Conjoint analysis is one of the most important tools to support product development, pricing and positioning decisions in management practice. For this purpose various models have been developed. It is widely accepted that models that take consumer heterogeneity into account, outperform aggregate models in terms of hold-out tasks. The aim of our study is to investigate empirically whether predi...

Prediction of unknown enzymatic reactions is useful for understanding biological processes such as reactions to external substances like endocrine disrupters. To create an accurate prediction, we need to define a similarity measure in the reaction. We have developed the KEGG RPAIR database which is a collection of chemical structure transformation patterns, called RDM patterns, for substrate-pr...

This paper proposes a theoretical framework in which generalized hierarchical approaches for the adaptive finite element mesh refinement can be easily designed. Such a generalized approach aims at coupling the classical h version hierarchical adaptive finite element method and the adaptive remeshing strategy. On one hand, the hierarchical aspect should provide such an approach with its iterativ...