Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
The challenge of similarity search in massive DNA sequence databases has inspired major changes in BLAST-style alignment tools, which accelerate search by inspecting only pairs of...
Background: Similaritysearch in chemical structure databases is an important problem with many applications in chemical genomics, drug design, and efficient chemical probe screeni...
Xiaohong Wang, Jun Huan, Aaron M. Smalter, Gerald ...
Personalized Web search takes advantage of information about an individual to identify the most relevant results for that person. A challenge for personalization lies in collectin...
Our digital universe is growing, creating exploding amounts of data which need to be searched, protected and filtered. String searching is at the core of the tools we use to curb...
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Pe...