In this chapter, we introduce the practices of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) development as an instance of the convergence of technological affordances with novel social practices to create a novel mode of work. We then consider how FLOSS software might be used for various scientific applications, perhaps leading to a convergence of current distinct disciplines. We conclude by conside...

The molecular-dynamics-based calculation of accurate free energy differences for biomolecular systems is a challenging task. Accordingly, convergence and accuracy of established equilibrium methods has been subject of many studies, often focusing at small test systems. In contrast, the potential of more recently proposed nonequilibrium methods, derived from the Jarzynski and Crooks equalities, ...

We consider the standard problem of learning a concept from random examples. Here a learning curve can be deened to be the expected error of a learner's hypotheses as a function of training sample size. Haussler, Littlestone and Warmuth have shown that, in the distribution free setting, the smallest expected error a learner can achieve in the worst case over a concept class C converges rational...

Almost sure and L-convergence of the traces of Laguerre processes to the family of dilations of the standard free Poisson distribution are established. We also prove that the fluctuations around the limiting process, converge weakly to a continuous centered Gaussian process. The almost sure convergence on compact time intervals of the largest and smallest eigenvalues processes is also established.

In this work we introduce a conditional accelerated lazy stochastic gradient descent algorithm with optimal number of calls to a stochastic first-order oracle and convergence rate O( 1 ε2 ) improving over the projection-free, Online Frank-Wolfe based stochastic gradient descent of Hazan and Kale [2012] with convergence rate O( 1 ε4 ).

In this article we introduce the notion of statistical convergence difference sequences of fuzzy real numbers, c̄ (∆). We study some properties of the statistically convergent and statistically null difference sequence spaces of fuzzy real numbers, like completeness, solidness, sequence algebra, symmetricity, convergence free, nowhere denseness and some inclusion results.

This paper focuses on the relationships between stratified $L$-conver-gence spaces, stratified strong $L$-convergence spaces and stratifiedlevelwise  $L$-convergence spaces. It has been known that: (1) astratified $L$-convergence space is precisely a left-continuousstratified levelwise $L$-convergence space; and (2) a  stratifiedstrong $L$-convergence space is naturally a stratified $L$-converg...

in this paper, economic convergence in selected oic (36 countries) is studied. the convergence hypothesis is tested through three approaches: beta convergence, sigma convergence, and time series model. ols is used for estimating the cross section model and cross variance is used to test the distributive model. for analyzing time series model, we used augmented dicky fuller test. beta convergenc...