A nation is recognized by the presence of educated, rational and responsible citizens ,just as the strength, potential and purpose of an apple tree are inferred from ripe and nutritious apples and not ...

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Abstract: A unified high-accuracy mode solver is proposed to compute the modes of planar optical waveguides. The advantage of this solver is composed of three aspects. The first is the high accuracy ...

Abstract: Distributed stochastic optimization (DSO) with local set constraints and coupled inequality constraints over a multiagent network is considered in this article. Usually, such problems are ...