Clustering is an unsupervised learning method widely used in many fields, such as machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining and image analysis. The goal of this study is to investigate swap-based clustering and its application to location-based services. Swap-based clustering is a local search heuristic trying to find the optimal centroid locations by performing a sequence of centroid ...

This paper examines the causal relationship between euro and sterling swap spreads during the period January, 1999 to March, 2003. The absence of any correlation between changes in the two swap spreads would indicate that credit risk factors are country-specific. But euro swap spreads showed some correlation with the interest rate differentials between the two markets. Both spreads follow a GAR...

SWAP-70 is a protein that has been suggested to be involved in regulation of actin rearrangement. Having discovered that an artificially-derived mutant of SWAP-70 can transform mouse embryo fibroblasts, we searched for naturally-occurring mutations in the SWAP-70 gene, finding listings for several on the Web at www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/cosmic/, including three mutations found in ovarian ca...

In this paper we will establish a generalized Swap Market Model (GSMM) by unifying the stochastic process of swap rates with constant tenors under a single swap measure. GSMM is a natural extension of Libor Market Model (LMM) for swap rates, and LMM can be considered as a special case of GSMM since Libors is a special swap rate with the constant tenor of one period. GSMM can be applied for pric...

Osteoclasts are bone resorbing cells acting as key mediators of bone disorders. Upon adhesion to bone, osteoclasts polarize and reorganize their cytoskeleton to generate a ring-like F-actin-rich structure, the sealing zone, wherein the osteoclast's resorptive organelle, the ruffled border, is formed. The dynamic self-organization of actin-rich adhesive structures, the podosomes, from clusters t...

In this work we analyze the concept of swap-invariance, which is a weaker variant of exchangeability. An integrable random vector ξ in R is called swap-invariant if E ∣∣∑ j ujξj ∣∣ is invariant under all permutations of the components of ξ for each u ∈ R. Further a random sequence is swap-invariant if its finite-dimensional distributions are swap-invariant. Two characterizations of large classe...

The effects of dynamic quantum allocation and swap-time variability on central processing unit (CPU) behavior are investigated using a model that allows both quantum length and swap-time to be statedependent random variables. Effective CPU utilization is defined to be the proportion of a CPU busy period that is devoted to program processing, i.e. the time not spent in swapping. Using this measu...