This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
Given a large sparse graph, how can we find patterns and anomalies? Several important applications can be modeled as large sparse graphs, e.g., network traffic monitoring, resea...
Background: Chow and Liu showed that the maximum likelihood tree for multivariate discrete distributions may be found using a maximum weight spanning tree algorithm, for example K...
David Edwards, Gabriel C. G. de Abreu, Rodrigo Lab...
Background: Phylogenies, i.e., the evolutionary histories of groups of taxa, play a major role in representing the interrelationships among biological entities. Many software tool...
During the past decade, a number of different studies have identified several peculiar properties of networks that arise from a diverse universe, ranging from social to computer n...
Pedram Pedarsani, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Matthias G...