We show how to compute the edit distance between two strings of length n up to a factor of 2 ~O( log n) in n1+o(1) time. This is the first sub-polynomial approximation algorithm f...
Record label companies would like to identify potential artists as early as possible in their careers, before other companies approach the artists with competing contracts. The va...
Mobile sensor-based systems are emerging as promising platforms for healthcare monitoring. An important goal of these systems is to extract physiological information about the subj...
The security of your data and of your network is in the hands of intrusion detection systems, virus scanners and spam filters, which are all critically based on string matching. ...
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Pe...
The task of object identification occurs when integrating information from multiple websites. The same data objects can exist in inconsistent text formats across sites, making it ...