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Exponential growth describes an extremely rapid process ubiquitous across mathematics and diverse physical, biological, and technological systems. Here, we introduce a class of fractal-inspired lattices that combine long-range periodic…
Neural network models have recently demonstrated impressive prediction performance in complex systems where chaos and unpredictability appear. In spite of the research efforts carried out on predicting future trajectories or improving their…
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Random sampling of graph partitions under constraints has become a popular tool for evaluating legislative redistricting plans. Analysts detect partisan gerrymandering by comparing a proposed redistricting plan with an ensemble of sampled…
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Box Decoding is a sort-free tree-search MIMO detector whose complexity is independent of the QAM order, achieved by searching a fixed candidate box around a zero-forcing (ZF) estimate. However, without pruning, the number of visited nodes…
The study of real-life network modeling has become very popular in recent years. An attractive model is the scale-free percolation model on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\ge1$, because it fulfills several stylized facts observed in large…
We present the algorithm for generating strictly saturated random sequential adsorption packings built of rounded polygons. It can be used to study various properties of such packings built of a wide variety of different shapes and in…
Modern 3D printing technologies and the upcoming mass-customization paradigm call for efficient methods to produce and distribute arbitrarily-shaped 3D objects. This paper introduces an original algorithm to split a 3D model in parts that…
Multifractal analysis (MFA) is a useful tool to systematically describe the spatial heterogeneity of both theoretical and experimental fractal patterns. One of the widely used methods for fractal analysis is box-covering. It is known to be…
In this paper we introduce algorithms for the construction of scale-free networks and for clustering around the nerve centers, nodes with a high connectivity in a scale-free networks. We argue that such overlay networks could support…
We perform fractal analysis on a closed classical hard-wall billiard, the circular billiard with a straight cut, assuming there are two openings on the boundary. We use a two-dimensional set of initial conditions that produce all possible…