DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome (DIDS) is a combined immunodeficiency characterized by recurrent viral infections, severe atopy, and early onset malignancy. Genetic studies revealed large, unique deletions in patients from different families and ethnic backgrounds. Clinical markers of DIDS include atopic dermatitis, allergies, cutaneous viral infections, recurrent respiratory tract infections, ...

We establish a relation between stochastic volatility models and the class of generalized hyperbolic distributions. These distributions have been found to t exceptionally well to the empirical distribution of stock returns. We review the background of hyper-bolic distributions and prove stationary distributions of certain GARCH-type models to be generalized hyperbolic.

Selection hyper-heuristic methodologies explore the space of heuristics which in turn explore the space of candidate solutions for solving hard computational problems. This study investigates the performance of approaches based on a framework that hybridizes selection hyper-heuristics and population based incremental learning (PBIL), mixing offline and online learning mechanisms for solving dyn...

Hyper-heuristics are aimed at providing a generalized solution to optimization problems rather than producing the best result for one or more problem instances. This paper examines the use of evolutionary algorithm (EA) selection hyper-heuristics to solve the offline one-dimensional bin-packing problem. Two EA hyper-heuristics are evaluated. The first (EA-HH1) searches a heuristic space of comb...