Recent advances in data mining and mathematical modelling have increasingly influenced the development of sophisticated algorithms across diverse application domains. By extracting hidden structures ...

The last few decades have seen an explosion of data in fields such as biology, medicine, and genomics. Some of the methods used to analyze these large data sets are outdated and in need of an update, ...

The World Wide Web contains a vast corpus of consumer-generated content that holds invaluable insights for improving the product and service offerings of firms. Yet the typical method for extracting ...

Importance sampling methods are proposed for estimating the probability that the maximum of a random process exceeds a high threshold, with particular attention to assessing genome-wide significance ...