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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013, Article ID 487186, 1 page
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/487186
Editorial
Dynamical Aspects of Initial/Boundary Value Problems for
Ordinary Differential Equations
Jifeng Chu,1 Juntao Sun,2 Patricia J. Y. Wong,3 and Yonghui Xia4
1
Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
School of Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, Shandong 255049, China
3
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
4
Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
2
Correspondence should be addressed to Jifeng Chu; jifengchu@126.com
Received 19 February 2013; Accepted 19 February 2013
Copyright © 2013 Jifeng Chu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Dynamical aspects of initial/boundary value problems for
ordinary differential equations have become a rapidly growing area of research in the theory of differential equations and
dynamical systems and have gathered substantial research
interests during the last decades. The attractiveness of this
field not only is derived from theoretical interests but also is
motivated by the insights that such dynamical aspects could
reveal in several phenomena observed in applied sciences.
The current special issue places its emphasis on the study
of the dynamical aspects of initial/boundary value problems
for ordinary differential equations. Call for papers has been
carefully prepared by the guest editors and posted on the
journals web page, which has attracted many researchers to
submit their contribution on wide topics such as oscillation
theory, delay differential equation, impulsive differential
equation, multipoint boundary value problems, stochastic
mutualism system, chaotic system, homoclinic solutions,
Hamiltonian systems, stability and bifurcation, exponential
extinction, singular elliptic problem, nonuniform exponential contraction and dichotomy.
All manuscripts submitted to this special issue went
through a thorough peer-refereeing process. Based on the
reviewers’ reports, we collect twenty-five original research
articles by more than fifty active international researchers in
differential equations and from different countries such as
Korea, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Czech Republic, Turkey,
Slovenia, India, and USA. Besides, one survey on recent
results for the existence of singular periodic problems is also
contained.
It is certainly impossible to provide in this short editorial
note a more comprehensive description for all articles in this
special issue. However, the team of the guest editors believes
that the results included reflect some recent trends in research
and outline new ideas for future studies of dynamical aspects
of initial/boundary value problems for ordinary differential
equations.
Acknowledgment
We would like to express our gratitude to the authors who
have submitted papers for consideration. Thanks also are
given to the many reviewers whose reports are important
for us to make the decisions. All the participants have made
it possible to have a very stimulating interchange of ideas.
We would also like to thank the editorial board members
of this journal, for their support and help throughout the
preparation of this special issue.
Jifeng Chu
Juntao Sun
Patricia J. Y. Wong
Yonghui Xia
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