New Directions in Statistical Physics Book

Pt. I	Fundamental Aspects
	Predicting the Direction of a Time Series	3
	On the Variability of Timing in a Spatially Continuous System with Heterogeneous Connectivity	17
	First Passage Time Problem: A Fokker-Planck Approach	31
	First- and Last-Passage Algorithms in Diffusion Monte Carlo	47
Pt. II	Econophysics
	An Updated Review of the LLS Stock Market Model: Complex Market Ecology, Power Laws in Wealth Distribution and Market Returns	69
	Patterns, Trends and Predictions in Stock Market Indices and Foreign Currency Exchange Rates	93
	Toward an Understanding of Financial Markets Using Multi-agent Games	115
	Towards Understanding the Predictability of Stock Markets from the Perspective of Computational Complexity	129
	Patterns in Economic Phenomena	153
Pt. III	Bioinformatics
	New Algorithms and the Physics of Protein Folding	173
	Sequence Alignment in Bioinformatics	193
	Resolution of Some Paradoxes in B-Cell Binding and Activation: A Computer Study	213
	Proliferation and Competition in Discrete Biological Systems	225
	Privacy and Data Exchanges	243
Pt. IV	Pattern Recognition
	Statistical Physics and the Clustering Problem	253
	The Challenges of Clustering High Dimensional Data	273
Pt. V	Other Applications
	Some Statistical Physics Approaches for Trends and Predictions in Meteorology	313
	An Initial Look at Acceleration-Modulated Thermal Convection	331
	Index	359