Fractional Order Systems and Applications in Engineering

Dumitru Baleanu is a professor at the Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania and a visiting staff member at the Department of Mathematics, Çankaya, University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Atomic Physics in 1996. His fields of interest include Fractional Dynamics and its applications, Fractional Differential Equations and their applications, Discrete Mathematics, Image Processing, Bioinformatics, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Physics, Soliton Theory, Lie Symmetry, Dynamic Systems on time scales, Computational Complexity, the Wavelet Method and its applications, Quantization of systems with constraints, the Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism, as well as geometries admitting generic and non-generic symmetries. Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum laude in applied electronics and telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals and for international conferences. Her research interests cover intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, as well as an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses. Dr. Balas is the Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Center and the Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects at the “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad. She served as the General Chair for nine editions of the International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA) organized in 2005–2020 and held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as organizer, honorary chair, session chair, member in steering, advisory or international program committees, and keynote speaker. Now she is working on a national project funded by the European Union: BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures. She is a member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, the chair of Task Force 14 of the IEEE Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, a member of the IEEE Soft Computing Technical Committee. She is also the recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019). Dr. Praveen Agarwal earned his Ph. D. in Mathematics at the Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) in Jaipur, India, in 2006. Recently, Prof. Agarwal has been listed as the World's Top 2% Scientist from 2020-2025, released by Stanford University. In the 2025 ranking of best scientists worldwide announced by Research.com, he ranked 13th at the India level and 1297th worldwide in Mathematics. Dr. Agarwal has been actively involved in research as well as pedagogical activities for the last 24 years. His major research interests include Special Functions, Fractional Calculus, Numerical Analysis, Differential and Difference Equations, Inequalities, Probability & Statistics, and Fixed Point Theorems. He has published 11 research monographs and edited volumes and more than 405 publications (with almost 100 mathematicians all over the world) in prestigious national and international mathematics journals. Dr. Agarwal worked previously either as a regular faculty or as a visiting professor and scientist in universities in several countries, including India, Germany, Turkey, South Korea, UK, Russia, Malaysia and Thailand. He has served over 50 Journals in the capacity of an Editor/Honorary Editor, or Associate Editor, and published 15 books as an editor.

• 1. Complete synchronization of the time-fractional Chua reaction–diffusion system2. New nonsymmetric and parametric divergences with particular cases3. Analytical solutions of some fractional diffusion boundary value problems4. An enhanced hybrid stochastic fractal search FOPID for speed control of DC motor5. Fractional dynamics and metrics of deadly pandemic diseases6. A numerical technique for solving fractional Benjamin–Bona–Mahony–Burgers equations with bibliometric analysis7. Some roots and paths in the fractional calculus developing environment8. Accruement of nonlinear dynamical system and its dynamics: electronics and cryptographic engineering9. Some new integral inequalities via generalized proportional fractional integral operators for the classes of m-logarithmically convex functions10. Application and optimization of a robust fractional-order FOPI-FOPID automatic generation controller for a multiarea interconnected hybrid power system11. Fourth-order fractional diffusion equations: constructs and memory kernel effects12. Analysis of COVID-19 outbreak using GIS and SEIR model13. Hidden chaotic attractors in fractional-order discrete-time systems14. Dynamical investigation and simulation of an incommensurate fractional-order model of COVID-19 outbreak with nonlinear saturated incidence rate15. Weak Pontryagin’s maximum principle for optimal control problems involving a general analytic kernel16. Computational half-sweep preconditioned Gauss–Seidel method for time-fractional diffusion equations17. Operational matrix approach for solving variable-order fractional integro-differential equations18. On basic Humbert confluent hypergeometric functions19. Derivatives of Horn’s hypergeometric functions G1, G2, >1, and >2 with respect to their parameters