Revealing the corresponding identities of the same individual in different systems is a common task in various areas, e.g., criminals inter-network tracking, homologous proteins revealing, ancient words translating, and so on. With the reason that, recently, more and more complex systems are...

A new local-world model is proposed in this paper to improve and extend the descriptive ability of the first geometrical local-world network model, i.e., the Gardeñes–Moreno (GM) model. A concept of correlation degree between nodes is introduced into the proposed model to build a local world...

Homogeneous entangled networks characterized by small world, large girths, and no community structure have attracted much attention due to some of their favorable performances. However, the optimization algorithm proposed by Donetti et al. is very time-consuming and will lose its efficiency...

Determining the yield to maturity of a coupon bond with more than four coupon periods is a two-step process. The first step uses an approximation formula to obtain a first approximation of the true yield. The second step uses an algorithm to advance the first approximation closer to the bond's...

Asynchronous annuities are defined as those in which the frequency of cash flows differs from the frequency of interest compounding. The conventional approach to calculating the present and future values of such annuities is to impute a rate of interest (or return) to a cash flow period, which...