Airlines routinely overbook flights based on the expectation that some fraction of booked passengers will not show for each flight. Accurate forecasts of the expected number of no...
Richard D. Lawrence, Se June Hong, Jacques Cherrie...
Composite likelihood methods provide a wide spectrum of computationally efficient techniques for statistical tasks such as parameter estimation and model selection. In this paper,...
Arthur Asuncion, Qiang Liu, Alexander T. Ihler, Pa...
While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing is a powerful and cost-effective content distribution model, most paid-for digital-content providers (CPs) use direct download to deliver th...
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Angelos...
The wide availability of large scale databases requires more efficient and scalable tools for data understanding and knowledge discovery. In this paper, we present a method to ...
Duy-Dinh Le, Shin'ichi Satoh, Michael E. Houle, Da...
Background: Genomic islands can be observed in many microbial genomes. These stretches of DNA have a conspicuous composition with regard to sequence or encoded functions. Genomic ...