BACKGROUND Recently, novel 3D alignment-free molecular descriptors (also known as QuBiLS-MIDAS) based on two-linear, three-linear and four-linear algebraic forms have been introduced. These descriptors codify chemical information for relations between two, three and four atoms by using several (dis-)similarity metrics and multi-metrics. Several studies aimed at assessing the quality of these no...

Background Music in Dementia Assessment Scales (MiDAS) is an observational, dementia-specific, visual analogue scale, developed to measure musical experiences of patients with dementia (PwD). Derived from qualitative data focus groups and interviews PwD, carers, care home staff, music therapists, it revealed acceptable good psychometric properties a preliminary study. We aim describe the transl...

The model driven development is an interested area among software engineers as well as the agile development. In fact, combining model driven and agile practices is an interesting perspective for the software engineering. In this work, we present a case study of agile model driven development within the MIDAS framework, which composes a model driven architecture based on the Model Driven Archit...

Modeling financial volatility is an important part of empirical finance. This paper provides a literature review of the most relevant volatility models, with a particular focus on forecasting models. We firstly discuss the empirical foundations of different kinds of volatility. The paper, then, analyses the non-parametric measure of volatility, named realized variance, and its empirical applica...

The MIDAS project began at 2006 as collaboration between Endesa, Sadiel and the University of Seville. The objective of the MIDAS project is the detection of Non-Technical Losses (NTLs) on power utilities. The NTLs represent the non-billed energy due to faults or illegal manipulations in clients’ facilities. Initially, research lines study the application of techniques of data mining and neural...

Application-level nondeterminism can lead to inconsistent state that defeats the purpose of replication as a fault-tolerance strategy. We present Midas, a new approach for living with nondeterminism in distributed, replicated, middleware applications. Midas exploits (i) the static program analysis of the application’s source code prior to replica deployment and (ii) the online compensation of r...

Adult second language learners face the daunting but underappreciated task of mastering patterns of language use that are neither products of fully productive grammar rules nor frozen items to be memorized. Word Midas, a web browser extension, targets this uncharted territory of lexicogrammar by detecting multiword tokens of lexicogrammatical patterning in real time in situ within the noisy dig...

Midas is an inter-disciplinary approach to supporting state-machine replication for nondeterministic distributed applications. The approach exploits compile-time static analysis to identify both first-hand and second-hand sources of nondeterminism. Subsequent runtime compensation occurs through either the transfer of nondeterministic checkpoints or the reexecution of inserted code, and restores...