Many emerging environments are increasingly facing the problem where the requirements of applications easily outstrip the system resources. This is particularly acute in the World...
Sampling is a popular method of data collection when it is impossible or too costly to reach the entire population. For example, television show ratings in the United States are g...
With the increased abilities for automated data collection made possible by modern technology, the typical sizes of data collections have continued to grow in recent years. In suc...
This work presents a new perspective on characterizing the similarity between elements of a database or, more generally, nodes of a weighted, undirected, graph. It is based on a M...
Motivation: In the field of bioinformatics there is an emerging need to integrate all knowledge discovery steps into a standardized modular framework. Indeed, component-based deve...