Best Paper Award

Dear Authors,

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Mathematics Best Paper Award. Six research articles were selected by the journal award committee according to their originality and significance as well as citation and download rates in 2019 (Web of Science). Each nomination was examined by the committee members, who expressed their preferences as a ranking from which the winners of the 2018 Mathematics Best Paper Award were determined.

The award recipients will each receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Mathematics, subject to the normal peer review procedure. Each paper will additionally receive a bonus based on the award class. The winners are as follows:

First Award (one research paper), 500 CHF
Numerical Solution of Fractional Differential Equations: A Survey and a Software Tutorial
Author: Roberto Garrappa, Italy
Mathematics 2018, 6(2), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6020016
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/2/16

Second Award (two research papers), 300 CHF each
Numerical Solution of Multiterm Fractional Differential Equations Using the Matrix Mittag–Leffler Functions
Author: Marina Popolizio, Italy
Mathematics 2018, 6(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/1/7

Data Driven Economic Model Predictive Control
Authors: Prashant Mhaskar, Canada and Masoud Kheradmandi, Canada
Mathematics 2018, 6(4), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6040051
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/4/51

Third Award (three research papers), 100 CHF each
Computation of Probability Associated with Anderson–Darling Statistic
Authors: Lorentz Jäntschi, Romania and Sorana D. Bolboacă, Romania
Mathematics 2018, 6(6), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6060088
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/6/88

Approximate Dynamic Programming Based Control of Proppant Concentration in Hydraulic Fracturing
Authors: Harwinder Singh Sidhu, USA, Prashanth Siddhamshetty, USA and Joseph S. Kwon, USA
Mathematics 2018, 6(8), 132; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6080132
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/8/132

Recurrent Neural Network-Based Model Predictive Control for Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Authors: Wee Chin Wong, Singapore, Ewan Chee, Singapore, Jiali Li, Singapore and Xiaonan Wang, Singapore
Mathematics 2018, 6(11), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6110242
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/11/242

We congratulate the authors and thank them for selecting Mathematics to publish their work.

 
Mathematics 2018 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Mathematics will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

12 pages, 316 KiB  
Article
Practical Exponential Stability of Impulsive Stochastic Food Chain System with Time-Varying Delays
by Yuxiao Zhao and Linshan Wang
Mathematics 2023, 11(1), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11010147 - 28 Dec 2022
41 pages, 23839 KiB  
Review
Survey on Synthetic Data Generation, Evaluation Methods and GANs
by Alvaro Figueira and Bruno Vaz
Mathematics 2022, 10(15), 2733; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10152733 - 2 Aug 2022
28 pages, 532 KiB  
Article
Regression Analysis of Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Structures of Publicly Listed British Firms
by Elmina Homapour, Larry Su, Fabio Caraffini and Francisco Chiclana
Mathematics 2022, 10(7), 1119; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10071119 - 31 Mar 2022
55 pages, 510 KiB  
Article
Fractional Calculus and Time-Fractional Differential Equations: Revisit and Construction of a Theory
by Masahiro Yamamoto
Mathematics 2022, 10(5), 698; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10050698 - 23 Feb 2022
19 pages, 437 KiB  
Review
The Discrete Dipole Approximation: A Review
by Patrick Christian Chaumet
Mathematics 2022, 10(17), 3049; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10173049 - 24 Aug 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Francisco Chiclana Chairman
De Montfort University
Prof. Antonio Di Crescenzo
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Prof. Paolo Mercorelli
Leuphana University of Lueneburg
Prof. Juan Torregrosa
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (ETSI Telecomunicación)
Prof. Dr. Matjaz Perc
University of Maribor
Prof. Daniele Mortari
Texas A&M University

Winner

9 pages, 374 KiB  
Article
Implicit Solitary Waves for One of the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
by Nikolay A. Kudryashov
Mathematics 2021, 9(23), 3024; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9233024 - 25 Nov 2021
17 pages, 311 KiB  
Article
General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives with the Sonine Kernels
by Yuri Luchko
Mathematics 2021, 9(6), 594; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9060594 - 10 Mar 2021
10 pages, 263 KiB  
Article
New General Variants of Chebyshev Type Inequalities via Generalized Fractional Integral Operators
by Ahmet Ocak Akdemir, Saad Ihsan Butt, Muhammad Nadeem and Maria Alessandra Ragusa
Mathematics 2021, 9(2), 122; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9020122 - 7 Jan 2021
37 pages, 1011 KiB  
Article
Statistical Machine Learning in Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Processes
by Zhe Wu, David Rincon, Quanquan Gu and Panagiotis D. Christofides
Mathematics 2021, 9(16), 1912; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9161912 - 11 Aug 2021
40 pages, 643 KiB  
Review
A Guide to Special Functions in Fractional Calculus
by Virginia Kiryakova
Mathematics 2021, 9(1), 106; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9010106 - 5 Jan 2021
20 pages, 3591 KiB  
Article
New Importance Measures Based on Failure Probability in Global Sensitivity Analysis of Reliability
by Zdeněk Kala
Mathematics 2021, 9(19), 2425; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9192425 - 29 Sep 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Francisco Chiclana Chairman
De Montfort University

Winner

Maria Alessandra Ragusa
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy RUDN University, 6 Miklukho, Maklay St, Moscow 117198, Russia
Juan Luis García Guirao
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Technical University of Cartagena, Hospital de Marina 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Gaige Wang
1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China; 2. Institute of Algorithm and Big Data Analysis, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130117, China; 3. School of Computer Science and Information Tech
Soonil Kwon
Interaction Technology Laboratory, Department of Software, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
José Carlos R. Alcantud
BORDA Research Unit and Multidisciplinary Institute of Enterprise (IME), University of Salamanca, E37007 Salamanca, Spain
Omid Ghorbanzadeh
Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Award Committee

Prof. Francisco Chiclana Chairman
De Montfort University

Winner

Yuri Luchko
Beuth Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Luxemburger Str. 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Tenreiro Machado Chairman
Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto

Winner

Roberto Garrappa
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Degli Studi di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
Marina Popolizio
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica “Ennio De Giorgi”, Università del Salento, Via per Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Prashant Mhaskar
Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L7, Canada

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Tenreiro Machado Chairman
Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto

Winner

Tohru Morita
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/62
Daniele Mortari
Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/48
Yuri Luchko
Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/76
Dagmar Markechová
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, A. Hlinku 1, SK-949 01 Nitra, Slovakia paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/1/4
Merlin C. Köhnke
Institute of Environmental Systems Research, School of Mathematics, Computer Science, Osnabrück University, Barbarastraße 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/69
Yang-Hi Lee
Department of Mathematics Education, Gongju National University of Education, Gongju 32553, Korea paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/53
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