Numerical Methods and Applications [electronic resource] : 8th International Conference, NMA 2014, Borovets, Bulgaria, August 20-24, 2014, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Ivan Dimov, Stefka Fidanova, Ivan Lirkov.

A Note on Local Refinement for Direction Splitting Methods -- On Positivity Preservation in Some Finite Element Methods for the Heat Equation -- Optimized Particle Regeneration Scheme for the Wigner Monte Carlo Method -- Sensitivity Analysis of Design Parameters for Silicon Diodes -- Balancing of Systematic and Stochastic Errors in Monte Carlo Algorithms for Integral Equations -- Slot Machines RTP Optimization with Genetic Algorithms -- Hierarchical Topology in Parallel Differential Evolution -- On Meme Self-Adaptation in Spatially-Structured Multimemetic Algorithms -- An Ant Algorithm for the Partition Graph Coloring Problem -- Multi-exchange Neighborhoods for the Capacitated Ring Tree Problem -- Hebbian Versus Gradient Training of ESN Actors in Closed-Loop ACD -- Free Search in Multidimensional Space II -- A Semi-numerical Approach to Radiation Boundary Conditions -- Spectral Analysis of Geometric Multigrid Methods for Isogeometric Analysis -- Numerical Homogenization of Epoxy-Clay Composite Materials -- Isogeometric Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamics of Timoshenko Beams -- Deterministic Solution of the Discrete Wigner Equation -- Explicit-Implicit Splitting Schemes for Parabolic Equations and Systems -- Solving Two-Point Boundary Value Problems for Integro-Differential Equations Using the Simple Shooting-Projection Method -- HPC Simulations of the Fine Particulate Matter Climate of Bulgaria -- Tall RC Buildings Environmentally Degradated and Strengthened by Cables Under Multiple Earthquakes: A Numerical Approach -- Multi-scale Computational Framework for Evaluating of the Performance of Molecular Based Flash Cells -- Parameter Identification of a Rate Dependent Constitutive Model for Rock Salt -- Constitutive Parameter Adjustment for Mechanized Tunneling with Reference to Sub-system Effects -- Modeling of Textiles as Nets of One-Dimensional Hyperelastic Strings with Friction Controlled by Capstan Equation -- Numerical Simulation of Drop Coalescence in the Presence of Inter-Phase Mass Transfer -- Wavelet Compression of Spline Coefficients -- Target Localization by UWB Signals -- Performance of a Wavelet Shrinking Method -- Two-Grid Decoupled Method for a Black-Scholes Increased Market Volatility Model -- The Effect of a Postprocessing Procedure to Upper Bounds of the Eigenvalues -- On a Type of Nonconforming Morley Rectangular Finite Element -- A Numerical Study of the Upper Bound of the Throughput of a Crossbar Switch Utilizing MiMa-Algorithm -- Extremal Scattered Data Interpolation in R3 Using Triangular Bézier Surfaces.