A modification of the standard Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is presented for finding the global minimum of a continuous multidimensional, multimodal function. We report resu...
Decision support systems are important in leveraging information present in data warehouses in businesses like banking, insurance, retail and health-care among many others. The mu...
Background: Mixture models of mutagenetic trees are evolutionary models that capture several pathways of ordered accumulation of genetic events observed in different subsets of pa...
Background: The characterization of the relationship between a longitudinal response process and a time-to-event has been a pressing challenge in biostatistical research. This has...
Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...