Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, Volume 16, 2008

Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations

Volume 16, 2008

CONTENTS

V. Lakshmikantham Preface to Special Issue	i
G. S. Ladde and M. Sambandham Professor Chris P. Tsokos: a Brief Review of Statistical, Mathematical and Professional Contributions and Legacies	iii
R. D. Wooten and C. P. Tsokos A Markovian Analysis of Hurricane Transitions	1
Lisa D. Foster, Nirjhar Shah, Mark Ross, G.S. Ladde, and P. Wang Using Frequency Analysis to Determine Wetland Hydroperiod	17
Gokarna R. Aryal and Chris P. Tsokos Airline Spill Analysis Usnig Gumbel and Moyal Probability Distributions	35
Florence George and K. M. Ramachandran A Mixture Model Approach For Gene Selection Using Johnson's System and Bayes Formula	45
Shou Hsing Shih and Chris P. Tsokos A Temperature Forecasting Model for the Continental United States	59
Alfred K. Mbah and Chris P. Tsokos Record Values from Half Logistics and Inverse Weibull Probability Distribution Functions	73
Chris P. Tsokos and Branko Miladinovic Bayesian Reliability Analysis for the Gumbel Failure Model	93
Nirjhar Shah, Mark Ross, and G. S. Ladde Dynamic Modeling of Root Water Uptake Using Soil Moisture Data	105
R. D. Wooten and C. P. Tsokos Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Lightning	125
N. K. Manandhar Shrestha and K. M. Ramachandran Behrens_fisher's Distribution For Selecting Differentially Expressed Genes	147
Shou Hsing Shih and Chris P. Tsokos Prediction Models for Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Atmosphere	165
Matthias Ehrhardt and Ronald E. Mickens Discrete Models for the Cube-Root Differential Equation	179
Jurgen Geiser and Christos Kravvaritis Overlapping Operator Splitting Methods and Applications in Stiff Differential Equations	189
Curtis Kunkel Positive Solutions of Singular Initial Value Problems for Integro-Differential Equations	201
J. Henderson, S. K. Ntouyas and I. K. Purnaras Positive Solutions for Systems of Three-Point Nonlinear Discrete Boundary Value Problems	209
Jurgen Geiser Operator-Splitting Methods Respecting Eigenvalue Problems for Convection-Diffusion and Wave Equations	225
W. Y. Chan Quenching of the Solution for a Degenerate Semilinear Parabolic Equation	237
Billy J. Jackson Adaptive Control in the Nabla Setting	253
Ping Lu, Maria Oliveira and Chaoqun Liu High Order Compact Schemes for Dirichlet Boundary Points	273
Qin Sheng Recent Trends in Splitting, Adaptive and Hybrid Numerical Methods for Differential Equations	283
Zhongdi Cen A Hybrid Finite Difference Scheme for a Class of Singularly Perturbed Delay Differential Equations	303
R. Mythili Priyadharshini and N. Ramanujam Hybrid Difference Schemes for a Singularly Perturbed Second Order Ordinary Differential Equation with a Discontinuous Convection Coefficient Arising in Chemical Reactor Theory	309
V. Shanthi and N. Ramanujam An Asymptotic Hybrid Difference Scheme for Singularly Perturbed Third and Fourth Order Ordinary Differential Equations with Discontinuous Source Term	327
Christos Xenophontos The Hp Finite Element Method for Singularly Perturbed Systems of Reaction_diffusion Equations	337
Jugal Mohapatra and Srinivasan Natesan Uniformly Convergent Second_order Numerical Method for Singularly Perturbed Delay Differential Equations	353
Vivek Kumar and Kapil K. Sharma An Optimized B_spline Method for Solving Singularly Perturbed Differential Difference Equations with Delay as Well as Advance	371
J. I. Ramos Exponential Techniques and Implicit Runge Kutta Methods for Singularly Perturbed Volterra Integro Differential Equations	387
Kaushik Mukherjee and Srinivasan Natesan An Efficient Numerical Scheme for Singularly Perturbed Parabolic Problems with Interior Layer	405
Srinivasan Natesan and Rajdeep Deb A Robust Numerical Scheme for Singularly Perturbed Parabolic Raction_diffusion Problems	419
Awoke Andargie and Y. N. Reddy Terminal Boundary Condition for Singularly Perturbed Two_point Boundary Value Problems	435
R. K. Mohanty A Two_level Implicit Non_uniform Mesh Cubic Spline Method for the Parabolic Equation	449
N. Kumaresan and P. Balasubramaniam Optimal Control for Stochastic Linear Quadratic Singular System with Indefinite Control Cost and Cross Term Using Neural Networks	467
Zhiyue Zhang and Zhoufeng Wang The Fully Discrete Multistep Characteristic Finite Volume Element Methods for the Two_dimensional Generalized Nerve Conduction Equation	481
Yan Zhang and Cuiping Li Estimate for the Number of Zeros of Abelian Integrals for a Kind of Quartic Hamiltonians	497
R. P. Agarwal, Young_ho Kim, and C. S. Ryoo Calculating Zeros of the Twisted Euler Polynomials	505
Lizhe Wang and Wei Jie Integrated Resource Management Framework for Bio_grid Computing	517
W. S. Yousif and M. Madalena Martins Explicit De_Coupled Group AOR Method for solving Elliptic Partial Differential Equations	531
Mostafa I. Soliman Memory Hierarchy Exploration for Accelerating the Parallel Computation of SVDs	543
Xueke Wu and Zhiyue Zhang The Finite Volume Element Method for the Pollution In Groundwater Flow	563
A. Krishnamoorthy, K. P. Jose, and Viswanath C. Narayanan Numerical Investigation of a PH/PH/1 Inventory System with Positive Service Time and Shortage	579
Content of Volume 16	593
Author Index	597