The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) research group at CERN is responsible for one of the four experiments in the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. The software, controlling this experiment, consists of 20,000 finite state machines, which are strictly hierarchically organised. The complexity of the software has grown out of hand and it is not predictable anymore. This is becoming a nuisance. Conseque...

Several information visualization techniques have been developed in the last years due to the need of representing and analyzing the huge amount of data generated by several applications or made available through the World Wide Web. These techniques are usually interactive and provided as part of a graphical user interface. Information visualization techniques are usually reported showing their...

We here propose a new method which sets apart domain-specific terminology from common non-specific noun phrases. It is based on the observation that terminological multi-word groups reveal a considerably lesser degree of distributional variation than non-specific noun phrases. We define a measure for the observable amount of paradigmatic modifiability of terms and, subsequently, test it on bigr...

Minimax regret is an exact method for deriving a recommendation based on a small sample. It can incorporate costs in its measurement of opportunity loss (regret) in terms of not making the best choice. In this paper we present the methodolgy and implement it in four examples from di¤erent …elds: medicine, development policy, experimental game theory and macro economics. We focus on the comparis...

Agent-based approach to economic and financial analysis is a suitable research methodolgy for developing and understanding the complex patterns and phenomena that are observed in economic systems. In agent-based financial market models, prices can be endogenously formed by the system itself as the result of interaction of market participants. By using agents for the study, heterogeneous, bounde...

We present new families of lower bounds for the price of the American put option on a dividend paying stock when the stock follows a log normal process and the option can be exercised continuously to a finite horizon . By put call parity, these bounds can be easily converted to bounds on the price of the Ameican call option on a dividend paying stock. By numerically optimizing these bounds, we ...

In fact, what we want to evaluate is how well a given clustering algorithm is able to capture interesting, meaningful and usable information. Meaningful information in that case correspond to a new knowledge that is interesting to use for some purpose. We also expect the algorithm to be able to capture such interesting information on various types of datasets. Based on these considerations, we ...

The present study investigates the impacts of thermal radiation and inclined magnetic field on Sutterby fluid by capitalizing Cattaneo-Christov heat flux system. suitable transformations from PDE into ODE are achieved strength similarity conversion Well known numerical shooting technique is used along with integrated Runge-Kutta method fourth order. proposed results compared Lobatto 111A which ...