The reliability data is getting used to monitor and improve the quality of products or services. Nowadays, most of products or services are the results of processes with dependent stages referred to as multi-stage process. In these processes, the quality characteristics are affected by the quality characteristics in the previous stages, called as cascade property. In some cases, it is not possi...

A repetitive sequence collection is one where portions of a base sequence of length n are repeated many times with small variations, forming a collection of total length N . Examples of such collections are version control data and genome sequences of individuals, where the differences can be expressed by lists of basic edit operations. This paper is devoted to studying ways to store massive se...

Although capital inflows affect positively economies in long-run, it is possible to generate somehow destructive effects if there is no any control on financial markets. This study tries to explore main determinants of large capital inflows episodes to emerging markets. It is also investigated whether the large capital inflows episodes lead to financial crises in forms of sudden stop phenomenon...

Run-time MetaObject Protocols (MOPs) are reflective systems that allow objects to be controlled at run time by one or many metaobjects. These metaobjects can then alter the semantics of the execution for the base objects they control. Jumping to the meta level to alter the semantics is powerful but indeed fairly costly. It is therefore desirable to let users fine-tune their run-time MOP accordi...