This paper explores the structural differences and relative goodness-of-fits of affine term structure models (ATSMs55). Within the family of ATSMs there is a tradeoff between flexibility in modeling the conditional correlations and volatilities of the risk factors. This trade-off is formalized

of view are developed in parallel. The former point of view was pioneered by D. Gabbay in [10], while the latter has been advocated by Y. Shoham in [38]. Five such families are defined and characterized by representation theorems, relating the two points of view. One of the families of interest

The OWL Web Ontology Language is a new formal language for representing ontologies in the Semantic Web. OWL has features from several families of representation languages, including primarily Description Logics and frames. OWL also shares many characteristics with RDF, the W3C base of the Semantic

and reallocated among firms through the job creation and destruction process to create wealth and income, but jobs also play the major role in income distribution. For most families, the earnings which jobs generate are the basis of their income-and income distribution has been a topic of intense interest

agents that communi-cate by placing, checking and instantiating constraints on shared variables. Such a view of computation is in-teresting in the context of programming languages be-cause of the ability to represent and manipulate partial information about the domain of discourse, in the con

ABSTRACT This paper concerns with the study of constructing a special family of 3-tuples (a,b,c) such that the product of any two elements of the set added with their sum is a Perfect square.

We study the family of elliptic curves y² = x³−t²x+1, both over Q(t) and over Q. In the former case, all integral solutions are determined; in the latter case, computation in the range 1 ≤ t ≤ 999 shows large ranks are common, giving a particularly simple example of curves which (admittedly over a

Abstract We obtain the Laplace transform and integrability properties of the integral over R+ of the call quantity associated with geometric Brownian motion with negative drift, thus adding a new element to the list of already studied Brownian perpetuities. Key words Bessel-McDonald functions, Sturm-Liouville equation, perpetuities.

A locality sensitive hashing scheme is a distribution on a family F of hash functions operating on a collection of objects, such that for two objects x, y, Prh∈F[h(x) = h(y)] = sim(x,y), where sim(x,y) ∈ [0, 1] is some similarity function defined on the collection of objects. Such a scheme leads

test for each gene of the null hypothesis of no association between the expression levels and responses or covariates of interest. Di erentially expressed genes are identified based on adjusted p-values for a multiple testing procedure which strongly controls the family-wise Type I error rate and takes