It's time to ‘out’ the selfish researchers

Researchers fail to dig out enough avalanche data.

Pascal Haegeli and coauthors’ interpretation of their avalanche research findings is unjustified. The authors cannot show an association between survival times and cause of death because cause of death is not reported in the Swiss sample. An association to snow density can’t be shown because it was not measured. The data show that the victims in both cohorts differed in many aspects and much po...

Convergence Time to Nash Equilibrium in Selfish Bin Packing

We consider a game-theoretic bin packing problem and we study the convergence time to a Nash equilibrium. We show that, if the best-response strategy is used, then the number of steps needed to reach Nash equilibrium is O(mw2 max + nwmax) and O(nkwmax), where n, m, k and wmax denotes, resp., the number of items, the number of bins, the number of distinct item sizes, and the size of a largest item.

introducing plagiarism and its aspects to medical researchers is essential

News Feature: To master memory, researchers pursue its roots.

What is a memory? Can it be purposefully erased, implanted, or altered? Such musings have long captured the public imagination, inspiring cinematic tales of memory manipulation, ranging from the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, to the sci-fi classic Total Recall. In the quirky romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, memory technicians erase painful recollections of failed rel...

Web Mining and Its Applications to Researchers Support

Web mining is a newly emerging research area concerned with analyzing the World Wide Web. It is concerned mainly with its content, structure and usage. As the Web is the largest storehouse of knowledge of our time it has become essential to learn how to exploit its potential. This report aims at presenting Web mining in the context of other scientific domains and it introduces its possible appl...