Metaphors, generalizations and unifications are natural and desirable ingredients of the
evolution of scientific theories and concepts. Physics, in particular, obviously walks along …

We consider 16 representative financial records (stocks, indices, commodities, and
exchange rates) and study the distribution PQ (r) of the interoccurrence times r between …

Train operations are subject to stochastic variations, reducing service punctuality and thus
the quality of service (QoS). Models of such variations are needed to evaluate and predict …

We study the seismicity (global seismic activity) that occurred in Greece between 1976 and
2009 based on the dataset reported in Makropoulos et al.(2012), using concepts of non …

The Pareto-positive stable (PPS) distribution is introduced as a new model for describing city
size data in a country. The PPS distribution provides a flexible model for fitting the entire …

Many common machine learning methods involve the geometric annealing path, a
sequence of intermediate densities between two distributions of interest constructed using …

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in theoretical descriptions of seismicity in
terms of statistical physics. Most aspects of these studies are encompassed by the concept …

The area of the cells of Voronoi tessellations has been modelled through different probability
distributions among which the most promising are the generalized gamma and tapered …

When dealing with practical problems of stress–strength reliability, one can work with fatigue
life data and make use of the well‐known relation between stress and cycles until failure. For …

We show that Tsallis' distributions can be derived from the standard (Shannon) maximum
entropy setting, by incorporating a constraint on the divergence between the distribution and …