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Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms NUMTA 2019 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS The 3rd International Conference and Summer School Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms NUMTA 2019 edited by Yaroslav D. Sergeyev Dmitri E. Kvasov Marat S. Mukhametzhanov Maria Chiara Nasso University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy in cooperation with Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA Book of Abstracts of the 3rd International Conference and Summer School Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms edited by Yaroslav D. Sergeyev Dmitri E. Kvasov Marat S. Mukhametzhanov Maria Chiara Nasso Le Castella - Isola Capo Rizzuto Crotone, Italy June 15-21, 2019 In cooperation with and under the high patronage of the municipality of Crotone Centro Editoriale e Librario dell'Universit`adella Calabria Edizione eBook 2019 isbn 9788874581016 Via A. Savinio (Edificio Polifunzionale) - 87036 Rende (CS) - Italy Tel. (0984) 493440 Sito web : http://cel.unical.it Scientific Committee Lidia Aceto, Italy Elisa Francomano, Italy Remigijus Paulaviˇcius,Lithuania Andy Adamatzky, UK Masao Fukushima, Japan Hoang Xuan Phu, Vietnam Francesco Archetti, Italy David Gao, Australia Stefan Pickl, Germany Thomas B¨ack, Netherlands Manlio Gaudioso, Italy Raffaele Pisano, France Roberto Battiti, Italy Victor Gergel, Russia Yuri Popkov, Russia Roman Belavkin, UK Jonathan Gillard, UK Mikhail Posypkin, Russia Giancarlo Bigi, Italy Daniele Gregori, Italy Oleg Prokopyev, USA Paola Bonizzoni, Italy Vladimir Grishagin, Russia Davide Rizza, UK Luigi Brugnano, Italy Mario Guarracino, Italy Massimo Roma, Italy Sergiy Butenko, USA Nicola Guglielmi, Italy Valeria Ruggiero, Italy Sonia Cafieri, France Jan Hesthaven, Switzerland Maria Grazia Russo, Italy Tianxin Cai, China Felice Iavernaro, Italy Nick Sahinidis, USA Cristian Calude, New Zealand Mikhail Khachay, Russia Leonidas Sakalauskas, Lithuania Antonio Candelieri, Italy Oleg Khamisov, Russia Yaroslav Sergeyev, Italy (Chair) Mario Cannataro, Italy Timos Kipouros, UK Khodr Shamseddine, Canada Giovanni Capobianco, Italy Lefteris Kirousis, Greece Sameer Shende, USA Domingos Cardoso, Portugal Yury Kochetov, Russia Vladimir Shylo, Ukraine Francesco Carrabs, Italy Olga Kostyukova, Belarus Theodore Simos, Greece Emilio Carrizosa, Spain Vladik Kreinovich, USA Vinai Singh, India Leocadio Casado, Spain Dmitri Kvasov, Italy Majid Soleimani-Damaneh, Iran Carmine Cerrone, Italy Hoai An Le Thi, France William Spataro, Italy Raffaele Cerulli, Italy Wah June Leong, Malaysia Maria Grazia Speranza, Italy Marco Cococcioni, Italy Øystein Linnebo, Norway Giandomenico Spezzano, Italy Salvatore Cuomo, Italy Antonio Liotta, UK Rosamaria Spitaleri, Italy Louis D'Alotto, USA Marco Locatelli, Italy Alexander Strekalovskiy, Russia Oleg Davydov, Germany Stefano Lucidi, Italy Roman Strongin, Russia Renato De Leone, Italy Maurice Margenstern, France Gopal Tadepalli, India Alessandra De Rossi, Italy Vladimir Mazalov, Russia Tatiana Tchemisova, Portugal Kalyanmoy Deb, USA Francesca Mazzia, Italy Gerardo Toraldo, Italy Francesco Dell'Accio, Italy Maria Mellone, Italy Vassili Toropov, UK Branko Dragovich, Serbia Kaisa Miettinen, Finland Hiroshi Umeo, Japan Gintautas Dzemyda, Lithuania Edmondo Minisci, UK Michael Vrahatis, Greece Yalchin Efendiev, USA Nenad Mladenovic, Serbia Song Wang, Australia Michael Emmerich, Netherlands Ganesan Narayanasamy, USA Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Poland Adil Erzin, Russia Ivo Nowak, Germany Luca Zanni, Italy Yury Evtushenko, Russia Donatella Occorsio, Italy Anatoly Zhigljavsky, UK Giovanni Fasano, Italy Marco Panza, USA Antanas Zilinskas,ˇ Lithuania S¸erife Faydao˘glu, Turkey Massimo Pappalardo, Italy Julius Zilinskas,ˇ Lithuania Luca Formaggia, Italy Panos Pardalos, USA Joseph Zyss, France Organizing Committee Francesco Dall'Accio (Rende, Italy) Marat Mukhametzhanov (Rende, Italy) (SIAM representative) Maria Chiara Nasso (Rende, Italy) Alfredo Garro (Rende, Italy) Clara Pizzuti (Rende, Italy) Vladimir Grishagin (Nizhni Novgorod, Russia) Davide Rizza (Norwich, UK) Dmitri Kvasov (Rende, Italy) Yaroslav Sergeyev (Rende, Italy) This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents Welcoming message of Chairman of NUMTA-2019 ::::::::::::::: 21 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev Plenary lectures ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 23 Infinite Games on Finite Graphs using Grossone :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 25 Louis D'Alotto Recent advances on the use of ¬ in optimization and regularization problems :: 26 Renato De Leone Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Proximity Measure for Convergence of Real-parameter Single and Multi-Objective Optimization :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 27 Kalyanmoy Deb Numerical modeling of flow in fractured porous media and fault reactivation ::: 28 Luca Formaggia, Anna Scotti Precision Algorithms ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 29 Jan S. Hesthaven and Deep Ray Numerical differentiation on the Infinity Computer and applications for solving ODEs and approximating functions :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 30 Francesca Mazzia Generalizations of the intermediate value theorem for approximations of fixed points and zeroes of continuous functions :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 31 Michael N. Vrahatis Uniformly distributed sequences and space-filling ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 32 Anatoly Zhigljavsky Tutorials :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 33 Vector kinetic approximations to fluid-dynamics equations ::::::::::::::::::: 35 Roberta Bianchini, Roberto Natalini Grossone-based Infinity Computing with Numerical Infinities and Infinitesimals: 36 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev Design optimization techniques for industrial applications: challenges and progress :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 37 Vassili Toropov Special sessions ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 39 Approximation: methods, algorithms and applications ::::::::::::: 41 Laplace Transform Inversion for multiexponential decay data by smoothing L-splines :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 43 Rosanna Campagna, Costanza Conti, Salvatore Cuomo An Adaptive Refinement Scheme for Radial Basis Function Collocation :::::::: 44 Roberto Cavoretto, Alessandra De Rossi Interpolation by bivariate quadratic polynomials and applications to the scattered data interpolation problem :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 45 Francesco Dell'Accio, Filomena Di Tommaso A 3D efficient procedure for Shepard interpolants on tetrahedra :::::::::::::: 46 Alessandra De Rossi, Roberto Cavoretto, Francesco Dell'Accio, Filomena Di Tommaso Comparison of Shepard's like methods with different basis functions :::::::::: 47 Filomena Di Tommaso, Francesco Dell'Accio A SVE approach for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations ::: 48 Nadaniela Egidi, Pierluigi Maponi Edge-driven interpolation with discontinuous kernels and applications in medical imaging ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 49 Wolfgang Erb, Stefano De Marchi, Francesco Marchetti, Emma Perracchione and Milvia Rossini A New Remez-type Algorithm for Best Polynomial Approximation :::::::::::: 50 Lorella Fatone, Nadaniela Egidi, Luciano Misici Gauss and anti-Gauss quadrature rules applied to integral equations of the second kind ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 51 Luisa Fermo, Patricia Diaz de Alba, Giuseppe Rodriguez Advanced numerical treatment of an accurate SPH method :::::::::::::::::: 52 Elisa Francomano, Laura Antonelli, Daniela di Serafino,, Francesco Gregoretti, Marta Paliaga On non-parametric regressions by means of multivariate polysplines ::::::::::: 53 Ognyan Kounchev Weighted polynomial approximation on the square by de la Vall´eePoussin means ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 54 Donatella Occorsio, Woula Themistoclakis Recovering discontinuous functions via local multiquadric interpolation with adaptive nonlinear estimate of the shape parameter ::::::::::::::::::::::::: 55 Milvia Rossini, Francesc Ar`andiga,Rosa Donat, Lucia Romani On some applications of generalized Kantorovich sampling operators :::::::::: 56 Gert Tamberg, Olga Graf Numbers, Algorithms and Applications (Pythagorean Stream) ::::: 57 New approaches to basic calculus: an experimentation via numerical computation 59 Fabio Caldarola, Luigi Antoniotti, Gianfranco d'Atri, Antonino Leonardis, Marco Pellegrini From the ancient Pythagorean School to contemporary mathematical models: paradoxes of the infinite and ontological dilemmas :::::::::::::::::::::::::: 60 Domenico Cortese, Fabio Caldarola, Gianfranco d'Atri Numerical problems in XBRL reports and the use of blockchain as trust enabler 61 Gianfranco d'Atri, Le Van Thanh, Dino Garr`ı,Stella d'Atri 8 Modelling on human intelligence a Machine Learning System ::::::::::::::::: 62 Michela De Pietro, Francesca Bertacchini, Pietro Pantano, Eleonora Bilotta Algorithms for Jewelry Industry 4.0 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 63 Francesco Demarco, Francesca Bertacchini, Carmelo Scuro, Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano. Addition of Integers Embodied in Cellular Automata with Different Representations :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 64 Salvatore Di Gregorio Clustering analysis to profile customers behaviour in POWER CLOUD energy community ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 65 Lorella Gabriele, Francesca Bertacchini, Simona Giglio, Daniele Menniti, Pietro Pantano, Anna Pinnarelli, Nicola Sorrentino, Eleonora Bilotta A symbolic model for infinitesimal calculus :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 66 Francesco Ingarozza, Maria Teresa Adamo, Maria Martino,
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