The usefulness of parameterized algorithmics has often depended on what Niedermeier has called, "the art of problem parameterization." In this paper we introduce and expl...
Michael R. Fellows, Serge Gaspers, Frances A. Rosa...
Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...
In this work, we address investment decisions in production systems by using real options. As is standard in literature, the stochastic variable is assumed to be normally distribu...
The issue addressed in this paper concerns the discovery of frequent multi-dimensional patterns from relational sequences. The great variety of applications of sequential pattern m...
Floriana Esposito, Nicola Di Mauro, Teresa Maria A...
Background: Microarray technology is generating huge amounts of data about the expression level of thousands of genes, or even whole genomes, across different experimental conditi...