linear equations   546--551
                 Xiang-Ping Yan   Stability and Hopf bifurcation for a
                                  delayed prey--predator system with
                                  diffusion effects  . . . . . . . . . . . 552--566
              La-sheng Wang and   
               Changlin Mei and   
                       Hong Xue   The semi-implicit Euler method for
                                  stochastic differential delay equation
                                  with jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--578
                 Yulan Wang and   
                 Chunlai Mu and   
                  Zhaoyin Xiang   Blowup of solutions to a porous medium
                                  equation with nonlocal boundary
                                  condition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--585
          Abbas Saadatmandi and   
          Jalal Askari Farsangi   Chebyshev finite difference method for a
                                  nonlinear system of second-order
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 586--591
                      Anonymous   Author Index to Volume . . . . . . . . . 592--595


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 193, Number 1, October 1, 2007

                   B. A. Frasin   Neighborhoods of certain multivalent
                                  functions with negative coefficients . . 1--6
                   Yisheng Song   Iterative selection methods for the
                                  common fixed point problems in a Banach
                                  space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--17
                Dianli Zhao and   
                      Lei Zhang   Exponential asymptotic stability of
                                  nonlinear Volterra equations with random
                                  impulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--25
              U. S. Kirmaci and   
     M. Klari\vci\'c Bakula and   
         M. E. Özdemir and   
                 J. Pe\vcari\'c   Hadamard-type inequalities for
                                  $s$-convex functions . . . . . . . . . . 26--35
                 Lihong Cui and   
               Weixing Wang and   
                  Jinming Zhang   On a family of biorthogonal armlets with
                                  prescribed properties  . . . . . . . . . 36--65
                       Ruyun Ma   Positive solutions for boundary value
                                  problems of functional differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72
                 Zeqing Liu and   
              Shin Min Kang and   
                Jeong Sheok Ume   Existence and iterative approximations
                                  of nonoscillatory solutions of higher
                                  order nonlinear neutral delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 73--88
             Zhengping Wang and   
                     Lizhi Ruan   On a class of semilinear elliptic
                                  problems with singular nonlinearities    89--105
                Jianwen Jia and   
                     Qiuying Li   Qualitative analysis of an SIR epidemic
                                  model with stage structure . . . . . . . 106--115
              Xinhong Zhang and   
                    Dengke Tong   A generalized Weber transform and its
                                  inverse formula  . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--126
                 Xin-Wei Lu and   
                   Ke-Cun Zhang   An application of a global optimization
                                  parametrization method on macromolecular
                                  structure problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 127--134
                   Liping Zhang   A new trust region algorithm for
                                  nonsmooth convex minimization  . . . . . 135--142
                   Chao Sun and   
             Jing-Yang Yang and   
                  Sheng-Hong Li   On reset option pricing in binomial
                                  market with both fixed and proportional
                                  transaction costs  . . . . . . . . . . . 143--153
                 Hong-Wu Wu and   
              Sui Sun Cheng and   
                     Qi-Ru Wang   Distribution of zeros of solutions of
                                  functional differential equations  . . . 154--161
           Seiichi Nakamori and   
      Aurora Hermoso-Carazo and   
    Josefa Linares-Pérez   Design of fixed-lag smoother using
                                  covariance information based on
                                  innovations approach in linear
                                  discrete-time stochastic systems . . . . 162--174
             L. F. Shampine and   
                    S. Thompson   Moving averages of solutions of ODEs . . 175--182
               Kwangsoo Kim and   
                  Hong Seo Ryoo   Nonlinear separation of data via Mixed
                                  $0$--$1$ Integer and Linear Programming  183--196
                M. Anjidani and   
                      S. Effati   Steepest descent method for solving
                                  zero-one nonlinear programming problems  197--202
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   Two numerical methods for finding
                                  multiple solutions of a logistic
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--210
                 Kusum Deep and   
                   Manoj Thakur   A new mutation operator for real coded
                                  genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 211--230
                  Yan Jiang and   
                 Tiesong Hu and   
            ChongChao Huang and   
                     Xianing Wu   An improved particle swarm optimization
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--239
            Changzhong Wang and   
                     Jinlin Shi   Positive almost periodic solutions of a
                                  class of Lotka--Volterra type
                                  competitive system with delays and
                                  feedback controls  . . . . . . . . . . . 240--252
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for tridiagonal matrices
                                  with elements $-1, 0, 0, \ldots{}, 0$ in
                                  principal and $1, 1, 1, \ldots{}, 1$ in
                                  neighbouring diagonals. I  . . . . . . . 253--256
            Changzhong Wang and   
                     Jinlin Shi   Periodic solution for a delay
                                  multispecies Logarithmic population
                                  model with feedback control  . . . . . . 257--265
                 Sheng Chen and   
                Zhaohui Liu and   
                 Chao Zhang and   
                     Zhu He and   
                Zhiwei Tian and   
               Baochang Shi and   
                 Chuguang Zheng   A novel coupled lattice Boltzmann model
                                  for low Mach number combustion
                                  simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--284
             Wan-Sheng Wang and   
                     Shou-Fu Li   On the one-leg $\theta$-methods for
                                  solving nonlinear neutral functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 285--301

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 193, Number 2, November 1, 2007

                    J. I. Ramos   On Linstedt--Poincaré techniques for the
                                  quintic Duffing equation . . . . . . . . 303--310
               Fengjie Geng and   
                     Deming Zhu   Multiple results of $p$-Laplacian
                                  dynamic equations on time scales . . . . 311--320
                   T. Padma and   
              P. Balasubramanie   Analytic hierarchy process to assess
                                  occupational risk for shoulder and neck
                                  pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--324
                 Ching-Liang Su   Edge distance and gray level extraction
                                  and orientation invariant transform for
                                  Chinese seal recognition . . . . . . . . 325--334
              K. Maleknejad and   
                   K. Nouri and   
                     M. Yousefi   Discussion on convergence of Legendre
                                  polynomial for numerical solution of
                                  integral equations . . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
                    P. Jana and   
                 S. K. Mazumder   Geometric programming and dual
                                  entropy-optimization problem . . . . . . 340--345
                  K. W. See and   
                 K. S. Loke and   
                  P. A. Lee and   
                      K. F. Loe   Image reconstruction using various
                                  discrete orthogonal polynomials in
                                  comparison with DCT  . . . . . . . . . . 346--359
                      M. Javidi   Iterative methods to nonlinear equations 360--365
            Nazir Ahmad Mir and   
                    Tooba Zaman   Some quadrature based three-step
                                  iterative methods for non-linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--373
                  B. Dugnol and   
        C. Fernández and   
                 G. Galiano and   
                     J. Velasco   Implementation of a diffusive
                                  differential reassignment method for
                                  signal enhancement: an application to
                                  wolf population counting . . . . . . . . 374--384
              Levente Csoka and   
               Ferenc Divos and   
               Katsuhiko Takata   Utilization of Fourier transform of the
                                  absolute amplitude spectrum in wood
                                  anatomy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--388
              Changbum Chun and   
                    YoonMee Ham   Some sixth-order variants of Ostrowski
                                  root-finding methods . . . . . . . . . . 389--394
                   P. A. Tzekis   A new algorithm for the solution of a
                                  polynomial matrix Diophantine equation   395--407
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
                 Chao-Wen Huang   An efficient strategy for generating all
                                  descendant subtree patterns from
                                  phylogenetic trees with its
                                  implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--418
            Jiang-She Zhang and   
            Xing-Fang Huang and   
                  Cheng-Hu Zhou   An improved kernel regression method
                                  based on Taylor expansion  . . . . . . . 419--429
        Marek J. \'Smieta\'nski   On a new class parametrized Newton-like
                                  method for semismooth equations  . . . . 430--437
                Yicheng Liu and   
                    Zhixiang Li   Strong convergence theorems in real
                                  reflexive Banach spaces for
                                  non-expansive mappings . . . . . . . . . 438--445
                  Alice Gorguis   Charpit and Adomian for solving integral
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--454
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The variational iteration method for a
                                  reliable treatment of the linear and the
                                  nonlinear Goursat problem  . . . . . . . 455--462
                Nak Eun Cho and   
               Oh Sang Kwon and   
             Shigeyoshi Owa and   
               H. M. Srivastava   A class of integral operators preserving
                                  subordination and superordination for
                                  meromorphic functions  . . . . . . . . . 463--474
                Yasuhito Tanaka   The Gibbard--Satterthwaite theorem of
                                  social choice theory in an infinite
                                  society and LPO (limited principle of
                                  omniscience) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--481
               Dah-Jing Jwo and   
                    Ta-Shun Cho   A practical note on evaluating Kalman
                                  filter performance optimality and
                                  degradation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--505
                 Xinyuan Wu and   
                   Yonglei Fang   Wilkinson's iterative refinement of
                                  solution with automatic step-size
                                  control for linear system of equations   506--513
      M. Y. Rahimi-Ardabili and   
                   S. Shahmorad   Iterative numerical solution of
                                  non-linear integro-differential
                                  equations by the Tau method  . . . . . . 514--522
                    B. Chen and   
                 R. Company and   
            L. Jódar and   
           M. D. Roselló   Constructing accurate polynomial
                                  approximations for nonlinear
                                  differential initial value problems  . . 523--534
                  Nasir Ali and   
                  Tasawar Hayat   Peristaltic motion of a Carreau fluid in
                                  an asymmetric channel  . . . . . . . . . 535--552
                Z. Kebbiche and   
                A. Keraghel and   
                     A. Yassine   Extension of a projective interior point
                                  method for linearly constrained convex
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--559
                Ruixi Liang and   
                   Jianhua Shen   Periodic boundary value problem for
                                  second-order impulsive functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 560--571
                     Arif Rafiq   A note on ``New classes of iterative
                                  methods for nonlinear equations'' and
                                  ``Some iterative methods free from
                                  second derivatives for nonlinear
                                  equations''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--576


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 194, Number 1, December 1, 2007

              C. E. Chidume and   
                   M. Abbas and   
                     Bashir Ali   Convergence of the Mann iteration
                                  algorithm for a class of
                                  pseudocontractive mappings . . . . . . . 1--6
            Matthias Dehmer and   
            Frank Emmert-Streib   Structural similarity of directed
                                  universal hierarchical graphs: a low
                                  computational complexity approach  . . . 7--20
        Pradeep Kumar Gudla and   
                 Ranjan Ganguli   Error estimates for inconsistent load
                                  lumping approach in finite element
                                  solution of differential equations . . . 21--37
                  H. Siyyam and   
                 N. Merabet and   
                   M. H. Hamdan   Standard numerical schemes for coupled
                                  parallel flow over porous layers . . . . 38--45
                D. Bahuguna and   
                 A. Ujlayan and   
                   D. N. Pandey   Advanced type coupled matrix Riccati
                                  differential equation systems with
                                  Kronecker product  . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
              Weixiang Wang and   
               Youlin Shang and   
                Liansheng Zhang   A filled function method with one
                                  parameter for box constrained global
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--66
                     Zhengyi Ma   Symmetry group and non-propagating
                                  solitons in the (2 + 1)-dimensional
                                  sine-Gordon equation . . . . . . . . . . 67--73
                Xuelin Yong and   
                      Yufu Chen   On two approaches of finding exact
                                  solutions to nonlinear evolution
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
            Guang-Xin Huang and   
                   Feng Yin and   
                         Ke Guo   The general solutions on the minimum
                                  residual problem and the matrix nearness
                                  problem for symmetric matrices or
                                  anti-symmetric matrices  . . . . . . . . 85--91
                      Ke Su and   
                    Jianren Che   A modified SQP-filter method and its
                                  global convergence . . . . . . . . . . . 92--101
                         Min Wu   Two conditions concerning Newton's
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--107
             Ying-Ming Wang and   
                   Zhi-Ping Fan   Group decision analysis based on fuzzy
                                  preference relations: Logarithmic and
                                  geometric least squares methods  . . . . 108--119
                 FengJun Li and   
                     ZongBen Xu   The essential order of simultaneous
                                  approximation for neural networks  . . . 120--127
                    Wei Yan and   
                  Rong Miao and   
                     Shurong Li   Multi-period semi-variance portfolio
                                  selection: Model and numerical solution  128--134
               Zhenyu Huang and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Some new unified iteration schemes with
                                  errors for nonexpansive mappings and
                                  variational inequalities . . . . . . . . 135--142
                    Rong An and   
                    Yuan Li and   
                      Kaitai Li   Finite element approximation for
                                  fourth-order nonlinear problem in the
                                  plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--155
               Ching-Yang Cheng   Nonsimilar solutions for double
                                  diffusive convection near a frustum of a
                                  wavy cone in porous media  . . . . . . . 156--167
                 Ismet Altintas   An oriented state model for the Jones
                                  polynomial and its applications
                                  alternating links  . . . . . . . . . . . 168--178
                   Chunxia Shen   Permanence and global attractivity of
                                  the food-chain system with Holling IV
                                  type functional response . . . . . . . . 179--185
                  Qing Wang and   
                     Xinzhi Liu   Exponential stability of impulsive
                                  cellular neural networks with time delay
                                  via Lyapunov functionals . . . . . . . . 186--198
               Guo-chang Wu and   
           Zheng-xing Cheng and   
                  Xiao-hui Yang   The cardinal orthogonal scaling function
                                  and sampling theorem in the wavelet
                                  subspaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--214
               Lijuan Zhang and   
                      Ligeng Si   Existence and exponential stability of
                                  almost periodic solution for BAM neural
                                  networks with variable coefficients and
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--223
            Zheng-Hai Huang and   
                Xin-He Miao and   
                      Ping Wang   A revised cut-peak function method for
                                  box constrained continuous global
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--233
                   Chunxia Shen   Positive periodic solution of a kind of
                                  nonlinear food-chain system  . . . . . . 234--242
              Y. Boumedjane and   
                   H. Saidi and   
                S. Hassouni and   
                     A. Zerarka   Some first excited energy levels for the
                                  generalized Killingbeck potential with
                                  the differential quadratic method  . . . 243--249
                 Jiuwen Cao and   
                 Shouming Zhong   New delay-dependent condition for
                                  absolute stability of Lurie control
                                  systems with multiple time-delays and
                                  nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--258
                   Fajun Yu and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   A new fractional order soliton equation
                                  hierarchy and its integrable coupling
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--266
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                   Zhenyu Huang   Some resolvent iterative methods for
                                  variational inclusions and nonexpansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--275
                   Zhen-hua Bao   A note on the compound binomial model
                                  with randomized dividend strategy  . . . 276--286
                YoonMee Ham and   
                  Changbum Chun   A fifth-order iterative method for
                                  solving nonlinear equations  . . . . . . 287--290

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 194, Number 2, December 15, 2007

              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                   Fan Wei Meng   LMI approach to stability for a
                                  competitive Lotka--Volterra system with
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 291--297
                    Yuan Li and   
                    Rong An and   
                      Kaitai Li   Some optimal error estimates of
                                  biharmonic problem using conforming
                                  finite element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--308
                  Dahe Feng and   
                   Jibin Li and   
           Junliang Lü and   
                     Tianlan He   The improved Fan sub-equation method and
                                  its application to the Boussinseq wave
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--320
             Xinguang Zhang and   
                     Lishan Liu   Positive solutions of fourth-order
                                  multi-point boundary value problems with
                                  bending term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--332
Kemal Hacìefendio\uglu and   
     Hasan Basri Ba\csa\uga and   
          Alemdar Bayraktar and   
                \cSevket Ate\cs   Nonlinear analysis of rock-fill dams to
                                  non-stationary excitation by the
                                  stochastic Wilson-$\theta$ method  . . . 333--345
     M. A. Hernández and   
                      N. Romero   Methods with prefixed order for
                                  approximating square roots with global
                                  and general convergence  . . . . . . . . 346--353
              Yongfang Zhou and   
                Yinzhen Lin and   
                    Minggen Cui   An efficient computational method for
                                  second order boundary value problems of
                                  nonlinear differential equations . . . . 354--365
                        Fuyi Xu   Positive solutions for multipoint
                                  boundary value problems with
                                  one-dimensional $p$-Laplacian operator   366--380
           Jose C. Valverde and   
                  Laura Gardini   On the changes of periodicities in a
                                  piecewise linear rotation model  . . . . 381--388
       Mladen Me\vstrovi\'c and   
                     Eva Ocvirk   An application of Romberg extrapolation
                                  on quadrature method for solving linear
                                  Volterra integral equations of the
                                  second kind  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--393
       Ljiljana Cvetkovi\'c and   
              Vladimir Kosti\'c   A note on the convergence of the AOR
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--399
              K. Maleknejad and   
            R. Mollapourasl and   
                    M. Alizadeh   Numerical solution of Volterra type
                                  integral equation of the first kind with
                                  wavelet basis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--405
            Jinn-Tsong Tsai and   
               Wen-Hsien Ho and   
              Tung-Kuan Liu and   
                 Jyh-Horng Chou   Improved immune algorithm for global
                                  numerical optimization and job-shop
                                  scheduling problems  . . . . . . . . . . 406--424
              Changzhen Xie and   
                   Shouzhi Yang   Construction of refinable function
                                  vector via GTST  . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--430
              Bao-Qing Tang and   
                   Xian-Fang Li   A new method for determining the
                                  solution of Riccati differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--440
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   A descent framework for linked signal
                                  system with network flows  . . . . . . . 441--452
                Fengzhi Dai and   
                Jinbin Zhao and   
                   Huailin Zhao   The application of resonance algorithm
                                  for image segmentation . . . . . . . . . 453--459
                  Han Danfu and   
                   Shang Xufeng   Numerical solution of
                                  integro-differential equations by using
                                  CAS wavelet operational matrix of
                                  integration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--466
         Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi and   
              Sohrab Effati and   
                   Zahra Saberi   The probabilistic constraints in the
                                  support vector machine . . . . . . . . . 467--479
     Tomislav Maro\vsevi\'c and   
               Rudolf Scitovski   An application of a few inequalities
                                  among sequences in electoral systems . . 480--485
           E. Tlelo-Cuautle and   
 J. M. Muñoz-Pacheco and   
  J. Martínez-Carballido   Frequency scaling simulation of Chua's
                                  circuit by automatic determination and
                                  control of step-size . . . . . . . . . . 486--491
                      S.-S. Lin   An efficient algorithm for state
                                  estimation problems with coupling
                                  inequality constraints . . . . . . . . . 492--501
                  Fen-Ying Chen   Pricing the equity-linked and
                                  principal-protected securities with cap
                                  and path dependence  . . . . . . . . . . 502--513
                Biswajit Mondal   Discussion on single species fish
                                  population with time dependent growth
                                  rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--519
             Tariq A. Al-Fadhel   Gauss map vs Bernoulli shift . . . . . . 520--526
                    Pankaj Jain   Steffensen type methods for solving
                                  non-linear equations . . . . . . . . . . 527--533
                  A. A. Karawia   Two algorithms for solving a general
                                  backward tridiagonal linear systems  . . 534--539
                     E. S. Gopi   Digital image forgery detection using
                                  artificial neural network and
                                  independent component analysis . . . . . 540--543
             Fariborz Jolai and   
               M. J. Rezaee and   
                 M. Rabbani and   
                   J. Razmi and   
                Pariviz Fattahi   Exact algorithm for bi-objective 0-1
                                  knapsack problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--551
             Fariborz Jolai and   
                 M. Rabbani and   
                S. Amalnick and   
                 A. Dabaghi and   
                 M. Dehghan and   
               M. Yazadn Parast   Genetic algorithm for bi-criteria single
                                  machine scheduling problem of minimizing
                                  maximum earliness and number of tardy
                                  jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--560
              W\lodzimierz Bryc   Computing moments of free additive
                                  convolution of measures  . . . . . . . . 561--567
                   Harris Kwong   Two determinants with Fibonacci and
                                  Lucas entries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--571
                   Jae Heon Yun   A note on the modified SOR method for
                                  $Z$-matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--576


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 195, Number 1, January 15, 2008

         F. J. André and   
                      C. Romero   Computing compromise solutions: On the
                                  connections between compromise
                                  programming and composite programming    1--10
           H. M. Srivastava and   
             Ding-Gong Yang and   
                       N-Eng Xu   Some subclasses of meromorphically
                                  multivalent functions associated with a
                                  linear operator  . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--23
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The tanh--coth and the sine--cosine
                                  methods for kinks, solitons, and
                                  periodic solutions for the
                                  Pochhammer--Chree equations  . . . . . . 24--33
                 Yuan-Ming Wang   Global asymptotic stability of 3-species
                                  Lotka--Volterra models with diffusion
                                  and time delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--48
Murat \.Ihsan Kömürcü and   
               Nedim Tutkun and   
\.Ismail Hakkì Özölçer and   
            Adem Akpìnar   Estimation of the beach bar parameters
                                  using the genetic algorithms . . . . . . 49--60
      Kakali Karmakar (Sur) and   
           Sanat Kumar Majumder   Maximum entropy approach in a traffic
                                  stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65
                  Shiwei Yu and   
                  Kejun Zhu and   
                   Fengqin Diao   A dynamic all parameters adaptive BP
                                  neural networks model and its
                                  application on oil reservoir prediction  66--75
             Ali R. Soheili and   
              Soheil Salahshour   Moving mesh method with local time step
                                  refinement for blow-up problems  . . . . 76--85
              Donal O'Regan and   
                   Reza Saadati   Nonlinear contraction theorems in
                                  probabilistic spaces . . . . . . . . . . 86--93
     H. Román-Flores and   
       A. Flores-Franuli\vc and   
                 Y. Chalco-Cano   A convolution type inequality for fuzzy
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--99
              Huailing Song and   
                    Yirang Yuan   The expanded upwind-mixed multi-step
                                  method for the miscible displacement
                                  problem in three dimensions  . . . . . . 100--109
               Ritesh Kumar and   
               M. K. Kadalbajoo   A class of high resolution shock
                                  capturing schemes for hyperbolic
                                  conservation laws  . . . . . . . . . . . 110--126
            Eleanor Jenkins and   
                     Hyesuk Lee   A domain decomposition method for the
                                  Oseen-viscoelastic flow equations  . . . 127--141
              L. Berezansky and   
                       L. Idels   Periodic Fox production harvesting
                                  models with delay  . . . . . . . . . . . 142--153
         Justie Su-Tzu Juan and   
                Chun-Ming Huang   On the strong distance problems of
                                  pyramid networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--161
              Manish Modani and   
            Maithili Sharan and   
         S. Chandra Sekhara Rao   Numerical solution of elliptic partial
                                  differential equations on parallel
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--182
                Juan F. Navarro   On the implementation of the
                                  Poincaré--Lindstedt technique . . . . . . 183--189
                     J. B. Mena   Datum transformation by Gauss projection
                                  of the ellipsoid onto the sphere and
                                  bilinear function of complex variable:
                                  an application to ETRS89--ED50 . . . . . 190--195
                 L. K. Bieniasz   Experiments with a local adaptive grid
                                  $h$-refinement for the finite-difference
                                  solution of BVPs in singularly perturbed
                                  second-order ODEs  . . . . . . . . . . . 196--219
               Harun Karsli and   
                    Vijay Gupta   Some approximation properties of
                                  $q$-Chlodowsky operators . . . . . . . . 220--229
                Vijay Gupta and   
                    Jyoti Sinha   Direct results on certain
                                  Szasz--Mirakyan operators  . . . . . . . 230--239
                      Li Zu and   
               Daqing Jiang and   
                  Donal O'Regan   Existence theory for multiple solutions
                                  to semipositone Dirichlet boundary value
                                  problems with singular dependent
                                  nonlinearities for second-order
                                  impulsive differential equations . . . . 240--255
             Chao-Hung Wang and   
                   Li-Chang Hsu   Using genetic algorithms grey theory to
                                  forecast high technology industrial
                                  output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--263
                    Ping Li and   
                Shou-ming Zhong   BIBO stabilization of time-delayed
                                  system with nonlinear perturbation . . . 264--269
             Siraj-ul-Islam and   
           Ikram A. Tirmizi and   
                Fazal-i-Haq and   
                   M. Azam Khan   Non-polynomial splines approach to the
                                  solution of sixth-order boundary-value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--284
         Hamed Qahri Saremi and   
               Babak Abedin and   
     Amirhosein Meimand Kermani   Website structure improvement: Quadratic
                                  assignment problem approach and ant
                                  colony meta-heuristic technique  . . . . 285--298
                 B. Jarboui and   
                   N. Damak and   
                  P. Siarry and   
                       A. Rebai   A combinatorial particle swarm
                                  optimization for solving multi-mode
                                  resource-constrained project scheduling
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--308
                R. Farnoosh and   
                    M. Ebrahimi   Monte Carlo method for solving Fredholm
                                  integral equations of the second kind    309--315
               Jianjun Jiao and   
               Guoping Pang and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                     Guilie Luo   A delayed stage-structured
                                  predator--prey model with impulsive
                                  stocking on prey and continuous
                                  harvesting on predator . . . . . . . . . 316--325
           G. A. Papakostas and   
             Y. S. Boutalis and   
         C. N. Papaodysseus and   
                D. K. Fragoulis   Numerical stability of fast computation
                                  algorithms of Zernike moments  . . . . . 326--345
        Subhra Bhattacharya and   
                   B. N. Mandal   Numerical solution of a singular
                                  integro-differential equation  . . . . . 346--350
    E. Ahmed A. S. Elgazzar and   
                   A. S. Hegazi   Modeling the avian flu, lessons form
                                  complex adaptive systems in biology  . . 351--354

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 195, Number 2, February 1, 2008

                    K. Ghanbari   A survey on inverse and generalized
                                  inverse eigenvalue problems for Jacobi
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--363
                   Roy Danchick   Gauss meets Newton again: How to make
                                  Gauss orbit determination from two
                                  position vectors more efficient and
                                  robust with Newton--Raphson iterations   364--375
             Eduardo Massad and   
                  Stefen Ma and   
                  Mark Chen and   
Cláudio José Struchiner and   
           Nico Stollenwerk and   
            Maíra Aguiar   Scale-free network of a dengue epidemic  376--381
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   Optimization of congestion pricing road
                                  network with variable demands  . . . . . 382--391
             Dongdong Jiang and   
                      Danfu Han   Some one-parameter families of
                                  third-order methods for solving
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 392--396
S. Amir Hossein A. E. Tabatabaei and   
             Alaeddin Malek and   
                  Elham Shakour   Numerical solution for the nonlinear
                                  eigenvalue problems in bifurcation
                                  points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--401
                 Liqun Zhou and   
                     Guangda Hu   Global exponential periodicity and
                                  stability of cellular neural networks
                                  with variable and distributed delays . . 402--411
                 Ching-Liang Su   Locating MRI discrepancy by orientation
                                  invariant method . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--419
               Yixiang Geng and   
                       Jibin Li   Exact solutions to a nonlinearly
                                  dispersive Schrödinger equation . . . . . 420--439
                  Quan Yuan and   
                 Zhiqing He and   
                    Huinan Leng   An improvement for Chebyshev collocation
                                  method in solving certain
                                  Sturm--Liouville problems  . . . . . . . 440--447
                  Danfu Han and   
                        Peng Wu   A family of combined iterative methods
                                  for solving nonlinear equation . . . . . 448--453
                  Changbum Chun   Some fourth-order iterative methods for
                                  solving nonlinear equations  . . . . . . 454--459
              G. A. Afrouzi and   
              Z. Naghizadeh and   
                     S. Mahdavi   Computational method to obtain positive
                                  solution for classes of Laplacian
                                  systems with sign-changing weight
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--465
                 W. K. Pang and   
                 Ronghua Li and   
                        Min Liu   Convergence of the semi-implicit Euler
                                  method for stochastic age-dependent
                                  population equations . . . . . . . . . . 466--474
                 O. Sharomi and   
                    A. B. Gumel   Curtailing smoking dynamics: a
                                  mathematical modeling approach . . . . . 475--499
              K. Maleknejad and   
              A. Salimi Shamloo   Numerical solution of singular Volterra
                                  integral equations system of convolution
                                  type by using operational matrices . . . 500--505
Seyed Hamid Reza Pasandideh and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   A genetic algorithm approach to optimize
                                  a multi-products EPQ model with discrete
                                  delivery orders and constrained space    506--514
           Luis P. B. Scott and   
              Jorge Chahine and   
        José R. Ruggiero   Use of genetic algorithms and solvation
                                  potential to study peptides structure    515--522
              Z. Jackiewicz and   
                  M. Rahman and   
                  B. D. Welfert   Numerical solution of a Fredholm
                                  integro-differential equation modelling
                                  $\dot{\theta}$-neural networks . . . . . 523--536
              Changbum Chun and   
                    YoonMee Ham   Some second-derivative-free variants of
                                  super-Halley method with fourth-order
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--541
             Cevriye Gencer and   
Emel Kìzìlkaya Aydogan and   
       Abdullah Soydemìr   Chemical agent detector placement
                                  methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--557
                Chunxia Jia and   
                     Detong Zhu   An affine scaling interior algorithm via
                                  Lanczos path for solving
                                  bound-constrained nonlinear systems  . . 558--575
                M. Yashtini and   
                       A. Malek   A discrete-time neural network for
                                  solving nonlinear convex problems with
                                  hybrid constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 576--584
               E. Roghanian and   
           M. B. Aryanezhad and   
                  S. J. Sadjadi   Integrating goal programming,
                                  Kuhn--Tucker conditions, and penalty
                                  function approaches to solve linear
                                  bi-level programming problems  . . . . . 585--590
          Erol E\ugrio\uglu and   
Ça\ugda\cs Hakan Alada\ug and   
       Süleyman Günay   A new model selection strategy in
                                  artificial neural networks . . . . . . . 591--597
            P. Paramanathan and   
                 R. Uthayakumar   An algorithm for computing the fractal
                                  dimension of waveforms . . . . . . . . . 598--603
             Michael G. Tzoumas   On sign symmetric circulant matrices . . 604--617
             Chun-Xia Zhang and   
            Jiang-She Zhang and   
                  Guan-Wei Wang   An empirical study of using Rotation
                                  Forest to improve regressors . . . . . . 618--629
                  Kai Zhang and   
                  Ran Zhang and   
               Yunguang Yin and   
                         Shi Yu   Domain decomposition methods for linear
                                  and semilinear elliptic stochastic
                                  partial differential equations . . . . . 630--640
                 C. Chiyaka and   
            J. M. Tchuenche and   
                  W. Garira and   
                        S. Dube   A mathematical analysis of the effects
                                  of control strategies on the
                                  transmission dynamics of malaria . . . . 641--662
                     R. Thukral   Introduction to a Newton-type method for
                                  solving nonlinear equations  . . . . . . 663--668
             Zuhaila Ismail and   
            Ilyani Abdullah and   
          Norzieha Mustapha and   
              Norsarahaida Amin   A power-law model of blood flow through
                                  a tapered overlapping stenosed artery    669--680
                  J. Biazar and   
                    H. Ghazvini   Numerical solution for special
                                  non-linear Fredholm integral equation by
                                  HPM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--687
             Aditya Kaushik and   
                   M. D. Sharma   A uniformly convergent numerical method
                                  on non-uniform mesh for singularly
                                  perturbed unsteady Burger--Huxley
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--706
           Stilianos Markolefas   Standard Galerkin formulation with high
                                  order Lagrange finite elements for
                                  option markets pricing . . . . . . . . . 707--720
              Qing-Wen Wang and   
              Hai-Xia Chang and   
                   Chun-Yan Lin   $P$-(skew)symmetric common solutions to
                                  a pair of quaternion matrix equations    721--732
              Qing-Wen Wang and   
                Shao-Wen Yu and   
                   Chun-Yan Lin   Extreme ranks of a linear quaternion
                                  matrix expression subject to triple
                                  quaternion matrix equations with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--744
            Kuang Yuan Kung and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Analytic transient solutions of a
                                  cylindrical heat equation with
                                  oscillating heat flux  . . . . . . . . . 745--753
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Analytic study on Burgers, Fisher,
                                  Huxley equations and combined forms of
                                  these equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--761
                Khalid M. Hosny   On the computational aspects of affine
                                  moment invariants for gray-scale images  762--771
                Nasr-Al-Din Ide   A new hybrid iteration method for
                                  solving algebraic equations  . . . . . . 772--774
                  A. Azadeh and   
              S. F. Ghaderi and   
                  H. Izadbakhsh   Integration of DEA and AHP with computer
                                  simulation for railway system
                                  improvement and optimization . . . . . . 775--785
     Emel Kizilkaya Aydogan and   
                 Cevriye Gencer   Mining classification rules with Reduced
                                  MEPAR-miner Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . 786--798
          Shih-Hsiang Chang and   
                   I-Ling Chang   A new algorithm for calculating
                                  one-dimensional differential transform
                                  of nonlinear functions . . . . . . . . . 799--808
                    B. Wang and   
                   S. Zhong and   
                         X. Liu   Asymptotical stability criterion on
                                  neural networks with multiple
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 809--818
                     Arif Rafiq   A note on ``A family of methods for
                                  solving nonlinear equations''  . . . . . 819--821


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 196, Number 1, February 15, 2008

                 Lian-He Li and   
                   Tian-You Fan   Exact solutions of two semi-infinite
                                  collinear cracks in a strip of one
                                  dimensional hexagonal quasicrystal . . . 1--5
           Ikram A. Tirmizi and   
                Fazal-i-Haq and   
                 Siraj-ul-Islam   Non-polynomial spline solution of
                                  singularly perturbed boundary-value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--16
               Yuanhong Zhi and   
                     Chunlai Mu   Non-simultaneous quenching in a
                                  semilinear parabolic system with weak
                                  singularities of logarithmic type  . . . 17--23
                Fengyin Gao and   
             Shouming Zhong and   
                     Xiuzhi Gao   Delay-dependent stability of a type of
                                  linear switching systems with discrete
                                  and distributed time delays  . . . . . . 24--39
                  Wen-Yuan Chen   Color image steganography scheme using
                                  DFT, SPIHT codec, and modified
                                  differential phase-shift keying
                                  techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--54
       A. Flores-Franuli\vc and   
     H. Román-Flores and   
                 Y. Chalco-Cano   A note on fuzzy integral inequality of
                                  Stolarsky type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--59
                Yun K. Hyon and   
                 Ho J. Jang and   
                     Do Y. Kwak   A nonconforming covolume method for
                                  elliptic problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 60--66
                   J. Miret and   
                  R. Moreno and   
                D. Sadornil and   
                    J. Tena and   
                       M. Valls   Computing the height of volcanoes of
                                  $\ell$-isogenies of elliptic curves over
                                  finite fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
            Manuel A. Insua and   
                   Manuel Ladra   A note on Gröbner bases and Berlekamp's
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
                   Liping Zhang   Solvability of semidefinite
                                  complementarity problems . . . . . . . . 86--93
                       Min Yang   Analysis of second order finite volume
                                  element methods for pseudo-parabolic
                                  equations in three spatial dimensions    94--104
                 Zhijun Liu and   
                Ronghua Tan and   
                Yiping Chen and   
                    Lansun Chen   On the stable periodic solutions of a
                                  delayed two-species model of facultative
                                  mutualism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
                  Xiaoxing Chen   Periodicity in a nonlinear
                                  predator--prey system on time scales
                                  with state-dependent delays  . . . . . . 118--128
               Xueyong Zhou and   
               Xiangyun Shi and   
                     Xinyu Song   Analysis of nonautonomous predator-prey
                                  model with nonlinear diffusion and time
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
                    Ya Tian and   
                     Chunlai Mu   Instantaneous shrinking of the solution
                                  to a nonlinear degenerate equation with
                                  variable coefficient and convection  . . 137--146
             T. Raja Sekhar and   
                   V. D. Sharma   Similarity solutions for three
                                  dimensional Euler equations using Lie
                                  group analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--157
              Urvashi Gupta and   
                  Gaurav Sharma   Thermosolutal instability of a
                                  compressible Rivlin--Erickson fluid in
                                  the presence of rotation and Hall
                                  currents saturating a porous medium  . . 158--173
             Xingping Sheng and   
                  Guoliang Chen   Some generalized inverses of partition
                                  matrix and quotient identity of
                                  generalized Schur complement . . . . . . 174--184
        Margarita Fernandez and   
            Dionisio Acosta and   
                  Adolfo Quiroz   Improving the precision of model
                                  parameters using model based signal
                                  enhancement and the linear minimal model
                                  following an IVGTT in the healthy man    185--192
                 Rekha Bali and   
               Swati Mishra and   
                Shraddhya Dubey   A mathematical model for red cell motion
                                  in narrow capillary surrounded by tissue 193--199
                 Ju H. Park and   
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                      S. M. Lee   LMI optimization approach to
                                  stabilization of Genesio--Tesi chaotic
                                  system via dynamic controller  . . . . . 200--206
                    Ping Li and   
                Shou-ming Zhong   BIBO stabilization for system with
                                  multiple mixed delays and nonlinear
                                  perturbations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--213
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
              Ghazala Akram and   
                     Arfa Elahi   Quartic spline solution of linear fifth
                                  order boundary value problems  . . . . . 214--220
            Matthias Dehmer and   
        Frank Emmert-Streib and   
                   Tanja Gesell   A comparative analysis of
                                  multidimensional features of objects
                                  resembling sets of graphs  . . . . . . . 221--235
                 Ju H. Park and   
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                      S. M. Lee   LMI optimization approach on stability
                                  for delayed neural networks of
                                  neutral-type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--244
             Tz-Liang Kueng and   
             Cheng-Kuan Lin and   
                 Tyne Liang and   
            Jimmy J. M. Tan and   
                  Lih-Hsing Hsu   Fault-tolerant Hamiltonian connectedness
                                  of cycle composition networks  . . . . . 245--256
                  Quan Yuan and   
                 Zhiqing He and   
                    Huinan Leng   An evolution strategy method for
                                  computing eigenvalue bounds of interval
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--265
                 Weiyi Qian and   
               Yingjie Yang and   
              Ningning Yang and   
                        Chun Li   Particle swarm optimization for SNP
                                  haplotype reconstruction problem . . . . 266--272
                   M. S. Ismail   A fourth-order explicit schemes for the
                                  coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation    273--284
               Jianjun Jiao and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                     Guilie Luo   An appropriate pest management SI model
                                  with biological and chemical control
                                  concern  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293
                S. Saha Ray and   
            K. S. Chaudhuri and   
                     R. K. Bera   Application of modified decomposition
                                  method for the analytical solution of
                                  space fractional diffusion equation  . . 294--302
            Qasem M. Al-Mdallal   A new family of exact solutions to the
                                  unsteady Navier--Stokes equations using
                                  canonical transformation with complex
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--308
      Co\cskun Hamzaçebi   Improving genetic algorithms'
                                  performance by local search for
                                  continuous function optimization . . . . 309--317
               Saliha Aouat and   
       Nacéra Laiche and   
              Feryel Souami and   
                 Slimane Larabi   $3$D object indexing and recognition . . 318--332
              John R. Graef and   
              Abdelghani Ouahab   Extremal solutions for nonresonance
                                  impulsive functional dynamic equations
                                  on time scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--339
              R. P. Agarwal and   
              Donal O'Regan and   
                    S. H. Saker   Oscillation and global attractivity in a
                                  delay periodic host macroparasite model  340--352
               Weiping Wang and   
                  Tianming Wang   Commentary on an open question . . . . . 353--355
        Rafael Cortell Bataller   On unsteady gravity flows of a power-law
                                  fluid through a porous medium  . . . . . 356--362
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   New solutions of distinct physical
                                  structures to high-dimensional nonlinear
                                  evolution equations  . . . . . . . . . . 363--370
        Bradley M. Merchant and   
                Jeffrey J. Heys   Effects of variable permeability on
                                  aqueous humor outflow  . . . . . . . . . 371--380
              Shengjie Zhao and   
                      Yufu Chen   Mixed moving finite element method . . . 381--391
             R. K. Upadhyay and   
                 N. Bairagi and   
                   K. Kundu and   
               J. Chattopadhyay   Chaos in eco-epidemiological problem of
                                  the Salton Sea and its possible control  392--401
                  Ping Kang and   
                    Zhongli Wei   Multiple positive solutions of
                                  multi-point boundary value problems on
                                  the half-line  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--415
               Xinlong Feng and   
                 Yinnian He and   
                   Zhinan Zhang   The numerical rank of a matrix and its
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--421
         Shin-ya Matsushita and   
               Wataru Takahashi   Approximating fixed points of
                                  nonexpansive mappings in a Banach space
                                  by metric projections  . . . . . . . . . 422--425
                David Brown and   
                John Maceli and   
             Osman Yürekli   Identities and Parseval type relations
                                  for the $\mathcal{L}_2$-transform  . . . 426--432
                  Rong Wang and   
                   Hui Feng and   
             Raymond J. Spiteri   Observations on the fifth-order WENO
                                  method with non-uniform meshes . . . . . 433--447
                   Jin Wang and   
                   Jianjun Tian   Numerical study for a model of tumor
                                  virotherapy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--457
                 Tapan Saha and   
            Malay Bandyopadhyay   Dynamical analysis of a delayed
                                  ratio-dependent prey--predator model
                                  within fluctuating environment . . . . . 458--478
                    Sheng Zhong   An efficient approximation algorithm for
                                  counting $n$-cycles in a graph . . . . . 479--482

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 196, Number 2, March 1, 2008

                    J. I. Ramos   Linearized Galerkin and artificial
                                  parameter techniques for the
                                  determination of periodic solutions of
                                  nonlinear oscillators  . . . . . . . . . 483--493
               Yan-Fang Xue and   
                  Chun-Lei Tang   Multiple periodic solutions for
                                  superquadratic second-order discrete
                                  Hamiltonian systems  . . . . . . . . . . 494--500
                 Hongxia Wu and   
                 Yunbo Zeng and   
                    Tianyou Fan   Complexitons of the modified KdV
                                  equation by Darboux transformation . . . 501--510
                  Dehong Ji and   
              Meiqiang Feng and   
                      Weigao Ge   Multiple positive solutions for
                                  multipoint boundary value problems with
                                  sign changing nonlinearity . . . . . . . 511--520
            Pushpa L. Gupta and   
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
              Seng-Huat Ong and   
               H. M. Srivastava   A class of Hurwitz--Lerch Zeta
                                  distributions and their applications in
                                  reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--531
                Bingmei Liu and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Positive solutions for a singular
                                  second-order three-point boundary value
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--541
              Tadeusz Jankowski   On differential-algebraic problems . . . 542--549
                    Lili Hu and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Positive solutions of nonlinear singular
                                  two-point boundary value problems for
                                  second-order impulsive differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--562
          Shambhu N. Sharma and   
               H. Parthasarathy   Volterra series arising from the
                                  discrete Schrödinger wave equation in
                                  $L^2[a, b]$ space  . . . . . . . . . . . 563--569
                   Rui Peng and   
               Mingxin Wang and   
                   Guoying Yang   Stationary patterns of the
                                  Holling--Tanner prey--predator model
                                  with diffusion and cross-diffusion . . . 570--577
                  M. M. Ali and   
                       P. Kaelo   Improved particle swarm algorithms for
                                  global optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 578--593
                  Dexin Cao and   
               Meirong Chen and   
                Haijun Wang and   
                   Ji Jianxiong   Interval method for global solutions of
                                  a class of min--max--min problems  . . . 594--602
               Onur Köksoy   A nonlinear programming solution to
                                  robust multi-response quality problem    603--612
   Vicente Hernández and   
Jacinto Javier Ibáñez and   
       Jesús Peinado and   
                  Enrique Arias   A GMRES-based BDF method for solving
                                  differential Riccati equations . . . . . 613--626
                M. P. Calvo and   
                 A. M. Portillo   Variable step implementation of ETD
                                  methods for semilinear problems  . . . . 627--637
              Hsun-Jung Cho and   
                    Yuh-Ting Wu   Microscopic analysis of desired-speed
                                  car-following stability  . . . . . . . . 638--645
               Gongsheng Li and   
                Jinqing Liu and   
               Xiaoping Fan and   
                          Yu Ma   A new gradient regularization algorithm
                                  for source term inversion in $1$D solute
                                  transportation with final observations   646--660
             Djurdje Cvijovi\'c   Closed-form summation of two families of
                                  finite tangent sums  . . . . . . . . . . 661--665
                   K. H. Ko and   
                T. Sakkalis and   
             N. M. Patrikalakis   A reliable algorithm for computing the
                                  topological degree of a mapping in R
                                  $^2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--678
                 N. Merabet and   
                  H. Siyyam and   
                   M. H. Hamdan   Analytical approach to the
                                  Darcy--Lapwood--Brinkman equation  . . . 679--685
               Luther White and   
                       Yiqi Luo   Modeling and inversion of net ecological
                                  exchange data using an Ito stochastic
                                  differential equation approach . . . . . 686--704
                Kaiyuan Liu and   
                Xinzhu Meng and   
                    Lansun Chen   A new stage structured predator--prey
                                  Gomportz model with time delay and
                                  impulsive perturbations on the prey  . . 705--719
           M. S. Shiri Shahraki   A computationally efficient algorithm
                                  for determination of efficient
                                  max-ordering optimal solutions in
                                  multiple objective programming . . . . . 720--723
               M. A. Dumett and   
                I. G. Rosen and   
                   J. Sabat and   
                  A. Shaman and   
               L. Tempelman and   
                    C. Wang and   
                    R. M. Swift   Deconvolving an estimate of breath
                                  measured blood alcohol concentration
                                  from biosensor collected transdermal
                                  ethanol data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724--743
               S. A. MirHassani   An operational planning model for
                                  petroleum products logistics under
                                  uncertainty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--751
                  K. Afshar and   
                   M. Ehsan and   
        M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad and   
                      N. Amjady   Cost-benefit analysis and MILP for
                                  optimal reserve capacity determination
                                  in power system  . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--761
           M. S. Petkovi\'c and   
        D. M. Milo\vsevi\'c and   
               L. D. Petkovi\'c   High order Euler-like method for the
                                  inclusion of polynomial zeros  . . . . . 762--773
                 Lujun Zhou and   
                     Yaqiong Li   A generalized dynamic IS-LM model with
                                  delayed time in investment processes . . 774--781
               J. B. Shukla and   
                A. K. Misra and   
                Peeyush Chandra   Modeling and analysis of the algal bloom
                                  in a lake caused by discharge of
                                  nutrients  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782--790
                Zengxin Wei and   
                 Liying Liu and   
                   Shengwei Yao   The superlinear convergence of a new
                                  quasi-Newton-SQP method for constrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--801
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
                   Ali Muhammad   On analytic functions with generalized
                                  bounded Mocanu variation . . . . . . . . 802--811
                   Alvaro Salas   Some solutions for a type of generalized
                                  Sawada--Kotera equation  . . . . . . . . 812--817
           Vincent J. Ervin and   
            Jason S. Howell and   
                     Hyesuk Lee   A two-parameter defect-correction method
                                  for computation of steady-state
                                  viscoelastic fluid flow  . . . . . . . . 818--834
                Tomohiro Sogabe   A fast numerical algorithm for the
                                  determinant of a pentadiagonal matrix    835--841
                   Jianwei Shen   Shock wave solutions of the compound
                                  Burgers--Korteweg--de Vries equation . . 842--849
               Sheng-liang Yang   On the $k$-generalized Fibonacci numbers
                                  and high-order linear recurrence
                                  relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--857
                   Chong-Jun Li   A kind of multistep finite difference
                                  methods for arbitrary order linear
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 858--865
                 Xiaona Fan and   
                          Bo Yu   A polynomial path following algorithm
                                  for convex programming . . . . . . . . . 866--878
           Mohammad Ranjbar and   
          Fereydoon Kianfar and   
               Shahram Shadrokh   Solving the resource availability cost
                                  problem in project scheduling by path
                                  relinking and genetic algorithm  . . . . 879--888
               M. Hesaaraki and   
                    Y. Jalilian   A numerical method for solving n
                                  th-order boundary-value problems . . . . 889--897
                    Ping-Qi Pan   A primal deficient-basis simplex
                                  algorithm for linear programming . . . . 898--912
         D. E. Koulouriotis and   
                A. Xanthopoulos   Reinforcement learning and evolutionary
                                  algorithms for non-stationary
                                  multi-armed bandit problems  . . . . . . 913--922
                 Liming Cai and   
                      Xuezhi Li   A note on global stability of an SEI
                                  epidemic model with acute and chronic
                                  stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--930
                Ruixi Liang and   
                   Jun Peng and   
                   Jianhua Shen   Positive solutions to a generalized
                                  second order three-point boundary value
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--940
                   Jing-Bo Chen   Variational integrators and the finite
                                  element method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--958
         Asterios Pantokratoras   Comment on ``Thermal-diffusion and
                                  diffusion-thermo effects on mixed
                                  free-forced convection and mass transfer
                                  boundary layer flow for non-Newtonian
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Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 197, Number 1, March 15, 2008

         Anouar Ben Mabrouk and   
                    Mekki Ayadi   A linearized finite-difference method
                                  for the solution of some mixed concave
                                  and convex non-linear problems . . . . . 1--10
                   M. De la Sen   Strong and weak oscillatory behavior in
                                  time-varying linear difference equations
                                  of arbitrary order in the presence of
                                  unmodeled dynamics and nominal
                                  parametrical errors  . . . . . . . . . . 11--28
José-Vicente Noguera and   
            Leandro Tortosa and   
                 Antonio Zamora   Analysis and efficiency of the GNG3D
                                  algorithm for mesh simplification  . . . 29--40
                  Feng Ding and   
               Peter X. Liu and   
                       Jie Ding   Iterative solutions of the generalized
                                  Sylvester matrix equations by using the
                                  hierarchical identification principle    41--50
                  Dehong Ji and   
               Hanying Feng and   
                      Weigao Ge   The existence of symmetric positive
                                  solutions for some nonlinear equation
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
             Shuhuang Xiang and   
                     Weihua Gui   On generalized quadrature rules for fast
                                  oscillatory integrals  . . . . . . . . . 60--75
                   D. Vieru and   
                   T. Hayat and   
             Corina Fetecau and   
                     C. Fetecau   On the first problem of Stokes for
                                  Burgers' fluids. II: The cases $\gamma =
                                  \lambda^2/4$ and $\gamma > \lambda^2 / 4$ 76--86
                  Lina Song and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Application of the extended homotopy
                                  perturbation method to a kind of
                                  nonlinear evolution equations  . . . . . 87--95
                  Yong Chen and   
                  Hongli An and   
                      Zhibin Li   The function cascade synchronization
                                  approach with uncertain parameters or
                                  not for hyperchaotic systems . . . . . . 96--110
                Rahmat Ali Khan   Generalized approximations for nonlinear
                                  three-point boundary value problems  . . 111--120
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                   Fan Wei Meng   Nonoscillation and oscillation of second
                                  order half-linear difference equations   121--127
                    Sheng Zhang   Exp-function method exactly solving a
                                  KdV equation with forcing term . . . . . 128--134
                Zhongli Wei and   
                Mingchuan Zhang   Positive solutions of singular
                                  sub-linear boundary value problems for
                                  fourth-order and second-order
                                  differential equation systems  . . . . . 135--148
            Khalida Inayat Noor   On certain analytic functions related
                                  with strongly close-to-convex functions  149--157
                 Tongbo Liu and   
                        Hong Li   Local analytic solution of a
                                  second-order functional differential
                                  equation with a state derivative
                                  dependent delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--166
                   O. P. Layeni   Remark on modifications of Adomian
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
                    Vijay Gupta   Some approximation properties of
                                  $q$-Durrmeyer operators  . . . . . . . . 172--178
              Tadeusz Jankowski   Positive solutions of three-point
                                  boundary value problems for second order
                                  impulsive differential equations with
                                  advanced arguments . . . . . . . . . . . 179--189
        Athanassios Bratsos and   
          Matthias Ehrhardt and   
            Ioannis Th. Famelis   A discrete Adomian decomposition method
                                  for discrete nonlinear Schrödinger
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--205
                 Jiali Zhou and   
               Shuyou Zhang and   
               Guoping Yang and   
                   Jianrong Tan   A convergence theorem for the inexact
                                  Newton methods based on Hölder continuous
                                  Fréchet derivative  . . . . . . . . . . . 206--211
              Hiroaki Mukaidani   Numerical computation for $H_\infty$
                                  output feedback control for strongly
                                  coupled large-scale systems  . . . . . . 212--227
              Xiaoshan Zhao and   
              Mingchun Wang and   
                         Wei Xu   Bifurcations of traveling wave solutions
                                  for a class of the nonlinear equations   228--242
                  Wen-Yuan Chen   Multiple-watermarking scheme of the
                                  European Article Number Barcode using
                                  similar code division multiple access
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--261
                Sihua Liang and   
                    Jihui Zhang   Positive solutions of 2 n th-order
                                  ordinary differential equations with
                                  multi-point boundary conditions  . . . . 262--270
                 Zhijun Liu and   
                   Meng Fan and   
                    Lansun Chen   Globally asymptotic stability in two
                                  periodic delayed competitive systems . . 271--287
                 Wenting Li and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Generalized multiple Riccati equations
                                  rational expansion method with symbolic
                                  computation to construct exact
                                  complexiton solutions of nonlinear
                                  partial differential equations . . . . . 288--296
                   Jie Ding and   
                  Feng Ding and   
                      Shi Zhang   Parameter identification of multi-input,
                                  single-output systems based on FIR
                                  models and least squares principle . . . 297--305
                Zhijun Zeng and   
                Zhongcheng Zhou   Multiple positive periodic solutions for
                                  a class of state-dependent delay
                                  functional differential equations with
                                  feedback control . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--316
                    Niall Dodds   Further spectral properties of uniformly
                                  elliptic operators that include a
                                  non-local term . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--327
              Roman Witu\la and   
                  Damian S\lota   Partial fractions decompositions of some
                                  rational functions . . . . . . . . . . . 328--336
                 A. Cordero and   
             Juan R. Torregrosa   A class of multi-point iterative methods
                                  for nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . 337--344
Emrah Kìlìç   Explicit formula for the inverse of a
                                  tridiagonal matrix by backward continued
                                  fractions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--357
           Xiang-Tuan Xiong and   
                      Chu-Li Fu   A spectral regularization method for
                                  solving surface heat flux on a general
                                  sideways parabolic . . . . . . . . . . . 358--365
                  Ali Demir and   
                  Nese Omur and   
            Yucel Turker Ulutas   Optimization by $k$-Lucas numbers  . . . 366--371
                    Aimei Huang   Permanence of a nonlinear
                                  prey-competition model with delays . . . 372--381
              Zhensong Liao and   
                      Yan Huang   Horseshoe and topological entropy
                                  estimate of a class of three-dimensional
                                  cellular neural networks . . . . . . . . 382--388
                     Bo Sun and   
                    Ying Qu and   
                      WeiGao Ge   Existence and iteration of positive
                                  solutions for a multipoint
                                  one-dimensional $p$-Laplacian boundary
                                  value problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--398
                      Li Li and   
                         Bo Han   A dynamical system method for solving
                                  nonlinear ill-posed problems . . . . . . 399--406
                   Xiuyun Zhang   Some results of linear fractional order
                                  time-delay system  . . . . . . . . . . . 407--411
                     Yi Xie and   
                Haishen Lü   An existence theorem for singular
                                  boundary value problems with sign
                                  changing nonlinearities  . . . . . . . . 412--425
               Wen-Xian Xie and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                         Li Cai   Numerical meshfree path integration
                                  method for non-linear dynamic systems    426--434
               Sang-Hee Lee and   
                     Nan-Yao Su   Estimating the population size of
                                  subterranean termites by using a novel
                                  diffusion-based method . . . . . . . . . 435--439
             Jeong-Soo Park and   
              Guoqi Q. Qian and   
                       Yuna Jun   Monte Carlo EM algorithm in logistic
                                  linear models involving non-ignorable
                                  missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--450
                Huihui Pang and   
               Hanying Feng and   
                      Weigao Ge   Multiple positive solutions of
                                  quasi-linear boundary value problems for
                                  finite difference equations  . . . . . . 451--456
                    B. Wang and   
                     X. Liu and   
                       S. Zhong   New stability analysis for uncertain
                                  neutral system with time-varying delay   457--465
              David W. Weyburne   Erratum to ``A mathematical description
                                  of the fluid boundary layer'' [Appl.
                                  Math. Comput. 175 (2) (2006) 1675--1684] 466--466

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 197, Number 2, April 1, 2008

                Zaid Odibat and   
              Shaher Momani and   
              Vedat Suat Erturk   Generalized differential transform
                                  method: Application to differential
                                  equations of fractional order  . . . . . 467--477
              Mohamed Rahal and   
               Abdelkader Ziadi   A new extension of Piyavskii's method to
                                  Hölder functions of several variables . . 478--488
    M. Arana-Jiménez and   
      R. Osuna-Gómez and   
    A. Rufián-Lizana and   
          G. Ruiz-Garzón   KT-invex control problem . . . . . . . . 489--496
             S. A. El-Wakil and   
                M. A. Abdou and   
                       A. Hendi   New periodic and soliton solutions of
                                  nonlinear evolution equations  . . . . . 497--506
         Ioannis K. Argyros and   
                 Sa\"\id Hilout   Local convergence of Newton-like methods
                                  for generalized equations  . . . . . . . 507--514
               Bashir Ahmad and   
                S. Sivasundaram   Existence results and monotone iterative
                                  technique for impulsive hybrid
                                  functional differential systems with
                                  anticipation and retardation . . . . . . 515--524
            Miao-Sheng Chen and   
                     Yu-Ti Shih   Optimal pricing for patent protected new
                                  products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--535
                   Igor Boglaev   The solution of a semilinear
                                  evolutionary convection--diffusion
                                  problem by a monotone domain
                                  decomposition algorithm  . . . . . . . . 536--547
           Somyot Plubtieng and   
           Rattanaporn Punpaeng   A new iterative method for equilibrium
                                  problems and fixed point problems of
                                  nonexpansive mappings and monotone
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--558
           Ali Abbasi Molai and   
                Esmaile Khorram   Another modification from two papers of
                                  Ghodousian and Khorram and Khorram et
                                  al.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--565
               Changfeng Ma and   
                       Jia Tang   The quadratic convergence of a smoothing
                                  Levenberg--Marquardt method for
                                  nonlinear complementarity problem  . . . 566--581
                Xinzhu Meng and   
                    Lansun Chen   The dynamics of a new SIR epidemic model
                                  concerning pulse vaccination strategy    582--597
                Yasuhito Tanaka   On the computability of binary social
                                  choice rules in an infinite society and
                                  the halting problem  . . . . . . . . . . 598--603
               Walid Tfaili and   
                 Patrick Siarry   A new charged ant colony algorithm for
                                  continuous dynamic optimization  . . . . 604--613
                    Xiezhang Li   The optimal parameter of SOR- k method
                                  for $p$-cyclic matrices  . . . . . . . . 614--621
              I. E. Lagaris and   
                  I. G. Tsoulos   Stopping rules for box-constrained
                                  stochastic global optimization . . . . . 622--632
                A. A. Mousa and   
                I. M. El-Desoky   GENLS: Co-evolutionary algorithm for
                                  nonlinear system of equations  . . . . . 633--642
                 Ching-Liang Su   Finger edge extraction and finger shape
                                  comparisons for person's identification
                                  by using index, middle, and ring fingers 643--653
              Changbum Chun and   
                    YoonMee Ham   Some fourth-order modifications of
                                  Newton's method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 654--658
           Tanmay Chowdhury and   
              Shovonlal Roy and   
               J. Chattopadhyay   Modeling migratory grazing of
                                  zooplankton on toxic and non-toxic
                                  phytoplankton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--671
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
                   Ming-Yu Chen   A DNA-based solution to the graph
                                  isomorphism problem using
                                  Adleman--Lipton model with stickers  . . 672--686
              Ayaz Isazadeh and   
                Hamid Nouri and   
                   Maral Rezvan   An evolutionary system architecture for
                                  information protection . . . . . . . . . 687--691
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
                Kapil K. Sharma   A numerical method based on finite
                                  difference for boundary value problems
                                  for singularly perturbed delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 692--707
                      Shanhe Wu   A new sharpened and generalized version
                                  of Hölder's inequality and its
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--714
          Masahito Kitamura and   
               Takehiro Inohara   A characterization of completeness of
                                  blockability relations with respect to
                                  unanimity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--718
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the fifth
                                  order Caudrey--Dodd--Gibbon (CDG)
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--724
                    S. Amat and   
         C. Bermúdez and   
                S. Busquier and   
                       S. Plaza   On the dynamics of the Euler iterative
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--732
            James Braselton and   
               Martha Abell and   
             Lorraine Braselton   Effects of genetic immunity and
                                  resistance on endemics . . . . . . . . . 733--744
             Costanza Conti and   
            Rossana Morandi and   
               Christophe Rabut   Locally tensor product functions in
                                  algebraic grid optimization  . . . . . . 745--754
                Tai-fang Li and   
                De-sheng Li and   
                 Zhao-di Xu and   
                   Ya-ling Fang   New iterative methods for non-linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--759
             Jou-Ming Chang and   
               Jinn-Shyong Yang   Fault-tolerant cycle-embedding in
                                  alternating group graphs . . . . . . . . 760--767
                 Senlin Guo and   
                    Feng Qi and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Supplements to a class of
                                  logarithmically completely monotonic
                                  functions associated with the gamma
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--774
              Her-Terng Yau and   
                    Jun-Juh Yan   Chaos synchronization of different
                                  chaotic systems subjected to input
                                  nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--788
                  Ying Wang and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Positive solutions of singular boundary
                                  value problems on the half-line  . . . . 789--796
                 Jiuwen Cao and   
             Shouming Zhong and   
                    Yuanyuan Hu   Novel delay-dependent stability
                                  conditions for a class of MIMO networked
                                  control systems with nonlinear
                                  perturbation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--809
                 Huizhuo Wu and   
                    KeCun Zhang   A new accelerating method for global
                                  non-convex quadratic optimization with
                                  non-convex quadratic constraints . . . . 810--818
               Linghua Kong and   
               Jinhuan Wang and   
                   Sining Zheng   Asymptotic analysis to a parabolic
                                  equation with a weighted localized
                                  source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--827
                   Fajun Yu and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Hamiltonian structure of the integrable
                                  couplings for the multicomponent Dirac
                                  hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828--835
                    Hu Yang and   
                Deqiang Liu and   
                     Jianwen Xu   Matrix left symmetry factor and its
                                  applications in generalized inverses
                                  $A_{T,S}^{(2,4)}$  . . . . . . . . . . . 836--843
             Muneomi Sagara and   
          Hiroaki Mukaidani and   
                  Toru Yamamoto   Numerical solution of stochastic Nash
                                  games with state-dependent noise for
                                  weakly coupled large-scale systems . . . 844--857
                Xiaoming He and   
                    Wenming Zou   Nontrivial solitary waves to the
                                  generalized Kadomtsev--Petviashvili
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858--863
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                 Ju H. Park and   
                      S. M. Lee   On stability criteria for uncertain
                                  delay-differential systems of neutral
                                  type with time-varying delays  . . . . . 864--873
                 A. S. Saad and   
           M. Banaszkiewicz and   
                    G. Sitarski   A new algorithm of the recurrent power
                                  series method for the non-gravitational
                                  motion of comets . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--879
                   S. A. Belbas   A reduction method for optimal control
                                  of Volterra integral equations . . . . . 880--890
           T. Gnana Bhaskar and   
               S. Hariharan and   
                  Neela Nataraj   Heatlet approach to diffusion equation
                                  on unbounded domains . . . . . . . . . . 891--903
                      Li Li and   
                   Fajun Yu and   
                   Liu Xiaodong   Feedback control of fractional nonlinear
                                  differential algebraic systems with
                                  Hamiltonian function method  . . . . . . 904--913
                 Shan-He Wu and   
               H. M. Srivastava   A further refinement of a Jordan type
                                  inequality and its application . . . . . 914--923
                  Quan Yuan and   
                 Zhiqing He and   
                    Huinan Leng   A hybrid genetic algorithm for a class
                                  of global optimization problems with box
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--929


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 198, Number 1, April 15, 2008

               Peiping Shen and   
                       Minna Gu   A duality-bounds algorithm for
                                  non-convex quadratic programs with
                                  additional multiplicative constraints    1--11
                  Qing Miao and   
                   Zuodong Yang   On the existence of multiple positive
                                  entire solutions for a quasilinear
                                  elliptic systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--23
                  Juan Peng and   
                  Xi-Yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   The $(M, N)$-symmetric Procrustes
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--34
                E. Babolian and   
              S. Abbasbandy and   
                 F. Fattahzadeh   A numerical method for solving a class
                                  of functional and two dimensional
                                  integral equations . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
                D. A. Cicci and   
                  C. Qualls and   
                  G. Landingham   Two-body missile separation dynamics . . 44--58
                    Qi Duan and   
                 Shilong Li and   
                Fangxun Bao and   
                  E. H. Twizell   Hermite interpolation by piecewise
                                  rational surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--72
              P. Yousefpoor and   
             M. S. Esfahani and   
                      H. Nojumi   Looking for systematic approach to
                                  select chaos tests . . . . . . . . . . . 73--91
                    J. I. Ramos   Piecewise homotopy methods for nonlinear
                                  ordinary differential equations  . . . . 92--116
                Tomohiro Sogabe   Numerical algorithms for solving comrade
                                  linear systems based on tridiagonal
                                  solvers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--122
                   Kostas Zotos   Computer Algebra Systems --- New
                                  strategies and techniques  . . . . . . . 123--127
         Ljubomir \'Ciri\'c and   
                 Arif Rafiq and   
         Stojan Radenovi\'c and   
           Miloje Rajovi\'c and   
                Jeong Sheok Ume   On Mann implicit iterations for strongly
                                  accretive and strongly
                                  pseudo-contractive mappings  . . . . . . 128--137
                Nasr-Al-Din Ide   On modified Newton methods for solving a
                                  non linear algebraic equations . . . . . 138--142
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                     H. Moosaei   A new restarting method in the harmonic
                                  projection algorithm for computing the
                                  eigenvalues of a nonsymmetric matrix . . 143--149
                    Hu Yang and   
                       Hanyu Li   Weighted UDV $^*$-decomposition and
                                  weighted spectral decomposition for
                                  rectangular matrices and their
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--162
                  S. Repsys and   
                  V. Skakauskas   Modelling of the age--sex--structured
                                  population dynamics with maternal care   163--183
                Lanxin Chen and   
                  Junxian Zhang   Non-travelling wave solutions of two (2
                                  + 1)-dimensional nonlinear mathematical
                                  physics equations  . . . . . . . . . . . 184--197
                 Yoshio Ohtsubo   Stochastic shortest path problems with
                                  associative accumulative criteria  . . . 198--208
              Qing-Wen Wang and   
              Hai-Xia Chang and   
                       Qun Ning   The common solution to six quaternion
                                  matrix equations with applications . . . 209--226
             Emiko Ishiwata and   
            Yoshiaki Muroya and   
                Hermann Brunner   A super-attainable order in collocation
                                  methods for differential equations with
                                  proportional delay . . . . . . . . . . . 227--236
                 Kusum Deep and   
                          Dipti   A self-organizing migrating genetic
                                  algorithm for constrained optimization   237--250
               V. Gafiychuk and   
                      B. Datsko   Inhomogeneous oscillatory solutions in
                                  fractional reaction--diffusion systems
                                  and their computer modeling  . . . . . . 251--260
               Sofiya Ostrovska   $q$-Bernstein polynomials of the Cauchy
                                  kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270
             Chaolong Zhang and   
               Weizhen Feng and   
                Jianfu Yang and   
                    Mugen Huang   Oscillations of second order impulses
                                  nonlinear FDE with forcing term  . . . . 271--279
               Miguel A. Salido   A non-binary constraint ordering
                                  heuristic for constraint satisfaction
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--295
                Qingzhen Xu and   
                    Xianping Wu   The characterizations of optimal
                                  solution set in programming problem
                                  under inclusion constrains . . . . . . . 296--304
                    Om P. Ahuja   Connections between various subclasses
                                  of planar harmonic mappings involving
                                  hypergeometric functions . . . . . . . . 305--316
                      Jianli Li   Periodic boundary value problems for
                                  second-order impulsive
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 317--325
                  Ü. Lepik   Solving integral and differential
                                  equations by the aid of non-uniform Haar
                                  wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--332
        Rafael Cortell Bataller   Radiation effects in the Blasius flow    333--338
                      Ali Demir   Trisection method by $k$-Lucas numbers   339--345
              Ahmed Fitouhi and   
       Néji Bettaibi and   
                Rym H. Bettaieb   On Hardy's inequality for symmetric
                                  integral transforms and analogous  . . . 346--354
                  Ali Demir and   
                  Nese Omur and   
            Yucel Turker Ulutas   Parametrized Fibonacci search method
                                  with $k$-Lucas numbers . . . . . . . . . 355--360
               Xin-zhu Meng and   
               Lan-sun Chen and   
                    Qing-xue Li   The dynamics of an impulsive delay
                                  predator--prey model with variable
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                   Fan Wei Meng   Interval criteria for oscillation of
                                  second-order differential equations with
                                  mixed nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . 375--381
          N. M. S. Karmitsa and   
     M. M. Mäkelä and   
                      M. M. Ali   Limited memory interior point bundle
                                  method for large inequality constrained
                                  nonsmooth minimization . . . . . . . . . 382--400
               Hyun Mo Yang and   
    Cláudia Pio Ferreira   Assessing the effects of vector control
                                  on dengue transmission . . . . . . . . . 401--413
           Yuan-Hsiang Teng and   
            Jimmy J. M. Tan and   
                  Lih-Hsing Hsu   Panpositionable Hamiltonicity and
                                  panconnectivity of the arrangement
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--432
       Néji Bettaibi and   
                 Jamel El Kamel   Asymptotic expansions for a class of
                                  $q$-integral transforms  . . . . . . . . 433--444
            Hussein A. H. Salem   On the existence of continuous solutions
                                  for a singular system of non-linear
                                  fractional differential equations  . . . 445--452
             Chang-Hua Lien and   
                 Ker-Wei Yu and   
               Yen-Feng Lin and   
            Yeong-Jay Chung and   
                 Long-Yeu Chung   Robust reliable $H_\infty$ control for
                                  uncertain nonlinear systems via LMI
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--462
           Jehad O. Alzabut and   
              Thabet Abdeljawad   On existence of a globally attractive
                                  periodic solution of impulsive delay
                                  logarithmic population model . . . . . . 463--469

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 198, Number 2, May 1, 2008

                 Erdal Gül   On the regularized trace of a second
                                  order differential operator  . . . . . . 471--480
                Lihong Xing and   
                  Zhaowen Zheng   New oscillation criteria for forced
                                  second order half-linear differential
                                  equations with damping . . . . . . . . . 481--486
                Xinsheng Du and   
                   Zengqin Zhao   Existence and uniqueness of positive
                                  solutions to a class of singular
                                  $m$-point boundary value problems  . . . 487--493
                  Baljeet Singh   Effect of hydrostatic initial stresses
                                  on waves in a thermoelastic solid
                                  half-space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--505
       Ljiljana Cvetkovi\'c and   
          Vladimir Kosti\'c and   
         Maja Kova\vcevi\'c and   
                   Tomasz Szulc   Further results on $H$-matrices and
                                  their Schur complements  . . . . . . . . 506--510
                   Ming-Han Lin   Thermal instability in natural
                                  convection flow over a rotating convex
                                  surface subject to external magnetic
                                  field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--525
             R. Rakkiyappan and   
             P. Balasubramaniam   Delay-dependent asymptotic stability for
                                  stochastic delayed recurrent neural
                                  networks with time varying delays  . . . 526--533
             Xueqin Lü and   
                    Minggen Cui   Solving a singular system of two
                                  nonlinear ODEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--543
                Roman V. Bobryk   Stochastic stability of coupled
                                  oscillators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--550
           Aniekan Ebiefung and   
           Michael Kostreva and   
                Ishita Majumdar   Disjunctive programming and the
                                  generalized Leontief input--output model 551--558
  Gradimir V. Milovanovi\'c and   
  Aleksandar S. Cvetkovi\'c and   
             Marija P. Stani\'c   Explicit formulas for five-term
                                  recurrence coefficients of orthogonal
                                  trigonometric polynomials of
                                  semi-integer degree  . . . . . . . . . . 559--573
                 Mingzhu Wu and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Existence of boundary blow-up solutions
                                  for a class of quasilinear elliptic
                                  systems with critical case . . . . . . . 574--581
                 Liping Wen and   
              Wansheng Wang and   
                  Yuexin Yu and   
                      Shoufu Li   Nonlinear stability and asymptotic
                                  stability of implicit Euler method for
                                  stiff Volterra functional differential
                                  equations in Banach spaces . . . . . . . 582--591
               Changfeng Ma and   
                Linjie Chen and   
                   Desheng Wang   A globally and superlinearly convergent
                                  smoothing Broyden-like method for
                                  solving nonlinear complementarity
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592--604
                   Anjan Biswas   Soliton--soliton interaction with
                                  dual-power law nonlinearity  . . . . . . 605--612
                  Xing Tao Wang   Numerical solution of time-varying
                                  systems with a stretch by general
                                  Legendre wavelets  . . . . . . . . . . . 613--620
                  C. Harley and   
                    E. Momoniat   Instability of invariant boundary
                                  conditions of a generalized Lane--Emden
                                  equation of the second-kind  . . . . . . 621--633
      Ahmed Driss Aiat Hadj and   
                Mohamed Elouafi   On the characteristic polynomial,
                                  eigenvectors and determinant of a
                                  pentadiagonal matrix . . . . . . . . . . 634--642
        Mahamed G. H. Omran and   
                Mehrdad Mahdavi   Global-best harmony search . . . . . . . 643--656
             A. Molabahrami and   
                       F. Khani   Numerical solutions of highly
                                  oscillatory integrals  . . . . . . . . . 657--664
                 L. K. Bieniasz   Adaptive solution of BVPs in singularly
                                  perturbed second-order ODEs, by the
                                  extended Numerov method combined with an
                                  iterative local grid $h$-refinement  . . 665--682
               Yaliang Shen and   
                     Nanbin Cao   The double $F$-expansion approach and
                                  novel nonlinear wave solutions of
                                  soliton equation in $(2 + 1)$-dimension  683--690
                   Beong In Yun   A non-iterative method for solving
                                  non-linear equations . . . . . . . . . . 691--699
           Ivana Djolovi\'c and   
             Eberhard Malkowsky   Matrix transformations and compact
                                  operators on some new m th-order
                                  difference sequences . . . . . . . . . . 700--714
                  Dahe Feng and   
                   Jibin Li and   
           Junliang Lü and   
                     Tianlan He   New explicit and exact solutions for a
                                  system of variant RLW equations  . . . . 715--720
                   Yisheng Song   A new sufficient condition for the
                                  strong convergence of Halpern type
                                  iterations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--728
              Lu-Chuan Ceng and   
                   Jen-Chih Yao   Hybrid viscosity approximation schemes
                                  for equilibrium problems and fixed point
                                  problems of infinitely many nonexpansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--741
              Wansheng Wang and   
                 Liping Wen and   
                      Shoufu Li   Nonlinear stability of $\theta$-methods
                                  for neutral differential equations in
                                  Banach space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--753
            Chang-ming Chen and   
                     F. Liu and   
                     K. Burrage   Finite difference methods and a Fourier
                                  analysis for the fractional
                                  reaction--subdiffusion equation  . . . . 754--769
                   Jun Zhou and   
                     Li Cai and   
                   Feng-Qi Zhou   New high-resolution scheme for
                                  three-dimensional nonlinear hyperbolic
                                  conservation laws  . . . . . . . . . . . 770--786
                      Y. Xu and   
                     J. J. Zhao   Asymptotic stability of linear
                                  non-autonomous difference equations with
                                  fixed delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--798
             Asha Viswanath and   
                         D. Roy   A multistep transversal linearization
                                  (MTL) method in non-linear dynamics
                                  through a Magnus characterization  . . . 799--823
                 Chunlai Mu and   
                    Ya Tian and   
                      Yuhuan Li   Support properties of solution to
                                  degenerate equation with variable
                                  coefficient and absorption . . . . . . . 824--832
                Brian C. Fabien   Parameter optimization using the
                                  $L_\infty$ exact penalty function and
                                  strictly convex quadratic programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--848
               Guolian Wang and   
                 Boling Guo and   
                    Yangrong Li   The asymptotic behavior of the
                                  stochastic Ginzburg--Landau equation
                                  with additive noise  . . . . . . . . . . 849--857
                  M. H. Lee and   
                N. L. Manev and   
                Xiao-Dong Zhang   Jacket transform eigenvalue
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858--864
             Jia-Fang Zhang and   
                Wan-Tong Li and   
                 Xiang-Ping Yan   Hopf bifurcation and stability of
                                  periodic solutions in a delayed
                                  eco-epidemiological system . . . . . . . 865--876
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the Lax
                                  seventh-order equation . . . . . . . . . 877--881
                Zhoujin Cui and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Boundedness of global solutions for a
                                  nonlinear degenerate parabolic (porous
                                  medium) system with localized sources    882--895
                     M. Cui and   
                        F. Geng   A computational method for solving
                                  third-order singularly perturbed
                                  boundary-value problems  . . . . . . . . 896--903
    Hélio A. Navarro and   
           Magda K. Kaibara and   
      José B. Rubert and   
      Arlindo N. Montagnoli and   
 Luben Cabezas-Gómez and   
             Renato C. da Silva   Wavelet-Galerkin method for
                                  one-dimensional elastoplasticity and
                                  damage problems: Constitutive modeling
                                  and computational aspects  . . . . . . . 904--915
                   Zhou Wei and   
              Zhou Changbin and   
                  Chang Xiaolin   A contact model based on the SQP
                                  algorithm and engineering application    916--924
                   John P. Boyd   Exploiting parity in converting to and
                                  from Bernstein polynomials and
                                  orthogonal polynomials . . . . . . . . . 925--929
                 Aizhi Weng and   
                      Jitao Sun   Oscillation of second order delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 930--935


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 199, Number 1, May 15, 2008

               Kamal Aghigh and   
            M. Masjed-Jamei and   
                  Mehdi Dehghan   A survey on third and fourth kind of
                                  Chebyshev polynomials and their
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--12
                   M. Sajid and   
                       T. Hayat   Wire coating analysis by withdrawal from
                                  a bath of Sisko fluid  . . . . . . . . . 13--22
               Xueyong Zhou and   
                 Xinyu Song and   
                   Xiangyun Shi   Analysis of stability and Hopf
                                  bifurcation for an HIV infection model
                                  with time delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--38
                    J. I. Ramos   On the variational iteration method and
                                  other iterative techniques for nonlinear
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 39--69
                F. R. Cunha and   
                 H. L. G. Couto   A new boundary integral formulation to
                                  describe three-dimensional motions of
                                  interfaces between magnetic fluids . . . 70--83
               Qinghua Zhou and   
                         Li Wan   Exponential stability of stochastic
                                  delayed Hopfield neural networks . . . . 84--89
              Hongxia Zhang and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Integral inequalities in two independent
                                  variables for retarded Volterra
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--98
                Xianping Wu and   
                    Qingzhen Xu   A new second order optimality conditions
                                  for the extremal problem under inclusion
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
                      Jian Wang   On multisymplecticity of
                                  Sinc--Gauss--Legendre collocation
                                  discretizations for some Hamiltonian
                                  PDEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--121
                         Hua Su   Positive solutions for $n$-order
                                  $m$-point $p$-Laplacian operator
                                  singular boundary value problems . . . . 122--132
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The Hirota's direct method and the
                                  tanh--coth method for multiple-soliton
                                  solutions of the Sawada--Kotera--Ito
                                  seventh-order equation . . . . . . . . . 133--138
               R. Alexandre and   
          Nguyen Thanh Long and   
              A. Pham Ngoc Dinh   A mathematical model for the evaporation
                                  of a liquid fuel droplet, subject to
                                  nonlinear constraints  . . . . . . . . . 139--154
           Luis P. B. Scott and   
              Jorge Chahine and   
        José R. Ruggiero   Predicting peptides structure with
                                  solvation potential and rotamer library
                                  dependent of the backbone  . . . . . . . 155--161
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   A fast polynomial time algorithm for
                                  logistics network flows  . . . . . . . . 162--170
          Ahmad K. Naimzada and   
              Giorgio Ricchiuti   Heterogeneous fundamentalists and
                                  imitative processes  . . . . . . . . . . 171--180
         Behrouz Fathi Vajargah   Stochastic inverse matrix computation
                                  with minimum variance of errors  . . . . 181--185
           M. B. Aryanezhad and   
                Mohammad Hemati   A new genetic algorithm for solving
                                  nonconvex nonlinear programming problems 186--194
                Chihurn Kim and   
               Geon Ho Choe and   
                   Dong Han Kim   Tests of randomness by the gambler's
                                  ruin algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--210
           Vasif V. Nabiyev and   
          Hüseyin Pehlivan   Tournament scoring problem . . . . . . . 211--222
                  Zong Woo Geem   Novel derivative of harmony search
                                  algorithm for discrete design variables  223--230
                 Tong Zhang and   
               Hanchun Yang and   
                     Yinnian He   Interactions between two rarefaction
                                  waves for the pressure-gradient
                                  equations in the gas dynamics  . . . . . 231--241
                    Sheng Zhang   Exp-function method for constructing
                                  explicit and exact solutions of a
                                  lattice equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--249
               Russell Kohl and   
               Anjan Biswas and   
            Daniela Milovic and   
                  Essaid Zerrad   Perturbation of Gaussian optical
                                  solitons in dispersion-managed fibers    250--258
                    Sheng Zhang   A further improved extended Fan
                                  sub-equation method for
                                  (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267
          Shuangshuang Ding and   
                 Weijun Sun and   
                    Danchen Zhu   A new method for finding traveling wave
                                  solutions of the generalized KdV
                                  equation with variable coefficient . . . 268--274
                 Jindae Kim and   
                    Changsoo Ok   Distributed feedback control algorithm
                                  for dynamic truck loading scheduling
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284
              Fengpan Zhang and   
                 Zi-zhen Li and   
                     Feng Zhang   Global stability of an SIR epidemic
                                  model with constant infectious period    285--291
                    Juan Li and   
                 Zejian Cui and   
                     Chunlai Mu   Global existence and blow-up for
                                  degenerate and singular parabolic system
                                  with localized sources . . . . . . . . . 292--300
  Andreas Rößler and   
          Mohammed Sea\"\id and   
                  Mostafa Zahri   Method of lines for stochastic
                                  boundary-value problems with additive
                                  noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--314
          Roderick V. N. Melnik   Markov chain network training and
                                  conservation law approximations: Linking
                                  microscopic and macroscopic models for
                                  evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--333
             A. Ben Mabrouk and   
            N. Ben Abdallah and   
                    Z. Dhifaoui   Wavelet decomposition and autoregressive
                                  model for time series prediction . . . . 334--340
                  James J. Kung   Multi-period asset allocation by
                                  stochastic dynamic programming . . . . . 341--348
           Milan B. Tasi\'c and   
      Predrag S. Stanimirovi\'c   Symbolic and recursive computation of
                                  different types of generalized inverses  349--367
                        Lu Yang   A perturbation method for numerical
                                  differentiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--374
                 Weihong Bi and   
                Hongmin Ren and   
                    Qingbiao Wu   A new semilocal convergence theorem of
                                  Müller's method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--384
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                     Ju H. Park   On improved delay-dependent stability
                                  criterion of certain neutral
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 385--391
                Vijay Gupta and   
                    Mircea Ivan   Rate of simultaneous approximation for
                                  the Bézier variant of certain operators   392--395

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 199, Number 2, June 1, 2008

                    Yan-Ze Peng   Exact travelling wave solutions for the
                                  Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation . . . . . . 397--405
                 B.-Q. Tang and   
                       X.-F. Li   Solution of a class of Volterra integral
                                  equations with singular and weakly
                                  singular kernels . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--413
               Chunlian Liu and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Existence of large solutions for a
                                  quasilinear elliptic problem via
                                  explosive sub-supersolutions . . . . . . 414--424
              A. J. Khattak and   
                 Siraj-ul-Islam   A comparative study of numerical
                                  solutions of a class of KdV equation . . 425--434
                 Ju H. Park and   
                     O. M. Kwon   On improved delay-dependent criterion
                                  for global stability of bidirectional
                                  associative memory neural networks with
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 435--446
              Jitsuro Sugie and   
               Kouhei Matsumura   A nonoscillation theorem for half-linear
                                  differential equations with periodic
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--455
          Abedallah Rababah and   
             Mohammad Al-Natour   Weighted dual functions for Bernstein
                                  basis satisfying boundary constraints    456--463
               M. De la Sen and   
              S. Alonso-Quesada   A Control Theory point of view on
                                  Beverton--Holt equation in population
                                  dynamics and some of its generalizations 464--481
                H. M. Ahmed and   
                S. I. El-Soubhy   Recurrences and explicit formulae for
                                  the expansion and connection
                                  coefficients in series of ordinary
                                  Bessel polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . 482--493
           Gerasimos G. Rigatos   Coordinated motion of autonomous
                                  vehicles with the use of a distributed
                                  gradient algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 494--503
               R. K. Saxena and   
                    S. L. Kalla   On the solutions of certain fractional
                                  kinetic equations  . . . . . . . . . . . 504--511
               Jueping Chen and   
                   Zhaoliang Xu   Comment on ``Condition number of Drazin
                                  inverse and their condition numbers of
                                  singular linear systems''  . . . . . . . 512--526
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
              H. Zareamoghaddam   A new computational GMRES method . . . . 527--534
             Krisztina Kiss and   
    Sándor Kovács   Qualitative behavior of $n$-dimensional
                                  ratio-dependent predator--prey systems   535--546
               Jozsef Z. Farkas   Structured populations: The stabilizing
                                  effect of the inflow of newborns from an
                                  external source and the net growth rate  547--558
          Shahid S. Siddiqi and   
                  Ghazala Akram   Solutions of 12th order boundary value
                                  problems using non-polynomial spline
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--571
                Dianchen Lu and   
                   Baojian Hong   New exact solutions for the (2 +
                                  1)-dimensional generalized Broer--Kaup
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--580
                    Ye Feng and   
                Liu Hongwei and   
             Zhou Shuisheng and   
                    Liu Sanyang   A smoothing trust-region Newton-CG
                                  method for minimax problem . . . . . . . 581--589
        Talip Kellegöz and   
                Bilal Toklu and   
                    John Wilson   Comparing efficiencies of genetic
                                  crossover operators for one machine
                                  total weighted tardiness problem . . . . 590--598
               Dejan Ili\'c and   
         Vladimir Rako\vcevi\'c   Common fixed points for maps on metric
                                  space with $w$-distance  . . . . . . . . 599--610
                  Qiang Luo and   
                     Dongyun Yi   A co-evolving framework for robust
                                  particle swarm optimization  . . . . . . 611--622
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Differentiable non-convex functions and
                                  general variational inequalities . . . . 623--630
                   Jiu Ding and   
                     Aihui Zhou   Characteristic polynomials of some
                                  perturbed matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 631--636
            Octavian G. Mustafa   A note on oscillatory integration  . . . 637--643
                  Yan Huang and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Oscillation of second-order nonlinear
                                  ODE with damping . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--652
         Lucyna Trojnar-Spelina   On certain applications of the Hadamard
                                  product  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--662
              Hiroaki Mukaidani   Numerical computation of cross-coupled
                                  algebraic Riccati equations related to
                                  $H_\infty$-constrained LQG control
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--676
             Chi-Chang Wang and   
                Zong-Yi Lee and   
                       Yiyo Kuo   Application of residual correction
                                  method in calculating upper and lower
                                  approximate solutions of fifth-order
                                  boundary-value problems  . . . . . . . . 677--690
                    Feng Qi and   
               Qiu-Ming Luo and   
                     Bai-Ni Guo   Darboux's formula with integral
                                  remainder of functions with two
                                  independent variables  . . . . . . . . . 691--703
               Takehiro Inohara   Relational Nash equilibrium and
                                  interrelationships among relational and
                                  rational equilibrium concepts  . . . . . 704--715
                 Ju H. Park and   
                 C. H. Park and   
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                      S. M. Lee   A new stability criterion for
                                  bidirectional associative memory neural
                                  networks of neutral-type . . . . . . . . 716--722
              Junesang Choi and   
             P. J. Anderson and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Some $q$-extensions of the
                                  Apostol--Bernoulli and the
                                  Apostol--Euler polynomials of order n
                                  and the multiple Hurwitz zeta function   723--737
                    J. I. Ramos   Limit cycles of non-smooth oscillators   738--747
                  K. Kannan and   
                K. R. Rajagopal   Flow through porous media due to high
                                  pressure gradients . . . . . . . . . . . 748--759
                Pin-Yu Wang and   
                Shy-Der Lin and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Explicit solutions of Jacobi and Gauss
                                  differential equations by means of
                                  operators of fractional calculus . . . . 760--769
                  S. K. Sen and   
                Ravi P. Agarwal   Best $k$-digit rational approximation of
                                  irrational numbers: Pre-computer versus
                                  computer era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--786
              Wansheng Wang and   
                 Liping Wen and   
                      Shoufu Li   Nonlinear stability of explicit and
                                  diagonally implicit Runge--Kutta methods
                                  for neutral delay differential equations
                                  in Banach space  . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--803
        Mehmet Horasanlì   Hedging strategy for a portfolio of
                                  options and stocks with linear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--810
                D. Benterki and   
                      A. Leulmi   An improving procedure of the interior
                                  projective method for linear programming 811--819
                Emrah Kilic and   
             Moawwad El-Mikkawy   A computational algorithm for special n
                                  th-order pentadiagonal Toeplitz
                                  determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820--822
                    Vijay Gupta   Rate of approximation for the
                                  Balazs--Kantorovich--Bézier operators . . 823--827
                M. K. Gupta and   
          Man Singh Beniwal and   
                    Prachi Goel   Rate of convergence for
                                  Szasz--Mirakyan--Durrmeyer operators
                                  with derivatives of bounded variation    828--832


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 200, Number 1, June 15, 2008

           Luis P. B. Scott and   
              Jorge Chahine and   
        José R. Ruggiero   Using genetic algorithm to design
                                  protein sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                Kemal Polat and   
             Salih Güne\cs   A novel data reduction method: Distance
                                  based data reduction and its application
                                  to classification of epileptiform EEG
                                  signals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--27
          Genevi\`eve Barro and   
          Ousséni So and   
        Jean Marie Ntaganda and   
          Benjamin Mampassi and   
                    Blaise Some   A numerical method for some nonlinear
                                  differential equation models in biology  28--33
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
                 M. Afzalinejad   Goal programming in the context of the
                                  assignment problem and a computationally
                                  effective solution method  . . . . . . . 34--40
                Wei-Chiang Hong   Rainfall forecasting by technological
                                  machine learning models  . . . . . . . . 41--57
              Hiroyuki Kano and   
           Hiroyuki Fujioka and   
                Clyde F. Martin   Extrema detection of bivariate spline
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--69
               Chi-Chi Chen and   
                  Hui-Chin Tang   On goodness-of-fit tests for multiple
                                  recursive random number generators . . . 70--79
                         Min Wu   A new semi-local convergence theorem for
                                  the inexact Newton methods . . . . . . . 80--86
                  Yong Chen and   
                     Hong-Li An   Numerical solutions of coupled Burgers
                                  equations with time- and
                                  space-fractional derivatives . . . . . . 87--95
                   Xudan Fu and   
                       Xia Zhou   On matrices related with Fibonacci and
                                  Lucas numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--100
             Fengxiang Chen and   
                   Lin Chen and   
                  Weidong Zhang   Stabilization of parameters perturbation
                                  chaotic system via adaptive backstepping
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--109
               Yadong Shang and   
                 Yong Huang and   
                    Wenjun Yuan   The extended hyperbolic functions method
                                  and new exact solutions to the Zakharov
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--122
                    Yu Tian and   
               Daqing Jiang and   
                      Weigao Ge   Multiple positive solutions of periodic
                                  boundary value problems for second order
                                  impulsive differential equations . . . . 123--132
                    Wang Qi and   
                  Bingxiang Dai   Almost periodic solution for $n$-species
                                  Lotka--Volterra competitive system with
                                  delay and feedback controls  . . . . . . 133--146
                Tongjun Sun and   
                   Danping Yang   A priori error estimates for interior
                                  penalty discontinuous Galerkin method
                                  applied to nonlinear Sobolev equations   147--159
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The Hirota's bilinear method and the
                                  tanh--coth method for multiple-soliton
                                  solutions of the
                                  Sawada--Kotera--Kadomtsev--Petviashvili
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--166
         S. K. Chaharsooghi and   
        Amir H. Meimand Kermani   An effective ant colony optimization
                                  algorithm (ACO) for multi-objective
                                  resource allocation problem (MORAP)  . . 167--177
           Feras A. Mahmoud and   
          Mohammad H. Al-Towaiq   Parallel algorithm for the solutions of
                                  PDEs in Linux clustered workstations . . 178--188
                   A. Maiti and   
                  A. K. Pal and   
                  G. P. Samanta   Effect of time-delay on a food chain
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--203
                 V. N. Katsikis   Computational methods in
                                  lattice-subspaces of $C[a, b]$ with
                                  applications in portfolio insurance  . . 204--219
                 Yaoyao Lan and   
                    Qing-Guo Li   Control of Hopf bifurcation in a simple
                                  plankton population model with a
                                  non-integer exponent of closure  . . . . 220--230
                Fazhan Geng and   
                   Yingzhen Lin   Numerical solution of a system of fourth
                                  order boundary value problems using
                                  variational iteration method . . . . . . 231--241
               Xiaolong Qin and   
              Meijuan Shang and   
                    Haiyun Zhou   Strong convergence of a general
                                  iterative method for variational
                                  inequality problems and fixed point
                                  problems in Hilbert spaces . . . . . . . 242--253
                Yusaku Yamamoto   Equality conditions for lower bounds on
                                  the smallest singular value of a
                                  bidiagonal matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 254--260
             Ming-Chun Zhou and   
                  Yan-Fang Yang   An application of traveling wave
                                  analysis in economic growth model  . . . 261--266
                  Rui Zhang and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Global existence and blow-up solutions
                                  and blow-up estimates for a non-local
                                  quasilinear degenerate parabolic system  267--282
                  Yang Feng and   
                Hong-qing Zhang   A new auxiliary function method for
                                  solving the generalized coupled
                                  Hirota--Satsuma KdV system . . . . . . . 283--288
                 Shu-Li Mei and   
               Cheng-Jin Du and   
                  Sen-Wen Zhang   Linearized perturbation method for
                                  stochastic analysis of a rill erosion
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--296
                Y. S. Liang and   
                       W. Y. Su   The relationship between the Box
                                  dimension of the Besicovitch functions
                                  and the orders of their fractional
                                  calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
                Yao-tang Li and   
               Shi-liang Wu and   
                    Da-ping Liu   Positive eigenvector of nonlinear
                                  perturbations of nonsymmetric $M$-matrix
                                  and Newton iterative solution  . . . . . 308--320
                    Rui-hong Li   A special full-state hybrid projective
                                  synchronization in symmetrical chaotic
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--329
                H. M. Habib and   
                 E. R. El-Zahar   Variable step size initial value
                                  algorithm for singular perturbation
                                  problems using locally exact integration 330--340
                 Lijun Zhao and   
                   Xiyan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   Linear restriction problem of Hermitian
                                  reflexive matrices and its approximation 341--351
                 You-Hui Su and   
                Wan-Tong Li and   
                   Hong-Rui Sun   Positive solutions of singular
                                  $p$-Laplacian dynamic equations with
                                  sign changing nonlinearity . . . . . . . 352--368
               Xiaofan Yang and   
                    Qing Lu and   
               Chuandong Li and   
                  Xiaofeng Liao   Biological computation of the solution
                                  to the quadratic assignment problem  . . 369--377
                   Silvia Jerez   A nonstandard difference-integral method
                                  for the viscous Burgers' equation  . . . 378--386
               Youqing Wang and   
              Canghua Jiang and   
               Donghua Zhou and   
                     Furong Gao   Variable structure control for a class
                                  of nonlinear systems with mismatched
                                  uncertainties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--400
             Murat Sarduvan and   
             Halim Özdemir   On linear combinations of two tripotent,
                                  idempotent, and involutive matrices  . . 401--406
                      Li Fushan   Existence and uniqueness of the solution
                                  to the viscoelastic equations for Koiter
                                  shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--412
                     Hua Su and   
                Mingchuan Zhang   Solutions for higher-order dynamic
                                  equations on time scales . . . . . . . . 413--428
                  S. M. Lee and   
                     Ju H. Park   Robust stabilization of discrete-time
                                  nonlinear Lur'e systems with sector and
                                  slope restricted nonlinearities  . . . . 429--436
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-front solutions for the
                                  Burgers--Kadomtsev--Petviashvili
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--443
              A. U. Afuwape and   
                   M. O. Omeike   On the stability and boundedness of
                                  solutions of a kind of third order delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 444--451
           D. K. R. Babajee and   
               M. Z. Dauhoo and   
             M. T. Darvishi and   
                      A. Barati   A note on the local convergence of
                                  iterative methods based on Adomian
                                  decomposition method and 3-node
                                  quadrature rule  . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--458
                   D. Vieru and   
             Corina Fetecau and   
                     C. Fetecau   Flow of a viscoelastic fluid with the
                                  fractional Maxwell model between two
                                  side walls perpendicular to a plate  . . 459--464
                 Xuyang Lou and   
                    Baotong Cui   Existence and global attractivity of
                                  almost periodic solutions for neural
                                  field with time delay  . . . . . . . . . 465--472
                  Xiao Wang and   
                    Zhixiang Li   Erratum to: ``Dynamics for a class of
                                  general hematopoiesis model with
                                  periodic coefficients'' [Appl. Math.
                                  Comput. 186 (2007) 460--468] . . . . . . 473--476
                    Guo Yingxin   Erratum to ``Nontrivial solution of
                                  third-order nonlinear eigenvalue
                                  problems'' [Appl. Math. Comput. 176
                                  (2006) 714--721] . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--477

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 200, Number 2, July 1, 2008

               Jin Yun Yuan and   
                       To Fu Ma   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--479
Débora Cintia Marcilio and   
            Luiz Carlos Matioli   Augmented Lagrangian applied to convex
                                  quadratic problems . . . . . . . . . . . 480--485
         Elizabeth W. Karas and   
              Ana P. Oening and   
              Ademir A. Ribeiro   Global convergence of slanting filter
                                  methods for nonlinear programming  . . . 486--500
                P. Ya. Ekel and   
           J. S. C. Martini and   
                 R. M. Palhares   Multicriteria analysis in decision
                                  making under information uncertainty . . 501--516
    Pierre-Alexandre Bliman and   
                Tetsuya Iwasaki   Application of semi-definite programming
                                  to robust stability of delay systems . . 517--528
Esdras Penêdo de Carvalho and   
Anésio dos Santos Júnior and   
                       To Fu Ma   Reduced gradient method combined with
                                  augmented Lagrangian and barrier for the
                                  optimal power flow problem . . . . . . . 529--536
          F. S. V. Bazán   Chebyshev pseudospectral method for
                                  computing numerical solution of
                                  convection--diffusion equation . . . . . 537--546
    Lucelina Batista Santos and   
          Marko Rojas-Medar and   
 Gabriel Ruiz-Garzón and   
   Antonio Rufián-Lizana   Existence of weakly efficient solutions
                                  in nonsmooth vector optimization . . . . 547--556
                 M. Rafikov and   
            J. M. Balthazar and   
               H. F. von Bremen   Mathematical modeling and control of
                                  population systems: Applications in
                                  biological pest control  . . . . . . . . 557--573
  Raimundo J. B. de Sampaio and   
                    S. Yuan and   
                     J. Y. Yuan   Generalization: One technique of
                                  computational and applied mathematical
                                  methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--582
          Luci Harue Fatori and   
                       To Fu Ma   A thermoelastic system of memory type in
                                  noncylindrical domains . . . . . . . . . 583--589
Valdecir Antoninho Dalpasquale and   
     Décio Sperandio and   
  Luiz Henry Monken e Silva and   
                Evandro Kolling   Fixed-bed drying simulation of
                                  agricultural products using a new
                                  backward finite difference scheme  . . . 590--595
        Pedro Pablo Durand Lazo   Global solutions for a nonlinear wave
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--601
     Sani de C. R. Da Silva and   
           Dimitrios Samios and   
                 P. A. Netz and   
      Dagoberto A. R. Justo and   
               A. L. De Bortoli   Numerical simulation of biological base
                                  pairs considering geometric and
                                  energetic criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 602--609
                      Anonymous   Master index: Vols 191--200  . . . . . . i--iv


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 201, Number 1--2, July 15, 2008

Ömer Kavaklìo\uglu and   
               Baruch Schneider   On Floquet--Twersky representation for
                                  the diffraction of obliquely incident
                                  plane H-polarized electromagnetic waves
                                  by an infinite grating of insulating
                                  dielectric circular cylinders  . . . . . 1--15
             Md. Asif Ikbal and   
     Santabrata Chakravarty and   
         Prashanta Kumar Mandal   An unsteady peristaltic transport
                                  phenomenon of non-Newtonian fluid --- A
                                  generalised approach . . . . . . . . . . 16--34
              Khaled Omrani and   
               Faycal Abidi and   
              Talha Achouri and   
                  Noomen Khiari   A new conservative finite difference
                                  scheme for the Rosenau equation  . . . . 35--43
                  Fucai You and   
                   Tiecheng Xia   The multi-component dispersive long wave
                                  equation hierarchy, its integrable
                                  couplings and their Hamiltonian
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--55
               Jae Heon Yun and   
                  Sang Wook Kim   Convergence of the preconditioned AOR
                                  method for irreducible $L$-matrices  . . 56--64
                 Zhi-hui Ma and   
                 Zi-zhen Li and   
               Shu-fan Wang and   
                    Ting Li and   
                 Feng-pan Zhang   Permanence of a predator--prey system
                                  with stage structure and time delay  . . 65--71
                Yair Neuman and   
                     Ophir Nave   A mathematical theory of sign-mediated
                                  concept formation  . . . . . . . . . . . 72--81
                Matthias Dehmer   Information processing in complex
                                  networks: Graph entropy and information
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--94
                 W. Sinkala and   
             P. G. L. Leach and   
                   J. G. O'Hara   An optimal system and group-invariant
                                  solutions of the Cox--Ingersoll--Ross
                                  pricing equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--107
               Ho-Hyun Park and   
           Alexandre Grings and   
 Marcus Vinicius dos Santos and   
       Alexsandro Santos Soares   Parallel hybrid evolutionary
                                  computation: Automatic tuning of
                                  parameters for parallel gene expression
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--120
                 V. Viswanathan   Information hiding in wave files through
                                  frequency domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
                  Suh-Wen Chiou   An efficient search algorithm for road
                                  network optimization . . . . . . . . . . 128--137
           H. Saberi Najafi and   
                M. Shams Solary   A new algorithm for computing the
                                  inertia of eigenproblems $(Ax = \lambda
                                  x)$ and $(Ax = \lambda Bx)$  . . . . . . 138--148
Serap Ulusam Seçkiner and   
                   Mustafa Kurt   Ant colony optimization for the job
                                  rotation scheduling problem  . . . . . . 149--160
             Eduardo Massad and   
Marcelo Nascimento Burattini and   
Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho   An optimization model for antibiotic use 161--167
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the
                                  Lax--Kadomtsev--Petviashvili (Lax--KP)
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--174
               Yonghong Yao and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                Rudong Chen and   
               Yeong-Cheng Liou   Strong convergence of three-step relaxed
                                  hybrid steepest-descent methods for
                                  variational inequalities . . . . . . . . 175--183
                 Lai-Yun Wu and   
              Lap-Loi Chung and   
                  Hsu-Hui Huang   Radial spline collocation method for
                                  static analysis of beams . . . . . . . . 184--199
               Jinling Zhao and   
                   Qingzhi Yang   Weak co-coercivity and its applications
                                  in several algorithms for solving
                                  variational inequalities . . . . . . . . 200--209
                Sihua Liang and   
                    Jihui Zhang   The existence of countably many positive
                                  solutions for one-dimensional
                                  $p$-Laplacian with infinitely many
                                  singularities on the half-line . . . . . 210--220
                   Fei Wang and   
               Xiao-Liang Cheng   An algorithm for solving the double
                                  obstacle problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 221--228
            Kapil K. Sharma and   
                Paramjeet Singh   Hyperbolic partial
                                  differential-difference equation in the
                                  mathematical modeling of neuronal firing
                                  and its numerical solution . . . . . . . 229--238
              Rabian Wangkeeree   Viscosity approximative methods to
                                  Ces\`aro mean iterations for
                                  nonexpansive nonself-mappings in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--249
              Congming Peng and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Blow-up for a degenerate parabolic
                                  equation with a nonlocal source  . . . . 250--259
            B. Mukhopadhyay and   
               R. Bhattacharyya   Bifurcation analysis of an ecological
                                  food-chain model with switching predator 260--271
      Sini\vsa N. Je\vsi\'c and   
              Donal O'Regan and   
          Nata\vsa A. Baba\vcev   A common fixed point theorem for
                                  $R$-weakly commuting mappings in
                                  probabilistic spaces with nonlinear
                                  contractive conditions . . . . . . . . . 272--281
                Shujing Gao and   
               Zhidong Teng and   
                      Dehui Xie   The effects of pulse vaccination on SEIR
                                  model with two time delays . . . . . . . 282--292
Konstantinos M. Giannoutakis and   
            George A. Gravvanis   High performance finite element
                                  approximate inverse preconditioning  . . 293--304
                Haidong Liu and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Interval oscillation criteria for matrix
                                  differential systems with damping  . . . 305--312
               Mohammad Ranjbar   Solving the resource-constrained project
                                  scheduling problem using filter-and-fan
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318
                Ali Peiravi and   
       Hossein Tolooei Kheibari   A fast algorithm for connectivity graph
                                  approximation using modified Manhattan
                                  distance in dynamic networks . . . . . . 319--332
               Zhi-lian Yan and   
             Jian-ping Zhou and   
                   Xi-qiang Liu   Symmetry reductions and similarity
                                  solutions of the $(3 + 1)$-dimensional
                                  breaking soliton equation  . . . . . . . 333--339
              Yongqing Yang and   
                      Jinde Cao   A feedback neural network for solving
                                  convex constraint optimization problems  340--350
Ömer Kavaklìo\uglu and   
               Baruch Schneider   On the asymptotic solution for the
                                  Fourier--Bessel multiple scattering
                                  coefficients of an infinite grating of
                                  insulating dielectric circular cylinders
                                  at oblique incidence . . . . . . . . . . 351--360
                 Xinguang Zhang   Eigenvalue of higher-order semipositone
                                  multi-point boundary value problems with
                                  derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--370
      Romulus-Catalin Damaceanu   An agent-based computational study of
                                  wealth distribution in function of
                                  resource growth interval using NetLogo   371--377
                Yasuhito Tanaka   Undecidability of Uzawa equivalence
                                  theorem and LLPO (Lesser limited
                                  principle of omniscience)  . . . . . . . 378--383
               V. P. Israel and   
                   M. A. Rincon   Variational inequalities applied to
                                  option market problem  . . . . . . . . . 384--397
                  Kai Zhang and   
                      Song Wang   Pricing options under jump diffusion
                                  processes with fitted finite volume
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--413
             Hideaki Kaneko and   
                 Kim S. Bey and   
          Yongwimon Lenbury and   
                  Puntip Toghaw   Numerical experiments using hierarchical
                                  finite element method for nonlinear heat
                                  conduction in plates . . . . . . . . . . 414--430
                 Weiyi Qian and   
                        Ajun li   Adaptive differential evolution
                                  algorithm for multiobjective
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 431--440
                 M. Mahdavi and   
      M. Haghir Chehreghani and   
             H. Abolhassani and   
                     R. Forsati   Novel meta-heuristic algorithms for
                                  clustering web documents . . . . . . . . 441--451
                E. Babolian and   
              H. R. Marzban and   
                     M. Salmani   Using triangular orthogonal functions
                                  for solving Fredholm integral equations
                                  of the second kind . . . . . . . . . . . 452--464
        Justin B. Munyakazi and   
             Kailash C. Patidar   On Richardson extrapolation for fitted
                                  operator finite difference methods . . . 465--480
                     Bo Sun and   
               Chunmei Miao and   
                      WeiGao Ge   Successive iteration and positive
                                  symmetric solutions for some
                                  Sturm--Liouville-like four-point
                                  $p$-Laplacian boundary value problems    481--488
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The Hirota's direct method for
                                  multiple-soliton solutions for three
                                  model equations of shallow water waves   489--503
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
              Arjun Singh Yadaw   B-Spline collocation method for a
                                  two-parameter singularly perturbed
                                  convection--diffusion boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--513
               Peiping Shen and   
               Yunpeng Duan and   
                        Yuan Ma   A robust solution approach for nonconvex
                                  quadratic programs with additional
                                  multiplicative constraints . . . . . . . 514--526
         Narcís Coll and   
    Marité Guerrieri and   
           J. Antoni Sellar\`es   Combining improvement and refinement
                                  techniques: $2$D Delaunay mesh
                                  adaptation under domain changes  . . . . 527--546
               Ali Tahmasbi and   
                   Omid S. Fard   Numerical solution of linear Volterra
                                  integral equations system of the second
                                  kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--552
                  Shulin Wu and   
            Chengming Huang and   
                       Yong Liu   Newton waveform relaxation method for
                                  solving algebraic nonlinear equations    553--560
                Tomohiro Sogabe   A note on ``A fast numerical algorithm
                                  for the determinant of a pentadiagonal
                                  matrix'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--564
          Ben Khediri Issam and   
                  Limam Mohamed   Support vector regression based residual
                                  MCUSUM control chart for autocorrelated
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--574
                 J. Olamaei and   
                  T. Niknam and   
                G. Gharehpetian   Application of particle swarm
                                  optimization for distribution feeder
                                  reconfiguration considering distributed
                                  generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--586
               Shiying Wang and   
                   Jun Yuan and   
                      Aixia Liu   $k$-Restricted edge connectivity for
                                  some interconnection networks  . . . . . 587--596
              Hikmet Caglar and   
                   Nazan Caglar   Fifth-degree B-spline solution for a
                                  fourth-order parabolic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 597--603
                Naokant Deo and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
                 M. A. Siddiqui   On approximation by a class of new
                                  Bernstein type operators . . . . . . . . 604--612
         G. R. Jahanshahloo and   
      F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
              F. Rezai Balf and   
                H. Zhiani Rezai   Using Monte Carlo method for ranking
                                  interval data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--620
                     Le Han and   
                 Gaohang Yu and   
                     Lutai Guan   Multivariate spectral gradient method
                                  for unconstrained optimization . . . . . 621--630
               D. Sadhukhan and   
                  B. Mondal and   
                       M. Maiti   Discrete age-structured population model
                                  with age dependent harvesting and its
                                  stability analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 631--639
                Mehdi Toloo and   
              Nazila Aghayi and   
     Mohsen Rostamy-malkhalifeh   Measuring overall profit efficiency with
                                  interval data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--649
            Marius-F. Danca and   
         Wallace K. S. Tang and   
                  Guanrong Chen   A switching scheme for synthesizing
                                  attractors of dissipative chaotic
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--667
                   Alfred Huber   The calculation of novel class of
                                  solutions of a non-linear fourth order
                                  evolution equation by the Weierstraß
                                  transform method . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--677
            Mingchuan Zhang and   
                 Yanmin Yin and   
                    Zhongli Wei   Positive solution of singular
                                  higher-order $m$-point boundary value
                                  problem with nonlinearity that changes
                                  sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--687
                 Caidi Zhao and   
              Shengfan Zhou and   
                   Yongsheng Li   Uniform attractor for a two-dimensional
                                  nonautonomous incompressible
                                  non-Newtonian fluid  . . . . . . . . . . 688--700
               Yuanhong Zhi and   
                 Chunlai Mu and   
                    Daming Yuan   The quenching phenomenon of a nonlocal
                                  semilinear heat equation with a weak
                                  singularity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--709
                        B. Neta   On Popovski's method for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--715
               Xiaolong Qin and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   General Wiener--Hopf equation technique
                                  for nonexpansive mappings and general
                                  variational inequalities in Hilbert
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--722
                   Jiu Ding and   
                     Aihui Zhou   A spectrum theorem for perturbed bounded
                                  linear operators . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--728
             M. A. Christou and   
             C. Sophocleous and   
                 C. I. Christov   Numerical investigation of the nonlinear
                                  heat diffusion equation with high
                                  nonlinearity on the boundary . . . . . . 729--738
                       Fajun Yu   Constructing (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear
                                  soliton equations with a generalized
                                  zero curvature equation  . . . . . . . . 739--746
                        J. Rang   Pressure corrected implicit
                                  $\theta$-schemes for the incompressible
                                  Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 747--761
                Rahmat Ali Khan   Positive solutions of four-point
                                  singular boundary value problems . . . . 762--773
           Janusz Sokó\l   On some applications of the
                                  Dziok--Srivastava operator . . . . . . . 774--780
                 Emin Kasap and   
          F. Talay Akyildiz and   
                  Keziban Orbay   A generalization of surfaces family with
                                  common spatial geodesic  . . . . . . . . 781--789
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions of two
                                  extended model equations for shallow
                                  water waves  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--799
                  Anmin Mao and   
                    Shixia Luan   Periodic solutions of an
                                  infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system  800--804
                Xiaoxia Dai and   
                Xiaoliang Cheng   The iterative penalty method for Stokes
                                  equations using $Q_1 - P_0$ element  . . 805--810
            M. Gámez and   
            I. López and   
                       Z. Varga   Iterative scheme for the observation of
                                  a competitive Lotka--Volterra system . . 811--818
               Jianlong Qiu and   
                      Jinde Cao   Exponential stability of a competitive
                                  Lotka--Volterra system with delays . . . 819--829
                    Hongmin Ren   A note on a paper by D. K. R. Babajee
                                  and M. Z. Dauhoo . . . . . . . . . . . . 830--833
                   D. Vieru and   
             Corina Fetecau and   
                     C. Fetecau   Flow of a generalized Oldroyd-B fluid
                                  due to a constantly accelerating plate   834--842
                        M. Tadi   An iterative method for the solution of
                                  ill-posed parabolic systems  . . . . . . 843--851
                 Junli Yuan and   
                   Zuodong Yang   Existence of large solutions for a class
                                  of quasilinear elliptic equations  . . . 852--858
                 Xiaoliang Zhou   Eventually positive solutions of higher
                                  order nonlinear neutral differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--863


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 202, Number 1, August 1, 2008

       Miroslav Morhá\vc   Error-free algorithms to solve special
                                  and general discrete systems of linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
                  I. Lamiri and   
                        A. Ouni   $d$-Orthogonality of Hermite type
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--43
                Zhaolu Tian and   
                   Chuanqing Gu   A numerical algorithm for Lyapunov
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
                 Minghe Pei and   
                 Sung Kag Chang   A quasilinearization method for
                                  second-order four-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--66
               Hongwei Jiao and   
                 Yongqiang Chen   A note on a deterministic global
                                  optimization algorithm . . . . . . . . . 67--70
        S. Raja Balachandar and   
                      K. Kannan   A new polynomial time algorithm for 0--1
                                  multiple knapsack problem based on
                                  dominant principles  . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
Maria José de Paula Castanho and   
Laécio Carvalho de Barros and   
             Akebo Yamakami and   
    Laércio Luis Vendite   Fuzzy expert system: an example in
                                  prostate cancer  . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
                Subuhi Khan and   
       Nader Ali Makboul Hassan   Generating relations of Tricomi and
                                  Hermite--Tricomi functions using Lie
                                  algebra representation . . . . . . . . . 86--101
              Said R. Grace and   
            Ravi P. Agarwal and   
           Raffaella Pavani and   
                  E. Thandapani   On the oscillation of certain third
                                  order nonlinear functional differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--112
     Varsha Daftardar-Gejji and   
                Sachin Bhalekar   Solving multi-term linear and non-linear
                                  diffusion--wave equations of fractional
                                  order by Adomian decomposition method    113--120
               Li-Tao Zhang and   
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
              Tong-Xiang Gu and   
                    Xin-Lan Guo   Convergence of relaxed multisplitting
                                  USAOR methods for $H$-matrices linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
Jesús Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez   Positive integer powers of certain
                                  tridiagonal matrices . . . . . . . . . . 133--140
               Sining Zheng and   
                       Lan Qiao   Non-simultaneous versus simultaneous
                                  blow-up for coupled heat equations with
                                  positive--negative sources . . . . . . . 141--145
                Z. C. Zheng and   
                          W. Li   Numerical stabilities and boundary
                                  conditions in time-domain Eulerian
                                  simulations of acoustic wave
                                  propagations with and without background
                                  flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--161
                        B. Neta   New third order nonlinear solvers for
                                  multiple roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--170
                Juan F. Navarro   Computation of periodic solutions in
                                  perturbed second-order ODEs  . . . . . . 171--177
               Jae Ug Jeong and   
                   Soo Hwan Kim   Sensitivity analysis for a system of
                                  generalized nonlinear mixed
                                  quasi-variational inclusions in
                                  $q$-uniformly smooth Banach spaces . . . 178--187
                 Yimin Meng and   
             Shangjiang Guo and   
                   Lihong Huang   Convergence dynamics of Cohen--Grossberg
                                  neural networks with continuously
                                  distributed delays . . . . . . . . . . . 188--199
              Xian-Bao Duan and   
                 Yi-Chen Ma and   
                      Rui Zhang   Shape-topology optimization of Stokes
                                  flow via variational level set method    200--209
       Moawwad E. A. El-Mikkawy   A fast and reliable algorithm for
                                  evaluating n th order pentadiagonal
                                  determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--215
             C. Sophocleous and   
                   R. Tracin\`a   Differential invariants for quasi-linear
                                  and semi-linear wave-type equations  . . 216--228
                Fulong Wang and   
                Yuqing Chen and   
                  Donal O'Regan   Degree theory for $(S_+)$ mappings in
                                  non-reflexive Banach spaces  . . . . . . 229--232
            Kamel Al-Khaled and   
          Mohammed Al-Refai and   
                  Ameen Alawneh   Traveling wave solutions using the
                                  variational method and the tanh method
                                  for nonlinear coupled equations  . . . . 233--242
               Yueqing Zhao and   
                    Qingbiao Wu   Newton--Kantorovich theorem for a family
                                  of modified Halley's method under Hölder
                                  continuity conditions in Banach space    243--251
       José L. Hueso and   
    Eulalia Martínez and   
             Juan R. Torregrosa   A note on some three-step iterative
                                  methods for nonlinear equations  . . . . 252--255
           Mithun J. Sharma and   
              Ilkyeong Moon and   
                     Hyerim Bae   Analytic hierarchy process to assess and
                                  optimize distribution network  . . . . . 256--265
                 L. F. Shampine   Matlab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--274
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Solitary wave solutions of the
                                  generalized shallow water wave (GSWW)
                                  equation by Hirota's method, tanh--coth
                                  method and Exp-function method . . . . . 275--286
               V. M. Garcia and   
                 L. Acevedo and   
                    A. M. Vidal   Variants of algebraic wavelet-based
                                  multigrid methods: Application to
                                  shifted linear systems . . . . . . . . . 287--299
              Zhi-Hua Zhang and   
                 Yu-Dong Wu and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Generalized Vandermonde determinants and
                                  mean values  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--310
             S. L. Mitchell and   
                    T. G. Myers   Approximate solution methods for
                                  one-dimensional solidification from an
                                  incoming fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--326
              Ne\cse Dernek and   
           H. M. Srivastava and   
             Osman Yürekli   Some Parseval--Goldstein type identities
                                  involving the
                                  $\mathcal{F}_{S,2}$-transform, the
                                  $\mathcal{F}_{C,2}$-transform and the
                                  $\mathcal{P}_4$-transform and their
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--337
           Iwona Malinowska and   
                 Dominik Szynal   On characterization of certain
                                  distributions of k th lower (upper)
                                  record values  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--347
              Roman Witu\la and   
                  Damian S\lota   Some phenomenon of the powers of certain
                                  tridiagonal and asymmetric matrices  . . 348--359
                 Ju H. Park and   
                     O. M. Kwon   Design of state estimator for neural
                                  networks of neutral-type . . . . . . . . 360--369
           Zbigniew Walczak and   
                    Vijay Gupta   A note on the convergence of Baskakov
                                  type operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--375
                  K. Fakhar and   
                  Zhenli Xu and   
                       Cheng Yi   Exact solutions of a third grade fluid
                                  flow on a porous plate . . . . . . . . . 376--382
             Chi-Chang Wang and   
                    Hai-Ping Hu   Study on monotonicity of boundary value
                                  problems of differential equations . . . 383--394
              Dongmei Zhang and   
                          Li Yu   Equivalence of some stability criteria
                                  for linear time-delay systems  . . . . . 395--400
                   Jae Heon Yun   A note on three-step iterative method
                                  for nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . 401--405
                     G. C. Yang   New results of Falkner--Skan equation
                                  arising in boundary layer theory . . . . 406--412
                   Xiangfeng Li   Multiple positive solutions for some
                                  four-point boundary value problems with
                                  $p$-Laplacian  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--426
                 Marek Galewski   On the nonlinear elastic beam equation   427--434

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 202, Number 2, August 15, 2008

            Rostam K. Saeed and   
                   Kawa M. Aziz   An iterative method with quartic
                                  convergence for solving nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--440
      Ahmed Driss Aiat Hadj and   
                Mohamed Elouafi   A fast numerical algorithm for the
                                  inverse of a tridiagonal and
                                  pentadiagonal matrix . . . . . . . . . . 441--445
             Abdellatif Moudafi   On the difference of two maximal
                                  monotone operators: Regularization and
                                  algorithmic approaches . . . . . . . . . 446--452
               V. P. Ramesh and   
               M. K. Kadalbajoo   Upwind and midpoint upwind difference
                                  methods for time-dependent differential
                                  difference equations with layer behavior 453--471
                      Li Yu and   
                Jiabo Zhang and   
                  Yuwu Liao and   
                       Jie Ding   Parameter estimation error bounds for
                                  Hammerstein nonlinear finite impulsive
                                  response models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--480
            Jong Yeoul Park and   
                   Jum Ran Kang   Existence, uniqueness and uniform decay
                                  for the non-linear degenerate equation
                                  with memory condition at the boundary    481--488
                  Yali Duan and   
                  Ruxun Liu and   
                   Yanqun Jiang   Lattice Boltzmann model for the modified
                                  Burgers' equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 489--497
               P. K. Parida and   
                    D. K. Gupta   An improved method for finding multiple
                                  roots and it's multiplicity of nonlinear
                                  equations in $\mathbb{R}$  . . . . . . . 498--503
                   Jibin Li and   
                       Yi Zhang   Exact travelling wave solutions in a
                                  nonlinear elastic rod equation . . . . . 504--510
               Sungim Whang and   
                      Sunmi Lee   Absorbing boundary conditions for the
                                  stationary forced KdV equation . . . . . 511--519
                   M. S. Ismail   Numerical solution of complex modified
                                  Korteweg--de Vries equation by
                                  Petrov--Galerkin method  . . . . . . . . 520--531
               Yadong Shang and   
               Jinghong Qin and   
                 Yong Huang and   
                    Wenjun Yuan   Abundant exact and explicit solitary
                                  wave and periodic wave solutions to the
                                  Sharma--Tasso--Olver equation  . . . . . 532--538
                Yuzhen Chen and   
                    Xuelin Yong   Exact solutions to the sine-Gordon-type
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--543
               Santanu Saha Ray   A new approach for the application of
                                  Adomian decomposition method for the
                                  solution of fractional space diffusion
                                  equation with insulated ends . . . . . . 544--549
              Tadeusz Jankowski   Positive solutions to second order
                                  four-point boundary value problems for
                                  impulsive differential equations . . . . 550--561
                Bui The Anh and   
            Nguyen Khoa Son and   
          Duong Dang Xuan Thanh   Stability radii of delay difference
                                  systems under affine parameter
                                  perturbations in infinite dimensional
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--570
              Mehdi Dehghan and   
                Masoud Hajarian   An iterative algorithm for the reflexive
                                  solutions of the generalized coupled
                                  Sylvester matrix equations and its
                                  optimal approximation  . . . . . . . . . 571--588
                     Wei Li and   
                    Xiaoli Tian   Numerical solution method for general
                                  interval quadratic programming . . . . . 589--595
               A. De Cezaro and   
               M. Haltmeier and   
           A. Leitão and   
                    O. Scherzer   On Steepest-Descent-Kaczmarz methods for
                                  regularizing systems of nonlinear
                                  ill-posed equations  . . . . . . . . . . 596--607
             Omar Belhamiti and   
               Rabah Labbas and   
           Keddour Lemrabet and   
                 Ahmed Medeghri   Study of boundary value and transmission
                                  problems in the Hölder spaces . . . . . . 608--619
   Mahiéddine Kouche and   
        Nasser-eddine Tatar and   
                 Shengqiang Liu   Permanence and existence of a positive
                                  periodic solution to a periodic
                                  stage-structured system with infinite
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--638
                 Xi-Le Zhao and   
                 Ting-Zhu Huang   On the inverse of a general
                                  pentadiagonal matrix . . . . . . . . . . 639--646
                   S. A. Belbas   Optimal control of Volterra integral
                                  equations in two independent variables   647--665
                  Wei Jiang and   
                    Minggen Cui   The exact solution and stability
                                  analysis for integral equation of third
                                  or first kind with singular kernel . . . 666--674
             Paul Georgescu and   
                 Hong Zhang and   
                    Lansun Chen   Bifurcation of nontrivial periodic
                                  solutions for an impulsively controlled
                                  pest management model  . . . . . . . . . 675--687
                    Hongmin Ren   A second-derivative-free modified
                                  Secant-like method with order
                                  $2.732\ldots{}$ for unconstrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--692
          M. Senthilkumaran and   
              D. Pandiaraja and   
               B. Mayil Vaganan   New exact explicit solutions of the
                                  generalized KdV equations  . . . . . . . 693--699
                  Zhihao Ge and   
                 Minfu Feng and   
                     Yinnian He   A stabilized nonconfirming finite
                                  element method based on multiscale
                                  enrichment for the stationary
                                  Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 700--707
                   Lihua Mu and   
                        Hong Du   The solution of a parabolic differential
                                  equation with non-local boundary
                                  conditions in the reproducing kernel
                                  space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--714
               Jingbao Yang and   
                    Zhongli Wei   Positive solutions of $n$th order
                                  $m$-point boundary value problem . . . . 715--720
                Shujing Gao and   
                Lansun Chen and   
                   Zhidong Teng   Hopf bifurcation and global stability
                                  for a delayed predator--prey system with
                                  stage structure for predator . . . . . . 721--729
              Rongjun Cheng and   
                     Hongxia Ge   The meshless method for a
                                  two-dimensional parabolic problem with a
                                  source parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--737
        Mohan K. Kadalbajoo and   
                 Devendra Kumar   A non-linear single step explicit scheme
                                  for non-linear two-point singularly
                                  perturbed boundary value problems via
                                  initial value technique  . . . . . . . . 738--746
               Zhikai Jiang and   
            Abdellah Bnouhachem   A projection-based
                                  prediction--correction method for
                                  structured monotone variational
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--759
            Fumiaki Kohsaka and   
               Wataru Takahashi   Strongly convergent net given by a fixed
                                  point theorem for firmly nonexpansive
                                  type mappings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--765
              Shou-qiang Du and   
                 Yuan-yuan Chen   Global convergence of a modified
                                  spectral FR conjugate gradient method    766--770
                 Zhiyong Si and   
               Xinlong Feng and   
            Abdurishit Abduwali   The semi-discrete streamline diffusion
                                  finite element method for
                                  time-dependented convection--diffusion
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--779
                 Liping Wen and   
              Wansheng Wang and   
                      Yuexin Yu   Dissipativity of $\theta$-methods for a
                                  class of nonlinear neutral delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 780--786
                   Alfred Huber   A note on new solitary and similarity
                                  class of solutions of a fourth-order
                                  non-linear evolution equation  . . . . . 787--797
Jesús Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez   Positive integer powers of complex
                                  skew-symmetric circulant matrices  . . . 798--802
              Stefan Jebens and   
        Rüdiger Weiner and   
           Helmut Podhaisky and   
            Bernhard A. Schmitt   Explicit multi-step peer methods for
                                  special second-order differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--813
           Baruch Schneider and   
 Ömer Kavaklìo\=glu   Poincaré--Bertrand formula on a piecewise
                                  Liapunov curve in two-dimensional  . . . 814--819
                    Na Zhao and   
                         Wei Wu   Convergence of a smoothing-type
                                  algorithm for the monotone affine
                                  variational inequality problem . . . . . 820--827
                   Duyu Liu and   
                 Xinzhi Liu and   
                 Shouming Zhong   Delay-dependent robust stability and
                                  control synthesis for uncertain switched
                                  neutral systems with mixed delays  . . . 828--839
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the
                                  generalized $(1 + 1)$-dimensional and
                                  the generalized $(2 + 1)$-dimensional
                                  Ito equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--849
                Tomohiro Sogabe   New algorithms for solving periodic
                                  tridiagonal and periodic pentadiagonal
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--856
                    Faruk Yigit   Approximate analytical and numerical
                                  solutions for a two-dimensional Stefan
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--869
                    Phan T. Nam   An improved criterion for exponential
                                  stability of linear systems with
                                  multiple time delays . . . . . . . . . . 870--876
Jesús Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez   Positive integer powers of complex
                                  symmetric circulant matrices . . . . . . 877--881
              Thomas J. Bridges   Conservation laws in curvilinear
                                  coordinates: a short proof of Vinokur's
                                  Theorem using differential forms . . . . 882--885
                    Dhiman Basu   From third to fourth order variant of
                                  Newton's method for simple roots . . . . 886--892
          Abdollah Hadi-Vencheh   Comment on ``Inputs/outputs estimation
                                  in DEA when some factors are
                                  undesirable'' [Applied Mathematics and
                                  Computation 156 (2004) 19--32] . . . . . 893--894
         Asterios Pantokratoras   Comment on ``Flow and heat transfer in a
                                  micropolar fluid past a stretching
                                  surface embedded in a non-Darcian porous
                                  medium with a uniform free stream'' by
                                  Emad M. Abo-Eldahab and Mohamed A. El
                                  Aziz [Appl. Math. Comput. 162 (2005)
                                  881--899]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--896
                     Ji-Bo Wang   Erratum to: A note on flow shop
                                  scheduling problems with a learning
                                  effect on no-idle dominant machines
                                  [Appl. Math. Comput. 184 (2007)
                                  945--949]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--898


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 203, Number 1, September 1, 2008

             Seshadev Padhi and   
             Shilpee Srivastava   Multiple periodic solutions for a
                                  nonlinear first order functional
                                  differential equations with applications
                                  to population dynamics . . . . . . . . . 1--6
                 Lin-Lin Ma and   
                    Xi-Xiang Xu   A hierarchy of integrable nonlinear
                                  lattice equations and its two integrable
                                  coupling systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--13
          Giovany M. Figueiredo   Quasilinear equations with dependence on
                                  the gradient via Mountain Pass
                                  techniques in $\mathbb{R}^N$ . . . . . . 14--18
  Predrag S. Stanimirovi\'c and   
  Dragana S. Cvetkovi\'c-Ili\'c   Successive matrix squaring algorithm for
                                  computing outer inverses . . . . . . . . 19--29
                Liqun Jiang and   
                      Zhan Zhou   Multiple nontrivial solutions for a
                                  class of higher dimensional discrete
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 30--38
            Shengqiang Tang and   
                   Wentao Huang   Bifurcations of travelling wave
                                  solutions for the $K(n, -n, 2 n)$
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--49
                S. K. Parhi and   
                    D. K. Gupta   A sixth order method for nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
                 Zhong Chen and   
                   Zhi-jie Chen   The exact solution of system of linear
                                  operator equations in reproducing kernel
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
                Haijun Wang and   
                         Qin Ni   A new method of moving asymptotes for
                                  large-scale unconstrained optimization   62--71
                   Chuanzhi Bai   Global stability of almost periodic
                                  solutions of Hopfield neural networks
                                  with neutral time-varying delays . . . . 72--79
              Xiaobing Zhou and   
                     Yue Wu and   
                     Yi. Li and   
                   Hongquan Xue   Adaptive control and synchronization of
                                  a novel hyperchaotic system with
                                  uncertain parameters . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
                 Kusum Deep and   
                 Kedar Nath Das   Quadratic approximation based hybrid
                                  genetic algorithm for function
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--98
                  Gwang Hui Kim   On the stability of the pexiderized
                                  trigonometric functional equation  . . . 99--105
                     Zhenya Yan   The modified KdV equation with variable
                                  coefficients: Exact uni/bi-variable
                                  travelling wave-like solutions . . . . . 106--112
                 Zhixue Luo and   
                   Jinsheng Guo   Optimal control of free horizon problems
                                  for an age-dependent $n$-dimensional
                                  food chain model . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--124
                 Hong-Li An and   
                      Yong Chen   Numerical complexiton solutions for the
                                  complex KdV equation by the homotopy
                                  perturbation method  . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
                    Yin Sun and   
     Árpád Baricz   Inequalities for the generalized Marcum
                                  $Q$-function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--141
                      Yubo Yuan   Optimal solutions to a class of
                                  nonconvex minimization problems with
                                  linear inequality constraints  . . . . . 142--152
               Anjan Biswas and   
                Chenwi Zony and   
                  Essaid Zerrad   Soliton perturbation theory for the
                                  quadratic nonlinear Klein--Gordon
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--156
                 Xinyu Song and   
                  Senlin Li and   
                          An Li   Practical stability of nonlinear
                                  differential equation with initial time
                                  difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--162
                Ye-Peng Sun and   
                 Hong-Qing Zhao   New non-isospectral integrable couplings
                                  of the AKNS system . . . . . . . . . . . 163--170
                   Jian Lou and   
              Li-juan Zhang and   
                        Zhen He   Viscosity approximation methods for
                                  asymptotically nonexpansive mappings . . 171--177
                Liang Zhang and   
                     Hong-Xu Li   Periodicity on a class of neutral
                                  impulsive delay system . . . . . . . . . 178--185
                    S. Nakamori   Square-root algorithms of RLS Wiener
                                  filter and fixed-point smoother in
                                  linear discrete stochastic systems . . . 186--193
              Chengjun Yuan and   
               Daqing Jiang and   
                  Donal O'Regan   Existence and uniqueness of positive
                                  solutions for fourth-order nonlinear
                                  singular continuous and discrete
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 194--201
              Jianbiao Chen and   
                   Zhaoliang Xu   Representations for the weighted Drazin
                                  inverse of a modified matrix . . . . . . 202--209
           Janusz Sokó\l   On a class of analytic multivalent
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--216
                 Ju H. Park and   
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                      S. M. Lee   State estimation for neural networks of
                                  neutral-type with interval time-varying
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--223
                Paresh Date and   
                 Luka Jalen and   
                  Rogemar Mamon   A new algorithm for latent state
                                  estimation in non-linear time series
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--232
                 Jian Zhang and   
                 Jiao Zhang and   
                      Liling Bo   Abundant travelling wave solutions for
                                  KdV--Sawada--Kotera equation with
                                  symbolic computation . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
                    J. I. Ramos   On the Picard--Lindelof method for
                                  nonlinear second-order differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--242
          A. Hermoso-Carazo and   
    J. Linares-Pérez and   
J. D. Jiménez-López and   
 R. Caballero-Águila and   
                    S. Nakamori   Recursive fixed-point smoothing
                                  algorithm from covariances based on
                                  uncertain observations with correlation
                                  in the uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . 243--251
                  Qingxiang Yin   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  powers for anti-tridiagonal matrices of
                                  even order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--257
                Ruiqing Shi and   
                    Lansun Chen   Staged-structured Lotka--Volterra
                                  predator--prey models for pest
                                  management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--265
              Peiguang Wang and   
               Shuhuan Tian and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Monotone iterative method for
                                  first-order functional difference
                                  equations with nonlinear boundary value
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--272
           Janusz Sokó\l   Starlikeness of the Libera transform of
                                  functions with bounded turning . . . . . 273--276
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the
                                  ninth-order KdV equation and sixth-order
                                  Boussinesq equation  . . . . . . . . . . 277--283
                 Chao Zhang and   
                     Yuming Shi   Eigenvalues of second-order symmetric
                                  equations on time scales with periodic
                                  and antiperiodic boundary conditions . . 284--296
               Fusheng Wang and   
                Kecun Zhang and   
             Chuanlong Wang and   
                        Li Wang   A variant of trust-region methods for
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 297--307
             Dijana Mosi\'c and   
         Dragan S. Djordjevi\'c   Condition number of the $W$-weighted
                                  Drazin inverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--318
                   M. De la Sen   Adaptive control of linear singular
                                  time-invariant single-input
                                  single-output systems with external
                                  point delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--332
             Hongjiong Tian and   
                         Ni Guo   Asymptotic stability, contractivity and
                                  dissipativity of one-leg $\theta$-method
                                  for non-autonomous delay functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 333--342
                  Lynn Erbe and   
            Taher S. Hassan and   
                 Allan Peterson   Oscillation criteria for nonlinear
                                  damped dynamic equations on time scales  343--357
              Habib Rostami and   
                   Jafar Habibi   Minimum linear arrangement of Chord
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--367
     S. Chandra Sekhara Rao and   
                         Sarita   A symmetric linear system solver . . . . 368--379
                        Ting Wu   Solving unconstrained optimization
                                  problem with a filter-based nonmonotone
                                  pattern search algorithm . . . . . . . . 380--386
              U\=gur Yücel   Homotopy analysis method for the
                                  sine-Gordon equation with initial
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--395
                    Baoheng Yao   A series solution to the Thomas--Fermi
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--401
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   $N$-soliton solutions for the combined
                                  KdV--CDG equation and the KdV--Lax
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--407
                 Weihong Bi and   
                Hongmin Ren and   
                    Qingbiao Wu   New family of seventh-order methods for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 408--412
              Tingchun Wang and   
               Luming Zhang and   
                    Fangqi Chen   Numerical analysis of a multi-symplectic
                                  scheme for a strongly coupled Schrödinger
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--431
               Zhaoliang Xu and   
                    Jie Sun and   
                        Chao Gu   Perturbation for a pair of oblique
                                  projectors $A A^\dagger_{MN}$ and $B
                                  B^\dagger_{MN}$  . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--446
                  Chunpeng Wang   Approximate controllability of a class
                                  of degenerate systems  . . . . . . . . . 447--456
               Huailin Zhao and   
              Masanori Sugisaka   Simulation study of CMAC control for the
                                  robot joint actuated by McKibben muscles 457--462

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 203, Number 2, September 15, 2008

                   Ruyun Ma and   
                       Huili Ma   Existence of sign-changing periodic
                                  solutions of second order difference
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470
           Mehrdad Massoudi and   
                  Tran X. Phuoc   On the motion of a second grade fluid
                                  due to longitudinal and torsional
                                  oscillations of a cylinder: A numerical
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--481
            Sebastian Polak and   
          Agnieszka Skowron and   
              Jerzy Brandys and   
              Aleksander Mendyk   Artificial neural networks based
                                  modeling for pharmacoeconomics
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--492
                   Kai Wang and   
                    Yanling Zhu   Global attractivity of positive periodic
                                  solution for a Volterra model  . . . . . 493--501
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
             Chao-Wen Huang and   
                 Hsin-Hung Chou   A DNA-based graph encoding scheme with
                                  its applications to graph isomorphism
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--512
              Zheng-Ming Ge and   
              Shih-Chung Li and   
                 Shih-Yu Li and   
               Ching-Ming Chang   Pragmatical adaptive chaos control from
                                  a new double van der Pol system to a new
                                  double Duffing system  . . . . . . . . . 513--522
                  Ping Kang and   
                    Zhongli Wei   Multiple solutions of second-order
                                  three-point singular boundary value
                                  problems on the half-line  . . . . . . . 523--535
               Yixiang Geng and   
                       Jibin Li   Exact explicit traveling wave solutions
                                  for the CDF equation . . . . . . . . . . 536--562
            Tanya G. Melton and   
                  A. S. Vatsala   Improved generalized quasilinearization
                                  method and rapid convergence for
                                  reaction diffusion equations . . . . . . 563--572
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of symmetric
                                  anti-tridiagonal matrices of odd order   573--581
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of symmetric
                                  pentadiagonal matrices of even order . . 582--591
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions for the
                                  Calogero--Bogoyavlenskii--Schiff,
                                  Jimbo--Miwa and YTSF equations . . . . . 592--597
             Ioannis G. Tsoulos   Modifications of real code genetic
                                  algorithm for global optimization  . . . 598--607
              Hongxia Zhang and   
                    Fanwei Meng   On certain integral inequalities in two
                                  independent variables for retarded
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--616
                  H. H. Qin and   
                      D. W. Wen   Tikhonov type regularization method for
                                  the Cauchy problem of the modified
                                  Helmholtz equation . . . . . . . . . . . 617--628
     S. N. Neossi Nguetchue and   
                     S. Abelman   A computational algorithm for solving
                                  nearly penta-diagonal linear systems . . 629--634
                     Ailin Qian   A new wavelet method for solving an
                                  ill-posed problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 635--640
                 L. F. Shampine   Dissipative approximations to neutral
                                  DDEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--648
               Haijun Zhang and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   A unique positive solution for n
                                  th-order nonlinear impulsive singular
                                  integro-differential equations on
                                  unbounded domains in Banach spaces . . . 649--659
              Xiao-Fei Peng and   
                          WenLi   On unsymmetric block overrelaxation-type
                                  methods for saddle point problems  . . . 660--671
                    J. I. Ramos   A non-iterative derivative-free method
                                  for nonlinear ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672--678
             Xiaoliang Zhou and   
                  Weinian Zhang   Oscillatory and asymptotic properties of
                                  higher order nonlinear neutral
                                  difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 679--689
                     Yi Xie and   
                     Xiangao Li   Almost periodic solutions of single
                                  population model with hereditary effects 690--697
                      Weiguo Li   Periodic solution to nonlinear
                                  differential equation at resonance . . . 698--702
                Jin-Lin Liu and   
                       J. Patel   Certain properties of multivalent
                                  functions associated with an extended
                                  fractional differintegral operator . . . 703--713
                   Ali Abdi and   
        Seyed Mohammad Hosseini   An investigation of resolution of
                                  2-variate Gibbs phenomenon . . . . . . . 714--732
             Guangxing Song and   
                 Wenjuan Li and   
                    Guotao Wang   A class of second order impulsive
                                  integro-differential equations on
                                  unbounded domain in a Banach space . . . 733--744
                  Lin Zhang and   
                 Jie Ouyang and   
              Xiaohua Zhang and   
                   Wenbin Zhang   On a multi-scale element-free Galerkin
                                  method for the Stokes problem  . . . . . 745--753
                 Wenjun Liu and   
      Quõc-Anh Ngô   A generalization of Ostrowski inequality
                                  on time scales for k points  . . . . . . 754--760
       Julio Benítez and   
         Vladimir Rako\vcevi\'c   Applications of CS decomposition in
                                  linear combinations of two orthogonal
                                  projectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--769
                    Feng Qi and   
                   Jian Cao and   
                     Da-Wei Niu   A generalization of van der Corput's
                                  inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--777
            Sachin Bhalekar and   
         Varsha Daftardar-Gejji   New iterative method: Application to
                                  partial differential equations . . . . . 778--783
               Li-Hua Zhang and   
                Li-Hua Dong and   
                     Li-Mei Yan   Construction of non-travelling wave
                                  solutions for the generalized
                                  variable-coefficient Gardner equation    784--791
                Hong-Cai Ma and   
                Yao-Dong Yu and   
                    Dong-Jie Ge   New exact traveling wave solutions for
                                  the modified form of Degasperis--Procesi
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--798
              Shanshan Wang and   
                   Luming Zhang   A class of conservative orthogonal
                                  spline collocation schemes for solving
                                  coupled Klein--Gordon--Schrödinger
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--812
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                     Ju H. Park   Exponential stability for uncertain
                                  cellular neural networks with discrete
                                  and distributed time-varying delays  . . 813--823
                  Zhou Xiaojian   Modified Chebyshev--Halley methods free
                                  from second derivative . . . . . . . . . 824--827
           Dragoslav Herceg and   
                 Djordje Herceg   On a fourth-order finite-difference
                                  method for singularly perturbed boundary
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828--837
              Yong Chan Kim and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Some subordination properties for
                                  spirallike functions . . . . . . . . . . 838--842
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                 Ju H. Park and   
                      S. M. Lee   On delay-dependent robust stability of
                                  uncertain neutral systems with interval
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 843--853
                 Y. M. Chen and   
                      J. K. Liu   Homotopy analysis method for limit cycle
                                  flutter of airfoils  . . . . . . . . . . 854--863
                       Fajun Yu   A new integrable hierarchy and
                                  constrained flows, its expanding
                                  integrable system  . . . . . . . . . . . 864--872
 Cesar Augusto Gomez Sierra and   
                Alvaro H. Salas   The generalized tanh-coth method to
                                  special types of the fifth-order KdV
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--880
                    M. Khan and   
               S. Hyder Ali and   
                     C. Fetecau   Exact solutions of accelerated flows for
                                  a Burgers' fluid. I. The case $\gamma <
                                  \lambda^2 / 4$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--894
                        Lu Yang   Uniform attractor for non-autonomous
                                  hyperbolic equation with critical
                                  exponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--902
                    Yi Yang and   
                   Xiaofan Yang   On the difference equation $x_{n + 1} =
                                  \frac{p x_{n - s} + x_{n - t}}{q x_{n -
                                  s} + x_{n - t}}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--907
                Chengming Huang   Asymptotic stability of multistep
                                  methods for nonlinear delay differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--912
                Bilian Chen and   
                   Changfeng Ma   A note on modified Householder iterative
                                  method free from second derivatives for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 913--915
                 Marek Galewski   On the optimal control problem governed
                                  by the nonlinear elastic beam equation   916--920
          Ahmad K. Naimzada and   
              Giorgio Ricchiuti   Complex dynamics in a monopoly with a
                                  rule of thumb  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--925
              Ming-Quan Fan and   
              Hong-Xia Wang and   
                   Sheng-Kun Li   Restudy on SVD-based watermarking scheme 926--930
                    Zhi Hongyan   Lie point symmetry and some new
                                  soliton-like solutions of the
                                  Konopelchenko--Dubrovsky equations . . . 931--936
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                 Ju H. Park and   
                      S. M. Lee   On robust stability criterion for
                                  dynamic systems with time-varying delays
                                  and nonlinear perturbations  . . . . . . 937--942
                 Sheng Zhou and   
                 Ting-Zhu Huang   Convergence of waveform relaxation
                                  methods for Hermitian positive definite
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--952


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 204, Number 1, October 1, 2008

           Morteza Ebrahimi and   
            Rahman Farnoosh and   
               Somayeh Ebrahimi   Biological applications and numerical
                                  solution based on Monte Carlo method for
                                  a two-dimensional parabolic inverse
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                   Mingrong Cui   On the iterative algorithm for saddle
                                  point problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
                Xiuhua Wang and   
                Jisheng Kou and   
                      Yitian Li   A variant of Jarratt method with
                                  sixth-order convergence  . . . . . . . . 14--19
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Single and multiple-soliton solutions
                                  for the $(2 + 1)$-dimensional KdV
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--26
        Abdellah Bnouhachem and   
            Muhammad Aslam Noor   Numerical method for general mixed
                                  quasi-variational inequalities . . . . . 27--36
                Qingzhen Xu and   
                     Zhanyou Ma   Discrete time Geo / G / 1 queue with
                                  Bernoulli gated service simulation
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
              Changjiang Bu and   
                Jiemei Zhao and   
                  Jinshan Zheng   Group inverse for a class 2$\times$2
                                  block matrices over skew fields  . . . . 45--49
                  N. Niakas and   
          V. C. Loukopoulos and   
                     C. Douskos   An accurate numerical solver on second
                                  order PDEs with variable coefficients in
                                  three dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
               Jing-Bo Chen and   
                       Hong Liu   Derivation of Lagrangian density for the
                                  ``good'' Boussinesq equation and
                                  multisymplectic disretizations . . . . . 58--62
       Agostino Prástaro   On the extended crystal PDE's stability.
                                  I: The n -d'Alembert extended crystal
                                  PDE's  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
                  Fahuai Yi and   
                  Yingshan Chen   Exercise boundary of American-style
                                  Asian option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--81
       Agostino Prástaro   On the extended crystal PDE's stability.
                                  II: Entropy-regular-solutions in
                                  MHD-PDE's  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
           M. K. Kadalbajoo and   
                 Devendra Kumar   Fitted mesh B-spline collocation method
                                  for singularly perturbed
                                  differential--difference equations with
                                  small delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--98
             Yongsheng Ding and   
                     Min Xu and   
                   Liangjian Hu   Asymptotic behavior and stability of a
                                  stochastic model for AIDS transmission   99--108
                    Naokant Deo   Direct result on exponential-type
                                  operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
           Janusz Sokó\l   On functions with the derivative
                                  satisfying a geometric condition . . . . 116--119
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of symmetric
                                  pentadiagonal matrices of odd order  . . 120--129
                Shubin Wang and   
                    Hongxia Xue   Global solution for a generalized
                                  Boussinesq equation  . . . . . . . . . . 130--136
              Ya-Yuan Huang and   
                 Ming-Sheng Liu   Properties of certain subclasses of
                                  multivalent analytic functions involving
                                  the Dziok--Srivastava operator . . . . . 137--149
                 Jicheng Li and   
                        Xu Kong   Optimal parameters of GSOR-like methods
                                  for solving the augmented linear systems 150--161
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Solitons and singular solitons for the
                                  Gardner--KP equation . . . . . . . . . . 162--169
                 Ju H. Park and   
                   D. H. Ji and   
                  S. C. Won and   
                      S. M. Lee   ${\cal H}_\infty$ synchronization of
                                  time-delayed chaotic systems . . . . . . 170--177
     H. Román-Flores and   
       A. Flores-Franuli\vc and   
                 Y. Chalco-Cano   A Hardy-type inequality for fuzzy
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--183
                    Emrah Kilic   On a constant-diagonals matrix . . . . . 184--190
            A. Alexandridis and   
                 D. Vakalis and   
              C. I. Siettos and   
                    G. V. Bafas   A cellular automata model for forest
                                  fire spread prediction: The case of the
                                  wildfire that swept through Spetses
                                  Island in 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--201
                   Xin Zhou and   
                     Cuiping Li   Estimate of the number of zeros of
                                  Abelian integrals for a kind of quartic
                                  Hamiltonians with two centers  . . . . . 202--209
                Yuqian Zhou and   
                   Qian Liu and   
                  Weinian Zhang   Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions
                                  for the $(2 + 1)$-dimensional
                                  Broer--Kau--Kupershmidt equation . . . . 210--215
                    Yuan Li and   
                      Kaitai Li   Penalty finite element method for Stokes
                                  problem with nonlinear slip boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--226
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Regular soliton solutions and singular
                                  soliton solutions for the modified
                                  Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equations  . . . 227--232
         Elena S. Dimitrova and   
                Andrew Zardecki   Forecasting polynomial dynamics  . . . . 233--239
                      J. Li and   
                    Y. Chen and   
                   W. Zhang and   
                        Y. Tian   Computation of Lyapunov values for two
                                  planar polynomial differential systems   240--248
                  Marco Schnurr   Computing slope enclosures by exploiting
                                  a unique point of inflection . . . . . . 249--256
            Alvaro H. Salas and   
          Cesar A. Gómez   Computing exact solutions for some fifth
                                  KdV equations with forcing term  . . . . 257--260
       Ozan Çakìr   Post-optimality analysis of priority
                                  vectors derived from interval comparison
                                  matrices by lexicographic goal
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--268
                Yongfeng Li and   
                 Jingan Cui and   
                     Xinyu Song   Dynamics of a predator-prey system with
                                  pulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--280
             Chun-Feng Wang and   
                  Pei-Ping Shen   A global optimization algorithm for
                                  linear fractional programming  . . . . . 281--287
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary integer powers
                                  for one type of symmetric
                                  anti-tridiagonal matrices of even order  288--298
                      Sunil and   
                   Amit Mahajan   A nonlinear stability analysis for
                                  rotating magnetized ferrofluid heated
                                  from below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--310
                    Bing Hu and   
                  Youcai Xu and   
                     Jinsong Hu   Crank--Nicolson finite difference scheme
                                  for the Rosenau--Burgers equation  . . . 311--316
             R. Rakkiyappan and   
             P. Balasubramaniam   LMI conditions for global asymptotic
                                  stability results for neutral-type
                                  neural networks with distributed time
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--324
                  A. Mohsen and   
               L. F. Sedeek and   
                  S. A. Mohamed   New smoother to enhance multigrid-based
                                  methods for Bratu problem  . . . . . . . 325--339
            Chang-Ming Chen and   
                     F. Liu and   
                         V. Anh   Numerical analysis of the
                                  Rayleigh--Stokes problem for a heated
                                  generalized second grade fluid with
                                  fractional derivatives . . . . . . . . . 340--351
                  R. Ravi Kumar   Nonlocal Cauchy problem for analytic
                                  resolvent integrodifferential equations
                                  in Banach spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--362
                 Junbai Ren and   
                        Xuan Ma   Asymptotic smoothing effect of solutions
                                  of two-dimensional micropolar fluid
                                  flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--367
         Moawwad El-Mikkawy and   
               El-Desouky Rahmo   A new recursive algorithm for inverting
                                  general tridiagonal and anti-tridiagonal
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--372
                Xiaoping Lu and   
                         Qin Ni   A quasi-Newton trust region method with
                                  a new conic model for the unconstrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--384
              Ahmed Fitouhi and   
                   Kamel Brahim   Some inequalities for the $q$-beta and
                                  the $q$-gamma functions via some
                                  $q$-integral inequalities  . . . . . . . 385--394
         Anouar Ben Mabrouk and   
                    Mekki Ayadi   Lyapunov type operators for numerical
                                  solutions of PDEs  . . . . . . . . . . . 395--407
                 A. Catania and   
                 M. Torrisi and   
                   R. Tracin\`a   Symmetry approach for a three coupled
                                  Schroedinger equation system . . . . . . 408--415
              Francisco Rus and   
         Francisco R. Villatoro   Numerical methods based on modified
                                  equations for nonlinear evolution
                                  equations with compactons  . . . . . . . 416--422
                  C. V. Pao and   
                 Yuan-Ming Wang   Numerical solutions of a
                                  three-competition Lotka--Volterra system 423--440
       Abdelkader Boucherif and   
         Christopher C. Tisdell   Existence of periodic and non-periodic
                                  solutions to systems of boundary value
                                  problems for first-order differential
                                  inclusions with super-linear growth  . . 441--449
                        Fuyi Xu   Multiple positive solutions for
                                  nonlinear singular $m$-point boundary
                                  value problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--460
                Jiquan Zhou and   
                Xiangli Liu and   
             Xiaozhong Yang and   
                     Yifang Liu   Novel soliton-like and multi-solitary
                                  wave solutions of $(3 + 1)$-dimensional
                                  Burgers equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--467
                 Boling Guo and   
               Yongqian Han and   
                        Jie Xin   Existence of the global smooth solution
                                  to the period boundary value problem of
                                  fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation 468--477
                 Zhanyou Ma and   
                    Qingzhen Xu   General decrementing service M / G / 1
                                  queue with multiple adaptive vacations   478--484
                  Shujun Li and   
                    Zhenhai Liu   A new trust region filter algorithm  . . 485--489
                 P. Niamsup and   
                K. Mukdasai and   
                     V. N. Phat   Improved exponential stability for
                                  time-varying systems with nonlinear
                                  delayed perturbations  . . . . . . . . . 490--495
              Xue-gang Zhou and   
                         Kun Wu   A comment on ``Level set algorithm for
                                  solving convex multiplicative
                                  programming problems'' . . . . . . . . . 496--498
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Fredholm equations for non-symmetric
                                  kernels with applications to iterated
                                  integral operators . . . . . . . . . . . 499--507
             Xinguang Zhang and   
                     Lishan Liu   Nontrivial solution of third-order
                                  nonlinear eigenvalue problems (II) . . . 508--512
            Nassar H. S. Haidar   Corrigendum to ``On a symmetrized
                                  definite integration'' [Applied
                                  Mathematics and Computation \bf 186
                                  (2007) 70--73] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--513

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 204, Number 2, October 15, 2008

              Helmut Maurer and   
           Tapio Palokangas and   
             Alexander Tarasyev   New approaches in dynamic optimization
                                  to assessment of economic and
                                  environmental systems: Introduction  . . 517--518
                S. M. Aseev and   
             A. V. Kryazhimskiy   Shadow prices in infinite-horizon
                                  optimal control problems with dominating
                                  discounts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--531
                D. Brigolin and   
                 A. Davydov and   
                 R. Pastres and   
                    I. Petrenko   Optimization of shellfish production
                                  carrying capacity at a farm scale  . . . 532--540
     Christophe Deissenberg and   
        Sander van der Hoog and   
                  Herbert Dawid   EURACE: a massively parallel agent-based
                                  model of the European economy  . . . . . 541--552
             Aziz Guergachi and   
                 Goran Boskovic   System models or learning machines?  . . 553--567
              Helmut Maurer and   
               Hans Josef Pesch   Direct optimization methods for solving
                                  a complex state-constrained optimal
                                  control problem in microeconomics  . . . 568--579
             Boris Mordukhovich   Suboptimal minimax design of constrained
                                  parabolic systems with mixed boundary
                                  control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--588
               Tapio Palokangas   Emission policy in an economic union
                                  with Poisson technological change  . . . 589--594
            Valeriya Lykina and   
          Sabine Pickenhain and   
                  Marcus Wagner   On a resource allocation model with
                                  infinite horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--601
           Dmitrii Lozovanu and   
                   Stefan Pickl   A constructive algorithm for max--min
                                  paths problems on energy networks  . . . 602--608
            A. Kryazhimskiy and   
             M. Obersteiner and   
                     A. Smirnov   Infinite-horizon dynamic programming and
                                  application to management of economies
                                  effected by random natural hazards . . . 609--620
         Andrea Castelletti and   
          Francesca Pianosi and   
          Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa   Receding horizon control for water
                                  resources management . . . . . . . . . . 621--631
       Andrey A. Krasovskii and   
          Alexander M. Tarasyev   An algorithm for construction of optimal
                                  timing solutions in problems with a
                                  stochastic payoff function . . . . . . . 632--643
                  B. D. Welfert   On quadrature formulae based on
                                  derivative collocation . . . . . . . . . 647--657
               C. P. Viazminsky   Necessary and sufficient conditions for
                                  a function to be separable . . . . . . . 658--670
         P. Balasubramaniam and   
                   N. Kumaresan   Solution of generalized matrix Riccati
                                  differential equation for indefinite
                                  stochastic linear quadratic singular
                                  system using neural networks . . . . . . 671--679
         P. Balasubramaniam and   
                 R. Rakkiyappan   Global asymptotic stability of
                                  stochastic recurrent neural networks
                                  with multiple discrete delays and
                                  unbounded distributed delays . . . . . . 680--686
            J. Pérez and   
            F. R. Villatoro and   
         J. L. G. Santander and   
             M. A. Borovsky and   
               Yu. L. Ratis and   
            E. A. Izzheurov and   
P. Fernández de Córdoba   Heat transfer between a gas and an
                                  ultralow thermal conductivity porous
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--693
                 Huidae Cho and   
          Francisco Olivera and   
                Seth D. Guikema   A derivation of the number of minima of
                                  the Griewank function  . . . . . . . . . 694--701
               M. L. Mittal and   
                    Uaday Singh   $T \cdot C_1$ summability of a sequence
                                  of Fourier coefficients  . . . . . . . . 702--706
              Xiao-Guang Lv and   
                       Jiang Le   A note on solving nearly penta-diagonal
                                  linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--712
           M. K. Kadalbajoo and   
          Arjun Singh Yadaw and   
                 Devendra Kumar   Comparative study of singularly
                                  perturbed two-point BVPs via:
                                  Fitted-mesh finite difference method,
                                  B-spline collocation method and finite
                                  element method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--725
                  Yang Wang and   
                       Long Wei   New travelling wave solutions to some
                                  nonlinear equations via a combined
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--732
                     Xijun Deng   Travelling wave solutions for the
                                  generalized Burgers--Huxley equation . . 733--737
                 Xue-Shi Li and   
                        Guo Lin   Traveling wavefronts in nonlocal
                                  dispersal and cooperative
                                  Lotka--Volterra system with delays . . . 738--744
                 Mehdi Mrad and   
                Mohamed Haouari   Optimal solution of the discrete cost
                                  multicommodity network design problem    745--753
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary integer powers
                                  of even order anti-tridiagonal matrices
                                  with zeros in main skew diagonal and
                                  elements $1, 1, 1, \ldots, 1; -1, -1,
                                  -1, \ldots, -1$ in neighbouring
                                  diagonals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--763
                  Yong Chen and   
                      Hongli An   Homotopy perturbation method for a type
                                  of nonlinear coupled equations with
                                  parameters derivative  . . . . . . . . . 764--772
                    Tian-lan He   Bifurcation of traveling wave solutions
                                  of $(2 + 1)$ dimensional
                                  Konopelchenko--Dubrovsky equations . . . 773--783
      Miodrag S. Petkovi\'c and   
                   Beong In Yun   Sigmoid-like functions and root finding
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784--793
                Guangxi Cao and   
                 Yongzhong Song   On the semiconvergence of additive and
                                  multiplicative splitting iterations for
                                  singular linear systems  . . . . . . . . 794--801
             Dongdong Jiang and   
                      Danfu Han   The construction of rational iterative
                                  methods for solving nonlinear equations  802--808
                Yun-Zhi Zou and   
                 Nan-Jing Huang   $H(\cdot,\cdot)$-accretive operator with
                                  an application for solving variational
                                  inclusions in Banach spaces  . . . . . . 809--816
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple kink solutions and multiple
                                  singular kink solutions for the $(2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional Burgers equations  . . . 817--823
                R. M. El-Ashwah   Some properties of certain subclasses of
                                  meromorphically multivalent functions    824--832
                Hongling Wu and   
                  Caisheng Chen   Decaying solution for singular
                                  $p$-Laplacian equation . . . . . . . . . 833--838
                   D. Conte and   
              Z. Jackiewicz and   
                 B. Paternoster   Two-step almost collocation methods for
                                  Volterra integral equations  . . . . . . 839--853
                   Yisheng Song   Strong convergence of averaged iteration
                                  for asymptotically non-expansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854--861
             Ding-Gong Yang and   
                    Jin-Lin Liu   A class of meromorphically multivalent
                                  functions defined by means of a linear
                                  operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--871
                 Yuyang Qiu and   
                    Anding Wang   Least squares solutions to the equations
                                  $A X = B, X C = D$ with some constraints 872--880
                         Jie Ji   A new expansion and new families of
                                  exact traveling solutions to Hirota
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--883
               Haomin Zhang and   
                     Siqing Gan   Mean square convergence of one-step
                                  methods for neutral stochastic
                                  differential delay equations . . . . . . 884--890
                    M. P. Rajan   A posteriori parameter choice with an
                                  efficient discretization scheme for
                                  solving ill-posed problems . . . . . . . 891--904
              Hongxian Zhou and   
                         Wei Xu   Thirteen limit cycles for a class of
                                  cubic Hamiltonian system with
                                  higher-order perturbed terms . . . . . . 905--913
                   John P. Boyd   Evaluating of Dawson's Integral by
                                  solving its differential equation using
                                  orthogonal rational Chebyshev functions  914--919
              M. A. Ramadan and   
              I. F. Lashien and   
                    W. K. Zahra   High order accuracy nonpolynomial spline
                                  solutions for $2 \mu$th order two point
                                  boundary value problems  . . . . . . . . 920--927
                A. Kammanee and   
               C. Böckmann   Determination of partially known
                                  Sturm--Liouville potentials  . . . . . . 928--937
               Hengfei Ding and   
                    Yuxin Zhang   Parameters spline methods for the
                                  solution of hyperbolic equations . . . . 938--941
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple soliton solutions and multiple
                                  singular soliton solutions for the $(3 +
                                  1)$-dimensional Burgers equations  . . . 942--948
                Ivan Petkovi\'c   Computational efficiency of some
                                  combined methods for polynomial
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--956
   Cesar A. Gómez S. and   
                Alvaro H. Salas   The Cole--Hopf transformation and
                                  improved $\tanh$--$\coth$ method applied
                                  to new integrable system (KdV6)  . . . . 957--962
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The integrable KdV6 equations: Multiple
                                  soliton solutions and multiple singular
                                  soliton solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . 963--972


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 205, Number 1, November 1, 2008

                Sunan Huang and   
                   Haibo He and   
                        Kang Li   Special issue on life system modeling
                                  and bio-inspired computing for LSMS 2007 3--5
                Yuping Wang and   
                 Chuangyin Dang   An evolutionary algorithm for dynamic
                                  multi-objective optimization . . . . . . 6--18
               Xiaoping Xie and   
                Zhitong Cao and   
                     Xuchu Weng   Detecting spatiotemporal nonlinear
                                  dynamics in resting state of human brain
                                  based on fMRI datasets . . . . . . . . . 19--25
                   Dajun Du and   
                     Minrui Fei   A two-layer networked learning control
                                  system using actor--critic neural
                                  network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--36
                    Feng Xu and   
                   Ting Wen and   
               Keith Seffen and   
                    Tianjian Lu   Modeling of skin thermal pain: a
                                  preliminary study  . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
               Hanning Chen and   
                    Yunlong Zhu   Optimization based on symbiotic
                                  multi-species coevolution  . . . . . . . 47--60
                    Qi Kang and   
                   Lei Wang and   
                       Qi-di Wu   A novel ecological particle swarm
                                  optimization algorithm and its
                                  population dynamics analysis . . . . . . 61--72
                 Jinpeng Qi and   
              Shihuang Shao and   
                    Yizhen Shen   Cellular responding DNA damage: an
                                  improved modeling of P53 gene regulatory
                                  networks under ion radiation (IR)  . . . 73--83
               Yuan-Hua Liu and   
                Jing-Xiu Bi and   
               An-Ping Zeng and   
                   Jing-Qi Yuan   A cybernetic model to describe the
                                  dynamics of myeloma cell cultivations    84--97
                 Zhihua Cui and   
               Xingjuan Cai and   
              Jianchao Zeng and   
                      Guoji Sun   Particle swarm optimization with FUSS
                                  and RWS for high dimensional functions   98--108
                 Rongbo Zhu and   
             Jiangqing Wang and   
                       Maode Ma   Intelligent MAC model for traffic
                                  scheduling in IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs 109--122
               Weijin Jiang and   
              Lianmei Zhang and   
                        Pu Wang   Nonlinear time series forecasting of
                                  time-delay neural network embedded with
                                  Bayesian regularization  . . . . . . . . 123--132
               G. I. Rashed and   
              H. I. Shaheen and   
                 X. Z. Duan and   
                    S. J. Cheng   Evolutionary optimization techniques for
                                  optimal location and parameter setting
                                  of TCSC under single line contingency    133--147
                    Qun Niu and   
                   Bin Jiao and   
                   Xingsheng Gu   Particle swarm optimization combined
                                  with genetic operators for job shop
                                  scheduling problem with fuzzy processing
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--158
                  Yang Song and   
                   Jian Fan and   
                 Minrui Fei and   
                  Taicheng Yang   Robust $H_\infty$ control of discrete
                                  switched system with time delay  . . . . 159--169
                  Shiwei Ma and   
                        Kang Li   Fast parametric time--frequency modeling
                                  of nonstationary signals . . . . . . . . 170--177
                 Xinan Yang and   
                   Xiao Sun and   
               Jianming Xie and   
                      Zuhong Lu   Comparability of gene expression in
                                  human blood, immune and carcinoma cells  178--184
                Xiaojie Lin and   
                  Zengji Du and   
                     Wenbin Liu   Uniqueness and existence results for a
                                  third-order nonlinear multi-point
                                  boundary value problem . . . . . . . . . 187--196
                 Ya-zhou Li and   
                Kai-ming Li and   
                      Chang Lin   Exp-function method for solving the
                                  generalized-Zakharov equations . . . . . 197--201
                   M. Ziani and   
                  F. Guyomarc'h   An autoadaptative limited memory
                                  Broyden's method to solve systems of
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 202--211
                     R. Naz and   
              F. M. Mahomed and   
                    D. P. Mason   Comparison of different approaches to
                                  conservation laws for some partial
                                  differential equations in fluid
                                  mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--230
                  Zengji Du and   
                Xiaojie Lin and   
         Christopher C. Tisdell   A multiplicity result for $p$-Laplacian
                                  boundary value problems via critical
                                  points theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--237
                  Sahidul Islam   Multi-objective marketing planning
                                  inventory model: A geometric programming
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--246
              Mian-Tao Chao and   
            Zhong-Xing Wang and   
               Yu-Mei Liang and   
                    Qing-Jie Hu   Quadratically constraint quadratical
                                  algorithm model for nonlinear minimax
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
                  B. Diatta and   
                C. Wafo Soh and   
                 C. M. Khalique   Approximate symmetries and solutions of
                                  the hyperbolic heat equation . . . . . . 263--272
                 Zaid M. Odibat   Compact structures in a class of
                                  nonlinearly dispersive equations with
                                  time-fractional derivatives  . . . . . . 273--280
                    Feng Qi and   
                     Bai-Ni Guo   Wendel's and Gautschi's inequalities:
                                  Refinements, extensions, and a class of
                                  logarithmically completely monotonic
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--290
                Alvaro H. Salas   Exact solutions for the general fifth
                                  KdV equation by the exp function method  291--297
          Miodrag S. Petkovi\'c   A highly efficient root-solver of very
                                  fast convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--302
             Alberto Cabada and   
   José Ángel Cid   On the sign of the Green's function
                                  associated to Hill's equation with an
                                  indefinite potential . . . . . . . . . . 303--308
                Hongjie Liu and   
                 Boqin Feng and   
                    Guochang Wu   The compactly supported cardinal
                                  orthogonal vector-valued wavelets with
                                  dilation factor $\alpha$ . . . . . . . . 309--316
                   Lei Deng and   
                      Qifei Liu   Iterative scheme for nonself generalized
                                  asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--324
                 Krisztina Kiss   $n$-Dimensional ratio-dependent
                                  predator--prey systems with diffusion    325--335
           Sma\"\il Djebali and   
                 Karima Mebarki   On the singular generalized Fisher-like
                                  equation with derivative depending
                                  nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--351
                   Changfeng Ma   The finite element analysis of a
                                  decoupled $T$--$\psi$ scheme for solving
                                  eddy-current problems  . . . . . . . . . 352--361
                        Wei Zhu   Global exponential stability of
                                  impulsive reaction--diffusion equation
                                  with variable delays . . . . . . . . . . 362--369
              Qing-Wen Wang and   
            Guang-Jing Song and   
                   Chun-Yan Lin   Rank equalities related to the
                                  generalized inverse $A^{(2)}_{T,S}$ with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--382
                    Fei Han and   
                    Quanyi Wang   Multiple positive periodic solutions for
                                  a class of nonlinear functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 383--390
                     Honglin Wu   On the lower bounds for the norms of
                                  Cauchy--Toeplitz and Cauchy--Hankel
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--395
      Nikolai A. Kudryashov and   
           Nadejda B. Loguinova   Extended simplest equation method for
                                  nonlinear differential equations . . . . 396--402
                      Sunil and   
                   Amit Mahajan   Thermoconvective magnetized ferrofluid
                                  with internal angular momentum
                                  saturating a porous medium: a nonlinear
                                  stability analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 403--416
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                     Ju H. Park   New delay-dependent robust stability
                                  criterion for uncertain neural networks
                                  with time-varying delays . . . . . . . . 417--427
                   M. Abbas and   
        Safeer Hussain Khan and   
                  B. E. Rhoades   Simpler is also better in approximating
                                  fixed points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--431
                    Qingliu Yao   Monotonically iterative method of
                                  nonlinear cantilever beam equations  . . 432--437
                  Donal O'Regan   Singular integral equations arising in
                                  draining and coating flows . . . . . . . 438--441
                      M. Yousuf   On the class of high order time stepping
                                  schemes based on Padé approximations for
                                  the numerical solution of Burgers'
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--453
                   Heli Gao and   
                   Chuancun Yin   A perturbed risk process compounded by a
                                  geometric Brownian motion with a
                                  dividend barrier strategy  . . . . . . . 454--464
               Jianjiang Yu and   
              Kanjian Zhang and   
                 Shumin Fei and   
                         Tao Li   Simplified exponential stability
                                  analysis for recurrent neural networks
                                  with discrete and distributed
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 465--474
                  Satya Deo and   
                  Ashish Tiwari   On the solution of a partial
                                  differential equation representing
                                  irrotational flow in bispherical polar
                                  coordinates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--477
               Shuming Chen and   
                    Chenshun Li   Nonoscillatory solutions of second order
                                  nonlinear difference equations . . . . . 478--481
                Moon Ho Lee and   
       Subash Shree Pokhrel and   
                  Dae Chul Park   A new sparse matrix analysis of discrete
                                  Fourier transform  . . . . . . . . . . . 482--486
        C. Posadas-Castillo and   
   C. Cruz-Hernández and   
R. M. López-Gutiérrez   Synchronization of chaotic neural
                                  networks with delay in irregular
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--496
             Corina Fetecau and   
                 C. Fetecau and   
                    M. Khan and   
                       D. Vieru   Decay of a potential vortex in a
                                  generalized Oldroyd-B fluid  . . . . . . 497--506
               H. El-Owaidy and   
                  H. Y. Mohamed   Erratum to ``On the periodic solutions
                                  for an $n$-th order difference
                                  equations'' [Appl. Math. Comput. 135
                                  (2003) 383--390] . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 205, Number 2, November 15, 2008

                De-Shuang Huang   Special issue on advanced intelligent
                                  computing theory and methodology in
                                  applied mathematics and computation  . . 509--510
                Pingkang Li and   
                        Kang Li   A recursive algorithm for nonlinear
                                  model identification . . . . . . . . . . 511--516
                Qingwei Gao and   
                Yanfei Zhao and   
                     Yixiang Lu   Despeckling SAR images using stationary
                                  wavelet transform combining with
                                  directional filter banks . . . . . . . . 517--524
                    Yun Xue and   
             Chong Sze Tong and   
                  Ying Chen and   
                 Wen-Sheng Chen   Clustering-based initialization for
                                  non-negative matrix factorization  . . . 525--536
            Hoang-Hon Trinh and   
              Dae-Nyeon Kim and   
                   Kang-Hyun Jo   Facet-based multiple building analysis
                                  for robot intelligence . . . . . . . . . 537--549
            Pei-Chann Chang and   
             Shih-Hsin Chen and   
              Chin-Yuan Fan and   
                Chien-Lung Chan   Genetic algorithm integrated with
                                  artificial chromosomes for
                                  multi-objective flowshop scheduling
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--561
                Xiaobin Tan and   
                   Hongsheng Xi   Hidden semi-Markov model for anomaly
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--567
                    Ken Yeh and   
             Chen-Yuan Chen and   
                  Cheng-Wu Chen   Robustness design of time-delay fuzzy
                                  systems using fuzzy Lyapunov method  . . 568--577
              Jin-Juan Quan and   
               Xian-Bin Wen and   
                    Xue-Quan Xu   Multiscale probabilistic neural network
                                  method for SAR image segmentation  . . . 578--583
            Din-Chang Tseng and   
           Hsiao-Ting Tseng and   
               Chun-Liang Chien   Automatic cloud removal from
                                  multi-temporal SPOT images . . . . . . . 584--600
              Young-Gil Kim and   
             Young-Jun Song and   
              Un-Dong Chang and   
               Dong-Woo Kim and   
               Tae-Sung Yun and   
                 Jae-Hyeong Ahn   Face recognition using a fusion method
                                  based on bidirectional 2DPCA . . . . . . 601--607
                    Yan-Kui Liu   The convergent results about
                                  approximating fuzzy random minimum risk
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--621
               Jun-fei Qiao and   
                 Ying Zhang and   
                   Hong-gui Han   Fast unit pruning algorithm for
                                  feedforward neural network design  . . . 622--627
             Jianliang Tang and   
             Wen-Sheng Chen and   
                       Jie Wang   A novel linear algorithm for P5P problem 628--634
                  Qing'e Wu and   
                   Tuo Wang and   
             Yongxuan Huang and   
                     Jisheng Li   Improvement of algorithm on the track
                                  recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--647
                 Dong-Chul Park   Prediction of MPEG video traffic over
                                  ATM networks using dynamic bilinear
                                  recurrent neural network . . . . . . . . 648--657
                 Minrui Fei and   
                   Dajun Du and   
                        Kang Li   A fast model identification method for
                                  networked control system . . . . . . . . 658--667
              Weitong Huang and   
                    Yu Zhao and   
              Shiqiang Yang and   
                     Yuchang Lu   Analysis of the user behavior and
                                  opinion classification based on the BBS  668--676
                   Ying Lin and   
                  Jun Zhang and   
                      Jing Xiao   A pseudo parallel ant algorithm with an
                                  adaptive migration controller  . . . . . 677--687
              Changcai Yang and   
                Sheng Zheng and   
                         Jin Ye   Level set contour extraction method
                                  based on support value filter  . . . . . 688--696
                  Wenyan Li and   
                Yongkui Man and   
                    Guoliang Li   Optimal parameter design of input
                                  filters for general purpose inverter
                                  based on genetic algorithm . . . . . . . 697--705
    Hamidreza Rashidy Kanan and   
                     Karim Faez   GA-based optimal selection of PZMI
                                  features for face recognition  . . . . . 706--715
    Hamidreza Rashidy Kanan and   
                     Karim Faez   An improved feature selection method
                                  based on ant colony optimization (ACO)
                                  evaluated on face recognition system . . 716--725
               Quan-xue Gao and   
                  Lei Zhang and   
                    David Zhang   Face recognition using FLDA with single
                                  training image per person  . . . . . . . 726--734
               David Taniar and   
               Wenny Rahayu and   
                Vincent Lee and   
                     Olena Daly   Exception rules in association rule
                                  mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--750
                 Maolong Xi and   
                    Jun Sun and   
                       Wenbo Xu   An improved quantum-behaved particle
                                  swarm optimization algorithm with
                                  weighted mean best position  . . . . . . 751--759
              Xue-Song Wang and   
               Ming-Lin Hao and   
                    Yu-Hu Cheng   On the use of differential evolution for
                                  forward kinematics of parallel
                                  manipulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--769
                 Dongil Han and   
              Byoungmoo Lee and   
                 Jae Il Cho and   
                 Dae-Hwan Hwang   Real-time object segmentation using
                                  disparity map of stereo matching . . . . 770--777
              Jih-Gau Juang and   
                Ren-Wei Lin and   
                    Wen-Kai Liu   Comparison of classical control and
                                  intelligent control for a MIMO system    778--791
                    Fei Han and   
                  Qing-Hua Ling   A new approach for function
                                  approximation incorporating adaptive
                                  particle swarm optimization and a priori
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--798
                   Yalan Ye and   
              Zhi-Lin Zhang and   
                Jiazhi Zeng and   
                       Lei Peng   A fast and adaptive ICA algorithm with
                                  its application to fetal
                                  electrocardiogram extraction . . . . . . 799--806
                 Yunfeng Lu and   
                   Jun Miao and   
                Lijuan Duan and   
               Yuanhua Qiao and   
                     Ruixin Jia   A new approach to image segmentation
                                  based on simplified region growing PCNN  807--814
               Yeunghak Lee and   
                 David Marshall   Curvature based normalized $3$D
                                  component facial image recognition using
                                  fuzzy integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--823
              Seung Ho Hyun and   
                  Bogun Jin and   
                  Seung Jae Lee   A novel Bad Data Processing algorithm
                                  for analog data in substation automation
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--831
                     Lei Li and   
                      Jinwen Ma   A BYY scale-incremental EM algorithm for
                                  Gaussian mixture learning  . . . . . . . 832--840
                   Fei Wang and   
                Zejian Yuan and   
              Nanning Zheng and   
                      Yuehu Liu   A fast, memory-efficient and
                                  parallelizable arc/circle segmentation
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--848
              Yen-Ping Chen and   
             Jhun-Ying Yang and   
              Shun-Nan Liou and   
                Gwo-Yun Lee and   
                Jeen-Shing Wang   Online classifier construction algorithm
                                  for human activity detection using a
                                  tri-axial accelerometer  . . . . . . . . 849--860
                   Jing Jie and   
              Jianchao Zeng and   
              Chongzhao Han and   
                   Qinghua Wang   Knowledge-based cooperative particle
                                  swarm optimization . . . . . . . . . . . 861--873
             Sunkyoung Baek and   
            Myunggwon Hwang and   
             Hyunsook Chung and   
                     Pankoo Kim   Kansei factor space classified by
                                  information for Kansei image modeling    874--882
                       Li Shang   Denoising natural images based on a
                                  modified sparse coding algorithm . . . . 883--889
                     Kazuo Ohmi   SOM-Based particle matching algorithm
                                  for $3$D particle tracking velocimetry   890--898
              Zhi-Kai Huang and   
                 Kwok-Wing Chau   A new image thresholding method based on
                                  Gaussian mixture model . . . . . . . . . 899--907
                Ji-Xiang Du and   
                 Chuan-Min Zhai   A hybrid learning algorithm combined
                                  with generalized RLS approach for radial
                                  basis function neural networks . . . . . 908--915
             Xiao-Feng Wang and   
            De-Shuang Huang and   
                Ji-Xiang Du and   
                    Huan Xu and   
                 Laurent Heutte   Classification of plant leaf images with
                                  complicated background . . . . . . . . . 916--926
                    Wei Jia and   
                   Bin Ling and   
             Kwok-Wing Chau and   
                 Laurent Heutte   Palmprint identification using
                                  restricted fusion  . . . . . . . . . . . 927--934


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 206, Number 1, December 1, 2008

              Wen-Zhi Huang and   
                      Yan Huang   Chaos of a new class of Hopfield neural
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                 Zhiqun Xue and   
                     Ruiqin Fan   Some comments on Noor's iterations in
                                  Banach spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
              Ferhana Ahmad and   
                 A. H. Kara and   
              A. H. Bokhari and   
                    F. D. Zaman   On approximate Lagrangians and
                                  invariants for scaling reductions of a
                                  non-linear wave equation with damping    16--20
         Andrea Castelletti and   
          Francesca Pianosi and   
          Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa   Integration, participation and optimal
                                  control in water resources planning and
                                  management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--33
            Ivan Ganchev Ivanov   A method to solve the discrete-time
                                  coupled algebraic Riccati equations  . . 34--41
              Kuniyoshi Abe and   
               Shao-Liang Zhang   A variant algorithm of the \sc
                                  Orthomin$(m)$ method for solving linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
              Xiaojing Yang and   
                Yong-In Kim and   
                    Kueiming Lo   Approximation for constant e and its
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
                Wenyin Gong and   
                 Zhihua Cai and   
                Liangxiao Jiang   Enhancing the performance of
                                  differential evolution using orthogonal
                                  design method  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--69
                Yu-Guang Xu and   
               Xin-Wei Zhou and   
                         Li Yao   Solving the fifth order
                                  Caudrey--Dodd--Gibbon (CDG) equation
                                  using the exp-function method  . . . . . 70--73
                Sergio Amat and   
           María Moncayo   l $^{ {\infty} }$-Stability for linear
                                  multiresolution algorithms: a new
                                  explicit approach. Part I: The basic
                                  rules and the Daubechies case  . . . . . 74--91
                Sergio Amat and   
           María Moncayo   l $^{ {\infty} }$-Stability for linear
                                  multiresolution algorithms: a new
                                  explicit approach. Part II: The cases of
                                  Symlets, Coiflets, biorthogonal wavelets
                                  and supercompact multiwavelets . . . . . 92--103
                Sergio Amat and   
           María Moncayo   l $^{ {\infty} }$-Stability for linear
                                  multiresolution algorithms: a new
                                  explicit approach. Part III: The $2$-D
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--112
                     Bin He and   
                 Weiguo Rui and   
                 Shaolin Li and   
                      Chan Chen   Bounded travelling wave solutions for a
                                  modified form of generalized
                                  Degasperis--Procesi equation . . . . . . 113--123
                 Tieshan He and   
                     Wenge Chen   Periodic solutions of second order
                                  discrete convex systems involving the
                                  $p$-Laplacian  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--132
                   Changfeng Ma   A globally convergent
                                  Levenberg--Marquardt method for the
                                  least l $_2$-norm solution of nonlinear
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140
                     Bin He and   
                 Weiguo Rui and   
                   Can Chen and   
                     Shaolin Li   Exact travelling wave solutions of a
                                  generalized Camassa--Holm equation using
                                  the integral bifurcation method  . . . . 141--149
            Mahmoud M. El-Borai   Exact solutions for some nonlinear
                                  fractional parabolic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 150--153
    A. C. Zambroni de Souza and   
             Rafael C. Leme and   
Luiz Frederico B. Vasconcelos and   
       B. Isaias Lima Lopes and   
       Yuri C. da Silva Ribeiro   Energy function and unstable solutions
                                  by the means of an augmented Jacobian    154--163
                    S. Amat and   
     M. A. Hernández and   
                      N. Romero   A modified Chebyshev's iterative method
                                  with at least sixth order of convergence 164--174
                 Shuping He and   
                        Fei Liu   Unbiased $H_\infty$ filtering for
                                  neutral Markov jump systems  . . . . . . 175--185
                         Li Jin   A stable differential equation approach
                                  for inequality constrained optimization
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--192
               Jing-Bo Chen and   
                       Hong Liu   Modal expansion of one-way operators
                                  based on spectral differentiation matrix 193--197
                     Zhiting Xu   Nonlinear oscillation of second order
                                  differential equations with
                                  state-dependent delays . . . . . . . . . 198--204
                    Z. C. Zheng   A consistent boundary condition for
                                  vorticity--streamfunction simulation of
                                  wall-bounded vortex flow . . . . . . . . 205--213
                Yeol Je Cho and   
              Shin Min Kang and   
                   Xiaolong Qin   On systems of generalized nonlinear
                                  variational inequalities in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--220
Jorge Eduardo Macías-Díaz   On the bifurcation of energy in media
                                  governed by $(2 + 1)$-dimensional
                                  modified Klein--Gordon equations . . . . 221--235
                Luka Korkut and   
               Domagoj Vlah and   
         Darko \vZubrini\'c and   
            Vesna \vZupanovi\'c   Generalized Fresnel integrals and
                                  fractal properties of related spirals    236--244
                  Ping Kang and   
                Zhongli Wei and   
                    Juanjuan Xu   Positive solutions to fourth-order
                                  singular boundary value problems with
                                  integral boundary conditions in abstract
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256
                     Yang Zhang   AD--FDSD for convection--diffusion
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--271
                Changfu Liu and   
                    Zhengde Dai   Exact soliton solutions for the
                                  fifth-order Sawada--Kotera equation  . . 272--275
                 Quan-Fang Wang   Theoretical issue of controlling nucleus
                                  in Klein--Gordon--Schrödinger dynamics
                                  with perturbation in control field . . . 276--289
                    Vimal Singh   Improved global robust stability of
                                  interval delayed neural networks via
                                  split interval: Generalizations  . . . . 290--297
          Beata Laszkiewicz and   
              Krystyna Zie\ctak   Numerical experiments with algorithms
                                  for the ADI and Zolotarev coefficients   298--312
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   On a new operator from the logarithmic
                                  Bloch space to the Bloch-type space on
                                  the unit ball  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--320
             Mingliang Wang and   
             Jinliang Zhang and   
                  Xiangzheng Li   Application of the
                                  $(\frac{G'}{G})$-expansion to travelling
                                  wave solutions of the Broer--Kaup and
                                  the approximate long water wave
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--326
              Xiao-Guang Lv and   
             Ting-Zhu Huang and   
                       Jiang Le   A note on computing the inverse and the
                                  determinant of a pentadiagonal Toeplitz
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--331
            Amir H. Shahpar and   
       Hedayat Z. Aashtiani and   
                Abbas Babazadeh   Dynamic penalty function method for the
                                  side constrained traffic assignment
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--345
      Nikolaos S. Christodoulou   Discrete Hopf bifurcation for
                                  Runge--Kutta methods . . . . . . . . . . 346--356
                   Hua Yuan and   
                   Guoqing Chen   Network virus-epidemic model with the
                                  point-to-group information propagation   357--367
        Laura-Iulia Ani\cta and   
          Sebastian Ani\cta and   
               Viorel Arn\uautu   Global behavior for an age-dependent
                                  population model with logistic term and
                                  periodic vital rates . . . . . . . . . . 368--379
             Changhyun Kwon and   
                Terry L. Friesz   Valuation of American options by the
                                  gradient projection method . . . . . . . 380--388
               Sining Zheng and   
                 Haojie Guo and   
                       Jing Liu   A food chain model for two resources in
                                  un-stirred chemostat . . . . . . . . . . 389--402
                 Ruihong Ji and   
                   Sining Zheng   Quenching behavior of solutions to heat
                                  equations with coupled boundary
                                  singularities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
                 Shuping Ma and   
             Chenghui Zhang and   
                        Zhen Wu   Delay-dependent stability and $H_\infty$
                                  control for uncertain discrete switched
                                  singular systems with time-delay . . . . 413--424
   Norhashidah Hj. Mohd Ali and   
                  Sam Teek Ling   Rotated Krylov preconditioned iterative
                                  schemes in the solution of
                                  convection--diffusion equations  . . . . 425--437
                D. D. Ganji and   
               M. Abdollahzadeh   Exact travelling solutions for the Lax's
                                  seventh-order KdV equation by sech
                                  method and rational exp-function method  438--444
             J. Pe\vcari\'c and   
      M. Ribi\vci\'c Penava and   
                   A. Vukeli\'c   Euler's method for weighted integral
                                  formulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--456
                 Dambaru Bhatta   Use of modified Bernstein polynomials to
                                  solve KdV--Burgers equation numerically  457--464
                Yao-Tang Li and   
                  Shunfeng Yang   A multi-parameters preconditioned AOR
                                  iterative method for linear systems  . . 465--473
              Xingyuan Wang and   
                   Xu Zhang and   
               Yuanyuan Sun and   
                     Fanping Li   Dynamics of the generalized $M$ set on
                                  escape-line diagram  . . . . . . . . . . 474--484
                Junhua Zhao and   
                    Fanwei Meng   Oscillation criteria for second-order
                                  neutral equations with distributed
                                  deviating argument . . . . . . . . . . . 485--493
                    Fuke Wu and   
                Xuerong Mao and   
                       Kan Chen   Strong convergence of Monte Carlo
                                  simulations of the mean-reverting square
                                  root process with jump . . . . . . . . . 494--505

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 206, Number 2, December 15, 2008

         Abdurrahim El-Keib and   
                  Ibrahim Sadek   Modeling, simulation and applied
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--509
                R. Mansouri and   
                M. Bettayeb and   
                  T. Djamah and   
                   S. Djennoune   Vector Fitting fractional system
                                  identification using particle swarm
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--520
           Aladdin Shamilov and   
        Cigdem Giriftinoglu and   
                 Ilhan Usta and   
              Yeliz Mert Kantar   A new concept of relative suitability of
                                  moment function sets . . . . . . . . . . 521--529
           Aladdin Shamilov and   
                     Senay Asma   Finite mixtures of MaxEnt distributions  530--537
             M. E. Seliaman and   
                Ab Rahman Ahmad   Optimizing inventory decisions in a
                                  multi-stage supply chain under
                                  stochastic demands . . . . . . . . . . . 538--542
                  T. Djamah and   
                R. Mansouri and   
               S. Djennoune and   
                    M. Bettayeb   Optimal low order model identification
                                  of fractional dynamic systems  . . . . . 543--554
               Michel Cotsaftis   Integrated control for high accuracy
                                  complex system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--560
           Magdi S. Mahmoud and   
                 Abdulla Ismail   Resilient control of non-linear
                                  discrete-time state-delay systems  . . . 561--569
                    Salim Ibrir   Stability and robust stabilization of
                                  discrete-time switched systems with
                                  time-delays: LMI approach  . . . . . . . 570--578
                Salim Ibrir and   
                    Sette Diopt   Novel LMI conditions for observer-based
                                  stabilization of Lipschitzian nonlinear
                                  systems and uncertain linear systems in
                                  discrete-time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--588
              Aissa Guesmia and   
             Salim A. Messaoudi   On the control of a viscoelastic damped
                                  Timoshenko-type system . . . . . . . . . 589--597
             Mojtaba Tabari and   
                Amin Kaboli and   
           M. B. Aryanezhad and   
          Kamran Shahanaghi and   
                     Ali Siadat   A new method for location selection: a
                                  hybrid analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--606
               Iraj Mahdavi and   
        Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri and   
        Armaghan Heidarzade and   
                Rahele Nourifar   Designing a model of fuzzy TOPSIS in
                                  multiple criteria decision making  . . . 607--617
         Reza Saeidpourazar and   
                   Nader Jalili   Nano-robotic manipulation using a RRP
                                  nanomanipulator: Part A --- Mathematical
                                  modeling and development of a robust
                                  adaptive driving mechanism . . . . . . . 618--627
         Reza Saeidpourazar and   
                   Nader Jalili   Nano-robotic manipulation using a RRP
                                  nanomanipulator: Part B --- Robust
                                  control of manipulator's tip using fused
                                  visual servoing and force sensor
                                  feedbacks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--642
           Alireza Khosravi and   
                Aliakbar Jalali   A new LMI solution in the $L_1$ optimal
                                  problem for wind turbine-induction
                                  generator unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--650
           Vahid Esfahanian and   
              Pooria Akbarzadeh   The Jameson's numerical method for
                                  solving the incompressible viscous and
                                  inviscid flows by means of artificial
                                  compressibility and preconditioning
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--661
               E. Fatehifar and   
                 A. Elkamel and   
          A. Alizadeh Osalu and   
                     A. Charchi   Developing a new model for simulation of
                                  pollution dispersion from a network of
                                  stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--668
             M. Sha Sadeghi and   
               H. R. Momeni and   
                    R. Amirifar   $H_\infty$ and $L_1$ control of a
                                  teleoperation system via LMIs  . . . . . 669--677
              M. A. Bokhari and   
                    I. S. Sadek   Optimal control of parabolic systems
                                  with infinite time horizons  . . . . . . 678--684
               A. Bouhamidi and   
                      K. Jbilou   A note on the numerical approximate
                                  solutions for generalized Sylvester
                                  matrix equations with applications . . . 687--694
                 Chun Yuan Deng   The Drazin inverse of bounded operators
                                  with commutativity up to a factor  . . . 695--703
                   Jerzy Klamka   Stochastic controllability and minimum
                                  energy control of systems with multiple
                                  delays in control  . . . . . . . . . . . 704--715
                Hongmin Ren and   
                    Qingbiao Wu   A class of modified Secant methods for
                                  unconstrained optimization . . . . . . . 716--720
                Wenyan Wang and   
                Minggen Cui and   
                         Bo Han   A new method for solving a class of
                                  singular two-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--727
         Zehour Benbouziane and   
       Abdelkader Boucherif and   
          Sidi Mohamed Bouguima   Existence result for impulsive third
                                  order periodic boundary value problems   728--737
              Shu-Qian Shen and   
                 Ting-Zhu Huang   New comparison results for parallel
                                  multisplitting iterative methods . . . . 738--747
                   Lan Chen and   
                     He-Ping Ma   Approximate solution of the
                                  Sturm--Liouville problems with
                                  Legendre--Galerkin--Chebyshev
                                  collocation method . . . . . . . . . . . 748--754
                   Wenyuan Liao   An implicit fourth-order compact finite
                                  difference scheme for one-dimensional
                                  Burgers' equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 755--764
                  Fang Chen and   
                  Yao-Lin Jiang   A generalization of the inexact
                                  parameterized Uzawa methods for saddle
                                  point problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--771
                     M. K. Aouf   Argument estimates of certain
                                  meromorphically multivalent functions
                                  associated with generalized
                                  hypergeometric function  . . . . . . . . 772--780
              Zhengyuan Wei and   
                 Xinsheng Zhang   Second order exponential differential
                                  operator and generalized Hermite
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--787
                 Bing Zheng and   
                  Lijuan Ye and   
      Dragana S. Cvetkovic-Ilic   Generalized inverses of a normal matrix  788--795
                       Yuji Liu   Positive solutions of mixed type
                                  multi-point non-homogeneous BVPs for
                                  $p$-Laplacian equations  . . . . . . . . 796--805
                     Xijun Deng   Exact peaked wave solution of
                                  CH-$\gamma$ equation by the
                                  first-integral method  . . . . . . . . . 806--809
                  Qiuyue Li and   
               Fuzhong Cong and   
                   Daqing Jiang   Multiplicity of positive solutions to
                                  second order Neumann boundary value
                                  problems with impulse actions  . . . . . 810--817
                     Li Wan and   
                   Qinghua Zhou   Exponential stability of stochastic
                                  reaction--diffusion Cohen--Grossberg
                                  neural networks with delays  . . . . . . 818--824
                Songxiao Li and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Weighted composition operators from
                                  Zygmund spaces into Bloch spaces . . . . 825--831
        Rafael Cortell Bataller   Radiation effects for the Blasius and
                                  Sakiadis flows with a convective surface
                                  boundary condition . . . . . . . . . . . 832--840
                     Yajuan Sun   A class of volume-preserving numerical
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--852
              K. T. Elgindy and   
             Abdel-Rahman Hedar   A new robust line search technique based
                                  on Chebyshev polynomials . . . . . . . . 853--866
                     M. K. Aouf   Certain subclasses of p-valent starlike
                                  functions defined by using a
                                  differential operator  . . . . . . . . . 867--875
                  Sunmi Lee and   
                     Eunok Jung   A two-chamber model of valveless pumping
                                  using the immersed boundary method . . . 876--884
Jesús Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez   Powers of tridiagonal matrices with
                                  constant diagonals . . . . . . . . . . . 885--891
                F. Conforto and   
                  M. Groppi and   
                    A. Jannelli   On shock solutions to balance equations
                                  for slow and fast chemical reaction  . . 892--905
                    Dansheng Yu   Weighted approximation of functions with
                                  singularities by combinations of
                                  Bernstein operators  . . . . . . . . . . 906--918
Jesús Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez   Powers of real persymmetric
                                  anti-tridiagonal matrices with constant
                                  anti-diagonals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--924
                 Yulin Zhao and   
                     Haibo Chen   Multiplicity of solutions to two-point
                                  boundary value problems for second-order
                                  impulsive differential equations . . . . 925--931
                  Xingqiu Zhang   Existence of positive solutions for
                                  multi-point boundary value problems on
                                  infinite intervals in Banach spaces  . . 932--941
                  Ayhan Dil and   
           István Mez\Ho   A symmetric algorithm for hyperharmonic
                                  and Fibonacci numbers  . . . . . . . . . 942--951
          F. J. de Cos Juez and   
 F. Sánchez Lasheras and   
  P. J. García Nieto and   
       A. Álvarez-Arenal   Non-linear numerical analysis of a
                                  double-threaded titanium alloy dental
                                  implant by FEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952--967
             A. Rathinasamy and   
                K. Balachandran   Mean square stability of semi-implicit
                                  Euler method for linear stochastic
                                  differential equations with multiple
                                  delays and Markovian switching . . . . . 968--979
                     Jianwei Ma   Compressed sensing by inverse scale
                                  space and curvelet thresholding  . . . . 980--988
                     Xijun Deng   Comment on: Persistence of travelling
                                  wave for a coupled nonlinear wave
                                  system, Applied Mathematics and
                                  Computation \bf 191 (2) (2007) 347--352  989--990
            F. A. Costabile and   
                  F. Dell'Accio   On the nonsingularity of a special class
                                  of centrosymmetric matrices arising in
                                  spectral methods in BVPs . . . . . . . . 991--993
                 Xiang Wang and   
                Linzhang Lu and   
                Chuanxi Zhu and   
                      Qiang Niu   A note on the spectral for real Hankel
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994--996
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Multivariate Bell polynomials and their
                                  applications to powers and fractionary
                                  iterates of vector power series and to
                                  partial derivatives of composite vector
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1004
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Erratum to: ``Multiple-soliton solutions
                                  for the ninth-order KdV equation and
                                  sixth-order Boussinesq equation'' [Appl.
                                  Math. Comput. 203 (2008) 277--283] . . . 1005--1005


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 207, Number 1, January 1, 2009

   Rodrigo Capobianco Guido and   
 José Carlos Pereira and   
        Jan Frans Willem Slaets   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  Emergent Applications of Fractals and
                                  Wavelets in Biology and Biomedicine  . . 3--4
               Reema Taneja and   
          Kennon C. Shelton and   
                    Ajit Sadana   Fractal binding and dissociation
                                  kinetics of prion proteins on biosensor
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--22
      Khan M. Iftekharuddin and   
                 Jing Zheng and   
          Mohammad A. Islam and   
                  Robert J. Ogg   Fractal-based brain tumor detection in
                                  multimodal MRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--41
              Elisa Magosso and   
               Mauro Ursino and   
              Anna Zaniboni and   
                 Elena Gardella   A wavelet-based energetic approach for
                                  the analysis of biomedical signals:
                                  Application to the electroencephalogram
                                  and electro-oculogram  . . . . . . . . . 42--62
              Wang Xingyuan and   
                   Luo Chao and   
                      Meng Juan   Nonlinear dynamic research on EEG
                                  signals in HAI experiment  . . . . . . . 63--74
André Augusto Spadotto and   
             Ana Rita Gatto and   
   Rodrigo Capobianco Guido and   
    Arlindo Neto Montagnoli and   
        Paula Cristina Cola and   
 José Carlos Pereira and   
            Arthur Oscar Schelp   Classification of normal swallowing and
                                  oropharyngeal dysphagia using wavelet    75--82
               Shouzhi Yang and   
                 Yongdong Huang   Construction of a class of compactly
                                  supported symmetric and balanced
                                  refinable function vector by GTST  . . . 83--89
                 Attila R. Imre   Fractal dimension of time-indexed paths  90--94
Paulo Rogério Scalassara and   
 María Eugenia Dajer and   
         Carlos Dias Maciel and   
   Rodrigo Capobianco Guido and   
     José Carlos Pereira   Relative entropy measures applied to
                                  healthy and pathological voice
                                  characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--108
                 Paul Sacks and   
                    Jaemin Shin   Computational methods for some inverse
                                  scattering problems  . . . . . . . . . . 111--123
                   H. X. Wu and   
                  H. Z. Luo and   
                       S. L. Li   The global convergence of augmented
                                  Lagrangian methods based on NCP function
                                  in constrained nonconvex optimization    124--134
              Yuan Gong Sun and   
                   Fan Wei Meng   Oscillation of second-order delay
                                  differential equations with mixed
                                  nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--139
               Kelong Zheng and   
                      Yu Wu and   
                 Shouming Zhong   Discrete nonlinear integral inequalities
                                  in two variables and their applications  140--147
                 Quan-Fang Wang   Computation issue of pointwise controls
                                  for diffusion Hopfield neural network
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--163
         Moawwad El-Mikkawy and   
               El-Desouky Rahmo   A new recursive algorithm for inverting
                                  general periodic pentadiagonal and
                                  anti-pentadiagonal matrices  . . . . . . 164--170
                   Fajun Yu and   
                          Li Li   An integrable couplings of Dirac soliton
                                  hierarchy with self-consistent sources   171--177
               Yunjuan Wang and   
                     Detong Zhu   An affine scaling optimal path method
                                  with interior backtracking curvilinear
                                  technique for linear constrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--196
         Halim Özdemir and   
             Murat Sarduvan and   
   Ahmet Ya\csar Özban and   
              Nesrin Güler   On idempotency and tripotency of linear
                                  combinations of two commuting tripotent
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--201
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                 Ju H. Park and   
                      S. M. Lee   Augmented Lyapunov functional approach
                                  to stability of uncertain neutral
                                  systems with time-varying delays . . . . 202--212
                  K. Fakhar and   
                   T. Hayat and   
                   Cheng Yi and   
                       Kun Zhao   Symmetry transformation of solutions for
                                  the Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . 213--224
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Norm and essential norm of composition
                                  followed by differentiation from
                                  $\alpha$-Bloch spaces to $H^\infty_\mu$  225--229
                    Xian Wu and   
                     Jilin Chen   Existence theorems of periodic solutions
                                  for a class of damped vibration problems 230--235
               Hengfei Ding and   
                    Yuxin Zhang   A new unconditionally stable compact
                                  difference scheme of $O(\tau^2 + h^4)$
                                  for the $1$D linear hyperbolic equation  236--241
       A. Flores-Franuli\vc and   
     H. Román-Flores and   
                 Y. Chalco-Cano   Markov type inequalities for fuzzy
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--247
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The Cole--Hopf transformation and
                                  multiple soliton solutions for the
                                  integrable sixth-order
                                  Drinfeld--Sokolov--Satsuma--Hirota
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--255
J. C. Zúñiga Anaya and   
                     D. Henrion   An improved Toeplitz algorithm for
                                  polynomial matrix null-space computation 256--272
            Scott K. Hansen and   
              Bernard H. Kueper   An efficient method for asymptotic
                                  solution to some linear PDEs having
                                  arbitrary time-varying type I boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--278
             Filiz Ta\cscan and   
                    Ahmet Bekir   Travelling wave solutions of the
                                  Cahn--Allen equation by using first
                                  integral method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 207, Number 2, January 15, 2009

                Ming-Chien Yang   Path embedding in star graphs  . . . . . 283--291
             Jianzhong Zhou and   
               Rengcun Fang and   
                  Yuhong Li and   
            Yongchuan Zhang and   
                      Bing Peng   Parameter optimization of nonlinear grey
                                  Bernoulli model using particle swarm
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--299
                Min Lü and   
             Guo-Liang Chen and   
                     Xi-Rong Xu   On super edge-connectivity of product
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--306
               Jianxiong Ye and   
                 Enmin Feng and   
              Hansheng Lian and   
                    Zhilong Xiu   Existence of equilibrium points and
                                  stability of the nonlinear dynamical
                                  system in microbial continuous cultures  307--318
               Dawn A. Lott and   
            Auris Henriquez and   
  Benjamin J. M. Sturdevant and   
                   Anjan Biswas   A numerical study of optical
                                  soliton-like structures resulting from
                                  the nonlinear Schrödinger's equation with
                                  square-root law nonlinearity . . . . . . 319--326
                 Hakan K. Akmaz   Three-dimensional elastic problems of
                                  three-dimensional quasicrystals  . . . . 327--332
           Hung--Chang Chan and   
            Jou--Ming Chang and   
               Yue--Li Wang and   
                Shi--Jinn Horng   Geodesic-pancyclicity and fault-tolerant
                                  panconnectivity of augmented cubes . . . 333--339
                  Zhanping Wang   Stability of solution to a class of
                                  investment system  . . . . . . . . . . . 340--345
            Karen Avetisyan and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Extended Ces\`aro operators between
                                  different Hardy spaces . . . . . . . . . 346--350
                 Jinyan Fan and   
                     Jianyu Pan   A note on the Levenberg--Marquardt
                                  parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--359
                Zhengde Dai and   
                    Jun Liu and   
                    Donglong Li   Applications of HTA and EHTA to YTSF
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--364
                   Anthony Sofo   Integral forms of sums associated with
                                  harmonic numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--372
                 Yongjun Li and   
                 Suyun Wang and   
                    Hongqing Wu   Pullback attractors for non-autonomous
                                  reaction--diffusion equations in L $^{ p
                                  }$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--379
                   Fajun Yu and   
                          Li Li   A new matrix Lie algebra, the
                                  multicomponent Yang hierarchy and its
                                  super-integrable coupling system . . . . 380--387
                  Luhong Ye and   
                     Zhiting Xu   Oscillation criteria for second order
                                  quasilinear neutral delay differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--396
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Two systems of two-component integrable
                                  equations: Multiple soliton solutions
                                  and multiple singular soliton solutions  397--405
           A. S. Abdel Rady and   
               A. H. Khater and   
                E. S. Osman and   
            Mohammed Khalfallah   New periodic wave and soliton solutions
                                  for system of coupled Korteweg--de Vries
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--414
             Santiago Badia and   
                   Ramon Codina   On a multiscale approach to the
                                  transient Stokes problem: Dynamic
                                  subscales and anisotropic space--time
                                  discretization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--433
                   Li Zhang and   
                  Hongyi Wu and   
                    Jieqing Tan   Dual basis functions for the NS-power
                                  basis and their applications . . . . . . 434--441
                R. W. Smink and   
               B. P. de Hon and   
                  A. G. Tijhuis   Fast and accurate computation of Bessel
                                  functions with (large) complex order and
                                  argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--447
                  Zuhan Liu and   
                      Ling Zhou   The spinor Ginzburg--Landau model in
                                  dimension three  . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--461
               Dongyang Shi and   
               Jincheng Ren and   
                    Xiaobin Hao   A new second order nonconforming mixed
                                  finite element scheme for the stationary
                                  Stokes and Navier--Stokes equations  . . 462--477
                 Ailin Qian and   
                     Yujiang Wu   A computational method for a Cauchy
                                  problem of Laplace's equation  . . . . . 478--485
                       Jian Cao   New proofs of generating functions for
                                  Rogers--Szeg\Ho polynomials  . . . . . . 486--492
             Xiaoping Zhang and   
                   Yongping Sun   Monotone positive solutions of
                                  second-order multi-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--500
               Keyvan Amini and   
               M. Reza Peyghami   Exploring complexity of large update
                                  interior-point methods for $ P_*(\kappa)
                                  $ linear complementarity problem based
                                  on Kernel function . . . . . . . . . . . 501--513
                  Ping Wang and   
                   Kewang Zheng   Regularization approach for inverting
                                  the exponential radon transforms (ERT)   514--518
José L. López and   
Ester Pérez Sinusía and   
                  Nico M. Temme   Multi-point Taylor approximations in
                                  one-dimensional linear boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--527
 Jeerapond Leelawattanachai and   
            Charin Modchang and   
          Wannapong Triampo and   
           Darapond Triampo and   
              Yongwimon Lenbury   Modeling and genetic algorithm
                                  optimization of early events in signal
                                  transduction via dynamics of
                                  G-protein-coupled receptors:
                                  Internalization consideration  . . . . . 528--544
            Sheldon B. Opps and   
                Nasser Saad and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Recursion formulas for Appell's
                                  hypergeometric function F $_2$ with some
                                  applications to radiation field problems 545--558
              Maged G. Bin-Saad   Some presentations, connections and
                                  series expansions for the generalized
                                  Voigt functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--568
           T. T. M. Onyango and   
               D. B. Ingham and   
                      D. Lesnic   Inverse reconstruction of boundary
                                  condition coefficients in
                                  one-dimensional transient heat
                                  conduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--575


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 208, Number 1, February 1, 2009

           Annamaria Barbagallo   Existence and regularity of solutions to
                                  nonlinear degenerate evolutionary
                                  variational inequalities with
                                  applications to dynamic network
                                  equilibrium problems . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
                  Xiaojian Zhou   A note on ``Some higher-order
                                  modifications of Newton's method for
                                  solving nonlinear equations''  . . . . . 14--17
       Mehmet Zeki Sarikaya and   
          Hüseyin Yildirim   On the $B$-convolutions of the Bessel
                                  diamond kernel of Riesz  . . . . . . . . 18--22
               Fanchao Meng and   
                      Zengji Du   Solvability of a second-order
                                  multi-point boundary value problem at
                                  resonance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
                  M. M. Ali and   
               Z. Kajee-Bagdadi   A local exploration-based differential
                                  evolution algorithm for constrained
                                  global optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 31--48
                  Zhu-Wu Wu and   
              Xue-Feng Song and   
               Ying-Ying Xu and   
                        Kun Liu   A note on a minimax rule for portfolio
                                  selection and equilibrium price system   49--57
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                     Ju H. Park   Delay-range-dependent stabilization of
                                  uncertain dynamic systems with interval
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 58--68
                 Ju H. Park and   
                     O. M. Kwon   Further results on state estimation for
                                  neural networks of neutral-type with
                                  time-varying delay . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
             Katarina Surla and   
          Ljiljana Teofanov and   
                  Zorica Uzelac   A robust layer-resolving spline
                                  collocation method for a
                                  convection--diffusion problem  . . . . . 76--89
         Ljubomir \'Ciri\'c and   
                  Nenad Caki\'c   On common fixed point theorems for
                                  non-self hybrid mappings in convex
                                  metric spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
                Cosme Duque and   
             Krisztina Kiss and   
                  Marcos Lizana   On the dynamics of an $n$-dimensional
                                  ratio-dependent predator--prey system
                                  with diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--105
             William Layton and   
            Iuliana Stanculescu   Chebychev optimized approximate
                                  deconvolution models of turbulence . . . 106--118
                 Yehui Peng and   
                Heying Feng and   
                      Qiyong Li   A filter-variable-metric method for
                                  nonsmooth convex constrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128
                    Feng Qi and   
              Pietro Cerone and   
          Sever S. Dragomir and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Alternative proofs for monotonic and
                                  logarithmically convex properties of
                                  one-parameter mean values  . . . . . . . 129--133
               Olga Yu. Efimova   Exact solutions of systems describing
                                  interacting populations with low
                                  critical densities . . . . . . . . . . . 134--143
                   Li-Hua Zhang   Travelling wave solutions for the
                                  generalized Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation
                                  with higher-order nonlinear terms  . . . 144--155
                Baoheng Yao and   
                  Jianping Chen   Series solution to the Falkner--Skan
                                  equation with stretching boundary  . . . 156--164
                   Weihua Jiang   The existence of multiple positive
                                  periodic solutions for functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 165--171
                      Bo Du and   
                     Xueping Hu   A new continuation theorem for the
                                  existence of solutions to $p$-Laplacian
                                  BVP at resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--176
            Mohamed Elouafi and   
          Ahmed Driss Aiat Hadj   A recursion formula for the
                                  characteristic polynomial of Hessenberg
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--179
              Sergio Falcon and   
                    Angel Plaza   On $k$-Fibonacci numbers of arithmetic
                                  indexes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--185
             Biljana Na\vcevska   Iterative methods for computing
                                  generalized inverses and splittings of
                                  operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--188
                    Ying He and   
                         Bo Han   A wavelet adaptive-homotopy method for
                                  inverse problem in the fluid-saturated
                                  porous media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--196
                 Aydin Huseynov   On the sign of Green's function for an
                                  impulsive differential equation with
                                  periodic boundary conditions . . . . . . 197--205
       Ljiljana Cvetkovi\'c and   
          Vladimir Kosti\'c and   
                 Sonja Rau\vski   A new subclass of $H$-matrices . . . . . 206--210
               Yonghong Yao and   
           Yeong-Cheng Liou and   
                  Shin Min Kang   Strong convergence of an iterative
                                  algorithm on an infinite countable
                                  family of nonexpansive mappings  . . . . 211--218
               Lianzhong Li and   
                Fanwei Meng and   
                  Zhaowen Zheng   Some new oscillation results for linear
                                  Hamiltonian systems  . . . . . . . . . . 219--224
       Ljiljana Cvetkovi\'c and   
                 Maja Nedovi\'c   Special $H$-matrices and their Schur and
                                  diagonal-Schur complements . . . . . . . 225--230
               Zhiling Yuan and   
               Xingwei Yuan and   
                Fanwei Meng and   
                  Hongxia Zhang   Some new delay integral inequalities and
                                  their applications . . . . . . . . . . . 231--237
               Yasin Adjabi and   
                  Fahd Jrad and   
               Arezki Kessi and   
              U\=gurhan Mu\=gan   Third order differential equations with
                                  fixed critical points  . . . . . . . . . 238--248
                Yijun Zhang and   
                   Dong Yue and   
                    Engang Tian   New stability criteria of neural
                                  networks with interval time-varying
                                  delay: a piecewise delay method  . . . . 249--259
              Chun-Gang Zhu and   
                  Ren-Hong Wang   Numerical solution of Burgers' equation
                                  by cubic B-spline quasi-interpolation    260--272
             Ioannis G. Tsoulos   Solving constrained optimization
                                  problems using a novel genetic algorithm 273--283
            Kuo-Liang Chung and   
            Yong-Huai Huang and   
              Wei-Ning Yang and   
               Yu-Chiao Hsu and   
                 Chyou-Hwa Chen   Capacity maximization for reversible
                                  data hiding based on dynamic programming
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--292
                 L. F. Shampine   Stability of the leapfrog/midpoint
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--298
               Anjan Biswas and   
                Daniela Milovic   Optical solitons in a parabolic law
                                  media with fourth order dispersion . . . 299--302

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 208, Number 2, February 15, 2009

               Sweta Pathak and   
               Alakes Maiti and   
                  G. P. Samanta   Rich dynamics of a food chain model with
                                  Hassell--Varley type functional
                                  responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--317
           Gabriele Bonanno and   
           Giuseppina D'Agu\`\i   A Neumann boundary value problem for the
                                  Sturm--Liouville equation  . . . . . . . 318--327
                Mihai Alexe and   
                   Adrian Sandu   Forward and adjoint sensitivity analysis
                                  with continuous explicit Runge--Kutta
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--346
                E. Di Nardo and   
                       I. Oliva   On the computation of classical, Boolean
                                  and free cumulants . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
                     Tamer Eren   Minimizing the total weighted completion
                                  time on a single machine scheduling with
                                  release dates and a learning effect  . . 355--358
                       Qin Deng   Certain subclass of analytic functions
                                  with complex order . . . . . . . . . . . 359--362
                  Jingli Wu and   
               Jianxin Wang and   
                   Jian'er Chen   A practical algorithm based on particle
                                  swarm optimization for haplotype
                                  reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
                Yuqing Chen and   
                  Donal O'Regan   On the homotopy property of topological
                                  degree for maximal monotone mappings . . 373--377
                Songxiao Li and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Ces\`aro-type operators on some spaces
                                  of analytic functions on the unit ball   378--388
                 Jian Zhang and   
               Xiaoguang Li and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Remarks on the blow-up rate for critical
                                  nonlinear Schrödinger equation with
                                  harmonic potential . . . . . . . . . . . 389--396
        Stephen L. Campbell and   
                  Vu Hoang Linh   Stability criteria for
                                  differential-algebraic equations with
                                  multiple delays and their numerical
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--415
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Bloch-type functions with Hadamard gaps  416--422
              Tadeusz Jankowski   On dynamic equations with deviating
                                  arguments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--426
                   Sh. Chen and   
               S. Ponnusamy and   
                        X. Wang   Landau's theorem for certain biharmonic
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--433
                 Xicheng Li and   
                  Mingyu Xu and   
                  Xiaoyun Jiang   Homotopy perturbation method to
                                  time-fractional diffusion equation with
                                  a moving boundary condition  . . . . . . 434--439
               Li Ling-Xiao and   
                Wang Ming-Liang   The $ (\frac {G'}{G}) $-expansion method
                                  and travelling wave solutions for a
                                  higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--445
    Isabel Hernández and   
            Consuelo Mateos and   
   Juan Núñez and   
        Ángel F. Tenorio   Lie Theory: Applications to problems in
                                  Mathematical Finance and Economics . . . 446--452
              Chao-Qing Dai and   
                   Yue-Yue Wang   The novel solitary wave structures and
                                  interactions in the $ (2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional Korteweg--de Vries
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--461
                  M. Z. Liu and   
                    Qiubao Wang   Numerical Hopf bifurcation of linear
                                  multistep methods for a class of delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 462--474
                 Murat Sari and   
     Gürhan Gürarslan   A sixth-order compact finite difference
                                  scheme to the numerical solutions of
                                  Burgers' equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 475--483
               Zhen-Xia Shi and   
                Wan-Tong Li and   
                 Cui-Ping Cheng   Stability and uniqueness of traveling
                                  wavefronts in a two-dimensional lattice
                                  differential equation with delay . . . . 484--494
             Shang-Jie Chen and   
                  Chun-Lei Tang   Multiple periodic solutions for
                                  superquadratic first-order discrete
                                  Hamiltonian systems  . . . . . . . . . . 495--500
                      Bo Du and   
                 Xueping Hu and   
                      Weigao Ge   Positive solutions to a type of
                                  multi-point boundary value problem with
                                  delay and one-dimensional $p$-Laplacian  501--510
                 Weiwei Liu and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Positive solutions of a singular
                                  boundary value problem for systems of
                                  second-order differential equations  . . 511--519
                 S. J. Choi and   
                  S. M. Lee and   
                  S. C. Won and   
                     Ju H. Park   Improved delay-dependent stability
                                  criteria for uncertain Lur'e systems
                                  with sector and slope restricted
                                  nonlinearities and time-varying delays   520--530
                     Jing Qiang   Additive Schwarz algorithms for
                                  parabolic problems . . . . . . . . . . . 531--541
                  Yong Chan Kim   A note on growth theorem of Bazilevi\vc
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--546
              Xie Ping Ding and   
                  Hai Rong Feng   Algorithm for solving a new class of
                                  generalized nonlinear implicit
                                  quasi-variational inclusions in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--555
                 Xiaoji Liu and   
                 Yaoming Yu and   
                  Hongxing Wang   Determinantal representation of weighted
                                  generalized inverses . . . . . . . . . . 556--563
                Hong-Cai Ma and   
                   Yan Wang and   
                   Zhen-Yun Qin   New exact complex traveling wave
                                  solutions for $ (2 + 1)$-dimensional BKP
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--568


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 209, Number 1, March 1, 2009

                    T. E. Simos   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                  P. Alonso and   
                 R. Cortina and   
             I. Díaz and   
                     J. Ranilla   Blocking Neville elimination algorithm
                                  for exploiting cache memories  . . . . . 2--9
            L. Bayón and   
                 J. M. Grau and   
                 M. M. Ruiz and   
            P. M. Suárez   A constrained and non-smooth
                                  hydrothermal problem . . . . . . . . . . 10--18
Irma Y. Sánchez Chávez and   
Rubén Morales-Menéndez and   
Sergio O. Martínez Chapa   Glucose optimal control system in
                                  diabetes treatment . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
  J. J. del Coz Díaz and   
  P. J. García Nieto and   
J. A. González Pérez and   
       A. Martín Navarro   Numerical analysis of the pressure field
                                  on curved and open self-weighted
                                  metallic roofs due to the wind effect by
                                  the finite volume method . . . . . . . . 31--41
              E. Francomano and   
               A. Tortorici and   
                 E. Toscano and   
                     G. Ala and   
                       F. Viola   On the use of a meshless solver for PDEs
                                  governing electromagnetic transients . . 42--51
              E. C. Laskari and   
             G. C. Meletiou and   
                 M. N. Vrahatis   Aitken and Neville inverse interpolation
                                  methods for the Lucas logarithm problem  52--56
                      Yiming Li   A simulation-based evolutionary approach
                                  to LNA circuit design optimization . . . 57--67
          Jean M.-S. Lubuma and   
             Kailash C. Patidar   Towards the implementation of the
                                  singular function method for singular
                                  perturbation problems  . . . . . . . . . 68--74
             \Lukasz Figiel and   
              Marcin Kami\'nski   Numerical probabilistic approach to
                                  sensitivity analysis in a fatigue
                                  delamination problem of a two layer
                                  composite  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--90
            Th. Monovasilis and   
             Z. Kalogiratou and   
                    T. E. Simos   A family of trigonometrically fitted
                                  partitioned Runge--Kutta symplectic
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--96
         S. Ch. Palligkinis and   
            G. Papageorgiou and   
                 I. Th. Famelis   Runge--Kutta methods for fuzzy
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 97--105
                   G. Psihoyios   Explicit advanced step-point (EAS)
                                  methods and the EAS2 multistep scheme
                                  for the solution of non-stiff initial
                                  value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--124
                     Adam Roman   Synchronizing finite automata with short
                                  reset words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--136
                    T. E. Simos   High order closed Newton--Cotes
                                  trigonometrically-fitted formulae for
                                  the numerical solution of the Schrödinger
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 209, Number 2, March 15, 2009

                  K. T. Elgindy   Generation of higher order
                                  pseudospectral integration matrices  . . 153--161
              Lu-Chuan Ceng and   
          Adrian Petru\csel and   
                   Jen-Chih Yao   Strong convergence of modified implicit
                                  iterative algorithms with perturbed
                                  mappings for continuous
                                  pseudocontractive mappings . . . . . . . 162--176
 Sutthisak Phongthanapanich and   
            Pramote Dechaumphai   Combined finite volume element method
                                  for singularly perturbed
                                  reaction--diffusion problems . . . . . . 177--185
                     Tamer Eren   A note on minimizing maximum lateness in
                                  an $m$-machine scheduling problem with a
                                  learning effect  . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--190
     Dragana Cvetkovic Ilic and   
                 Xiaoji Liu and   
                      Jin Zhong   On the $ (p q) $ outer generalized
                                  inverse in Banach algebra  . . . . . . . 191--196
               Yanping Chen and   
                          Li Li   $ L^p $ error estimates of two-grid
                                  schemes of expanded mixed finite element
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--205
                Hongmin Ren and   
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                     Weihong Bi   A class of two-step Steffensen type
                                  methods with fourth-order convergence    206--210
               Haw-Long Lee and   
              Yu-Ching Yang and   
              Win-Jin Chang and   
                    Tser-Son Wu   Estimation of heat flux and thermal
                                  stresses in multilayer gun barrel with
                                  thermal contact resistance . . . . . . . 211--221
                E. Momoniat and   
                R. McIntyre and   
                   R. Ravindran   Numerical inversion of a Laplace
                                  transform solution of a diffusion
                                  equation with a mixed derivative term    222--229
                Zhigang Jia and   
                    Musheng Wei   Solvability and sensitivity analysis of
                                  polynomial matrix equation $ X^s + A^T
                                  X^t A = Q $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--237
              Tian-Shyr Dai and   
                  Yuh-Dauh Lyuu   Accurate and efficient lattice
                                  algorithms for American-style Asian
                                  options with range bounds  . . . . . . . 238--253
            Jian-Chen Zhang and   
                Shu-Zi Zhou and   
                      Xi-Yan Hu   The $ (P Q) $ generalized reflexive and
                                  anti-reflexive solutions of the matrix
                                  equation $ A X = B $ . . . . . . . . . . 254--258
                 Shiang-Tai Liu   Using geometric programming to profit
                                  maximization with interval coefficients
                                  and quantity discount  . . . . . . . . . 259--265
              Xing Tao Wang and   
                    Yuan Min Li   Numerical solutions of
                                  integrodifferential systems by hybrid of
                                  general block-pulse functions and the
                                  second Chebyshev polynomials . . . . . . 266--272
  Jáuber C. Oliveira and   
Fermín S. Viloche Bazán   Poisson approach for evaluating
                                  numerical methods for the
                                  two-dimensional wave equation
                                  constrained to absorbing boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
              Zhi-Zhong Sun and   
                    Xiao-Nan Wu   A difference scheme for Burgers equation
                                  in an unbounded domain . . . . . . . . . 285--304
               Mengzhuo Luo and   
             Shouming Zhong and   
               Rongjun Wang and   
                       Wei Kang   Robust stability analysis for
                                  discrete-time stochastic neural networks
                                  systems with time-varying delays . . . . 305--313
                    Guojian Lin   Travelling waves in the Nicholson's
                                  blowflies equation with spatio-temporal
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--326
                Jianbing Li and   
               Xuesong Wang and   
                   Tao Wang and   
                      Chun Shen   Delaminating quadrature method for
                                  multi-dimensional highly oscillatory
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--338
               M. H. Hamdan and   
                   H. I. Siyyam   On the flow of a dusty gas with constant
                                  number density through granular porous
                                  media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--345
                      Shyam Lal   Approximation of functions belonging to
                                  the generalized Lipschitz Class by $ C^1
                                  \cdot N_p $ summability method of
                                  Fourier series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--350
                        Rong An   Discontinuous Galerkin finite element
                                  method for the fourth-order obstacle
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--355
                C.-S. Chien and   
                     Y.-T. Shih   A cubic Hermite finite
                                  element-continuation method for
                                  numerical solutions of the von Kármán
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--368
                Hongmin Ren and   
                    Qingbiao Wu   Convergence ball and error analysis of a
                                  family of iterative methods with cubic
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--378
                Zhenhai Liu and   
                     Baiyu Wang   Coefficient identification in parabolic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390
            Yung-Ching Hung and   
                Teh-Lu Liao and   
                    Jun-Juh Yan   Adaptive variable structure control for
                                  chaos suppression of unified chaotic
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--398
                Sheng Zhang and   
                   Wei Wang and   
                  Jing-Lin Tong   A generalized $ (\frac {G'}{G})
                                  $-expansion method and its application
                                  to the $ (2 + 1)$-dimensional
                                  Broer--Kaup equations  . . . . . . . . . 399--404
     Mohamed Abd El-Hady Kassem   Higher-order symmetric duality in vector
                                  optimization problem involving
                                  generalized cone-invex functions . . . . 405--409
                     Yancong Xu   New Kamenev-type theorems for
                                  super-linear matrix differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--414
                Vijay Gupta and   
            Zoltán Finta   On certain $q$-Durrmeyer type operators  415--420
Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou and   
          André Ronveaux   About derivatives of Heun's functions
                                  from polynomial transformations of
                                  hypergeometric equations . . . . . . . . 421--424
             \.Ismail Aslan and   
             Turgut Özi\cs   Analytic study on two nonlinear
                                  evolution equations by using the $
                                  (\frac {G'}{G}) $-expansion method . . . 425--429
                    Manoj Kumar   Erratum to: ``A second order spline
                                  finite difference method for singular
                                  two-point boundary value problems''
                                  [Appl. Math. Comput. 142 (2003)
                                  283--290]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--430


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 210, Number 1, April 1, 2009

             S. U. Siddiqui and   
                N. K. Verma and   
            Shailesh Mishra and   
                    R. S. Gupta   Mathematical modelling of pulsatile flow
                                  of Casson's fluid in arterial stenosis   1--10
                   James Guyker   On the uniform convergence of
                                  interpolating polynomials  . . . . . . . 11--17
                    Yongge Tian   Approximation and continuity of
                                  Moore--Penrose inverses of orthogonal
                                  row block matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 18--25
                 V. Kumaran and   
             A. K. Banerjee and   
             A. Vanav Kumar and   
                   K. Vajravelu   MHD flow past a stretching permeable
                                  sheet  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--32
           Antonio Martinez and   
               Jose C. Valverde   Bifurcations of continuous dynamical
                                  systems under extreme and new
                                  transversality conditions  . . . . . . . 33--38
            Shengqiang Tang and   
                 Yixin Xiao and   
                  Zhaojuan Wang   Travelling wave solutions for a class of
                                  nonlinear fourth order variant of a
                                  generalized Camassa--Holm equation . . . 39--47
            Ravi P. Agarwal and   
              Donal O'Regan and   
             Veli B. Shakhmurov   $B$-Separable boundary value problems in
                                  Banach-valued function spaces  . . . . . 48--63
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers of odd order
                                  anti-tridiagonal matrices with zeros in
                                  main skew diagonal and elements $ 1, 1,
                                  1, \ldots, 1; - 1, - 1, - 1, \ldots, - 1
                                  $ in neighbouring diagonals  . . . . . . 64--71
                   Yong Ren and   
                    Ningmao Xia   Existence, uniqueness and stability of
                                  the solutions to neutral stochastic
                                  functional differential equations with
                                  infinite delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
                    Yan Sun and   
                Yeol Je Cho and   
                  Donal O'Regan   Positive solutions for singular second
                                  order Neumann boundary value problems
                                  via a cone fixed point theorem . . . . . 80--86
             M. A. Christou and   
              N. M. Ivanova and   
                 C. Sophocleous   Similarity reductions of the $ (1 +
                                  3)$-dimensional Burgers equation . . . . 87--99
              Guangbin Wang and   
                     Fuping Tan   Some results on a generalized
                                  alternating iterative method . . . . . . 100--106
              Wang Xingyuan and   
                Jia Ruihong and   
                 Zhang Zhenfeng   The generalized Mandelbrot set perturbed
                                  by composing noise of additive and
                                  multiplicative . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--118
               G. Hariharan and   
                  K. Kannan and   
         Kal Renganathan Sharma   Haar wavelet in estimating depth profile
                                  of soil temperature  . . . . . . . . . . 119--125
               Ismail Kucuk and   
                  Ibrahim Sadek   A numerical approach to an optimal
                                  boundary control of the viscous Burgers'
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--135
                    Jin-Lin Liu   Some properties of certain
                                  meromorphically multivalent functions    136--140
                 Xue-Zhi Li and   
               Wen-Sheng Li and   
                     Mini Ghosh   Stability and bifurcation of an SIR
                                  epidemic model with nonlinear incidence
                                  and treatment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--150
        Ramesh B. Kudenatti and   
            Vishwanath B. Awati   Solution of pressure gradient stretching
                                  plate with suction . . . . . . . . . . . 151--157
               John P. Boyd and   
                         Fei Xu   Divergence (Runge Phenomenon) for
                                  least-squares polynomial approximation
                                  on an equispaced grid and
                                  Mock--Chebyshev subset interpolation . . 158--168
                    Han Wei and   
                   Zhang Suying   A variational approach to $ (m +
                                  1)$-dimensional $n$-order field  . . . . 169--176
           A. S. Abdel Rady and   
                E. S. Osman and   
            Mohammed Khalfallah   Multi soliton solution for the system of
                                  Coupled Korteweg--de Vries equations . . 177--181
               M. P. Biswal and   
                     S. Acharya   Transformation of a multi-choice linear
                                  programming problem  . . . . . . . . . . 182--188
          F. Talay Akyildiz and   
               K. Vajravelu and   
            R. N. Mohapatra and   
                 Erik Sweet and   
           Robert A. Van Gorder   Implicit differential equation arising
                                  in the steady flow of a Sisko fluid  . . 189--196
                    Hongwei Lin   On the derivative formula of a rational
                                  Bézier curve at a corner  . . . . . . . . 197--201
            Zhengrong Xiang and   
                   Ronghao Wang   Robust $ L_\infty $ reliable control for
                                  uncertain nonlinear switched systems
                                  with time delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--210
                      Fushan Li   Backward solutions to Neumann and
                                  Dirichlet problems of heat-conduction
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214
               Jiawei Zhang and   
                    Binghe Chen   An iterative method for solving the
                                  Falkner--Skan equation . . . . . . . . . 215--222
                 L. V. Hien and   
                   Q. P. Ha and   
                     V. N. Phat   Stability and stabilization of switched
                                  linear dynamic systems with time delay
                                  and uncertainties  . . . . . . . . . . . 223--231
                    V. Hari and   
                   J. Mateja\vs   Accuracy of two SVD algorithms for 2$
                                  \times $2 triangular matrices  . . . . . 232--257
              James J. Kung and   
           Andrew P. Carverhill   An efficient ex-ante criterion for
                                  ranking investment strategies  . . . . . 258--268
                Yeqiong Shi and   
                Zhengde Dai and   
                    Donglong Li   Application of Exp-function method for
                                  $2$D cubic--quintic Ginzburg--Landau
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--275

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 210, Number 2, April 15, 2009

             Pingping Zhang and   
                      Lufang Mi   Analytic solutions of a second order
                                  iterative functional differential
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--283
               Shuibo Huang and   
                Qiaoyu Tian and   
                     Chunlai Mu   Asymptotic behavior of large solution to
                                  elliptic equation of
                                  Bieberbach--Rademacher type with
                                  convection terms . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--293
           Gabriele Bonanno and   
             Giuseppa Riccobono   Multiplicity results for
                                  Sturm--Liouville boundary value problems 294--297
               Wei-Gui Feng and   
                      Chang Lin   Explicit exact solutions for the $ (2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional Konopelchenko--Dubrovsky
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--302
                  B. Karpuz and   
         J. V. Manojlovi\'c and   
        Ö. Öcalan and   
                    Y. Shoukaku   Oscillation criteria for a class of
                                  second-order neutral delay differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--312
                 Xiao-Ge Xu and   
             Xiang-Hua Meng and   
                Yi-Tian Gao and   
                  Xiao-Yong Wen   Analytic $N$-solitary-wave solution of a
                                  variable-coefficient Gardner equation
                                  from fluid dynamics and plasma physics   313--320
                  Liang Bai and   
                    Guang Zhang   Nontrivial solutions for a nonlinear
                                  discrete elliptic equation with periodic
                                  boundary conditions  . . . . . . . . . . 321--333
   Salih Yalçinba\cs and   
               Mehmet Sezer and   
      Hüseyin Hilmi Sorkun   Legendre polynomial solutions of
                                  high-order linear Fredholm
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 334--349
                J. C. Misra and   
                     G. C. Shit   Biomagnetic viscoelastic fluid flow over
                                  a stretching sheet . . . . . . . . . . . 350--361
                   Pei Yang and   
                  Yong Chen and   
                     Zhi-Bin Li   ADM-Padé technique for the nonlinear
                                  lattice equations  . . . . . . . . . . . 362--375
                  A. Ahrari and   
          M. Shariat-Panahi and   
                     A. A. Atai   GEM: a novel evolutionary optimization
                                  method with improved neighborhood search 376--386
                I. Averbakh and   
                     Y. B. Zhao   Relaxed robust second-order-cone
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--397
                   Xia Wang and   
                  Youde Tao and   
                     Xinyu Song   Pulse vaccination on SEIR epidemic model
                                  with nonlinear incidence rate  . . . . . 398--404
         C. Masood Khalique and   
                Ben Muatjetjeja   Lie group classification of the
                                  generalized Lane--Emden equation . . . . 405--410
               Youjiang Lin and   
              Yongjian Yang and   
                    M. Mammadov   A new filled function method for
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 411--421
       M. Yaghobi Moghaddam and   
                  A. Asgari and   
                     H. Yazdani   Exact travelling wave solutions for the
                                  generalized nonlinear Schrödinger (GNLS)
                                  equation with a source by Extended $
                                  \tanh $--$ \coth $, $ \sin $--$ \cos $
                                  and Exp-Function methods . . . . . . . . 422--435
                    Qing-ju Fan   Horseshoe in a modified Van der
                                  Pol--Duffing circuit . . . . . . . . . . 436--440
                 S. Blandin and   
                  G. Bretti and   
                  A. Cutolo and   
                     B. Piccoli   Numerical simulations of traffic data
                                  via fluid dynamic approach . . . . . . . 441--454
          Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay   Dynamics of an ecological model living
                                  on the edge of chaos . . . . . . . . . . 455--464
                   O. P. Layeni   Note on exact solutions for a class of
                                  nonlinear diffusion equations  . . . . . 465--472
             Zulkifly Abbas and   
                 S. Vahdati and   
        M. Tavassoli Kajani and   
                     K. A. Atan   New construction of wavelets base on
                                  floor function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--478
              Hédi Nabli   An overview on the simplex algorithm . . 479--489
                Tongjun Sun and   
                      Keying Ma   A space--time discontinuous Galerkin
                                  method for linear convection-dominated
                                  Sobolev equations  . . . . . . . . . . . 490--503
                Chenshun Li and   
                   Shuming Chen   Oscillation of second-order functional
                                  differential equations with mixed
                                  nonlinearities and oscillatory
                                  potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--507
               Huan-Wen Liu and   
                 Li-Bin Liu and   
                   Yanping Chen   A semi-discretization method based on
                                  quartic splines for solving
                                  one-space-dimensional hyperbolic
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--514
         Md. Shafiqul Islam and   
             M. Alamgir Hossain   Numerical integrations over an arbitrary
                                  quadrilateral region . . . . . . . . . . 515--524
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Global stability of a difference
                                  equation with maximum  . . . . . . . . . 525--529
                    Hongyan Zhi   Symmetry reductions of the Lax pair for
                                  the 2 + 1-dimensional
                                  Konopelchenko--Dubrovsky equation  . . . 530--535
             Guang-Can Xiao and   
              Da-Quang Xian and   
                   Xi-Qiang Liu   Application of Exp-function method to
                                  Dullin--Gottwald--Holm equation  . . . . 536--541
               Xiaolong Qin and   
                Yeol Je Cho and   
                  Meijuan Shang   Convergence analysis of implicit
                                  iterative algorithms for asymptotically
                                  nonexpansive mappings  . . . . . . . . . 542--550
      Nikolai A. Kudryashov and   
                Maria V. Demina   Traveling wave solutions of the
                                  generalized nonlinear evolution
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--557
              Milan Batista and   
Abdel Rahman A. Ibrahim Karawia   The use of the
                                  Sherman--Morrison--Woodbury formula to
                                  solve cyclic block tri-diagonal and
                                  cyclic block penta-diagonal linear
                                  systems of equations . . . . . . . . . . 558--563
                 Ruya Samli and   
                     Sabri Arik   New results for global stability of a
                                  class of neutral-type neural systems
                                  with time delays . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--570


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 211, Number 1, May 1, 2009

               Dongyang Shi and   
                     Lifang Pei   Low order Crouzeix--Raviart type
                                  nonconforming finite element methods for
                                  the $3$D time-dependent Maxwell's
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                    D. Occorsio   Extended Lagrange interpolation in
                                  weighted uniform norm  . . . . . . . . . 10--22
              A. O. Mostafa and   
                     M. K. Aouf   Certain subclasses of $p$-valent
                                  functions involving the
                                  Dziok--Srivastava operator . . . . . . . 23--32
               Magdi S. Mahmoud   Generalized $ {\cal H}_2 $ control of
                                  switched discrete-time systems with
                                  unknown delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
              Keitarou Ishikawa   Fundamentals of simple games from a
                                  viewpoint of blockability relations  . . 45--53
                    Jonas Rimas   On computing of arbitrary positive
                                  integer powers for one type of even
                                  order symmetric anti-pentadiagonal
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--74
               Ozgur Baskan and   
          Soner Haldenbilen and   
             Huseyin Ceylan and   
                   Halim Ceylan   A new solution algorithm for improving
                                  performance of ant colony optimization   75--84
                  Wangtu Xu and   
                  Shiwei He and   
                   Rui Song and   
                        Juan Li   Reliability based assignment in
                                  stochastic-flow freight network  . . . . 85--94
                    Peng Hu and   
            Chengming Huang and   
                      Shulin Wu   Asymptotic stability of linear multistep
                                  methods for nonlinear neutral delay
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 95--101
                   Yulan Ma and   
                Bangqing Li and   
                      Cong Wang   A series of abundant exact travelling
                                  wave solutions for a modified
                                  generalized Vakhnenko equation using
                                  auxiliary equation method  . . . . . . . 102--107
 Miquel Grau-Sánchez and   
José Luis Díaz-Barrero   Some sixth order zero-finding variants
                                  of Chebyshev--Halley methods . . . . . . 108--110
              Luis Edgar Vicent   Unitary rotation of square-pixellated
                                  images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
                 Xihong Yan and   
                  Deren Han and   
                      Wenyu Sun   A modified projection method with a new
                                  direction for solving variational
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--129
 Miquel Grau-Sánchez and   
             Miquel Noguera and   
José Luis Díaz-Barrero   Adams-like techniques for zero-finder
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--136
            Mohamed Elouafi and   
          Ahmed Driss Aiat Hadj   On the powers and the inverse of a
                                  tridiagonal matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 137--141
                  Weiwei Xu and   
                         Wen Li   The Hermitian reflexive solutions to the
                                  matrix inverse problem AX = B  . . . . . 142--147
                   Hong Gao and   
                    Bingwen Liu   Existence and uniqueness of periodic
                                  solutions for forced Rayleigh-type
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--154
                      Jian Wang   Error analysis of discrete conservation
                                  laws for Hamiltonian PDEs under the
                                  central box discretizations  . . . . . . 155--166
                   Zhe Chen and   
              Changhe Xiang and   
                Kequan Zhao and   
                     Xuewen Liu   Convergence analysis of Tikhonov-type
                                  regularization algorithms for
                                  multiobjective optimization problems . . 167--172
                Fulong Wang and   
                Yuqing Chen and   
                  Donal O'Regan   Generalized degree for classes of finite
                                  dimensional upper hemi-continuous
                                  mappings in separable Banach spaces  . . 173--176
                  Ping Wang and   
                        Na Zhao   Finite termination of a smoothing-type
                                  algorithm for the monotone affine
                                  variational inequality problem . . . . . 177--184
            Shengqiang Tang and   
                  Jie Zheng and   
                  Zhaojuan Wang   The integral factor method for solving a
                                  class of generalized KdV equation  . . . 185--189
       José L. Hueso and   
    Eulalia Martínez and   
             Juan R. Torregrosa   Third and fourth order iterative methods
                                  free from second derivative for
                                  nonlinear systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 190--197
           H. M. Srivastava and   
             \vZivorad Tomovski   Fractional calculus with an integral
                                  operator containing a generalized
                                  Mittag--Leffler function in the kernel   198--210
                Jingxue Yin and   
                 Yinghua Li and   
                      Rui Huang   The Cahn--Hilliard type equations with
                                  periodic potentials and sources  . . . . 211--221
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Weighted differentiation composition
                                  operators from mixed-norm spaces to
                                  weighted-type spaces . . . . . . . . . . 222--233
                  Shao-Gao Deng   A local mountain pass theorem and
                                  applications to a double perturbed $
                                  p(x)$-Laplacian equations  . . . . . . . 234--241
                  A. G. Bratsos   A note on a paper by A. G. Bratsos, M.
                                  Ehrhardt and I. Th. Famelis  . . . . . . 242--245
                   Yajun Ma and   
                      Jitao Sun   Uniform eventual Lipschitz stability of
                                  impulsive systems on time scales . . . . 246--250
           Darryl R. Overby and   
         Jeffrey W. Ruberti and   
                Haiyan Gong and   
           Thomas F. Freddo and   
                   Mark Johnson   Response to ``Merchant and Heys, Effects
                                  of Variable Permeability on Aqueous
                                  Humor Outflow, Applied Mathematics and
                                  Computation 196 (2008) 371--380''  . . . 251--252
            Jeffrey J. Heys and   
            Bradley M. Merchant   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 253--253

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 211, Number 2, May 15, 2009

          Bilâl Altay and   
              Feyzi Ba\csar and   
             Eberhard Malkowsky   Matrix transformations on some sequence
                                  spaces related to strong Ces\`aro
                                  summability and boundedness  . . . . . . 255--264
                Hong-bo Guo and   
                Xin-guo Liu and   
                   Wei-guo Wang   The block numerical range of matrix
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--283
               G. Hariharan and   
                  K. Kannan and   
                   K. R. Sharma   Haar wavelet method for solving Fisher's
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--292
                  Yang Yang and   
                    Jihui Zhang   Existence of solutions for some discrete
                                  boundary value problems with a parameter 293--302
           C. Jordán and   
    C. Mendes Araújo and   
             Juan R. Torregrosa   $ N_0 $ completions on partial matrices  303--312
           Truong Nguyen-Ba and   
                    Han Hao and   
               Hemza Yagoub and   
       Rémi Vaillancourt   One-step 5-stage
                                  Hermite--Birkhoff--Taylor ODE solver of
                                  order 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--328
  Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek and   
                 Vlatko Dolecek   Application of Rouche's theorem for MP
                                  filter design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--335
             Wang Xiao-Fang and   
                   Fan Tian-You   Study on the dynamics of the double
                                  cantilever-beam specimen of decagonal
                                  Al--Ni--Co quasicrystals . . . . . . . . 336--346
                Jianqin Mei and   
                 Hongqing Zhang   Symmetry reductions and explicit
                                  solutions of a $ (3 + 1)$-dimensional
                                  PDE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--353
          Nata\vsa Kreji\'c and   
           Zorana Lu\vzanin and   
               Irena Stojkovska   Gauss--Newton-based BFGS method with
                                  filter for unconstrained minimization    354--362
            R. Iferroudjene and   
             K. Abed Meraim and   
                 A. Belouchrani   A new Jacobi-like method for joint
                                  diagonalization of arbitrary
                                  non-defective matrices . . . . . . . . . 363--373
                  Hao Cheng and   
                  Chu-Li Fu and   
                   Xiao-Li Feng   Determining surface heat flux in the
                                  steady state for the Cauchy problem for
                                  the Laplace equation . . . . . . . . . . 374--382
          Amit Kumar Maheshwari   A fourth order iterative method for
                                  solving nonlinear equations  . . . . . . 383--391
              Junling Zhang and   
            Changyong Liang and   
             Yongqing Huang and   
                    Jian Wu and   
                   Shanlin Yang   An effective multiagent evolutionary
                                  algorithm integrating a novel roulette
                                  inversion operator for engineering
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--416
             Xingping Sheng and   
                  Guoliang Chen   An oblique projection iterative method
                                  to compute Drazin inverse and group
                                  inverse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--421
                   Qi Zhang and   
             Zhao Zhengquan and   
                     Gui Weihua   Bifurcation of limit cycles at the
                                  equator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--426
                     Min Li and   
                    Yuxiang Sun   Practical criteria for $H$-matrices  . . 427--433
               Congying Han and   
                Yongli Wang and   
                     Guoping He   On the convergence of asynchronous
                                  parallel algorithm for large-scale
                                  linearly constrained minimization
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--441
               Lingyun Wang and   
                     Li Xie and   
                  Xianfang Wang   The residual based interactive
                                  stochastic gradient algorithms for
                                  controlled moving average models . . . . 442--449
                 Yao Ouyang and   
               Radko Mesiar and   
                         Jun Li   On the comonotonic-$ \fbox {*}
                                  $-property for Sugeno integral . . . . . 450--458
             A. Chakrabarti and   
                   S. C. Martha   Approximate solutions of Fredholm
                                  integral equations of the second kind    459--466
             Xiao-Song Yang and   
                  Qingdu Li and   
                   Shijie Cheng   Horseshoe chaos and topological entropy
                                  estimate in a simple power system  . . . 467--473
              Changbum Chun and   
                      Beny Neta   A third-order modification of Newton's
                                  method for multiple roots  . . . . . . . 474--479
                 H. Hashish and   
               S. H. Behiry and   
                 N. A. El-Shamy   Numerical integration using wavelets . . 480--487
            Jüri Majak and   
              Meelis Pohlak and   
               Martin Eerme and   
                Toomas Lepikult   Weak formulation based Haar wavelet
                                  method for solving differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--494
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Multiple-soliton solutions and
                                  multiple-singular soliton solutions for
                                  two higher-dimensional shallow water
                                  wave equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--501
                 Cunlu Zhao and   
                      Chun Yang   Exact solutions for electro-osmotic flow
                                  of viscoelastic fluids in rectangular
                                  micro-channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--509
                   Y. Daido and   
                     Y. Lei and   
                  J. J. Liu and   
                    G. Nakamura   Numerical implementations of dynamical
                                  probe method for non-stationary heat
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--521
           Zenonas Navickas and   
             Minvydas Ragulskis   How far one can go with the Exp-function
                                  method?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--530
             \.Ismail Aslan and   
             Turgut Özi\cs   On the validity and reliability of the $
                                  (\frac {G'}{G}) $-expansion method by
                                  using higher-order nonlinear equations   531--536


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 212, Number 1, June 1, 2009

             E. M. E. Zayed and   
              Khaled A. Gepreel   Some applications of the $ (\frac
                                  {G'}{G}) $-expansion method to
                                  non-linear partial differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
                   Alfred Huber   The Cavalcante--Tenenblat equation ---
                                  Does the equation admits physical
                                  significance?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--22
                M. A. Abdou and   
                   S. A. Aseeri   Goursat functions for an infinite plate
                                  with a generalized curvilinear hole in $
                                  \zeta $-plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
           Yousef Hashem Zahran   An efficient WENO scheme for solving
                                  hyperbolic conservation laws . . . . . . 37--50
                S. S. Chang and   
               H. W. J. Lee and   
               Chi Kin Chan and   
                      J. K. Kim   Approximating solutions of variational
                                  inequalities for asymptotically
                                  nonexpansive mappings  . . . . . . . . . 51--59
             Shih-sen Chang and   
           H. W. Joseph Lee and   
                   Chi Kin Chan   Convergence theorem of common fixed
                                  points for Lipschitzian
                                  pseudocontraction semigroups in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
           H. M. Srivastava and   
     Sevtap Sümer Eker and   
                  Bilal \cSeker   Inclusion and neighborhood properties
                                  for certain classes of multivalently
                                  analytic functions of complex order
                                  associated with the convolution
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
                 R. Rajaram and   
                      M. Najafi   Analytical treatment and convergence of
                                  the Adomian decomposition method for a
                                  system of coupled damped wave equations  72--81
               Hüseyin Bor   Local properties of factored Fourier
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--85
                Hongmei Guo and   
             Shouming Zhong and   
                    Fengyin Gao   Design of PD controller for
                                  master--slave synchronization of Lur'e
                                  systems with time-delay  . . . . . . . . 86--93
   Mohammadali Khosravifard and   
           Morteza Esmaeili and   
                  Hossein Saidi   Extension of the Lasserre--Avrachenkov
                                  theorem on the integral of multilinear
                                  forms over simplices . . . . . . . . . . 94--99
        M. Gousidou-Koutita and   
              T. J. Kalvouridis   On the efficiency of Newton and Broyden
                                  numerical methods in the investigation
                                  of the regular polygon problem of $ (N +
                                  1) $ bodies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--112
               R. Samidurai and   
               R. Sakthivel and   
                  S. M. Anthoni   Global asymptotic stability of BAM
                                  neural networks with mixed delays and
                                  impulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   The variational iteration method for
                                  analytic treatment for linear and
                                  nonlinear ODEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--134
                Yun-Zhi Zou and   
                 Nan-Jing Huang   A new system of variational inclusions
                                  involving $ H(\cdot, \cdot) $-accretive
                                  operator in Banach spaces  . . . . . . . 135--144
              Hideaki Matsunaga   Stability switches in a system of linear
                                  differential equations with diagonal
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
               Hai-Jun Wang and   
                     De-Xin Cao   Interval expansion method for nonlinear
                                  equation in several variables  . . . . . 153--161
           G. A. Papakostas and   
             Y. S. Boutalis and   
               D. A. Karras and   
                 B. G. Mertzios   Pattern classification by using improved
                                  wavelet Compressed Zernike Moments . . . 162--176
              Xuedong Zheng and   
                     Jin Xu and   
                          Wu Li   Parallel DNA arithmetic operation based
                                  on $n$-moduli set  . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
               Ching-Yang Cheng   Nonsimilar boundary layer analysis of
                                  double-diffusive convection from a
                                  vertical truncated cone in a porous
                                  medium with variable viscosity . . . . . 185--193
                  Dulal Pal and   
                Hiranmoy Mondal   Influence of temperature-dependent
                                  viscosity and thermal radiation on MHD
                                  forced convection over a non-isothermal
                                  wedge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--208
          Abraham J. Arenas and   
Gilberto González-Parra and   
         Lucas Jódar and   
           Rafael-J. Villanueva   Piecewise finite series solution of
                                  nonlinear initial value differential
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--215
                 Yaohang Li and   
   Vladimir A. Protopopescu and   
              Nikita Arnold and   
                Xinyu Zhang and   
                   Andrey Gorin   Hybrid parallel tempering and simulated
                                  annealing method . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--228
                Songxiao Li and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Weighted-Hardy functions with Hadamard
                                  gaps on the unit ball  . . . . . . . . . 229--233
               Peiping Shen and   
             Yongqiang Chen and   
                        Yuan Ma   Solving sum of quadratic ratios
                                  fractional programs via monotonic
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--244
                     Arun Kumar   An analytical solution for a coupled
                                  partial differential equation  . . . . . 245--250
              Shoufeng Shen and   
                  Junquang Song   Nonlinear variable separation solutions
                                  of some mKdV-type equations and the
                                  unified construction method  . . . . . . 251--256
               Dongyang Shi and   
                      Hui Liang   Convergence and superconvergence
                                  analysis of a new quadratic Hermite-type
                                  triangular element on anisotropic meshes 257--269
                  Maziar Salahi   A short note on $ \min_{x \in R^n} \frac
                                  {||A x - b||^2}{1 + ||x||^2} $ . . . . . 270--272
                 Nenad Ujevi\'c   Notes on a paper considering nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
                  Qing-Song Mao   A note on the Chebyshev-type inequality
                                  of Sugeno integrals  . . . . . . . . . . 275--279

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 212, Number 2, June 15, 2009

                 Mingshu Ma and   
                 Wenjuan Ma and   
                  Xiaofeng Wang   A compact alternate direct implicit
                                  difference method for solving parabolic
                                  equation of multi-dimension  . . . . . . 281--286
                Rahmat Ali Khan   Generalized approximation method for
                                  heat radiation equations . . . . . . . . 287--295
                   Xin Zeng and   
                 Deng-Shan Wang   A generalized extended rational
                                  expansion method and its application to
                                  $ (1 + 1)$-dimensional dispersive long
                                  wave equation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--304
                Ruiqing Shi and   
               Xiaowu Jiang and   
                    Lansun Chen   The effect of impulsive vaccination on
                                  an SIR epidemic model  . . . . . . . . . 305--311
                  Guan-Ting Liu   Lame equation and asymptotic
                                  higher-order periodic solutions to
                                  nonlinear evolution equations  . . . . . 312--317
                      Zhitao Li   Convergence analysis of an upwind mixed
                                  element method for advection diffusion
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--326
                   Bin Zhou and   
                Zhao-Yan Li and   
             Guang-Ren Duan and   
                      Yong Wang   Solutions to a family of matrix
                                  equations by using the Kronecker matrix
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336
              M. A. Benatta and   
                  A. Tounsi and   
                  I. Mechab and   
            M. Bachir Bouiadjra   Mathematical solution for bending of
                                  short hybrid composite beams with
                                  variable fibers spacing  . . . . . . . . 337--348
            Cristiano Bocci and   
                    Filip Cools   A tropical interpretation of
                                  $m$-dissimilarity maps . . . . . . . . . 349--356
                    Qi Long and   
                     Qi-Ru Wang   New oscillation criteria of second-order
                                  nonlinear differential equations . . . . 357--365
             Yong-Gang Wang and   
              Hui-Fang Song and   
                         Dan Li   Solving two-point boundary value
                                  problems using combined homotopy
                                  perturbation method and Green's function
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--376
        Hasan Serter Yalcin and   
             Aytac Arikoglu and   
                  Ibrahim Ozkol   Free vibration analysis of circular
                                  plates by differential transformation
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--386
             Chi-Chang Wang and   
           David. T. W. Lin and   
                    Hai-Ping Hu   Error analysis of approximate solutions
                                  of non-linear Burgers' equation  . . . . 387--395
            Kuo-Liang Chung and   
                  Chia-Lun Tsai   Fast incremental algorithm for speeding
                                  up the computation of binarization . . . 396--408
                        Mao Wei   Convergence of numerical solutions for
                                  variable delay differential equations
                                  driven by Poisson random jump measure    409--417
              Z. Jackiewicz and   
                        R. Park   A strategy for choosing Gegenbauer
                                  reconstruction parameters for numerical
                                  stability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--434
                     R. Lin and   
                     F. Liu and   
                     V. Anh and   
                      I. Turner   Stability and convergence of a new
                                  explicit finite-difference approximation
                                  for the variable-order nonlinear
                                  fractional diffusion equation  . . . . . 435--445
                   Yang Liu and   
                        Hong Li   $ H^1 $-Galerkin mixed finite element
                                  methods for pseudo-hyperbolic equations  446--457
               Marjan Uddin and   
                Sirajul Haq and   
                 Siraj-ul-Islam   A mesh-free numerical method for
                                  solution of the family of
                                  Kuramoto--Sivashinsky equations  . . . . 458--469
                  Haiyan Xu and   
                Kevin W. Li and   
             Keith W. Hipel and   
                D. Marc Kilgour   A matrix approach to status quo analysis
                                  in the graph model for conflict
                                  resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--480
               Fan-Liang Li and   
                  Xi-Yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   Left and right inverse eigenpairs
                                  problem of generalized centrosymmetric
                                  matrices and its optimal approximation
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--487
                   Naimin Zhang   An online gradient method with momentum
                                  for two-layer feedforward neural
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--498
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Weighted composition operators from
                                  weighted Bergman spaces to weighted-type
                                  spaces on the unit ball  . . . . . . . . 499--504
                 Kusum Deep and   
       Krishna Pratap Singh and   
               M. L. Kansal and   
                       C. Mohan   A real coded genetic algorithm for
                                  solving integer and mixed integer
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 505--518
      Oskar Maria Baksalary and   
             Götz Trenkler   Column space equalities for orthogonal
                                  projectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--529
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                     Ju H. Park   Exponential stability analysis for
                                  uncertain neural networks with interval
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 530--541
                Pham Ky Anh and   
                  Cao Van Chung   Parallel iterative regularization
                                  methods for solving systems of ill-posed
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--550
               Shi-Liang Wu and   
                 Ting-Zhu Huang   Erratum to: ``Convergence of the
                                  preconditioned AOR method for
                                  irreducible $L$-matrices'' [Appl. Math.
                                  Comput. 201 (2008) 56--64] . . . . . . . 551--552


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 213, Number 1, July 1, 2009

                Yongfeng Qi and   
                   Jiashu Zhang   ($2$D)$^2$ PCALDA: an efficient approach
                                  for face recognition . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
                  A. M. Saddeek   Generalized iterative process and
                                  associated regularization for
                                  $J$-Pseudomonotone mixed variational
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--17
  Dragana S. Cvetkovi\'c-Ili\'c   Expression of the Drazin and MP-inverse
                                  of partitioned matrix and quotient
                                  identity of generalized Schur complement 18--24
           C. C. S. Tavares and   
                   M. L. Santos   On the Kirchhoff plates equations with
                                  thermal effects and memory boundary
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
     Abdul-Fattah K. A. Bukhari   Numerical methods of singular integral
                                  equation for solving some problem in
                                  fluid dynamic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--46
                       R. Touma   Central unstaggered finite volume
                                  schemes for hyperbolic systems:
                                  Applications to unsteady shallow water
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--59
                  Neela Nataraj   A mixed finite element method for fourth
                                  order eigenvalue problems  . . . . . . . 60--72
                   Xia Wang and   
                     Liping Liu   Two new families of sixth-order methods
                                  for solving non-linear equations . . . . 73--78
                  R. K. Mohanty   A variable mesh C-SPLAGE method of
                                  accuracy $ O(k^2 h_\ell^{-1} + k h_\ell
                                  + h_\ell^3) $ for $1$D nonlinear
                                  parabolic equations  . . . . . . . . . . 79--91
            Kuo-Hsiung Wang and   
                  Dong-Yuh Yang   Controlling arrivals for a queueing
                                  system with an unreliable server:
                                  Newton-Quasi method  . . . . . . . . . . 92--101
       Józef Bana\'s and   
                   Beata Rzepka   On local attractivity and asymptotic
                                  stability of solutions of a quadratic
                                  Volterra integral equation . . . . . . . 102--111
                Vijay Gupta and   
Antonio-Jesús López-Moreno and   
José-Manuel Latorre-Palacios   On simultaneous approximation of the
                                  Bernstein Durrmeyer operators  . . . . . 112--120
                      M. Yousuf   Efficient $L$-stable method for
                                  parabolic problems with application to
                                  pricing American options under
                                  stochastic volatility  . . . . . . . . . 121--136
                    Qi Wang and   
                   Yue Wang and   
                   Binxiang Dai   Existence and uniqueness of positive
                                  periodic solutions for a neutral
                                  Logarithmic population model . . . . . . 137--147
                  Quan Yuan and   
                 Xiao-Song Yang   Computer-assisted verification of chaos
                                  in the model of nuclear spin generator   148--152
                 R. Quintanilla   Spatial behaviour of solutions of the
                                  three-phase-lag heat equation  . . . . . 153--162
                    Fazhan Geng   A new reproducing kernel Hilbert space
                                  method for solving nonlinear
                                  fourth-order boundary value problems . . 163--169
         Oluwole Daniel Makinde   On thermal stability of a reactive
                                  third-grade fluid in a channel with
                                  convective cooling the walls . . . . . . 170--176
              Wansheng Wang and   
               Tingting Qin and   
                      Shoufu Li   Stability of one-leg $ \theta $-methods
                                  for nonlinear neutral differential
                                  equations with proportional delay  . . . 177--183
                   Yu-Yi Fu and   
                 Chia-Ju Wu and   
             Jin-Tsong Jeng and   
                    Chia-Nan Ko   Identification of MIMO systems using
                                  radial basis function networks with
                                  hybrid learning algorithm  . . . . . . . 184--196
                S. Srinivas and   
                M. Kothandapani   The influence of heat and mass transfer
                                  on MHD peristaltic flow through a porous
                                  space with compliant walls . . . . . . . 197--208
                 H. Hashish and   
               S. H. Behiry and   
                      A. Elsaid   Solving the $2$-D heat equations using
                                  wavelet-Galerkin method with variable
                                  time step  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--215
                  C. Voglis and   
                  I. E. Lagaris   Towards ``Ideal Multistart''. A
                                  stochastic approach for locating the
                                  minima of a continuous function inside a
                                  bounded domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--229
                 Chun Yuan Deng   A note on the Drazin inverses with
                                  Banachiewicz--Schur forms  . . . . . . . 230--234
                Yi-Gang Cen and   
                     Li-Hui Cen   Explicit construction of high-pass
                                  filter sequence for orthogonal
                                  multiwavelets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--242
              A. De Gaetano and   
                 S. Panunzi and   
                 F. Rinaldi and   
                    A. Risi and   
                  M. Sciandrone   A patient adaptable ECG beat classifier
                                  based on neural networks . . . . . . . . 243--249
                 A. Hussein and   
                    M. M. Selim   Solution of the stochastic transport
                                  equation of neutral particles with
                                  anisotropic scattering using RVT
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--261
                  Yang Yang and   
                    Jihui Zhang   Infinitely many mountain pass solutions
                                  on a kind of fourth-order Neumann
                                  boundary value problem . . . . . . . . . 262--271
                    Gang Li and   
             Changming Ding and   
                      Ming Chen   Intertwined basins of attraction of
                                  dynamical systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
             Rolf Färe and   
               Shawna Grosskopf   A comment on dynamic DEA . . . . . . . . 275--276

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 213, Number 2, July 15, 2009

            Hassan Ghassemi and   
            Ahmad Reza Kohansal   Numerical evaluation of various levels
                                  of singular integrals, arising in BEM
                                  and its application in hydrofoil
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--289
    L'ubomír Ba\vnas and   
           Robert Nürnberg   A multigrid method for the
                                  Cahn--Hilliard equation with obstacle
                                  potential  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--303
            Karen Avetisyan and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   The generalized Libera transform is
                                  bounded on the Besov mixed-norm, BMOA
                                  and VMOA spaces on the unit disc . . . . 304--311
                   Yu Jiang and   
                Huiming Wei and   
                 Xinyu Song and   
                 Liquan Mei and   
                Guanghui Su and   
                   Suizheng Qiu   Global attractivity and permanence of a
                                  delayed SVEIR epidemic model with pulse
                                  vaccination and saturation incidence . . 312--321
     Quô\'c-Anh Ngô   Some mean value theorems for integrals
                                  on time scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--328
               Xueyong Zhou and   
               Xiangyun Shi and   
             Zhonghua Zhang and   
                     Xinyu Song   Dynamical behavior of a virus dynamics
                                  model with CTL immune response . . . . . 329--347
                 Vasile Berinde   A common fixed point theorem for
                                  compatible quasi contractive self
                                  mappings in metric spaces  . . . . . . . 348--354
José Roberto C. Piqueira and   
              Vanessa O. Araujo   A modified epidemiological model for
                                  computer viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--360
                 Neculai Andrei   Acceleration of conjugate gradient
                                  algorithms for unconstrained
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--369
        Miljana Jovanovi\'c and   
            Svetlana Jankovi\'c   Neutral stochastic functional
                                  differential equations with additive
                                  perturbations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--379
              Tadeusz Jankowski   On nonlinear two-point boundary value
                                  problems for impulsive
                                  differential-algebraic problems  . . . . 380--388
                 Y. Z. Chen and   
                  X. Y. Lin and   
                     Z. X. Wang   A semi-analytic solution for multiple
                                  curved cracks emanating from circular
                                  hole using singular integral equation    389--404
                    Ping Li and   
                Shou-Ming Zhong   BIBO stabilization of piecewise switched
                                  linear systems with delays and nonlinear
                                  perturbations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--410
              Dong-Yang Shi and   
                 Xiao-Ling Wang   A low order anisotropic nonconforming
                                  characteristic finite element method for
                                  a convection-dominated transport problem 411--418
                Vijay Gupta and   
              P. N. Agrawal and   
               Asha Ram Gairola   On the integrated Baskakov type
                                  operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--425
               Aydin \.Izgi and   
\.Ibrahim Büyükyazici and   
                 Ertan \.Ibikli   Rate of convergence by
                                  Chlodowsky--Taylor polynomials . . . . . 426--431
                 Dongsheng Kang   Positive solutions to the weighted
                                  critical quasilinear problems  . . . . . 432--439
                Hongmin Ren and   
             Ioannis K. Argyros   On convergence of the modified Newton's
                                  method under Hölder continuous Fréchet
                                  derivative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--448
               Jianhua Shen and   
                     Yanjun Liu   Asymptotic behavior of solutions for
                                  nonlinear delay differential equation
                                  with impulses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--454
                George Mavrotas   Effective implementation of the $
                                  \epsilon $-constraint method in
                                  Multi-Objective Mathematical Programming
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--465
                I. A. Nikas and   
                   T. N. Grapsa   Bounding the zeros of an interval
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--478
       Bratislav Iri\vcanin and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   On a class of third-order nonlinear
                                  difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 479--483
                  G. Pastor and   
                  M. Romera and   
                 G. Alvarez and   
                  D. Arroyo and   
                 A. B. Orue and   
               V. Fernandez and   
                     F. Montoya   A general view of pseudoharmonics and
                                  pseudoantiharmonics to calculate
                                  external arguments of Douady and Hubbard 484--497
                  Jong Soo Jung   Strong convergence of composite
                                  iterative methods for equilibrium
                                  problems and fixed point problems  . . . 498--505
                      Ninghu Su   $N$-dimensional fractional
                                  Fokker--Planck equation and its
                                  solutions for anomalous radial two-phase
                                  flow in porous media . . . . . . . . . . 506--515
                   Yongxin Yuan   A symmetric inverse eigenvalue problem
                                  in structural dynamic model updating . . 516--521
                Wenyi Huang and   
                     Jian Zhang   Instability of the standing waves for
                                  nonlinear Klein--Gordon equations with
                                  damping term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--528
                 Jinxian Li and   
                 Jurang Yan and   
                    Xinchun Jia   Dynamical analysis of Cohen--Grossberg
                                  neural networks with finite and infinite
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--537
                 Yuzhu Xiao and   
                     Wei Xu and   
                Sufang Tang and   
                     Xiuchun Li   Adaptive complete synchronization of the
                                  noise-perturbed two bi-directionally
                                  coupled chaotic systems with time-delay
                                  and unknown parametric mismatch  . . . . 538--547
              M. O. Osilike and   
                       Y. Shehu   Explicit averaging cyclic algorithm for
                                  common fixed points of asymptotically
                                  strictly pseudocontractive maps  . . . . 548--553
                 Zeqing Liu and   
              Shin Min Kang and   
                Jeong Sheok Ume   Existence of uncountably many bounded
                                  nonoscillatory solutions and their
                                  iterative approximations for second
                                  order nonlinear neutral delay difference
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--576
               Jinqian Feng and   
                         Wei Xu   Analysis of bifurcations for non-linear
                                  stochastic non-smooth vibro-impact
                                  system via top Lyapunov exponent . . . . 577--586
                  Haijun Hu and   
                   Lihong Huang   Stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis
                                  on a ring of four neurons with delays    587--599


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 214, Number 1, August 1, 2009

                   Yi Zhang and   
                Xiao-na Cai and   
                   Hong-xian Xu   A note on ``The integrable KdV6
                                  equation: Multiple soliton solutions and
                                  multiple singular soliton solutions''    1--3
              Peiguang Wang and   
                    Ping Li and   
                    Yonghong Wu   k th Order convergence for semilinear
                                  elliptic boundary value problems . . . . 4--9
                 Quan Zheng and   
                  Jing Wang and   
                  Peng Zhao and   
                       Li Zhang   A Steffensen-like method and its
                                  higher-order variants  . . . . . . . . . 10--16
               Zhaoxia Wang and   
                Xingwu Chen and   
                  Weinian Zhang   Local bifurcations of critical periods
                                  in a generalized $2$D LV system  . . . . 17--25
                 Zhenhua He and   
                        Feng Gu   Generalized system for relaxed
                                  cocoercive mixed variational
                                  inequalities in Hilbert spaces . . . . . 26--30
                       J. L. Wu   A wavelet operational method for solving
                                  fractional partial differential
                                  equations numerically  . . . . . . . . . 31--40
               Bingchen Liu and   
                 Fengjie Li and   
                   Sining Zheng   Note on a nonlinear diffusion system
                                  with convection  . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
       Srinivas R. Chakravarthy   A disaster queue with Markovian arrivals
                                  and impatient customers  . . . . . . . . 48--59
                  Xin Jiang and   
                Xiu-yun Gao and   
             Sheng-chang Li and   
                 Yu-ren Shi and   
                  Wen-shan Duan   Oblique interactions between
                                  multi-solitons in plasma . . . . . . . . 60--65
           Miguel V. S. Frasson   On the dominance of roots of
                                  characteristic equations for neutral
                                  functional differential equations  . . . 66--72
                Li-Ming Cai and   
                 Xue-Zhi Li and   
                     Mini Ghosh   Global stability of a stage-structured
                                  epidemic model with a nonlinear
                                  incidence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82
                   Bashir Ahmad   Stability in terms of two measures for
                                  perturbed impulsive delay
                                  integro-differential equations . . . . . 83--89
               Wen Luosheng and   
               Yang Xiaofan and   
                Zhong Jiang and   
                      Han Liang   Canonical form of a nonlinear monetary
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--94
                 Aizhi Weng and   
                      Jitao Sun   Impulsive stabilization of second-order
                                  nonlinear delay differential systems . . 95--101
                     Ji Gao and   
                  Satit Saejung   Some geometric measures of spheres in
                                  Banach spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--107
            Dervis Karaboga and   
                   Bahriye Akay   A comparative study of Artificial Bee
                                  Colony algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--132
                 Jishen Jia and   
                     Shaomin Wu   Optimizing replacement policy for a
                                  cold-standby system with waiting repair
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
             J. A. Ezquerro and   
     M. A. Hernández and   
                      N. Romero   Newton-type methods of high order and
                                  domains of semilocal and global
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--154
                   Bing Liu and   
                      Lei Zhang   Dynamics of a two-species
                                  Lotka--Volterra competition system in a
                                  polluted environment with pulse toxicant
                                  input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
                   Hui Fang and   
                    Dapeng Zhao   Existence of nontrivial homoclinic
                                  orbits for fourth-order difference
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--170
               J. R. Sharma and   
                 R. K. Guha and   
                   Rajni Sharma   Some variants of Hansen--Patrick method
                                  with third and fourth order convergence  171--177
              Wei-Chang Yeh and   
                   H. W. Corley   A simple direct cosine simplex algorithm 178--186
                  Anmin Mao and   
                    Shixia Luan   Critical points theorems concerning
                                  strongly indefinite functionals and
                                  infinite many periodic solutions for a
                                  class of Hamiltonian systems . . . . . . 187--200
                    M. Ayub and   
                  M. Ramzan and   
                     A. B. Mann   Acoustic diffraction by an oscillating
                                  strip  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--209
                 Zhang Chen and   
               Donghua Zhao and   
                       Xilin Fu   Discrete analogue of high-order periodic
                                  Cohen--Grossberg neural networks with
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--217
                   Li Zhang and   
                  Hongyi Wu and   
                    Jieqing Tan   Dual bases for Wang--Bézier basis and
                                  their applications . . . . . . . . . . . 218--227
                        Yu Yang   Hopf bifurcation in a two-competitor,
                                  one-prey system with time delay  . . . . 228--235
                 Weihong Bi and   
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                    Hongmin Ren   A new family of eighth-order iterative
                                  methods for solving nonlinear equations  236--245
  Predrag S. Stanimirovi\'c and   
           Milan B. Tasi\'c and   
                       Ky M. Vu   Extensions of Faddeev's algorithms to
                                  polynomial matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 246--258
               Xiaohan Long and   
                    Yirang Yuan   Multistep characteristic method for
                                  incompressible flow in porous media  . . 259--270
                 Bani Singh and   
              Anuj Bhardwaj and   
                     Rashid Ali   A wavelet method for solving singular
                                  integral equation of MHD . . . . . . . . 271--279
                    Gui Liu and   
                     Weidong Yu   Smart case-based indexing in worsted
                                  roving process: Combination of rough set
                                  and case-based reasoning . . . . . . . . 280--286
                    J. I. Ramos   Iterative and non-iterative methods for
                                  non-linear Volterra integro-differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--296
                Lingna Wang and   
                     Yiping Lin   Global exponential stability for
                                  shunting inhibitory CNNs with delays . . 297--303
                    Songxiao Li   Generalized Hilbert operator on the
                                  Dirichlet-type space . . . . . . . . . . 304--309
               Fanglei Wang and   
                  Wanjun Li and   
                       Yukun An   Nonnegative doubly periodic solutions
                                  for nonlinear telegraph system with
                                  twin-parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--317
              Xie Ping Ding and   
                 Zhong Bao Wang   Sensitivity analysis for a system of
                                  parametric generalized mixed
                                  quasi-variational inclusions involving $
                                  ({K} \eta)$-monotone mappings  . . . . . 318--327

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 214, Number 2, August 15, 2009

               Hwei-Jen Lin and   
                    Jih Pin Yeh   Optimal reduction of solutions for
                                  support vector machines  . . . . . . . . 329--335
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
              Saima Mustafa and   
                   Bushra Malik   On some classes of $p$-valent functions
                                  involving Carlson--Shaffer operator  . . 336--341
                A. Kammanee and   
               C. Böckmann   Boundary value method for inverse
                                  Sturm--Liouville problems  . . . . . . . 342--352
               S. A. Belbas and   
                  W. H. Schmidt   Optimal control of impulsive Volterra
                                  equations with variable impulse times    353--369
               Houria Triki and   
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Sub-ODE method and soliton solutions for
                                  the variable-coefficient mKdV equation   370--373
                    Phan T. Nam   Exponential stability criterion for
                                  time-delay systems with nonlinear
                                  uncertainties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--380
                 Xinyu Song and   
                   Yu Jiang and   
                    Huiming Wei   Analysis of a saturation incidence
                                  SVEIRS epidemic model with pulse and two
                                  time delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--390
                 Xiaoji Liu and   
                 Yaoming Yu and   
                     Chunmei Hu   The iterative methods for computing the
                                  generalized inverse $ A^{(2)}_{T, S} $
                                  of the bounded linear operator between
                                  Banach spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--410
                  Guihua Li and   
                     Wendi Wang   Bifurcation analysis of an epidemic
                                  model with nonlinear incidence . . . . . 411--423
               Jingbao Yang and   
                Zhongli Wei and   
                         Ke Liu   Existence of symmetric positive
                                  solutions for a class of
                                  Sturm--Liouville-like boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--432
               Jindong Shen and   
                   Chuanqing Gu   Computing the determinants of matrix Padé
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--441
                  Ai-Guo Wu and   
                  Gang Feng and   
                Junqiang Hu and   
                 Guang-Ren Duan   Closed-form solutions to the
                                  nonhomogeneous Yakubovich-conjugate
                                  matrix equation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--450
                  Yuquan Ye and   
               Chi Kin Chan and   
                   H. W. J. Lee   The existence results for obstacle
                                  optimal control problems . . . . . . . . 451--456
                   Yong Ren and   
                    Ningmao Xia   A note on the existence and uniqueness
                                  of the solution to neutral stochastic
                                  functional differential equations with
                                  infinite delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--461
            Juan F. Navarro and   
          M. C. Martínez   Universality of fractal dimension on
                                  time-independent Hamiltonian systems . . 462--467
                  Ü. Lepik   Solving fractional integral equations by
                                  the Haar wavelet method  . . . . . . . . 468--478
                   Xia Tian and   
                        Hua Dai   Inverse mode problems for the finite
                                  element model of a vibrating rod . . . . 479--486
               Teresa Faria and   
        José J. Oliveira   Boundedness and global exponential
                                  stability for delayed differential
                                  equations with applications  . . . . . . 487--496
            Mohamed Elouafi and   
          Ahmed Driss Aiat Hadj   A new recursive algorithm for inverting
                                  Hessenberg matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 497--499
            Ernesto Estrada and   
                Naomichi Hatano   Communicability graph and community
                                  structures in complex networks . . . . . 500--511
              Mohammad Siddique   Smoothing of Crank--Nicolson scheme for
                                  the two-dimensional diffusion with an
                                  integral condition . . . . . . . . . . . 512--522
        Douglas R. Anderson and   
            Feliz Minhós   A discrete fourth-order Lidstone problem
                                  with parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--533
                 Zigen Song and   
                    Jian Xu and   
                     Qunhong Li   Local and global bifurcations in an SIRS
                                  epidemic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--547
                   Xiao Lin and   
                    Fengde Chen   Almost periodic solution for a Volterra
                                  model with mutual interference and
                                  Beddington--DeAngelis functional
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--556
              Abderrazek Karoui   Wavelet bases with a general integer
                                  dilation factor $ d \geq 2 $ and better
                                  regularity properties  . . . . . . . . . 557--568
           Janusz Sokó\l   Radius problems in the class $ {\cal S
                                  L}^* $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--573
               Jun-Jie Chen and   
                     Ze-Rong He   Optimal control for a class of nonlinear
                                  age-distributed population systems . . . 574--580
                Fengde Chen and   
               Jinghui Yang and   
                Lijuan Chen and   
                  Xiangdong Xie   On a mutualism model with feedback
                                  controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--587
       Jounaidi Abdeljaoued and   
          Gema M. Diaz-Toca and   
         Laureano Gonzalez-Vega   Bezout matrices, Subresultant
                                  polynomials and parameters . . . . . . . 588--594
        Weerayuth Nilsrakoo and   
                  Satit Saejung   Convergence theorems for a countable
                                  family of Lipschitzian mappings  . . . . 595--606
                   Yumei Xu and   
                   Haijun Zhang   Multiple positive solutions of a
                                  boundary value problem for a class of $
                                  2 n $ th-order $m$-point singular
                                  integro-differential equations in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--617
               Guowei Zhang and   
             Tongshan Zhang and   
                      Tie Zhang   Fixed point theorems of Rothe and Altman
                                  types about convex-power condensing
                                  operator and application . . . . . . . . 618--623
               Tailei Zhang and   
                  Junli Liu and   
                   Zhidong Teng   Dynamic behavior for a nonautonomous
                                  SIRS epidemic model with distributed
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--631
               Jin-bao Jian and   
                Xiao-yan Ke and   
                  Wei-xin Cheng   A superlinearly convergent norm-relaxed
                                  SQP method of strongly sub-feasible
                                  directions for constrained optimization
                                  without strict complementarity . . . . . 632--644
               Anjan Biswas and   
              Arjuna Ranasinghe   1-Soliton solution of
                                  Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation with
                                  power law nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . 645--647
             Cheng-De Zheng and   
             Huaguang Zhang and   
                  Zhanshan Wang   Comments on ``Exponential stability
                                  analysis for uncertain neural networks
                                  with interval time varying delays'' and
                                  ``New delay-dependent robust stability
                                  criterion for uncertain neural networks
                                  with time-varying delays'' . . . . . . . 648--648


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 1, September 1, 2009

              E. M. Bonotto and   
              L. P. Gimenes and   
                    M. Federson   Oscillation for a second-order neutral
                                  differential equation with impulses  . . 1--15
                Weiping Guo and   
                         Qi Guo   Convergence theorems of fixed points for
                                  asymptotically hemi-pseudocontractive
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
                   Li Zhang and   
                Jieqing Tan and   
                  Hongyi Wu and   
                        Zhi Liu   The weighted dual functions for
                                  Wang--Bézier type generalized Ball bases
                                  and their applications . . . . . . . . . 22--36
        Paulo D. F. Gouveia and   
          Alexander Plakhov and   
            Delfim F. M. Torres   Two-dimensional body of maximum mean
                                  resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--52
              Heng-fei Ding and   
               Yu-xin Zhang and   
                San-fu Wang and   
                   Xiao-ya Yang   A note on some quadrature based
                                  three-step iterative methods for
                                  non-linear equations . . . . . . . . . . 53--57
       José L. Hueso and   
    Eulalia Martínez and   
             Juan R. Torregrosa   Third order iterative methods free from
                                  second derivative for nonlinear systems  58--65
                 Minbo Yang and   
                     Baorong Li   Solitary waves for non-homogeneous
                                  Schrödinger--Maxwell system . . . . . . . 66--70
                       J. Dziok   Applications of extreme points to
                                  distortion estimates . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
                 Ruyun Chen and   
                 Shuhuang Xiang   Note on the homotopy perturbation method
                                  for multivariate vector-value
                                  oscillatory integrals  . . . . . . . . . 78--84
                    Li Shan and   
                     Yanren Hou   A fully discrete stabilized finite
                                  element method for the time-dependent
                                  Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 85--99
          Carmelina Frammartino   A Nyström method for solving $ 2 s$-th
                                  order boundary value problems  . . . . . 100--109
                K. R. Kazmi and   
             Huzoor H. Khan and   
                    Naeem Ahmad   Existence and iterative approximation of
                                  solutions of a system of general
                                  variational inclusions . . . . . . . . . 110--117
               Rekha Srivastava   Classes of series identities and
                                  associated hypergeometric reduction
                                  formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--124
              Tadeusz Jankowski   Positive solutions for three-point
                                  one-dimensional $p$-Laplacian boundary
                                  value problems with advanced arguments   125--131
              Changjiang Bu and   
                     Min Li and   
                Kuize Zhang and   
                      Lan Zheng   Group inverse for the block matrices
                                  with an invertible subblock  . . . . . . 132--139
               Jaume Llibre and   
                  Amar Makhlouf   Bifurcation of limit cycles from a
                                  4-dimensional center in 1: n resonance   140--146
             Guangqing Long and   
    Mitali Madhumita Sahani and   
           Gnaneshwar Nelakanti   Polynomially based multi-projection
                                  methods for Fredholm integral equations
                                  of the second kind . . . . . . . . . . . 147--155
       Alberto Rolo-Naranjo and   
       Rocio Rebollido-Rios and   
    Kenia Melchor-Rodriguez and   
Edelsys Codorniu-Hernández   Pseudo-phase portrait applied to pattern
                                  recognition in flavonoid--protein
                                  interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--167
  Francisco M. Fernández   On some approximate methods for
                                  nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--174
               Hui-qiang Ma and   
                Jiu-ping Xu and   
                 Nan-jing Huang   An iterative method for a system of
                                  linear complementarity problems with
                                  perturbations and interval data  . . . . 175--184
                S. Srinivas and   
                    R. Gayathri   Peristaltic transport of a Newtonian
                                  fluid in a vertical asymmetric channel
                                  with heat transfer and porous medium . . 185--196
               Shu-fan Wang and   
                 Bing Zheng and   
             Zhi-ping Xiong and   
                     Zi-zhen Li   The condition numbers for weighted
                                  Moore--Penrose inverse and weighted
                                  linear least squares problem . . . . . . 197--205
                     Arun Kumar   A model for hyperparasitism in malaria
                                  with environmental fluctuations  . . . . 206--211
              Ryan Sassaman and   
                   Anjan Biswas   Topological and non-topological solitons
                                  of the generalized Klein--Gordon
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--220
         Sh. Khosravianarab and   
             S. R. Kulkarni and   
                    O. P. Ahuja   Some classes of analytic functions
                                  involving differential subordinations    221--226
            Xue-Zhang Liang and   
              Jie-Lin Zhang and   
                 Ming Zhang and   
                    Li-Hong Cui   Superposition interpolation process in $
                                  \mathbb {C}^n $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--234
                 Marta Fort and   
           J. Antoni Sellar\`es   Computing generalized higher-order
                                  Voronoi diagrams on triangulated
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--250
          C. A. Z. Barcelos and   
                    V. B. Pires   An automatic based nonlinear diffusion
                                  equations scheme for skin lesion
                                  segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--261
                   M. Abbas and   
                  B. E. Rhoades   Common fixed point results for
                                  noncommuting mappings without continuity
                                  in generalized metric spaces . . . . . . 262--269
              Xiao-Ying Qin and   
                   Yan-Ping Sun   Approximate analytic solutions for a
                                  two-dimensional mathematical model of a
                                  packed-bed electrode using the Adomian
                                  decomposition method . . . . . . . . . . 270--275
                   Malik Mamode   Variational iterative method and
                                  initial-value problems . . . . . . . . . 276--282
               Xiuxiang Liu and   
                     Zhiting Xu   Oscillation criteria for a forced mixed
                                  type Emden--Fowler equation with
                                  impulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291
                      Xiaodi Li   Existence and global exponential
                                  stability of periodic solution for
                                  impulsive Cohen--Grossberg-type BAM
                                  neural networks with continuously
                                  distributed delays . . . . . . . . . . . 292--307
                     Hua Ke and   
                  Weimin Ma and   
                     Yaodong Ni   Optimization models and a GA-based
                                  algorithm for stochastic time-cost
                                  trade-off problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 308--313
                  A. Algaba and   
           C. García and   
                       M. Reyes   Local bifurcation of limit cycles and
                                  integrability of a class of nilpotent
                                  systems of differential equations  . . . 314--323
               Liping Zhang and   
                 Soon-Yi Wu and   
                    Tingran Gao   Improved smoothing Newton methods for $
                                  P_0 $ nonlinear complementarity problems 324--332
                    R. Aloy and   
       M.-C. Casabán and   
                L. Jódar   A discrete eigenfunctions method for
                                  computing mixed hyperbolic problems
                                  based on an implicit difference scheme   333--343
                   Alfred Huber   A generalized exponential transform
                                  method for solving non-linear evolution
                                  equations of physical relevance  . . . . 344--352
                  Haiyan Xu and   
                Kevin W. Li and   
            D. Marc Kilgour and   
                 Keith W. Hipel   A matrix-based approach to searching
                                  colored paths in a weighted colored
                                  multidigraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--366
            Ravi P. Agarwal and   
                   Ram U. Verma   General implicit variational inclusion
                                  problems based on $A$-maximal $
                                  (m)$-relaxed monotonicity (AMRM)
                                  frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--379
               T. R. Gulati and   
                          Geeta   On some symmetric dual models in
                                  multiobjective programming . . . . . . . 380--383
            Kuo-Hsiung Wang and   
                     Yu-Ju Chen   Comparative analysis of availability
                                  between three systems with general
                                  repair times, reboot delay and switching
                                  failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--394
                  Pham Chi Vinh   Explicit secular equations of Rayleigh
                                  waves in elastic media under the
                                  influence of gravity and initial stress  395--404
          Kiyotaka Yamamura and   
                  Koki Suda and   
                   Naoya Tamura   LP narrowing: a new strategy for finding
                                  all solutions of nonlinear equations . . 405--413
                 Li Ronghua and   
                    Liu Min and   
                   Pang Wan-kai   Convergence of numerical solutions to
                                  stochastic pantograph equations with
                                  Markovian switching  . . . . . . . . . . 414--422
     Tibor K. Pogány and   
                Arjun K. Rathie   Extension of a quadratic transformation
                                  due to Exton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--426
                 O. M. Kwon and   
                 J. H. Park and   
                      S. M. Lee   Corrigendum to published papers in \em
                                  Applied Mathematics and Computation  . . 427--430

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 2, September 15, 2009

                  M. M. Ali and   
               Z. Kajee-Bagdadi   Improved versions of the LEDE algorithm
                                  for constrained global optimization  . . 431--440
Manuel Arana-Jiménez and   
Antonio Rufián-Lizana and   
 Gabriel Ruiz-Garzón and   
     Rafaela Osuna-Gómez   Efficient solutions in V-KT-pseudoinvex
                                  multiobjective control problems: a
                                  characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--448
               Xiaozhuo Han and   
                   Cang Hui and   
                    Yanyu Zhang   Effects of time-lagged niche
                                  construction on metapopulation dynamics
                                  and environmental heterogeneity  . . . . 449--458
               Huan-He Dong and   
                  Xin-Zeng Wang   A Lie algebra containing four parameters
                                  for the generalized Dirac hierarchy  . . 459--463
                Songxiao Li and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Integral-type operators from Bloch-type
                                  spaces to Zygmund-type spaces  . . . . . 464--473
                   Ou Yigui and   
                      Zhou Qian   A nonmonotonic trust region algorithm
                                  for a class of semi-infinite minimax
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--480
                Joanna Pe\ctela   Average conditions for Kolmogorov
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--494
         Pierpaolo Natalini and   
            Roberto Patrizi and   
                 Paolo E. Ricci   Heat problems for a starlike shaped
                                  plate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--502
                Wuneng Zhou and   
                     Minghao Li   Mixed time-delays dependent exponential
                                  stability for uncertain stochastic
                                  high-order neural networks . . . . . . . 503--513
           George L. Karakostas   Solvability of the $ {\Phi } $-Laplacian
                                  with nonlocal boundary conditions  . . . 514--523
                     Yang Zhang   A finite difference method for
                                  fractional partial differential equation 524--529
       P. Patrì\'cio and   
                  R. E. Hartwig   Some additive results on Drazin inverses 530--538
             Jianying Zhang and   
                Guangwu Yan and   
                   Yinfeng Dong   A new lattice Boltzmann model for the
                                  Laplace equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--547
            Chengjian Zhang and   
               Tingting Qin and   
                        Jie Jin   An improvement of the numerical
                                  stability results for nonlinear neutral
                                  delay-integro-differential equations . . 548--556
                     Congxu Zhu   Adaptive synchronization of two novel
                                  different hyperchaotic systems with
                                  partly uncertain parameters  . . . . . . 557--561
   Mário M. Graça   Removing multiplicities in $ \mathbb {C}
                                  $ by double newtonization  . . . . . . . 562--572
            Ian P. Martines and   
       Hristo V. Kojouharov and   
                James P. Grover   A chemostat model of resource
                                  competition and allelopathy  . . . . . . 573--582
                 Liping Wen and   
                 Suxia Wang and   
                      Yuexin Yu   Dissipativity of Runge--Kutta methods
                                  for neutral delay integro-differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--590
                     Sheng Chen   A large-eddy-based lattice Boltzmann
                                  model for turbulent flow simulation  . . 591--598
             Yuan-Yuan Zhou and   
                 Guo-Feng Zhang   A generalization of parameterized
                                  inexact Uzawa method for generalized
                                  saddle point problems  . . . . . . . . . 599--607
              E. M. Elsayed and   
        Bratislav D. Iri\vcanin   On a max-type and a min-type difference
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--614
          Temur Jangveladze and   
            Zurab Kiguradze and   
                      Beny Neta   Finite difference approximation of a
                                  nonlinear integro-differential system    615--628
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
              Mohammad Arif and   
                   Wasim Ul-Haq   On $k$-uniformly close-to-convex
                                  functions of complex order . . . . . . . 629--635
            Qing-bang Zhang and   
              Ru-liang Deng and   
                        Liu Liu   Existence theorem and algorithm for a
                                  general implicit variational inequality
                                  in Banach space  . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--643
                    Lingxia Liu   Local analytic solutions of a functional
                                  differential equation $ \alpha z + \beta
                                  x^{\prime }(z) = x(a z + b x^{\prime
                                  }(z)) $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--652
                  Hina Khan and   
           Ram N. Mohapatra and   
               K. Vajravelu and   
                     S. J. Liao   The explicit series solution of SIR and
                                  SIS epidemic models  . . . . . . . . . . 653--669
                  Jing Zhao and   
                    Songnian He   A new iterative method for equilibrium
                                  problems and fixed point problems of
                                  infinitely nonexpansive mappings and
                                  monotone mappings  . . . . . . . . . . . 670--680
               Manoj Pandey and   
               B. D. Pandey and   
                   V. D. Sharma   Symmetry groups and similarity solutions
                                  for the system of equations for a
                                  viscous compressible fluid . . . . . . . 681--685
             Michel H. Geoffroy   Stability of Mann's iterates under
                                  metric regularity  . . . . . . . . . . . 686--694
        Abdellah Bnouhachem and   
        Muhammad Aslam Noor and   
          Mohamed Khalfaoui and   
                  Sheng Zhaohan   A new logarithmic-quadratic proximal
                                  method for nonlinear complementarity
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--706
               Qingbing Liu and   
              Guoliang Chen and   
                     Jian Huang   On the parallel GSAOR method for block
                                  diagonally dominant matrices . . . . . . 707--715
                K. R. Kazmi and   
                B. S. Komal and   
                 F. A. Khan and   
                Pankaj Mansotra   Sensitivity analysis for a system of
                                  parametric general
                                  quasi-variational-like inequality
                                  problems in uniformly smooth Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--726
                 M. A. Omar and   
            A. Aboul-Hassan and   
                    S. I. Rabia   The composite Milstein methods for the
                                  numerical solution of Stratonovich
                                  stochastic differential equations  . . . 727--745
           Bülent Saka and   
                  \.Idris Da\=G   Quartic B-spline Galerkin approach to
                                  the numerical solution of the KdVB
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746--758
                   Han Long and   
                  Xinjian Zhang   Construction and calculation of
                                  reproducing kernel determined by various
                                  linear differential operators  . . . . . 759--766
              Chun-Jung Chu and   
           Vincent S. Tseng and   
                     Tyne Liang   An efficient algorithm for mining high
                                  utility itemsets with negative item
                                  values in large databases  . . . . . . . 767--778
                Baodan Tian and   
                Yanhong Qiu and   
                      Ning Chen   Periodic and almost periodic solution
                                  for a non-autonomous epidemic
                                  predator-prey system with time-delay . . 779--790
                    Yingxin Guo   Mean square global asymptotic stability
                                  of stochastic recurrent neural networks
                                  with distributed delays  . . . . . . . . 791--795
      Stefan Stanimirovi\'c and   
     Predrag Stanimirovi\'c and   
        Marko Miladinovi\'c and   
              Aleksandar Ili\'c   Catalan matrix and related combinatorial
                                  identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796--805
               Guoliang Hou and   
                        Li Wang   A generalized iterative method and
                                  comparison results using projection
                                  techniques for solving linear systems    806--817
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Norm of weighted composition operators
                                  from $ \alpha $-Bloch spaces to
                                  weighted-type spaces . . . . . . . . . . 818--820
              Changbum Chun and   
                      Beny Neta   Certain improvements of Newton's method
                                  with fourth-order convergence  . . . . . 821--828
                  Junhai Ma and   
                        Qin Gao   Stability and Hopf bifurcations in a
                                  business cycle model with delay  . . . . 829--834
                   Jin-Ming Zuo   Solitons and periodic solutions for the
                                  Rosenau--KdV and Rosenau--Kawahara
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--840
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   On new Bloch-type spaces . . . . . . . . 841--849
                Lazhar Bougoffa   On the traveling wave solutions for a
                                  parabolic--hyperbolic system in linear
                                  thermoelasticity . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--853
       Bratislav Iri\vcanin and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Eventually constant solutions of a
                                  rational difference equation . . . . . . 854--856
                 \.Ismail Aslan   Exact and explicit solutions to some
                                  nonlinear evolution equations by
                                  utilizing the $ (\frac {G'}{G})
                                  $-expansion method . . . . . . . . . . . 857--863
                   E. J. Parkes   A note on travelling-wave solutions to
                                  Lax's seventh-order KdV equation . . . . 864--865
                   Wei Qian and   
                  Shen Cong and   
                Youxian Sun and   
                     Shumin Fei   Novel robust stability criteria for
                                  uncertain systems with time-varying
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--872

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 3, October 1, 2009

            Nguyen Huy Tuan and   
                 Dang Duc Trong   A new regularized method for two
                                  dimensional nonhomogeneous backward heat
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--880
              Xiuqiao Xiang and   
             Jianzhong Zhou and   
                      Li Mo and   
                Zhimeng Luo and   
                    Chaoshun Li   Improved algorithm about NSFOT . . . . . 881--888
               Zhenyuan Guo and   
                   Lihong Huang   LMI conditions for global robust
                                  stability of delayed neural networks
                                  with discontinuous neuron activations    889--900
               S. Ponnusamy and   
             A. Vasudevarao and   
                  H. Yanagihara   Region of variability for
                                  close-to-convex functions-II . . . . . . 901--915
                 C. Beccari and   
                G. Casciola and   
                      L. Romani   Shape controlled interpolatory ternary
                                  subdivision  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916--927
                  Junyan Xu and   
                Lijuan Chen and   
                       Zhong Li   Convergence behavior of delayed
                                  bidirectional associative memory
                                  cellular neural networks with
                                  asymptotically periodic coefficients . . 928--935
           Gautam Choudhury and   
                  Kandarpa Deka   An $ M^X / G / 1 $ unreliable retrial
                                  queue with two phases of service and
                                  Bernoulli admission mechanism  . . . . . 936--949
                Marwan Aloqeili   Global stability of a rational symmetric
                                  difference equation  . . . . . . . . . . 950--953
                   Weifeng Yang   On an integral-type operator between
                                  Bloch-type spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . 954--960
           Vasilios N. Katsikis   A Matlab-based rapid method for
                                  computing lattice-subspaces and vector
                                  sublattices of $ \mathcal {R}^n $:
                                  Applications in portfolio insurance  . . 961--972
                  Jing Xiao and   
                 YuPing Yan and   
                      Jun Zhang   HPBILc: a histogram-based EDA for
                                  continuous optimization  . . . . . . . . 973--982
               Robert Cupec and   
              Ratko Grbi\'c and   
              Kristian Sabo and   
               Rudolf Scitovski   Three points method for searching the
                                  best least absolute deviations plane . . 983--994
            V. A. Dimitriou and   
                     N. Tsantas   Prospective control in an enhanced
                                  manpower planning model  . . . . . . . . 995--1014
               Nan-Hong Kuo and   
                       C. D. Hu   A study of the solutions of the combined
                                  sine--cosine-Gordon equation . . . . . . 1015--1019
                 Liang Fang and   
                 Guoping He and   
                     Yunhong Hu   A new smoothing Newton-type method for
                                  second-order cone programming problems   1020--1029
           Pratulananda Das and   
             Prasanta Malik and   
                  Ekrem Sava\cs   On statistical limit points of double
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030--1034
              Guirong Jiang and   
                     Qigui Yang   Bifurcation analysis in an SIR epidemic
                                  model with birth pulse and pulse
                                  vaccination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1046
                 G. Q. Wang and   
                      Y. Q. Bai   A primal-dual interior-point algorithm
                                  for second-order cone optimization with
                                  full Nesterov--Todd step . . . . . . . . 1047--1061
                    Weichen Shi   Collinear periodic cracks and/or rigid
                                  line inclusions of antiplane sliding
                                  mode in one-dimensional hexagonal
                                  quasicrystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062--1067
              Jinping Jiang and   
                     Yanren Hou   The global attractor of
                                  $g$-Navier--Stokes equations with linear
                                  dampness on $ R^2$ . . . . . . . . . . . 1068--1076
                   Ruyun Ma and   
                   Xiaoling Han   Existence and multiplicity of positive
                                  solutions of a nonlinear eigenvalue
                                  problem with indefinite weight function  1077--1083
                 H. Susanto and   
                    N. Karjanto   Newton's method's basins of attraction
                                  revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1084--1090
               Zuo-Lei Wang and   
                   Xue-Rong Shi   Chaotic bursting lag synchronization of
                                  Hindmarsh--Rose system via a single
                                  controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1097
               Zhanwen Ding and   
               Qinglan Hang and   
                     Lixin Tian   Analysis of the dynamics of Cournot
                                  team-game with heterogeneous players . . 1098--1105
            Gintaras Palubeckis   A new bounding procedure and an improved
                                  exact algorithm for the Max-2-SAT
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106--1117
                 Shuxia Pan and   
                     Shimin Wan   Traveling wave fronts in a delayed
                                  population model of Daphnia magna  . . . 1118--1123
                 Sergio Serrano   Asymptotic ordination of artificial
                                  satellite Hamiltonian  . . . . . . . . . 1124--1134
             Djurdje Cvijovi\'c   Summation formulae for finite cotangent
                                  sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1140
                Xiao-Rui Hu and   
                      Yong Chen   Two-dimensional symmetry reduction of $
                                  (2 + 1)$-dimensional nonlinear
                                  Klein--Gordon equation . . . . . . . . . 1141--1145
                Baoheng Yao and   
                  Jianping Chen   A new analytical solution branch for the
                                  Blasius equation with a shrinking sheet  1146--1153
                Yanbin Sang and   
                         Hua Su   Several sufficient conditions of
                                  solvability for a nonlinear higher-order
                                  three-point boundary value problem with
                                  all derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154--1160
            Mohammad Kafini and   
             Salim A. Messaoudi   On the uniform decay in viscoelastic
                                  problems in $ \mathbb {R}^n $  . . . . . 1161--1169
                  Xiangling Zhu   Integral-type operators from iterated
                                  logarithmic Bloch spaces to Zygmund-type
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170--1175
                Shy-Der Lin and   
               Li-Fen Chang and   
               H. M. Srivastava   A certain class of incomplete elliptic
                                  integrals and associated definite
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176--1184
              Junesang Choi and   
             P. J. Anderson and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Carlitz's $q$-Bernoulli and $q$-Euler
                                  numbers and polynomials and a class of
                                  generalized $q$-Hurwitz zeta functions   1185--1208
           Robert A. Van Gorder   Computation of certain infinite series
                                  of the form $ \sum f(n) n^k $ for
                                  arbitrary real-valued $k$  . . . . . . . 1209--1216
                       Fajun Yu   A non-isospectral integrable couplings
                                  of Volterra lattice hierarchy with
                                  self-consistent sources  . . . . . . . . 1217--1223
       Nigam Chandra Parida and   
                 Soumyendu Raha   Regularized numerical integration of
                                  multibody dynamics with the generalized
                                  $ \alpha $ method  . . . . . . . . . . . 1224--1243
                     Bin Xu and   
                   Xi-Qiang Liu   Classification, reduction, group
                                  invariant solutions and conservation
                                  laws of the Gardner-KP equation  . . . . 1244--1250
               Suxiang Yang and   
                    Ziwen Jiang   Mixed covolume method for parabolic
                                  problems on triangular grids . . . . . . 1251--1265
                 Xiaoliang Zhou   The estimate for number of zeros of
                                  solutions of second order functional
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1266--1273
                    Zhijun Zeng   Dynamics of a non-autonomous
                                  ratio-dependent food chain model . . . . 1274--1287
                Li Shengguo and   
               Liao Xiangke and   
                    Cheng Lizhi   A new fourth-order iterative method for
                                  finding multiple roots of nonlinear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288--1292
      Nikolai A. Kudryashov and   
        Dmitry I. Sinelshchikov   Exact solutions of equations for the
                                  Burgers hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . 1293--1300
               Yunong Zhang and   
                 Yanyan Shi and   
                    Ke Chen and   
                    Chaoli Wang   Global exponential convergence and
                                  stability of gradient-based neural
                                  network for online matrix inversion  . . 1301--1306
                  Quan Yuan and   
                 Zhiqing He and   
                    Huinan Leng   Erratum to: ``An evolution strategy
                                  method for computing eigenvalue bounds
                                  of interval matrices'' [Appl. Math.
                                  Comput. 196 (2008) 257--265] . . . . . . 1307--1307

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 4, October 15, 2009

               C. S. Calude and   
                    J. F. Costa   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309--1310
                E. J. Beggs and   
                   J. V. Tucker   Computations via Newtonian and
                                  relativistic kinematic systems . . . . . 1311--1322
                  Udi Boker and   
              Nachum Dershowitz   The influence of domain interpretations
                                  on computational models  . . . . . . . . 1323--1339
            Olivier Bournez and   
         Philippe Chassaing and   
              Johanne Cohen and   
                Lucas Gerin and   
                 Xavier Koegler   On the convergence of population
                                  protocols when population goes to
                                  infinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340--1350
                S. Barry Cooper   Emergence as a computability-theoretic
                                  phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351--1360
          N. C. A. da Costa and   
                    F. A. Doria   How to build a hypercomputer . . . . . . 1361--1367
          Jean-Charles Delvenne   What is a universal computing machine?   1368--1374
     Daniel S. Graça and   
               Jorge Buescu and   
           Manuel L. Campagnolo   Computational bounds on polynomial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1375--1385
             B. C. Thompson and   
               J. V. Tucker and   
                   J. I. Zucker   Unifying computers and dynamical systems
                                  using the theory of synchronous
                                  concurrent algorithms  . . . . . . . . . 1386--1403
             K. Vela Velupillai   Uncomputability and undecidability in
                                  economic theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1404--1416
               Damien Woods and   
             Thomas J. Naughton   Optical computing  . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1430
                 Martin Ziegler   Physically-relativized Church--Turing
                                  Hypotheses: Physical foundations of
                                  computing and complexity theory of
                                  computational physics  . . . . . . . . . 1431--1447
                    Serap Bulut   The generalization of the generalized
                                  Al-Oboudi differential operator  . . . . 1448--1455
                Guohua Chen and   
              Xiaolian Liao and   
                  Shouyang Wang   A cutting plane algorithm for MV
                                  portfolio selection model  . . . . . . . 1456--1462
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   Four $ (2 + 1)$-dimensional integrable
                                  extensions of the KdV equation:
                                  Multiple-soliton and multiple singular
                                  soliton solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . 1463--1476
                 Yanjun Liu and   
              Yongsong Xiao and   
                  Xueliang Zhao   Multi-innovation stochastic gradient
                                  algorithm for multiple-input
                                  single-output systems using the
                                  auxiliary model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1477--1483
                 Fuyun Lian and   
                    Yuantong Xu   Hopf bifurcation analysis of a
                                  predator--prey system with Holling type
                                  IV functional response and time delay    1484--1495
                 Chia-Hui Huang   An effective linear approximation method
                                  for separable programming problems . . . 1496--1506
                   Qi Zhang and   
                 Yirong Liu and   
                     Gui Weihua   Generalized singular point quantity and
                                  integrability of degenerate resonant
                                  singular point . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1507--1512
                 Riccardo Fazio   Numerical transformation methods:
                                  Blasius problem and its variants . . . . 1513--1521
                  Chao Wang and   
                Jinghao Zhu and   
       Bo\vsko Damjanovi\'c and   
                   Liang-gen Hu   Approximating fixed points of a pair of
                                  contractive type mappings in generalized
                                  convex metric spaces . . . . . . . . . . 1522--1525
                    J. I. Ramos   Picard's iterative method for nonlinear
                                  advection--reaction--diffusion equations 1526--1536
               Luisa Monroy and   
  Francisco R. Fernández   A general model for voting systems with
                                  multiple alternatives  . . . . . . . . . 1537--1547
             Abdul-Majid Wazwaz   A $ (3 + 1)$-dimensional nonlinear
                                  evolution equation with multiple soliton
                                  solutions and multiple singular soliton
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1548--1552
             Ioannis K. Argyros   On Newton's method for solving equations
                                  containing Fréchet-differentiable
                                  operators of order at least two  . . . . 1553--1560
                      S. Morigi   Feature-sensitive parameterization of
                                  polygonal meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1561--1572
              Jiqiang Jiang and   
                 Lishan Liu and   
                    Yonghong Wu   Second-order nonlinear singular
                                  Sturm--Liouville problems with integral
                                  boundary conditions  . . . . . . . . . . 1573--1582
               Heng-you Lan and   
                 Le-cai Cai and   
                    Zi-shan Liu   General $A$-monotone operators and
                                  perturbed iterations for nonlinear
                                  set-valued relaxed cocoercive operator
                                  inclusion problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1592
                  Degang Xu and   
                     Zhifang Su   Synchronization criterions and pinning
                                  control of general complex networks with
                                  time delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593--1608
             S. L. Mitchell and   
                    M. Vynnycky   Finite-difference methods with increased
                                  accuracy and correct initialization for
                                  one-dimensional Stefan problems  . . . . 1609--1621
             Pawe\l Wo\'zny and   
                   Rafa\l Nowak   Method of summation of some slowly
                                  convergent series  . . . . . . . . . . . 1622--1645
                  Quan Yuan and   
                 Zhiqing He and   
                    Huinan Leng   Erratum to: ``A hybrid genetic algorithm
                                  for a class of global optimization
                                  problems with box constraints'' [Appl.
                                  Math. Comput. 197 (2008) 924--929] . . . 1646--1646

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 5, November 1, 2009

              Jing-huai Liu and   
              Xiao-qiu Song and   
                  Ping-li Zhang   Weighted pseudo almost periodic mild
                                  solutions of semilinear evolution
                                  equations with nonlocal conditions . . . 1647--1652
                      Hong Zhao   Some new fractals behaviors in $ (2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional integrable system  . . . 1653--1658
        Ferenc Szidarovszky and   
                 Akio Matsumoto   Spatial duopoly with cost subsidy  . . . 1659--1670
               M. M. Kassem and   
                   A. S. Rashed   Group solution of a time dependent
                                  chemical convective process  . . . . . . 1671--1684
                   I. Ahmad and   
                   M. Sajid and   
                       T. Hayat   Heat transfer in unsteady axisymmetric
                                  second grade fluid . . . . . . . . . . . 1685--1695
           T. Ray Mahapatra and   
                S. K. Nandy and   
                    A. S. Gupta   Analytical solution of
                                  magnetohydrodynamic stagnation-point
                                  flow of a power-law fluid towards a
                                  stretching surface . . . . . . . . . . . 1696--1710
               Xue Rong Shi and   
                   Zuo Lei Wang   Adaptive added-order
                                  anti-synchronization of chaotic systems
                                  with fully unknown parameters  . . . . . 1711--1717
      George A. Anastassiou and   
                Razvan A. Mezei   Global smoothness and uniform
                                  convergence of smooth Poisson--Cauchy
                                  type singular operators  . . . . . . . . 1718--1731
                  Haibo Bao and   
                      Jinde Cao   Existence and uniqueness of solutions to
                                  neutral stochastic functional
                                  differential equations with infinite
                                  delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1732--1743
                De-Xin Meng and   
                Yi-Tian Gao and   
              Xiao-Ling Gai and   
                   Lei Wang and   
                     Xin Yu and   
               Zhi-Yuan Sun and   
             Ming-Zhen Wang and   
                   Xing Lü   Solitonic solutions for a
                                  variable-coefficient variant Boussinesq
                                  system in the long gravity waves . . . . 1744--1751
             Stevo Stevi\'c and   
                      Elke Wolf   Differences of composition operators
                                  between weighted-type spaces of
                                  holomorphic functions on the unit ball
                                  of $ \mathbb {C}^N $ . . . . . . . . . . 1752--1760
                Khalil Djelloul   From decomposable to residual theories   1761--1779
                 Dokkyun Yi and   
               Do-Hyung Kim and   
                Eunyoun Kim and   
                  Sung-Dae Yang   Convergence of a fixed point iteration
                                  method for the OSV model . . . . . . . . 1780--1790
             Filipe J. Romeiras   Exact travelling wave solutions of the
                                  generalized Bretherton equation  . . . . 1791--1805
               Xinyuan Liao and   
               Xianhua Tang and   
                  Shengfan Zhou   Existence of traveling wavefronts in a
                                  cooperative systems with discrete delays 1806--1812
         M. Nikkhah-Bahrami and   
                     R. Oftadeh   An effective iterative method for
                                  computing real and complex roots of
                                  systems of nonlinear equations . . . . . 1813--1820
                  P. Saucez and   
                    L. Some and   
                A. Vande Wouwer   Matlab implementation of a moving grid
                                  method based on the equidistribution
                                  principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1821--1829
              Xiaohong Nian and   
                   Huan Pan and   
                 Weihua Gui and   
                     Haibo Wang   New stability analysis for linear
                                  neutral system via state matrix
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1830--1837
              Francisco Rus and   
         Francisco R. Villatoro   A repository of equations with
                                  cosine/sine compactons . . . . . . . . . 1838--1851
       Chantal Labbé and   
            Kristina P. Sendova   The expected discounted penalty function
                                  under a risk model with stochastic
                                  income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852--1867
                  Lynn Erbe and   
                 Jia Baoguo and   
                 Allan Peterson   Oscillation and nonoscillation of
                                  solutions of second order linear dynamic
                                  equations with integrable coefficients
                                  on time scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868--1885
               Haiyong Wang and   
                 Shuhuang Xiang   Uniform approximations to Cauchy
                                  principal value integrals of oscillatory
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1886--1894
                 Agnieszka Dyki   Boundary value problems for differential
                                  equations with deviated arguments which
                                  depend on the unknown solution . . . . . 1895--1899
                Zayid Abdulhadi   On the univalence of functions with
                                  logharmonic Laplacian  . . . . . . . . . 1900--1907
             Le Xuan Truong and   
         Le Thi Phuong Ngoc and   
              Nguyen Thanh Long   The $n$-order iterative schemes for a
                                  nonlinear Kirchhoff--Carrier wave
                                  equation associated with the mixed
                                  inhomogeneous conditions . . . . . . . . 1908--1925
                   Zengqin Zhao   Exact solutions of a class of
                                  second-order nonlocal boundary value
                                  problems and applications  . . . . . . . 1926--1936
                  Wei Jiang and   
                    Minggen Cui   Constructive proof for existence of
                                  nonlinear two-point boundary value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1937--1948
                  Dahe Feng and   
                   Guoxiang Luo   The improved Fan sub-equation method and
                                  its application to the SK equation . . . 1949--1967
               Dong-Long Li and   
                  Jun-Xiao Zhao   New exact solutions to the $ (2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional Ito equation: Extended
                                  homoclinic test technique  . . . . . . . 1968--1974
                  Donal O'Regan   The fixed point index for compact
                                  absorbing contractive admissible maps    1975--1983
                Y.-C. Hsieh and   
                  P.-S. You and   
                     C.-D. Liou   A note of using effective immune based
                                  approach for the flow shop scheduling
                                  with buffers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984--1989
          Nikolai A. Kudryashov   Self-similar solutions of the Burgers
                                  hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1990--1993

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 6, November 15, 2009

            R. J. Moitsheki and   
                   T. Hayat and   
                    M. Y. Malik   Comparison of symmetry and homotopy
                                  solutions for nonlinear heat transfer
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995--2000
               Chung-Wei Li and   
              Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng   Identification of interrelationship of
                                  key customers' needs based on structural
                                  model for services/capabilities provided
                                  by a Semiconductor-Intellectual-Property
                                  Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001--2010
              Roberto Dieci and   
               Frank Westerhoff   Stability analysis of a cobweb model
                                  with market interactions . . . . . . . . 2011--2023
              R. K. Mohanty and   
                  Deepika Dhall   Third order accurate variable mesh
                                  discretization and application of TAGE
                                  iterative method for the non-linear
                                  two-point boundary value problems with
                                  homogeneous functions in integral form   2024--2034
                   D. H. Ji and   
                 Ju H. Park and   
                  W. J. Yoo and   
                      S. C. Won   Robust memory state feedback model
                                  predictive control for discrete-time
                                  uncertain state delayed systems  . . . . 2035--2044
               T. Hymavathi and   
                     B. Shanker   A quasilinearization approach to heat
                                  transfer in MHD visco-elastic fluid flow 2045--2054
Carlos Alberto Alonso Sanches and   
             Nei Yoshihiro Soma   A polynomial-time DNA computing solution
                                  for the Bin-Packing Problem  . . . . . . 2055--2062
                  Gao Chang and   
                     Zifei Shen   Three solutions for an obstacle problem
                                  for a class of
                                  variational--hemivariational
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2063--2069
               Zaidong Zhan and   
                         W. Wei   On existence of optimal control governed
                                  by a class of the first-order linear
                                  dynamic systems on time scales . . . . . 2070--2081
                   Youfa Li and   
                   Shouzhi Yang   Construction of nonseparable dual $
                                  \Omega $-wavelet frames in $ L^2
                                  (\mathbb {R}^s) $  . . . . . . . . . . . 2082--2094
                    Fazhan Geng   Solving singular second order
                                  three-point boundary value problems
                                  using reproducing kernel Hilbert space
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2095--2102
                    Markus Haas   Value-at-Risk via mixture distributions
                                  reconsidered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2103--2119
               Hai-Feng Huo and   
                Wan-Tong Li and   
                     Sanyi Tang   Dynamics of high-order BAM neural
                                  networks with and without impulses . . . 2120--2133
               J. Caballero and   
                 K. Sadarangani   Hermite--Hadamard inequality for fuzzy
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2134--2138
                 Aiguo Xiao and   
                 Yongxiang Zhao   Convergence of parallel multistep hybrid
                                  methods for singular perturbation
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2139--2148
                     Zhijie Cai   Best estimates of RBF-based meshless
                                  Galerkin methods for Dirichlet problem   2149--2153
 J. Y. Vélez-Cerrada and   
                  J. Robles and   
      N. Castro-González   Error bounds for the perturbation of the
                                  Drazin inverse under some geometrical
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2154--2161
                  Xingxuan Peng   Adaptive thinning algorithm of
                                  nonsingular triangulation  . . . . . . . 2162--2173
                 Ba\csak Karpuz   Asymptotic behaviour of bounded
                                  solutions of a class of higher-order
                                  neutral dynamic equations  . . . . . . . 2174--2183
             D. B. Kulkarni and   
                 M. M. Joglekar   Residue minimization technique to
                                  analyze the efficiency of convective
                                  straight fins having
                                  temperature-dependent thermal
                                  conductivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2184--2191
                Shengguo Li and   
                  Housen Li and   
                    Lizhi Cheng   Some second-derivative-free variants of
                                  Halley's method for multiple roots . . . 2192--2198
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Norms of some operators on the Bergman
                                  and the Hardy space in the unit polydisk
                                  and the unit ball  . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2205
                  K. Pandey and   
                Lajja Verma and   
                  Amit K. Verma   On a finite difference scheme for
                                  Burgers' equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 2206--2214
               John P. Boyd and   
                       Lei Wang   An analytic approximation to the
                                  cardinal functions of Gaussian radial
                                  basis functions on an infinite lattice   2215--2223
                   Slavko Simic   Best possible global bounds for Jensen's
                                  inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2224--2228
                   Limin Ma and   
                     Zongmin Wu   Kernel based approximation in Sobolev
                                  spaces with radial basis functions . . . 2229--2237
                  R. A. Al-Khal   Multiplier family of harmonic univalent
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2238--2242
              Yuanyuan Pang and   
                   Zhanbing Bai   Upper and lower solution method for a
                                  fourth-order four-point boundary value
                                  problem on time scales . . . . . . . . . 2243--2247
     M. A. Hernández and   
                      N. Romero   Toward a unified theory for third
                                  $R$-order iterative methods for
                                  operators with unbounded second
                                  derivative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2248--2261
                 Cuihua Guo and   
                   Shangbin Cui   A note on the Cauchy problem of the
                                  generalized Davey--Stewartson equations  2262--2268
                       Li Zhang   An improved Wei--Yao--Liu nonlinear
                                  conjugate gradient method for
                                  optimization computation . . . . . . . . 2269--2274
              Stanis\lawa Kanas   Norm of pre-Schwarzian derivative for
                                  the class of $k$-uniformly convex and
                                  $k$-starlike functions . . . . . . . . . 2275--2282
              F. Jauberteau and   
               J. L. Jauberteau   Numerical differentiation with noisy
                                  signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2283--2297
            Nasser-eddine Tatar   On a large class of kernels yielding
                                  exponential stability in viscoelasticity 2298--2306
              M. S. Matbuly and   
                   Ola Ragb and   
                      M. Nassar   Natural frequencies of a functionally
                                  graded cracked beam using the
                                  differential quadrature method . . . . . 2307--2316
                  Cristina Radu   On statistical approximation of a
                                  general class of positive linear
                                  operators extended in $q$-calculus . . . 2317--2325
                   Jia Tang and   
                Sanyang Liu and   
                   Changfeng Ma   One-step smoothing Newton method for
                                  solving the mixed complementarity
                                  problem with a $ P_0 $ function  . . . . 2326--2336
                   Alfred Huber   On non-linear evolution equations of
                                  higher order --- the introduction and
                                  application of a novel computational
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2337--2348
                Zhenshu Wen and   
              Zhengrong Liu and   
                      Ming Song   New exact solutions for the classical
                                  Drinfel'd--Sokolov--Wilson equation  . . 2349--2358
                Yanfei Wang and   
                     Shiqian Ma   A fast subspace method for image
                                  deblurring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2359--2377
               H. I. Siyyam and   
                 R. A. Ford and   
                   M. H. Hamdan   First-order accurate finite difference
                                  schemes for boundary vorticity
                                  approximations in curvilinear geometries 2378--2387
                  Guoqing Zhang   A note on ``A Continuous Approach to
                                  Nonlinear Integer Programming''  . . . . 2388--2389
                  Zhi Zheng and   
                   Wen-Rui Shan   Application of Exp-function method to
                                  the Whitham--Broer--Kaup shallow water
                                  model using symbolic computation . . . . 2390--2396
                 Zhi-hui Ma and   
               Shu-fan Wang and   
                 Zi-zhen Li and   
                 Feng-pan Zhang   Erratum to ``Permanence of a
                                  predator-prey system with stage
                                  structure and time delay'' [Appl. Math.
                                  Comput. \bf 201 (2008) 65--71] . . . . . 2397--2397

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 7, December 1, 2009

                   Yong-Guo Shi   Non-monotonic solutions and continuously
                                  differentiable solutions of conjugacy
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2399--2404
                  Lynn Erbe and   
                    Raziye Mert   Some new oscillation results for a
                                  nonlinear dynamic system on time scales  2405--2412
            Shruti A. Dubey and   
             Dhirendra Bahuguna   Existence and regularity of solutions to
                                  nonlocal retarded differential equations 2413--2424
     Roman \vSimon Hilscher and   
                    Vera Zeidan   Picone type identities and definiteness
                                  of quadratic functionals on time scales  2425--2437
              Yongfang Zhou and   
                   Yingzhen Lin   Solving integro-differential equations
                                  with Cauchy kernel . . . . . . . . . . . 2438--2444
                  Wenhao Li and   
                 Shifeng Wu and   
                     Siqing Gan   Delay-dependent stability of symmetric
                                  schemes in Boundary Value Methods for
                                  DDEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2445--2455
           M. S. Petkovi\'c and   
              \Dbar. Herceg and   
                  I. Petkovi\'c   On a simultaneous method of
                                  Newton--Weierstrass' type for finding
                                  all zeros of a polynomial  . . . . . . . 2456--2463
             Stevo Stevi\'c and   
                Sei-ichiro Ueki   Integral-type operators acting between
                                  weighted-type spaces on the unit ball    2464--2471
              Shengfeng Zhu and   
                Qingbiao Wu and   
                Xiaoliang Cheng   Numerical solution of the Falkner--Skan
                                  equation based on quasilinearization . . 2472--2485
          Shih-Hsiang Chang and   
                   I-Ling Chang   A new algorithm for calculating
                                  two-dimensional differential transform
                                  of nonlinear functions . . . . . . . . . 2486--2494
                          Yi Li   An effective hybrid algorithm for
                                  computing symbolic determinants  . . . . 2495--2501
            George Mavrotas and   
   José Rui Figueira and   
                 Kostas Florios   Solving the bi-objective
                                  multi-dimensional knapsack problem
                                  exploiting the concept of core . . . . . 2502--2514
                 S. Abelman and   
                   T. Hayat and   
                    E. Momoniat   On the Rayleigh problem for a Sisko
                                  fluid in a rotating frame  . . . . . . . 2515--2520
              Shao-Ping Rui and   
                  Cheng-Xian Xu   Inexact non-interior continuation method
                                  for solving large-scale monotone SDCP    2521--2527
                 Guangming Zhou   A descent algorithm without line search
                                  for unconstrained optimization . . . . . 2528--2533
                 Zeqing Liu and   
                  Lili Wang and   
              Shin Min Kang and   
                Jeong Sheok Ume   Solvability and iterative algorithms for
                                  a higher order nonlinear neutral delay
                                  differential equation  . . . . . . . . . 2534--2543
                     Guowei Dai   Arbitrarily many solutions for a
                                  perturbed $ p(x)$-Laplacian equation
                                  involving oscillatory terms  . . . . . . 2544--2556
               Qiu-lan Zhao and   
                Xi-Xiang Xu and   
                     Xin-Yue Li   The Liouville integrable systems
                                  associated with a new discrete $ 3
                                  \times 3 $ matrix spectral problem . . . 2557--2564
                    Li Yuan and   
                   Hong Guo and   
                    Zhaohua Yin   On optimal message vector length for
                                  block single parallel partition
                                  algorithm in a three-dimensional ADI
                                  solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2565--2577
                Jiao-fen Li and   
                  Xi-yan Hu and   
                      Lei Zhang   The submatrix constraint problem of
                                  matrix equation $ A X B + C Y D = D $    2578--2590
               Reena Mittal and   
                     U. S. Rana   Effect of dust particles on a layer of
                                  micropolar ferromagnetic fluid heated
                                  from below saturating a porous medium    2591--2607
            Alvaro H. Salas and   
   Cesar A. Gómez S. and   
           Jairo E. Castillo H.   New solutions for the modified
                                  generalized Degasperis--Procesi equation 2608--2615
               M. De la Sen and   
              S. Alonso-Quesada   Control issues for the Beverton--Holt
                                  equation in ecology by locally
                                  monitoring the environment carrying
                                  capacity: Non-adaptive and adaptive
                                  cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2616--2633
 Agnieszka Wi\'sniowska-Wajnryb   Some extremal bounds for subclasses of
                                  univalent functions  . . . . . . . . . . 2634--2641
             M. Obradovi\'c and   
                   S. Ponnusamy   Starlike and close-to-convex functions
                                  defined by differential inequalities . . 2642--2648
    F. García-Alonso and   
                    J. A. Reyes   A new method for exact integration of
                                  some perturbed stiff linear systems of
                                  oscillatory type . . . . . . . . . . . . 2649--2662
            I. P\uav\ualoiu and   
                 E. C\uatina\cs   On a Steffensen--Hermite method of order
                                  three  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2663--2672
                Tudor Boaca and   
                    Ioana Boaca   An unified numerical approach of steady
                                  convection between two parallel plates   2673--2685
           Ananta Srisuphab and   
        Jarernsri L. Mitrpanont   Gaussian kernel approximation algorithm
                                  for feedforward neural network design    2686--2693
                   Jae Heon Yun   Convergence of two-stage multisplitting
                                  method using AOR or SSOR multisplittings 2694--2700
        Laura-Iulia Ani\cta and   
          Sebastian Ani\cta and   
               Viorel Arn\uautu   Optimal harvesting for periodic
                                  age-dependent population dynamics with
                                  logistic term  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701--2715
              F. Ivanauskas and   
            T. Me\vskauskas and   
                   M. Sapagovas   Stability of difference schemes for
                                  two-dimensional parabolic equations with
                                  non-local boundary conditions  . . . . . 2716--2732
M. F. Martínez-Serrano and   
      N. Castro-González   On the Drazin inverse of block matrices
                                  and generalized Schur complement . . . . 2733--2740
                 Yaoming Yu and   
                   Guorong Wang   DFT calculation for the $2$-inverse of a
                                  polynomial matrix with prescribed image
                                  and kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2741--2749
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   Weighted composition operators between
                                  Fock-type spaces in $ \mathbb {C}^N $    2750--2760
               Zhanbing Bai and   
                   Tingting Qiu   Existence of positive solution for
                                  singular fractional differential
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2761--2767
            Shengqiang Tang and   
             Jianxian Zheng and   
                   Wentao Huang   Travelling wave solutions for a class of
                                  generalized KdV equation . . . . . . . . 2768--2774
            Shengqiang Tang and   
             Jianxian Zheng and   
                   Wentao Huang   Travelling wave solutions for a class of
                                  generalized KdV equation . . . . . . . . 2768--2774
                     Q. W. Yang   A numerical technique for structural
                                  damage detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2780
                    Hua Gao and   
                  Rong-Xia Zhao   New application of the $ (\frac {G'}{G})
                                  $-expansion method to higher-order
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 2781--2786
                    Hua Gao and   
                  Rong-Xia Zhao   New application of the $ (G' / G)
                                  $-expansion method to higher-order
                                  nonlinear equations  . . . . . . . . . . 2781--2786
                 Da-Wei Jin and   
                         Jun Lu   An improved determination approach to
                                  the structure and parameters of dynamic
                                  structure-based neural networks  . . . . 2787--2797

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 8, December 15, 2009

                 S. M. Amer and   
                     S. Dardery   The method of Kantorovich majorants to
                                  nonlinear singular integral equation
                                  with shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2799--2805
                 Zhong Zhao and   
                    Li Yang and   
                    Lansun Chen   Bifurcation of nontrivial periodic
                                  solutions for a biochemical model with
                                  impulsive perturbations  . . . . . . . . 2806--2814
                    Younbae Jun   An efficient domain decomposition method
                                  for three-dimensional parabolic problems 2815--2825
             Dijana Mosi\'c and   
         Dragan S. Djordjevi\'c   Condition number related to the outer
                                  inverse of a complex matrix  . . . . . . 2826--2834
                 Wen-Xiu Ma and   
                       Min Chen   Direct search for exact solutions to the
                                  nonlinear Schrödinger equation  . . . . . 2835--2842
           Bruno de Andrade and   
                 Claudio Cuevas   Compact almost automorphic solutions to
                                  semilinear Cauchy problems with
                                  non-dense domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 2843--2849
                   Alfred Huber   The Sine--Gordon-Equation with
                                  perturbation terms of power Jacobian
                                  elliptic functions . . . . . . . . . . . 2850--2854
                    Caiming Lei   Remarks on oscillation of second-order
                                  linear difference equation . . . . . . . 2855--2857
              Inna Abramova and   
                 Simon Latyshev   Using the fundamental equation of
                                  constrained motion with inequality
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2858--2876
               Ko-Ta Chiang and   
            Kuang Yuan Kung and   
               H. M. Srivastava   Analytic transient solutions of a
                                  cylindrical heat equation with a heat
                                  source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2877--2885
                      Zitian Li   New exact kink solutions, solitons and
                                  periodic form solutions for a combined
                                  KdV and Schwarzian KdV equation  . . . . 2886--2890
              Yang-Yih Chen and   
               Hung-Chu Hsu and   
              Hwung-Hweng Hwung   A Lagrangian asymptotic solution for
                                  finite-amplitude standing waves  . . . . 2891--2900
                   O. P. Layeni   A new rational auxiliary equation method
                                  and exact solutions of a generalized
                                  Zakharov system  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2901--2907
                   Baojian Hong   New Jacobi elliptic functions solutions
                                  for the variable-coefficient mKdV
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2908--2913
                  Amin Boumenir   The recovery of even polynomial
                                  potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2914--2926
                  Hanze Liu and   
                   Jibin Li and   
                        Lei Liu   Lie group classifications and exact
                                  solutions for two variable-coefficient
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2927--2935
M. N. Alpaslan Parlakçì   Robust delay-dependent guaranteed cost
                                  controller design for uncertain neutral
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2936--2949
         Nikolay K. Vitanov and   
           Ivan P. Jordanov and   
          Zlatinka I. Dimitrova   On nonlinear population waves  . . . . . 2950--2964
        Khalida Inayat Noor and   
     Syed Zakar Hussain Bukhari   On analytic functions related with
                                  generalized Robertson functions  . . . . 2965--2970
                   Zengqin Zhao   Existence of fixed points for some
                                  convex operators and applications to
                                  multi-point boundary value problems  . . 2971--2977
            Mikael Barboteu and   
                 Mircea Sofonea   Solvability of a dynamic contact problem
                                  between a piezoelectric body and a
                                  conductive foundation  . . . . . . . . . 2978--2991
 Miquel Grau-Sánchez and   
José M. Gutiérrez   Zero-finder methods derived from
                                  Obreshkov's techniques . . . . . . . . . 2992--3001
             Djurdje Cvijovi\'c   Derivative polynomials and closed-form
                                  higher derivative formulae . . . . . . . 3002--3006
                   Jun-Feng Yin   Preconditioner based on the
                                  Sherman--Morrison formula for
                                  regularized least squares problems . . . 3007--3016
                 Zaid M. Odibat   Computing eigenelements of boundary
                                  value problems with fractional
                                  derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3017--3028
        Mahmoud H. Alrefaei and   
                  Ali H. Diabat   A simulated annealing technique for
                                  multi-objective simulation optimization  3029--3035
             Dinesh Khattar and   
                Swarn Singh and   
                  R. K. Mohanty   A new coupled approach high accuracy
                                  numerical method for the solution of
                                  $3$D non-linear biharmonic equations . . 3036--3044
                   Xiang Li and   
                   Hau-San Wong   Logic optimality for multi-objective
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3045--3056
                  Xiubin Xu and   
                   Yonghui Ling   Semilocal convergence for Halley's
                                  method under weak Lipschitz condition    3057--3067
                Aiyong Chen and   
                   Jibin Li and   
                 Xijun Deng and   
                   Wentao Huang   Travelling wave solutions of the
                                  Fornberg--Whitham equation . . . . . . . 3068--3075
        Octavian G. Mustafa and   
              Cemil Tunç   Asymptotically linear solutions of
                                  differential equations via Lyapunov
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3076--3081
                 Gaohang Yu and   
                 Lutai Guan and   
                    Zengxin Wei   Globally convergent
                                  Polak--Ribi\`ere--Polyak conjugate
                                  gradient methods under a modified Wolfe
                                  line search  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3082--3090
               Shuibo Huang and   
                    Qiaoyu Tian   Asymptotic behavior of large solution
                                  for boundary blowup problems with
                                  non-linear gradient terms  . . . . . . . 3091--3097
               Shuibo Huang and   
                    Qiaoyu Tian   Asymptotic behavior of large solution
                                  for boundary blowup problems with
                                  non-linear gradient terms  . . . . . . . 3091--3097
         Jovi\vsa \vZuni\'c and   
          Carlos Martinez-Ortiz   Linearity measure for curve segments . . 3098--3105
                Songxiao Li and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   On an integral-type operator from
                                  iterated logarithmic Bloch spaces into
                                  Bloch-type spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . 3106--3115
                Songxiao Li and   
                 Stevo Stevi\'c   On an integral-type operator from
                                  iterated logarithmic Bloch spaces into
                                  Bloch-type spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . 3106--3115
                  Shinn Sun and   
                 Shing-Cheng Hu   Discriminating efficient units using MAJ
                                  FDH  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3116--3123
                    Vimal Singh   Modified criteria for global robust
                                  stability of interval delayed neural
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3124--3133
             Filiz Ta\cscan and   
                    Ahmet Bekir   Analytic solutions of the $ (2 +
                                  1)$-dimensional nonlinear evolution
                                  equations using the sine--cosine method  3134--3139
                 \.Ismail Aslan   Discrete exact solutions to some
                                  nonlinear differential-difference
                                  equations via the $ (\frac {G'}{G})
                                  $-expansion method . . . . . . . . . . . 3140--3147

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 9, January 1, 2010

           Ali Abbasi Molai and   
                Esmaile Khorram   Erratum to: ``Another modification from
                                  two papers of Ghodousian and Khorram and
                                  Khorram et al.'' [Appl. Math. Comput.
                                  197 (2008) 559--565] . . . . . . . . . . 3488--3488

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 215, Number 11, February 1, 2010

                Zhenlai Han and   
                Tongxing Li and   
                Shurong Sun and   
                     Yibing Sun   Remarks on the paper [Appl. Math.
                                  Comput. 207 (2009) 388--396] . . . . . . 3998--4007


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 216, Number 2, March 15, 2010

             Chuanjian Wang and   
                Zhengde Dai and   
               Songqing Lin and   
                         Gui Mu   Comments on ``New exact kink solutions,
                                  solitons and periodic form solutions for
                                  a combined KdV and Schwarzian KdV
                                  equation'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--363


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 217, Number 1, September 1, 2010

      Hans Ekkehard Plesser and   
  Anders Grònvik Jahnsen   Re-seeding invalidates tests of random
                                  number generators  . . . . . . . . . . . 339--346

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 217, Number 2, September 15, 2010

                   Dehua Xu and   
               Yunqiang Yin and   
                    Hongxing Li   Comments on ``A note on minimizing
                                  maximum lateness in an $m$-machine
                                  scheduling problem with a learning
                                  effect'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--943

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 217, Number 8, December 15, 2010

          M. A. El-Shehawey and   
                A. S. Al-Henawy   Erratum to ``Computer aided solving the
                                  higher-order transition probability
                                  matrix of the finite Markov chain''
                                  [Appl. Math. Comput. 172 (2006)
                                  267--285]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4311--4312

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 217, Number 12, February 15, 2011

       Tarek M. A. El-Mistikawy   Comment on ``Group solution of a time
                                  dependent chemical convective process''
                                  by M. M. Kassem and A. S. Rashed,
                                  Applied Mathematics and Computation, 215
                                  (2009) 1671--1684  . . . . . . . . . . . 5999--6003

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 217, Number 13, March 1, 2011

               Morteza Pakdaman   Erratum to ``A new branch and bound
                                  method with pretreatment for the binary
                                  quadratic programming'' [Appl. Math.
                                  Comput. 192 (2007) 252--259] . . . . . . 6441--6441

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 217, Number 17, May 1, 2011

                   Dehua Xu and   
                   Yunqiang Yin   Comments on ``A bicriteria flowshop
                                  scheduling problem with setup times''    7361--7364


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 218, Number 1, September 1, 2011

                       N.-Y. Ma   A comment on ``On the distribution of Ma
                                  and King'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 218, Number 6, November 15, 2011

                 Nina Shang and   
                    Huizeng Qin   Comments on the paper: ``Oscillation of
                                  second-order nonlinear ODE with
                                  damping'' [Applied Mathematics and
                                  Computation \bf 199 (2008) 644--652] . . 2979--2980

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 218, Number 9, January 1, 2012

         Asterios Pantokratoras   Comment on ``Chebyshev finite difference
                                  method for MHD flow of a micropolar
                                  fluid past a stretching sheet with heat
                                  transfer'', by N.T. Eldabe, E.F.
                                  Elshehawey, Elsayed M.E. Elbarbary and
                                  Nasser S. Elgazery [Applied Mathematics
                                  and Computation, \bf 160, 2005,
                                  437--450]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5827--5828

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 218, Number 19, June 1, 2012

                   Yang Liu and   
                        Hong Li   Corrigendum to ``$ H^1$-Galerkin mixed
                                  finite element methods for
                                  pseudo-hyperbolic equations'' [Appl.
                                  Math. Comput. 212 (2009) 446--457] . . . 10008--10008


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 219, Number 9, January 1, 2013

                Nguyen Huy Tuan   Corrigendum to: ``A new regularized
                                  method for two dimensional
                                  nonhomogeneous backward heat problem''
                                  [Appl. Math. Comput. \bf 215 (2009)
                                  873--880]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4931--4932

Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 219, Number 11, February 1, 2013

              Zhi-Gang Wang and   
                  Zhi-Hua Zhang   Comments on ``On analytic functions with
                                  generalized bounded Mocanu variation''
                                  by K. I. Noor and A. Muhammad [Appl.
                                  Math. Comput. \bf 196 (2008) 802--811]   5754--5756


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 248, Number ??, December 1, 2014

            Robert Marík   Remarks on the paper by Sun and Meng,
                                  \booktitleAppl. Math. Comput. \bf 174
                                  (2006) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--313


Applied Mathematics and Computation
Volume 430, Number ??, October 1, 2022

          Przemys\law Koprowski   A note on the paper ``A new approach for
                                  finding the determinant of matrices'' by
                                  O. Rezaifar and H. Rezaee  . . . . . . . ??