Group size is an essential aspect of experiments using group testing. In this study, we establish the relationship of the optimal group size to the proportion p. Two robust estimators are proposed and investigated through simulations.

This paper is concerned with the issue of mean square cluster synchronization in directed networks, which consist of non-identical nodes infected by communication noises. The pinning control method is employed in designing controllers for guaranteeing cluster synchronization, meanwhile, all the...

An SIS network model incorporating the influence of media coverage on transmission rate is formulated and analyzed. We calculate the basic reproduction number R0 by utilizing the local stability of the disease-free equilibrium. Our results show that the disease-free equilibrium is globally...

Time delay, accounting for constant incubation period or sojourn times in an infective state, widely exists in most biological systems like epidemiological models. However, the effect of time delay on spatial epidemic models is not well understood. In this paper, spatial pattern of an epidemic...

Power system and its communication system, which can be called a cyber-physical system, are interconnected and interdependent on each other. This paper considers the interaction problem between power system and its communication module from the perspective of the topological structure. Firstly,...

Modern systems are mostly coupled together. Therefore, they should be modeled as interdependent networks. In this paper, the robustness of interdependent networks coupled with different type networks is studied in detail under both targeted and random attack. The critical fraction of nodes...

In this paper, the global robust stability is investigated for interval neural networks with multiple time-varying delays. The neural network contains time-invariant uncertain parameters whose values are unknown but bounded in given compact sets. Without assuming both the boundedness on the...

Although the Van der Pol oscillator, which was originally proposed as a model of vacuum tube circuits, has been widely used in electronics, biology and acoustics, its characteristics in fractional order formulations are not clearly explained even now. This paper is interested in gaining insights...

Without assuming the symmetry or irreducibility of the coupling configuration matrices, this paper investigates the pinning synchronization in an array of linearly coupled delayed neural networks with both constant and delayed couplings. Under some low-dimensional conditions, it is shown that...

A new neural network is proposed in this paper for solving quadratic programming problems with equality and inequality constraints. Comparing with the existing neural networks for solving such problems, the proposed neural network has fewer neurons and an one-layer architecture. The proposed...