In my oppinion, as we see from the definition of the conformable fractional derivative, only the multiplication of the classical derivative by x ^ {1-a} can not bring any novelty in the study of real functions.
Also, the use of the term of conformable fractional derivative is unfortunate and creates confusion because there is no connection between this concept and Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative or Caputo fractional derivative. In fact, the conformal fractional derivative of a given function f is nothing but the derivative of the function f with respect cu other function, namely g(x)=x^{α}, in our case. If we put u=x^{α}, then it esay to see that
((df)/(dx))=((df)/(du))((du)/(dx))=α((df)/(du))x^{α-1},
so that
((df)/(du))=(1/α)((df)/(dx))x^{1-α}=(1/α)D^{α}f,
where D^{α} is the conformable derivative.
The same question for Katugampola fractional derivative?.